French cinema: 1957
Celui qui doit mourir (1957)
Jules Dassin
In the 1920s, with Greece is under Turkish occupation, the inhabitants of a small town are making preparations for the annual Passion play...
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Jules Dassin
Comme un cheveu sur la soupe (1957)
Maurice Régamey
Rejected by his beloved Wanda, depressed at his failure to find success as a songwriter, Pierre Cousin decides to commit suicide...
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Maurice Régamey
Les Fanatiques (1957)
Alex Joffé
When he learns that a revolution has broken out in his own country whilst he is away in France, South American dictator Ribera decides to return home in a private plane, accompanied by his wife and some security guards...
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Alex Joffé
Jusqu'au dernier (1957)
Pierre Billon
After a successful hold-up, Fernand Bastia betrays his gangster friends and flees with the booty, taking refuge in a travelling circus where his sister Marcella works...
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Pierre Billon
Les Louves (1957)
Luis Saslavsky
During the Second World War, two Frenchmen - Gervais Larauch and Bernard Pradalié - escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp where they are being detained and head back to France...
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Luis Saslavsky
Les Mistons (1957)
François Truffaut
In the historic town of Nîmes, an attractive young woman named Bernadette finds she has some unwelcome admirers in a gang of schoolboys who insist on following her about during the long summer holidays... [More...]
François Truffaut
In the historic town of Nîmes, an attractive young woman named Bernadette finds she has some unwelcome admirers in a gang of schoolboys who insist on following her about during the long summer holidays... [More...]
Patrouille de choc (1957)
Claude Bernard-Aubert
During the Indochina War in the late 1940s, Lieutenant Perrin is in charge of a small battalion of French troops at a remote outpost in Vietnam... [More...]
Claude Bernard-Aubert
During the Indochina War in the late 1940s, Lieutenant Perrin is in charge of a small battalion of French troops at a remote outpost in Vietnam... [More...]
Pot-Bouille (1957)
Julien Duvivier
Paris, 1865. Octave Mouret is a young man filled with great ambitions. He is also a consummate Don Juan and it his talent for seducing members of the opposite sex which he intends using to make a rapid ascent of the social scale... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Paris, 1865. Octave Mouret is a young man filled with great ambitions. He is also a consummate Don Juan and it his talent for seducing members of the opposite sex which he intends using to make a rapid ascent of the social scale... [More...]
Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957)
Yves Ciampi
Pierre Marsac is a French engineer working for a large oil company in Nagasaki, a Japanese city that was mostly devastated by an atomic bomb at the end of WWII... [More...]
Yves Ciampi
Pierre Marsac is a French engineer working for a large oil company in Nagasaki, a Japanese city that was mostly devastated by an atomic bomb at the end of WWII... [More...]