French cinema: 1930s
Baroud (1933)
Rex Ingram
André Duval and Si Ahmed are fellow sergeants in the Spahis, the Algerian native cavalry of the French Army. Duval falls in love with a native Moroccan woman, without realising she is Zinah, the sister of Si Ahmed and daughter of the Berber chieftain Si Allal...
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Rex Ingram
Les Bas-fonds (1936)
Jean Renoir
Having been dismissed from his official post for embezzlement, a baron gambles away the last of his fortune at the card table...
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Jean Renoir
Les Bâtisseurs (1938)
Jean Epstein
Dating from the late 12th century, Chartres Cathedral still dominates the skyline in its prime location to the southwest of Paris...
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Jean Epstein
La Belle équipe (1936)
Julien Duvivier
France, 1936, Jean, Charles, Mario, Raymond and Jacques are five unemployed friends who are desperately looking for work and live in a squalid Parisian apartment block...
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Julien Duvivier
Les Berceaux (1932)
Jean Epstein
Along the harbour boats sway gently in the wind, awaiting their departure in silence whilst mothers rock their infants to sleep in cradles...
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Jean Epstein
Berlingot et compagnie (1939)
Fernand Rivers
François and Victor are the proud owners of a stall that has a roaring trade in tasty homemade sweets at a popular funfair... [More...]
Fernand Rivers
François and Victor are the proud owners of a stall that has a roaring trade in tasty homemade sweets at a popular funfair... [More...]
La Bête humaine (1938)
Jean Renoir
Roubaud, a stationmaster based in Le Havre, is anxious to get on in his career, and he hopes that in this he might be assisted by Grandmorin, a prominent businessman who exerts some influence over the railways... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Roubaud, a stationmaster based in Le Havre, is anxious to get on in his career, and he hopes that in this he might be assisted by Grandmorin, a prominent businessman who exerts some influence over the railways... [More...]
Le Blanc et le noir (1931)
Marc Allégret
Marcel and Marguerite Desnoyers are staying in a hotel on the Spanish border. After a row with her husband, Marguerite is convinced he is being unfaithful to her... [More...]
Marc Allégret
Marcel and Marguerite Desnoyers are staying in a hotel on the Spanish border. After a row with her husband, Marguerite is convinced he is being unfaithful to her... [More...]
Le Bonheur (1934)
Marcel L'Herbier
Clara Stuart, star of music hall and cinema, arrives in Paris, to great public acclaim. She has everything - fame, wealth, and - through her aristocratic husband - a title... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
Clara Stuart, star of music hall and cinema, arrives in Paris, to great public acclaim. She has everything - fame, wealth, and - through her aristocratic husband - a title... [More...]
Bonne chance (1935)
Sacha Guitry
Marie Muscat is a young and attractive laundress who lives with her mother in a modest Parisian apartment. She is engaged to marry Prosper, a fairly dim young man who is away at the moment on his military training... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
Marie Muscat is a young and attractive laundress who lives with her mother in a modest Parisian apartment. She is engaged to marry Prosper, a fairly dim young man who is away at the moment on his military training... [More...]
Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932)
Jean Renoir
Heartbroken when he loses sight of a stray dog he has befriended, a Parisian tramp named Priap Boudu throws himself from a bridge into the river... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Heartbroken when he loses sight of a stray dog he has befriended, a Parisian tramp named Priap Boudu throws himself from a bridge into the river... [More...]
Bout de chou (1935)
Henry Wulschleger
Victor Darnetal, a respectable Marseillaise businessman, could not be happier when he receives a letter from his nephew Georges, an aspiring playwright, inviting him to attend the premiere of his new show in Paris... [More...]
Henry Wulschleger
Victor Darnetal, a respectable Marseillaise businessman, could not be happier when he receives a letter from his nephew Georges, an aspiring playwright, inviting him to attend the premiere of his new show in Paris... [More...]
Ça... c'est du sport (1938)
René Pujol
Monsieur Trapon, a modest debt collector, wants to marry Madame Lavator, a cloakroom attendant in a nightclub, but she insists that she will not marry until her two daughters, Ernestine and Anna, have both found suitable husbands... [More...]
René Pujol
Monsieur Trapon, a modest debt collector, wants to marry Madame Lavator, a cloakroom attendant in a nightclub, but she insists that she will not marry until her two daughters, Ernestine and Anna, have both found suitable husbands... [More...]
Café de Paris (1938)
Yves Mirande
One New Year's Eve the Café de Paris is host to the capital's social élite, a glamorous ensemble of the rich and famous who come together to welcome in the new year in an atmosphere that positively reeks of decadence... [More...]
Yves Mirande
One New Year's Eve the Café de Paris is host to the capital's social élite, a glamorous ensemble of the rich and famous who come together to welcome in the new year in an atmosphere that positively reeks of decadence... [More...]
Le Cantinier de la coloniale (1938)
Henry Wulschleger
After a long career in the French infantry, Piéchu ends up confined to barracks as a lowly canteen worker. One day, he is surprised to learn that he has inherited a vast fortune, but the prospect of sudden wealth brings with it only a host of worries... [More...]
Henry Wulschleger
After a long career in the French infantry, Piéchu ends up confined to barracks as a lowly canteen worker. One day, he is surprised to learn that he has inherited a vast fortune, but the prospect of sudden wealth brings with it only a host of worries... [More...]
Cargaison blanche (1937)
Robert Siodmak
In Spain, Blanco is the boss of a notorious white slavery ring which lures attractive young women with the promise of a dancing career and ships them off to Brazil to be sold as prostitutes... [More...]
Robert Siodmak
In Spain, Blanco is the boss of a notorious white slavery ring which lures attractive young women with the promise of a dancing career and ships them off to Brazil to be sold as prostitutes... [More...]
Carrefour (1938)
Curtis Bernhardt
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vétheuil, finds himself in court, charged with being an impostor. Twenty years ago, whilst serving in WWI, he suffered a severe head wound which resulted in him losing his memory... [More...]
Curtis Bernhardt
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vétheuil, finds himself in court, charged with being an impostor. Twenty years ago, whilst serving in WWI, he suffered a severe head wound which resulted in him losing his memory... [More...]
Le Cavalier Lafleur (1934)
Pierre-Jean Ducis
With his wife conveniently out of the way in Nanteuil, a young reservist named Lafleur is free to indulge his skirt-chasing habits in Vernouillet, the town where he is presently stationed... [More...]
Pierre-Jean Ducis
With his wife conveniently out of the way in Nanteuil, a young reservist named Lafleur is free to indulge his skirt-chasing habits in Vernouillet, the town where he is presently stationed... [More...]
Ces messieurs de la Santé (1934)
Pierre Colombier
Shortly after being arrested for fraud, the discredited banker Jules Taffard manages to escape from the Santé prison... [More...]
Pierre Colombier
Shortly after being arrested for fraud, the discredited banker Jules Taffard manages to escape from the Santé prison... [More...]
César (1936)
Marcel Pagnol
Twenty years after her first sweetheart Marius abandoned her to seek adventure on the high seas, Fanny is still married to Panisse and her son Césariot remains ignorant as to the identity of his real father... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Twenty years after her first sweetheart Marius abandoned her to seek adventure on the high seas, Fanny is still married to Panisse and her son Césariot remains ignorant as to the identity of his real father... [More...]
Cette vieille canaille (1933)
Anatole Litvak
At a busy fairground, Hélène, the daughter of a stall holder, gets into a fight with a rival over a man, the handsome acrobat Jean... [More...]
Anatole Litvak
At a busy fairground, Hélène, the daughter of a stall holder, gets into a fight with a rival over a man, the handsome acrobat Jean... [More...]
Chacun sa chance (1930)
René Pujol
Marcel Grivot may be a modest sales assistant in one of Paris's more exclusive department stores but he dreams of living the high life... [More...]
René Pujol
Marcel Grivot may be a modest sales assistant in one of Paris's more exclusive department stores but he dreams of living the high life... [More...]
La Chaleur du sein (1938)
Jean Boyer
Whilst Michel Quercy, a womanising archaeologist, is away from home on frequent expeditions to exotic locations, he leaves his son, Gilbert, in the care of his doting mother - or rather, mothers... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Whilst Michel Quercy, a womanising archaeologist, is away from home on frequent expeditions to exotic locations, he leaves his son, Gilbert, in the care of his doting mother - or rather, mothers... [More...]
Chanson d'Armor (1934)
Jean Epstein
A hopeless scholar, Jean-Marie is sent away from his Catholic boarding school and must return to the farm in the country run by his parents... [More...]
Jean Epstein
A hopeless scholar, Jean-Marie is sent away from his Catholic boarding school and must return to the farm in the country run by his parents... [More...]
La Charrette fantôme (1939)
Julien Duvivier
He who hears the wheels of the Ghost Wagon knows he is soon going to die. Every year on New Year's Eve, the Wagon, driven by Death himself, comes to claim someone at midnight..... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
He who hears the wheels of the Ghost Wagon knows he is soon going to die. Every year on New Year's Eve, the Wagon, driven by Death himself, comes to claim someone at midnight..... [More...]
Le Chemin de l'honneur (1939)
Jean-Paul Paulin
Georges Imbert is a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion who has served with distinction for five years. Now, to his surprise, he finds his services are no longer required... [More...]
Jean-Paul Paulin
Georges Imbert is a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion who has served with distinction for five years. Now, to his surprise, he finds his services are no longer required... [More...]
Chéri-Bibi (1938)
Léon Mathot
A fugitive from justice, Chéri-Bibi is captured after being denounced by his girlfriend Ginette and ends up on a convict ship bound for Guiana, to serve out a long sentence of hard labour... [More...]
Léon Mathot
A fugitive from justice, Chéri-Bibi is captured after being denounced by his girlfriend Ginette and ends up on a convict ship bound for Guiana, to serve out a long sentence of hard labour... [More...]
Le Chien jaune (1932)
Jean Tarride
Superintendent Maigret finds himself in the Breton fishing port of Concarneau, here to investigate the murder of Mostaguen, a wine dealer who was shot dead one evening on leaving a hostelry... [More...]
Jean Tarride
Superintendent Maigret finds himself in the Breton fishing port of Concarneau, here to investigate the murder of Mostaguen, a wine dealer who was shot dead one evening on leaving a hostelry... [More...]
La Chienne (1931)
Jean Renoir
Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Maurice Legrand is a middle-aged bank cashier who is unhappily married to a shrewish wife. His only pleasure in life is his hobby, oil painting... [More...]
Chotard et Cie (1932)
Jean Renoir
François Chotard runs a successful grocery business in a small village in the south of France. His daughter Reine has two suitors - a young police officer and daydreaming poet named Julien Collinet - but Chotard is holding out for a more suitable son-in-law... [More...]
Jean Renoir
François Chotard runs a successful grocery business in a small village in the south of France. His daughter Reine has two suitors - a young police officer and daydreaming poet named Julien Collinet - but Chotard is holding out for a more suitable son-in-law... [More...]