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French cinema: 1940s

On demande un assassin (1949)
Ernst Neubach

Bob Laurent is at the end of his tether. Ruined, rejected and generally disgusted with life, he hires a hoodlum, Willy le Boxeur, to kill him in two days' time...   [More...]

Orphée (1949)
Jean Cocteau

Orphée is a poet who arouses anger wherever he goes, even though his work is still greatly admired. At a street café, his most vociferous opponents, a group of young firebrands called the Bacchantes, start a fight...   [More...]

Panique (1947)
Julien Duvivier

Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground...   [More...]

Par la fenêtre (1948)
Gilles Grangier

In Paris, Pilou is an exterior decorator who always sings while he works. He sings even though he is sad at having left his girlfriend Yvette in the village where he grew up...   [More...]

Parade en 7 nuits (1941)
Marc Allégret

Anicet, an employee in the municipal dog pound, has become so attached to the dogs under his care that he is convinced they can talk to themselves...   [More...]

Paradis perdu (1940)
Abel Gance

In 1913, an aspiring young artist, Pierre, falls in love with a beautiful seamstress, Janine. Their Elysian summer is cut short when war breaks out and Pierre is sent to fight on the Western Front...   [More...]

Les Parents terribles (1948)
Jean Cocteau

Yvonne and Georges consider themselves a perfectly respectable bourgeois couple, although she is virtually a bedridden recluse and he occupies himself with his strange inventions...   [More...]

Paris 1900 (1947)
Nicole Védrès

A vibrant montage of moving image depicting life in Paris in the dying days of the Belle Époque, from the turn of the 20th century to the start of the First World War...   [More...]

La Part de l'ombre (1945)
Jean Delannoy

A retired violist lives in self-enforced seclusion at his château with his daughter Agnès. He does nothing to encourage the hoards of aspiring young musicians who turn up on his doorstep asking for his patronage and advice...   [More...]

Pas si bête (1947)
André Berthomieu

Léon Ménard is not quite so stupid as he seems. His experience of the world may be limited, he may have the air of a country bumpkin, but this gauche Normandy peasant has a keen eye when it comes to detecting schemers and charlatans...   [More...]

Patrie (1946)
Louis Daquin

Flanders in the late 16th century. With his country under occupation by the armies of the King of Spain, the nobleman Count Rysoor enters into a pact with William of Orange to lead a revolt that will free his people from Spanish rule...   [More...]

Pattes blanches (1949)
Jean Grémillon

Odette, an attractive young woman, arrives in the fishing town of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany and becomes the mistress of Jock, the owner of the local inn...   [More...]

Le Pays sans étoiles (1946)
Georges Lacombe

After an accident in which he suffers a head injury, Simon Legouge, a modest notary's clerk, begins to experience a series of strange visions...   [More...]

Le Père Goriot (1945)
Robert Vernay

Eugène de Rastignac, a penniless provincial nobleman, lives at the boarding house of Madame Vauquier in Paris. Armed with a letter of introduction from his mother, he pays a visit to his cousin Madame de Bauseant, who offers him advice on how to make his way in the world...   [More...]

Le Père tranquille (1946)
René Clément

Monsieur Martin is a contented man who lives a peaceful existence in the small French town of Moisson with his wife and two children, Monique and Pierre...   [More...]

Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944)
Marc Allégret

After his wife walked out on him, Frédéric Grimaud was left to bring up his four daughters single-handedly...   [More...]

Les Petits riens (1942)
Raymond Leboursier

At a reception, a group of friends each recall a small incident in their past which provided a significant turning point in their lives...   [More...]

Pétrus (1946)
Marc Allégret

Migo, an attractive dancer at a popular nightclub in Montmartre, has had enough of her two-timing boyfriend Rodrigue. So, one evening, she takes out her gun and fires two shots at the cheating louse...   [More...]

Picpus (1943)
Richard Pottier

Whilst moving into her new apartment in the rue Picpus, Paris, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Inspector Maigret is called into investigate...   [More...]

Le Point du jour (1949)
Louis Daquin

A mining community in the north of France... A young engineer Larzac begins work at the mine and soon takes objection to the management's authoritarian treatment of the miners...   [More...]

Port d'attache (1943)
Jean Choux

After the armistice, a young sailor named René sets out to find work in France. Passing through the countryside, he meets an old farmer, Garda, who struggles to keep his farm going after being deserted by his son and daughter...   [More...]

Les Portes de la nuit (1946)
Marcel Carné

In February 1945, Jean Diego is tasked with breaking the news to the wife of a friend of his, Pierre, that her husband has been executed by the Nazis...   [More...]

Portrait d'un assassin (1949)
Bernard-Roland

Jean, nicknamed Fabius the Foolhardy, is a circus acrobat whose act involves driving a motorcycle up a near-vertical incline, the Wall of Death...   [More...]

Premier de cordée (1944)
Louis Daquin

For many years, Jean Servettaz has worked as a mountain guide in Chamonix but, too aware of the risks of his profession, he gives this up so that he can run a guest house for tourists...   [More...]

Premier rendez-vous (1941)
Henri Decoin

After growing up in an orphanage, Micheline Chevassu dreams of nothing but falling in love with a handsome young man and beginning a new life far, far away...   [More...]

Le Président Haudecoeur (1940)
Jean Dréville

President Haudecoeur is a public prosecutor with a reputation for being strict and inflexible, both in his professional and private life...   [More...]

Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
Henri-Georges Clouzot

Against the wishes of her husband Maurice, music hall singer Jenny Lamour is prepared to do anything to advance her career...   [More...]

Remorques (1941)
Jean Grémillon

André Laurent is the captain of a salvage boat and lives in the Brittany port of Brest with his wife Yvonne. Concealing a serious illness, Yvonne pleads with her husband to give up his hazardous job and start a new life with her in another town, but, loyal to his employees, André refuses...   [More...]

Rendez-vous de juillet (1949)
Jacques Becker

In his early 20s, Lucien Bonnard has made up his mind to become a celebrated explorer, but his bourgeois parents are insistent that he abandons these wild delusions and instead settle for a more conventional career like banking...   [More...]

La Revanche de Roger la Honte (1946)
André Cayatte

Twelve years have passed. Under the name Farrell, Laroque has settled in Canada, where he has made a fortune. But Suzanne, now a ravishing young woman, is haunted by the drama that upset her childhood...   [More...]



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