French cinema: 1948
L'Aigle à deux têtes (1948)
Jean Cocteau
Natasha, the queen of an unhappy kingdom, lives as a recluse, ten years after the king, her beloved husband, was assassinated...
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Jean Cocteau
Les Amoureux sont seuls au monde (1948)
Henri Decoin
Gérard Favier is a famous composer who has been married to the charming Sylvia for almost 20 years. Still deeply in love, they walk the streets of Paris and, one day, they hear a sonata that Gérard once wrote, played on a piano in a house...
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Henri Decoin
Après l'amour (1948)
Maurice Tourneur
At a reception in honour of her husband winning the Noble Prize for literature, Nicole Mézaule meets a former lover who has some news for her...
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Maurice Tourneur
L'Armoire volante (1948)
Carlo Rim
Alfred Pic, a hardworking tax inspector, finds himself in a pickle when his bossy aunt, Madame Lobligeois, goes missing in the most bizarre circumstances...
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Carlo Rim
Au coeur de l'orage (1948)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Throughout the dark years of Occupation, France continues the fight against Nazi Germany, through its secret army of brave resistance fighters...
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Jean-Paul Le Chanois
L'Aventure commence demain (1948)
Richard Pottier
Clarence has everything she needs to be a successful adventuress - beauty, charm, cunning. Men are putty in her hands and yet Lady Luck never seems to be on her side - until the happy day when her path crosses that of Claude, a more enterprising con artist... [More...]
Richard Pottier
Clarence has everything she needs to be a successful adventuress - beauty, charm, cunning. Men are putty in her hands and yet Lady Luck never seems to be on her side - until the happy day when her path crosses that of Claude, a more enterprising con artist... [More...]
La Bataille de l'eau lourde (1948)
Jean Dréville
Not long after Norway comes under Nazi Occupation at the start of World War II, the Germans commandeer a hydroelectric power plant in the mountains outside Rjukan... [More...]
Jean Dréville
Not long after Norway comes under Nazi Occupation at the start of World War II, the Germans commandeer a hydroelectric power plant in the mountains outside Rjukan... [More...]
La Belle meunière (1948)
Marcel Pagnol
Tired of Vienna and his lack of success as a composer, Franz Schubert goes in search of inspiration by taking a walking holiday in the countryside around Salzburg... [More...]
Marcel Pagnol
Tired of Vienna and his lack of success as a composer, Franz Schubert goes in search of inspiration by taking a walking holiday in the countryside around Salzburg... [More...]
Blanc comme neige (1948)
André Berthomieu
Léon Ménard travels many kilometres from his home in the country to find work in Paris, with the intention that one day soon he will marry his girlfriend Charlotte... [More...]
André Berthomieu
Léon Ménard travels many kilometres from his home in the country to find work in Paris, with the intention that one day soon he will marry his girlfriend Charlotte... [More...]
La Carcasse et le tord-cou (1948)
René Chanas
Tord-Cou is a misanthropic drunken old man who scrapes a living as a country policeman in a little village on the Grand Vau plateau in the remote depths of rural France... [More...]
René Chanas
Tord-Cou is a misanthropic drunken old man who scrapes a living as a country policeman in a little village on the Grand Vau plateau in the remote depths of rural France... [More...]
La Chartreuse de Parme (1948)
Christian-Jaque
At the beginning of the 19th Century, the Marquis Fabrice del Dongo returns to Parma, his home town, after having completed his studies in Naples... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
At the beginning of the 19th Century, the Marquis Fabrice del Dongo returns to Parma, his home town, after having completed his studies in Naples... [More...]
Clochemerle (1948)
Pierre Chenal
On the face of it Clochemerle-en-Beaujolais would seem to be the idyllic French village, but this apparent haven of tranquillity harbours a divided community... [More...]
Pierre Chenal
On the face of it Clochemerle-en-Beaujolais would seem to be the idyllic French village, but this apparent haven of tranquillity harbours a divided community... [More...]
Le Comédien (1948)
Sacha Guitry
At the age of eight, Lucien Guitry has already made up his mind to become an actor. The son of a shopkeeper, he plays truant from school so that he can memorise the great classics of the French stage... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
At the age of eight, Lucien Guitry has already made up his mind to become an actor. The son of a shopkeeper, he plays truant from school so that he can memorise the great classics of the French stage... [More...]
Les Condamnés (1948)
Georges Lacombe
Dr Jean Severac and his wife Hélène are celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary. Outwardly, they appear to be a perfectly happy married couple, but in reality Hélène has a lover, the younger Dr Bernard Aubertin... [More...]
Georges Lacombe
Dr Jean Severac and his wife Hélène are celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary. Outwardly, they appear to be a perfectly happy married couple, but in reality Hélène has a lover, the younger Dr Bernard Aubertin... [More...]
D'homme à hommes (1948)
Christian-Jaque
In 1858, the Swiss-born Henri Dunant is having difficulties managing a colony in Algeria. He decides to visit the Emperor Napoléon III, who is currently in the middle of a campaign in Italy, to ask for support to build a system of irrigation... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
In 1858, the Swiss-born Henri Dunant is having difficulties managing a colony in Algeria. He decides to visit the Emperor Napoléon III, who is currently in the middle of a campaign in Italy, to ask for support to build a system of irrigation... [More...]
La Dame d'onze heures (1948)
Jean-Devaivre
On his return from Africa, Stanislas Octave Seminario, who likes to be referred to by his initials S.O.S., visits his friends, the Pescaras, at their grand house in the country... [More...]
Jean-Devaivre
On his return from Africa, Stanislas Octave Seminario, who likes to be referred to by his initials S.O.S., visits his friends, the Pescaras, at their grand house in the country... [More...]
La Danse de mort (1948)
Marcel Cravenne
A proud military man, Edgar is now the director of a prison fortress located on a small island in the Adriatic. He runs the prison with an iron hand and is prepared to shoot dead any prisoner who attempts to escape... [More...]
Marcel Cravenne
A proud military man, Edgar is now the director of a prison fortress located on a small island in the Adriatic. He runs the prison with an iron hand and is prepared to shoot dead any prisoner who attempts to escape... [More...]
Dédée d'Anvers (1948)
Yves Allégret
The busy Belgian port of Antwerp is a haven for gangsters, pimps and traffickers. Sailors, tired after their long stretch at sea, come ashore in search of liquor and female company, both of which Monsieur René generously supplies at his popular bar... [More...]
Yves Allégret
The busy Belgian port of Antwerp is a haven for gangsters, pimps and traffickers. Sailors, tired after their long stretch at sea, come ashore in search of liquor and female company, both of which Monsieur René generously supplies at his popular bar... [More...]
Les Dernières vacances (1948)
Roger Leenhardt
For generations, the Torrignes family have lived in a splendid old house in the south of France. By the early 1930s, the family's fortune has dried up and there is no other recourse than to sell the house... [More...]
Roger Leenhardt
For generations, the Torrignes family have lived in a splendid old house in the south of France. By the early 1930s, the family's fortune has dried up and there is no other recourse than to sell the house... [More...]
Le Dessous des cartes (1948)
André Cayatte
His criminal activities exposed, a crooked financier named Géraudy takes flight and intends to make his escape across the alpine border with the help of a young smuggler, Manu... [More...]
André Cayatte
His criminal activities exposed, a crooked financier named Géraudy takes flight and intends to make his escape across the alpine border with the help of a young smuggler, Manu... [More...]
Le Diable boiteux (1948)
Sacha Guitry
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was born in Paris on 2nd February 1754. Afflicted with a game leg (which earned him the nickname Le Diable boiteux or Lame Devil), he was unable to follow his father in pursuit of military honours and instead opted for an ecclesiastical career... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was born in Paris on 2nd February 1754. Afflicted with a game leg (which earned him the nickname Le Diable boiteux or Lame Devil), he was unable to follow his father in pursuit of military honours and instead opted for an ecclesiastical career... [More...]
Émile l'Africain (1948)
Robert Vernay
Mild-mannered studio prop man Emile is surprised when he meets up with his wife twenty years after their separation. It appears that their daughter Martine is about to get married, to a young man named Daniel, and is eager to win her father's consent... [More...]
Robert Vernay
Mild-mannered studio prop man Emile is surprised when he meets up with his wife twenty years after their separation. It appears that their daughter Martine is about to get married, to a young man named Daniel, and is eager to win her father's consent... [More...]
Impasse des deux anges (1948)
Maurice Tourneur
Marianne is about to give up her successful career as a stage actress so that she can marry a wealthy aristocrat and live the life she has always aspired to... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
Marianne is about to give up her successful career as a stage actress so that she can marry a wealthy aristocrat and live the life she has always aspired to... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Rocambole (1948)
Jacques de Baroncelli
The likeable rogue Joseph Fippart, nicknamed Rocambole, is hired by Andréa, the head of a gang called the Jack of Hearts, to impersonate Arnaud, the young Count de Chamery... [More...]
Jacques de Baroncelli
The likeable rogue Joseph Fippart, nicknamed Rocambole, is hired by Andréa, the head of a gang called the Jack of Hearts, to impersonate Arnaud, the young Count de Chamery... [More...]
Si ça peut vous faire plaisir (1948)
Jacques Daniel-Norman
In the shop where they sell funeral wreaths, Monsieur Viala and his wife are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary... [More...]
Jacques Daniel-Norman
In the shop where they sell funeral wreaths, Monsieur Viala and his wife are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary... [More...]
Van Gogh (1948)
Alain Resnais
Today, Vincent Van Gogh is considered one of the most important artists in western culture. His output was phenomenal and he leaves behind an impressive body of work that includes over eight hundred oil paintings... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Today, Vincent Van Gogh is considered one of the most important artists in western culture. His output was phenomenal and he leaves behind an impressive body of work that includes over eight hundred oil paintings... [More...]