French cinema: 1950s
Frou-Frou (1955)
Augusto Genina
At a busy airport, Antoinette Dubois tries in vain to prevent her teenage daughter Michèle from jetting off to start a new life far away with the man she has lost her heart to...
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Augusto Genina
Le Fruit défendu (1952)
Henri Verneuil
As he marks his 45th birthday at a dinner party with his nearest and dearest Charles Pellegrin appears to be the very model of middle-class respectability...
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Henri Verneuil
Les Fruits de l'été (1955)
Raymond Bernard
Edouard Gravières finds that his new appointment as High Commissioner for Delinquency may be jeopardised when he sees the kind of wild lifestyle his 18-year-old daughter Juliette is leading...
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Raymond Bernard
La Fugue de Monsieur Perle (1952)
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Bernard Perle and his wife Juliette run a bakery in a small provincial town. One day, Monsieur Perle receives a letter notifying him that his aunt has died and left him a legacy...
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Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Futures vedettes (1955)
Marc Allégret
A gifted tenor, Eric Walter finds he has no shortage of female admirers at the music academy in Vienna where he teaches. His most ardent fans are Sophie Dimater and Elisa Petersen, two girls barely out of their teens who are both equally smitten by their handsome teacher...
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Marc Allégret
Le Garçon sauvage (1951)
Jean Delannoy
Marie earns a comfortable living working as a prostitute in the French port of Marseilles. Now that she has some stability in her life, she decides to take charge of her twelve-year old son Simon, whom she has placed in the care of kindly shepherd... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Marie earns a comfortable living working as a prostitute in the French port of Marseilles. Now that she has some stability in her life, she decides to take charge of her twelve-year old son Simon, whom she has placed in the care of kindly shepherd... [More...]
La Garçonne (1957)
Jacqueline Audry
In the early 1920s, Monique Sorbier, the daughter of a respectable bourgeois household, is about to marry her beloved Lucien Vigneret when she receives an anonymous letter accusing her fiancé of having a mistress... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
In the early 1920s, Monique Sorbier, the daughter of a respectable bourgeois household, is about to marry her beloved Lucien Vigneret when she receives an anonymous letter accusing her fiancé of having a mistress... [More...]
Gas-Oil (1955)
Gilles Grangier
After spending the night with his girlfriend Alice at her home in the suburbs of Paris, Jean Chape drives off in his five-ton lorry in the early hours and unwittingly runs over a body laid out in the road... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
After spending the night with his girlfriend Alice at her home in the suburbs of Paris, Jean Chape drives off in his five-ton lorry in the early hours and unwittingly runs over a body laid out in the road... [More...]
Gervaise (1956)
René Clément
In the 1850s, at the start of France's Second Empire, life is a constant struggle for most of the ordinary people of Paris... [More...]
René Clément
In the 1850s, at the start of France's Second Empire, life is a constant struggle for most of the ordinary people of Paris... [More...]
Gibier de potence (1951)
Roger Richebé
On leaving the orphanage in which he grew up, Marceau Le Guern has difficulty finding gainful employment. Not long after he is dismissed as a butcher's assistant he encounters the mysterious Madame Alice, an older woman who, seeing he is in difficulty, offers him easy work for good pay... [More...]
Roger Richebé
On leaving the orphanage in which he grew up, Marceau Le Guern has difficulty finding gainful employment. Not long after he is dismissed as a butcher's assistant he encounters the mysterious Madame Alice, an older woman who, seeing he is in difficulty, offers him easy work for good pay... [More...]
Le Gorille vous salue bien (1958)
Bernard Borderie
Géo Paquet is one of the most dependable agents in the French secret service. Nicknamed 'the Gorilla', he is well endowed with both brains and brawn, and this makes him a valuable asset to the service... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
Géo Paquet is one of the most dependable agents in the French secret service. Nicknamed 'the Gorilla', he is well endowed with both brains and brawn, and this makes him a valuable asset to the service... [More...]
Le Grand cirque (1950)
Georges Péclet
During WWII, French pilots are assigned to the British squadron at Biggin Hill and take part in a series of dangerous reconnaissance and combat missions... [More...]
Georges Péclet
During WWII, French pilots are assigned to the British squadron at Biggin Hill and take part in a series of dangerous reconnaissance and combat missions... [More...]
Les Grandes familles (1958)
Denys de La Patellière
With interests ranging from banking to commodities and publishing, the Schoudlers are one of France's wealthiest and most powerful business families... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
With interests ranging from banking to commodities and publishing, the Schoudlers are one of France's wealthiest and most powerful business families... [More...]
Les Grandes manoeuvres (1955)
René Clair
Armand de la Verne is a soldier in the French cavalry in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and he sees himself as something of a Don Juan, a man whom no woman can refuse... [More...]
René Clair
Armand de la Verne is a soldier in the French cavalry in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and he sees himself as something of a Don Juan, a man whom no woman can refuse... [More...]
Le Guérisseur (1954)
Yves Ciampi
Stricken with a sudden heart attack, Madame Mériadec, a woman in her fifties, is as good as dead until Pierre Laurent shows up at her bedside and applies his unique method of treatment... [More...]
Yves Ciampi
Stricken with a sudden heart attack, Madame Mériadec, a woman in her fifties, is as good as dead until Pierre Laurent shows up at her bedside and applies his unique method of treatment... [More...]
Guernica (1950)
Alain Resnais
The work of the artist Pablo Picasso and a poem by Paul Eluard are woven into this personal reflection on one of the most heinous of war crimes, the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica at the time of the Spanish Civil War... [More...]
Alain Resnais
The work of the artist Pablo Picasso and a poem by Paul Eluard are woven into this personal reflection on one of the most heinous of war crimes, the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica at the time of the Spanish Civil War... [More...]
Les Héros sont fatigués (1955)
Yves Ciampi
Michel Rivière, a French pilot who served with distinction during the Second World War, discovers a fortune in diamonds when his aircraft crash-lands in Africa... [More...]
Yves Ciampi
Michel Rivière, a French pilot who served with distinction during the Second World War, discovers a fortune in diamonds when his aircraft crash-lands in Africa... [More...]
Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
Alain Resnais
In the summer of 1957, an aspiring French actress travels to Hiroshima in Japan to work on an anti-war film. The city was totally destroyed when the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on it at the end of the Second World War, but now it has been rebuilt and shows little sign of the past devastation... [More...]
Alain Resnais
In the summer of 1957, an aspiring French actress travels to Hiroshima in Japan to work on an anti-war film. The city was totally destroyed when the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on it at the end of the Second World War, but now it has been rebuilt and shows little sign of the past devastation... [More...]
L'Homme à l'imperméable (1957)
Julien Duvivier
When his wife is called away on a family matter, a timid musician, Albert Constantin, finds himself unable to cope with the simplest domestic chore... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
When his wife is called away on a family matter, a timid musician, Albert Constantin, finds himself unable to cope with the simplest domestic chore... [More...]
L'Homme aux clefs d'or (1956)
Léo Joannon
Antoine Fournier is a teacher in a college, a kind man who spends his free timing raising funds for a good cause. One day, Rémy Bellanger, one of his students, is caught by Fournier whilst stealing money in his office... [More...]
Léo Joannon
Antoine Fournier is a teacher in a college, a kind man who spends his free timing raising funds for a good cause. One day, Rémy Bellanger, one of his students, is caught by Fournier whilst stealing money in his office... [More...]
L'Homme de la Jamaïque (1950)
Maurice de Canonge
Jacques Mervel, a notorious smuggler, is organising a lucrative gunrunning operation in Tangier when he runs into Vicky, a young woman hired to take care of a wheelchair-bound old woman Madame Milleris who happens to be one of Mervel's associates... [More...]
Maurice de Canonge
Jacques Mervel, a notorious smuggler, is organising a lucrative gunrunning operation in Tangier when he runs into Vicky, a young woman hired to take care of a wheelchair-bound old woman Madame Milleris who happens to be one of Mervel's associates... [More...]
L'Homme et l'enfant (1956)
Raoul André
After WWII, American bachelor and former GI Fred Barker settles in France with his adopted daughter Cathy and manages a perfume factory owned by his friend Carlo Ferell, whose life he saved during the war... [More...]
Raoul André
After WWII, American bachelor and former GI Fred Barker settles in France with his adopted daughter Cathy and manages a perfume factory owned by his friend Carlo Ferell, whose life he saved during the war... [More...]
Les Hommes ne pensent qu'à ça (1954)
Yves Robert
Alfred is madly in love with Nicole, a pretty assistant in a dairy shop, but he is too shy to approach her. Taking pity on the poor man, Don Juan appears and takes it upon himself to instruct Alfred in the delicate art of seduction... [More...]
Yves Robert
Alfred is madly in love with Nicole, a pretty assistant in a dairy shop, but he is too shy to approach her. Taking pity on the poor man, Don Juan appears and takes it upon himself to instruct Alfred in the delicate art of seduction... [More...]
Honoré de Marseille (1956)
Maurice Régamey
Honoré is one of the most popular figures in the French port of Marseille. Interviewed by a journalist, he proudly recounts the history of the town, laying particular emphasis on the important part that his ancestors have played over the years... [More...]
Maurice Régamey
Honoré is one of the most popular figures in the French port of Marseille. Interviewed by a journalist, he proudly recounts the history of the town, laying particular emphasis on the important part that his ancestors have played over the years... [More...]
Huis clos (1954)
Jacqueline Audry
On leaving an elevator, a diverse group of people find themselves in the lobby of what looks like a plush hotel. The receptionist deals with the new arrivals with a cold professionalism and, one by one, they are directed to their rooms... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
On leaving an elevator, a diverse group of people find themselves in the lobby of what looks like a plush hotel. The receptionist deals with the new arrivals with a cold professionalism and, one by one, they are directed to their rooms... [More...]
Les Hussards (1955)
Alex Joffé
Under Bonaparte, the French army begins its campaign in Italy. Two soldiers, Flicot and Le Gouce, are sent on a reconnaissance mission, but they manage to lose their horses when they encounter a pair of Italian lovers... [More...]
Alex Joffé
Under Bonaparte, the French army begins its campaign in Italy. Two soldiers, Flicot and Le Gouce, are sent on a reconnaissance mission, but they manage to lose their horses when they encounter a pair of Italian lovers... [More...]
Identité judiciaire (1951)
Hervé Bromberger
When 17-year-old Denise runs away from home, the police make haste to find her. They arrive too late. She drowns herself in a canal, the third casualty of a dangerous psychopath who drugs his victims and either abandons them or murders them... [More...]
Hervé Bromberger
When 17-year-old Denise runs away from home, the police make haste to find her. They arrive too late. She drowns herself in a canal, the third casualty of a dangerous psychopath who drugs his victims and either abandons them or murders them... [More...]
Il est minuit, docteur Schweitzer (1952)
André Haguet
Winner of the Nobel Prize for peace in 1952, Albert Schweitzer's career began forty years earlier. After qualifying as a doctor of medicine at Strasbourg University, Schweitzer made up his mind to become a missionary in Africa, a continent desperately in need of his medical expertise... [More...]
André Haguet
Winner of the Nobel Prize for peace in 1952, Albert Schweitzer's career began forty years earlier. After qualifying as a doctor of medicine at Strasbourg University, Schweitzer made up his mind to become a missionary in Africa, a continent desperately in need of his medical expertise... [More...]
Les Impures (1955)
Pierre Chevalier
On his release from prison, petty criminal Mario is eager to make a fresh start, but things get off to a bad start when he learns that his wife Géneviève has not waited for him... [More...]
Pierre Chevalier
On his release from prison, petty criminal Mario is eager to make a fresh start, but things get off to a bad start when he learns that his wife Géneviève has not waited for him... [More...]
Interdit de séjour (1955)
Maurice de Canonge
Pierre Ménard is a young man who makes an honest living working in a Paris jewellery. Unfortunately, he gets into bad company when he falls for Suzie, an attractive young woman who, unbeknown to him, works as a hostess in a sleazy Pigalle nightclub... [More...]
Maurice de Canonge
Pierre Ménard is a young man who makes an honest living working in a Paris jewellery. Unfortunately, he gets into bad company when he falls for Suzie, an attractive young woman who, unbeknown to him, works as a hostess in a sleazy Pigalle nightclub... [More...]