French cinema: 1950
Agnès de rien (1950)
Pierre Billon
At the insistence of her husband Francis, Agnès de Chaligny is forced to take up residence in his ancestral family home in the country whilst he, a struggling artist in Paris, sorts out his finances...
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Pierre Billon
Au revoir Monsieur Grock (1950)
Pierre Billon
It is whilst he was growing up in Switzerland in the late 19th century that Adrien Wettach quickly became enchanted by circus life...
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Pierre Billon
La Beauté du diable (1950)
René Clair
An elderly alchemist, Henri Faust, retires from his post as a university professor, disappointed that even after fifty years of study he has still not unravelled the secrets of nature...
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René Clair
Botta e risposta (1950)
Mario Soldati
Suzy, a well-known singer, is on her way to Rome to attend an audience with the Pope. During the train journey from Paris, her costume and jewels are stolen...
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Mario Soldati
Casimir (1950)
Richard Pottier
Success may so far have eluded him in his chosen career but Casimir is certain that he will soon make enough money as a travelling salesman to allow him to marry his beloved fiancée...
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Richard Pottier
Le Château de verre (1950)
René Clément
Evelyne Bertal could not be happier, living the kind of life most people would envy in Berne with her devoted husband Laurent, a lawyer... [More...]
René Clément
Evelyne Bertal could not be happier, living the kind of life most people would envy in Berne with her devoted husband Laurent, a lawyer... [More...]
Chéri (1950)
Pierre Billon
Paris, at the time of the Belle Époque... Known to his female admirers as Chéri, Fred Peloux is the son of the high-class courtesan Charlotte Peloux and spends most of his time in the company of his mother's friends, all fading prostitutes... [More...]
Pierre Billon
Paris, at the time of the Belle Époque... Known to his female admirers as Chéri, Fred Peloux is the son of the high-class courtesan Charlotte Peloux and spends most of his time in the company of his mother's friends, all fading prostitutes... [More...]
Les Derniers jours de Pompei (1950)
Marcel L'Herbier
The location is Pompeii, 79 AD, just a few weeks before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius will devastate the entire town, killing most of its population... [More...]
Marcel L'Herbier
The location is Pompeii, 79 AD, just a few weeks before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius will devastate the entire town, killing most of its population... [More...]
Dieu a besoin des hommes (1950)
Jean Delannoy
In the 1850s, life is so hard on the remote Breton island of Sein that its inhabitants have to resort to wrecking passing boats and stealing their cargo to survive... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
In the 1850s, life is so hard on the remote Breton island of Sein that its inhabitants have to resort to wrecking passing boats and stealing their cargo to survive... [More...]
Les Enfants terribles (1950)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Paul and Elisabeth are a teenage brother and sister who live with their dying mother in a cramped apartment. When Paul is injured in a snowball fight, the overly protective Elisabeth takes care of him, although she also taunts him... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Paul and Elisabeth are a teenage brother and sister who live with their dying mother in a cramped apartment. When Paul is injured in a snowball fight, the overly protective Elisabeth takes care of him, although she also taunts him... [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...]
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...]
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...]
Lady Paname (1950)
Henri Jeanson
Paris, 1925. A young woman, Caprice, has great ambitions of becoming a famous music hall singer, but she needs a song she can claim as her own... [More...]
Henri Jeanson
Paris, 1925. A young woman, Caprice, has great ambitions of becoming a famous music hall singer, but she needs a song she can claim as her own... [More...]
Ma pomme (1950)
Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
When a house is demolished a fabulous treasure is discovered. According to the terms of a will, this treasure is to be divided up between a number of legatees, but only if the eldest agrees to accept his share of the inheritance... [More...]
Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
When a house is demolished a fabulous treasure is discovered. According to the terms of a will, this treasure is to be divided up between a number of legatees, but only if the eldest agrees to accept his share of the inheritance... [More...]
Manèges (1950)
Yves Allégret
As his wife Dora lies close to death in a hospital bed after a horrific car accident, Robert looks back with guilt and tenderness on their brief life together... [More...]
Yves Allégret
As his wife Dora lies close to death in a hospital bed after a horrific car accident, Robert looks back with guilt and tenderness on their brief life together... [More...]
Maria Chapdelaine (1950)
Marc Allégret
After completing her education in a convent, Maria Chapdelaine returns to the family farm in Quebec and is happy to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart Robert Gagnon... [More...]
Marc Allégret
After completing her education in a convent, Maria Chapdelaine returns to the family farm in Quebec and is happy to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart Robert Gagnon... [More...]
La Marie du port (1950)
Marcel Carné
In 1949, Odile le Flem, a woman in her mid-thirties, makes a reluctant return to the small Normandy town where she grew up, Port-en-Bessin, to attend the funeral of her recently deceased father... [More...]
Marcel Carné
In 1949, Odile le Flem, a woman in her mid-thirties, makes a reluctant return to the small Normandy town where she grew up, Port-en-Bessin, to attend the funeral of her recently deceased father... [More...]
Meurtres (1950)
Richard Pottier
Noël Annequin is the outcast from the celebrated Annequin family. Whilst his brothers went on to university to become an eminent doctor and lawyer, finding their way into high society, Noël stayed in the country to settle down with the woman he loved, Isabelle... [More...]
Richard Pottier
Noël Annequin is the outcast from the celebrated Annequin family. Whilst his brothers went on to university to become an eminent doctor and lawyer, finding their way into high society, Noël stayed in the country to settle down with the woman he loved, Isabelle... [More...]
Minne, l'ingénue libertine (1950)
Jacqueline Audry
Minnie is a flighty young woman who, bored with her mundane bourgeois existence, takes refuge in her childish fantasies. On her wedding night, she regales her husband Antoine with a lurid account of a passionate liaison she once had with a hoodlum... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
Minnie is a flighty young woman who, bored with her mundane bourgeois existence, takes refuge in her childish fantasies. On her wedding night, she regales her husband Antoine with a lurid account of a passionate liaison she once had with a hoodlum... [More...]
Miquette et sa mère (1950)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In 1900, 18-year-old Miquette Grandier lives in a small provincial town with her widowed mother, Madame Grandier, the owner of a tobacco shop... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In 1900, 18-year-old Miquette Grandier lives in a small provincial town with her widowed mother, Madame Grandier, the owner of a tobacco shop... [More...]
Nous irons à Paris (1950)
Jean Boyer
Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Jacques, Paul and Julien have one ambition: to host a new radio show. Unable to break into national radio, they decide to create their own radio station... [More...]
Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1950)
André Berthomieu
With work hard to come by, musician Jacques Hélian and his orchestra end up working in an unpopular night club in the Pigalle district of Paris... [More...]
André Berthomieu
With work hard to come by, musician Jacques Hélian and his orchestra end up working in an unpopular night club in the Pigalle district of Paris... [More...]
Quai de Grenelle (1950)
Emil E. Reinert
Jean-Louis Cavalade is an impetuous young man who likes nothing better than to hunt snakes in the Forest of Fontainebleau... [More...]
Emil E. Reinert
Jean-Louis Cavalade is an impetuous young man who likes nothing better than to hunt snakes in the Forest of Fontainebleau... [More...]
La Ronde (1950)
Max Ophüls
An all-knowing master of ceremonies guides us through a series of brief love affairs that take place in Vienna of 1900, using a carousel as a metaphor for the revolving series of liaisons which he nudges along... [More...]
Max Ophüls
An all-knowing master of ceremonies guides us through a series of brief love affairs that take place in Vienna of 1900, using a carousel as a metaphor for the revolving series of liaisons which he nudges along... [More...]
Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1950)
Jean Boyer
Madame Husson, a local dignitary of a French rural community, has created a special prize to of 100 thousand francs, to be awarded to the most virtuous young woman in the neighbourhood... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Madame Husson, a local dignitary of a French rural community, has created a special prize to of 100 thousand francs, to be awarded to the most virtuous young woman in the neighbourhood... [More...]
La Rue sans loi (1950)
Marcel Gibaud
'La Rue sans loi' is a fitting name for a thoroughfare in Paris where there appears to be a total absence of the rule of law... [More...]
Marcel Gibaud
'La Rue sans loi' is a fitting name for a thoroughfare in Paris where there appears to be a total absence of the rule of law... [More...]
Souvenirs perdus (1950)
Christian-Jaque
Four forgotten objects in a lost property office each has a story to tell. An Egyptian statue was a present that Philippe once gave to his lover Florence... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Four forgotten objects in a lost property office each has a story to tell. An Egyptian statue was a present that Philippe once gave to his lover Florence... [More...]
Tire au flanc (1950)
Fernand Rivers
Despite the best efforts of his aristocratic aunt, Jean du Bois d'Ombelle cannot get out of doing his military service. By contrast, his manservant, Joseph Turlot, can hardly wait to get into uniform, even if it means taking leave of his fiancée Georgette... [More...]
Fernand Rivers
Despite the best efforts of his aristocratic aunt, Jean du Bois d'Ombelle cannot get out of doing his military service. By contrast, his manservant, Joseph Turlot, can hardly wait to get into uniform, even if it means taking leave of his fiancée Georgette... [More...]
Le Trésor de Cantenac (1950)
Sacha Guitry
After losing everything he possesses, an old baron has just one wish before he dies, to see the village of his forebears, Cantenac... [More...]
Sacha Guitry
After losing everything he possesses, an old baron has just one wish before he dies, to see the village of his forebears, Cantenac... [More...]