In order to solve a family mystery, John, a stonemason from Zimbabwe, travels to Berlin to search for 1928 footage of a...
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1997
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Aimed at younger audiences, this special-effects filled French comedy centers on the afterlife adventures of two recently...
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1996
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A feather-light and funny musing on the nature of love, fate and starting over, Claude Lelouch's comedy begins with the...
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1996
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Sullen teenage orphan Johnny Miles (Josh Albee) is wrongfully accused of stealing from his foster parents. Running away from...
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1995
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1995
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1994
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This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000...
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1994
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A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is...
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1994
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This French comedy parodies horror movies and detective films. It is set at the Cannes Film Festival. There, Odile, a...
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1994
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This French action movie features spectacular stunts in the air, on the slopes, and in the water as it follows the...
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1994
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1993
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According to reviewers, an expert cast of character actors make this bedroom farce eminently watchable, despite glitches in...
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1993
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Jean Moulinier
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1993
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Gaudeamus a 70 ans
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1992
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1992
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A made for cable TV docudrama, former Carter administration aides Hamilton Jordan and Gerald Rafshoon were responsible for...
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1991
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1991
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Directed by Philip Sebton, Mister Frost chronicles the life of serial killer Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum), who, after stashing...
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1990
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Fernand
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1990
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Pierre Duvivier
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1988
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Life is a Long Quiet River is the satirically philosophical title for this French domestic comedy. Borrowing a page from The...
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Docteur Mavial
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1988
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Claude Brasseur stars in this cinemadaptation of the Moliere play Georges Dandin, ou le mari confondu. Written in 1668, the...
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Monsieur de Sotenville
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1988
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1987
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Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred...
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1985
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In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an...
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Kellerman
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1985
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More of a commentary on life as seen by Marguerite Duras than a movie on a family's internal relationships, this intriguing...
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Enrico
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1984
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When a wealthy, elderly woman and an unknown stranger are murdered in the same small village on the same night, the judge...
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Judge Freshville
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1984
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This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee...
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1982
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This fictionalized biography of Guy de Maupassant uses his dying days, suffering under the last ravages of syphilis, to...
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1982
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A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a...
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1981
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1980
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A hot topic might be overly simplified for some viewers in this first-time political drama by Stephane Kurc. Marc...
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1980
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1978
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This French comedy is the sequel to the well-regarded Pardon Mon Affaire. This version centers on the sexual fantasies of a...
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1977
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Regarded by many as the first major product of Chile's 'Cinema of Resistance,' this highly unusual 1974 effort from Chilean...
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1975
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In this madcap comedy, a completely unavailable girl is the object of the fantasies of three guys who have been pals for...
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1974
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Sometimes a reporter's urge to tell the truth is unquenchable, at least when the reporter is Dolannes (Jean-Pierre Mocky)....
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Walter
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1974
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1973
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This French thriller is based upon a theory about the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. The story begins as a...
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1972
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Told with fondness and precision, and set in France at the time of the IndoChina War (which later became an American problem...
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The Father
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1971
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In this Danish movie by an American director, Birthe Tove plays Christa, a ravishingly beautiful airline stewardess who...
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1971
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A French couple's marital bliss is interrupted by the presence of a pretty young maid. The husband (Daniel Gelin) is a...
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Dr. Robert Marbois
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1970
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1969
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Two vacationing businessmen -- or are they gangsters? -- inflict endless humiliations upon one another by way of their...
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Arnaud
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1969
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A professor, his wife, a student, and a married woman travel to a hotel on the edge of the forest for a week-long vacation....
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Bernard Alione
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1969
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A successful ad man engages in illicit affairs in this romantic comedy satire. Serge (Serge Gainsbourg) is an annual winner...
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Father
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1969
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A French soldier is discharged from the army and returns to his village in the early days of World War ll. His daughter is...
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Officer
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1968
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In this drama, a Yugoslavian journalist is hired by a German policeman to find the last surviving ex-inmate of a...
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Petrovid
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1967
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Guy
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1966
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Eva Mireille Darc is an orphaned country girl who comes to the big city looking for love in this old-fashioned melodrama....
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Bernard
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1966
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The people of a small town in France react differently to the Nazi occupation in this World War II action drama directed by...
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Doctor Lafaye
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1966
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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1966
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Originally L'Heure de la Verte, the French Hour of Truth Stars Brett Halsey, Corinne Marchand and Karl Boehm. At the end of...
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1966
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1965
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A five-year-old boy playing in West Germany accidently kicks his ball through a hole in the Berlin wall in this children's...
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1965
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1965
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In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and...
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1964
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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1962
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1962
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This costume drama with spectacular special effects but a less-than-adequate storyline was one of the last films by director...
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Phegot
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1960
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1960
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Claude Magnier translated his stage play into this routine film which given its source, runs to words over action and visual...
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Masure
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1960
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In this tragedy, a sailor heads to Hamburg to search for the girl who became his friend a decade before when he had been a...
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1960
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Director Alexandre Astruc is known for his abstract, avant-garde works such as this interesting film about a woman longing...
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Eric
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1960
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A routine, wordy romantic drama about far-from-routine relationships, this tale by Pierre Kast looks at the personalities and...
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Jacques Saint-Ford
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1960
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Sly and greedy young people endeavor to use l'amour to get their hands on a fortune in this French comedy. The story begins...
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1959
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Jean
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1959
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In this tragedy, a matador is deeply shaken by the death of a good friend who was gored in the ring and decides to retire....
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1958
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1958
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A prostitute is courted by two half-brothers. She marries one, and then must deal with the fallout of domestic friction. ~...
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Guillaume
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1958
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Yves Allegret's 3DLa Fille de Hambourg3D (literally 3DThe Girl of Hambourg3D) was released stateside as 3DPort of Desire3D....
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Pierre
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1958
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1958
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Retour de Manivelle (The Turn of the Handle) is an acceptable French approximation of Hollywood "film noir" techniques....
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Robert
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1957
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Zizi Jeanmaire, the delightful French singer/actress who previously brightened such American films as...
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Alain
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1957
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In this French comedy, a lovely chanteuse finds herself in very strange series of situations. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1957
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In this romantic French drama, a young country girl heads for the City of Light to find romance and good fortune. ~ Sandra...
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1957
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This French musical comedy is set in guess what European city? Daniel Gelin and Dany Robin play brother-and-sister...
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1956
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Horcier
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1956
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The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own...
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Louis Bernard
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1956
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Because of star Brigitte Bardot's single fleeting disrobing scene in the French farce Please, Mr. Balzac!, the film was...
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Daniel Roy
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1956
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1956
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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Bonaparte
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1955
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1955
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Pierre Roubier
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1955
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Mino
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1954
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1954
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Maurizius
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1954
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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1954
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La Niege Etait Sale (The Snow Was Dirty) is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon...
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Frank
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1954
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Rumeur Publique (Public Rumor) is a complicated story rendered nearly incomprehensible by poor English-language dubbing....
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Jaler
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1954
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1953
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1953
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Sang et Lumieres (Blood and Light) stars Daniel Gelin as Ricardo, a dashing matador. After a fellow bullfighter is killed in...
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Ricardo
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1953
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Rue de L'Estrapade was filmmaker Jacques Becker's immediate follow-up to his 1952 classic Casque D'Or. That the film does not...
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Robert
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1953
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La Voca del Silenzio (Voice of Silence) was the only Italian production of fabled German director G. W. Pabst. Based on a...
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1953
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1953
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In this crime a district attorney's son investigates a suspicious conviction and learns a valuable lesson about the...
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1953
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Daniel
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1952
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Andre
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1952
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1952
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The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the...
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Jean [The Model]
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1952
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Director
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1952
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Une Histoire D'Amour served as the last starring film of Louis Jouvet, who died in 1951 at the age of 63. Jouvet is cast as...
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Jean Bompart
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1951
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Hugo Barine
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1951
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French filmmaker Jean Dellanoy once again combines visual poetry with box-office savvy in Dieu a Besoin des Hommes. Set on a...
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Joseph
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1950
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French filmmaker Jacques Becker's Edouard et Caroline has been described as a film without a story. This isn't quite true,...
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Edouard
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1950
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An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series...
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Alfred
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1950
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Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de Juillet has been credited as the first postwar European film to accurately depict the...
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Lucien
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1949
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1947
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1946
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Absent from the screen since 1944's Kismet, the incomparable Marlene Dietrich returned in the French romantic melodrama...
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1946
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In this romantic fantasy, Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy...
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1945
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Returning to films after a six-year absence, French director Raymond Bernard called the shots on Un Ami Viendra Ce Soir (A...
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, a lonely orphan answers a singles ad in a paper and then slips out of the orphanage to meet the man...
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1941
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