Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single...
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Jean-Michel Serusier
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1970
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Marie (Marthe Keller) is the most beautiful girl in her small village. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby town and wins...
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Capt. Ragot
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1970
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Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final...
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1969
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In this French/Italian co-production set in Mexico in 1746, Alastray (Anthony Quinn), a gunman on the run from the law,...
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1968
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In this elegant "caper" film, Audrey Hepburn stars as the daughter of a wealthy Parisian (Hugh Griffith), whose hobby is...
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1966
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1965
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This specialized film by femme director Jacqueline Audry is strictly a lightweight, skim-the-surface drama with a touch of...
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Rich Man
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1962
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1961
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1958
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L'Ecole des Cocottes was based on a popular stage sex farce by Paul Armont and Marcel Gerbidon. Dany Robin plays a gaminlike...
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1958
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Darry Cowl continues in his patented "French Jerry Lewis" vein in Le Temps des Ouefs Durs (Hardboiled Egg Time). Cowl plays a...
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1958
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The French Photo Finish doesn't get much play these days, but it used to be a Late Late Show perennial in the 1960s....
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1957
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La Garconne was based on a once-scandalous novel by Victor Marguerite. Set in Paris in the 1920s, the film stars...
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1957
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1956
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1956
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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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A pair of teenagers (Marina Vlady, Pierre-Michel Beck) face the trials of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant. This...
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1953
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European film favorite Fernand Gravey not only starred in Le Plus Heurs des Hommes, but also co-adapted the script from...
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Armand
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1952
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Claude
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1952
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Fernard Gravet may look like a natural-born philanderer in Ma Femma est Formidable, but appearances are deceiving. Condemned...
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Raymond Corbier
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1951
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1950
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Eddie Roback (Dane Clark), an American army deserter turned criminal, is going to trial in Paris after a ten-month delay when...
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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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Charles, Emma's Husband
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1950
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1948
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1947
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The title of this French romantic comedy translates as Once is Enough, which was hardly conducive to the film's repeat...
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1946
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1944
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1942
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Originally titled La Nuit Fantastique, this French romantic farce was filmed in 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Little did...
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Denis
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1942
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Released in France in 1941 as Histoire de Rire, Foolish Husbands made its American debut in 1948. It all begins when Adelaide...
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Gerard Barbier
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1941
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Originally released in 1939 as Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost), Abel Gance's Four Flights to Love is typical of the great...
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Pierre
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1940
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Frank
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1939
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In her only Warner Bros. starring film, Carole Lombard plays a Hollywood movie actress who makes the park-bench acquaintance...
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Rene
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1938
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The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann...
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Johann Strauss
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1938
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Le Mensonge de Nina Petrova (The Lie of Nina Petrova) was filmed in 1937, one year before its director, Russian-born...
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Lieutenant Franz
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1937
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Groucho Marx received co-writer credit (along with his old friend Norman Krasna) for King and the Chorus Girl, though very...
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Alfred
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1937
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The "une femme" (one woman) of the title is a young widow (Vera Korene). Upon discovering that her late husband was far from...
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1936
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Antonin Rose
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1936
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1936
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Also known as La Grande Refrain, Symphonie D'Amour was filmed in 1936 but wasn't released in America until a decade later....
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Panard
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1936
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Varietes started out as a remake of E. A. DuPont's silent German classic Variety. Unfortunately, DuPont himself made his own...
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1935
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1935
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In this musical, set in the mythical country of Ruritania, a princess finds herself exiled by revolutionaries before she can...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1933
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Carl Linden
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1933
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1933
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1933
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This musical tells the love story of a manicurist and a night waiter who discover that they are sharing the same apartment....
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1933
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Mario (Fernard Gravey), a rough-hewn sheepherder, unexpectedly finds success as a Parisian hairdresser. Having never learned...
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Mario
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1932
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1932
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"Tu Seras Duchesse!" ("You'll Be a Duchess!") With these words, self-made industrialist Poisson (Andre Berley) orders his...
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Delacour
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1932
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Passionement is the film version of the successful stage musical by Maurice Hennequin and Albert Willemetz. Koval plays Mr....
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Robert Perceval
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1932
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1932
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This easy-going French musical comedy was released in English-speaking countries as A Man in Swallow Tails. Recently...
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Andre de Lussanges
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1931
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1931
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Francis Latour
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1931
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Love Sings is the English-language title of this Made-in-Germany-for-Frenchmen concoction. Pierre Bertin plays Claude, a...
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Armand Petitjean
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1930
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Burton
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1930
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1914
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