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1971
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An international cast headlines this espionage comedy that centers on a world-wide hunt for stolen American defense papers....
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1969
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This slapstick comedy concerns a college professor who stages a one-man vendetta against television. A hare-brained inventor...
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Benjamin
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1968
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In this French farce, a lazy member of a family of down-and-out aristocrats refuses to help the destitute family survive. ~...
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Inspector Bridoux
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1965
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In this drama, a highly principled ballet dancer loses her job and is unable to find another. In desperation she takes a job...
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1965
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"White Voices" is a vernacular term referring to Italian Castrati of the 18th century Vatican Choir. The Castrati were male...
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1964
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1962
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Director Jean-Pierre Mocky takes jabs at the arrogant attitudes of the social and corporate elite in this routine satire...
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1962
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In this romantic comedy, voluptuous Parisian model Sophie (Brigitte Bardot) is angered when she learns that her boyfriend...
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1961
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In this crime drama, a nightclub singer discovers that she is being pursued by the police, an insurance agency, and the mob...
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1961
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A generally destructive atmosphere settles over this New Wave drama about a trio of youths looking to debunk hypocrisy...
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President
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1961
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A strip joint murder provides the basis of this mystery. The trouble begins when the head dancer is poisoned and her...
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1961
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Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic...
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1960
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In this espionage adventure, rival agents compete to be the first to steal highly classified information. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1960
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British actress Belinda Lee stars in this her third film within several months, once again for a company outside of her...
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1959
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1959
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1958
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1957
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1957
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1957
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1957
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Producer/director Sacha Guitry's contribution to the 1956 film season was the free-flowing historical pageant Si Paris Nous...
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1956
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1956
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1956
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1956
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1956
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1955
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1955
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The Affairs of Messalina is a French/Italian historical spectacle produced in the wake of the internationally successful...
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1954
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It's the Paris Life (C'est La Vie Parisienne) is set at the turn of the century. The point of the film is summed up by the...
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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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Famed French farceur Noel-Noel is practically the whole show in Spice of Life (originally released in 1950 as...
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1954
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Stanley
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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Benjamin (Jean Tissier) is the irresponsible patriarch of a fun-loving Roman family. Ostensibly the owner of a drug store,...
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Benjamin
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1952
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It is Maria Felix's turn to play one of Ancient Rome's most notorious femme fatales in Messaline. Sleeping her way to the...
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Nestor
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1951
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1951
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This harmless French low-budgeter was designed as a vehicle for singing idol Luis Mariano. The story finds poor-boy Marco...
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Maxime
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Relying on sexual encounters to maintain interest yet trying for a literary veneer, this is another semi-erotic drama by...
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1951
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A father must find a communion dress for his daughter in this award- winning Italian comedy. As he looks throughout the...
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1950
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1950
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The titular Minne, played by Daniele Delorme, is a starry-eyed young girl whose notions about romance have been culled from...
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Roue
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1950
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1950
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Jean-Louis (Henri Vidal) makes his living by trapping deadly snakes and selling them to zoos. In love with shopgirl Simone...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1949
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1949
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1949
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Dany Robin stars as Dany, the ingenuous "front girl" for a gang of car thieves. It is Dany's job to lure the motorist away...
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Pierre
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1949
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This French film version of Colette's best-selling novel Gigi predated both the 1950 stage adaptation and the 1958 Hollywood...
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Man about town
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1949
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1948
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1948
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1948
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Bore
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1947
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1947
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1947
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The setting for this conventional wartime drama by Silvio Amadio is a damaged submarine resting on the ocean floor. The...
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1946
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1946
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1946
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1946
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Son Dernier Role (Her Last Part) stars Gaby Morlay as a famed French stage actress. Checking into a private sanitarium for a...
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1945
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1945
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L'Extravagante Mission (The Queer Assignment) is set on an extremely busy ocean liner. Comic actor Henri Guisol plays a...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1944
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1944
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1943
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1943
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1943
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot's maiden feature-length effort was the intricate mystery thriller The Murderer Lives at Number...
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Prof. Lalah Poor
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1942
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1942
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The great French character Raimu stars in Strangers in the House. He is cast as Loursat, the father of teenager Nicole...
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Ducup
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Six friends who have won a large sum of money decide to split their fortune and reunite in five years to share all the money...
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Tignol
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1941
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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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Roland
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1941
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1941
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1940
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1940
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Pierre
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1940
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1939
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Originally Tourbillon de Paris, this film details the misadventures of a group of French military-school students. The plot...
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1939
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1939
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Crossroads is the English title for Carrefour, directed in France by German-born Kurt (later Curtis) Bernhardt. Suzy Prin and...
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1938
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The Courier of Lyons stars Pierre Blanchar as both hero and villain. Blanchar is introduced as Joseph Lesurques, who has the...
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Courriol
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1938
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A pair of slippers is the plot catalyst for this rambling French comedy. Hoping to save the reputation of a philandering...
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Jacques de Tourville
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1938
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1937
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Sarati le Terrible is the wealthy and callous absentee landlord (Harry Baur) of a cheap Algiers rooming house near a coal...
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1937
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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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1936
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1934
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