In the 1950s and '60s, Henri-Georges Clouzot was one of France's most acclaimed and successful filmmakers, a director who...
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2010
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A man's tragic past leads him to take justice into his own hands in this troubling look at life in Europe after WWII. Max...
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Elsa Weiner/Lina Baumstein
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1982
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Just when life was deep into a well-hewn rut for Nino Conti (Marcello Mastroianni) and the socialite he married, he runs into...
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1981
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This is a minimalist interrogation drama about a wealthy, influential attorney (Michel Serrault) in a small French town falls...
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Chantal Martinaud
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1981
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Emma Eckhert
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1980
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Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch....
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Katherine Mortenhoe
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1980
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Noted political filmmaker Costa-Gavras turned his attention to personal issues in this drama. Michel (Yves Montand) has had...
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Lydia
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1979
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Helene Martin
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1979
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Nominated for an Academy Award, Claude Sautet's A Simple Story (Une Histoire Simple) examines the behavior of its characters...
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Marie
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1978
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The West German/French Group Portrait with Lady (Gluppenbild mit Dame) is based on a bestselling novel by Heinrich Böll. The...
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Leni Gruyten
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1977
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Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife...
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Helene
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1976
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Social classes and different cultures collide as three disparate men try to court a wealthy young woman (Romy Schneider) in...
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Margot
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1976
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In this crime drama, a philandering wife plans to ill her alcoholic husband so she can run away with her lover. It all goes...
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Julie
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1975
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Freelance photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) meets luckless Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider) an aging, world-weary, would-be...
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Nadine Chevalier
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1975
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Old Gun (Le Vieux Fusil) stars Philippe Noiret as an aging, embittered French physician. During the occupation, Noiret loses...
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Clara
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1975
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Michel Piccoli is irresistibly slimy in the role of a conniving attorney. Making the acquaintance of two lovely sisters...
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Philomene
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1974
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In this French satire, a meek little bank (Jean-Louis Trintignant) clerk finds fame and fortune when he begins getting...
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Roberte
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1974
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Elizabeth (Romy Schneider) and her daughter (Benedicte Bucher) take a holiday together, and each of them has a brief romance:...
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Elizabeth
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1974
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At the beginning of World War II, while the Germans entered France from the north, many people had reason to believe that the...
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Anna Kupfer
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1973
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Luchino Visconti (Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone) was a film director, true, but he was also a nobleman and a grand...
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Elisabeth of Austria
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1973
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Rosalie
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1972
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This film is Joseph Losey's mood piece that delves into the psychological makeup of Frank Jackson (Alain Delon), the assassin...
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Gita Samuels
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1972
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Max (Michel Piccoli) is a former judge obsessed with seeing criminals brought to justice. The frustrations of the courtroom,...
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Lily
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1971
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A soccer player, a child and an artist find their lives entangled in a story which achieves it climax in a pivotal soccer...
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1971
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Here the director adapts his own novel about Mira (Romy Schneider), a firebrand of a woman, who moves from being a ferocious...
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La Califfa
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1970
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Mariana (Romy Schneider) is riding along with her weekend date when she infuriates him by insulting his virility. The irate...
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Mariana
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1970
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After laboring in obscurity for several years, French filmmaker Claude Sautet finally struck a responsive chord with...
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Helene
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1970
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The British/American co-production My Lover, My Son stars Romy Schneider as Frances, the unhappy wife of businessman Robert...
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Francesca Anderson
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1970
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Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As...
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Marianne
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1969
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Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a British secret agent called in to investigate the murder of a suspected influence...
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Imogen
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1969
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Adapted from his autobiography The Eddie Chapman Story, this is the story of a British safecracker who was in prison when...
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Countess
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1967
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Passion, whether sex or violence, is the root of conflict in this film which follows as the alcoholic Mercouri and her...
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Claire
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1966
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Julia Kreuz
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1966
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A notorious womanizer, fashion editor Michael James (Peter O'Toole) decides to seek the help of a psychiatrist when he begins...
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Carol Werner
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1965
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Janet Lagerlof
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1964
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Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story...
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Leni
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1963
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Tom Tryon plays the title role in this Otto Preminger version of the Henry Morton Robinson novel. In his matriculation from...
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Annemarie
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1963
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An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the...
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Regine
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1963
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Released in the US by 20th Century-Fox, Boccaccio '70 is a compendium of short subjects directed by three of Italy's top...
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Pupe [The Job]
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1962
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The trilogy on Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria and his queen Empress Elizabeth by director Ernest Marischka has been cut and...
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Princess Elisabeth/Sissi
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1962
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The political overtones in this action-oriented drama may be a little murky outside of its time and place, yet the story is...
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Anne
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1961
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1959
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Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day...
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Katia
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1959
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A wooden, routine satire about love, sex, and a fascination with Americans, Die Halbzarte features an eccentric Austrian...
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Nicole
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1959
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Christine
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1958
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Christa Winsloe's novel Maedchen in Uniform was first filmed in Germany in 1933. The story, about a sensitive schoolgirl's...
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Manuela Von Meinhardie
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1958
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Sissi
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1957
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17th century author Daniel Defoe is assisted by a group of children in this drama. ~ Rovi...
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1957
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Monpti is better known by its English-language title Love From Paris. Romy Schneider stars as Anne Claire, a seamstress who...
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Anne Claire
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1957
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In this drama, an amiable architect assists a sad little orphan and helps her find happiness at last. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1957
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1956
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Trouble rears its ugly head when the young emperor and empress of Austria arrive in Budapest for their coronation. ~ Rovi...
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1956
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It took nerve for director Harald Braun to attempt an all-talking remake of F.W. Murnau's silent masterpiece The Last Laugh,...
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Niddy Hoevelmann
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1956
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Romy Schneider makes an impressive starring debut in the delightful Austrian comedy Sissi. The titular heroine is a preteen...
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Sissi
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1955
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This comical mix up features a baron who falls for a young woman on her way to visit her aunt in Vienna. When he call to ask...
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1955
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Victoria
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1954
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Anna
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1953
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