Charles Vissières
1880 - 1960Éternel espoir
Max-Joly
Nicolas Amato, Michel Ardan
The war will separate the members of the Valon family, two sons Alexandre and Antoine being prisoners, while the youngest Gilbert enters the secret army. Only their sister, Denise, will stay on the farm with her grandfather and grandmother. The Germans invade the free zone.
L'éternel espoir
Quai des Orfèvres
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
Jenny Lamour
Don Camillo
Julien Duvivier
Fernandel, Gino Cervi
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Don Camillo
Le Plaisir
Max Ophüls
Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
Le Plaisir
Une si jolie petite Plage
Yves Allégret
Madeleine Robinson, Gérard Philipe
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.
Such a Pretty Little Beach
Les inconnus dans la maison
Henri Decoin
Raimu, Juliette Faber
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.
Strangers in the House
Le diable au corps
Claude Autant-Lara
Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe
In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with Jacques' baby.
Devil in the Flesh
La tentation de Barbizon
Jean Stelli
Simone Renant, Pierre Larquey
Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. The Dark Prince sends an emissary to beak up the romance, but his advocate is promptly challenged by a representative from "up above."
The Temptation of Barbizon
Le café du cadran
Jean Gehret, Henri Decoin
Bernard Blier, Blanchette Brunoy
A couple of young provincials, Louise and Julien, settle in the heart of the capital to take care of the Café du Cadran. They get to know the fauna of the regulars among them, racy, distinguished, Luigi who plays the violin at the Café de Paris. Louise listens to him a little too much, Julien becomes jealous and ends up killing his wife. Other bosses follow them very quickly.
Clockface Cafe
L'Idiot
Georges Lampin
Gérard Philipe, Edwige Feuillère
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
The Idiot
Le dernier des six
Georges Lacombe
Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair
Six friends promise to share their fortune in 5 years. The moment is very close, but one of the six is mysteriously murdered, then another... Superintendent Wenceslas Woroboyioetschik (aka Wens) is in charge of the investigation...
Le Dernier des six
