Claude Dauphin

L'éventail

Emil E. Reinert

Dany Robin, Claude Dauphin

Martine is a lonely girl in an exclusive boarding school who conjures up a glamorous existence in order to make her dull life tolerable and to impress the other girls. One of her flights of fancy is a love affair with Brevannes, a famous composer. She leaves the school and goes to the French Alps to find the life she's only dreamed about, where she meets Brevannes and a December-May romance develops until she meets a young mountain guide, Henri Vidal.

De force avec d'autres

Simon Reggiani

Serge Reggiani, Simon Reggiani

Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back to life, "by force with others"

Aux urnes, citoyens!

Jean Hémard

Léon Belières, Lily Mounet

L'impeccable Henri

Charles-Félix Tavano

Claude Dauphin, Marcelle Derrien

Henri, a basically honest fellow, accepts to work for a gang of burglars only to revenge himself on Fournier-Salville, a wealthy businessman who once ruined him. His role will be to become Fournier-Saville's majordomo and at the same time to inform the burglars so as to facilitate their work. But once in the house he performs his task so well and so stylishly that he becomes indispensable. Moreover, Eve, the businessman's capricious daughter, does not remain insensible to his charms.

L'étrange Suzy

Pierre-Jean Ducis

Suzy Prim, Claude Dauphin

To prevent her husband from starting a divorce procedure, a wife simulates madness.

Clair de lune

Henri Diamant-Berger

Blanche Montel, Henri Rollan

While sailing on a yacht off the French Riviera a shy young man and the owner's daughter are shipwrecked on an island.

Le Roman de Renard

Irene Starewicz, Wladyslaw Starewicz

Romain Bouquet, Sylvain Itkine

In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master Fox is arrested and brought to him.

Casque d'or

Jacques Becker

Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani

Ex-convict Georges Manda returns to the free world determined to go straight and takes a steady job as a carpenter. Unable to completely shake his connections with the underground, he meets with a former prison mate, older gangster Félix Leca, who introduces him to his mistress, the sweet but guarded Marie "Casque d'Or". Marie and Georges fall into a passionate relationship, driving Félix to do everything in his power to ruin the couple.

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.

The Tenant

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

The Visit

Bernhard Wicki

Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...

Les Misérables

Glenn Jordan

Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins

Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.

Two for the Road

Stanley Donen

Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney

On the way to a party, a British couple dissatisfied with their marriage recall the gradual dissolution of their relationship.

Symphony for a Massacre

Jacques Deray

Michel Auclair, Claude Dauphin

A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.

Grand Prix

John Frankenheimer

James Garner, Eva Marie Saint

The story tells about the confrontation of four first-class racers of Formula 1. Each of the competitors had their own additional motivation to become a champion. Their world is a risk and extreme, fast driving on the highway. The taste of adrenaline is what race lovers live. Outside of competition, they all experience personal dramas and upheavals, and the more important the desired title becomes for them.

The Sleeping Car Murder

Costa-Gavras

Jacques Perrin, Catherine Allégret

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.