Pierre Fresnay

Tatillerini İsviçre’de geçirmeye karar veren İngiliz Bob ve Jill Lawrence burada Fransız Pierre Fresnay ile tanışırlar ve dost olurlar. Kısa bir süre sonra Fresnay öldürülür, ölümünden hemen önce ise Bob’un kulağına bir sır fısıldar: önemli bir diplomata Londra’da Albert Hall’da bir konser sırasında suikast düzenlenecektir. Bu olaya şahit olan yabancı ajanlar Bob’un küçük kızı Betty’i kaçırarak onun bildiklerini açıklamamasını sağlamaya çalışırlar. Polise başvurmaktan çekinen Bob kızını kendi çabalarıyla kurtarmak ve suikastı önlemek istemektedir. İngiliz yönetmen Alfred Hitchcock’ın dünya çapında tanınmasını ve Amerikan film endüstrisinin de dikkatini çekmesini sağlayan film olan 1934 tarihli Çok Şey Bilen Adam’ı yönetmen 1956’da daha geniş bir bütçeyle yeniden çekti.

Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nda, aristokrat sınıftan gelen Komutan De Boeldieu ile işçi sınıfından gelme Teğmen Marechal, keşif gezisine çıkarlar. Ancak görevlerini başarı ile tamamlayamadan, Alman askerleri tarafından esir alınırlar. Alman Komutan von Rauffenstein da, tıpkı Boeldieu gibi aristokrat bir aileden gelmedir ve esirlerinin kendisi ile birlikte yemek yiyebileceklerini duyurur. Yemek sırasında Boeldieu ile Rauffenstein, aralarındaki ortaklıkları görmeye başlarlar, bunların hepsi de sınıf temellidir. Ancak bu ortaklık, onların esir kampına gönderilmesini engellemez. Komutan ve teğmen, kampta diğer askerler ile arkadaş olur ve onların kaçış planlarına katılırlar. Esir kampından tünel kazarak kaçmayı deneyeceklerdir...

Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed twice in 1953, first in Argentina, then in France. The Argentine film was heavily modernized, while the French version returns to Dumas' 19th-century milieu. Micheline Presle is excellent as Marguerite, the gorgeous courtesan who flits from man to man until she finds true love in the form of the much-younger Armand (Rolande Alexandre). Though he is willing to marry her despite her past, she is persuaded to forsake him, lest his reputation be ruined. The story then wends its way towards its famous tragic finale, as the consumptive Marguerite is permitted a few brief moments of happiness before her flame is permanently extinguished. Advertised as the seventh version of the Dumas classic, La Dame aux Camelias was certainly not the last.

Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability pension fund, several families claim him as their missing son. Gaston is introduced to the Renaud family by the Duchess Dupont-Dufort and her lawyer. The Renaud family attempt to revive Gaston's memory with stories of his past, but he is apalled by some of the things he hears and dislikes the man he is supposed to be.

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius, whose life has been fraught with calamity and poverty.

Paris, Fransa. Komiser Wens, acımasız bir katilin izini sürerek beklenmedik bir yere varır.

César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded inventor. The latter comes to propose a new type of carburetor to the company when César has to hand in the day's takings to his superior.

An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's. Jean-Paul Belmondo leads us through the movie starting as a young photographer around 1900, a reporter in both world-wars and doing fictional interviews with lots of celebrities.

A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.

After losing her only child and falling for another man, a wife no longer loves her husband, but he thinks if he takes her back to some of the places they enjoyed in earlier years, it might rekindle their doomed marriage.

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable promise.

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside

Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in mocking the traditions and credos of Catholicism. Even so, young Gerard (Pierre Trabaud) becomes convinced that Maurice has never truly lost his calling. Becoming a priest himself, Gerard devotes his life to bringing Maurice back into the fold. Things don't turn out quite as Gerard hopes, however; he has not reckoned with the possibility that Maurice may have been driven into insanity by his raging self-hatred.

In 1912, the Alsatian Albert Schweitzer, missionary doctor and musician, goes to Gabon, a French colony, to fight malaria, which is ravaging the population. Administrator Leblanc takes a dim view of his arrival. But Albert can count on the devoted Marie Winter and Father Charles to assist him in his task.

The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.

Fransız sinemasının önemli yönetmenlerinden "Le Salaire De La Peur" (1953), "Les Diaboliques" (1955) gibi başyapıtları yöneten Henri-Georges Clouzot en çarpıcı filmlerinden biri olan Le Corbeau (1943) bir kasaba doktorunun Karga imzalı bir tehdit mektubu almasını ve giderek kasabada hemen hemen herkese aynı mektubun gönderilmesinin yarattığı huzursuzluğu anlatıyor. Film Tulle kentinde gerçek bir olaydan esinlenerek, Fransız taşrasına gerçekçi bir gözlemde bulunmuş. Filmin yapımcılığını Almanlar üstlenmiş. Filmi Almanlar, İsviçre ve Çekoslovakya gibi ülkelerde, Fransız toplumunun yozlaşmasının göstergesi, tanıtımıyla gösterime sunması, 2.Dünya Savaşı döneminde direnişçilerin tepkisine ve savaşın bitiminden sonra Clouzot ve oyuncu Pirre Fresnay'ın uzun süre sinemadan dışlanmasına yol açmış.

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offers a fascinating mosaic of the people and events that shaped the years 1900 to 1950. Complementing the vintage film clips are three dramatized sketches, delineating the romantic customs of three different points in time. These sketches are inadequately performed, and can easily be ignored. Ce Siecle a 50 Ans both preserved and provided celluloid material for scores of future documentaries.

An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately, Émilienne's young sister who was helping her at work decides to go away with the stableman.

A young woman has doubts about her husband's fidelity. She pretends a trip, but settles in a hotel where her husband must pass. He meets her and, disturbed by the one he believes to be his wife's double, becomes her lover. Little by little the truth breaks through. The husband takes leave of the mistress and returns to the wife whose return has been announced.

Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a passing circus girl.

Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The train arrives. Mr. Andrieu is expecting his sardines and both his daughters, back from winter sports.

As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the prosperity they have heard about.

Louberger, director of an orphanage, is full of praise for a former boarder, Mr. Sauval, who has become their benefactor. One night he arrives and he does not seem to be exactly the man described by Louberger. He has in fact become a crooked lawyer and he is wanted for a crime he has just committed. Despite his efforts he will not escape the police but he will manage to remain, in the eyes of the children, at the height of his legend.

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.