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1. The Golden Age (1930)
Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Drama
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Votes: 14,806 | Gross: $0.03M
2. Les Misérables (1958)
210 min | Drama
Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, René Fleur, Julienne Paroli
Votes: 1,780
3. Lola Montès (1955)
Not Rated | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Votes: 6,046 | Gross: $0.11M
4. Cinéma 16 (1975–1991)
Drama
Stars: Jean Toscan, Fernand Kindt, Richard Martin, Serge Martel
Votes: 33
5. Carnival of Sinners (1943)
Approved | 80 min | Fantasy, Horror
Roland Brissot bought for a nickel a talisman that gives him love, fame, and wealth. The talisman is a cut left hand, and it works perfectly. Of course, there is nothing free in this world,... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Noël Roquevert, Guillaume de Sax
Votes: 1,796
6. A Man's Head (1933)
90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Willy is broke and his mistress always wants more money. A stranger in a pub agrees to murder his aunt, but everything will not go as planned. Maigret will try to separate fact and fiction.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Gina Manès, Alexandre Rignault
Votes: 682
7. Cécile est morte! (1944)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman keeps coming to Quai Des Orfevres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household.Maigret and his colleagues are annoyed, until this woman is found dead and they realize she was on to something.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Albert Préjean, Santa Relli, Germaine Kerjean, Luce Fabiole
Votes: 330
8. Poil de carotte (1932)
91 min | Drama
A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag ; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Harry Baur, Robert Lynen, Louis Gauthier, Simone Aubry
Votes: 749
9. Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
143 min | Comedy
The seven stages of woman - seven stories about French women and love in the sixties.
Directors: Michel Boisrond, Christian-Jaque, René Clair, Henri Decoin, Jean Delannoy, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jacqueline Porel, Pierre-Jean Vaillard, Darry Cowl, Micheline Dax
Votes: 221
10. La Marseillaise (1938)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, History, Music
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Léon Larive
Votes: 1,395
11. Picpus (1943)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed, Maigret tries to find the killer.
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Albert Préjean, Juliette Faber, Jean Tissier, André Gabriello
Votes: 141
12. Life Is Ours (1936)
66 min | Drama, History
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing who the comrades help the proletarian people against the capitalists. It also features propagandistic speeches of leading members of the party.
Directors: Jacques Becker, Jacques B. Brunius, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Maurice Lime, Pierre Unik, André Zwobada, Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Dasté, Jacques B. Brunius, Simone Guisin, Teddy Michaud
Votes: 317
13. Impasse des deux anges (1948)
85 min | Crime, Drama
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Marcel Herrand, Paul Demange
Votes: 209
14. Father, Mother, the Maid and I (1954)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
The film tells how a young lawyer Robert Langlois fell in love with a student Catherine and how they both managed to "tame" their parents and get their consent to marriage.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Robert Lamoureux, Gaby Morlay, Fernand Ledoux, Nicole Courcel
Votes: 318
15. The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957)
110 min | Drama
A heartfelt plea for painless childbirth in rural France of the fifties.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel, Silvia Monfort, Henri Arius
Votes: 320
16. De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940)
89 min | Drama
In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, John Lodge, Aimé Clariond, Jean Worms
Votes: 300 | Gross: $0.01M
17. Le paquebot Tenacity (1934)
85 min | Drama, Romance
Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They wait for the departure of their ship in a hotel recommended by Hidoux, an old porter that they met at the station. They drink ... See full summary »
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Albert Préjean, Pierre Laurel, Martial Rèbe, Léon Arvel
Votes: 83
18. Les évadés (1955)
110 min | Drama, War
During World War II, three prisoners escape from a labor camp.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, François Périer, Michel André, Jacques Marin
Votes: 71
19. Flight Into Darkness (1935)
111 min | Drama
Charles Vanel and Annabella star respectively as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffishness, ... See full summary »
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Annabella, Charles Vanel, Jean Murat, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Votes: 170
20. Monsieur (1964)
105 min | Comedy
Left heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, a rich banker tries to commit suicide. When he learns from his former maid that his wife was unfaithful he fakes his own death and comes back under a new identity
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Mireille Darc, Henri Crémieux
Votes: 360
21. Le jardinier d'Argenteuil (1966)
86 min | Comedy, Crime
Under his daring look of flower lover and naive painter, Father Tulipe is a counterfeiter who only makes small cuts to improve his ordinary.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Pierre Vernier, Alfred Adam
Votes: 351
22. The Fabiani Affair (1962)
95 min | Crime, Drama
Two criminal Corsican clans are fighting each other in Paris.
Director: André Versini | Stars: Charles Aznavour, Raymond Pellegrin, Giovanna Ralli, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Votes: 65
23. Father, Mother, My Wife and I (1955)
105 min | Comedy
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Robert Lamoureux, Gaby Morlay, Fernand Ledoux, Nicole Courcel
Votes: 189
24. Taxi (1953)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant girl with a baby locate her missing husband.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Dan Dailey, Constance Smith, Neva Patterson, Blanche Yurka
Votes: 65
25. The Eleven O'Clock Woman (1948)
97 min | Mystery, Thriller
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Devaivre | Stars: Paul Meurisse, Micheline Francey, Gilbert Gil, Pierre Renoir
Votes: 205
26. Passion for Life (1949)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
Soon after the Great War, the Provence village of Salezes gets a new boys' teacher: Mr. Pascal, a war hero with a diploma from a teachers' college. He rejects old methods: boys' sitting ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Bernard Blier, Juliette Faber, Édouard Delmont, Edmond Ardisson
Votes: 214
27. Aujourd'hui Madame (1970–1982)
Talk-Show
Stars: Nicole André, Jacques Garat, Alain Jérôme, Valérie Manuel
28. Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (1974– )
Documentary
Stars: Armand Panigel, Christian-Jaque, Marcel Carné, Marcel L'Herbier
Votes: 22
29. La maison dans la dune (1952)
90 min | Drama
A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler lives with.Meanwhile the young man is intrigued by another, more innocent girl.
Director: Georges Lampin | Stars: Ginette Leclerc, Jean Chevrier, Roger Pigaut, Marie-Claire Olivia
Votes: 15
30. The Idol (1948)
90 min | Drama
A young woodcutter turned into a boxer, learns the sad fact that some of his triumphs have been stage managed, and confronts his nasty manager.
Director: Alexander Esway | Stars: Yves Montand, Albert Préjean, Suzanne Dehelly, Danielle Godet
Votes: 23
31. Agence matrimoniale (I) (1952)
109 min | Comedy
Look at all the lonely people in a matrimonial agency.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Bernard Blier, Yolande Laffon, Simone Guisin, Michel Nastorg
Votes: 41
32. Mandrin (1962)
126 min | Adventure
A change of pace for social realist Le Chanois, a swashbuckler: French Robin Hood figure Mandrin (later a hero of the Paris Commune) leads a smuggling gang against financial restrictions under Louis XV.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Georges Rivière, Silvia Monfort, Jeanne Valérie, Georges Wilson
Votes: 62
33. Alerte au sud (1953)
110 min | Drama
When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern Morocco, the other gets vengeance by infiltrating the organization responsible.
Director: Jean Devaivre | Stars: Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Erich von Stroheim, Jean Tissier
Votes: 41
34. Paprika (I) (1933)
77 min | Comedy
To win the heart of a rather simple minded young man who doesn't seem to care much for women, a young foreign lady takes a job as the chambermaid to the man's sister in law.
Director: Jean de Limur | Stars: Irén Zilahy, René Lefèvre, Pierre Etchepare, Christiane Delyne
35. Fandango (1948)
90 min | Comedy
In the Basque Country, two friends, José and François, live a cheerful life. The two sly foxes use their wit to boost the business of an innkeeper they have a connection with. José is in ... See full summary »
Director: Emil E. Reinert | Stars: Luis Mariano, Ludmilla Tchérina, Annette Poivre, Jean Tissier
Votes: 14
36. Ceux du ciel (1941)
86 min
Competition among flyers in the aircraft industry.
Director: Yvan Noé | Stars: Marie Bell, Pierre Renoir, Jean Galland, Jean Servais
Votes: 11
37. La belle que voilà (1950)
115 min | Drama
Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal, Ludmilla Tchérina, Henri Arius
Votes: 24
38. Crimson Dynasty (1935)
96 min | Drama, History
Vignerte, a preceptor at the court of a German principality, falls in love with Princess Aurore, whose first husband died under mysterious circumstances. Vignerte suspects the deceased's brother to be responsible for the death.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Elissa Landi, John Lodge, Antonin Artaud
Votes: 75
39. España 1936 (II) (1937)
35 min | Documentary, War, Short
A documentary short subject on the situation in Spain, where a civil war between Fascists and Republican government loyalists has erupted.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Votes: 72
40. Without Leaving an Address (1951)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Thérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as she told him that she was expecting his baby. To trace her unworthy lover, she boards... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Bernard Blier, Danièle Delorme, Pierre Trabaud, Arlette Marchal
Votes: 187
41. La dame de chez Maxim's (1933)
109 min | Comedy
Dr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints the town red at Maxim's. When he wakes up late the next morning, he finds the scantily clad ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Florelle, Esther Kiss, Ady Cresso, Jeanne Frédérique
Votes: 21
42. Messieurs Ludovic (1946)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Three men named Ludovic living in Paris were born on the same day, Ludovic Seguin (an engineer), Ludovic Lechartier (a rich financier) and Ludovic Mareuil (a tough guy on the wrong side of ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Odette Joyeux, Bernard Blier, Marcel Herrand, Jean Chevrier
Votes: 28
43. Madame... êtes-vous libre? (1971– )
26 min | Comedy
Stars: Denise Fabre, Robert Murzeau, Pierre Risch, Jeanne Aubert
Votes: 13
44. Jupiter (1952)
79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A provincial chemist's daughter is to marry her cousin Gilbert.The day before he arrives,a stranger ,who has just escaped from an insane asylum ,claims he is the famous cousin.
Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Dany Robin, Georges Marchal, Jean Tissier, Huguette Duflos
45. Vive la classe (1932)
64 min | Comedy
Director: Maurice Cammage | Stars: Fernandel, Yvette Andréyor, Mireille Balin, Lucienne Claudy
46. Le village magique (1955)
95 min | Comedy
A young Parisian plans a holiday in Sicily with his new fiancee but has to take a later train, without her, because of work obligations.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Robert Lamoureux, Lucia Bosè, Hélène Rémy, Delia Scala
Votes: 12
47. It's in the Bag (1932)
45 min | Comedy
Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Prévert | Stars: Julien Carette, Anthony Gildès, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Votes: 101
48. La châtelaine du Liban (1934)
95 min | Drama
The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Spinelly, Jean Murat, George Grossmith, Marguerite Templey
49. Le temps des cerises (1938)
81 min | Drama
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting gives young workers hope for a better future.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Gaston Modot, Svetlana Pitoëff, Fabien Loris, Jandeline
Votes: 16
50. Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur (1943)
80 min | Comedy
Comedy about an older man wanting to marry a younger woman who must make sure first that the woman is not by chance his own daughter.
Director: René Jayet | Stars: Denise Grey, Jean Tissier, Annie France, André Gabriello