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1. Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (1974– )
Documentary
Stars: Armand Panigel, Christian-Jaque, Marcel Carné, Marcel L'Herbier
Votes: 22
2. 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: 746
3. 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: 1,777
4. 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: 1,792
5. 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
6. La fille aux yeux gris (1945)
102 min | Drama
The action takes place in an isolated village in the mountain.Catherine ,also known as "L'Airelle" (blueberry),loves a young physician.Catherine's father is the local bone-setter.
Director: Jean Faurez | Stars: Fernand Ledoux, Paul Bernard, Claude Génia, Line Noro
Votes: 17
7. 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: 14,799 | Gross: $0.03M
8. 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: 6,042 | Gross: $0.11M
9. 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
10. Madame... êtes-vous libre? (1971– )
26 min | Comedy
Stars: Denise Fabre, Robert Murzeau, Pierre Risch, Jeanne Aubert
Votes: 13
11. 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
12. 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
13. Cinéma 16 (1975–1991)
Drama
Stars: Jean Toscan, Fernand Kindt, Richard Martin, Serge Martel
Votes: 32
14. 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: 1,392
15. 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: 299 | Gross: $0.01M
16. 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: 329
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. 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
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. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. Au coeur de l'orage (1948)
80 min | Documentary, War
This documentary about WW II, composed of clandestine Allied film takes and German Wochenschaubilder, focuses on the French Resistance, especially the heroic but disastrous battle of the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Franck Bauer, Abel Bonnard, Genevieve Brissaut, Jean Chevrier
Votes: 27
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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: 70
28. Son dernier rôle (1946)
90 min | Drama
An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like that character did.Sadly ,she will not get her wish because she is terminally-ill .
Director: Jean Gourguet | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Marcel Dalio, Jean Tissier, Germaine Charley
Votes: 21
29. 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
30. 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: 319
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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
35. Grand écran (1964– )
40 min | Documentary
Stars: Jean Collet, Marcel Dalio, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 10
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. 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
38. Huit hommes dans un château (1942)
93 min | Crime, Drama
The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: René Dary, Jacqueline Gauthier, Aline Carola, Louis Salou
Votes: 21
39. Marlène (1949)
100 min | Drama
Returning from South America, a singer is hired by an old pal who runs a detective agency to use a perch as a night club performer to be an investigator.The amateur sleuth then falls for a girl whose brother is a jewel thief.
Director: Pierre de Hérain | Stars: Tino Rossi, Micheline Francey, Pauline Carton, Lilia Vetti
Votes: 23
40. 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
41. 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
42. 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
43. 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
44. 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
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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: 61
48. Jeunes filles de Paris (1936)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Turning among characters such as : an alcoholic bum, a rich banker, an eccentric old lady, a working class girl, a poor lover, and a hypocritical bourgeois.
Director: Claude Vermorel | Stars: Michel Simon, Mireille Balin, Paul Azaïs, Nadia Sibirskaïa
Votes: 11
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. 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: 22