France Movies

A documentary on the 1924 Olympic Game in Paris.

David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.

Porcelain maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, however family problems cause interruptions.

Je serai seule après minuit is a movie starring Mireille Perrey, Pierre Bertin, and Vanah Yami. A woman's marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night .So she buys all his stock from a...

A woman and her pimp exploit a painter for money.

A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.

Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège is a short starring Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, and Louis Lefebvre. In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a...

Les misérables is a movie starring Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, and Paul Azaïs. The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the...

Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.

In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well

Le crime de Monsieur Lange is a movie starring René Lefèvre, Florelle, and Jules Berry. The boss of a publishing company is a womanizer and a jerk, but what would happen if he suddenly disappeared?

Bob le flambeur is a movie starring Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, and Daniel Cauchy. After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.

A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine and becomes a top model

Two men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures - until they are arrested by the police.

In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but marries the other.

A Commander receives a citation for an attack on General Erwin Rommel's headquarters, which is actually undeserved, as the Commander is unfit for his job. On top of that, unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of h

Le notti di Cabiria is a movie starring Giulietta Masina, François Périer, and Franca Marzi. A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

Luciano teaches mathematics to Sandra to help her in school and they fall in love. Sandra has another suitor, it is Nicola, who is also rich. Then Luciano meets the French Brigitte and she wants him to come with her to Paris. Sandra'

Tamango is a movie starring Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, and Jean Servais. A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's...

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is a movie starring Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, and Georges Poujouly. A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of...

Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert.

Mon oncle is a movie starring Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, and Adrienne Servantie. Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.

The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.

Das indische Grabmal is a movie starring Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, and Walther Reyer. A German architect runs away with the maharajah of Eschnapur's fiancee but is caught and thrown in the dungeon, while his relatives arrive from...

Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

Hiroshima mon amour is a movie starring Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, and Stella Dassas. A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing...

A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

Araya is a movie starring José Ignacio Cabrujas and Laurent Terzieff. "Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after...

Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days later she does so by an heart attack, but Maigre

Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.

Deux hommes dans Manhattan is a movie starring Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, and Ginger Hall. A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) and hard drinking photographer...

While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried.

Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. His wealthy household (his family owns chemical corporations that w

La notte brava is a movie starring Rosanna Schiaffino, Elsa Martinelli, and Laurent Terzieff. In Rome, the smalltime thieves Scinttilone and Ruggeretto steal four rifles and catch the prostitutes Anna and Supplizia on the street to...

Estate violenta is a movie starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Lilla Brignone. Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who...

Pickpocket is a movie starring Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, and Jean Pélégri. Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men...

A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.

La dolce vita is a movie starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, and Anouk Aimée. A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.

À bout de souffle is a movie starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Daniel Boulanger. A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American...

Le trou is a movie starring André Bervil, Jean Keraudy, and Michel Constantin. Distrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme.

The Savage Innocents is a movie starring Anthony Quinn, Yôko Tani, and Peter O'Toole. An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being...

Satirical documentary, shot in all parts of the US, showing various aspects of American behavior.

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

In 19th century Holland, a professor of fine arts and an unlicensed surgeon run a secret lab where the professor's ill daughter receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become macabre art.

Three old chums who are number ones in the business of practical jokes decide to leave their village from Vendée in France in order to go and live in a old people's nursing home. Pested off and unable to stand their jokes any more, t

The young King Louis XIII is dominated by his mother Marie de Medici and her favorite Concino Concini. Francois de Capestang, a faithful knight falls for the daughter of the Duke of Angouleme that conspires against the Crown by his s