Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together,...

Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls"...

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s...

Father Boquet, old and sad, hopes that François, his son, will be a fisherman like him. Alas, François follows his evil genius Simon to...

Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have...

A banker who lost everything in the stock market is on the verge of committing suicide when the Devil appears to him and offers to give him a...

In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to...

Celeste has failed with Victor and has a little boy. Césaire would still like to marry Céleste, a beautiful and hard-working girl. His...

Tensions mount as the lonely wife of a trucker becomes involved with a gas station attendant.

Two female agents from a rival gang are sent to disrupt the operations of a gold-smuggler's caravan in Africa.

A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.

Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly...

The life and work of the pioneering scientists, told through the words of Marie Curie.

Professor Chardin has just killed a man. Before calling the police to turn himself in, he burns some leaves and a notebook in the fireplace. Secret...

The directors of a company threatened by a railroad construction project in Africa decide to have the General Secretary of the Franco-African...

During the Second World War, the son of a Grenoble collaborator went up to his grandmother's house on the Vercors plateau to wait for the war to end...

A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.

During a trip organized by a municipality to cheer up the loneliness of the elderly in summer, seven "little old men" visit Orly airport and decide...

Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of...

In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.

A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who...

Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with...

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