Fréhel

Pépé le Moko

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows polic...

Amok

Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love...

The Story of a Cheat

Life story of a charming scoundrel, with little dialogue other than the star/director's witty narration. As a b...

Maya

Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is al...

Sirocco

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the nat...

Lilac

Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charl...

Berlingot and Company

François and Victor sell hard candy at the fun fair. They also bring up Gisèle, a one-year-old child they found...

Gigolette

A Man Walks in the City

Le Havre, France, in 1949. In a town that still shows the scars of war, several friends meet up in Albert's caf...

Bouquets from Nicholas

A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who use him to...

Une java

Hell of Angels

Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.

Street Without a Name

The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhoo...

L'Homme traqué

A Parisian baker boy, tired of his monotonous and hopeless life, kills the owner of a hotel to rob him. A woman...

Street Without Joy

Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out...