Paul Frankeur

Samedi soir

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of t...

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, the...

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves c...

Children of Paradise

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Bapti...

Justice Is Done

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are...

The Phantom of Liberty

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based...

Razzia

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he wa...

Maigret Sees Red

Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influe...

Thérèse Raquin

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

The Milky Way

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their wa...

Nana

In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls madly in lov...

Jour de Fête

Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his dut...

A Monkey in Winter

During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they...

Come Dance with Me!

The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a dancer's de...

Le Deuxième Souffle

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspe...

My Uncle Benjamin

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to...

The Gentleman from Epsom

The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.

Speaking of Murder

Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are...

Before the Deluge

The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famou...

The Lovemakers

The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his ot...

An Eye for an Eye

In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife...

The Night Affair

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Na...

L'Espagnol

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.

People of No Importance

During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works...

We Are All Murderers

Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former...

The Beast Is Loose

Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of...

The Magnificent Tramp

Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.

Marie-Octobre

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin...

A Star to the Sun

Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted wi...

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrust...

Le Crâneur

A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.

Under the Paris Sky

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all...

Black Dossier

In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable durin...

Star Without Light

An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and s...