The Unknown Singer

1931

French

6.0

♡ 3

Action

Drama

singer

Viktor Tourjansky Director

Ernest Mezigues as

Alexandre Mathillon as Baliveau

Jean-Max as Jacques

Simone Simon as Pierette

A legendary French singer, missing for years and presumed dead, returns with no memory, his face hidden, his voice unmistakable. The woman who never stopped loving him clings to hope, while those who once betrayed him begin to fear he remembers everything.

La Ronde

1950

French

7.5

♡ 7

94%

Max Ophüls Director

Serge Reggiani as Franz

Simone Signoret as Léocadie

Simone Simon as Marie

Anton Walbrook as Raconteur

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

Olivia

1951

French

6.9

♡ 2

100%

girls' boarding school

Jacqueline Audry Director

Philippe Noiret as L'amoureux de Béatrice

Suzanne Dehelly as Mademoiselle

Simone Simon as Mademoiselle Cara

Danièle Delorme as Une ancienne élève

"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress Julie and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Julie and the other head of the school Cara in its final months.

The Human Beast

1938

French

7.5

♡ 6

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

family secrets

husband wife relationship

le havre, france

railwayman

troubled marriage

Jean Renoir Director

Jean Renoir as Cabuche

Jean Gabin as Jacques Lantier

Fernand Ledoux as Roubaud

Simone Simon as Séverine Roubaud

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.

Le Plaisir

1952

French

7.5

♡ 9

80%

Max Ophüls Director

Roland Lesaffre as Bit part

Simone Simon as Joséphine - le modèle

Paul Azaïs as Le patron du bal

Peter Ustinov as Narrator

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.