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7.1

♡ 3

Claude Autant-Lara Director

Julienne Paroli as La vieille Thérèse

Léonce Corne as Le garçon d'hôtel

Paul Oettly as Le prêtre

Roger Blin as L'homme du théâtre

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.

Adventures of Captain Fabian

1951

English

5.6

♡ 4

95%

William Marshall Director

Agnes Moorehead as Aunt Jezebel

Errol Flynn as Capt. Michael Fabian

Vincent Price as George Brissac

Roger Blin as Philippe

It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.

The Trump Card

1942

5.9

♡ 3

Crime

Jacques Becker Director

Mireille Balin as Bella Morgan

Maurice Baquet as Mickey

Roger Blin as Un aspirant

Franck Maurice as (uncredited)

A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1.

Passionnelle

1947

6.7

Edmond T. Gréville Director

Lyska Wells as

Alexandre Fédo as (as A. Fédo)

Edouard Hemme as (as Ed. Helle)

Roger Blin as Julien

Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury the body.

Zou Zou

1934

6.3

♡ 3

64%

Marc Allégret Director

Yvette Lebon as Claire

Robert Seller as Le commanditaire

Roger Blin as Le témoin du meurtre

Josephine Baker as Zouzou

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

The Alibi

1937

6.7

♡ 7

Crime

Pierre Chenal Director

Philippe Richard as John Gordon

Roger Blin as Kretz, l'homme de main de Winckler

Odette Talazac as La logeuse

Erich von Stroheim as Le professeur Winckler

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1956

6.6

♡ 6

Jean Delannoy Director

Daniel Emilfork as Andry le Rouge

Roger Blin as Mathias Hungadi

Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo

Nadine Tallier as Une fille à la 'Cour des Miracles'

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...

The Devil's Envoys

1942

fiancé fiancée relationship

7.2

♡ 9

100%

pact with the devil

Romance

seductress

woman disguised as a man

Marcel Carné Director

Marie Déa as Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud Arletty

Arletty as Dominique - un ménestrel

Simone Signoret as Extra

Roger Blin as Le montreur de monstres

At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.

Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire...

1949

5.8

♡ 1

Horror

Mystery

Jean Faurez Director

Roger Blin as Guillaume

Jean-François Lalet as Lafarge

Jacques Dufilho as Le conscrit ivre

Fernand Ledoux as Montrésor

A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.

Life Is Ours

1936

5.9

♡ 3

History

Jean Renoir Director

Jean Renoir as Le patron du bistrot

Jean Dasté as L'instituteur / Teacher

Roger Blin as Un métallo

Vladimir Sokoloff as Un vieillard dans le cortège final

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Orpheus

1950

7.8

♡ 24

97%

Jean Cocteau Director

Juliette Gréco as Aglaonice

François Périer as Heurtebise

Jean-Pierre Melville as Le directeur de l'hôtel

Roger Blin as The Poet

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.

Le Corbeau

1943

7.8

♡ 12

97%

Henri-Georges Clouzot Director

Roger Blin as François - le cancéreux du 13 Palau

Palau as Le receveur de P.T.T.

Pierre Bertin as Le sous-préfet

Pâquerette as Une suspecte

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.

The King and the Mockingbird

1980

7.7

♡ 8

100%

Paul Grimault Director

Roger Blin as L'aveugle

Raymond Bussières as Le chef de la police

Thomas M. Pollard as Museum Security Guard

Jerry Di Giacomo as The King / Additional Voices

A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.

That Most Important Thing: Love

1975

7.0

♡ 15

93%

89%