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7.1

♡ 9

26%

Drama

Bernard Fresson as Gilbert Moreau

Pierre Richard as L'artiste qui a besoin de lumière

André Luguet as L'invité au vernissage qui dit 'C'est simple, mais ça existe!'

Michel Piccoli as L'invité pressé au vernissage

Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas. But unbeknownst to her, Stanislas is amassing photographs of a very perverse, disturbed nature.

Manon

1949

6.8

♡ 6

50%

Serge Reggiani as Léon Lescaut

Michel Bouquet as Le second

Cécile Aubry as Manon Lescaut

Franck Maurice as Un voyageur

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.

The Terror of Batignolles

1931

6.3

♡ 6

Comedy

Crime

Boucot Fils as

Jean Wall as He

Germaine Aussey as She

An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and E.A. Dupont and began scripting French versions of German films at Berlin’s UFA studios.

The Spies

1957

6.7

♡ 5

Curd Jürgens as Alex

Patrick Dewaere as Le petit Moynet

Daniel Emilfork as Peterson

Sam Jaffe as Sam Cooper

A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.

The Murderer Lives at Number 21

1942

7.3

♡ 4

80%

82%

based on novel or book

Raymond Bussières as Jean-Baptiste Turlot

Odette Talazac as Madame Point

Huguette Vivier as Mademoiselle Vania

Daniel Gélin as (uncredited)

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.

The Mystery of Picasso

1956

7.5

♡ 6

87%

Pablo Picasso as Self

Henri-Georges Clouzot as Self

Claude Renoir as Self

Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush stroke. He then progresses to more complex paintings, in which he repeatedly adds and removes elements, transforming the entire scene at will, until at last the work is complete.

Diabolique

1955

8.1

♡ 39

95%

Jacques Hilling as L'employé de la morgue

Henri Coutet as L'employé de la morgue

Simone Signoret as Nicole Horner

Johnny Hallyday as Un élève

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

The Truth

1960

7.6

♡ 20

67%

Brigitte Bardot as Dominique Marceau

Sami Frey as Gilbert Tellier

Jacques Perrin as Jérôme

Jacques Marin as Le conducteur du bus

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.

Le Corbeau

1943

7.8

♡ 12

97%

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 Wages of Fear

1953

8.1

♡ 37

100%

94%

central and south america

Adventure

based on novel or book

Darling Légitimus as (as Miss Darling)

Darío Moreno as Hernandez

Yves Montand as Mario

René Baranger as (uncredited)

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

Jenny Lamour

1947

husband wife relationship

7.7

♡ 5

100%