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Classic French Cinema

Classic French Cinema

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Classic French Cinema
  • There's No Tomorrow

    Movie

    Directed by Max Ophüls • Drama • 1939 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Edwige Feuillère, George Rigaud

    From the masterful Max Ophüls comes this bittersweet melodrama, glittering with a dash of film noir. Edwige Feuillère commands the screen as a once-bourgeois woman reduced to d...

  • The Black Tulip

    Movie

    Directed by Christian-Jaque • Adventure • 1964 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Alain Delon, Virna Lisi, Dawn Addams

    Alain Delon leaps into action in this colorful swashbuckling adventure from the pen of Alexandre Dumas. On the eve of the French Revolution, France's most dari...

  • The Road to Shame

    Movie

    Directed by Édouard Molinaro • Crime • 1959 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Robert Hossein, Magali Noël, Estella Blain

    When Béatrice decides to spend an evening with wealthy playboys, her working-class fiancé Pierre (Robert Hossein) follows, exposing an organized crime ring. F...

  • Un Flic

    Movie

    Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • Crime • 1972 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve

    From Jean-Pierre Melville comes this action-packed neo-noir. When tipped off on an upcoming heist, a Parisian police chief (Alain Delon) discovers a ni...

  • Vice and Virtue

    Movie

    Directed by Roger Vadim • Drama • 1963 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Catherine Deneuve, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein

    Set in Nazi-occupied France, “Vice and Virtue” is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's “Justine”. Two sisters navigate very different paths as they ...

  • Please, Not Now!

    Movie

    Directed by Roger Vadim • Classic • 1963 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Brigitte Bardot, Joséphine James, Michel Subor

    Brigitte Bardot stars in this madcap romantic comedy, seen through the fetishizing lens of Roger Vadim. Sophie (Bardot), a flighty young model, learns that he...

  • Razzia Sur La Chnouf

    Movie

    Directed by Henri Decoin • Crime • 1955 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Albert Rémy

    Based on a novel by Auguste Le Breton, this noir classic explores the criminal underworld of 1950s Paris. After a spell in the U.S., master criminal Henri Ferré, known ...

  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses

    Movie

    Directed by Roger Vadim • Drama • 1959 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe, Annette Vadim

    A provocative adaptation of the classic novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Updated to present-day France by director Roger Vadim, the film follows Valmont (Géra...

  • L'Age D'or

    Movie

    Directed by Luis Buñuel • Arthouse • 1930 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

    The surrealist masterpiece “L'Age D'or” showcases the incomparably obsessive cinematic imagination of Luis Buñuel at its beginning and the celebrated surrealism of Salvado...

  • La Chinoise

    Movie

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 1967 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Juliet Berto

    Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of students form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After stud...

  • Le Gai Savoir

    Movie

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 1969 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Luc Godard

    In this classic film from Jean-Luc Godard, two militants have a discourse on language while alone in an abandoned television studio. Referring to spoke...

  • Joy House

    Movie

    Directed by René Clément • Crime • 1964 • France • English
    Starring Jane Fonda, Alain Delon, Lola Albright

    A scorching love triangle ignites between the iconic Jane Fonda , sultry Lola Albright and Alain Delon in René Clément’s "Joy House." Delon stars as Marc, a dashing young con man on the run...

  • Eden and After

    Movie

    Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet • Drama • 1970 • Tunisia, France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Pierre Zimmer, Catherine Jourdan, Lorraine Rainer

    From the darkly erotic imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet (“Trans-Europe-Express”) comes “Eden and After”, a dreamlike fable in which a grou...

  • The Day and the Hour

    Movie

    Directed by René Clément • Drama • 1963 • France • French, German with English subtitles
    Starring Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman

    International screen icon Simone Signoret stars in this powerful World War II drama directed by René Clément. Signoret is superb as Thérèse, an isolated woman who unw...

  • Princess Tam Tam

    Movie

    Directed by Edmond T. Greville • Drama • 1935 • French • French with English subtitles
    Starring Josephine Baker, Albert Préjean, Jean Gallande

    "Princess Tam Tam" is a 1935 French black-and-white film starring Josephine Baker as Alwina, a Tunisian girl who is introduced to Parisian high society a...