
Based on the novel by Paul Vialar. Stuck in a loveless marriage Read More »
Tag Archives: Claude Autant-Lara
Keep an Eye on Amelia / Occupe-toi d’Amélie..! (1949) Claude Autant-Lara, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Desailly, Victor Guyau

Young Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend Étienne. Read More »
Sylvie and the Phantom / Sylvie et le fantôme (1946) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Pierre Larquey

On the eve of her 16th birthday, Sylvie’s father needs cash to stay in his castle so he sells Sylvie’s favorite thing Read More »
The Oldest Profession / Le plus vieux métier du monde (1967) Claude Autant-Lara, Mauro Bolognini, Michèle Mercier, Enrico Maria Salerno, Gabriele Tinti

A collection of sketches on prostitution through the ages. Read More »
The Marriage of Chiffon (1942) Le mariage de Chiffon

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called “Chiffon”, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. Read More »
Le diable au corps / Devil in the Flesh (1947) Claude Autant-Lara, Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Denise Grey

During World War I, underage student Francois Jaubert meets and falls in love with Marthe Grangier, who is engaged to Jacques, a soldier at the Front. Read More »
The Red Inn (1951) Claude Autant-Lara, Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Marie-Claire Olivia

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. Read More »
Franciscan of Bourges (1968) Claude Autant-Lara, Hardy Krüger, Béatrix Dussane, Jean-Pierre Dorat

Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Read More »
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961) Claude Autant-Lara, Laurent Terzieff, Horst Frank, Mica Orlovic

At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. Read More »
Love Letters (1942) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Simone Renant

France, 1855. Zélie Fontaine, a twenty-odd-year-old widow and the post mistress of the small provincial town of Argenson Read More »