Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Read More »
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The Game of Love (1954) Claude Autant-Lara, Edwige Feuillère, Nicole Berger, Pierre-Michel Beck
Based on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. 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 »
The Red and the Black (1954) Claude Autant-Lara, Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi, Drama, Romance
It’s no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post- Napoleonic era Read More »
The Gambler (1958) Claude Autant-Lara, Gérard Philipe, Liselotte Pulver, Françoise Rosay, Drama
In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Read More »
The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo (1961) Claude Autant-Lara, Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Action, Adventure, Drama
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d’If. Read More »
Douce / Love Story (1943) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, Madeleine Robinson, Marguerite Moreno, Drama
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Read More »
Marguerite de la nuit / Marguerite of the Night (1955) Claude Autant-Lara, Michèle Morgan, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt, Drama, Fantasy
An updating of the Faust legend, with a dash of Fritz Lang’s “Der Müde Tod”, to a 1950’s Paris recreated in vividly abstract expressionistic sets.
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