Jean Aurenche

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

Dir. Claude Autant-Lara · With Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès

On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?

Dir. Marcel Carné · With Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet

Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives in Lyon with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and inform him that Bernard has killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realises that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.

Dir. Claude Autant-Lara · With Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Marie-Claire Olivia

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert

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...

Dir. Jean Delannoy · With Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Alain Cuny

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.

Dir. Gérard Krawczyk · With Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot