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1. The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Votes: 11,113
2. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Thomy Bourdelle, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 13,602
3. Gervaise (1956)
116 min | Drama
A poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Maria Schell, François Périer, Jany Holt, Mathilde Casadesus
Votes: 1,645
4. Belphégor (1927)
255 min | Fantasy
A phantom appears in the Louvre museum in the middle of the night in search of something in the dark corridors.
Director: Henri Desfontaines | Stars: René Navarre, Elmire Vautier, Lucien Dalsace, Michèle Verly
Votes: 172
5. I Accuse (1938)
95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A traumatized World War I veteran builds a machine to prevent war. When the government subverts his machine and a second world war seems increasingly inevitable, in desperation the inventor summons the ghosts of the war dead to protest.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance, Marcel Delaître
Votes: 660
6. Beauties of the Night (1952)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music
A young composer has vivid dreams of the past that reflect, yet conflict with his waking life.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida, Magali Vendeuil
Votes: 809
7. Napoléon Bonaparte (1935)
140 min | Biography, Drama
A reedited version of Abel Gance's silent masterpiece 'Napoléon vu par Abel Gance', with sound effects added, dialogue post-dubbed, and with new scenes filmed with additional new cast ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Damia, Eugénie Buffet
Votes: 151
8. Vautrin the Thief (1943)
88 min | Drama
Michel Simon vehicle and Balzac adaptation: An escaped convict, putting on priest's garb, manoeuvres his way into 19tn century French society and pressures his young protege to marry for money, not love.
Director: Pierre Billon | Stars: Michel Simon, Madeleine Sologne, Renée Albouy, Marcel André
Votes: 83
9. Ah! The Beautiful Priestesses of Bacchus (1954)
95 min | Comedy, Musical
A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.
Director: Jean Loubignac | Stars: Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Raymond Bussières, Roger Caccia
Votes: 536
10. A Cage of Nightingales (1945)
89 min | Drama, Music
In France, in 1930, the supervisor of a reformatory for young offenders seeks to awaken in them the love of music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of the institution's director.
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Noël-Noël, Micheline Francey, René Génin, René Blancard
Votes: 253
11. Dear Caroline (1951)
115 min | Comedy
14th July 1789. While the wedding of her older unprepossessing sister Louise to a wealthy aristocrat is being celebrated, sixteen-year old beauty Caroline falls in love with an attractive ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Martine Carol, Alfred Adam, Jacques Baumer, Paul Bernard
Votes: 172
12. Fantômas (1932)
91 min | Crime, Thriller
The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham who also came to bring her a significant sum of money. The mysterious Fantômas kills the ... See full summary »
Director: Pál Fejös | Stars: Thomy Bourdelle, Tania Fédor, Jean Worms, Jorge Rigaud
Votes: 155
13. The Royalists (1947)
99 min | Adventure, History
Director: Henri Calef | Stars: Jean Marais, Marcel Herrand, Pierre Dux, Louis Seigner
Votes: 85
14. The French Way (1940)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Lucien Baroux, Micheline Presle, Saturnin Fabre, Gabrielle Dorziat
Votes: 122
15. Le bonheur (1934)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Injured by anarchist Philippe Lucher, film actress Clara Stuart falls in love with her attacker and decides to plead in his favor at his trial.
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Charles Boyer, Paulette Dubost, Jean Toulout
Votes: 261
16. Tarass Boulba (1936)
87 min | Action, Drama, History
Literary adaptation: A Cossack chief leads his forces against Poland. But one of his university trained sons is in love with an enemy daughter.
Director: Alexis Granowsky | Stars: Harry Baur, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Larquey
Votes: 48
17. La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc (1929)
125 min | Drama
Biography of Joan of Arc from her departure from Domremy until her death in Rouen.
Director: Marco de Gastyne | Stars: Simone Genevois, Fernand Mailly, Georges Paulais, Jean Debucourt
Votes: 101
18. Gibier de potence (1951)
106 min | Drama
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Richebé | Stars: Arletty, Georges Marchal, Nicole Courcel, André Carnège
Votes: 71
19. The Life and Loves of Beethoven (1936)
116 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantical hero, an accursed artist.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Jean-Louis Barrault
Votes: 316
20. Sirocco (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Drama
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Viviane Romance, Louis Jouvet, Pierre Renoir, Jany Holt
Votes: 160
21. The Last Turning (1939)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Fernand Gravey, Michel Simon, Marcel Vallée, Auguste Bovério
Votes: 301
22. Eldorado (1921)
100 min | Drama
Sibilla is a single mother, working as a gypsy dancer in a lousy cafe in the south of Spain. Unable to keep with the costs of his son's medical bills, she asks for help to Estiria, her ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Ève Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcelle Pradot, Philippe Hériat
Votes: 493
23. Lilac (1932)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Lilac is consorting with the criminal scum of Paris but then she falls in love with a handsome detective...
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Marcelle Romée, André Luguet, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Guitty
Votes: 213
24. Yoshiwara (1937)
102 min | Drama, Romance
The film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer and a rickshaw man.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa, Michiko Tanaka, Roland Toutain
Votes: 198
25. The Queen's Necklace (1946)
118 min | Drama, History
3 years before the Revolution, clever Jeanne De La Motte manages to procure a special necklace belonging to Marie Antoinette.
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Viviane Romance, Maurice Escande, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean Hébey
Votes: 90
26. La maison Bonnadieu (1951)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Carlo Rim | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier, Françoise Arnoul, Michel François
Votes: 71
27. Mister Leguignon, Signalman (1952)
105 min | Comedy
Follenfant, a designated lawyer, fails to justify Leguignon, who is scheduled to appear for insulting a policeman, but helps him to move when he is expropriated.
Director: Maurice Labro | Stars: Yves Deniaud, Jane Marken, Bernard Lajarrige, Christiane Barry
Votes: 135
28. Accord final (1938)
73 min | Music, Romance
A young American violinist is betting with his European organisor that he will marry the tenth girl he meets the next day within 2 months. If he fails, he looses his Stradivari, if he wins ... See full summary »
Directors: Ignacy Rosenkranz, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry, Jorge Rigaud, André Alerme
Votes: 53
29. Les nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg (1938)
85 min | Drama
Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory.
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Jean Yonnel, Jacques Erwin, Pierre Renoir
Votes: 34
30. Rasputin (1938)
93 min | Biography, Drama, History
Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Harry Baur, Marcelle Chantal, Pierre Richard-Willm, Carine Nelson
Votes: 59
31. Ultimatum (1938)
73 min | Drama, War
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
Directors: Robert Wiene, Robert Siodmak | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Abel Jacquin, Bernard Lancret, Dita Parlo
Votes: 82
32. 27 rue de la Paix (1936)
100 min | Crime
A womanizer's lover' s dead body is found in the Seine.
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Renée Saint-Cyr, Jean Galland, Gabriel Signoret, Jules Berry
Votes: 53
33. La souricière (1950)
85 min | Drama
Director: Henri Calef | Stars: François Périer, Bernard Blier, Pierre Larquey, Jean Marchat
34. Le chemin de l'honneur (1939)
105 min | Drama
A bad boy takes his twin brother's identity to escape from the strong arm of law.
Director: Jean-Paul Paulin | Stars: Henri Garat, Renée Saint-Cyr, André Lefaur, Roland Toutain
Votes: 21
35. Julie de Carneilhan (1950)
95 min | Drama
Director: Jacques Manuel | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Brasseur, Jacques Dumesnil, Marcelle Chantal
36. The Divine Voyage (1929)
102 min | Drama
A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Henry Krauss, Thomy Bourdelle, François Viguier, Louis Kerly
Votes: 80
37. Jericho (1946)
Passed | 139 min | Drama, War
Jericho is the code name of an operation set up by the British Royal Air Force and the French Resistance to free French hostages held by German soldiers in the jail of Amiens in Northern France.
Director: Henri Calef | Stars: Nadine Alari, Roland Armontel, Jean Brochard, André Carnège
Votes: 104
38. Gringalet (1946)
105 min | Comedy
A wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has had a life of luxury and he has become a lazy good for nothing whereas the youthful ... See full summary »
Director: André Berthomieu | Stars: Charles Vanel, Marguerite Deval, Suzy Carrier, Jimmy Gaillard
Votes: 12
39. Les jumeaux de Brighton (1936)
89 min | Comedy
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
Director: Claude Heymann | Stars: Raimu, Michel Simon, Suzy Prim, Charlotte Lysès
Votes: 50
40. Les yeux noirs (1935)
80 min | Drama
1913 Russia: when a sheltered daughter is taken by a banker to a restaurant she doesn't know her father works at, she is saved from being seduced and comforts herself later with the more respectable admiration of her piano teacher.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Harry Baur, Simone Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Max
Votes: 21
41. 120, rue de la Gare (1946)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Everytime you utter these words "120,Rue De La Gare" you stand in great danger of being shot down.
Director: Jacques Daniel-Norman | Stars: René Dary, Jean Parédès, Albert Dinan, Jean Thielment
Votes: 74
42. Seuls au monde (1952)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: René Chanas | Stars: Madeleine Robinson, René Lefèvre, Louis Seigner, Raymond Cordy
43. Le mort en fuite (1936)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two third-rate thespians feign a murder to make the headlines.Their subterfuge backfires on them and both are sentenced to death.
Director: André Berthomieu | Stars: Jules Berry, Michel Simon, Marie Glory, Fernande Albany
Votes: 165
44. La principessa Tarakanova (1938)
95 min | Drama
The favorite of Russian empress Catherine The Great, Count Orloff, is tasked with romancing a princess with claims to the throne, so that the empress can dispose of her more easily. Tragedy ensues.
Directors: Fyodor Otsep, Mario Soldati | Stars: Annie Vernay, Pierre Richard-Willm, Roger Karl, Suzy Prim
Votes: 26
45. Vidocq (1939)
105 min | Crime, Thriller
Director: Jacques Daroy | Stars: André Brulé, Nadine Vogel, René Ferté, Jean Worms
Votes: 23
46. Rothchild (1933)
101 min | Comedy
A homeless man named Rothchild is mistaken for a member of the wealthy Rothschild banking family. An unscrupulous banker makes him a bank president as part of a scheme to defraud depositors and investors.
Director: Marco de Gastyne | Stars: Harry Baur, Fred Pasquali, Christian Casadesus, Paul Pauley
Votes: 16
47. Les amants de Bras-Mort (1951)
95 min | Drama
Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but ... See full summary »
Director: Marcello Pagliero | Stars: Nicole Courcel, Frank Villard, Henri Génès, Line Noro
Votes: 14
48. Bed for Two (1950)
72 min | Comedy
Robert Bobin has been an assistant accountant for twenty years now and, although meek and obedient, is getting weary of his monotonous, limited life. He tries marriage but, unfortunately, ... See full summary »
Director: Emil E. Reinert | Stars: Henri Guisol, Danièle Delorme, Suzanne Flon, Jean Brochard
49. L'homme mystérieux (1933)
40 min | Short, Drama
When the night comes,the wife's terror will rise..
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Charles Vanel, Paul Amiot, Georges Paulais, Henry Bonvallet
Votes: 44
50. Les nouveaux riches (1938)
89 min | Comedy
Former workers, Martinet and Legendre have become successful company managers after winning the lottery. Martinet plays on the stock market against his former boss, and ruins him, what enrages Legendre, and his son.
Director: André Berthomieu | Stars: Raimu, Michel Simon, Betty Stockfeld, Fernand Fabre
Votes: 17