CESAR DE LA MEILLEURE ACTRICE
Quelles actrices auraient pu être nommées si les césar avaient existé avant 1976 ?
La gagnante suivie des 4 nommées . J'ai modifié le palmarès récent en tenant compte des résultats . Je ne pense pas que Jeanne Moreau l'aurait emporté en 1992 si elle avait gagné à plusieurs reprises par le passé.
Voici les comédiennes récompensées :
La gagnante suivie des 4 nommées . J'ai modifié le palmarès récent en tenant compte des résultats . Je ne pense pas que Jeanne Moreau l'aurait emporté en 1992 si elle avait gagné à plusieurs reprises par le passé.
Voici les comédiennes récompensées :
- 5 : Simone Signoret et Isabelle Adjani.
- 4 : Romy Schneider.
- 3 : Arletty , Michèle Morgan , Jeanne Moreau et Catherine Deneuve.
- 2 : Marie Bell , Madeleine Renaud , Micheline Presle , Françoise Rosay , Danielle Darrieux , Edwige Feuillère , Delphine Seyrig , Annie Girardot , Sabine Azéma , Juliette Binoche ,Nathalie Baye et Yolande Moreau.
- 1 : Annabella , Orane Demazis , Gaby Morlay , Madeleine Sologne , Gabrielle Dorziat , Maria Schell , Emmanuelle Riva , Brigitte Bardot , Françoise Dorléac , Louise Sylvie , Anouk Aimée , Françoise Fabian , Aurore Clément , Miou-Miou , Sandrine Bonnaire , Anémone , Carole Bouquet , Anne Parillaud , Isabelle Huppert , Fanny Ardant , Ariane Ascaride , Elodie Bouchez , Karin Viard , Dominique Blanc , Emmanuelle Devos , Isabelle Carré , Sylvie Testud , Marina Hands , Marion Cotillard , Sara Forestier , Bérénice Bejo.
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- DirectorRené ClairStarsAnnabellaRené LefèvreJean-Louis AllibertAn impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.César 1932 : ANNABELLA
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsRaimuPierre FresnayFernand CharpinMarius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.Orane DEMAZIS
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsHuguette DuflosKissa KouprineMaxime DesjardinsA professor's daughter is attacked in her sealed bedroom.Her fiance is suspected but a cub journalist finds the surprising culprit.Huguette DUFLOS
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsRudolf ForsterLotte LenyaCarola NeherThe Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.Odette FLORELLE
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsGaby MorlayCharles VanelLine NoroTwo sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.Gaby MORLAY
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsRaimuPierre FresnayFernand CharpinAfter Fanny's boyfriend leaves her and sails away, she finds out she's pregnant.César 1933 : Orane DEMAZIS
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsMarcelle ChantalRégine DancourtGabriel GabrioA policeman is killed when he tries to investigate a case involving cocaine traffic. The only evidence of the crime is a white female's bloodstained glove found in an abandoned taxi and a revolver. After thorough researches, the police will be tightening the circle around a woman of Polish origin.Marcelle CHANTAL
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsBrigitte HelmHeinz KlingenbergTela TchaïTwo French Foreign Legionnaires are lost amid the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert when they stumble across the entrance to an underground world. Searching this new found subterranean passage, our heroes are surprised to find the lost city of Atlantis. Ruling over this fantastic underworld realm, an evil queen sets her sights upon these strangers to her kingdom.Brigitte HELM
- DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsGaby MorlayPierre BlancharVictor FrancenA woman and two violinists ' drama.Gaby MORLAY
- DirectorDominique Bernard-DeschampsStarsFrançoise RosayMady BerryColette DarfeuilMadame Husson looks over her town in vain for a girl who can be crowned with the traditional garland of roses symbolizing innocence,so picks a boy.After which the lad, drunk from celebrating, loses his innocence in a place of debauchery.Françoise ROSAY
- DirectorJean Benoît-LévyMarie EpsteinStarsMadeleine RenaudAlice TissotPaulette ÉlambertWhen her father files bankruptcy and then dies, Rose's fiancé jilts her; she takes a job as a maid in a Montmartre kindergarten with 150 poor children. Rose gives each child loving attention, and soon she's their favorite. An especially needy child is Marie, a prostitute's daughter. Rose and she bond, and Marie is jealous of all attentions paid Rose, especially those of Dr. Libois, the school's physician. When Rose inadvertently guides the children through the educational experiment of a visiting scholar, and then discloses she has a college degree and is working beneath her station, the principal wants to fire her. Is there any way she can stay? And what will happen to Marie?César 1934 : Madeleine RENAUD
- DirectorRené ClairStarsAnnabellaJorge RigaudRaymond CordyJean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to the bal. Many events (Pola's come back, two villains...) will disturb this arising love.ANNABELLA
- DirectorRoger RichebéStarsPierre RenoirConstant RémyJean DebucourtDuring the Restoration, Napoleon's officers are retired and living on half pay. Useless and idle, they spend their time meeting in hope of his return. When the emperor dies, they plot to offer the throne to his son, L'Aiglon.Annie DUCAUX
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsFlorelleEsther KissAdy CressoDr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints the town red at Maxim's. When he wakes up late the next morning, he finds the scantily clad Môme Crevette, a dancer at the famous Paris restaurant, by his side. It is the moment General Petypon du Grêlé, Lucien's rich uncle, chooses to make an unexpected visit. The good doctor has no other choice but to pass Crevette off as his lawful wife.Odette FLORELLE
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsYvette GuilbertGabriel GabrioEmmy LynnA more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.Renée SAINT-CYR
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsMarie BellPierre Richard-WillmCharles VanelPierre (Pierre Richard-Willm), a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence (Marie Bell), and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement (Charles Vanel). Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche (Françoise Rosay) who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma (Marie Bell), one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre. Near the end of his contract with the Legion, Pierre receives news from France. He has inherited a fortune. He asks Irma to come to France with him, and they make plans. But Clement tries to rape Irma and Pierre has to kill him.César 1935 : Marie BELL
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsOrane DemazisFernandelHenri PouponA young and naive peasant girl in Provence, who has been seduced and abandoned, moves to Marseilles and becomes a street-walker after having her baby.Orane DEMAZIS
- DirectorFernand RiversAbel GanceStarsYvonne PrintempsPierre FresnayJane MarkenMarguerite Gautier is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hopes of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.Yvonne PRINTEMPS
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsMadeleine RenaudSuzanne DesprèsGaby TriquetA young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Canada, endures the hardships of isolation and climate, and chooses between three suitors: a trapper, a farmer, and an immigrant from Paris.Madeleine RENAUD
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsMax DearlyValentine TessierPierre RenoirSoon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault, who is well-endowed in every sense. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a husband uninterested in the social whirl, and general discontentment; thereby proving an easy conquest for philanderer Rodolphe. Other lovers follow. Does tragedy await?Valentine TESSIER
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsFrançoise RosayAndré AlermeJean MuratTells the story of the Spanish invasion of FlandersCésar 1936 : Françoise ROSAY
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsAnnabellaJean GabinRobert Le ViganPierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less unselfish...ANNABELLA
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsSimone BerriauJorge RigaudGina ManèsA country girl starts to work as a chorus girl in Paris and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.Simone BERRIAU
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsEdwige FeuillèreGabriel GabrioMaurice EscandeAt the end of the 15th Century, Rome is ruled ruthlessly by power mad and sex hungry Cesare Borgia, the eldest son of Pope Alexander VI. Following the advice of his chief adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to attempt to unify the country in order to become even more powerful. To this end he needs his sister Lucrezia. Presently, the beautiful creature is married to the Count of Pesaro but she would be more useful if she was the wife of Alphonse of Aragon. Never mind, let the Count join his ancestors! And when the Duke of Aragon becomes useless, Cesare easily finds his replacement. Used as a pawn by her brother, Lucrezia eventually renounces happiness and becomes patron of the arts and the letters/Edwige FEUILLERE
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsGaby MorlayCharles BoyerPaulette DubostInjured by anarchist Philippe Lucher, film actress Clara Stuart falls in love with her attacker and decides to plead in his favor at his trial.Gaby MORLAY
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsCharles BoyerDanielle DarrieuxMarthe RégnierRudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his views carry no weight. He agrees to marry a princess to sire an heir, then spends his nights as a playboy. In 1888, he meets Marie Vetsera, 17, a baroness's daughter. She is resolute, smitten, and wants nothing in return for her love. The Prime Minister is alarmed; he contrives to have her sent away. Rudolf sinks into dissipation. When she returns, how will the lovers handle the opposition of society and their families? Can Rudolf find a way for them to be together?César 1937 : Danielle DARRIEUX
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsRaimuPierre FresnayOrane DemazisHonoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Cesariot's godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad's mother. Dissembling that he's off to see a friend, Cesariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Cesariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Cesariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.Orane DEMAZIS
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsHarry BaurGaby MorlayAndré LefaurJacques Brachart is a parvenu in the finance, the boss of the African Coppers. The D'Andeline are noble but pennyless. They make their daughter Anne-Marie marry Brachart. A marriage of convenience for them. But Brachart is really in love with Anne-Marie, though she can hardly stand him. One days, she takes a lover, Jerome Le Govain, a dandy whose money comes from Brachart's advises... A fierce melodrama.Gaby MORLAY
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsJean GabinCharles VanelRaymond AimosFive unemployed penniless workers win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.Viviane ROMANCE
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsFrançoise RosayAlbert PréjeanLisette LanvinJenny is a madam at a brothel. When her daughter comes back from England, she does not want her to find out what kind of job she really has.Françoise ROSAY
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsMarie BellFrançoise RosayLouis JouvetChristine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.César 1938 : Marie BELL
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsGabriel GabrioOrane DemazisFernandelThe narrative revolves around a farming village where only three inhabitants remain, but they are told that if only one of them, Panturle, manages to find a wife, the village will be able to prosper againOrane DEMAZIS
- DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsMarguerite MorenoPierre BlancharAndré LuguetRussia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from her, the countess dies of fear. Following this tragic scene, Hermann sinks into dementia. Luckily, Lisa, his frail lover, brings him back to life and happiness.Marguerite MORENO
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsPierre BlancharDita ParloPierre FresnayA slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.Dita PARLO
- DirectorRoger RichebéStarsElvire PopescoVictor BoucherJules BerryCount Hubert de Latour Latour is the lover of the Duchess de Maulévrier. The day he is surprised by the Duke in the company of his wife and... in a rather compromising situation, Hubert resorts to a subterfuge, claiming that he has come to see the Duchess to seek support to be elected at the Institut de France, whose chairman is precisely her husband. The latter takes him at his word and Hubert becomes... a member of the French Academy! Which just shows that everything leads to everything.Elvire POPESCO
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsJean GabinMichel SimonMichèle MorganA military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.César 1939 : Michèle MORGAN
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsLouis JouvetClaude DauphinOdette JoyeuxIsabelle, Cécilia and François are drama students at the "Conservatoire d'art dramatique". Cécilia is in love with François, but the young man is in love with Isabelle instead. Cécilia elaborates a desperate plan to get back at François.Odette JOYEUX
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsYvonne PrintempsPierre FresnayJunie AstorA famous actress and a Polish prince have an ill-fated love affair.Yvonne PRINTEMPS
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsFrançoise RosayAndré BruléMarie GloryDue to an accident at the Barlay Circus, animal trainer Flora finds Fernand, a former prison escapee, and refers him to manager, Edouard Barlay.Françoise ROSAY
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinJulien CaretteSimone SimonIn this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.Simone SIMON
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsJean GabinJacqueline LaurentArlettyAfter committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.César 1940 : ARLETTY
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsMaurice ChevalierPierre RenoirMarie DéaAfter one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert, Adrienne Charpentier is recruited by the police to answer a series of similar adverts to try to track down the killer.Marie DEA
- DirectorPierre ChenalStarsFernand GraveyMichel SimonMarcel ValléeFrank, 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, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but.Corinne LUCHAIRE
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsGaby MorlayVictor FrancenPierre Richard-WillmThe history of the Entente Cordiale in the big and small picture, from 1898, when a French officer occupied the village of Fashoda, Sudan to 8 April 1904, when a series or agreements marking the rapprochement between England and France were signed. To this turnaround in public opinion corresponds a parallel evolution in the intimate feelings of two families, one English and the other French which will result in the French heir marrying the English daughter.Gaby MORLAY
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsVictor FrancenMichel SimonLouis JouvetAged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies.Madeleine OZERAY
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsFernand GraveyElvire PopescoAndré AlermeBefore World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.César 1941 : Micheline PRESLE
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsDanielle DarrieuxClaude DauphinAndré LuguetDanielle Darrieux plays an impoverished reform-school escapee who finds a new lease on life when she enrolls in a school for pickpockets run by Fagin-like Saturnin-Fabre.Danielle DARRIEUX
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsEdwige FeuillèreJorge RigaudDaniel LecourtoisAfter an unhappy marriage, a woman of the world is forced to become a dancer in a cabaret in order to raise her young son.Edwige FEUILLERE
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsPierre FresnayMarie BellMicheline FranceyA nun suffering from TB is desperately trying to save an alcoholic tramp and to bring him back to his wife and kids.He has a friend who died last year and became the coachman of the "Ghost Wagon" .Micheline FRANCEY
- DirectorGeorges LacombeStarsMichèle MorganMichel SimonRené LefèvreA would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.Michèle MORGAN
- DirectorRoger RichebéStarsArlettyAimé ClariondMaurice EscandeThe ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First;La Maréchale Lefèvre ,a former launderer who followed the emperor in many of his campaigns is the laughing stock of the court .Although she takes lessons in deportment ,she 's not able to learn good manners and the posh new aristocrats snub her and call her names .When the emperor, his wife Marie-Louise and Neipperg are involved in an intrigue,she saves the situation.César 1942 : ARLETTY
- DirectorLéonide MoguyStarsPierre BlancharAnnie DucauxBlanchette BrunoyBlanchette BRUNOY & Annie DUCAUX
- DirectorJean GrémillonStarsJean GabinMadeleine RenaudMichèle MorganThe captain of the tugboat Cyclone, André Laurent, rushes off to save the Mirva. He abandons his sick wife Yvonne and the couple celebrating their marriage. In the early morning, the Cyclone tugs the Mirva ashore with Catherine aboard.Michèle MORGAN & Madeleine RENAUD
- DirectorJean StelliStarsGaby MorlayElvire PopescoAndré AlermeIn 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who soon dies. Devastated by this double misfortune, Louise decides to dedicate her life to caring for the children of others. She becomes a nurse with several employers, giving her affection to little boys or girls. A widower and another man propose to her but she refuses twice determined as she is to live only for the children in her charge.César 1943 : Gaby MORLAY
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsArlettyMarie DéaFernand LedouxIn medieval France, the Devil intervenes when one of his two envoys, sent to seduce and deceive mortals, falls instead for a victim.ARLETTY
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsPierre FresnaySuzy DelairJean TissierInspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.Suzy DELAIR
- DirectorJacques de BaroncelliStarsEdwige FeuillèrePierre Richard-WillmAimé ClariondThe Duchess of Langeais, as beautiful as she is brilliant, is a woman who likes to seduce but who does not give in. Until the day when she falls in love with General de Montriveau, a cabal goes up against her.Edwige FEUILLERE
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraPierre GuerlaisStarsOdette JoyeuxAndré LuguetJacques Dumesnil"Chiffon" is an eccentric young aristocratic girl, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community.Odette JOYEUX
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsMadeleine SologneJean MaraisJean MuratThis is a retelling of Tristan and Isolde, set in 1940s France. The script was written by Jean Cocteau.César 1944 : Madeleine SOLOGNE
- DirectorRené Le HénaffStarsRaimuMarie BellJacques BaumerAn Empire colonel, left for dead on a battlefield, returns to Paris and finds his wife remarried.Marie BELL
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsOdette JoyeuxMadeleine RobinsonMarguerite MorenoIn Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.Odette JOYEUX
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsPierre FresnayGinette LeclercMicheline FranceyA French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.Ginette LECLERC
- DirectorJean GrémillonStarsMadeleine RenaudPierre BrasseurMadeleine RobinsonA shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle.Madeleine RENAUD
- DirectorJean GrémillonStarsMadeleine RenaudCharles VanelJean DebucourtThe wife of a mechanic and former fighter pilot falls in love with the idea of flying herself. This soon becomes an obsession and she undertakes a lofty feat: the longest solo flight ever made by a woman.César 1945 : Madeleine RENAUD
- DirectorAndré BerthomieuStarsJean-Louis BarraultMichèle AlfaHenri VidalMichèle ALFA
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsAndré LefaurOdette JoyeuxBernard BlierA young girl learns how it is painful growing up.Odette JOYEUX
- DirectorJean StelliStarsGaby MorlayFrançois PérierAimé ClariondThis woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom she has concealed from the wealthy businessman she is now with.Gaby MORLAY
- DirectorFernand RiversStarsFernand GraveySuzy PrimAndré BrunotSuzy PRIM
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsArlettyJean-Louis BarraultPierre BrasseurThe theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.César 1946 : ARLETTY
- DirectorRobert BressonStarsPaul BernardMaría CasaresElina LabourdetteA society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.Maria CASARES
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsFernand LedouxRenée FaureMadeleine RobinsonThe story begins with the murder of a horse trader, which sets free a black stallion that roams through the snow and the village terrifying the people as it gallops.Renée FAURE
- DirectorSerge de PolignyStarsPierre Richard-WillmJany HoltLine NoroSylvie, a girl who believes she is cursed having seen her two lovers die in tragic circumstances, lives in the town of Carcassonne, in the South of France with her adoptive guardian, Mr. Toulzac. This one, a retired school teacher, has a passion: to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. One day Sylvie meets Roland, a pianist and composer back home in Carcassonne. A handsome and good man, he instills new hope into Sylvie's troubled mind. Unfortunately her uncle asks her then to renounce the world and to follow him down into a secret cathedral he has just found...Jany HOLT
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsMicheline PresleBerthe BovyLouise ConteTen people fleeing Rouen invaded by the Prussians, Rousset nicknamed ball of tallow among them, give to a Prussian to save other passengers who still despise. However, on later nobody could underestimate her being how brave .Micheline PRESLE
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsPierre BlancharMichèle MorganLine NoroA minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.César 1947 : Michèle MORGAN
- DirectorJean CocteauRené ClémentStarsJean MaraisJosette DayMila ParélyA beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.Josette DAY
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsOdette JoyeuxFrançois PérierPierre LarqueyOn the eve of her 16th birthday, Sylvie's father needs cash to stay in his castle so he sells Sylvie's favorite thing, a painting of Alain, the lover of Sylvie's grandmother, killed in a duel. Alain's ghost lives in the castle and Sylvie senses his presence, thinks she loves him, and fears that romance from the living will never come her way. Dad prepares a midnight surprise for Sylvie and her party guests: the appearance of the phantom. He's hired an actor, but two young men in love with Sylvie also volunteer to don white robes: Fred, the rich kid who bought the painting, and Ramure, a jewel thief in hiding. The youths declare their love, and Alain's ghost helps resolve all.Odette JOYEUX
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsViviane RomanceMaurice EscandeJacques Dacqmine3 years before the Revolution, clever Jeanne De La Motte manages to procure a special necklace belonging to Marie Antoinette.Viviane ROMANCE
- DirectorJacques FeyderMarcel BlistèneStarsFrançoise RosayPaul MeurisseAndrée ClémentMadame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband, whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her. During a drinking spree, he has the bad idea to entrust to her a suitcase filled with bank notes, loot with which he hopes to rebuild his life in South America. But Rose, lured by temptation, betrays Victor, who is arrested. However, he manages to escape with only one thing in mind: to take revenge on Rose.Françoise ROSAY
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsMicheline PresleGérard PhilipeDenise GreyDuring World War I, the star-crossed affair of an underage French student with a woman engaged to a soldier.César 1948 : Micheline PRESLE
- DirectorJean GehretHenri DecoinStarsBernard BlierBlanchette BrunoyAimé ClariondBlanchette BRUNOY
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsLouis JouvetSimone RenantBernard BlierA flirtatious wife runs off to meet an older man and the husband closes in with intend to murder him, but finds the deed already done.Suzy DELAIR
- DirectorHenri CalefStarsJean MaraisMarcel HerrandPierre DuxMadeleine ROBINSON
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsViviane RomanceMichel SimonMax DalbanAfter an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.Viviane ROMANCE
- DirectorJean CocteauStarsEdwige FeuillèreJean MaraisSilvia MonfortA poet plans to assassinate an unpopular queen but falls in love with her instead.César 1949 : Edwige FEUILLERE
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsRenée FaureLucien CoëdelLouis SalouFabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. The Countess of San Severina, is but one of the women who love him a la folie, spurring jealous retribution in high places from those who in turn want her. From his prison window, Fabrice falls in love with the jailer's daughter who takes a vow to the Virgin Mary to never see him again if his escape succeeds.Maria CASARES & Renée FAURE
- DirectorYves AllégretStarsBernard BlierSimone SignoretMarcello PaglieroDedee is a prostitute who works in Monsieur Rene's nightclub on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy until she meets Francesco, an Italian sailor. They fall in love and Dedee starts to dream about escaping her daily dull grind.Simone SIGNORET
- DirectorRoger LeenhardtStarsOdile VersoisMichel FrançoisJean LaraA schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.Odile VERSOIS
- DirectorJean CocteauStarsJean MaraisJosette DayYvonne de BrayMichel is in love with Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family's home.Gabrielle DORZIAT ( césar 1950 ) & Yvonne de BRAY
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsSerge ReggianiMichel AuclairCécile AubryA classic tale about bitter relationships between a frivolous girl and a soldier is adapted for the post-World War II time.Cécile AUBRY
- DirectorJacqueline AudryStarsGaby MorlayJean TissierYvonne de BrayGilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.Danielle DELORME
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsSerge ReggianiJean DavyMonique MélinandStory takes place in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.Suzy PRIM
- DirectorYves AllégretStarsBernard BlierSimone SignoretJacques BaumerAfter spending all his money to fulfill the smallest wish of his wife Dora, Robert is still madly in love with her. Now she is in agony, and her mother comes. She will reveal to Robert how he has been fooled. Flashbacks show the story through Robert's or his mother-in-law's eyes. Through some flashbacks, we will see the story through Robert's or his mother-in-law's eyes. A very misogynous movie.César 1951 : Simone SIGNORET
- DirectorJean CocteauStarsJean MaraisFrançois PérierMaría CasaresA poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.Maria CASARES
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsJean GabinBlanchette BrunoyNicole CourcelHenri Chatelard is well in his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciate women. When he meets Marie, a 18ish stronghead who just lost her father in a small fishermen village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.Nicole COURCEL
- DirectorHenri JeansonStarsLouis JouvetSuzy DelairHenri GuisolSuzy DELAIR
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsMichèle MorganKieron MooreFrançoise RosayAt the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes back to the family farm. Robert Gagnon, a villager and childhood friend, loves her secretly but Maria is wooed by Lorenzo Surprenant, a man who has fled his home town to escape the police. The one she is really in love with is François Paradis, a handsome trapper. The latter promises to marry her in the spring, as soon as he is back from the Far North. Robert, who is aware of how miserable Maria is, writes a letter to François , asking him to come back at once. Unfortunately, the young trapper is buried under the snow during a storm. As for Lorenzo he gets gunned down by the police. Finally understanding that Robert has sacrificed himself out of love for her, Maria accepts to become his wife.Michèle MORGAN
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsFernandelFrançoise RosayMarie-Claire OliviaA group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving a soporific 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.César 1952 : Françoise ROSAY
- DirectorJean-Paul Le ChanoisStarsBernard BlierDanièle DelormePierre TrabaudThérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as she told him that she was expecting his baby. To trace her unworthy lover, she boards a taxi driven by friendly cabdriver Emile Gauthier, who agrees to help her. But street after street, district after district, the seducer is nowhere to be found in Paris. And when she finally achieves the end of her quest, there is no Holy Grail. She learns that the rotter is already married. Fortunately, Emile has a heart of gold.Danielle DELORME
- DirectorJacqueline AudryStarsEdwige FeuillèreSimone SimonMarie-Claire OliviaLate nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia.Edwige FEUILLERE
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsMadeleine RobinsonFrank VillardNicolas AmatoA prostitute takes back her child, a boy who does not even know how to play.Madeleine ROBINSON