With Ciné-Alliance (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Port of Shadows (1938)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur
Votes: 9,116 | Gross: $0.03M
2. Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli, Daniel Ivernel
Votes: 9,142 | Gross: $0.02M
3. The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Woman seeks to avenge her father's death by using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Estella Blain, Mabel Karr, Howard Vernon, Fernando Montes
Votes: 1,040
4. Madame (1961)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon's army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon's victory, ... See full summary »
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Renaud Mary, Léa Gray
Votes: 353
5. Scheherazade (1963)
Not Rated | 124 min | Adventure, Drama
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.
Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit | Stars: Anna Karina, Gérard Barray, Antonio Vilar, Giuliano Gemma
Votes: 138
6. Galia (1966)
105 min | Crime, Drama
Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Mireille Darc, Venantino Venantini, Françoise Prévost, Jacques Riberolles
Votes: 161
7. Cartes sur table (1966)
85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist uses his army of mechanical monsters to control people who have Type O blood.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Fernando Rey, Mara Laso
Votes: 237
8. Beating Heart (1940)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Danielle 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.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Claude Dauphin, André Luguet, Junie Astor
Votes: 269
9. There's No Tomorrow (1939)
82 min | Drama
After an unhappy marriage, a woman of the world is forced to become a dancer in a cabaret in order to raise her young son.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, George Rigaud, Daniel Lecourtois, Mady Berry
Votes: 351
10. Hemingway (1988)
100 min | Biography
Of all the memorable characters created by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway, none was more complicated, more fascinating, or more charismatic than Hemingway himself.... See full summary »
Stars: Stacy Keach, Josephine Chaplin, Marisa Berenson, Lisa Banes
Votes: 121
11. The Nina B. Affair (1961)
104 min | Drama
Businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Nadja Tiller, Pierre Brasseur, Walter Giller, Charles Regnier
Votes: 124
12. L'oiseau de paradis (1962)
117 min | Drama
Director: Marcel Camus | Stars: Sam El, Narie Hem, Nop Nem, Skarine
Votes: 24
13. The Spy (1964)
100 min | Thriller
Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit | Stars: Gérard Barray, Elisa Montés, Hildegard Knef, Geneviève Grad
Votes: 24
14. It Happened in Gibraltar (1938)
92 min | Drama, Romance, War
Off Gibraltar ,British ships blow up;there might be a mole among the British officers .
Director: Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Viviane Romance, Roger Duchesne, Abel Jacquin, Erich von Stroheim
Votes: 91
15. I Was an Adventuress (1938)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Jean Murat, Jean-Max, Guillaume de Sax
Votes: 37
16. Fire at Will (1965)
86 min | Thriller
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Laura Valenzuela
Votes: 50
17. The Prince of Adventurers (1927)
132 min | Biography, Drama
A flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.
Director: Alexandre Volkoff | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo
Votes: 210
18. Secrets of the Orient (1928)
90 min | Drama
A cobbler dreams that he is a prince, in this takeoff on an Arabian Nights style romance.
Director: Alexandre Volkoff | Stars: Nicolas Koline, Iván Petrovich, Dimitri Dimitriev, Gaston Modot
Votes: 19
19. Nights of Fire (1937)
98 min | Drama
Is it his corpse they found in the river?
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Victor Francen, George Rigaud, Madeleine Robinson
Votes: 33
20. Night in December (1939)
82 min
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Renée Saint-Cyr, Jean Tissier, Marcel André
Votes: 30
21. L'enfer des anges (1941)
96 min | Drama
Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Louise Carletti, Jean Claudio, Serge Grave, Marcel Mouloudji
Votes: 91
22. A Song for You (1934)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Riccardo Gatti, an Italian opera singer and lover-divine with voice to match, is the idol of all the women in Vienna,and is the man every woman after. So, what's the deal with Mary Newberg,... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Jan Kiepura, Aileen Marson, Sonnie Hale, Reginald Smith
Votes: 39
23. Muche (1927)
Director: Robert Péguy | Stars: Nicolas Koline, Elmire Vautier, Madeleine Guitty, Jean Aymé