With Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 37,067
2. Les vampires (1915)
Not Rated | 421 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé
Votes: 4,752
3. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (I) (1920)
Unrated | 69 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane
Votes: 5,384
4. The Crossing of Paris (1956)
80 min | Drama
Two men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures - until they are arrested by the police.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Jeannette Batti
Votes: 3,889 | Gross: $0.02M
5. Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine (1913)
Not Rated | 54 min | Crime, Drama
Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl
Votes: 2,243
6. Le rouge est mis (1957)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi, Albert Dinan
Votes: 500
7. Judex (1916)
Not Rated | 300 min | Adventure, Crime
A twelve part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Cresté, Musidora, René Poyen, Édouard Mathé
Votes: 989
8. Male and Female (1919)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama
Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Robert Cain
Votes: 1,862
9. Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
95 min | Drama, War
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud, Charles Aznavour
Votes: 1,906
10. The Waterer Watered (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: François Clerc, Benoît Duval
Votes: 5,240
11. Fantomas: The Mysterious Finger Print (1914)
Not Rated | 59 min | Crime, Drama
The mystery of the drama is the appearance of the finger-print of a dead artist upon the neck of Princess Sonia Danidoff, whom Fantomas, as Nanteuil, relieves of her pearl necklace, and ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Laurent Morléas, Renée Carl
Votes: 1,322
12. Holiday Hotel (1978)
R | 110 min | Comedy
A seaside hotel is the theater for sex, first love and deceptions among parents and their children.
Director: Michel Lang | Stars: Sophie Barjac, Myriam Boyer, Daniel Ceccaldi, Michèle Grellier
Votes: 297
13. A Fantasy (1908)
2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
Director: Émile Cohl
Votes: 2,482
14. From the Orient with Fury (1965)
94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A scientist who has invented a weapon capable of disintegrating solid matter is kidnapped by a criminal gang, which intends to sell the scientist and his weapon to the highest bidder. A ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Grieco | Stars: Ken Clark, Margaret Lee, Fabienne Dali, Evi Marandi
Votes: 159
15. The Escape (1978)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The lawyer Jean-Philippe Duroc visits his client, Martial Gaulard, sentenced to death for a murder he has not committed. At that moment, a mutiny happens inside the prison.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Pierre Richard, Victor Lanoux, Raymond Bussières, Claude Brosset
Votes: 1,192
16. Tu ne tueras point (1909)
Short
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Renée Carl, Maurice Vinot
Votes: 17
17. Little Women (1918)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family to write about.
Director: Harley Knoles | Stars: Isabel Lamon, Dorothy Bernard, Lillian Hall, Florence Flinn
Votes: 54
18. The Great Spy Chase (1964)
84 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Lino Ventura, Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc
Votes: 1,850
19. Tais-toi quand tu parles! (1981)
89 min | Comedy
Just as Giacomo is enjoying his fantasies of being another "Agent 007" in bed with a voluptuous, intelligent co-spy, the dreamer is mistaken for a real spy and shipped off to Tunisia where he has to carry out a true-life mission.
Director: Philippe Clair | Stars: Aldo Maccione, Edwige Fenech, Jacques François, Philippe Clair
Votes: 122
20. Joan the Woman (1916)
Passed | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts
Votes: 586 | Gross: $1.32M
21. The First Men in the Moon (1919)
50 min | Fantasy
The inventor of a space sphere flies to the moon and is marooned by a crooked financier.
Directors: Bruce Gordon, J.L.V. Leigh | Stars: Bruce Gordon, Heather Thatcher, Hector Abbas, Lionel d'Aragon
Votes: 49
22. Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Lew Cody, Sylvia Ashton
Votes: 1,217
23. Tih Minh (1918)
418 min | Adventure, Mystery
Jacques d'Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that, unbeknownst to him, contains a ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Mary Harald, René Cresté, Georges Biscot, Édouard Mathé
Votes: 374
24. Action immédiate (1957)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
The secret blueprints are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum.
Director: Maurice Labro | Stars: Henri Vidal, Barbara Laage, Jacques Dacqmine, Nicole Maurey
Votes: 85
25. The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
127 min | Drama
A French/Italian co-production with two episodes from Italy and five from France covering the seven deadly sins---actually eight as two of the sins are covered in one episode while a new "... See full summary »
Directors: Yves Allégret, Claude Autant-Lara, Eduardo De Filippo, Jean Dréville, Georges Lacombe, Carlo Rim, Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Françoise Rosay, Jean Debucourt, Marcelle Praince
Votes: 235
26. Mistress of the World (1960)
Approved | 113 min | Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military ... See full summary »
Directors: William Dieterle, Richard Angst | Stars: Martha Hyer, Carlos Thompson, Micheline Presle, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 163
27. Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed (1913)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. With Juve presumed dead, Fandor must investigate alone. Will Fantomas finally be brought to justice?
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, André Luguet
Votes: 1,220
28. The Seventh Company Outdoors (1977)
75 min | Comedy
1942 in an occupied area. After being demobilized, Tassin, Pithivier and Staff Sergeant Chaudard returned to their previous lives.
Director: Robert Lamoureux | Stars: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Henri Guybet, Patricia Karim
Votes: 1,422
29. Fantastica (1980)
110 min | Musical, Drama
In this oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, Serge Reggiani, Claudine Auger
Votes: 121
30. La fée aux choux (1896)
1 min | Short, Family, Fantasy
The first film directed by a female director, "The Cabbage Fairy" presents a brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Gently ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Alice Guy, Germaine Serand, Yvonne Serand
Votes: 1,178
31. L'école est finie (1979)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Olivier Nolin | Stars: Corinne Dacla, Bertrand Waintrop, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Luc Moreau
Votes: 14
32. Fantomas: The Man in Black (1913)
Not Rated | 61 min | Crime, Drama
In Part Two of Louis Feuillade's 5 1/2-hour epic follows FantÃ'mas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black, as he is pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl
Votes: 1,553
33. The Immature Grain (1954)
106 min | Drama
Based on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. But as adolescence segues into puberty, the two youngsters fall in love.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Nicole Berger, Pierre-Michel Beck, Robert Berri
Votes: 208
34. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)
96 min | Drama
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife's beauty.
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny, Georgette Anys
Votes: 302
35. Fantômas: The False Magistrate (1914)
Not Rated | 70 min | Crime, Drama
Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work. He ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Mesnery
Votes: 1,090
36. Androcles and the Lion (1912)
10 min | Short, Drama
Androcles, a slave because of his Christianity, is cruelly treated by his master, the Pro Consul of Rome, from whom he escapes in order to avoid the humiliation he had been forced to suffer... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Sablon, Raymond Lyon, Yvette Andréyor, Renée Carl
37. Woman to Woman (1923)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Josephine Earle, Marie Ault
Votes: 78
38. Shadow of the Guillotine (1956)
120 min | Drama, History
While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he learns of this deception.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Richard Todd, Jacques Morel, Jeanne Boitel
Votes: 150
39. Stella Maris (1918)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama
Two young women - a paraplegic girl sheltered by her wealthy guardians and a more experienced orphan - fall in love with a man separated from his violent wife.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Mary Pickford, Ida Waterman, Herbert Standing, Conway Tearle
Votes: 1,474
40. Imperial Venus (1962)
PG | 140 min | Drama, History, Romance
This loose biopic relates the adult life of Paolina (Paulette), the sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. She is portrayed as a willful, yet impulsive woman, through her marriages and scandals, through the heights and depths of Napoleon's life.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Stephen Boyd, Raymond Pellegrin, Micheline Presle
Votes: 176
41. Il fornaretto di Venezia (1963)
110 min | Drama
Venice 1507:.Charged with a noble's murder, a young baker will be judged by the Doges.
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Michèle Morgan, Enrico Maria Salerno, Sylva Koscina
Votes: 86
42. 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: 141
43. The Consequences of Feminism (1906)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Comedy
It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 698
44. The Miracle Man (1919)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
A gang consisting of the Frog, who can dislocate his limbs, the Dope, a drug addict, Rose, who poses as the Dope's brutalized mistress, and Burke, the leader, prey on the sympathies and ... See full summary »
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson, Lon Chaney, J.M. Dumont
Votes: 247 | Gross: $3.00M
45. Barrabas (1919)
489 min | Crime, Thriller
The efforts of lawyer Jacques Varese and journalist Raoul de Nerac who attempt to expose and destroy the criminal organization led by a sadistic banker Rudolph Strelitz.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Fernand Herrmann, Édouard Mathé, Gaston Michel, Georges Biscot
Votes: 88
46. The Good Companions (1933)
95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Musical taken from J.B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Mary Glynne
Votes: 213
47. La grande sauterelle (1967)
GP | 95 min | Drama, Romance
While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl (Hardy Krüger) is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle" (Mireille Darc).
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Mireille Darc, Hardy Krüger, Georges Géret, Venantino Venantini
Votes: 177
48. Moana (1959)
82 min | Documentary
Directors: Serge Arnoux, Bernard Gorki, Roger Lesage, Pierre Pasquier | Stars: Bernard Gorki, Pierre Pasquier, Roger Lesage, Serge Arnoux
49. Miracle of the Wolves (1924)
73 min | Drama
King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Vanni Marcoux, Charles Dullin, Yvonne Sergyl, Romuald Joubé
Votes: 86
50. Replay (1977)
96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Cécile has just had a terrible car accident. Her husband François got to the hospital while she is still in a coma. When she wakes up, she does not recognize Francois and forgot all the circumstances of the accident.
Director: Michel Drach | Stars: Marie-José Nat, Victor Lanoux, Anne Lonnberg, Vania Vilers
Votes: 22