Paul Frankeur

A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed ...

An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert ...

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper’s beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she ...

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis ...

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted ...

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some ...

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying ...

Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It’s ...

The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.

Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. ...

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the ...

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who ...

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug ...

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the ...

Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they’ve gotten away with murder after Thérèse’s weakling husband “falls” ...

Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local ...

Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under ...