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1. Maigret (1991–2005)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Frissung, Pierre Diot
Votes: 795
2. The Widow Couderc (1971)
TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Drama, Romance
John, an escaped convict, takes refuge on the farm of Widow Couderc. He becomes the older woman's lover and admits that he's on the run. The widow's in-laws, who despise her,
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean Tissier
Votes: 2,117
3. This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
30 min | Documentary, Biography
The UK version of the popular US show. Eamonn Andrews (later Michael Aspel) surprises celebrities by presenting them with the Big Red Book before taking them into the studio to tell viewers... See full summary »
Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Michael Aspel, Elizabeth Dawn, June Whitfield
Votes: 325
4. Cours privé (1986)
95 min | Drama
Jeanne Kern is a history teacher in a private mixed class. Passionately provocative, she does not ignore the effect she has on men.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Elizabeth Bourgine, Michel Aumont, Xavier Deluc, Sylvia Zerbib
Votes: 556
5. Le Chat (1971)
86 min | Drama
In 1971 Courbevoie (France), former typographist Julien Bouin and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, which is soon to be ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal
Votes: 2,420
6. The Last Train (1973)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud, Paul Amiot
Votes: 1,742
7. 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: 2,100
8. Une femme à sa fenêtre (1976)
110 min | Drama
Margot Santorini is an aristocratic woman in 1936 in Greece, who amuses herself pursuing a shallow loveless affair with a nobleman, but unexpectedly falls in love with a political activist.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux, Umberto Orsini
Votes: 646
9. Paris au mois d'août (1966)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
A man is alone in Paris during the month of August while his woman and children go on vacation. He meets a young English girl posing as a model who came to Paris for a shoot.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Charles Aznavour, Susan Hampshire, Michel de Ré, Daniel Ivernel
Votes: 128
10. The Cage (1975)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A vengeful woman traps her ex husband in their basement. He realizes that the only chance he has of ever getting out is to try and beat her at her own psychological mind game.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Lino Ventura, Ingrid Thulin, William Sabatier, Sophie Sam
Votes: 500
11. The French Detective (1975)
91 min | Crime, Drama
Two policemen risk of interfering with a corrupt politician.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 1,861
12. Polizeifunk ruft (1966–1970)
26 min | Crime, Drama
Police radio calls crime series.
Stars: Karl-Heinz Hess, Hans Daniel, Josef Dahmen, Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum
Votes: 85
13. The Little Boy (1995)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
During World War II, a French family hide a Jewish family in their home, although the area is occupied by the Germans. Matters are complicated when they are forced to accommodate a German general.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jacques Weber, Brigitte Roüan, Stanislas Forlani, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 97
14. Creezy (1974)
90 min | Drama
Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs. However his reputation is somewhat ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Alain Delon, Sydne Rome, Claude Rich, Jean-Marc Bory
Votes: 528
15. The Medic (1979)
90 min | Drama, War
The story is set in June 1983. Famous surgeon Jean-Marie Desprée was left by his wife 1 month ago and now he works in a modern movable hospital, where the 3rd world war is taking place.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Alain Delon, Véronique Jannot, Bernard Giraudeau, Bernard Le Coq
Votes: 620
16. Horse (1970)
90 min | Crime, Thriller
Near the Baie de la Seine swamps, opposite the Port of Le Havre, Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean Gabin, Danièle Ajoret, Michel Barbey, Christian Barbier
Votes: 972
17. Noyade interdite (1987)
102 min | Crime
Molinat is assigned to the case of a man found with a bullet in his ear on the shore of a little Atlantic-coast resort he knows well. Indeed, he used to live there before his wife ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Guy Marchand, Elizabeth Bourgine, Anne Roussel
Votes: 285
18. The Possessors (1958)
92 min | Drama
Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. He manages his financial and commercial concerns with an iron grip, leaving little room for his son François to prove himself.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Ducaux, Jean Desailly, Françoise Christophe
Votes: 594
19. La nuit des Césars (1976– )
Documentary
The César is the national film prize of France. He is named after the French sculptor César Baldaccini.
Stars: Nathalie Baye, Antoine de Caunes, Juliette Binoche, Pierre Tchernia
Votes: 231
20. Air of Paris (1954)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Sport
The story of Andre Menard, a promising young amateur boxer from an impoverished background who is mentored by former pro Victor Le Garrec, and whose career path takes a nosedive when he falls for the wealthy Corinne.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Roland Lesaffre, Marie Daëms
Votes: 711
21. Une étrange affaire (1981)
105 min | Drama
Louis Coline assists the head of advertising of a department store in decline. He has little to do, but seems content with his marriage to Nina, his visits to his mother and grandmother, ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Votes: 592
22. Le passager de l'été (2006)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A hired labourer, Joseph, works on a farm inhabited by Monique, a war widow, and Jeanne, her captivating daughter who longs to escape to the big city.
Director: Florence Moncorgé-Gabin | Stars: Catherine Frot, Grégori Derangère, Laura Smet, François Berléand
Votes: 407
23. L'Autrichienne (1990)
98 min | Biography, Drama, History
Last days of queen Marie Antoinette stunningly portrayed by a director who's clearly done a massive historical research. An accurate plot and a very moving rendering.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Ute Lemper, Patrick Chesnais, Daniel Mesguich, Philippe Leroy
Votes: 124
24. Cloportes (1965)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime
Three petty criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Irina Demick, Maurice Biraud
Votes: 600
25. The Hide (2008)
Not Rated | 82 min | Thriller
On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one more sighting - the elusive sociable ... See full summary »
Director: Marek Losey | Stars: Alex Macqueen, Phil Campbell, Laura Hopwood, Howard Ward
Votes: 4,632
26. Cinéma cinémas (1982–1991)
Documentary
A ten episode Tv series on cinephilia, in which contributors to both American and French films are interviewed.
Stars: Michel Boujut, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 65
27. Crime and Punishment (1956)
107 min | Crime, Drama
Modern update of Dostoievski's novel Crime and Punishment.
Director: Georges Lampin | Stars: Jean Gabin, Marina Vlady, Ulla Jacobsson, Bernard Blier
Votes: 343
28. L'étoile du Nord (1982)
PG | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1934, a mysterious Frenchman returns to Europe from Egypt.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Cottençon, Julie Jézéquel
Votes: 608
29. Le grand dadais (1967)
90 min | Drama
A young man with a large inheritance falls in love with a photographer's model.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Eva Renzi, Danièle Gaubert, Yves Rénier
Votes: 29
30. A Friend of Vincent (1983)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The friendship between two men is put to the test when one of them is accused by a woman of having killed her sister.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Françoise Fabian, Fanny Cottençon
Votes: 261
31. Les évadés (1955)
110 min | Drama, War
During World War II, three prisoners escape from a labor camp.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, François Périer, Michel André, Jacques Marin
Votes: 72
32. Archipel (1992)
103 min | Drama, Romance
A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for holiday season.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Michel Piccoli, Claire Nebout, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 25
33. The Son (1973)
100 min | Drama
Ange leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not present when his father died, wishes to be present at her death. In Corsica Ange finds his ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Yves Montand, Lea Massari, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frédéric de Pasquale
Votes: 128
34. The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957)
110 min | Drama
A heartfelt plea for painless childbirth in rural France of the fifties.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel, Silvia Monfort, Henri Arius
Votes: 322
35. En légitime défense (1958)
98 min | Drama
Pierre Lambert buys a bar in Pigalle and accepts to pay "protection money" to "Bébert le Caïd", a brutal gangster. Over time, Bébert raises his fare and, realizing Pierrot is reluctant to ... See full summary »
Director: André Berthomieu | Stars: Bernard Blier, Pierre Mondy, Philippe Nicaud, Maria Mauban
Votes: 51
36. Histoires insolites (1974– )
52 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The spirit of this series is very unusual but not fantastic. In these stories, the unusual is capricious everyday life, offbeat realism, that is to say that the facts are ordinary until the moment when the situation slips into the unusual.
Stars: Jean-Pierre Darras, Bernard Le Coq, Nicole Desailly, Jean Cherlian
Votes: 10
37. L'homme aux yeux d'argent (1985)
97 min | Crime, Drama
After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty young subordinate are after the criminal.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Alain Souchon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Tanya Lopert, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 152
38. À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957)
87 min | Comedy
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression.
Director: Maurice Delbez | Stars: Noël-Noël, Denise Grey, Gil Vidal, Jacques Fabbri
Votes: 126
39. La dernière fête (1996 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Romance
The story of Marquise De Prie, the wife of Marquis De Savoy and the mistress of King Louis XV.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Stéphane Freiss, Bernard Dhéran, Manfred Andrae
Votes: 31
40. Le petit garçon de l'ascenseur (1962)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Alain Dekok, Mireille Nègre, Marcel Dalio, Michel de Ré
Votes: 14
41. Rue de Paris (1959)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Jean Gabin, Marie-José Nat, Claude Brasseur, Roger Dumas
Votes: 381
42. Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1975–1980)
Music, Talk-Show
Stars: Michel Drucker, Dalida, Michel Sardou, Eddy Mitchell
Votes: 34
43. Pour le cinéma (1968–1978)
Stars: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Claude Lelouch
44. Without Leaving an Address (1951)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Thérèse 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... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Bernard Blier, Danièle Delorme, Pierre Trabaud, Arlette Marchal
Votes: 188
45. Le palmarès des chansons (1965–1968)
Music
Stars: Guy Lux, Raymond Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Peysson, Jacques Solness
46. Father, Mother, the Maid and I (1954)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
The film tells how a young lawyer Robert Langlois fell in love with a student Catherine and how they both managed to "tame" their parents and get their consent to marriage.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Robert Lamoureux, Gaby Morlay, Fernand Ledoux, Nicole Courcel
Votes: 318
47. Grand écran (1964– )
40 min | Documentary
Stars: Jean Collet, Marcel Dalio, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 10
48. Les yeux de l'amour (1959)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Love story involving a blind boy and a middle-aged spinster during World War II.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Rosay, Bernard Blier
Votes: 39
49. The Night Is My Kingdom (1951)
110 min | Drama
After an accident Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child. Fortunately, a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read with the Braille alphabet.
Director: Georges Lacombe | Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Valère, Gérard Oury, Jacques Dynam
Votes: 356
50. C'est encore mieux l'après-midi (1985– )
"C'est Encore Mieux L'Après-Midi" is a French television program presented by Christophe Dechavanne (September 1985 - June 1987 at 4:05 p.m.) on Antenne 2. The program generally lasted 1 ... See full summary »
Stars: Christophe Dechavanne, Richard Berry, Mylène Farmer, Patrick Bruel