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1. Twilight (1944)
99 min | Drama, Romance
Cavalier ,a second -rate actor , discovers a gorgeous talented girl who performs on stage and wants to be her Pygmalion .
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Claude Dauphin, Micheline Presle, Louis Jourdan, Jacques Louvigny
Votes: 106
2. La grande meute (1945)
105 min | Drama
Director: Jean de Limur | Stars: Jacques Dumesnil, Aimé Clariond, Jacqueline Porel, Jean Brochard
Votes: 22
3. L'invité de la onzième heure (1945)
Drama, Sci-Fi
A scientist invents a sensational machine which can read the mind.
Director: Maurice Cloche | Stars: Jean Tissier, Roger Pigaut, Blanchette Brunoy, Junie Astor
Votes: 17
4. Bifur 3 (1945)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Two hitch-hikers are on the way to Marseilles pursued by her husband.
Director: Maurice Cam | Stars: René Dary, Raymond Aimos, Martine Carol, Arthur Devère
Votes: 21
5. The Heart of a Nation (1943)
113 min | Drama, War
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Raimu, Michèle Morgan, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Prim
Votes: 144
6. La route du bagne (1945)
104 min | Drama
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of hard labor first and then to be deported ... See full summary »
Director: Léon Mathot | Stars: Viviane Romance, Clément Duhour, Lucien Coëdel, Paulette Élambert
7. Naïs (1945)
117 min | Drama, Romance
Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able to spend more time close to Nais, ... See full summary »
Directors: Raymond Leboursier, Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Fernandel, Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin, Henri Poupon
Votes: 256
8. La fille aux yeux gris (1945)
102 min | Drama
The action takes place in an isolated village in the mountain.Catherine ,also known as "L'Airelle" (blueberry),loves a young physician.Catherine's father is the local bone-setter.
Director: Jean Faurez | Stars: Fernand Ledoux, Paul Bernard, Claude Génia, Line Noro
Votes: 17
9. Le jugement dernier (1945)
105 min | Drama
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor love each other. Condemned by his comrades,... See full summary »
Director: René Chanas | Stars: Raymond Bussières, Jean Davy, Jean Desailly, Michèle Martin
Votes: 13
10. L'ange qu'on m'a donné (1946)
90 min
Director: Jean Choux | Stars: Simone Renant, Jean Chevrier, Gabrielle Dorziat, Catherine Fonteney
11. Destins (1946)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
This is the story of two brothers : the good one ,the virtuous gent ,an acclaimed singer ,and the bad one who leads a wild life.
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Tino Rossi, Armand Bernard, Paul Azaïs, Paul Demange
Votes: 36
12. The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer
Votes: 1,302
13. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf
Votes: 16,859 | Gross: $11.80M
14. Un revenant (1946)
100 min | Drama
A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Louis Jouvet, Gaby Morlay, François Périer, Jean Brochard
Votes: 289
15. Back Street (1941)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh
Votes: 698
16. Blood and Sand (1941)
Approved | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Illiterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova
Votes: 3,137 | Gross: $5.92M
17. Amours, délices et orgues (1947)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his young students, as well as a love of jazz music.
Director: André Berthomieu | Stars: Jean Desailly, Gérard Nery, Catherine Erard, Bernard Lajarrige
Votes: 18
18. The Affairs of Susan (1945)
Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Joan Fontaine, George Brent, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 425
19. Le café du cadran (1947)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Directors: Jean Gehret, Henri Decoin | Stars: Bernard Blier, Blanchette Brunoy, Aimé Clariond, Félix Oudart
Votes: 81
20. They Drive by Night (1940)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
Votes: 8,821
21. Noah's Ark (1947)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter... See full summary »
Director: Henry Jacques | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Armand Bernard, André Alerme, Georges Rollin
Votes: 14
22. Capitaine Blomet (1947)
95 min | Comedy
Director: Andrée Feix | Stars: Fernand Gravey, Gaby Sylvia, Jean Meyer, Henri Crémieux
23. Carré de valets (1947)
90 min | Comedy
Jacques de la Bastide is a young lawyer, not very good and oppressed by his mother. He takes over the case of three bandits, than falls for the wife of one of them, the seductive Catherine.
Director: André Berthomieu | Stars: Jean Desailly, Martine Carol, Denise Grey, Pierre Larquey
Votes: 32
24. Vertiges (1947)
106 min | Drama
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Raymond Rouleau, Micheline Francey, Jean Debucourt, Jimmy Gaillard
25. To Each His Own (1946)
Approved | 122 min | Drama, Romance
An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver
Votes: 3,024
26. Antoine & Antoinette (1947)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. In the midst of constantly fending off the unwanted attention of men, especially the grocer Monsieur Roland, Antoinette ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert, Gaston Modot
Votes: 1,120 | Gross: $0.01M
27. Caravan (1946)
117 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Anne Crawford, Dennis Price
Votes: 248
28. Aloma of the South Seas (1941)
Approved | 78 min | Drama
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education, but he returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Lynne Overman, Phillip Reed
Votes: 166
29. The Ironmaster (1948)
Drama
Third French film version of the Georges Ohnet novel: A young noblewoman regrets having to marry the village ironmaster for money reasons, but later comes to appreciate her new husband.
Director: Fernand Rivers | Stars: Hélène Perdrière, Jean Chevrier, Jeanne Provost, Luce Feyrer
Votes: 12
30. Incendiary Blonde (1945)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way, she also finds romance and heartbreak.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Betty Hutton, Arturo de Córdova, Charles Ruggles, Albert Dekker
Votes: 419
31. Scandals of Clochemerle (1948)
90 min | Comedy
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to restore order, but the military add to the confusion by getting involved with the local women.
Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Félix Oudart, Saturnin Fabre, Jean Brochard, Maximilienne
Votes: 91
32. Ball of Fire (1941)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Romance
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers
Votes: 14,058
33. It's a Pleasure (1945)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Don Martin is a star hockey player with the Wildcats until he is barred from the game for hitting a referee. Through the actions of Chris, Don is able to get a job with Buzz Fletcher's ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Sonja Henie, Michael O'Shea, Marie McDonald, Bill Johnson
Votes: 247
34. Forever Amber (1947)
Approved | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
Directors: Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl | Stars: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Votes: 1,691 | Gross: $16.00M
35. Aux yeux du souvenir (1948)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A small private airplane crashes in the desert, not far from Dakar. It is a miracle that the pilot, Jacques Forestier, and his mechanic, Paul Marcadout, survived, since both were drunk when they lost control of the plane.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Jean Marais, Jean Chevrier, Robert Murzeau
Votes: 72
36. The Terrible Parents (1948)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Michel 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.
Director: Jean Cocteau | Stars: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Yvonne de Bray, Marcel André
Votes: 981 | Gross: $0.01M
37. Since You Went Away (1944)
Approved | 177 min | Drama, Romance, War
With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.
Directors: John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett, David O. Selznick | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Votes: 5,095
38. The Lovers of Verona (1949)
90 min | Drama
Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and ... See full summary »
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Serge Reggiani, Anouk Aimée, Pierre Brasseur, Louis Salou
Votes: 292
39. Le droit de l'enfant (1949)
95 min | Drama
Jacques Herbelin is the faithful husband of Louise and the proud father of Cécile, a kind little girl. But Louise does not reciprocate her husband's affection and prefers to cheat on him in... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Daroy | Stars: Jean Chevrier, Renée Devillers, Francette Vernillat, Claire Duhamel
40. The Silence of the Sea (1949)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War
In occupied France, an elderly man and his niece are forced to give shelter to a German army lieutenant who seemingly loves their country and culture.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe
Votes: 5,656
41. Docteur Laennec (1949)
95 min | Biography, Drama
Paris 1810. Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it. He is supported in his research work ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Cloche | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Saturnin Fabre, Mireille Perrey, Janine Viénot
Votes: 25
42. Bonheur en location (1949)
Director: Jean Wall | Stars: André Luguet, Denise Grey, Jean Berton, André Bervil
43. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri
Votes: 175,155 | Gross: $0.33M
44. Barry (1949)
120 min | Drama
Sylvain and Angelina, two young people living in the Alps, love each other but they are separated when Sylvain thoughtlessly joins Napoléon Ier's army and takes part in all the Napoleonic ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Pottier, Karl Anton | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Simone Valère, Marc Valbel, Pauline Carton
Votes: 48
45. Retour à la vie (1949)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Five prisoners, a woman and four men, return to France after WW2. We follow their rocky road to life. It's a movie which consists of five different stories.
Directors: André Cayatte, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Dréville, Georges Lampin | Stars: Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Noël-Noël, François Périer
Votes: 265
46. Vient de paraître (1949)
97 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Jacques Houssin | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Blanchette Brunoy, Frank Villard, Jean Aymé
47. Portrait of a Killer (1949)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her.
Director: Bernard-Roland | Stars: Maria Montez, Erich von Stroheim, Arletty, Pierre Brasseur
Votes: 164
48. A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 10,797
49. Rendezvous in July (1949)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Auber, Nicole Courcel, Pierre Trabaud
Votes: 455 | Gross: $0.01M
50. La cage aux filles (1949)
120 min | Drama
Director: Maurice Cloche | Stars: Danièle Delorme, Jacky Flynt, Louise Lagrange, Denise Bosc
51. Black Magic (1949)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Directors: Gregory Ratoff, Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Latimore
Votes: 1,465
52. La ronde des heures (1949)
The misfortunes of a singer who has lost his voice.
Director: Alexandre Ryder | Stars: Jacques Jansen, Micheline Francey, Denise Grey, Lucien Baroux
53. Beauty and the Devil (1950)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valère
Votes: 1,815
54. Tycoon (1947)
Approved | 128 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In South America, an American engineer is asked by his boss to build a mountain railroad tunnel following a shorter but more dangerous route.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke, Judith Anderson
Votes: 1,687
55. That Forsyte Woman (1949)
Passed | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young
Votes: 1,496
56. Farewell Mister Grock (1950)
107 min | Drama
Biography of Grock,the greatest clown in history,beginning at WW2.
Director: Pierre Billon | Stars: Grock, Ted Rémy, Adrien Osperi, Suzy Prim
Votes: 48
57. God Needs Men (1950)
100 min | Drama
The island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany. A crude population lives here on these windy shores, estranged from the rest of the world.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Madeleine Robinson, Daniel Gélin, Sylvie
Votes: 102
58. La portatrice di pane (1950)
98 min | Drama
Wrongly accused of having killed her boss and set fire to the factory she worked in, Jeanne Fortier, a young window, is given a life sentence. Twenty years later, She escapes from prison, ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Cloche | Stars: Vivi Gioi, Carlo Ninchi, Jean Tissier, Nerio Bernardi
Votes: 17
59. Secret Document: Vienna (1950)
Approved | 90 min | Drama
Story opens in Switzerland in 1918 in the closing days of WW I and concerns Franck Villard, military attache to the Austrian delegation in Berne, and his French wife, Renee Saint-Cyr. ... See full summary »
Director: André Haguet | Stars: Renée Saint-Cyr, Frank Villard, Howard Vernon, Nathalie Nattier
60. We Want a Child! (1949)
76 min | Drama
Else and her husband want a child but Else can't have one following an abortion performed before she got married. When Jytte, her friend, a salesgirl who is the mistress of a married man, ... See full summary »
Directors: Lau Lauritzen, Alice O'Fredericks | Stars: Ruth Brejnholm, Jørgen Reenberg, Maria Garland, Grethe Thordahl
Votes: 18
61. The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1818 Alabama, French settlers are pitted against greedy land-grabber Blake Randolph but Kentucky militiaman John Breen, who's smitten with French gal Fleurette De Marchand, comes to the settlers' aid.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Oliver Hardy
Votes: 3,598
62. Seul dans Paris (1951)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Unforfunately a wicket gate in the metro separates the couple.... See full summary »
Director: Hervé Bromberger | Stars: Bourvil, Magali Noël, Yvette Etiévant, Georges Baconnet
Votes: 21
63. Det gælder os alle (1949)
94 min | Drama, War
Vienna, 1946. Dr. Vedel takes in Leni Rosner, a young survivor from a concentration camp. He sends her to Denmark where she is welcome by the Lassen family. Leni finds a new balance among ... See full summary »
Director: Alice O'Fredericks | Stars: Poul Reichhardt, Lisbeth Movin, Ib Schønberg, Agnes Rehni
Votes: 35
64. They Were Five (1951)
89 min | Drama
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman,... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Pinoteau | Stars: Jean Carmet, Jean Gaven, Michel Jourdan, François Martin
Votes: 32
65. La Table-aux-Crevés (1951)
92 min | Comedy
In Cantagrel, Urbain Coindet, a farmer and town councilor in his forties, finds his wife hanging from a beam in the barn. Aurélie Coindet has committed suicide but but not everybody is ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Fernandel, Maria Mauban, Andrex, Antonin Berval
Votes: 150
66. Casque d'Or (1952)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Three gangsters and an ex-con carpenter all fall for the same beautiful golden-haired woman in Belle Époque France.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières
Votes: 6,216
67. Le banquet des fraudeurs (1952)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Smugglers, factory workers, and customs agents struggle in an uncertain economy following World War II.
Director: Henri Storck | Stars: Françoise Rosay, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Christiane Lénier, Daniel Ivernel
Votes: 58
68. Forbidden Fruit (1952)
92 min | Drama
A doctor in southern France takes a mistress but lives to regret it.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Fernandel, Françoise Arnoul, Jacques Castelot, René Génin
Votes: 194
69. Anna (1951)
107 min | Drama, Romance
Anna is a nurse and a nun, whose history catches up on her.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Gaby Morlay, Raf Vallone, Jacques Dumesnil
Votes: 458
70. I Was It Three Times (1952)
81 min | Comedy, Romance
A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the did to happen a third time. And yet it does.
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Sacha Guitry, Bernard Blier, Lana Marconi, Simone Paris
Votes: 106
71. The Quiet Man (1952)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond
Votes: 42,400 | Gross: $10.55M
72. Detective Story (1951)
Approved | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell
Votes: 9,486
73. The Virtuous Scoundrel (1953)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
A mean bourgeois meets up with his twin brother again .
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Michel Simon, Marguerite Pierry, Laurence Badie, François Guérin
Votes: 258
74. The Golden Coach (1952)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Three men of varying social standing - a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a soldier - vie for the affections of an actress in 18th-century Peru.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Duncan Lamont
Votes: 3,443
75. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Passed | 152 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde
Votes: 16,054 | Gross: $36.00M
76. Les amants de minuit (1953)
99 min | Drama
Director: Roger Richebé | Stars: Jean Marais, Dany Robin, Jacques Eyser, Micheline Gary
Votes: 71
77. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
Directors: Henry King, Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 5,901 | Gross: $18.05M
78. The Young Caruso (1951)
77 min | Biography, Drama, Music
This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.
Director: Giacomo Gentilomo | Stars: Ermanno Randi, Gina Lollobrigida, Ciro Scafa, Carlo Sposito
Votes: 114
79. Stalag 17 (1953)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, War
After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss
Votes: 58,807
80. Femmes de Paris (1953)
85 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
It all begins when astronomer Charles spots a heretofore undiscovered exploding star while peering through is telescope. While calling his colleagues with the news, Charles inadvertently ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Boyer | Stars: Michel Simon, Brigitte Auber, Henri Génès, Germaine Kerjean
Votes: 48
81. The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Approved | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron, Farley Granger
Votes: 1,472
82. L'étrange désir de Monsieur Bard (1954)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire, he wants to fulfill his life's dream: ... See full summary »
Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: Michel Simon, Yves Deniaud, Geneviève Page, Georgette Anys
Votes: 149
83. Daughters of Destiny (1954)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Three stories, following three very different women from history: Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times; Joan of Arc, medieval warrior; and Elisabeth, an American war widow who goes on a pilgrimage to Italy.
Directors: Christian-Jaque, Jean Delannoy, Marcello Pagliero | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Mirko Ellis, Michèle Morgan
Votes: 72
84. Flesh and the Woman (1954)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Bankrupt and disbarred, Parisian lawyer Pierre Martel heads for Algiers where he's supposed to rejoin his high-maintenance Italian girlfriend Sylvia but when she fails to show-up a heart-broken Pierre joins the French Foreign Legion.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter van Eyck
Votes: 155
85. Knave of Hearts (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A philanderer fakes suicide with unexpected consequences.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston
Votes: 509
86. It Happened in the Park (1953)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed.
Directors: Gianni Franciolini, Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Eduardo De Filippo, Vittorio De Sica, Anna Maria Ferrero, François Périer
Votes: 211
87. Les amoureux de Marianne (1953)
94 min | Comedy
Director: Jean Stelli | Stars: Gaby Morlay, André Luguet, Jean Debucourt, Georges Chamarat
Votes: 10
88. Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A self-righteous missionary man seeks to save the soul of a former prostitute.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray, Russell Collins
Votes: 1,691
89. 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: 710
90. Le grand pavois (1954)
93 min | Drama
For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Pinoteau | Stars: Jean Chevrier, Marc Cassot, Marie Mansart, Nicole Courcel
91. Letters from My Windmill (1954)
160 min | Comedy, Drama
Consists of four stories from the book of the same name by Alphonse Daudet: "The Three Low Masses", "The Elixir of Father Gaucher", "The Priest of Cucugnan" and "The Secret Of Master Cornille".
Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Antonin Fabre, Rellys, Fernand Sardou, Robert Vattier
Votes: 129
92. Escalier de service (1954)
94 min | Comedy
Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer and his squatter friends. They all want to know what happened to her, so to satisfy their... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Rim | Stars: Etchika Choureau, Danielle Darrieux, Robert Lamoureux, Sophie Desmarets
Votes: 74
93. Marianne of My Youth (1955)
105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A young man in a Bavarian boarding school falls in love with a mysterious girl.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Marianne Hold, Horst Buchholz, Pierre Vaneck, Gil Vidal
Votes: 350
94. The Miracle of Marcelino (1955)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Marcelino is an orphan who grows up in a monastery. One day when he eats his small meal in a room full of old things, he gives a piece of his bread to an old wooden Jesus figure--which ... See full summary »
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Rafael Rivelles, Antonio Vico, Juan Calvo, José Marco Davó
Votes: 2,663
95. School for Love (1955)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
At the Conservatory of Vienna the student only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter.
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Jean Marais, Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Pia, Yves Robert
Votes: 247
96. The Long Gray Line (1955)
Approved | 138 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1898, Irish immigrant Martin Maher is hired as a civilian employee at West Point where, during a 50-year career, he rises to the rank of NCO and instructor.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Donald Crisp
Votes: 3,282
97. The Contessa's Secret (1954)
89 min | Drama, History, Romance
Director: Georges Combret | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Georges Marchal, Paul Meurisse, Rossano Brazzi
Votes: 32
98. Sins of Casanova (1955)
95 min | Comedy
1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
Director: Steno | Stars: Gabriele Ferzetti, Corinne Calvet, Irene Galter, Nadia Gray
Votes: 110
99. Beau Brummell (1954)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1796, Captain George Bryan "Beau" Brummell of the 10th Royal Hussars Regiment offends the Prince of Wales with his straightforward outspokenness and gets fired from the Army but is chosen as the Prince's personal advisor.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley
Votes: 1,746
100. The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Maurice Martin takes care of the concierge's lodge he has with his wife, the amiable Germaine.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Michel Simon, Etchika Choureau, Mischa Auer, Maurice Baquet
Votes: 145
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