Cocinor - French historical film (1950s-60s) (20-40-100+ French films that considered best to worst and lost French films) (ft. Marceau-Cocinor/Cocinex)
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- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsLaurent TerzieffErika RembergHorst FrankAn impossible love between a French resistant fighter and a German officer's wife during WW2.
- DirectorHenri ColpiStarsAlida ValliGeorges WilsonCharles BlavetteA Parisian café owner believes her long lost husband has returned but the man suffers from amnesia.
- DirectorMaurice de CanongeStarsAnne VernonHenri VilbertRobert ManuelSeveral investigations take place in the premises of the French Criminal Police: a young lawbreaker is accused of having murdered his accomplice; a false witness working for a dangerous killer is interrogated; a double crime has been committed in a hotel without there being any sign of a break-in...
- DirectorJean-Paul Le ChanoisStarsJean GabinNicole CourcelSilvia MonfortA heartfelt plea for painless childbirth in rural France of the fifties.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsMichèle MorganCharles BoyerArlettyIn the early 1900s, a down-and-out French nobleman gets involved in romantic matchmaking that backfires in his favor.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudAlbert RémyClaire MaurierA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelPierre DuxSimone ValèreNow Gisèle Bourjeon is the mistress of the count Hubert Martin de Kardec.After a long journey abroad Henri Lévrier, a champagne producer has come back and meets again his friends Hubert and the Bourjeon family.And surprise, Henri doesn't drink alcohol anymore.He says Gisèle that he was drinking because he loved very much.Henri and Gisèle feel well together and become lovers.
- DirectorJean-Paul Le ChanoisStarsRobert LamoureuxGaby MorlayFernand LedouxThe 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.
- DirectorMaurice LabroGiorgio SimonelliStarsPhilippe LemaireCatherine ErardClément DuhourCarlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones. He is saved by chance in the person of Marina, a charming young school teacher, who takes advantage of the presence of a radio crew in her village for the recording of a singing contest to broadcast an appeal in favor of Tonino, the most underprivileged of her pupils. She asks the listeners to send postcards from any place in the world to cheer up little Tonino. The response is enthusiastic and tons of mail land in the radio studios, at the same time boosting the audience of Calo's moribund program. Eventually, despite some trouble with a rare stamp, all ends well and Carlo marries Marina.
- DirectorGilles GrangierStarsJean MaraisMarisa MellGérard TichyIn Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist.
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsAnnie GirardotMaurice RonetO.E. HasseWhen his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.
- DirectorAlex JofféStarsBourvilPaul MeurisseFrançoise DeldickLouis Bourdin, a modest ticket puncher on the Paris metro, is so enamoured of crime fiction that he decides to write his own novel, expecting that one day he will be as famous as Auguste Le Breton. After months of painstaking research, he pens a work of fiction that describes in meticulous detail a train robbery on his stretch of the metro. Unfortunately, Louis has no success getting the book published, as no one seems to believe the robbery is possible. To prove them wrong, Louis decides to enact the robbery himself, with the help of some professional crooks. As luck would have it, Paul Filippi, the aristocrat of crime, has just been released from prison and is preparing his next criminal exploit. To his mind, Louis has conceived the perfect robbery...
- DirectorMarcel CamusStarsHardy KrügerCharles VanelAndré LawrenceIn Haute-Provence, two clans of rival peasants clash throughout the four seasons of a year. A young woodcutter, gone to the Rebeillard country to cut down trees, has not given a sign of life for several months. Anxious about this long absence, his father went off to look for him.
- DirectorGeorges LautnerStarsPaul MeurisseMarcel DalioOlivier DespaxA French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.
- DirectorRobert HosseinStarsMichèle MorganRobert HosseinFrançois PatriceWollmer, the owner of a sawmill in Tyrol, has been assassinated. But since he was hated by almost everyone, there is a plethora of possible assassins. His wife returns to attend the funeral and to try to clean up the sawmill
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsBette DavisHorst BuchholzCatherine SpaakThe son of a dead Italian nobleman and a wealthy American woman forgets the disappointment of finding he has no talent for being a painter by succumbing to the sexual advances of an amoral model who believes in indiscriminate love affairs.
- DirectorPierre ArmandStarsMaria CandidoNathalie ChaPhilippe GastéA tramp transforms himself into a handsome young man, and takes a flower seller through the nightlife of Paris.
- DirectorRené DelacroixStarsJacques JouanneauDenise GreyMarthe MercadierYes, Doudou (or, more respectfully, Edouard Doucin) is both heir to a big sugar refinery and its managing director but he is also an incorrigibly bashful bachelor, which just exasperates his aunt Agatha. Summoned to marry as soon as possible, Doudou is fortunate enough to meet Babette , an elegant young lady who wishes to introduce him to her parents. When he comes to visit them, he mistakes the floor out of nervousness. In fact,he finds himself at the Lautiers' not the Olivaros'. Now, chance has it that this couple of shopkeepers also have a marriageable daughter. And as Poupette is romantic, passionate and adorable, Doudou can't find the nerve to disappoint her. As a result the young man gets engaged...twice ! How the devil will he cope ?
- DirectorJacques Doniol-ValcrozeStarsBernadette LafontFrançoise BrionAlexandra StewartMiléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of the will, even though they have been estranged from the family at an early age. However Robert, who had been living with Fifine in an open relationship, arrives and impersonates Jean-Paul. Robert falls for Fifine's cousin Miléna while Fifine has designs on Miguel. In the meantime, the butler César is focusing his lecherous intentions on Prudence, the maid he had just hired.
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsRosanna SchiaffinoElsa MartinelliLaurent TerzieffIn Rome, small-time thieves Scinttilone and Ruggeretto steal four rifles and catch prostitutes Anna and Supplizia on the street to mislead the police. They seek the jobber Mosciarella, but he is at a funeral and gives them no attention. But Gino "Bellabella" overhears them and offers to deal the merchandise with another contact. He fails and the whores present a deaf-mute acquaintance who lives on the outskirts of Rome to buy the guns; the prostitute Nicoletta who was with the man returns to Rome with the quintet. When the youngsters propose to have sex in the middle of nowhere, the prostitutes believe that they intend to leave them there. Scinttilone, Ruggeretto, and Bellabella sneak out to the car and leave the women in the countryside. Later they discover that the women stole their money. They seek them out on the streets and fight against another gang. However, when the police arrive, the six youngsters leave the place together and head to the house of one of them, and Ruggeretto falls for the host's sister. However, Bellabella steals the host's bountiful wallet and Ruggeretto fights him to get the wallet and return it to the host. While they are fighting, Scinttilone flees with the wallet to the house of his girlfriend Rossana. Ruggeretto chases Scinttilone along a night of alienation, illusions, and adventures.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsGert FröbeMarina VladyRobert HosseinBased on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Blunderer. In this drama, two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsFernandelGino CerviFranco ParentiDuring WW2, it's not wise to be a mayor chosen by the fascists with the Americans' impending arrival.
- DirectorMaurice CammageStarsFernandelJosette DayAndrexSome try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even harder task than Phineas Fogg. His assignment is to go around the globe with a mere five cents coin. Worse, he can't even spend it or else he will not come into the money of his inheritance. To make sure Lavarède plays by the rules of the game, two supervisors stick to him like a shadow. Will the young man meet this unbelievable challenge?
- DirectorWilly RozierStarsBrigitte BardotJean-François CalvéHoward VernonGérard, a young student, discovers a fragment from a Phoenician amphora in Corsica. Several years later he sets off on a smuggling boat, looking for the treasure he thinks he has found. When he get back to island, he falls in love.
- DirectorJacques Daniel-NormanStarsRellysAndrexLysiane ReyClaude, a penniless young engineer will come into his uncle's heritage on the only condition that he marries one of his cousins. Too bad because the girl he loves, Isabelle, is not one of them... But money is money and Claude goes in search of one of the three cousins he might marry. The first one, Joséphine, a Martinican, already has a lover. The second one, Conchita, is Spanish and Claude, mistaken for a smuggler, must run away from her. As for the third potential wife, Sophie, who lives in Tyrol, Claude has known her since she once saved his life when he was about to commit suicide. Will she be the right one? And what about Isabelle?
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsCharles AznavourMarie DuboisNicole BergerA pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother.
- DirectorRobert HosseinStarsMichèle MorganRobert HosseinOlivier HussenotA dysfunctional American couple in Paris grieving over the loss of their son hire a maid who falls for the husband.
- DirectorPierre GrimblatStarsSerge GainsbourgJane BirkinAndréa ParisyIn Venice, forty-old-year old Serge Fabergé has just been given the best advertisement director award. While taking a walk on the Piazza San Marco, Serge meets Evelyn Nicholson, a twenty-three-year-old English beauty. He falls passionately in love with her and, as a result, starts neglecting his charming wife, Françoise, going so far as to consider divorcing her. But having a young fiery insatiable mistress is not without drawbacks...
- DirectorRobert HosseinStarsMarc CassotJacques DacqmineNadia GrayPlay the game of truth at your own risk.
- DirectorWilly RozierStarsTony WrightDominique WilmsDany DaubersonCarlos, a weapons trader, is struck by his resemblance to a certain Slim. Wishing to take advantage of this situation, the mafioso asked the latter to be the commander of his ship.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsBernard BlierPierre BrasseurSuzy DelairSuppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
- DirectorAlex JofféStarsBernard BlierGiovanna RalliBourvilThis satire on militarism is set during the period when the revolutionary French, under their new leader Napoleon.,marched into Italy, and deals with the relationship between the troops and the local Italians.
- DirectorMaurice de CanongeStarsMarcel MerkèsColette DeréalJeannette BattiTwo modest fishermen pass themselves off as rich industrialists to win two girls' love.
- DirectorMaurice de CanongeStarsMarcel MerkèsHenri GénèsJeannette BattiAntonin, Honoré and Papillote are sailors on the ship "L'Invincible". The three friends are in love with three pretty girls in Toulon: Honoré is in love with Mireille who, as for her, loves Antonin, and Papillote only has eyes for Angèle who, after a fifteen-month-long cruise,presents him a newborn baby that she claims is their son! A new woman appears: Patricia, as sexy as she is mysterious. Antonin, although disconcerted, falls under her spell. What he does not know is that Patricia is not a journalist as she says she is but a secret service agent who has been assigned the mission to investigate Eric Bergen, a shady fellow the trio meets everyday at Arsène's Café...
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsJane FondaMichel PiccoliPeter McEneryIn Paris, Maxime visits his wealthy industrialist father Alexandre and his beautiful young Canadian wife, Renée. Alexandre fathered him years ago in a prior marriage and he has come to stay with them after studying in England. Renée tells Maxime that she married Alexandre when she was pregnant following an unhappy love affair; the child was stillborn and the passion between the two has faded. They begin an affair and fall in love with each other. Renée, who came from a wealthy family, asks Alexandre for a divorce. He agrees, on the condition that she leaves the fortune she brought to their marriage invested in his business. Renée accepts this and goes to Switzerland for a divorce. But while she is away, Alexandre confronts his son with two alternatives: he can either run off with now penniless Renée or become engaged to Anne, the daughter of a wealthy banker whose support Alexandre needs for his business. Maxime agrees on the second course of action. Renée returns from Switzerland to find Alexandre holding a ball celebrating Maxime's engagement to Anne. Renée throws herself into the pool to kill herself - but then changes her mind and dripping wet enters the party. Alexandre escorts her to the gymnasium, where she sits and stares into an empty future.
- DirectorGeorges RouquierRicardo Muñoz SuayStarsDaniel GélinZsa Zsa GaborHenri VilbertDashing matador Ricardo resists getting back into action after a fellow bullfighter is killed in the ring, even if it means losing his fickle actress mistress.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsPeter O'TooleOmar SharifTom CourtenayIn 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsJohnny HallydayGastone MoschinFrançoise FabianA chain mail-clad gunfighter contends with a sheriff, a banker, a bandit, businessmen and hippies while searching for the money allegedly stolen by his lynched brother.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsUgo TognazziAnnie GirardotAchille MajeroniA modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
- DirectorBrunello RondiStarsDaliah LaviFrank WolffAnna María AvetaA lonely, sexually-uninhibited young peasant is subjected to an exorcism after she hexes a man who rejects her advances.
- DirectorJacques PoitrenaudStarsDanielle DarrieuxDany CarrelJean RochefortA widow is looking for the drug that her deceased husband was hiding. While a policeman leads the investigation, other people try to find the famous product.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsPatrice MoulletMarino MaséGeneviève GaléaDuring a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsGiovanna RalliJacques CharrierDante DiPaoloCarmen, wife of a certain Vincenzo detained for theft, chooses Antonio as a friend. When the husband is released from prison, he accepts the relationship in progress and continues to use the woman in his shady businesses.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsMichel AuclairJean-Pierre AumontJean-Louis BarraultThe history of the palace of Versailles from its founding to the present.
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelPierre DuxSimone ValèreNow Gisèle Bourjeon is the mistress of the count Hubert Martin de Kardec.After a long journey abroad Henri Lévrier, a champagne producer has come back and meets again his friends Hubert and the Bourjeon family.And surprise, Henri doesn't drink alcohol anymore.He says Gisèle that he was drinking because he loved very much.Henri and Gisèle feel well together and become lovers.
- DirectorRoger PigautStarsPatrick de BardineSylviane RozenbergJacques FaburelThis interesting little French film is set in a run-down suburb of Paris. It's about a group of bored children making mischief to fill the days (eg sticking a cat up a tree and then calling the fire brigade so they can watch them get it down!) One of them has a Chinese kite, with a message on a piece of paper in Chinese on it. His mates try to grab it to sell to an antique shop. One night, one of the boys and his sister are visited by a mysterious Chinaman and are promptly floated off on their bed to China in their pyjamas. The Chinaman clicks his fingers and they appear once again in their everyday clothes, and have all sorts of adventures in China.
- DirectorMichel BoisrondStarsAlain DelonMylène DemongeotPascale PetitJulien turns up at one of his former girlfriends' wedding; she is marrying an "old man" (32). But the newly wed Agathe does not want to give the hunk up.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsFernandelJacques DubyJean RigauxIn the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrives after a crime. Observed by some people leaving the scene of the crime covered by his raincoat, he became the only suspect for the police. His only hope is to discover the murderer before is name is mentioned publicly, especially in front of his wife.
- DirectorClément DuhourStarsPierre BrasseurDanielle DarrieuxSophie DesmaretsThe writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.