Jacques Prévert

This tragic tale centers around the ill-fated love between Baptiste, a theater mime, and Claire Reine, an actress and otherwise woman-about-town who calls herself Garance. Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: Frederick, a pretentious actor; Lacenaire, a conniving thief; and Count Eduard of Monteray. The story is further complicated by Nathalie, an actress who is in love with Baptiste... (imdb)

A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city. (imdb)

Le Roi et l'oiseau is a 1980 traditionally-animated feature film directed by Paul Grimault. Begun in 1948 as The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, it underwent a long production, eventually being finished over 30 years after it was started.

Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young fleurist, and they fell in love. But Francoise was gotten round by Valentin, a dog trainer, a machiavellian guy... (imdb)

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris... (imdb)

At the end of the 15th century, two minstrels Gilles and Dominique come from nowhere into the castle of Baron Hugues. Gilles charms Anne, Hughes' daughter, while Dominique charms both Hugues and Ann's fiance. Gilles and Dominique are not really in love : they are sent by the Devil to desperate people. But Ann is so pure that Gilles is caught to his own trap... How will they fight against the Devil ? (imdb)

After an influential apprenticeship with the filmmaker Jacques Feyder in the mid-1930s, Marcel Carné made his auspicious directorial debut with this moody melodrama of a love triangle between the proprietress of a seedy nightclub (Rosay), her gangster lover (Préjean), and her not-so-innocent daughter (Lanvin). (moma.org)

Mistaken identities and people in disguise lead everyone to suspect everyone else of murder

Paris, during the winter after its Liberation. Jean Diego meets up with his friend Raymond Lecuyer again. A tramp, pretending that he the Destiny, predicts Jean will meet the most beautiful girl in the world. The same evening, Jean meets Malou. He soon discovers that her brother Guy was the one that gave Raymond away to the Gestapo... (imdb)

Lyrical drama about a doomed, decadent society, exploring the torrid sentimental turmoil of its central characters against the luminous Provençal landscape and against social relations in the world of work. (bfi.org.uk)

Quotidian scenes of Paris along the quays beside the River Seine. Fishing, snoozing, cutting hair, washing clothes (imdb)

In a college, three friends form a secret society. There objective - going to America. A night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them see a man coming out from a wall. Then the day after he talks about it, he disappears. Then the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate. (imdb)

Andre Laurent, the captain of a tugboat, married Yvonne ten years ago. She has a heart disease but does not want to tell him. She dreams he quits the job for they can live quietly. One night, during a sea rescue, he meets Catherine. She wants to leave her husband, the captain of the rescued ship. She is a beautiful and unusual woman. (imdb)

A budding romance between two toy dancers is put into dangers when the boy is conscripted into the toy army.

A short animation by the French animation master Paul Grimault. A tall, thin man in elegant dark clothing seems to be on a trip in his flying vehicle to find in a rather exotic, isolated place an enormous diamond. He then proceeds to steal it from the natives.

A depressed dog is not happy with his master's violin's desctructive playing.

A horse dealer is making his way across the mountains in a snowstorm when he is suddenly attacked by a stranger. His assailant is Jean-Baptiste, a reclusive man known locally as the Bellman. Having killed the horse dealer, Jean-Baptiste flees with his gold. He intends to share these ill-gotten gains with Fabret, a simpleminded old man whose daughter he has taken a fancy to. In fact, Fabret's daughter, Catherine, is in love with another man, a woodcutter named Peter.

A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner.

When a millionaire's valet wins a slogan contest, he wins a stay at an exclusive hotel, where a series of misunderstandings takes place.

The Caliph's spoiled and friendless son readjusts his values when he becomes involved with a poor boy and his donkey.

A womanizer's lover' s dead body is found in the Seine. (imdb)

A criminal is blackmailed into killing a dim poet, but both escape to the countryside together.

A hatter and his accomplice attempt to kidnap the son of Hollister, an American millionaire, by abducting him in a bag. However, they mistakenly kidnap Hollister himself instead. Hollister, bored with life, is actually delighted to be involved in the adventure.

Beginning at dawn, Paris makes its bread who all the people throughout the city who eats it, whether on the street or at stand, at student restaurants or with family. Bread and the furnaces they come from create a rhythm to the life of a city up until dawn...

A short documentary about the industrial area on the outskirts of Paris, where many of the poor and working class who could not afford the more expensive rents in the City found cheaper housing. (imdb)

A guideless old tour proprietor trumps his new-fangled rival by offering a genuine mystery trip. The takers are a crowd of eccentrics and dropouts from all backgrounds.

Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.

A little girl loves her dog,Pierrot,dearly .En route to the seaside ,they drive through a forest .Father takes the dog out of the car ,removes his collar and Pierrot becomes a stray dog. (imdb)