100 MEISTERWERKE des französischen Kinos

The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.

Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.

A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.

A young woman who oozes sensuality arrives in a small town and marries the local mechanic. Was it love at first sight? What links her enigmatic presence to the family's piano? Is it curiosity or is it something far more sinister?

A liberated small-town girl stands on trial to determine whether she killed her lover in a crime of passion or in premeditation.

Neurotic businessman must find the right man for his pregnant daughter. In fact, it is little bit complicated.

Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.

Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

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.

A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.

A man is murdered in an isolated chalet, and the eight female residents are all suspects; their secrets are revealed as they try to determine who is guilty.

A truck driver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmail.

A poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society.

A French sailor, returning to Hamburg where he had been imprisoned during WWII, looks for a German woman he had loved in those days, and finds her in a night club.

Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for ten years.

In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king's behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

The local building contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blanche, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. Despite Martin's many efforts for the femme fatale Blanche, she is not able to chose between him and the rich consul De Laubry.

After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.

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