FR #7491 | Movie | Drama | France | French, English
Director
Yves Allegret
Writer
Henri La Barthe, Jacques Sigurd, Yves Allegret
Cast
Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero
Plot
Dedee is a prostitute who works in Monsieur Rene's nightclub on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy until she meets Francesco, an Italian sailor. They fall in love and Dedee starts to dream about e...
FR #9670 | Movie | Adventure, Crime | France, Mexico | French
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Alcoriza, Luis Bunuel, Raymond Queneau
Cast
Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel
Plot
Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, ...
After spending all his money to fulfill the smallest wish of his wife Dora, Robert is still madly in love with her. Now she is in agony, and her mother comes. She will reveal to Robert how he has been fooled. Flashbacks show the s...
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France...
FR #12891 | Movie | Drama | France, Italy | French
Director
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Writer
Pierre Granier-Deferre, Pascal Jardin, Georges Simenon
Cast
Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy
Plot
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 demolished. To Clemence's anger, Julien's ca...
FR #17140 | Movie | Documentary | France | French, Spanish
Director
Chris Marker
Writer
Chris Marker
Cast
Simone Signoret, Jorge Semprun, Davos Hanich
Plot
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
FR #18171 | Movie | Drama, History | France, Germany | French
Director
Raymond Rouleau
Writer
Arthur Miller, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Ayme
Cast
Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt
Plot
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. It will be the beginning of a series of witchcraft trials and a dark moment in American history.
FR #18387 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French, English
Director
Moshe Mizrahi
Writer
Romain Gary, Moshe Mizrahi
Cast
Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Samy Ben-Youb
Plot
Madame Rosa, an ex-prostitute of Jewish origin, lives in a dilapidated old building in Belleville. Tired and worn out by life, she looks after young children, placed in her care by the social welfare people.
FR #20621 | Movie | Action, Drama | France, Italy | French
Director
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Writer
Georges Simenon, Pierre Granier-Deferre, Pascal Jardin
Cast
Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo
Plot
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,
FR #24982 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France | English, French
Director
Maurice Tourneur
Writer
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Cast
Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Marcel Herrand
Plot
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks...
