1950s French films

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1953 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of ef...

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La Pointe Courte

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple an...

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Mr. Arkadin

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van S...

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Bitter Victory

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 6.7

During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Bran...

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...And God Created Woman

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consid...

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The Green Glove

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1952 IMDB Rating: 6

In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, fin...

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