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Kanopy
88
8.1
/72401/
78
/1130/
80
/1028/
4.3
/59517/
100
/54/
94
/694/
85
/15/

The Wages of Fear (1953)
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
poster
The Roku Channel
85
8.1
/72522/
78
/1286/
79
/1049/
4.2
/80528/
95
/88/
93
/869/

Diabolique (1955)
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.4
/85447/
74
/2032/
73
/1619/
3.7
/115787/
93
/56/
84
/1822/
82
/19/
cc age 13+

To Catch a Thief (1955)
When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.
poster
76
59
7.6
/5039/
73
/114/
76
/179/
4.0
/8471/
67
/6/
88
/12/

The Truth (1960)
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
56
7.7
/1898/
71
/37/
70
/49/
3.9
/1889/
90
/343/

Wooden Crosses (1932)
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
poster
69
54
6.7
/2800/
70
/50/
63
/76/
3.4
/3242/
92
/13/
57
/25/

Death in the Garden (1956)
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.
poster
70
53
7.3
/3040/
63
/50/
68
/95/
3.8
/2699/

Illustrious Corpses (1976)
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
52
7.5
/1573/
70
/35/
74
/73/
3.7
/1785/
83
/74/

They Were Five (1936)
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
51
8.3
/2171/
79
/33/
79
/49/
4.1
/1673/

Les Misérables (1934)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
poster
74
47
7.1
/965/
62
/19/
67
/43/
3.8
/1070/
100
/68/

Shock Troops (1967)
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
poster
69
45
7.1
/1911/
55
/26/
63
/40/
3.6
/1208/
100
/5/
57
/11/

Three Brothers (1981)
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come.
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Kanopy
58
38
6.1
/1701/
65
/67/
61
/103/
3.2
/1763/
43
/23/

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece (1961)
After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship called the Golden Fleece. Once Tintin and the captain arrive in Istanbul, where the ship is anchored, they meet Mr. Karabine, a businessman who stubbornly insists on buying it even though it is in a dilapidated state.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
36
6.6
/1461/
58
/29/
59
/39/
3.5
/1543/

Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.
poster
Criterion Channel
62
35
6.5
/1964/
63
/28/
62
/60/
3.3
/2560/
56
/3/

Magnet of Doom (1963)
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.
poster
Kanopy
69
29
7.2
/781/
65
/14/
66
/35/
3.7
/911/

Symphony for a Massacre (1963)
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
29
7.1
/722/
70
/15/
70
/26/
3.7
/1040/
67
/17/

The Woman Who Dared (1944)
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family.
poster
74
26
7.6
/832/
80
/3/
71
/30/
3.6
/693/

In the Name of the Law (1949)
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.
poster
73
24
7.1
/925/
69
/15/
72
/56/
3.5
/568/
83
/1/

The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972)
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained success, and the warped perceptions of right and wrong he has adopted to remain successful.
poster
62
22
6.2
/670/
60
/12/
61
/42/
3.3
/364/

Seven Deaths by Prescription (1975)
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
poster
63
20
6.8
/679/
45
/10/
66
/29/
3.4
/402/

Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
poster
70
18
7.2
/457/
60
/6/
71
/13/
3.5
/321/
80
/16/

The Great Game (1934)
Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement . Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma , one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre.
poster
70
17
7.0
/312/
72
/9/
65
/14/
3.7
/731/

Dainah the Mixed (1932)
After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its destination, Ecuador. That evening, the event is marked by a masked ball and a magic show.
poster
61
15
6.2
/836/
61
/12/
55
/20/
3.3
/307/

Boomerang (1976)
A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
poster
71
12
7.3
/282/
75
/4/
68
/12/
3.6
/406/

In the Night (1930)
A quarry worker gets married and lives his marital bliss, until an explosion at his workplace, a mine, disfigures him...
poster
?
5.2
/17/

Mister Mustard's Millions (1926)
When bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man Nicolas Koline, he offers him a wager: if Koline and his family can spend 20,000 francs a day (about $11,000 in current American money) for a year, then he'll give him a nice pension. The rest of the movie is about the poor man and his family's efforts to win the bet.
poster
?
10
/1/

La séparation (1968)
N/A
poster
?
8.3
/8/
10
/1/

Die weisse Sklavin (1927)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

A Missionary (1955)
Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.
poster
?
5.5
/34/
10
/1/

Native Drums (1955)
A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.
poster
?
90
/1/

L'Enquête du 58 (1945)
A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper. Two inspectors come to investigate the affair. During his interrogation, the driver refuses to provide an explanation for his action and is charged with malpractice. The only one he will tell the truth to is the gatekeeper's wife.
poster
?
10
/1/

L'Arlésienne (1967)
N/A
poster
?
4.2
/9/
10
/1/

The Last Sentence (1951)
Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in trouble and in need of money, he turns to criminal means—receiving aid from Daniela, the daughter of a rigid magistrate.
poster
?
6.8
/19/

The Child of the Carnival (1921)
A foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice carnival. The marquis adopts the child but soon finds that he cannot cope, so he employs a nanny who turns out to be the child's real mother. Just as the two have fallen in love and there is a happy ending in sight, the woman's husband - long thought dead - turns up.
poster
?
5.5
/46/
30
/2/

The Suspects (1957)
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans de la Métropole. He sends one of his best agents, inspector Louis Vignon, incidentally the husband of his charming secretary Lucette, on the trail of an illegal transmitter. But Vignon gets kidnapped by the gang and held captive on a boat off the shores of Monaco...
poster
?
4.2
/30/
10
/1/
40
/2/

La Puce et le privé (1981)
Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val, intrigued, decides to investigate.
poster
?
6.9
/32/
55
/4/

Ne pleure pas (1978)
Marc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer. Thomas has a soul of justice. Thus, returning home with Marc after a fight, he hits a little thug who has just robbed an old lady.
poster
?
5.9
/19/
10
/1/
20
/1/

Le juge et son bourreau (1974)
The body of a young man in a dress suit is found on a country road by Lake Biel in Switzerland. The victim happens to be none other than Schmied, the new police inspector who had just been appointed to replace Baerlach, the old police captain.
poster
?
10
/1/

Le Reflet dans la mer (1973)
Karl de Linken, an elegant young man, adventurous and unattached, arrives in the square of a small Corsican village perched in the mountains. His presence intrigues Baron Ucciani, who reigns supreme over Santa Lucia. The meeting with the baron and his young wife Maria could divert our hero from his original project: revenge ...
poster
?
6.2
/20/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Le Père Goriot (1972)
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
poster
?
5.1
/13/
10
/1/
60
/1/

La nuit bulgare (1972)
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.
poster
?
6.1
/26/
10
/1/
52
/4/

Malaire (1952)
Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fired at a couple of trespassers, hurting the girl and killing her fiancé. Giving Catoune, the girl, the shelter of his home, Noguère was forced - however reluctantly it may have been - to break the bad news to the fiancée. For all that Catoune recovered, settled down and later married Juste. After a while Juste left for the war and was soon reported missing. Noguère comforted the distressed young woman so well that she became her mistress. But Juste had not been killed.
poster
?
5.8
/74/
33
/3/
55
/2/

The Wreckers (1959)
In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some residents exalted hold responsible the young Moira, equivalent to a witch. The old Marnez, "head" of the island, is trying to restore calm and opposes Yann Le Heart, the fiancé of his daughter Louise Kermelen, who wants causing a shipwreck to save the island from famine.
poster
?
5.5
/11/

Barocco (1925)
N/A
poster
?
6.4
/28/

The Roquevillards (1943)
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son Maurice elopes to Italy with Edith Frasne, the wife of an esteemed notary.
poster
?
6.2
/56/
10
/1/
47
/6/

No Escape (1958)
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until the day when she, in a particularly violent confrontation, knocks him down before the eyes of Gino, an Italian pensioner of whom she is in love. The two accomplices will try to make up the murder.
poster
?
6.8
/28/
70
/2/

Michel Strogoff (1936)
The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he encounters a number of adventures.
poster
?
6.0
/10/

Les Bateliers de la Volga (1935)
In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi being to have spent the night with the wife of a colonel, he allows himself to be condemned so as not to compromise the latter. He manages to escape and hides in the guise of a poor boatman. One day, the truth comes out, the colonel commits suicide and the lovers are finally reunited.
poster
?
5.0
/22/

Rio's yellow house (1931)
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.


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