List of the best Claude Autant-Lara movies: Four Bags Full(1956), The Red and the Black(1954), Sylvia and the Phantom(1946), The Seven Deadly Sins(1952), Le Joueur(1958), The Oldest Profession(1967), Devil in the Flesh(1946) ... ...
Comedy
France|Italy
1956
84 Minutes
Director
Jean Gabin Bourvil Jeannette Batti Georgette Anys Robert Arnoux Laurence Badie Myno Burney Monette Dinay
smuggler homeless person officer guard street performer amusing intense spirited france paris street warehouse world war ii nazi occupation black market friendship quest pursuit 1940s
Two men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures - until they are arrested by the police.
Drama
France
1954
170 Minutes
Director
Gérard Philipe Danielle Darrieux Antonella Lualdi Jean Martinelli Jean Mercure
peasant aristocrat priest lover emotional spirited france household church ambition class distinctions social standing infidelity religion adventure discovery rise fall 1820s
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving a soporific soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
France
1946
90 Minutes
Director
Odette Joyeux François Périer Jacques Tati Julien Carette Pierre Larquey Louis Salon Claude Marcy Jean Desailly Paul Demange Marguerite Cassan
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Sylvie's father needs cash to stay in his castle so he sells Sylvie's favorite thing, a painting of Alain, the lover of Sylvie's grandmother, killed in a ... See full summary »
Drama
France|Italy
1952
127 Minutes
Director
Georges Lacombe Yves Allegret Eduardo De Filippo Michèle Morgan Francoise Rosay Jean Debucourt Marcelle Praince Louis Seigner
A French/Italian co-production with two episodes from Italy and five from France covering the seven deadly sins---actually eight as two of the sins are covered in one episode while a new "... See full summary »
Drama
France|Italy
1958
102 Minutes
Director
The game was his curse.
Comedy
1967
97 Minutes
Jeanne Moreau Claude Autant-Lara Philippe de Broca Franco Indovina Raquel Welch Elsa Martinelli Anna Karina France Anglade Jean-Pierre Léaud
emperor human prostitute banker hilarious powerful ambulance attraction prostitution tradition absurdity changing times lust 1960s
Six vignettes show prostitutes (Jeanne Moreau, Raquel Welch, Elsa Martinelli), from prehistory to the future.
Drama
1946
122 Minutes
Director
wife lover soldier mother dark emotional intense passionate france household affair adultery betrayal loneliness marriage world war i forbidden love fall 1910s
While her husband is fighting in World War I, a woman (Micheline Presle) has an affair with a young man (Gérard Philipe) and becomes pregnant.