List of the best Simone Signoret movies: Diabolique(1955), The Adultress(1953), The Adolescent(1979), The Day and the Hour(1963), Games(1967), Le Chat(1971), Room at the Top(1959), The Sleeping Car Murders(1965), Term of Trial(1962), The Deadly Affair(1966), The Witches of Salem(1957), Against the Wind(1948) ... ...
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
1955
116 Minutes
Simone Signoret Vera Clouzot Paul Meurisse Charles Vanel Jean Brochard Noel Roquebert Thérèse Dorny Pierre Larquey Michel Serrault Yves Marie Maurin Georges Poujouly
teacher headmaster detective wife mistress suspenseful tense dark frightening france boarding school apartment murder adultery revenge deception revenge mystery 1950s
The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
Drama
France|Italy
1953
110 Minutes
Thérèse Raquin
Simone Signoret Raf Vallone Jacques Duby Maria-Pia Casilio Marcel André Martial Rebe Paul Frankeur Alain Terrane Sylvie Roland Lesaffre
A truckdriver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmail.
Drama
France|West Germany
1979
90 Minutes
Simone Signoret Francis Huster Laetitia Chauveau Édith Clever
The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place. Marie's ... See full summary »
Drama, Romance, War
France|Italy
1963
115 Minutes
Simone Signoret Stuart Whitman Genevieve Page Michel Piccoli Reggie Nalder Bill Kearns Marcel Bozzuffi Henri Virlojeux
During WW2, in Nazi-occupied France, a French woman helps 2 downed Allied airmen to evade capture by the Germans and make their way into neutral Spain.
Mystery & Thriller
1967
100 Minutes
Simone Signoret James Caan Katharine Ross Don Stroud Kent Smith Estelle Winwood Marjorie Bennett Ian Wolfe Anthony Eustrel Eloise Hardt George Furth
young man husband wife young woman new yorker saleswoman creative intricate dark new york city apartment parlor wealth obsession double-cross death seduction sex temptation transformation
A mysterious woman (Simone Signoret) in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers (James Caan, Katharine Ross) and helps one trick the other.
Drama
France|Italy
1971
88 Minutes
Jean Gabin Simone Signoret Annie Cordy Jacques Rispal Nicole Desailly Harry-Max Andre Rouyer Carlo Nell
Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1959
118 Minutes
Laurence Harvey Simone Signoret Heather Sears Hermione Baddeley Donald Wolfit Ambrosine Philpotts Donald Houston Wendy Craig Mary Peach
factory worker heiress wife gritty brooding england small town class distinctions suicide forbidden love deception love sacrifice temptation 1940s
An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Mystery & Thriller
France
1965
95 Minutes
Yves Montand Simone Signoret Pierre Mondy Catherine Allégret Pascale Roberts Jacques Perrin Michel Piccoli Jean-Louis Trintignant Charles Denner Claude Mann Nadine Alari
Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1962
113 Minutes
Laurence Olivier Simone Signoret Sarah Miles Roland Culver Frank Pettingell Thora Hird Dudley Foster Norman Bird Newton Blick Allan Cuthbertson Nicholas Hannen
teacher wife student bleak somber school england household student-teacher relationship alcoholism guilt marital problems seduction revenge temptation 1960s
In Britain, a high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher but, after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK
1966
107 Minutes
Elsa Fennan
James Mason Simone Signoret Maximilian Schell Harriet Andersson Harry Andrews Kenneth Haigh Roy Kinnear Corin Redgrave
secret agent inspector wife victim widow tense intricate london office household investigation murder suicide deception espionage mystery quest 1960s
A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.
Drama
USA
1957
140 Minutes
Yves Montand Simone Signoret Mylène Demongeot Raymond Rouleau Jean Debucourt Jean Gaven
farmer wife lover teen girl village elder reverend brooding salem, mass. family home village witch hunt infidelity deception mass hysteria wretched excess revenge 17th century
Faced with heavy opposition from local ranchers, a white Indian woman desperately seeks help for her tribe struggling to survive on a reservation.
War, Drama, History
UK
1948
96 Minutes
Michele Dennis
Robert Beatty Jack Warner Simone Signoret Gordon Jackson Paul Dupuis James Robertson Justice Gisèle Préville John Slater Peter Illing
priest pretty woman secret agent spy engaging suspenseful belgium england dangerous assignment espionage deception nazism betrayal world war ii discovery adventure quest 1940s
British agents engage in hazardous duty behind German lines.
Comedy
France
1950
97 Minutes
Leocadie, the Prostitute
Anton Walbrook Simone Simon Daniel Gélin Serge Reggiani Simone Signoret Danielle Darrieux Fernand Gravey Odette Joyeux Jean-Louis Barrault Isa Miranda Gérard Philipe
narrator prostitute soldier maid wealthy man actress emotional hedonistic austria vienna romance adultery infidelity love triangle deception love temptation 1900s
Vignettes revolving around a circle of interconnected love.
War, Drama, History
France|Italy
1969
140 Minutes
Mathilde
Lino Ventura Paul Meurisse Jean-Pierre Cassel Paul Crauchet Claude Mann Christian Barbier Simone Signoret Serge Reggiani Alain Libolt
engineer rebel traitor nazi intense gritty passionate paris marseilles, france london france submarine prison french resistance world war ii prisoners of war nazism underdog sacrifice 1940s
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
War
France|USA
1966
173 Minutes
Jean-Paul Belmondo Charles Boyer Leslie Caron Jean-Pierre Cassel George Chakiris Bruno Cremer Claude Dauphin Alain Delon Kirk Douglas Glenn Ford Gert Froebe
adolf hitler general dietrich von choltitz soldier resistance leader german soldier nazi brooding intense uneasy occupied france office apartment paris world war ii occupied france freedom history resistance military discovery
The departure of the German Army from Paris in 1944.