FAVORITE OLD FRENCH FILMS

Favorite Old French Films

A friend asked me a few months ago to recommend her some old French films, excluding the very famous ones, such as the ones directed by Jean Renoir, Max Ophuls, Jean Vigo, Abel Gance, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Cocteau, Georges Franju, etc. So here is my list:

(in alphabetical order)

1.BEAUTY AND THE DEVIL (1950, René Clair)

2.CARREFOUR (1938, Curtis Bernhardt)

3.THE CASE OF DR. LAURENT (1957, Jean-Paul Le Chanois)

4.CHRISTINE (1958, Pierre Gaspard-Huit)

5.CRÉSUS (1960, Jean Giono)

6.DILEMMA OF TWO ANGELS (1948, Maurice Tourneur)

7.DOUCE (1943, Claude Autant-Lara)

8.JOY HOUSE (1964, René Clément)

9.JUSTINE DE MARSEILLE (1935, Maurice Tourneur)

10.LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER (1955, Marc Allégret)

11.THE LAST OF THE SIX (1941, Georges Lacombe)

12.THE LITTLE BATHER (1968, Robert Dhéry)

13.MACADAM (1946, Jacques Feyder + Marcel Blistène)

14.PARIS FRILLS (1945, Jacques Becker)

15.POIL DE CAROTTE (1925, Julien Duvivier)

16.THE PRESIDENT (1961, Henri Verneuil)

17.THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES (1961, Jean Delannoy)

18.RAZZIA IN PARIS (1955, Henri Decoin)

19.REGAIN (1937, Marcel Pagnol)

20.RIPTIDE (1949, Yves Allégret)

21.STAR WITHOUT LIGHT (1946, Marcel Blistène)

22.SUCH A LONG ABSENCE (1961, Henri Colpi)

23.SUMMER LIGHT (1943, Jean Grémillon)

24.UN TAXI POUR TOBROUK (1961, Denys de la Patellière)

25.THÉRÈSE RAQUIN (1953, Marcel Carné)

26.UNE VIE (1958, Alexandre Astruc)