François Périer

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Weekend at Dunkirk
6.9
1964

Weekend at Dunkirk

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to ...
The Organizer
8
1963

The Organizer

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory.
Five Day Lover
6.3
1961

Five Day Lover

Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend ...
Testament of Orpheus
7.2
1960

Testament of Orpheus

Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of ...
Nights of Cabiria
8.1
1957

Nights of Cabiria

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find ...
Gervaise
7.4
1956

Gervaise

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with ...
Silence Is Golden
7.1
1947

Silence Is Golden

Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting ...
The Elegant Criminal
6.1
1990

The Elegant Criminal

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written ...
Baxter, Vera Baxter
6
1977

Baxter, Vera Baxter

In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera ...
Stavisky…
6.5
1974

Stavisky…

Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of ...
Max and the Junkmen
7.3
1971

Max and the Junkmen

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
Le Cercle Rouge
7.9
1970

Le Cercle Rouge

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after ...
Z
8.2
1969

Z

Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of ...
Shock Troops
7
1967

Shock Troops

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who ...
Le Samouraï
8
1967

Le Samouraï

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent ...
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