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9 unusual facts about cinema of France


Amourous Adventure

Amourous Adventure (French: L'amoureuse aventure) is a 1932 French romantic comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Albert Préjean, Marie Glory and Marcel André.

Goliath and the Dragon

La vendetta di Ercole (literally Revenge of Hercules), better known as Goliath and the Dragon, is a 1960 Italian/French international co-production widescreen sword and sandal film starring weight lifter and gymnast Mark Forest in his debut film role and Broderick Crawford.

Rendezvous in Paris

Rendezvous in Paris is a 1982 Franco-German film directed by Gabi Kubach and starring Claude Jade, Harald Kuhlmann and Barry Stokes.

Secrets of the Orient

Secrets of the Orient (German:Geheimnisse des Orients) is a 1928 French-German silent drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Nicolas Koline, Iván Petrovich and Dimitri Dimitriev.

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

Sturges directed only one more film in his life, the 1955 French comedy Les carnets du Major Thompson (released in the U.S. as The French, They Are a Funny Race).

The Counterfeit Constable

The Counterfeit Constable is a 1964 French comedy film directed by Robert Dhéry and

The Goose of Sedan

The Goose of Sedan (German: Die Gans von Sedan) is a 1959 French-West German comedy war film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hardy Krüger, Jean Richard and Dany Carrel.

The Lovers of Lisbon

The Lovers of Lisbon is a 1955 French drama film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul Trevor Howard and Betty Stockfeld.

The Man Without Nerves

The Man Without Nerves (German:Der Mann ohne Nerven) is a 1924 French-German silent crime film directed by Gérard Bourgeois and Harry Piel and starring Piel, Dary Holm and Albert Paulig.


36 Fillette

36 Fillette (known as Virgin or Junior Size 36 in English) is a 1988 French film starring Delphine Zentout and Oliver Parniere, directed by Catherine Breillat.

7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Among the honorable guests of the festival were film legend Claudia Cardinale, one of the most well regarded stars of Italian and French cinema, Atom Egoyan, Semih Kaplanoglu, Claire Denis, Armen Medvedev, Rob Nilsson and Stanislav Govorukhin.

Confessions d'un Barjo

Confessions d'un Barjo (known as Barjo for the English-language market) is a 1992 French film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's non-science fiction novel Confessions of a Crap Artist, originally written in 1959 and published in 1975, the only non-science fiction novel of Dick's to be published in his lifetime.

Dactylo

Dactylo is a 1931 French drama film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Marie Glory, Jean Murat and Armand Bernard.

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

Dans la vie tout s'arrange is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Marcel Cravenne and starring Merle Oberon, Paul Henreid and Jim Gérald.

Fun in the Barracks

Fun in the Barracks (French: Les Gaietés de l'escadron) is a 1932 French comedy film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Raimu, Jean Gabin and Fernandel.

Girish Shambu

In an interview for a sub-site of the film criticism website The House Next Door in 2006, Shambu named Pauline Kael's review of Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill, James Monaco's book on the French New Wave (which he read several times before he had ever seen a French film), J. Hoberman's Vulgar Modernism and the website of cinephile Acquarello as having had a formative influence on his interest in film.

Henri Vidal

In addition to his wife, Michèle Morgan, he played opposite some of the biggest leading ladies in French films of the 1950s: Frances Arnold, Brigitte Bardot, Dany Carrel, Mylène Demongeot, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, and Marina Vlady.

Le Magnifique

Le Magnifique (literally The Magnificent) is a French movie released in 1973, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Louis Delluc

Louis Delluc (14 October 1890 – 22 March 1924) was an Impressionist French film director, screen writer and film critic.

Maid in Paris

Maid in Paris (French: Paris canaille) is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Dany Robin, Daniel Gélin and Tilda Thamar.

Man to Men

Man to Men (French:D'homme à hommes is a 1948 French-Swiss historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Jean-Louis Barrault, Bernard Blier and Hélène Perdrière.

Massacre in Lace

Massacre in Lace (French: Massacre en dentelles) is a 1952 French comedy crime film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Raymond Rouleau, Anne Vernon and Tilda Thamar.

Méfiez-vous des blondes

Méfiez-vous des blondes is a 1950 French drama film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Raymond Rouleau, Martine Carol and Claude Farell.

Miss Bonaparte

Miss Bonaparte (French: Mam'zelle Bonaparte) is a 1942 French historical drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Edwige Feuillère, Monique Joyce and Raymond Rouleau.

Mission in Tangier

Mission in Tangier (French: Mission à Tanger) is a 1949 French drama film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Raymond Rouleau, Gaby Sylvia and Mila Parély.

Mystère à Shanghai

Mystère à Shanghai is a 1950 French crime film directed by Roger Blanc and starring Paul Bernard, Hélène Perdrière and Maurice Teynac.

Noir et Blanc

Noir et Blanc is a 1986 French film written and directed by Claire Devers.

Tempête sur l'Asie

Tempête sur l'Asie is a 1938 French drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Sessue Hayakawa and Madeleine Robinson.

The Lady from Boston

The Lady from Boston is a 1951 French-American comedy film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Paul Henreid, Merle Oberon and Paul Bonifas.

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak, original title Gwendoline, is a 1984 French action/sexploitation film directed by Just Jaeckin, written by Jaeckin and John Willie and starring Tawny Kitaen and Brent Huff.

The Roaring Forties

The Roaring Forties (French: Les quarantièmes rugissants) is a 1982 French drama film directed by Christian de Chalonge and starring Jacques Perrin, Julie Christie and Michel Serrault.

The Royalists

The Royalists (French: Les Chouans) is a 1947 French historical drama film directed by Henri Calef and starring Paul Amiot, Roland Armontel and Roger Bontemps.


see also

Jean-Pierre Melville

Tim Palmer "Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAI", in Phil Powrie (ed.) The Cinema of France, 2006, Wallflower