French black-and-white films

1952 film by Christian-Jaque

1943 film by Henri-Georges Clouzot

1938 film by Jean Renoir

1959 film by Philippe de Broca, Claude Chabrol

Vampyr () is a 1932 Gothic horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. It was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 collection of supernatural stories In a Glass Darkly. The film was funded by Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, who (credited as Julian West) also played the starring role of Allan Gray, a student of the occult who wanders into the French village of Courtempierre, which is under the curse of a vampire. Most of the other members of the cast were also non-professional actors.

1899 film directed by Georges Méliès

1960 film by Jacques Becker

1956 French film by Robert Bresson

1937 film by Julien Duvivier

1955 film directed by Orson Welles

2016 film directed by François Ozon

1959 film by Robert Bresson

Rififi () is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton's novel of the same name. Directed by American blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin, the film stars Jean Servais as the aging gangster Tony "le Stéphanois", Carl Möhner as Jo "le Suédois", Robert Manuel as Mario Farrati, and Jules Dassin as César "le Milanais". The foursome band together to commit an almost impossible theft, the burglary of an exclusive jewelry shop in the Rue de la Paix. The centerpiece of the film is an intricate half-hour heist scene depicting the crime in detail, shot in near silence, without dialogue or m

1954 film by Jacques Becker

1956 film by René Clément

1949 film by Jacques Tati

1904 film by Georges Méliès

1964 film by François Truffaut

1957 film by Luchino Visconti

1947 film by Maurice Cloche

1963 film by Louis Malle

1952 film by Jacques Becker

1960 Italian film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo

1959 film by Roberto Rossellini

1931 film by René Clair

1958 film by Louis Malle

1903 film by Georges Méliès

1954 film by Roberto Rossellini

1966 film by Jean-Luc Godard

1958 film by Jacques Becker, Max Ophüls

1896 film by Georges Méliès

1956 film by Claude Autant-Lara

1961 film by Jacques Demy

2025 film directed by Richard Linklater

1953 film by Max Ophüls

1933 film by Jean Vigo

1963 film by Henri Verneuil

1895 film by Louis Lumière

1961 film by Henri Colpi

1957 film by René Clair

1896 film directed by Georges Méliès

1931 film by Jean Renoir

Mouchette () is a 1967 French tragedy film directed by Robert Bresson, starring Nadine Nortier and Jean-Claude Guilbert. It is based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos. Bresson explained his choice of the novel, saying, "I found neither psychology or analysis in it. The substance of the book seemed usable. It could be sieved."

1964 film by Luis Buñuel

1915 film by Louis Feuillade

1912 film directed by Georges Méliès

1964 film by Henri Verneuil

1907 film from Georges Méliès

1951 film by Robert Bresson

1946 film by Jean Delannoy

1930 film by René Clair

1950 film by Jean Cocteau

1950 film by Max Ophüls

1895 film by Louis Lumière

1896 film directed by Albert Kirchner

1895 film by Louis Lumière

1950 film by André Cayatte

1897 film by Georges Méliès

1958 film by Claude Chabrol, Philippe de Broca, Claude de Givray

1938 film by Marcel Carné