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Razzia sur la chnouf
1955 film by Henri Decoin
The Mysterious Knight
1899 film by Georges Méliès
The Ballet-Master's Dream
1903 film directed by Georges Méliès
The Last Cartridges
1897 film by Georges Méliès
Through the Keyhole
1901 film by Ferdinand Zecca
Les Veinards
1963 film by Philippe de Broca, Jean Girault
Rue des prairies
1959 film by Denys de La Patellière
Excelsior!
Excelsior!, released in the United Kingdom as The Prince of Magicians, is a 1901 French silent comedy trick film, directed by Georges Méliès. It is listed as numbers 357–358 in Star Film Company's catalogues.
Mademoiselle
1966 film by Tony Richardson
Wooden Crosses
1932 film by Raymond Bernard
The Seashell and the Clergyman
1928 film directed by Germaine Dulac
L'Inhumaine
'''''L'Inhumaine''''' ("the inhuman woman") is a 1924 French science fiction drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. It has the subtitle histoire féerique ("fairy story", "story of enchantment"). ''L'Inhumaine'' is notable for its experimental techniques and for the collaboration of many leading practitioners in the decorative arts, architecture and music. The film caused controversy on its release.
Addition and Subtraction
1900 short silent film directed by Georges Méliès
The Man from London
2007 film by Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
Thérèse Desqueyroux
1962 film by Georges Franju
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1962 French short film directed by Robert Enrico
Gas-Oil
Gas-Oil is a 1955 French crime drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Gaby Basset and Ginette Leclerc. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location at a variety of places. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It was one of a number of films portraying tough truck drivers made in the wake of the success of the 1953 film The Wages of Fear. It was the first of many films in which Gabin appeared in written by his fellow Parisian Michel Audiard.
Boy Meets Girl
1984 French drama film directed by Leos Carax
Sweet and Sour
1963 film by Jacques Baratier
The Mandrake
1965 film by Alberto Lattuada
The House of Ghosts
1907 short film directed by Segundo de Chomón
Papa, maman, la bonne et moi
1954 film by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
1959 film by Nanni Loy
A Story of Water
1958 short film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut
Return to Life
1949 film
The Melomaniac
1903 film by Georges Méliès
The Day and the Hour
1963 French-Italian film directed by René Clément
La Sorcière
1956 film by André Michel
Retour de manivelle
1957 film by Denys de La Patellière
Le Miroir à deux faces
1958 film by André Cayatte
The Eruption of Mt. Pelee
1902 film by Georges Méliès
Les amants de Vérone
1949 film by André Cayatte
Love and the Frenchwoman
1960 anthology film by 6 different directors
The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961 film by Gilles Grangier
L'Homme du large
1920 film by Marcel L'Herbier
Conjuring
1896 film by Georges Méliès
Please, Not Now!
1961 film by Roger Vadim
Barrabas
1920 film by Louis Feuillade
Afrique-sur-Seine
thumb|right|Video cover Afrique-sur-Seine is a French film produced by Jacques Mélo Kane, Mamadou Sarr and Paulin Soumanou Vieyra in 1955.
Fabiola
1949 film directed by Alessandro Blasetti
Cela s'appelle l'aurore
1955 film by Luis Buñuel
Tih Minh
1918 film
The American Beauty
1961 film by Robert Dhéry
Crainquebille
Crainquebille is a 1922 French silent film directed by Jacques Feyder. The film was known as Bill in the US and as Old Bill of Paris and Coster Bill of Paris in the UK. The restored film is now known for its cinematic realism compared to many other films of the silent era . It is based on the 1901 novel ''L'Affaire Crainquebille by Anatole France, which was later adapted into a 1934 sound film Crainquebille''.
Jean Taris, Swimming Champion
1931 film by Jean Vigo
Faces of Children
1925 film by Jacques Feyder
Le portrait spirituel
1903 film by Georges Méliès
The Tango Lesson
1997 film by Sally Potter
The Last Billionaire
1934 film by René Clair
Confessions of a Cheat
1936 film by Sacha Guitry
The Clown with the Portable Body
1901 film by Georges Méliès
The Mask of Horror
1912 film by Abel Gance
La Marie du port
1950 French film directed by Marcel Carné
The Cook's Revenge
1900 film by Georges Méliès
A Man Named Rocca
1961 film by Jean Becker
Miracles Only Happen Once
1951 film by Yves Allégret
Prix de Beauté
1930 film by Augusto Genina
Emile's Boat
1962 film by Denys de La Patellière
The Cabinet of Mephistopheles
1897 film by Georges Méliès
Caltiki – The Immortal Monster
1959 film by Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda