Madeleine Renaud
Lucie Madeleine Renaud (French: [ʁəno]; 21 February 1900 – 23 September 1994) was a French actress best remembered for her work in the theatre. She did though appear in several films directed by Jean Grémillon including Remorques (Stormy Waters, 1941) and Lumière d'été (Summer... Read full bio →
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Le diable par la queue
Une famille de nobles desargentes, de connivence avec le garagiste du coin, s'arrange pour que les voyageurs de passage tombent en panne et fassent escale dans leur chateau. Un jour un trio insolite debarque. Ce sont en fait les auteurs d'un hold-up et la famille voudrait bien s'approprier le fruit de leur labeur.
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach.
Le ciel est à vous
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
Lumière d'été
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.
Remorques
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
Maria Chapdelaine
A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
Le tunnel
An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction.