Raymond Bussières

Starring the great Simone Signoret as an unforgettable femme fatale and Serge Reggiani, it is one of the greatest films about the Belle Époque and a true masterpiece of French cinema.

William Holden portrays a screenwriter with a script deadline in three days. When he asks secretary Audrey Hepburn to help concoct ideas, she acts out a potpourri of preposterous plots.

After being exiled by Romania’s new communist regime, Dracula and his adult son part ways into the modern world only to reunite in a love triangle.

Four convicts serving time together attempt to break out of prison, but find their escape and its aftermath fraught with problems.

Gregory Fitzgerald (Steve Forrest) is on his way to join the priesthood in Austria when he meets and falls in love with Monica Johnson (Anne Baxter). After he rescues her from the mob, Monica realizes she loves him, too – and just what that love might mean for his future. Neophyte priest Fitzgerald is soon lost in a labyrinth of lust and lies as he tries to chart a course to save his love. Shot on location in Paris in CinemaScope by the legendary cinematographer Freddie Young ("Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago"), "Bedevilled" shines a sweeping spotlight not only on the charms of leading lady Anne Baxter but on the grandeur and glamour that is the City of Lights.

The last of the celebrated collaborations between director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert (CHILDREN OF PARADISE) unfolds in a dreamily beautiful vision of a wintry, nocturnal Paris shortly after the city’s postwar liberation. It’s there that Jean Diego (Yves Montand in one of his first film roles), a former member of the French underground Resistance, has an encounter with destiny as he meets a long-lost comrade, villains of the war, a prophetic tramp, and a beautiful woman who will draw him into an inexorable tragedy. A richly allegorical evocation of a country reckoning with the guilt and national trauma of World War II and the occupation, LES PORTES DE LA NUIT (“The Gates of the Night”) was a tough sell for postwar audiences looking for escapism, but it can now be appreciated for both its haunting atmosphere and unique fusion of poetic fantasy and bitter reality.

A chimney sweep and a shepherdess seek to escape from the clutches of a tyrannical king.