Murder in Provence

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful ...

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Jean Renoir

Cast

Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

J. Lee Thompson

Cast

Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Sharon Tate

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

Runtime

2h 31m

Director

King Vidor

Cast

John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth

Inspired by three Henry James short stories, this is the story of a World War I veteran who works as an obituary writer at the newspaper. Worshipping his deceased wife, he is obsessed with the dead people in his life and soon intends to build a memorial to all of them.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

François Truffaut

Cast

Jean Dasté, Patrick Maléon, Nathalie Baye

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin

Cast

Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli