Cast: Simone Signoret

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Simone Signoret · Véra Clouzot · Paul Meurisse · Charles Vanel

Synopsis In Diabolique (1955), the fragile wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistreated mistress conspire to murder him at a secluded house. After executing their plan, the body mysteriously vanishes, plunging them into paranoia. Strange occurrences and eerie sightings suggest...

Direction Chris Marker · Pierre Lhomme

Cast Chris Marker · Yves Montand · Simone Signoret

Synopsis Documentary about Paris and the attitudes of Parisians at the height of the Algerian crisis.

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Claude Dauphin · Raymond Bussières

Synopsis In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of them, Marie, aka "Casque d'Or" (Golden Helmet) meets Manda, a carpenter. Her man Roland belongs to the jealous kind, and Leca himself has...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Anton Walbrook · Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Simone Simon

Synopsis An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Lino Ventura · Simone Signoret · Paul Meurisse · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis Army of Shadows is an intimate epic of the French Resistance in WWII. France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a...

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Simone Signoret · Laurence Harvey · Heather Sears · Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in...

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Simone Signoret · Raf Vallone · Roland Lesaffre · Jacques Duby

Synopsis Therese has a boring life. She married Camille, her cousin, a sickly haberdasher, fully dominated by his mother (who lives with them). She dreams about passion. One day comes a truck driver, Laurent... and of course they fall in love....

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · Gabriele Ferzetti · Michel Vitold

Synopsis Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. Will be shown the mental tortures during the investigations and...

Direction Pierre Granier-Deferre

Cast Jean Gabin · Simone Signoret · Annie Cordy · Jacques Rispal

Synopsis Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he...

Direction Antonio Pietrangeli

Cast Simone Signoret · Marcello Mastroianni · Gina Rovere · Sandra Milo

Synopsis Four prostitutes must give up the oldest profession in the world when Italy passes a law banning brothels. Left to explore other employment opportunities they decide to open a restaurant, but their resumes get in the way. The story begins...

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · Artur London

Direction Patrick Jeudy

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Yves Montand · Simone Signoret

Direction René Clément

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Charles Boyer · Leslie Caron · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis August 1944. The French and American armies are nearing the French capital. Hitler orders one of his generals to retain control of the city or else destroy it. After the massacre of some students, Colonel Rol incites the public to...

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · François Périer · Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot (Yves Montand) is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia (Stefania...

Direction Raymond Rouleau

Cast Simone Signoret · Yves Montand · Mylène Demongeot · Alfred Adam

Synopsis Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John...

Direction Yves Allégret

Cast Simone Signoret · Bernard Blier · Marcello Pagliero · Marcel Dalio

Synopsis Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Dane Clark · Simone Signoret · Fernand Gravey · Robert Duke

Synopsis This gripping 'lost' gangster movie (finally being released on DVD, having never been theatrically released in the U.S.) was filmed in Paris by acclaimed noir director Frank Tuttle (THIS GUN FOR HIRE, THE GLASS KEY). It stars Dane Clark as...

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Laurence Olivier · Simone Signoret · Sarah Miles · Terence Stamp

Synopsis Graham Weir (Laurence Olivier) is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career. He is looked upon with disdain by his headmaster, his...

Direction Jeanne Burel · Nicolas Maupied

Cast Jill Balcon · Michael Balcon Productions · Kenneth Branagh · Marlon Brando

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Arletty · Marie Déa · Fernand Ledoux · Alain Cuny

Synopsis At the end of the 15th century, two minstrels Gilles and Dominique come from nowhere into the castle of Baron Hugues. Gilles charms Anne, Hughes' daughter, while Dominique charms both Hugues and Ann's fiance. Gilles and Dominique are not really...