How to Steal a Million (1966)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
Romantic comedy about a woman who must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries, and the man who helps her.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Griffith, Eli Wallach, Charles Boyer, Marcel Dalio
Director: William Wyler
Sabrina (1954)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, Martha Hyer, Marcel Dalio
Director: Billy Wilder
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
A powerhouse cast – including Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Ava Gardner – and exotic settings ranging from the African veldt to 1920s Paris to the bullrings and battlefields of Spain highlight this big-scale production, Ernest Hemingway's short story masterpiece come to glorious life. One of the box-office blockbusters of 1952, The Snows of Kilimanjaro garnered rave reviews as well as two Oscar® nominations. Gregory Peck plays Harry Street, a frustrated author/big game hunter who lies dying in the shadow of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, reliving his life, adventures, ambitions, frustrations…and many loves. Wounded both in his leg and in his spirit, Street lapses in and out of consciousness while memories of his love life pass before his eyes: from the spoiled countess who sought to possess him to the one who loved but left him, taking his spark of life with her long before he set foot on Kilimanjaro.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Leo G. Carroll, Torin Thatcher, Marcel Dalio
Director: Henry King, Roy Ward Baker
On the Riviera (1951)
Comedy | Musical
Jack Martin (Danny Kaye), an American entertainer working cabarets on the French Riviera, does an impersonation of philandering industrialist Henri Duran (Kaye, again) so convincingly that even Duran's beautiful wife (Gene Tierney) is fooled by it. When Duran's business interests compel him to be in London when he should be hosting a large soiree at his home, Martin is persuaded to impersonate Duran at the party. But matters threaten to get out of hand when Martin (as Duran) is confronted by several of the philanderer's women, and by Duran's ruthless business rival, M. Periton (Jean Murat).
Starring: Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet, Marcel Dalio, Jean Murat, Henri Letondal
Director: Walter Lang
Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob / The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Comedy
In this French comedy, Louis de Funès stars as Victor Pivert, a hopelessly bigoted man. Victor loves people, as long as they're Caucasian, French, and Catholic. But when it comes to foreigners, Victor draws the line. His ultimate nightmare becomes a reality the day of his daughter's wedding, when he stumbles across a group of Arab revolutionaries and is forced into hiding as a rabbi. Gerard Oury's film features an onslaught of hilarious chase sequences.
Starring: Louis de Funès, Suzy Delair, Claude Giraud, Miou-Miou, Marcel Dalio
Director: Gérard Oury
L'aile ou la cuisse / The Wing or Thigh? (1976)
Comedy | Family
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
Starring: Louis de Funès, Coluche, Julien Guiomar, Claude Gensac, Marcel Dalio
Director: Claude Zidi
Classe tous risques / Classe Tous Risques (1960)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children despite a death sentence hanging over his head. Accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo, fresh off his star turn in Breathless) and beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that's both throat grabbing and soul searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope, this rugged noir from Claude Sautet (Un coeur en hiver) is a thrilling highlight of sixties French cinema.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio
Director: Claude Sautet
Grand Illusion / La Grande Illusion (1937)
Drama | War
Jean Renoir's pacifist masterpiece stars Jean Gabin as a French World War I POW held by Erich Von Stroheim's German captain.
Starring: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio
Director: Jean Renoir
The Rules of the Game / La règle du jeu (1939)
Comedy | Drama
Director Jean Renoir's look at bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II follows an assorted cast of characters – the rich and their poor servants – as they interact at a French chateau.
Starring: Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Odette Talazac, Marcel Dalio
Director: Jean Renoir
