Films starring
Simone Signoret

The Deadly Affair

1966, Sidney Lumet, DVD

Two inspectors investigate the killing of an ex-Communist government official in this thriller featuring strong performances (as ever) from Mason, and an engagingly mysterious turn from Simone Signoret as the murdered man's wife. Based on John Le ...

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Therese Raquin

1953, Marcel Carne, DVD

Carne updates Zola's scandalous 19th century tale of forbidden love and murder to 1950s France. Simone Signoret plays Therese, the bored wife of a feeble husband, who spends her days looking after her spiteful mother-in-law's draper's shop. Then o...

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The Jean-Pierre Melville Collection

1961-72, Jean-Pierre Melville, DVD

Collection of six classic films from acclaimed French director, Jean-Pierre Melville. 'Army of Shadows' (1969) is based on the novel by Joseph Kessel. Drawing on the director's own experiences in World War II, the film follows a band of resista...

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Army of Shadows

1969, Jean-Pierre Melville, DVD

Melville's gripping adaptation of Joseph Kessel's seminal wartime novel has been praised as one of the greatest and the most authentic film portrayals of the French Resistance. The film follows a band of Resistance fighters living under German-con...

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Casque d'Or

1952, Jacques Becker, DVD

Starring international sex symbol Simone Signoret, Casque D'Or is often considered director Jacques Becker's masterpiece. Becker was an assistant to the legendary Jean Renoir, and Renoir's influence on Becker is readily apparent in this poetic, im...

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Les Diaboliques

1954, Henri-Georges Clouzot, DVD+Blu-ray

After the success of The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot cemented his reputation with his masterpiece, the brilliantly dark thriller Les Diaboliques, which was an acknowledged influence on Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick among others, an...

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La Ronde

1950, Max Ophuls, DVD

Anton Walbrook is the enigmatic, omnipotent master of ceremonies guiding us through a series of amorous encounters in the Vienna of 1900. One fleeting moment links to the next, partners change and the dance goes on, turning like the waltz and the ...

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Flesh of the Orchid

1975, Patrice Chereau, DVD

A dark, erotic thriller set in a world of grotesque characters, bizarre incidents, brutal murders and incessant driving rain, Flesh of the Orchid stars Charlotte Rampling as an emotionally disturbed young woman who is heir to a great fortune but i...

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Room at the Top

1959, Jack Clayton, DVD

Set in the socially restrictive climate of 1950s Yorkshire, Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top, which chronicled Joe Lampton's odyssey to make good by impregnating a rich girl, thereby gaining access to her class and status, was groundbreaking cinema....

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Against The Wind

1947, Charles Crichton, DVD

Thoughtful, tense Ealing wartime thriller about a traitor in the ranks of a group being trained for sabotage missions. Characteristically well-made and well-shot, as you would expect from Crichton.

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Gunman in the Streets

1950, Frank Tuttle, DVD

A 1950s film noir following fugitive Eddy Roback (Dane Clark) as he attempts to raise funds to cross the border between France and Belgium. While en route to court, army absconder-turned-criminal Roback manages to escape when a gun fight breaks ou...

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Charade

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Ship of Fools

1965, Stanley Kramer, DVD

A microcosm of the world is revealed in this intricately-woven tale set aboard a German ocean liner in the 1930s as Nazism is on the rise. In the luxury section are the well-to-dos, while below deck are the sugar cane workers returning to Spain af...

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Little Dorrit (Book and Postcards)

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Adua e Le Compagne

1960, Antonio Pietrangeli, DVD

After their bordello is closed, four prostitutes decide to set themselves up in a trattoria. They need the backing of a sleazy fixer in order to get things off the ground. Conflict arises when the business doesn't make enough money to meet his exc...

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