Jacques Becker

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

The police superintendent may be good-natured but he has got a lot on his plate with all the witnesses that come to make a statement before him. They...

Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and...

A young French woman inherits her uncle's property in Algeria, and finds herself plotted against by her envious cousins, but also romanced by a...

Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of...

François Chotard, wholesale grocer, gives his daughter in marriage to Julien Collinet, a writer who prefers dreaming to working, a situation...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class...

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Episode of the French television series about the work of film director Jacques Becker. (A 27-minute excerpt from this show appears on the Criterion...

Silent footage shot on the set of CASQUE D’OR provides a glimpse of film director Jacques Becker at work.