Synopsis:
Lydia is a law student who, although she has many admirers, is struggling to make ends meet. With no family to help her, she turns to her friend Alice. The latter proposes a scheme that will allow Lydia to make some easy money. All she has to do is to pay a visit to the writer Jacques Ferny and pretend to be the daughter he has been looking for. With the help of an old letter, Lydia succeeds in winning Ferny’s confidence, but his wife is suspicious and starts her own inquiry…

Abus de confiance (1937) -- Henri Decoin.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Russian (muxed), French

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Detective Marco is assigned to investigate a murder that has occurred at an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls. The victim is a popular, wealthy girl found strangled in her bed. The school director tells Marco she expects him to find the killer outside of the school, and she bristles at his insistent interrogations of the school staff and the students. Marco learns that two sadistic games were played the night of the murder and that the victim had been tied up. There are a number of suspects, including a teacher with an unnatural affection for one of the girls; a suspicious Spanish gentleman at the town-inn, and some of the pupils themselves.

Dortoir des grandes (1953, 1080P, IPTV).mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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The Marquise de Montespan is a scheming adventuress who hopes to become the favoured mistress to King Louis XIV of France to advance her social status. However, she is thwarted by the young Angélique de Fontanges, who is the King’s current favourite. Out of desperation, the Marquise de Montespan engages the services of a professional poisoner, the venomous La Voisin, to render her rival ugly. The potion unfortunately kills the young Angélique, and the royal court is thrown into turmoil…

L'affaire des poisons.1955.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Subtitles:English, French

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An aging musketeer is called out of retirement to help a king in this comic swashbuckler. The king’s twin brother is freed after twenty years in an iron mask. He is to be used as a decoy for the monarch while the real king and his court roust some rebels to foil their insurgent uprising. D’Artagnan (Jean Marais) leads the way with his expert fencing to aid in the royal flush.

	
Le Masque de Fer.1962.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:French,English

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Synopsis (possible spoilers):

‘A port swathed in dense fog sees the coming and going of boats all day. During the night, Maloin is the man who controls the trains that transport goods to and from the port. One evening, he sees a man get off the boat from London and hand his suitcase to another man who has been waiting for him. Unaware that Maloin is watching them, the two men get into a fight, which ends with one of them falling into the water with the suitcase. As the other man flees, Maloin dives in and recovers the suitcase. To his surprise, it is full of money. Back home, he tells nothing about this to his wife and daughter but hints that they will soon have a better life. What follows will prove otherwise…’
– Willems Henri

1.03GB | 1h 34m | 608×448 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/66E4FDC1D842FD1/L’homme.de.Londres.1943.XviD.avi
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
Gérard Favier is a famous composer who has been married to the charming Sylvia for almost 20 years. Still deeply in love, they walk the streets of Paris and, one day, they hear a sonata that Gérard once wrote, played on a piano in a house. Gérard is surprised to find that the piano player is a 20 year-old girl named Monelle. Impressed by her talent, Gérard decides to adopt Monelle as his protégé, but very soon his interest in her takes a less paternalistic turn. It is through a gossip magazine that Sylvia learns about her husband’s infidelity but she is uncertain how to react. After all, he did write a new song for her, “Lovers are alone in the world…

2.69GB | 1h 40m | 790×576 | mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French (muxed)

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From frenchfilms.org

Georges Simenon’s 1940 novel Les Inconnus dans la maison is a brooding study in social breakdown and youth disaffection that contains a powerful critique of western society of the 1940s. The same can equally be said of Henri Decoin’s magnificent film adaptation, one of the earliest and most successful attempts to bring Simenon’s bleak, melancholic world to the big screen. This was the second film that Decoin made for the German-run film company Continental-Films during the Nazi Occupation of France and it could hardly be more different in tone and subject from his first, the American-style romantic comedy Premier rendez-vous (1941).

Henri Decoin is rightly considered to be one of French cinema’s most versatile filmmakers, although for much of his career he was best known for his lightweight comedies. Les Inconnus dans la maison shows us a very different side of Decoin, darker, more pessimistic, more conscious of the grim realities of real life. Arguably Decoin’s best film, it is matched only by his even more gloomy La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (1952), another superb Simenon adaptation. The opening sequence, a slow tracking shot down the darkened, weather-beaten streets of a provincial town, draws us into a darkly oppressive and sinister place that is eerily evocative not only of Simenon’s fictional world but also of France under the Nazi Occupation.

There were two subsequent versions of Simenon’s novel – Pierre Rouve’s A Stranger in the House (1967) and Georges Lautner’s L’Inconnu dans la maison – but neither comes anywhere near the brilliance of Decoin’s film, which excels in two areas: its screenwriting and a remarkable central performance from Raimu. The script was supplied by Henri-Georges Clouzot who, like Decoin, had started his career working on French versions of films in German studios during the 1920s. Clouzot’s official role at Continental was to oversee the scripts, but he had the opportunity to script and, ultimately, direct films, most notably Le Corbeau (1943). Les Inconnus dans la maison has much in common with Le Corbeau – both are chillingly atmospheric pieces that eloquently record the gloom of the Occupation years whilst offering up the most sour critique of contemporary French society. Both films were subsequently judged to be Pétainist and banned immediately after the Liberation. When it was later re-released in France, Les Inconnus dans la maison suffered the further indignity of a clumsy re-dub in which the name Ephraïm was replaced with Amédée to avoid being labelled anti-Semitic.

In a performance that is now judged to be one of his finest, Raimu grabs our attention right from his first scene and he doesn’t let us out of his thrall until the last shot (in which he delivers the only humorous line in the film). With his penchant for moody introspection, Raimu is perfect Simenon material, and it seems bizarre that he was never called upon to play the Belgian writer’s most famous character, Jules Maigret. On paper, the failed lawyer Maître Loursat is a pathetic and contradictory character, but Raimu gives him a dignity and humanity that allows him to stand out as the one moral figure in a world that is mired in decadence, deceit and corruption. In the set-piece courtroom scene (which is incidentally one of the best of its kind), Raimu has his finest hour, as his character breaks into an impassionate tirade of moral indignation against a bourgeois mindset that is too eager to attribute all of society’s ills to the young.

And this is essentially what the film is about: how the young are seen and judged by their elders. Les Inconnus dans la maison has nothing to say about the Occupation but it has a great deal to say about the way in which the older generation reneges on its responsibilities to the young and blames them for all that is wrong in society. (The ‘strangers’ in the film’s title alludes not to the unwelcome Nazis but to the disenfranchised offspring of the self-interested middle-classes.) One of the first films to depict the rift between the generations, it anticipates the upsurge in youth culture in the 1950s and consequently has an unnervingly modern edge to it, dealing as it does with social issues that are as pertinent today as they were when the film was made. In his powerful speech, Maître Loursat attributes the generational schism to the selfishness of the bourgeoisie, a class that is far more preoccupied with appearances and their own material comforts than traditional family values.

Loursat’s speech resonates loudly with Vichyist sentiment but it contains more than a grain of truth, as has been borne out by the ever-expanding divide between the generations over the ensuing decades. The disintegration of the nuclear family and resultant breakdown in societal cohesion are the product of increasing affluence, a creeping moral decay that not even Pétain, with the might of Nazi Germany behind him, could arrest. Whilst it may have an obvious pro-Vichy slant, Les Inconnus dans la maison is nonetheless a perceptive and prescient commentary on the decline of the family in the latter half of the 20th century, and Loursat’s heartfelt plea to society to show greater compassion and understanding towards the young still has a profound resonance. Of the 30 films made by Continental, this is the one which has most relevance to today’s audience – indeed it is hard to think of a 1940s French film that is more relevant.

6.86GB | 1 h 36 min | 1480×1080 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/4DF76E18E29D925/Les_inconnus_dans_la_maison_(Strangers_in_the_House)_-_1942_-_Henri_Decoin_1080p.mkv

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