Marcel Poncin

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Golden Salamander
5.8

Golden Salamander

Feb 01, 1950
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
Crime
The Lost People
5.7

The Lost People

Aug 22, 1949
Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
War
The Huggetts Abroad
6.6

The Huggetts Abroad

Mar 21, 1949
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Comedy
Lilli Marlene
5.6

Lilli Marlene

Dec 08, 1950
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Drama
Song of Paris
5.5

Song of Paris

Feb 10, 1952
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Comedy
Si Paris l'avait su
6.7

Si Paris l'avait su

May 31, 1950
Une jeune femme rend visite à Paris avec son frère pour découvrir le lendemain matin, il a disparu et le personnel de l'hôtel ne me souviens pas de sa présence.
Mystery
Judgment Deferred
6

Judgment Deferred

Feb 01, 1952
A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.
Crime
Melba
1

Melba

Aug 07, 1953
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
Drama
Saadia
5

Saadia

Dec 01, 1953
Dans le Sahara marocain, le caïd Sil Hassein aide Enrique, un médecin français, à gagner la confiance des habitants de la région. Celui-ci désenvoute Saadia, une jeune fille qui accepte de travailler pour lui. Un vaccin provenant de France est dérobé par une tribu ennemie, alors que la peste envahit le pays. Saadia récupère la cargaison médicale en tuant Bouretza, chef de la tribu adverse. Mais les membres de celle-ci poursuivent la jeune fille et cernent Hassein et Enrique...
Adventure
Les Chaussons rouges
8

Les Chaussons rouges

Sep 06, 1948
Vicky, danseuse, et Julian, compositeur, sont engagés dans une troupe de ballet. Tyrannique, le directeur pousse Vicky à s'identifier à l'héroïne du ballet "Les Chaussons rouges". Elle y sacrifie tout, même son amour pour Julian.
Drama
Les amants passionnés
6.9
Les amants passionnés étaient amoureux lorsqu'ils étaient jeunes, mais depuis se sont séparés. Elle a épousé un homme plus âgé. Puis Mary Justin revoit Steven Stratton et ils font une dernière folie ensemble dans les Alpes.
Drama
Madness of the Heart
5.9

Madness of the Heart

Dec 20, 1949
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
Romance
Night Without Stars
6.7

Night Without Stars

Apr 03, 1951
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
Crime
A Day to Remember
7.2

A Day to Remember

Nov 10, 1953
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
Comedy
Bedelia
5.2

Bedelia

Jul 08, 1946
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
Drama
The Blind Goddess
5.6

The Blind Goddess

Sep 14, 1948
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
Drama
Johnny Frenchman
6

Johnny Frenchman

Oct 29, 1945
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
Comedy
Le Voyage fantastique
6.9

Le Voyage fantastique

Jun 28, 1951
Un savant qui travaille pour l’aéronavale britannique à mis au point un nouvel avion de combat révolutionnaire. Mais, suspectant soudain un grave défaut de fabrication, il tente de convaincre ses supérieurs de procéder à de nouveaux essais. Le Reindeer fait escale à l’aéroport de Gander pour un contrôle technique qui ne détecte rien d’anormal. Désespéré à l’idée que l’avion va repartir sans autre précaution, Honey n’hésite pas à coucher le train d’atterrissage de l’appareil alors qu’il est au sol, ce qui provoque l’affaissement du fuselage sur le tarmac et endommage l’avion. Choqués par cet acte de vandalisme, quelques passagers demandent son interpellation…
Drama