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Timeline of Pivotal French Film Noir Le Garçon Sauvage (Savage Triangle) Timeline Jean Delannoy Ascenseur Pour l’Echafaud´ La Nuit est Mon Royaume Les Diaboliques (Elevator to the Gallows) L’Accident of Pivotal (Night is My Kingdom) (Diabolique) Louis Malle Edmond T. Greville Georges Lacombe Henri-Georges Clouzot Une Manche et la Belle Chair de Poule French Film Noir Ombre et Lumière Le Dossier Noir (Kiss for a Killer) (Highway Pick Up) Henri Calef (The Black File) Henri Verneuil La Bête à l’Affût Julien Duvivier Le Diable au Corps La Passante André Cayatte Méfiez-Vous Fillettes Pierre Chenal Le Glaive et la Balance (Devil in the Flesh) Henri Calef Du Rififi Chez les Hommes (Young Girls Beware) Deux Homes dans Manhattan (The Sword and the Balance) Claude Autant-Lara Au-dela des Grilles (Rififi) Yves Allégret (Two Men in Manhattan) André Cayatte Les Maudits (The Walls of Malapaga) Bonnes a Tuer Jules Dassin Quand la Femme S’En Mêle Jean-Pierre Melville Mélodie en Sous-Sol René Clément René Clément (One Step to Eternity) La Lumière d’En Face (Send a Woman J'Irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes (Any Number Can Win) Miroir Au P’tit Zouave Henri Decoin (The Light Across the Street) When the Devil Fails) (I Spit On Your Graves) Henri Verneuil Raymond Lamy Gilles Grangier Leur Dernière Nuit Georges Lacombe Yves Allégret Michel Gast Le Meurtrier Non Coupable Au Royaume des Cieux (Their Last Night) Razzia Sur la Chnouf Reproduction Interdite Pickpocket (Enough Rope) (W. Germany) (Not Guilty) (The Sinners) Georges Lacombe (Raid on the Drug Ring) (The Schemer) Robert Bresson Claude Autant-Lara Henri Decoin Julien Duvivier Quand tu Liras Cette Lettre Henri Decoin Gilles Grangier Les Scélérats Symphonie Pour un Massacre Panique (Panic) Les Eaux Troubles (When You Read This Letter) Bob le Flambeur Le Rouge est Mis (The Wretches) (Symphony for a Massacre) Julien Duvivier Henri Calef Jean-Pierre Melville (Bob the Gambler) (The Red Light Is On, Robert Hossein Jacques Deray Quai des Orfèvres Entre Onze Heures et Minuit Le Salaire de la Peur Jean-Pierre Melville or Speaking of Murder) Un Témoin dans la Ville (Jenny Lamour) (Between Eleven and Midnight) (Wages of Fear) Gilles Grangier (Witness in the City) Henri-Georges Clouzot Henri Decoin Henri-Georges Clouzot Tous Peuvent Me Tuer ´Edouard Molinaro Par un Beau Matin d’Eté Un Homme Marche dans la Ville Suivez cet Homme (Anyone Can Kill Me) Le Trou (The Hole) ´ Le Corbeau (The Raven) (Crime on a Summer Morning) (A Man Walks in the City) Georges Lampin Henri Decoin Jacques Becker Henri-Georges Clouzot Jacques Deray L’Homme de Londres Marcello Pagliero Thérèse Raquin Trois Jours à Vivre Les Yeux Sans Visage (The Temptress) Piège Pour Cendrillon (The Man From London) Manon (Three Days to Live) (Eyes Without a Face) Marcel Carne (A Trap for Cinderella) Henri Decoin Henri-Georges Clouzot Gilles Grangier Georges Franju Une Si Jolie Petite Plage La Vierge du Rhin Les Violents La Mort de Belle André Cayatte Le Dernier des Six (Such a Pretty Little Beach) (Rhine Virgin) (The Violent Ones) (The Passion of Slow Fire) Georges Lacombe Yves Allégret Gilles Grangier Henri Calef ´Edouard Molinaro 1961 1941 1951 1965 1959 1953 1955 1957 1949 1947 1943 1963 1942 1946 1948 1950 1952 1964 1954 1956 1958 1960 1962 La Fille du Diable Justice est Faite Un Condamné à La Chambre Ardente Henri Decoin (Justice is Done) Mort s’est´ Eschappé La Chatte (The Cat) (The Burning Court) La Foire Aux Chimères André Cayatte (A Man Escaped) Henri Decoin Chien de Pique Julien Duvivier (Devil and Angel) Manèges (The Cheat) Robert Bresson Le Désordre et la Nuit (Jack of Spades) Le Combat dans Lile Pierre Chenal Yves Allégret Crime et Chatiment (The Night Affair) Yves Allegrét (Fire and Ice) Macadam La Souricere (Crime and Punishment) Gilles Grangier Classe Tous Risques Alain Cavalier L’Insoumis (Back Streets of Paris) Henri Calef Georges Lampin Le Dos au Mur (The Big Risk) Le Doulos (The Unvanquished) Jacques Feyder, Casque d’Or Je Plaide Non Coupable (Back to the Wall) Claude Sautet (The Finger Man) Alain Cavalier Marcel Blistene Jacques Becker (Guilty?) (Britain) ´Edouard Molinaro Un Plein Soleil Jean-Pierre Melville La Mort d’Un Tueur Martin Roumagnac La Minute de Vérité Edmond T. Greville ´Echec au Porteur (Purple Noon) Du Rififi a Tokyo (Death of a Killer) (The Room Upstairs) Jean Delannoy Le Salauds Vont en Enfer (Not Delivered) René Clément Jacques Deray Robert Hossein Georges Lacombe Nous Sommes Tous les Assassins (The Wicked Go to Hell) Gilles Grangier La Vérité Le Monte-Charge Les Yeux Cernés Les Portes de la Nuit (Are We All Murderers?) Robert Hossein En Cas de Malheur Henri-Georges Clouzot (Paris Pick-Up) (Marked Eyes) (Gates of Night) André Cayatte L’Affaire Maurizius Le Sang à la Tête (Love is My Profession) Marcel Bluwal Robert Hossein Marcel Carne La P… Respectueuse Julien Duvivier (Blood to the Head) Claude Autant-Lara L’oeil du Malin Marcello Pagliero, Gilles Grangier Maigret Tend un Piège (The 3rd Lover) L’Assassin A Peur La Nuit Les Amants du Tage Charles Brabant (Lovers of Lisbon) Section des Disparus (Maigret Sets a Trap) Claude Chabrol Jean Delannoy Les Condamnés La Vérité sur Bébé Donge Henri Verneuil (Argentina) Jean Delannoy Le Septième Juré Les Inconnus dans la Maison Georges Lacombe (The Truth of Our Marriage) Avant le Déluge Pierre Chenal Le Piège (The Seventh Juror) (Strangers in the House) Dédée d’Anvers Henri Decoin (Before the Deluge) Voici le Temps (No Escape) (Italy) Georges Lautner Henri Decoin (Woman of Antwerp) André Cayatte des Assassins Charles Brabant Thérèse Macao, L’Enfer du Jeu Yves Allégret Les Intrigantes (Deadlier Rafles Sur la Ville Desqueyroux (Gambling Hell) Le Dessous des Cartes (The Plotters) Than the Male) (Sinners of Paris) Georges Franju Jean Delannoy André Cayatte Henri Decoin Julien Duvivier Pierre Chenal Touchez Pas au Grisbi La Tête Contre les Murs LEGEND (Grisbi) (Head Against the Wall) Jacques Becker Georges Franju Films being screened in “The French Had A Name For It” Toi, Le Venin Other films by Directors whose films are screening in the Festival (Blonde in a White Car) Other well-known and/or notable French films noir. Robert Hossein.
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