# The best French films of the 1950s

Les Diaboliques, The Wages of Fear, A Man Escaped, Mon Oncle and The 400 Blows: the French productions of the 1950s rated highest by AlloCiné viewers.

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- Jun 29, 2024 · celine_episode
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## Top 15

1. **The 400 Blows (1959)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — François Truffaut. Antoine Doinel, a founding film of the New Wave.
2. **A Man Escaped (1956)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Robert Bresson. A Resistance fighter's escape from Montluc prison.
3. **Beauty and the Devil (1950)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — René Clair. Michel Simon and Gérard Philipe in a Faust story.
4. **The Wages of Fear (1953)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Henri-Georges Clouzot. Yves Montand and trucks of nitroglycerine. Palme d'Or.
5. **Deadlier Than the Male (1956)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Julien Duvivier. Jean Gabin as a restaurant owner at Les Halles.
6. **Manon of the Spring (1952)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Marcel Pagnol. Jacqueline Pagnol as a shepherdess in the hills.
7. **Les Diaboliques (1955)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Henri-Georges Clouzot. Simone Signoret and Véra Clouzot, a boarding school and a corpse.
8. **Orpheus (1950)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean Cocteau. Jean Marais passes through mirrors.
9. **Poison (1951)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sacha Guitry. Michel Simon wants to get rid of his wife.
10. **The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Max Ophuls. Danielle Darrieux and a pair of earrings.
11. **La Traversée de Paris (1956)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Claude Autant-Lara. Bourvil and Gabin carry a pig across occupied Paris.
12. **Mon Oncle (1958)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jacques Tati. Monsieur Hulot and the Arpels' modern villa.
13. **Topaze (1951)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Marcel Pagnol. Fernandel as a schoolteacher turned wheeler-dealer.
14. **Knock (1951)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Guy Lefranc. Louis Jouvet as a doctor who makes everyone ill.
15. **Le Plaisir (1952)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Max Ophuls. Three tales by Maupassant.

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