Pierre Bost

A Sunday in the Country (1984)

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often. ...

The Judge and the Assassin (1976)

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders ma ...

The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974)

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought ...

Le Château perdu (1973)

In 1662, ten years after the Fronde, King Louis XIV, then aged 24, was still feeling the insult. When the name of Baron de Fargues came to his ears, the king unleashed a blind vengeance against this amnestied former rebel. But Louise de La Vallière, Louis ...

Franciscan of Bourges (1968)

Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance members. Albert tries to maintain the delicate balance between the warring factions by helping out the afflicted ...

Black Humor (1965)

A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a "magic act" performed by an amateur. A strange widow comes to inquire about the services of a new marriag ...

This Special Friendship (1964)

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set within the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school. ...

Enough Rope (1963)

Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1954 novel The Blunderer. ...

Crime Does Not Pay (1962)

A man walks into a movie theater in Paris and starts watching a film—the same one we're watching, consisting of four stories of best criminal intentions gone awry from the Middle Ages to the present day. ...

Rendezvous (1961)

A soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale. ...

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961)

At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion. ...

The Joy of Living (1961)

Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him). ...

The Regattas of San Francisco (1960)

A teenager who suffers from his mother's escapades imagines the life of his father in San Francisco. ...

Way of Youth (1959)

This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving. ...

The Gambler (1958)

In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers that his employer is a compulsive gambler who has been ...

Love Is My Profession (1958)

Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him. ...

La Traversée de Paris (1956)

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris. ...

Gervaise (1956)

An adaptation of Émile Zola's 1877 masterpiece L'assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress's struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business. ...

The Little Rebels (1955)

Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Judge Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile jail. ...

Le Rouge et le Noir (1954)

It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control. ...

Daughters of Destiny (1954)

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy. ...

The Game of Love (1954)

Friends since infancy, two youngsters struggle as their platonic bond blossoms into romantic love with adolescence. ...

The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic. ...

Voice of Silence (1953)

The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the "House of Silence". For three days, they meditate on their lives. ...

Forbidden Games (1952)

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as the ...

The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony. ...

The Red Inn (1951)

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. ...

The Glass Castle (1950)

Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy. ...

God Needs Men (1950)

The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis. ...

Keep an Eye on Amelia (1949)

A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake marriage for inheritance. Complications arise as a prince enters the scene, pursuing her romantically. ...

The Walls of Malapaga (1949)

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter. ...

The Seventh Door (1947)

An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key into the ...

Devil in the Flesh (1947)

In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles ...

Homeland (1946)

Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to help Prince William of Orange to get into the city and come to pow ...

Pastoral Symphony (1946)

A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son. ...

The Liberation of Paris (1944)

French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944. ...

Douce (1943)

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class differ ...

Madame et le mort (1943)

A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom? ...

A Star to the Sun (1943)

Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble character who wants to teach her how to live, she succumbs after a time of anger, to the charms of the ge ...

The Trump Card (1942)

A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1. ...

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma (2010)