Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
And God Created Woman | Roger Vadim | Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jurgens | Drama | |
Babes a GoGo | Paul Mesnier | Jane Sourza, Raymond Souplex | Comedy | |
Bob le flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey | Crime / drama | |
The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful | Pierre Gaspard-Huit | Brigitte Bardot, Louis Jourdan | Comedy | |
Bonjour sourire | Claude Sautet | Olga Thorel, Louis de Funès | Comedy | |
Comme un cheveu sur la soupe | Maurice Regamey | Louis de Funès, Noelle Adam | Comedy | |
Courte tête | Norbert Carbonnaux | Fernand Gravey, Louis de Funès | Comedy | |
Crime et châtiment | Georges Lampin | Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady | Crime drama | [1] |
Deadlier Than the Male | Julien Duvivier | Jean Gabin, Daniele Delorme | | |
Death in the Garden | Luis Buñuel | Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel | Drama | |
Elena and Her Men | Jean Renoir | Ingrid Bergman | Comedy / Drama | |
Gervaise | René Clément | Maria Schell, François Périer | Drama | Nominated for Oscar, +7 wins, +2 nom. |
Honoré de Marseille | Maurice Régamey | Fernandel, Rellys, Andrex | Musical comedy | [2] |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Jean Delanoy | Anthony Quinn, Gina Lollobrigida | Drama / Horror | |
If All the Guys in the World | Christian-Jaque | André Valmy | Adventure / Drama | 3 wins |
If Paris Were Told to Us | Sacha Guitry | Françoise Arnoul | Comedy / Drama | |
L'homme aux clefs d'or | Léo Joannon | Pierre Fresnay, Annie Girardot | Comedy Drama | [3] |
L'homme et l'enfant | Raoul André | Eddie Constantine, Juliette Greco | Crime / comedy | [4] |
La Bande à papa | Guy Lefranc | Fernand Raynaud, Louis de Funès | Comedy | |
La Traversée de Paris | Claude Autant-Lara | Jean Gabin, Bourvil | Comedy / Drama | |
Le Couturier de ces dames | Jean Boyer | Fernandel, Suzy Delair | Comedy | [5] |
Le pays d'où je viens | Marcel Carné | Gilbert Becaud, Françoise Arnoul | Comedy | [6] |
Le sang à la tête | Gilles Grangier | Jean Gabin, Renee Faure | Drama | [7] |
A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | François Leterrier | Adventure drama | Nominated for BAFTA, +2 wins, +1 nom. |
Marie Antoinette Queen of France | Jean Delannoy | Michèle Morgan, Richard Todd | Historical | Entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival |
Mémoires d'un flic | Pierre Foucaud, Andre Hunebelle | Michel Simon, Suzy Prim | Crime | [8] |
Le Mystere Picasso | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Pablo Picasso | Documentary | |
Naughty Girl | Michel Boisrond | Brigitte Bardot | Musical | |
Plucking the Daisy | Marc Allégret | Brigitte Bardot, Daniel Gélin | Comedy | |
The Red Balloon | Albert Lamorisse | Pascal Lamorisse | Fantasy (short) | Won Oscar, +3 wins |
The Road to Paradise | Willi Forst, Hans Wolff | Georges Guétary, Christine Carère, Claude Farell | Comedy | |
The Silent World | Jacques-Yves Cousteau Louis Malle | | Documentary | Won Oscar, +3 wins, +1 nomination |
La Sorcière | André Michel | Marina Vladi | Drama | Entered into the 6th Berlin International Film Festival |