L'Inconnu / 1973

The descent into hell begins for Edouard, a disillusioned marginal, when he loses his job, and his wife leaves with his son. His meeting with a mysterious stranger, who claims to work for the secret services, leads him to commit the irreparable. Was it a trap or just a symptom of his madness? There is doubt...

The Stranger / 2007

Yvan, forty, finds his life thrown into turmoil on the day a young stranger falls down dead in the yard of his house. Yvan lives isolated in the countryside and so he finds himself at home with the body of a man whom he doesn’t even know. Confused by this event, he carries out a series of incoherent or unreasoned actions, and little by little the situation becomes irreversible.

The Unknown / 2020

Directed by Simplice Ganou.

L'Inconnu / 2023

Recently arrived in a country that is foreign to him, a former history teacher loses the notion of who he really is.

Lo sconosciuto del Lago / 20136.538 voti

[SUB ITA] - Un lago d'estate e una spiaggia di soli uomini, circondata da una boscaglia deputata agli incontri sessuali tra gli stessi. Qui, all'inizio della stagione, Franck conosce Henri, separatosi di recente dalla moglie, che siede ogni giorno di fronte all'acqua, semplicemente in cerca di serenità, e, dopo pochi giorni, incontra Michel, per il quale prova immediatamente una forte passione. Michel è un ottimo nuotatore, un amante prestante e un uomo estremamente pericoloso. Franck lo sa, ma non si tira indietro e s'innamora di lui.

The Believers - Expériences vers l'inconnu / 2014

Stranger in the House / 1992

Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, his daughter, claims to know nothing about it, even when he finds the body of a young man. Isabelle hangs around with a gang of spoiled young people who have no shortage of money, and is in love with Joel, an ambitious boy involved in drug dealing. Antoine, from a more modest background, is in love with her. When the police start investigating Joel's murder, Antoine becomes the ideal suspect.

Delitto a Paimpont / 20165.01 voti

Nella foresta di Paimpont viene rinvenuto un corpo carbonizzato di difficile identificazione. Vicino al cadavere, vi è un ragazzo di tredici anni, sotto choc e incapace di parlare. Cosa stava facendo lì? In che misura è collegato alla vicenda? Nessuno sa chi sia o ne ha denunciato la scomparsa. Marie ed Eric, i due gendarmi incaricati del caso, cercano di chiarire il mistero il più rapidamente possibile, con l'aiuto di Romain, il fratello di Marie specializzato in psichiatria infantile.

La vergine di Shandigor / 1967

Il professor Von Kranz, sfiduciato dal comportamento degli uomini, ha scelto di ritirarsi in volontario esilio nella sua proprietà, una villa simile ad una roccaforte protetta da ingegnosi sistemi di difesa. Sebbene abbia scoperto come rendere inefficaci i dispositivi di sicurezza atomici delle grandi potenze, egli, caduto ormai preda della follia, intende studiare come attivarli per scatenare una guerra che porterebbe all'annientamento dell'umanità. Agenti segreti russi e americani tentano di catturarlo per impadronirsi delle sue ricerche, ma Von Kranz sfuggirebbe tranquillamente alla caccia se contro di lui non si schierassero anche la figlia Sylvaine, l'assistente Yvan, lo straniero Manuel e un misterioso mostro marino che frequenta le acque attorno all'inespugnabile laboratorio.

Promise to the Unknown One / 1942

A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of a former suitor.

L'inconnue de Hong Kong / 1963

Jean the piano player introduces Georgia, a new, promising singer, to a handsome young-man in a Paris' night-club. From contact to contract, Georgia is soon traveling to Hong Kong with Mitzi, another cabaret artist, the pianist and the man with whom she is flirting. In their first night out, the girls watch a man being attacked and abducted by a pair of local thugs. Next thing, they are reading about the man's death in the papers, and are being hunted by the criminals. Georgia and Mitzi will then learn that their companions are not exactly a typical piano player and businessman. Suspition leads the girls to fight each other, but they'll unite for survival in a seedy environment.

L'Inconnu de Strasbourg / 1998

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Jean-Paul drives away, he picks up a hitchhiker. When the car, stolen by the hitchhiker, explodes, police believe the dead hitchhiker is Jean-Paul. Madeleine takes up with Jean-Paul's brother, Bastien, while Jean-Paul, arriving in Strasbourg, is mistaken for the heir to a fortune. The detective on the case spends more time writing crime novels than investigating real-life crimes.

La signora di Montecarlo / 1938

L'industriale parigino Giorgio Duclos incarica il più giovane fratello Andrea di recarsi in Costa Azzurra per l'incasso di una somma rilevante. Ma costui cade nelle mani di una banda di truffatori, che, aiutati da Vera, donna affascinante, lo derubano di tutto l'importo. Quando lui cerca di inseguirli resta gravemente ferito in un incidente. Interviene il fratello maggiore che rintraccia la donna, ma scopre che si tratta di una sua vecchia fiamma, mai dimenticata, e tra i due rinasce la passione. Intanto la polizia ha catturato i malfattori e Vera, vergognandosi del suo operato, decide di allontanarsi. Ma l'insperata guarigione di Andrea ed il sentimento che ancora lega Giorgio e Vera porteranno al perdono della donna, che si redime e ritrova una nuova vita a fianco dell'amante d’un tempo.

L'inconnue du Val-Perdu / 2001

Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker / 2021

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history.

Cruise for the Unknown One / 1948

Kohlman, the attorney for the Fournil bank, diverts money from the institution. To hide his malpractices, he imagines to remove the director, the young and overconfident Clement Fournil, during a cruise at sea on the yacht Emile Frechisse.

L'inconnu d'un soir / 1949

Edith, a young orphan, is exploited as a waitress and bullied by her adoptive father. But she has a dream: she wants to become a star. One day the Orient Express, which never stops at the little station across the café she works in, is forced to pull up due to a technical incident. And out of a carriage gets ... a company of dancers, who start rehearsing before Edith's amazed eyes. She meets the director of the company, handsome dancing star Harry Belmont, who takes an interest in her beauty and in her natural talent. When she leaves her obnoxious father for Vienna, Harry is absent. She nearly gets seduced by a libidinous man but, after a narrow escape, she gets a job from Treberg, the owner of the restaurant she had dined in. Treberg finds her there, hires her as a dancer and the pair soon meets tremendous success. A star is born but, realizing that he comes second to her, he prefers to vanish.

The Unknown N° 13 / 1949

While investigating the world of Parisian tramps, journalist René Savary, himself disguised as a poor beggar, notices the strange behavior of a little boy. He follows the brat after he has sneaked out of a barge, catches up with him and takes him to his home. There, the kid tells him about himself : his name is Jean, his mother has disappeared and since then he has been left to fend for himself. Moved by the lot of the wretched boy, Savary, with the aid of his friend Pierrot, undertakes to solve the mystery.

Go diego, go ! vol. 4 : l'inconnu des mers /

Fugitive from Montreal / 1950

Pierre Chambrac, a French industrialist, and Canadian Paul Laforêt, two former brothers in arms, meet again by chance in Paris five years after the end of World War II. Pierre is engaged to a beautiful foreign young lady by the name of Helen Bering. He introduces her to his friend, which seems to trouble him. To his amazement, Helen and Paul disappear without notice. Pierre, who was beginning to feel jealous, sees his suspicion confirmed. He decides to fly to Montreal where he thinks the couple has taken refuge. Once there, he learns that his dear Helen is actually a criminal and that Paul is a policeman whose duty was to arrest her.