Cinédis

File:Cinédis logo.jpg

Company's logo from the beginning of Elena and Her Men.

Cinédis was a French film distribution company active from the 1930s to the 1960s, releasing a mixture of French films and dubbed imports from aboard. The company enjoyed its strongest years during the 1950s, when French audience numbers reached their peak. It handled a number of co-productions between France and Italy. The artist René Ferracci designed many of the company's posters.

Selected filmography

• A Man of Gold (1934)
• Holiday for Henrietta (1952)
• The Wages of Fear (1953)
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954)
• House of Ricordi (1954)
• Knave of Hearts (1954)
• Flesh and the Woman (1954)
• Madame du Barry (1954)
• Marianne of My Youth (1955)
• Spring, Autumn and Love (1955)
• Les Diaboliques (1955)
• Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
• The Grand Maneuver (1955)
• Madelon (1955)
• Race for Life (1955)
• Elena and Her Men (1956)
• L'homme aux clefs d'or (1956)
• Paris, Palace Hotel (1956)
• Fernandel the Dressmaker (1956)
• Le secret de soeur Angèle (1956)
• Le couturier de ces dames (1956)
• Death in the Garden (1956)
• Women's Club (1956)
• A Kiss for a Killer (1957)
• Les Espions (1957)
• On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels (1957)
• Gates of Paris (1957)
• Mademoiselle and Her Gang (1957)
• La Parisienne (1957)
• Vacanze a Ischia (1957)
• Send a Woman When the Devil Fails (1957)
• No Sun in Venice (1957)
• He Who Must Die (1957)
• Anna of Brooklyn (1958)
• The Law Is the Law (1958)
• That Night (1958)
• Resurrection (1958)
• Too Late to Love (1959)
• Du rififi chez les femmes (1959)
• Fortunat (1960)
• Classe Tous Risques (1960)
• Wasteland (1960)
• The Nina B. Affair (1961)
• All the Gold in the World (1961)
• The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
• Emile's Boat (1962)
• Jules and Jim (1962)
• How to Succeed in Love (1962)
• The Trip to Biarritz (1963)

Bibliography

• Smith, Ian Hayden. Selling the Movie: The Art of the Film Poster. Quarto Publishing Group, 2018.