French cinema: 1970s
À chacun son enfer (1977)
André Cayatte
A desperate woman makes a mad dash to the television studios, anxious not to waste one second of the air time she has been granted...
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André Cayatte
Adieu, poulet (1975)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
In the course of a fiercely contested election in the French town of Rouen, a violent fight breaks out between the supporters of the two candidates...
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Pierre Granier-Deferre
L'Affaire Dominici (1973)
Claude Bernard-Aubert
In August 1952, Sir Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their ten-year-old daughter are taking a holiday in the Haute Provence region of France...
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Claude Bernard-Aubert
L'Aile ou la cuisse (1976)
Claude Zidi
At 60, Charles Duchemin is the most revered of France's culinary experts. Not only is he a food critic of some considerable renown, he is also the author of the country's most popular restaurant guide...
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Claude Zidi
Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977)
Claude Chabrol
After walking out on her husband, Alice gets into her car and sets out for what she hopes will be a new life. Whilst driving through the countryside a storm breaks and her windscreen suddenly cracks...
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Claude Chabrol
Les Amis (1971)
Gérard Blain
Paul is a 16-year-old boy who lives with his mother in social housing in Paris. He left school at 13 and is in no hurry to find a job, imagining that one day he will begin a career as an actor... [More...]
Gérard Blain
Paul is a 16-year-old boy who lives with his mother in social housing in Paris. He left school at 13 and is in no hurry to find a job, imagining that one day he will begin a career as an actor... [More...]
L'Amour l'après-midi (1972)
Eric Rohmer
Frédéric had thought that by marrying Hélène he would never again be tempted by another woman... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Frédéric had thought that by marrying Hélène he would never again be tempted by another woman... [More...]
L'Amour violé (1978)
Yannick Bellon
One evening, a nurse, Nicole, is heading home on her moped when she is driven off the road by a van. Four men get out of the van and proceed to taunt her, before abducting her... [More...]
Yannick Bellon
One evening, a nurse, Nicole, is heading home on her moped when she is driven off the road by a van. Four men get out of the van and proceed to taunt her, before abducting her... [More...]
L'An 01 (1973)
Jacques Doillon
One Tuesday afternoon, the whole of France comes to a total standstill. Everyone stops working and all activity ceases. The old world is finished... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
One Tuesday afternoon, the whole of France comes to a total standstill. Everyone stops working and all activity ceases. The old world is finished... [More...]
L'Argent de poche (1976)
François Truffaut
In the picturesque French town of Thiers, several primary school children are learning some important lessons in life as the end of the school term approaches... [More...]
François Truffaut
In the picturesque French town of Thiers, several primary school children are learning some important lessons in life as the end of the school term approaches... [More...]
L'Argent des autres (1978)
Christian de Chalonge
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank... [More...]
Christian de Chalonge
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank... [More...]
Armaguedon (1977)
Alain Jessua
After the death of his brother, 40-something Louis Carrier suddenly finds himself a very wealthy man. He gives up his job and devotes himself to a carefully conceived plan to make himself famous... [More...]
Alain Jessua
After the death of his brother, 40-something Louis Carrier suddenly finds himself a very wealthy man. He gives up his job and devotes himself to a carefully conceived plan to make himself famous... [More...]
Les Assassins de l'ordre (1971)
Marcel Carné
Judge Level is investigating the death of a man named Saugeat, who died shortly after being arrested for a minor offence by two police inspectors one December morning... [More...]
Marcel Carné
Judge Level is investigating the death of a man named Saugeat, who died shortly after being arrested for a minor offence by two police inspectors one December morning... [More...]
L'Attentat (1972)
Yves Boisset
In the immediate aftermath of a coup d'état in an unnamed North African state, a progressive member of the opposition, Sadiel, fears for his life and is forced to flee to Switzerland... [More...]
Yves Boisset
In the immediate aftermath of a coup d'état in an unnamed North African state, a progressive member of the opposition, Sadiel, fears for his life and is forced to flee to Switzerland... [More...]
Attention, les enfants regardent (1978)
Serge Leroy
With their parents away working on a film in Ireland, four children, aged between 5 and 13, have the run of the family villa in the south of France... [More...]
Serge Leroy
With their parents away working on a film in Ireland, four children, aged between 5 and 13, have the run of the family villa in the south of France... [More...]
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Gérard Oury
In his hurry to get to his daughter's wedding, industrialist Victor Pivert forces his chauffeur, Salomon, to drive his car off the road and into a lake... [More...]
Gérard Oury
In his hurry to get to his daughter's wedding, industrialist Victor Pivert forces his chauffeur, Salomon, to drive his car off the road and into a lake... [More...]
L'Aveu (1970)
Costa-Gavras
Prague, 1951. A.L. is the deputy foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, a man with an impeccable record. Having fought on the side of the Brigadas Internacionales during the Spanish Civil War, and then with the French Resistance during WWII, A.L.'s devotion to communism seems to be beyond dispute... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
Prague, 1951. A.L. is the deputy foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, a man with an impeccable record. Having fought on the side of the Brigadas Internacionales during the Spanish Civil War, and then with the French Resistance during WWII, A.L.'s devotion to communism seems to be beyond dispute... [More...]
Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès (1972)
René Vautier
It is 1961 and France is locked into a seemingly interminable war with its North African colony of Algeria. The French government of course does not recognise this as a war as such, but rather a 'campaign of pacification'... [More...]
René Vautier
It is 1961 and France is locked into a seemingly interminable war with its North African colony of Algeria. The French government of course does not recognise this as a war as such, but rather a 'campaign of pacification'... [More...]
La Ballade des Dalton (1978)
René Goscinny
The Wild West has its fair share of desperados, but few are as desperate as the Dalton brothers, the sad bunch of despicable outlaws who are now just a few days into their two and half thousand year long prison sentence... [More...]
René Goscinny
The Wild West has its fair share of desperados, but few are as desperate as the Dalton brothers, the sad bunch of despicable outlaws who are now just a few days into their two and half thousand year long prison sentence... [More...]
Bartleby (1976)
Maurice Ronet
With a backlog of paperwork accumulating around him, a Parisian bailiff is relieved when someone turns up in his office in response to his job advertisement... [More...]
Maurice Ronet
With a backlog of paperwork accumulating around him, a Parisian bailiff is relieved when someone turns up in his office in response to his job advertisement... [More...]
Les Belles manières (1978)
Jean-Claude Guiguet
Camille, an uneducated young man from the provinces, arrives in Paris to take up the post of housekeeper for the wealthy Hélène Courtray and her reclusive son Pierre... [More...]
Jean-Claude Guiguet
Camille, an uneducated young man from the provinces, arrives in Paris to take up the post of housekeeper for the wealthy Hélène Courtray and her reclusive son Pierre... [More...]
Blaise Pascal (1972)
Roberto Rossellini
Blaise Pascal is 16 years old when his family moves to Rouen in 1639 so that his father Étienne can take up his new position as the king's commissioner of taxes... [More...]
Roberto Rossellini
Blaise Pascal is 16 years old when his family moves to Rouen in 1639 so that his father Étienne can take up his new position as the king's commissioner of taxes... [More...]
La Bonne année (1973)
Claude Lelouch
Simon is released from prison after having served a seven year stretch for an audacious jewel robbery at Cannes in 1966. He returns to Paris, hoping to meet up with his accomplice, Charlot (who managed to escape with the stolen jewels) and a young antique dealer, Françoise, with whom he is hoping to start a new life... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Simon is released from prison after having served a seven year stretch for an audacious jewel robbery at Cannes in 1966. He returns to Paris, hoping to meet up with his accomplice, Charlot (who managed to escape with the stolen jewels) and a young antique dealer, Françoise, with whom he is hoping to start a new life... [More...]
Borsalino (1970)
Jacques Deray
Marseille, 1930. After completing a six month stretch in prison, Roch Siffredi returns to his girlfriend to find her in the company of another man, François Capella... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Marseille, 1930. After completing a six month stretch in prison, Roch Siffredi returns to his girlfriend to find her in the company of another man, François Capella... [More...]
Le Boucher (1970)
Claude Chabrol
After serving in both the Indochina and Algerian wars, Paul Thomas returns to his home village in a provincial backwater of France and takes over his father's butcher's shop... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
After serving in both the Indochina and Algerian wars, Paul Thomas returns to his home village in a provincial backwater of France and takes over his father's butcher's shop... [More...]
Les Bronzés font du ski (1979)
Patrice Leconte
A year has passed since Nathalie and Bernard came close to wrecking their marriage at a holiday club on the Ivory Coast. Now that they have patched up their differences, they plan to spend a more agreeable vacation in the French alps, staying at their recently acquired timeshare apartment... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
A year has passed since Nathalie and Bernard came close to wrecking their marriage at a holiday club on the Ivory Coast. Now that they have patched up their differences, they plan to spend a more agreeable vacation in the French alps, staying at their recently acquired timeshare apartment... [More...]
Les Bronzés (1978)
Patrice Leconte
In the late 1970s, a party of hyped up French holidaymakers arrives at a popular holiday club on the Ivory Coast, looking forward to a week of unbridled escape from their humdrum lives... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
In the late 1970s, a party of hyped up French holidaymakers arrives at a popular holiday club on the Ivory Coast, looking forward to a week of unbridled escape from their humdrum lives... [More...]
Buffet froid (1979)
Bertrand Blier
Alphonse Tram, an unemployed man in his early thirties, lives with his wife Josyane in a recently constructed apartment block that is virtually uninhabited... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Alphonse Tram, an unemployed man in his early thirties, lives with his wife Josyane in a recently constructed apartment block that is virtually uninhabited... [More...]
La Cage aux folles (1978)
Edouard Molinaro
Renato and Albin are a gay couple living in St Tropez, Renato managing a notorious night club in which Albin performs a drag act... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Renato and Albin are a gay couple living in St Tropez, Renato managing a notorious night club in which Albin performs a drag act... [More...]
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses! (1979)
Edouard Molinaro
François Perrin is a radio reporter who is coping badly with living by himself after his divorce. One evening, the solitude becomes so unbearable that he picks up the telephone and dials a number at random... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
François Perrin is a radio reporter who is coping badly with living by himself after his divorce. One evening, the solitude becomes so unbearable that he picks up the telephone and dials a number at random... [More...]