French films 1970s All genres
Borsalino (1970) 
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Marseilles, 1930. A young crook, Siffredi, leaves jail after serving a six month prison sentence, to find his girlfriend in the arms of another man, Capella. After the inevitable brawl, the two men agree to join forces with the aim of becoming the most notable crime syndicate in Marseilles. Their growing success begins to earn them some dangerous enemies amongst the incumbent gangster community......
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Dernier domicile connu (1970)
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As a result of a serious professional blunder, Inspector Leonetti finds himself transferred to a minor police department. There, he is assigned to a difficult case involving a certain Roger Martin, who has disappeared with his small daughter. Martin is in fact a key witness in a murder case and is required to give evidence against a well-known gangster...
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Domicile conjugale (1970)
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Antoine Doinel is 26 and happily married to Christine. Whilst his wife gives violin lessons, Antoine works for a florist, dyeing flowers. However, he soon loses interest in this job and decides to go for an interview with an American construction company. To his surprise, he is offered a job, operating radio-controlled boats in a scale-model of a harbour...
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Heureux qui comme Ulysse (1970) 
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Antonin, an ageing farm worker, is appalled when his employer tells him that the horse Ulysse that he has looked after for the past 25 years must be handed over to a picador, to face a certain death in the bullring. Unable to betray Ulysse, Antonin decides to take him to open countryside in the south of France, where he will let him go free...
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L'Aveu (1970)
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Gérard has been a loyal supporter of communism for all his adult life, serving in the French Resistance during the Second World War and supporting the civil war in Spain. Now, in 1951, he is the deputy minister for foreign affairs in Czechoslovakia. One day, he discovers that he is being followed, and, shortly after he is arrested and taken away to a makeshift prison...
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L'Homme orchestre (1970) 
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Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group...
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La Horse (1970)
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Auguste Maroilleur sits at the head of a family of traditional French farmers on a piece of land in Normandy. He lives with his two daughters and their husbands, to whom he intends to pass on his farm when he dies. He is outraged when he discovers that his grandson Henri is mixed up with a band of drug smugglers who are using his farm as a hiding place for illegal drugs...
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La Maison des Bories (1970)
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The Durras family lives in the House of the Bories, an isolated country villa in Haute-Provence. Julien Durras, a geologist, dedicates himself to his research, and is strict with both his children and his wife Marie. The Durras household is greatly affected by the arrival of young German scholar, Carl-Stéphane Kursdedt...
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La Rupture (1970)
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Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their infant son. She stays in a run-down hotel whilst her son convalesces in hospital and she files for divorce. Charles’s wealthy bourgeois father is adamant that Hélène will lose custody of her child and...
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Le Bal du comte d'Orgel (1970)
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In the aftermath of WWI, the people of Paris have just one thought: to enjoy life and forget all those lost years. Two such merrymakers are the Count of Orgel and his wife, the Countess Mahé. At the circus one evening, this couple meet François de Seyrieuse and invite him and his friend Paul Robin to one of the lavish soirées at their castle...
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Le Cercle rouge (1970) 
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Police superintendent Mattei is escorting a suspected criminal, Vogel, across France on a train. After a daring escape, Vogel, goes on the run. With the police closing in on him, the fugitive hides in the boot of a car owned by a sophisticated crook, Corey, who has only just been released from prison. When Vogel saves Corey’s life...
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1970)
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Hitch-hiking his way home after an unsuccessful day betting on the horses, Alfred Mulanet is abducted by a group of gangsters, led by the sinister Monsieur K. Against his will, he is placed in a coffin, which is to be shipped to Istanbul. En route, the coffin and Mulanet fall into the hands of a rival gang, led by the dapper Monsieur Kruger...
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Le Genou de Claire (1970)
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A 35 year old diplomat, Jérôme, takes a summer holiday in the picturesque French lakeside resort where he spent his childhood. He meets up with an old friend, Aurora, a writer who is staying with another woman and her two teenage daughters, Laura and Claire. Jérôme is soon to be married to the woman he has been attached to for the last six years...
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Le Mur de l'Atlantique (1970)
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In 1944, Léon Duchemin , a restaurant owner living in Normandy, leads a peaceful life. His restaurant is frequented by German officers, black marketers and members of the French Resistance, but his clients’ exploits hold no interest for him at all. That is until an English airman falls out of the sky and lands in his daughter’s bed...
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Le Voyou (1970)
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Whilst serving time for kidnapping a child, Simon Duroc succeeds in escaping from prison. Pursued by the police, the once celebrated gangster takes refuge in a cinema where, with the help of a young woman in the audience, he evades capture. The woman invites Simon to stay with her at her home, and he accepts. Determined to take revenge against the man who was responsible for his arrest...
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Le Boucher (1970)
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At the marriage of a colleague in a rural French village, the school teacher Helène meets the local butcher, Popaul. The two become friends, but Helène is reluctant to have a love affair because she was badly hurt by her last boyfriend. Popaul is also scarred by his past – he used to serve in the army and is haunted by memories of the atrocities he witnessed...
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Les Caprices de Marie (1970)
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Angevine is a blissfully happy French village, thanks to Mayor Leopold Panneton’s efforts to conceal bad news from everyone. Panneton’s daughter, Marie, is selected as Miss Blue Waters in a beauty contest. Used to getting what she wants, Marie is disappointed when Gabriel, the local schoolteacher and the only man she loves...
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Les Novices (1970)
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Sister Agnès has become so bored with her life in a convent that she decides to run away to Paris. Whilst looking in vain for a job, she meets Mona Lisa, a kind-hearted prostitute who invites her to share her way of life. Through her new friend’s tutelage, Agnès learns all the secrets of her new profession...
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Peau d'âne (1970)
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On her deathbed, the queen of strange and distant land asks her husband, the king, never to marry again anyone less beautiful than she. In the whole kingdom, only one woman is more beautiful than the dead queen – her young daughter. In respect of his former wife’s wishes, the king asks his daughter to marry him...
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Tristana (1970)
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Spain, in the 1920s. After the death of her mother, a beautiful young woman, Tristana, becomes the ward of a respectable but impecunious aristocrat, Don Lope. The latter refuses to work for a living, deeming this to be beneath his dignity, and spends most of his time voicing his socialist and anti-religious opinions, often with a large dose of hypocrisy...
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