The films of
Charles Denner
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958)
Louis Malle 		  Landru (1963)
Claude Chabrol 		  Compartiment tueurs (1965)
Costa-Gavras 		 
     
For his remarkable cinematic debut, director Louis Malle brought a fresh and original approach to the film policier, the most popular genre in French cinema of the 1950s...  [More...]   One of Claude Chabrol’s most bizarre films, Landru is an extraordinary off-the-wall black comedy which allows the director to combine his flair for comedy and thriller to create something which is both original...  [More...]   Costa-Gavras made his directoral debut with this fast-moving, convoluted but magnificently assembled crime thriller. The film reflects the director’s interest for American film noir and...  [More...]  
La Mariée était en Noir (1967)
François Truffaut 		  Le Vieil homme et l'enfant (1967)
Claude Berri 		  Le Voleur (1967)
Louis Malle 		 
     
In the mid-1950s, few film directors made a greater impression on the controversial young critics on the French film review paper Les Cahiers du cinéma than a certain Alfred Hitchcock...  [More...]   Rated by François Truffaut as one of the best films about the Nazi Occupation of France, L’Vieil homme et l’enfant marks a spectacular cinematic debut for the young film director Claude Berri...  [More...]   Sadly underrated, Le Voleur is one of Louis Malle’s most attractive films, an entertaining and beautifully crafted comedy which gleefully satirises the attitudes of the nouveaux riches...  [More...]  
Z (1969)
Costa-Gavras 		  Les Assassins de l'ordre (1971)
Marcel Carné 		  Les Mariés de l'an II (1971)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau 		 
     
Winner of two oscars in 1969 (for best foreign picture, best editing) and awards at Cannes (the jury prize and best actor for Trintignant), Z is the film that took 1969 by storm...  [More...]   Marcel Carné’s penultimate fictional film is a superlative example of the kind of gritty political thriller that would become highly popular in France in the mid to late 1970s...  [More...]   Les Mariés de l’an II is typical of the ebullient and witty period drama which French cinema has been consistently good at producing for many decades...  [More...]  
L'Aventure, c'est l'aventure (1972)
Claude Lelouch 		  Une belle fille comme moi (1972)
François Truffaut 		  L'Héritier (1973)
Philippe Labro 		 
     
Although intended as an off-the-wall comedy, L’Aventure, c’est l’aventure does offer a pretty accurate reflection of the kind of political upheavals which were taking place in France when it was being...  [More...]   Une belle fille comme moi is François Truffaut’s first and only sortie into black comedy, a film that is in marked contrast to his earlier films...  [More...]   With this stylish thriller, Philippe Labro takes some carefully judged swipes at his own profession, that of journalism, whilst referencing some major topical concerns – including corruption in politics and industry...  [More...]  
Les Gaspards (1974)
Pierre Tchernia 		  Peur sur la ville (1975)
Henri Verneuil 		  Mado (1976)
Claude Sautet 		 
     
Les Gaspards is without question one of the weirdest French film comedies ever made; it is perhaps best described as an LSD-inspired reinterpretation of The Borrowers...  [More...]   This high budget, fast moving action thriller typifies the kind of film that was hugely popular in France in the mid- 1970s. Peur sur la ville epitomises the crime thriller or ’polar’ of that decade...  [More...]   Another exquisitely composed portrait of mid-life crisis from Claude Sautet, Mado is an absorbing work which engages the spectator by solidly locking onto the personal traumas of its well-drawn characters...  [More...]  

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