The films of
Yves Montand
L'Aveu (1970)
Costa-Gavras 		  Le Cercle rouge (1970)
Jean-Pierre Melville 		  La Folie des grandeurs (1971)
Gérard Oury 		 
     
Costa-Gavras followed his hugely successful film Z with L’Aveu, the second of what was to become a series of critically acclaimed political thrillers...  [More...]   Jean-Pierre Melville’s penultimate film is an unashamed, no holds barred homage to the American film noir detective thriller of the 1940s. Despite the simplicity of its plot and the characteristic minimalism of...  [More...]   After the staggering success of Le Corniaud (1964) and La Grande Vadrouille (1966), director Gérard Oury was eager to make a third film featuring the surprisingly popular pairing of Bourvil and Louis de Funès...  [More...]  
César et Rosalie (1972)
Claude Sautet 		  État de siège (1972)
Costa-Gavras 		  Tout va bien (1972)
Jean-Luc Godard 		 
     
With its memorable dream-like photography and impassioned acting performances, César et Rosalie – quite possibly Claude Sautet’s best film...  [More...]   In a similar vein to Costa-Gavras’ earlier films, Z and L’Aveu, État de siège is a stylishly filmed political thriller making a bold statement about abuse of power by governments in a politically...  [More...]   In Tout va bien, Godard continues a theme he has been developing in his earlier films, most notably La Chinoise and Weekend. As in those films, he gets his principal characters to rant extreme left-wing rhetoric in a...  [More...]  
Le Fils (1973)
Pierre Granier-Deferre 		  Le Hasard et la violence (1974)
Philippe Labro 		  Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres (1974)
Claude Sautet 		 
     
In this unusual and distinctive dramatic thriller popular actor Yves Montand is perfectly cast as the suave gangster boss who is compelled to confront his past and his own mortality...  [More...]    [More...]   Four men – four lives – four sets of problems. What they have in common is a friendship that somehow manages to see them through. This is a poignant study of male mid-life crises and the power of friendship...  [More...]  
Le Sauvage (1975)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau 		  Police Python 357 (1976)
Alain Corneau 		  La Menace (1977)
Alain Corneau 		 
     
Whilst its threadbare plot is something of a mess, Le Sauvage manages to be an entertaining comedy-drama, with some deliciously over-the-top performances...  [More...]   Police Python 357 is the film that established Alain Corneau as one of France’s most promising young directors in the mid-1970s. He had previously made just one film...  [More...]   After their great success with Police Python 357 in 1976, director Alain Corneau and actor Yves Montand are reunited for a similarly well-crafted and suspenseful film noir thriller...  [More...]  
Clair de femme (1979)
Costa-Gavras 		  I... comme Icare (1979)
Henri Verneuil 		  Le Choix des armes (1981)
Alain Corneau 		 
     
Clair de femme is not the kind of film you would associate with director Costa-Gavras. Best known for his high profile political thrillers, such as Z (1969) and État de siege (1973)...  [More...]   Inspired by the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, I... comme Icare is an absorbing but somewhat superficial political thriller, very typical of the neo-polar genre in French cinema of the late 1970s...  [More...]   Director Alain Corneau shows consummate mastery of the policier genre in this, his third, crime-thriller. Meticulously plotted, skilfully assembled and wonderfully acted...  [More...]  

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