125 rue Montmartre (1959)
Gilles Grangier

Pascal makes a modest living selling newspapers on the streets of Paris. He may have a surly temperament but he is a good natured soul at heart, always ready to help a fellow creature if he can...   [More...]

La Bête à l'affût (1959)
Pierre Chenal

At the home of Elisabeth Vermont, a wealthy young widow, an auction is held to benefit the orphans of the local police department...   [More...]

Les Cousins (1959)
Claude Chabrol

Against the wishes of his adoring mother, Charles leaves his home in the provinces so that he can study law in Paris. Accommodation is provided by his cousin Paul Thomas, who presently occupies a spacious luxury apartment in Neuilly-sur-Seine belonging to a wealthy relative...   [More...]

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1959)
Jean Renoir

Étienne Alexis, the man most likely to be elected President of the United States of Europe, is a famous biologist who believes that society will be vastly improved if the human species is propagated by artificial insemination...   [More...]

Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959)
Jean-Pierre Melville

When Fèvre-Berthier, an important French diplomat, goes missing in New York, a French journalist, Moreau, is sent to investigate what became of him...   [More...]

Le Fauve est lâché (1959)
Maurice Labro

Once a gangster and secret services operative, Paul Lamiani now leads a respectable life as a restaurateur and family man...   [More...]

Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
Alain Resnais

In the summer of 1957, an aspiring French actress travels to Hiroshima in Japan to work on an anti-war film. The city was totally destroyed when the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on it at the end of the Second World War, but now it has been rebuilt and shows little sign of the past devastation...   [More...]

Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959)
Roger Vadim

In modern day France, Juliette de Merteuil is a well-regarded society belle who is happily married to the Vicomte de Valmont, a distinguished diplomat...   [More...]

Marie-Octobre (1959)
Julien Duvivier

Marie-Hélène Dumoufin, formerly known as Marie-Octobre, hosts a party at her house with the aim of concluding some unfinished business...   [More...]

Pickpocket (1959)
Robert Bresson

As he stands in the crowds at a horse race, a solitary young man named Michel yields to an uncontrollable impulse to steal from a woman's handbag...   [More...]

Les Quatre cents coups (1959)
François Truffaut

Antoine Doinel is a 13-year-old boy who lives with his parents in a cramped apartment in Paris. Neglected by his mother, misunderstood by his father, he starts to rebel against authority...   [More...]

La Sentence (1959)
Jean Valère

As the Allies begin their invasion of Northern France in the summer of 1944, four members of the French Resistance are arrested after an attempt to assassinate a German officer...   [More...]

La Tête contre les murs (1959)
Georges Franju

Worn down by the troublesome behaviour of his rebellious son François, Maître Gérane, a well-known lawyer, has him interned in a psychiatric hospital...   [More...]

Les Trois mousquetaires [TV] (1959)
Claude Barma

France, 1625. King Louis XIII reigns but it is the Cardinal de Richelieu who governs. As he is reprimanding Athos, Porthos and Aramis after being thrashed by the cardinal's men, Monsieur de Tréville is visited by the young Charles D'Artagnan, who is keen to serve as a musketeer...   [More...]

Un témoin dans la ville (1959)
Edouard Molinaro

In the course of a violent argument, businessman Pierre Verdier pushes his mistress Jeanne out of a moving train. Tried for murder, he is subsequently acquitted through lack of evidence...   [More...]

La Vache et le prisonnier (1959)
Henri Verneuil

In 1943, Charles Bailly is an unhappy prisoner-of-war on a farm in Nazi Germany. After two years of captivity, he makes up his mind to escape and return to his hometown of Marseille...   [More...]