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French cinema: 1962

Adieu Philippine (1962)
Jacques Rozier

Paris, in the summer of 1960. Michel is a young Frenchman who, just before he is due to start his military service in Algeria, works as a television studio trainee...   [More...]

Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962)
Edouard Molinaro

The funeral of the successful businessman André Laroche is attended by scores of important public figures, all keen to pay homage to a great man of industry...   [More...]

Le Caporal épinglé (1962)
Jean Renoir

June, 1940. In a German prisoner-of-war camp in North-East France, three soldiers are united by their desire to escape and return to their ordinary civilian lives...   [More...]

Le Combat dans l'île (1962)
Alain Cavalier

Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force...   [More...]

La Croix des vivants (1962)
Ivan Govar

Some time after he was falsely accused of the murder of his stepfather, Yan returns to his home village in Flanders. Franz, the local garage owner is not happy with his return...   [More...]

La Dénonciation (1962)
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

October 1961. Michel Jussieu, a successful film producer, returns to a Parisian nightclub he visited the previous night to collect a sweater...   [More...]

Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962)
Serge Bourguignon

A country in Asia is being ravaged by war. A young pilot named Pierre is flying over a village where soldiers and civilians are caught in a bloody onslaught...   [More...]

Le Doulos (1962)
Jean-Pierre Melville

Maurice Faugel is a career burglar who has just completed a stretch in prison. He is preparing a house break-in with some equipment provided by a friend, Silien...   [More...]

La Fayette (1962)
Jean Dréville

In 1776, the British colonies in America have begun to rise up against the British crown, intent on creating their own independent republic...   [More...]

La Guerre des boutons (1962)
Yves Robert

Longueverne and Velrans are two quaint little French villages that have been at war for generations. It is a peculiar kind of war because it is prosecuted only by the boys of the two villages, but this isn't to say that the war is not fiercely fought...   [More...]

Heureux anniversaire (1962)
Jean-Claude Carrière

In her Parisian apartment, a young woman is busy preparing a meal to celebrate her wedding anniversary. Meanwhile, her husband is struggling with the rush hour traffic to get back home...   [More...]

La Jetée (1962)
Chris Marker

The world lies in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone into the past or the future to ask for help...   [More...]

Jules et Jim (1962)
François Truffaut

It is in Paris, in around 1910, that Jules, a German, and Jim, a Frenchmen, meet and become the closest of friends. Aspiring writers, they have a shared interest in literature, art and women...   [More...]

L'Oeil du malin (1962)
Claude Chabrol

Embittered by his failure to make a success of his career as a journalist, Albin Mercier enjoys nothing more than bringing misery to others, particularly those who have made something of their lives...   [More...]

Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962)
Robert Bresson

Rouen, 1431. After falling into the hands of her English enemies, Jeanne, the young peasant girl who became a figurehead of the French army during the Hundred Years War, is placed on trial for heresy...   [More...]

Le Septième juré (1962)
Georges Lautner

In a moment of madness, Grégoire Duval, a respectable pharmacist, kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake...   [More...]

Snobs! (1962)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

When the president of a dairy farmers' cooperative in Normandy drowns in a vat of milk, elections are soon arranged to find his replacement...   [More...]

Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962)
Georges Franju

Thérèse Desqueyroux tries to kill her husband, Bernard, by poisoning him, but the attempt fails. To avoid a scandal that will ruin his name, Bernard gives false evidence which results in his wife's acquittal...   [More...]

Vive le Tour (1962)
Louis Malle

La Grande Boucle, better known as the Tour de France, is the most eagerly anticipated sporting event in France each year...   [More...]

Vivre sa vie (1962)
Jean-Luc Godard

Nana is an attractive woman, in her early twenties, who works in a Paris shop that sells records. Her job bores her and she dreams of becoming an actress...   [More...]

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