French cinema: 1963
L'Aîné des Ferchaux (1963)
Jean-Pierre Melville
After a series of match defeats, a young boxer named Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager and is forced to look for alternative employment to make ends meet...
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Jean-Pierre Melville
La Baie des anges (1963)
Jacques Demy
Jean Fournier is a modest young bank clerk living in Paris. He is sensible, respectable, and so it is with reluctance that he agrees to accompany his friend Caron to a casino...
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Jacques Demy
Ballade pour un voyou (1963)
Claude-Jean Bonnardot
Recently released from prison, juvenile delinquent Vincent Vivant tries to make a fresh start as a garage mechanic. Tempted by easy money, he agrees to act as a courier for a spy named Stéphane, his errand being to take a mysterious suitcase to its intended owner...
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Claude-Jean Bonnardot
Les Bonnes causes (1963)
Christian-Jaque
Paul Dupré dies at the hands of his nurse Gina Bianchi when she administers his daily injection. His wife Catherine accuses the nurse of murdering her husband but Gina insists that she is innocent...
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Christian-Jaque
Les Carabiniers (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard
Two country peasants are recruited to join the army and serve in the war. They are promised wealth, fulfilment and freedom to do whatever they wish whilst in active service... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Two country peasants are recruited to join the army and serve in the war. They are promised wealth, fulfilment and freedom to do whatever they wish whilst in active service... [More...]
Chair de poule (1963)
Julien Duvivier
Daniel and Paul are two hard-up factory workers who supplement their income by some nocturnal safe-cracking. However, it isn't long before their luck runs out... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Daniel and Paul are two hard-up factory workers who supplement their income by some nocturnal safe-cracking. However, it isn't long before their luck runs out... [More...]
Le Feu follet (1963)
Louis Malle
At a private clinic near to Paris, a burnt-out writer, Alain Leroy, is being treated for alcoholism. Despite being almost cured of his addiction, Alain, in his mid-thirties, has recurring bouts of depression and has resolved to kill himself in a few days' time... [More...]
Louis Malle
At a private clinic near to Paris, a burnt-out writer, Alain Leroy, is being treated for alcoholism. Despite being almost cured of his addiction, Alain, in his mid-thirties, has recurring bouts of depression and has resolved to kill himself in a few days' time... [More...]
Il Gattopardo (1963)
Luchino Visconti
In the 1860s, Sicily is in the vanguard of huge social and political changes that are sweeping across a fragmented Italy, changes that will result in the country's eventual unification after much loss of blood... [More...]
Luchino Visconti
In the 1860s, Sicily is in the vanguard of huge social and political changes that are sweeping across a fragmented Italy, changes that will result in the country's eventual unification after much loss of blood... [More...]
Le Jour et l'heure (1963)
René Clément
During WWII, Thérèse Dutheil refuses to have any interest in politics, even though her husband is being held a prisoner-of-war in Germany... [More...]
René Clément
During WWII, Thérèse Dutheil refuses to have any interest in politics, even though her husband is being held a prisoner-of-war in Germany... [More...]
Judex (1963)
Georges Franju
The banker Favraux has made his fortune by preying on others far less scrupulous than he. One day, he receives a letter from someone named Judex threatening him with death unless he returns his ill-gotten gains to those from whom he stole them... [More...]
Georges Franju
The banker Favraux has made his fortune by preying on others far less scrupulous than he. One day, he receives a letter from someone named Judex threatening him with death unless he returns his ill-gotten gains to those from whom he stole them... [More...]
Landru (1963)
Claude Chabrol
Whilst Europe is being ravaged by the 1914-18 war, Henri Désiré Landru is busy making a dishonest living to keep himself, his wife, his mistress and his four children in the bourgeois manner to which they have all grown accustomed... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Whilst Europe is being ravaged by the 1914-18 war, Henri Désiré Landru is busy making a dishonest living to keep himself, his wife, his mistress and his four children in the bourgeois manner to which they have all grown accustomed... [More...]
Les Mauvaises fréquentations (1963)
Jean Eustache
One Sunday evening, two men in their twenties roam the streets of the Clichy district of Paris, hoping to pick up a pair of girls they can spend the night with... [More...]
Jean Eustache
One Sunday evening, two men in their twenties roam the streets of the Clichy district of Paris, hoping to pick up a pair of girls they can spend the night with... [More...]
Mélodie en sous-sol (1963)
Henri Verneuil
Monsieur Charles has only been out of jail five minutes after completing his last stretch before he begins planning his next robbery... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Monsieur Charles has only been out of jail five minutes after completing his last stretch before he begins planning his next robbery... [More...]
Le Mépris (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard
Paul Javal, a crime fiction writer, is engaged by the American film producer Jeremy Prokosch to re-write a film about Homer's Odyssey... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Paul Javal, a crime fiction writer, is engaged by the American film producer Jeremy Prokosch to re-write a film about Homer's Odyssey... [More...]
Muriel (1963)
Alain Resnais
Hélène lives in the French sea town of Boulogne with her step-son Bernard, running an antiques business from her apartment... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Hélène lives in the French sea town of Boulogne with her step-son Bernard, running an antiques business from her apartment... [More...]
Le Petit soldat (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard
It is 1958, at the height of France's war with Algeria. A deserter from the French army, Bruno Forestier, belongs to an extreme right-wing terrorist cell operating in Geneva... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
It is 1958, at the height of France's war with Algeria. A deserter from the French army, Bruno Forestier, belongs to an extreme right-wing terrorist cell operating in Geneva... [More...]
Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
Georges Lautner
Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican... [More...]