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French cinema: 1965

La 317e section (1965)
Pierre Schoendoerffer

In 1954, at the height of the Indochina War, a French platoon comprising four French soldiers and around forty Laotians is instructed to abandon Luong Ba, an outpost on the border with Laos, and relieve Lao Tsaï, a town 150 kilometres to the south...   [More...]

Alphaville (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard

Lemmy Caution, a secret agent from the Outlands, arrives in Alphaville on a special mission - to kill the dangerous scientist Professor von Braun and destroy his creation, an all-seeing, all-controlling computer named Alpha-60...   [More...]

Le Bonheur (1965)
Agnès Varda

François has an idyllic life and cannot imagine how he could be happier. He enjoys working as a carpenter with his older brother...   [More...]

Compartiment tueurs (1965)
Costa-Gavras

When a sleeper train from Marseille to Paris stops at Avignon, a young woman named Benjamine Bombat climbs aboard and offers a place in her compartment to a handsome young stranger, Daniel, who has omitted to buy a ticket...   [More...]

Le Corniaud (1965)
Gérard Oury

Antoine Maréchal is about to set off for a holiday in Italy when his 2CV is smashed to pieces by a Rolls-Royce, driven by the wealthy business man Léopold Saroyan...   [More...]

Le Journal d'une femme en blanc (1965)
Claude Autant-Lara

Claude Sauvage is a maternity nurse at a large Parisian hospital who recounts her daily experiences in her diary. She has to deal not only with pregnant young woman from unstable backgrounds but also older woman who already have too many children...   [More...]

La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

Three small-time crooks - Edmond, Arthur and Rouquemoute - are planning to mount a small-time heist. To buy the equipment needed for this adventure, they trick notorious art thief Alphonse to lend them some money in exchange for a share in the booty...   [More...]

Pierrot le fou (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard

Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair...   [More...]

Quand passent les faisans (1965)
Edouard Molinaro

Small-time swindler Arsène Baudu comes unstuck when he attempts to pull a con-trick on police inspector Hyacinthe Camus...   [More...]

Thomas l'imposteur (1965)
Georges Franju

September 1914. At the start of the First World War, the inhabitants of Paris flee the capital, fearing an impending invasion by German troops...   [More...]

Trois chambres à Manhattan (1965)
Marcel Carné

François Combe is an actor whose hopes of becoming a big star in Hollywood are dashed within a very short time of his arrival in America...   [More...]

Le Vampire de Düsseldorf (1965)
Robert Hossein

In the 1930s, chaos and misery reign over Düsseldorf as the Nazis begin their campaign of terror. But the city is afflicted by another menace, a serial killer who writes a letter to the police every time he murders a young woman...   [More...]

La Vieille dame indigne (1965)
René Allio

Madame Berthe is 70 years old when her husband dies. She has two children, Albert and Gaston, who work nearby in Marseilles...   [More...]

Yoyo (1965)
Pierre Étaix

A reclusive millionaire is languishing in boredom in his opulent château when, one day, amidst a travelling circus, he recognises an old flame...   [More...]

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