French cinema: 1970s
Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974)
Jacques Rivette
It is in a park in Paris that Julie, a shy librarian, first makes the acquaintance of Céline, a stage magician. Intrigued by the other woman, Julie follows her around the city until she loses sight of her...
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Jacques Rivette
Le Cercle rouge (1970)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Police superintendent Mattei is escorting a suspected criminal, Vogel, across France on a train. After a daring escape, Vogel, goes on the run...
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Jean-Pierre Melville
César et Rosalie (1972)
Claude Sautet
After her divorce, 30-something Rosalie decides to live with César, a wealthy scrap-metal dealer who is prone to violent bursts...
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Claude Sautet
Cet obscur objet du désir (1977)
Luis Buñuel
Shortly after boarding a train in Seville, a respectable old man pours a bucket of water over a young woman standing on the platform...
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Luis Buñuel
La Chambre verte (1978)
François Truffaut
In late 1920s France, Julien Davenne devotes his life to the memory of the dead. He writes impassioned obituaries for an obscure newspaper and has converted his house's Green Room into a mausoleum to his wife, who died ten years earlier shortly after their marriage...
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François Truffaut
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)
Luis Buñuel
Monsieur and Madame Senechal have invited their friends, the Thevenots and Don Rafael, the Ambassador of a South American republic, to dinner, but, owing to a misunderstanding, their guests turn up a day early... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Monsieur and Madame Senechal have invited their friends, the Thevenots and Don Rafael, the Ambassador of a South American republic, to dinner, but, owing to a misunderstanding, their guests turn up a day early... [More...]
Le Chat et la souris (1975)
Claude Lelouch
Madame Richard entertains the prospect of murdering her husband when he, a successful architect, begins an extra-marital affair with an actress of erotic movies... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Madame Richard entertains the prospect of murdering her husband when he, a successful architect, begins an extra-marital affair with an actress of erotic movies... [More...]
Le Chat (1971)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Julien and Clémence Bouin have been living together as man and wife for over twenty-five years. He is a retired typographer, she is a former trapeze artist who is now partly crippled after an accident... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Julien and Clémence Bouin have been living together as man and wife for over twenty-five years. He is a retired typographer, she is a former trapeze artist who is now partly crippled after an accident... [More...]
Les Chiens (1979)
Alain Jessua
Not long after arriving in a small provincial town, a young doctor, Henri Ferret, is struck by the mood of fear that pervades the region... [More...]
Alain Jessua
Not long after arriving in a small provincial town, a young doctor, Henri Ferret, is struck by the mood of fear that pervades the region... [More...]
Les Choses de la vie (1970)
Claude Sautet
Pierre Bérard, a 40-year-old architect, is on his way to a business appointment when his car collides with a lorry on a quiet country road... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Pierre Bérard, a 40-year-old architect, is on his way to a business appointment when his car collides with a lorry on a quiet country road... [More...]
Le Cinéma de papa (1970)
Claude Berri
In 1946, 12-year-old Claude Langmann lives with his parents, Jewish immigrants, and newborn sister Arlette in a busy district of Paris... [More...]
Claude Berri
In 1946, 12-year-old Claude Langmann lives with his parents, Jewish immigrants, and newborn sister Arlette in a busy district of Paris... [More...]
Le Clair de terre (1970)
Guy Gilles
Pierre Brumeu, 21, lives in Paris and has a strained relationship with his father, a widower who is still mourning the loss of his wife many years ago... [More...]
Guy Gilles
Pierre Brumeu, 21, lives in Paris and has a strained relationship with his father, a widower who is still mourning the loss of his wife many years ago... [More...]
La Clé sur la porte (1978)
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone... [More...]
Le Complot (1973)
René Gainville
In March 1962, the French government has signed a treaty with Algeria that will allow the latter country to gain its independence... [More...]
René Gainville
In March 1962, the French government has signed a treaty with Algeria that will allow the latter country to gain its independence... [More...]
Comptes à rebours (1971)
Roger Pigaut
Revenge is the only thing on François Nolan's mind when he returns to Paris, having spent the past ten years in prison for his part in a bank robbery that went disastrously wrong... [More...]
Roger Pigaut
Revenge is the only thing on François Nolan's mind when he returns to Paris, having spent the past ten years in prison for his part in a bank robbery that went disastrously wrong... [More...]
Confidences pour confidences (1979)
Pascal Thomas
Recalling the story of her family, Brigitte takes us back to the 1950s, when she was living an idyllic life with her sisters Pierrette and Florence, and parents, the owners of a grocers' shop... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
Recalling the story of her family, Brigitte takes us back to the 1950s, when she was living an idyllic life with her sisters Pierrette and Florence, and parents, the owners of a grocers' shop... [More...]
Coup de tête (1979)
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Life in the small industrial French town of Trincamp revolves entirely around the local football club. When François Perrin is dismissed from the club for injuring the star player, his fortunes take a turn for the worst... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Life in the small industrial French town of Trincamp revolves entirely around the local football club. When François Perrin is dismissed from the club for injuring the star player, his fortunes take a turn for the worst... [More...]
Coup pour coup (1972)
Marin Karmitz
When two of their colleagues are dismissed for unruly behaviour, the mostly female staff of a French textiles factory decide to go on strike to demand better pay and the reinstatement of their sacked co-workers... [More...]
Marin Karmitz
When two of their colleagues are dismissed for unruly behaviour, the mostly female staff of a French textiles factory decide to go on strike to demand better pay and the reinstatement of their sacked co-workers... [More...]
Le Crabe-Tambour (1977)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
The Jaureguiberry, a mighty escort ship, leaves the port of Lorient in the northwest of France and sets out on its long journey across the stormy Atlantic... [More...]
Pierre Schoendoerffer
The Jaureguiberry, a mighty escort ship, leaves the port of Lorient in the northwest of France and sets out on its long journey across the stormy Atlantic... [More...]
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Fred Zinnemann
Dissatisfied with President De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to Algeria, a number of men in the French military form an underground organisation, the OAS, with the sole aim of assassinating the president... [More...]
Fred Zinnemann
Dissatisfied with President De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to Algeria, a number of men in the French military form an underground organisation, the OAS, with the sole aim of assassinating the president... [More...]
La Dentellière (1977)
Claude Goretta
Pomme may be 19 but, in her outlook and behaviour, she is still a child. A trainee hairdresser in Paris, she lives in her dreams and makes no attempt to find herself a boyfriend... [More...]
Claude Goretta
Pomme may be 19 but, in her outlook and behaviour, she is still a child. A trainee hairdresser in Paris, she lives in her dreams and makes no attempt to find herself a boyfriend... [More...]
Dernier domicile connu (1970)
José Giovanni
As a result of a serious professional blunder, Inspector Leonetti finds himself transferred to a minor police department... [More...]
José Giovanni
As a result of a serious professional blunder, Inspector Leonetti finds himself transferred to a minor police department... [More...]
Les Deux Anglaises et le continent (1971)
François Truffaut
Paris, 1899. It is whilst pursuing her studies in sculpture that Anne Brown, a dark-haired English woman who is not yet 20, falls under the spell of Claude Roc, a bourgeois French student of her own age... [More...]
François Truffaut
Paris, 1899. It is whilst pursuing her studies in sculpture that Anne Brown, a dark-haired English woman who is not yet 20, falls under the spell of Claude Roc, a bourgeois French student of her own age... [More...]
Le Diable probablement (1977)
Robert Bresson
The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand... [More...]
Robert Bresson
The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand... [More...]
Diabolo menthe (1977)
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
Le Distrait (1970)
Pierre Richard
Pierre Malaquet is a likeable young man but he is hopelessly absent-minded and cannot sustain a train of thought for more than a few seconds... [More...]
Pierre Richard
Pierre Malaquet is a likeable young man but he is hopelessly absent-minded and cannot sustain a train of thought for more than a few seconds... [More...]
Les Doigts dans la tête (1974)
Jacques Doillon
Chris, a baker's boy, is dismissed by his employer when he turns up for work late. He loses not just his job but also his home since the room he lives in is provided as part of his meagre salary... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Chris, a baker's boy, is dismissed by his employer when he turns up for work late. He loses not just his job but also his home since the room he lives in is provided as part of his meagre salary... [More...]
Domicile conjugal (1970)
François Truffaut
Now 26, Antoine Doinel is happily married to Christine Darbon. The couple share a small but comfortable apartment in Paris, and while she gives violin lessons, he earns a meagre wage dyeing flowers for a florist... [More...]
François Truffaut
Now 26, Antoine Doinel is happily married to Christine Darbon. The couple share a small but comfortable apartment in Paris, and while she gives violin lessons, he earns a meagre wage dyeing flowers for a florist... [More...]
Le Dossier 51 (1978)
Michel Deville
A mysterious foreign power has set its sights on recruiting Dominique Auphal, a prominent French diplomat, as an agent. In order to put leverage on him to get him to comply, the security service of this foreign power embarks on a massive campaign of information gathering targeted at him... [More...]
Michel Deville
A mysterious foreign power has set its sights on recruiting Dominique Auphal, a prominent French diplomat, as an agent. In order to put leverage on him to get him to comply, the security service of this foreign power embarks on a massive campaign of information gathering targeted at him... [More...]
La Drôlesse (1979)
Jacques Doillon
Mado is an eleven-year-old girl who, ignored by her sisters and maltreated by her mother, leads a solitary, loveless existence... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Mado is an eleven-year-old girl who, ignored by her sisters and maltreated by her mother, leads a solitary, loveless existence... [More...]