French cinema: 1970s
Le Passe-montagne (1978)
Jean-François Stévenin
When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage...
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Jean-François Stévenin
Peau d'âne (1970)
Jacques Demy
On her deathbed, the queen of strange and distant land asks her husband, the king, never to marry again anyone less beautiful than she...
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Jacques Demy
Perceval le Gallois (1978)
Eric Rohmer
Brought up by his widowed mother to know nothing about war and pageantry, the Welsh youth Perceval is awe-struck when he meets a knight for the first time...
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Eric Rohmer
Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir (1970)
Jean Renoir
Le dernier réveillon: one Christmas Eve, a tramp is paid to mournfully watch a party of revellers enjoying themselves at an expensive restaurant...
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Jean Renoir
Peur sur la ville (1975)
Henri Verneuil
After receiving a series of threatening phone calls, Nora Elmer falls to her death from a high-rised apartment. The death is investigated by police inspector Jean Letellier, who soon receives a mysterious phone call from someone calling himself Minos and who claims to want to purge Paris of loose women...
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Henri Verneuil
Police Python 357 (1976)
Alain Corneau
Orléans police inspector Marc Ferrot leads a focused, solitary existence. With no family and few friends, he devotes himself to his work and his interest in firearms... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Orléans police inspector Marc Ferrot leads a focused, solitary existence. With no family and few friends, he devotes himself to his work and his interest in firearms... [More...]
Préparez vos mouchoirs (1978)
Bertrand Blier
Raoul has tried everything he can think of to cure his wife Solange of her habitual melancholia, but in vain. In desperation, he coerces a stranger he meets in a restaurant into sleeping with her... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Raoul has tried everything he can think of to cure his wife Solange of her habitual melancholia, but in vain. In desperation, he coerces a stranger he meets in a restaurant into sleeping with her... [More...]
Le Pull-over rouge (1979)
Michel Drach
The body of a nine-year old girl, Elisa Garcia, is found about twenty kilometres from Marseille, not long after the girl was abducted by a stranger... [More...]
Michel Drach
The body of a nine-year old girl, Elisa Garcia, is found about twenty kilometres from Marseille, not long after the girl was abducted by a stranger... [More...]
Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971)
Robert Bresson
One night, a young painter, Jacques comes across a young woman, Marthe, who is about to commit suicide by jumping off the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris... [More...]
Robert Bresson
One night, a young painter, Jacques comes across a young woman, Marthe, who is about to commit suicide by jumping off the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris... [More...]
La Question (1977)
Laurent Heynemann
Algiers, 1957. Henri Charlegue is the editor of a newspaper that is sympathetic to the cause of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front)... [More...]
Laurent Heynemann
Algiers, 1957. Henri Charlegue is the editor of a newspaper that is sympathetic to the cause of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front)... [More...]
R.A.S. (1973)
Yves Boisset
In 1956, France's professional army lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold onto at any price... [More...]
Yves Boisset
In 1956, France's professional army lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold onto at any price... [More...]
La Race des seigneurs (1974)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
An ambitious deputy in the Republic Party, Julien Dandieu neglects his wife Betty, his son Alain and even his mistress Creezy, a famous cover girl... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
An ambitious deputy in the Republic Party, Julien Dandieu neglects his wife Betty, his son Alain and even his mistress Creezy, a famous cover girl... [More...]
Raphaël ou le débauché (1971)
Michel Deville
In 1830, Aurore de Chéroy is a young widow who lives a simple but contented life on her country estate in France. A devout Christian, she devotes herself to charitable works and spurns proposals of marriage from such men as the selfish and cynical Horace de Granville... [More...]
Michel Deville
In 1830, Aurore de Chéroy is a young widow who lives a simple but contented life on her country estate in France. A devout Christian, she devotes herself to charitable works and spurns proposals of marriage from such men as the selfish and cynical Horace de Granville... [More...]
Robert et Robert (1978)
Claude Lelouch
Jacques Millet is the director of a marriage agency and prides himself on always being able to match the right man to the right woman, with the aid of his expensive, state-of-the-art computer... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Jacques Millet is the director of a marriage agency and prides himself on always being able to match the right man to the right woman, with the aid of his expensive, state-of-the-art computer... [More...]
La Rupture (1970)
Claude Chabrol
Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their infant son... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their infant son... [More...]
La Salamandre (1971)
Alain Tanner
Pierre, a writer, enlists the help of a friend, Paul, to investigate a real-life story in which a young woman, Rosmonde, was tried for the attempted murder of her uncle... [More...]
Alain Tanner
Pierre, a writer, enlists the help of a friend, Paul, to investigate a real-life story in which a young woman, Rosmonde, was tried for the attempted murder of her uncle... [More...]
Le Sauvage (1975)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
In Caracas, Nelly, a nightclub artiste, is about to wed the wealthy Vittorio when she has a sudden change of heart and decides to return to France... [More...]
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
In Caracas, Nelly, a nightclub artiste, is about to wed the wealthy Vittorio when she has a sudden change of heart and decides to return to France... [More...]
Le Secret (1974)
Robert Enrico
In a mysterious secure establishment, a prisoner named David effects a remarkable escape. Convinced that he is being pursued, he flees to the open countryside... [More...]
Robert Enrico
In a mysterious secure establishment, a prisoner named David effects a remarkable escape. Convinced that he is being pursued, he flees to the open countryside... [More...]
Section spéciale (1975)
Costa-Gavras
In 1941, a demonstration by French communists against the Vichy government is broken up by Nazi soldiers. When a handful of the demonstrators are executed, their comrades take revenge by killing a German naval officer... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
In 1941, a demonstration by French communists against the Vichy government is broken up by Nazi soldiers. When a handful of the demonstrators are executed, their comrades take revenge by killing a German naval officer... [More...]
Sept morts sur ordonnance (1975)
Jacques Rouffio
Dr Pierre Losseray works at a clinic in a French provincial town and is married to the lovely Muriel. When he suffers a heart attack, his rivals are quick to exploit the situation... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
Dr Pierre Losseray works at a clinic in a French provincial town and is married to the lovely Muriel. When he suffers a heart attack, his rivals are quick to exploit the situation... [More...]
Série noire (1979)
Alain Corneau
Franck Poupart is a neurotic door-to-door salesman working in a run-down suburb of Paris. His wife has just walked out on him and his employer treats him with contempt... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Franck Poupart is a neurotic door-to-door salesman working in a run-down suburb of Paris. His wife has just walked out on him and his employer treats him with contempt... [More...]
Les Soeurs Brontë (1979)
André Téchiné
After the death of his wife, the pastor Patrick Brontë lives in the small village of Haworth in West Yorkshire, England, with his three daughters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - and his one son Branwell... [More...]
André Téchiné
After the death of his wife, the pastor Patrick Brontë lives in the small village of Haworth in West Yorkshire, England, with his three daughters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - and his one son Branwell... [More...]
Solo (1970)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Vincent Cabral, a violinist and occasional jewel thief, returns to France hoping to renew his acquaintance with his younger brother Virgile, whom he has not seen for three years... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Vincent Cabral, a violinist and occasional jewel thief, returns to France hoping to renew his acquaintance with his younger brother Virgile, whom he has not seen for three years... [More...]
Le Souffle au coeur (1971)
Louis Malle
France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon... [More...]
Louis Malle
France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon... [More...]
Stavisky (1974)
Alain Resnais
France, 1933. Serge Alexandre is a high-flying businessman who seems to have the Midas touch when it comes to making money... [More...]
Alain Resnais
France, 1933. Serge Alexandre is a high-flying businessman who seems to have the Midas touch when it comes to making money... [More...]
Le Témoin (1978)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Robert Maurisson is a successful businessman who married into a rich bourgeois family and is now one of the most important people in Reims... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Robert Maurisson is a successful businessman who married into a rich bourgeois family and is now one of the most important people in Reims... [More...]
Themroc (1973)
Claude Faraldo
Themroc is a typical blue-collar worker working for a typical medium-sized factory. When he is caught spying on his boss he is reprimanded, and he instantly rebels... [More...]
Claude Faraldo
Themroc is a typical blue-collar worker working for a typical medium-sized factory. When he is caught spying on his boss he is reprimanded, and he instantly rebels... [More...]
Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil (1972)
Jean Yanne
Christian Gerber is a reporter for Radio-Plus, France's most popular radio station. Whilst he attempts to accurately report the peaceful revolution taking place in a Latin American country, his colleagues fabricate their reports in an attempt to draw a larger audience... [More...]
Jean Yanne
Christian Gerber is a reporter for Radio-Plus, France's most popular radio station. Whilst he attempts to accurately report the peaceful revolution taking place in a Latin American country, his colleagues fabricate their reports in an attempt to draw a larger audience... [More...]
Trafic (1971)
Jacques Tati
The car manufacturer Altra is eager to show of its latest creation - a luxury camping car equipped with of all the latest must-have appliances - at a prestigious motor show in Amsterdam... [More...]
Jacques Tati
The car manufacturer Altra is eager to show of its latest creation - a luxury camping car equipped with of all the latest must-have appliances - at a prestigious motor show in Amsterdam... [More...]
La Traque (1975)
Serge Leroy
A young English woman, Helen Wells, arrives in a small Normandy village, where she intends to rent an old farmhouse. A short while later, she encounters a party of men who are hunting wild boar... [More...]
Serge Leroy
A young English woman, Helen Wells, arrives in a small Normandy village, where she intends to rent an old farmhouse. A short while later, she encounters a party of men who are hunting wild boar... [More...]