French cinema: 1971
Les Amis (1971)
Gérard Blain
Paul is a 16-year-old boy who lives with his mother in social housing in Paris. He left school at 13 and is in no hurry to find a job, imagining that one day he will begin a career as an actor...
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Gérard Blain
Les Assassins de l'ordre (1971)
Marcel Carné
Judge Level is investigating the death of a man named Saugeat, who died shortly after being arrested for a minor offence by two police inspectors one December morning...
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Marcel Carné
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...
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Pierre Granier-Deferre
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...
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Roger Pigaut
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...
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François Truffaut
La Folie des grandeurs (1971)
Gérard Oury
Don Salluste is the all-power minister and tax collector of the King of Spain. He delights in tyrannising the peasants with his band of loyal Black Knights... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Don Salluste is the all-power minister and tax collector of the King of Spain. He delights in tyrannising the peasants with his band of loyal Black Knights... [More...]
Juste avant la nuit (1971)
Claude Chabrol
Charles Masson is a successful advertising executive who has a devoted wife, Hélène, and two adorable children... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Charles Masson is a successful advertising executive who has a devoted wife, Hélène, and two adorable children... [More...]
Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal (1971)
Joël Séria
Anne de Boissy and Lore Fournier are the best of friends. Both come from respectable bourgeois families and they share the same propensity for mischief-making at the strict convent school where they are reluctant boarders... [More...]
Joël Séria
Anne de Boissy and Lore Fournier are the best of friends. Both come from respectable bourgeois families and they share the same propensity for mischief-making at the strict convent school where they are reluctant boarders... [More...]
Mourir d'aimer (1971)
André Cayatte
In 1968, Danièle teaches literature at a high school in Rouen. A staunch advocate of modern teaching methods, she invites her pupils back to her home and makes no distinction between her private and professional lives... [More...]
André Cayatte
In 1968, Danièle teaches literature at a high school in Rouen. A staunch advocate of modern teaching methods, she invites her pupils back to her home and makes no distinction between her private and professional lives... [More...]
Out 1: Noli me Tangere (1971)
Jacques Rivette
In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes... [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...]
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...]
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 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...]
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 Veuve Couderc (1971)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
France, in the mid-1930s. Tati Couderc is a severe-looking woman in her fifties who single-handedly manages a small farm in a remote backwater of rural France... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
France, in the mid-1930s. Tati Couderc is a severe-looking woman in her fifties who single-handedly manages a small farm in a remote backwater of rural France... [More...]