French cinema: 1959
Meurtre en 45 tours (1959)
Etienne Périer
With songs composed by her husband Maurice, Ève Faugères has become a hugely successful singer. Ève's career may be on the up but her marriage is heading for the rocks...
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Etienne Périer
Mon pote le gitan (1959)
François Gir
The Védrines are a perfectly respectable middleclass family who lead a perfectly respectable middleclass life - until the rebellious son Théo manages to get a gypsy girl pregnant...
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François Gir
Nathalie, agent secret (1959)
Henri Decoin
Nathalie and Pivoine are two models who are taking part in a fashion show at the Royal de Megève. Pivoine has a crush on engineer François Pellec, the inventor of an atomic powered car engine...
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Henri Decoin
Nina (1959)
Jean Boyer
Adolphe Tessier, a modest clerk, is shocked to discover that his wife Nina has taken a lover. Worse, the man in question - a rich idler named Gérard Blonville - is a compulsive philanderer for whom Nina is seemingly just a passing infatuation...
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Jean Boyer
Le Petit prof (1959)
Carlo Rim
Jérôme Aubin is one of life's natural optimists. He was 15 when France was under Nazi occupation and not even this momentous event could diminish his cheery outlook...
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Carlo Rim
Pickpocket (1959)
Robert Bresson
As he stands in the crowds at a horse race, a solitary young man named Michel yields to an uncontrollable impulse to steal from a woman's handbag... [More...]
Robert Bresson
As he stands in the crowds at a horse race, a solitary young man named Michel yields to an uncontrollable impulse to steal from a woman's handbag... [More...]
Pourquoi viens-tu si tard? (1959)
Henri Decoin
Catherine Ferrier is a well-known lawyer who specialises in cases involving alcoholism. One evening, she meets photographer Walter Hermelin, who has just been involved in a minor car accident... [More...]
Henri Decoin
Catherine Ferrier is a well-known lawyer who specialises in cases involving alcoholism. One evening, she meets photographer Walter Hermelin, who has just been involved in a minor car accident... [More...]
Les Quatre cents coups (1959)
François Truffaut
Antoine Doinel is a 13-year-old boy who lives with his parents in a cramped apartment in Paris. Neglected by his mother, misunderstood by his father, he starts to rebel against authority... [More...]
François Truffaut
Antoine Doinel is a 13-year-old boy who lives with his parents in a cramped apartment in Paris. Neglected by his mother, misunderstood by his father, he starts to rebel against authority... [More...]
Rue des Prairies (1959)
Denys de La Patellière
Released from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1942, Henri Neveu returns to his modest Parisian apartment to learn that his wife has just died giving birth... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Released from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1942, Henri Neveu returns to his modest Parisian apartment to learn that his wife has just died giving birth... [More...]
Les Scélérats (1959)
Robert Hossein
Louise Martin lives with her parents and is engaged as a maid by Jess Rooland, a rich American who lives in a fancy apartment on the other side of the street... [More...]
Robert Hossein
Louise Martin lives with her parents and is engaged as a maid by Jess Rooland, a rich American who lives in a fancy apartment on the other side of the street... [More...]
Le Secret du Chevalier d'Éon (1959)
Jacqueline Audry
To ensure he inherits his uncle's fortune, Pascal d'Éon, an impoverished nobleman, has no choice but to pass off his newborn daughter, Geneviève, as a son... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
To ensure he inherits his uncle's fortune, Pascal d'Éon, an impoverished nobleman, has no choice but to pass off his newborn daughter, Geneviève, as a son... [More...]
La Sentence (1959)
Jean Valère
As the Allies begin their invasion of Northern France in the summer of 1944, four members of the French Resistance are arrested after an attempt to assassinate a German officer... [More...]
Jean Valère
As the Allies begin their invasion of Northern France in the summer of 1944, four members of the French Resistance are arrested after an attempt to assassinate a German officer... [More...]
Signé Arsène Lupin (1959)
Yves Robert
After World War I, the French gentleman thief, Arsène Lupin, emerges from his convalescence in a hospital to resume his criminal activities... [More...]
Yves Robert
After World War I, the French gentleman thief, Arsène Lupin, emerges from his convalescence in a hospital to resume his criminal activities... [More...]
Le Signe du lion (1959)
Eric Rohmer
Pierre Wesselrin, an impoverished musician living in Paris, receives a telegram one morning notifying him that his wealthy aunt has died... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Pierre Wesselrin, an impoverished musician living in Paris, receives a telegram one morning notifying him that his wealthy aunt has died... [More...]
Sursis pour un vivant (1959)
Víctor Merenda
Not long after Jean Monnier, a successful writer, narrowly escapes death in a car accident he is visited in hospital by a man who offers him an unusual service... [More...]
Víctor Merenda
Not long after Jean Monnier, a successful writer, narrowly escapes death in a car accident he is visited in hospital by a man who offers him an unusual service... [More...]
Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959)
Jean Renoir
Dr Cordelier was once a renowned specialist in the field of modern psychiatry, although his more radical theories often brought him into conflict with his peers, none more so than Dr Séverin... [More...]
Jean Renoir
Dr Cordelier was once a renowned specialist in the field of modern psychiatry, although his more radical theories often brought him into conflict with his peers, none more so than Dr Séverin... [More...]
La Tête contre les murs (1959)
Georges Franju
Worn down by the troublesome behaviour of his rebellious son François, Maître Gérane, a well-known lawyer, has him interned in a psychiatric hospital... [More...]
Georges Franju
Worn down by the troublesome behaviour of his rebellious son François, Maître Gérane, a well-known lawyer, has him interned in a psychiatric hospital... [More...]
Les Trois mousquetaires [TV] (1959)
Claude Barma
France, 1625. King Louis XIII reigns but it is the Cardinal de Richelieu who governs. As he is reprimanding Athos, Porthos and Aramis after being thrashed by the cardinal's men, Monsieur de Tréville is visited by the young Charles D'Artagnan, who is keen to serve as a musketeer... [More...]
Claude Barma
France, 1625. King Louis XIII reigns but it is the Cardinal de Richelieu who governs. As he is reprimanding Athos, Porthos and Aramis after being thrashed by the cardinal's men, Monsieur de Tréville is visited by the young Charles D'Artagnan, who is keen to serve as a musketeer... [More...]
Un témoin dans la ville (1959)
Edouard Molinaro
In the course of a violent argument, businessman Pierre Verdier pushes his mistress Jeanne out of a moving train. Tried for murder, he is subsequently acquitted through lack of evidence... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
In the course of a violent argument, businessman Pierre Verdier pushes his mistress Jeanne out of a moving train. Tried for murder, he is subsequently acquitted through lack of evidence... [More...]
La Vache et le prisonnier (1959)
Henri Verneuil
In 1943, Charles Bailly is an unhappy prisoner-of-war on a farm in Nazi Germany. After two years of captivity, he makes up his mind to escape and return to his hometown of Marseille... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
In 1943, Charles Bailly is an unhappy prisoner-of-war on a farm in Nazi Germany. After two years of captivity, he makes up his mind to escape and return to his hometown of Marseille... [More...]
La Valse du gorille (1959)
Bernard Borderie
An international conference at which Professor Keibel is to present his theory for a revolutionary new rocket system is sabotaged by German agents determined to steal Keibel's discovery and sell it to the highest bidder... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
An international conference at which Professor Keibel is to present his theory for a revolutionary new rocket system is sabotaged by German agents determined to steal Keibel's discovery and sell it to the highest bidder... [More...]
Voulez-vous danser avec moi? (1959)
Michel Boisrond
When Virginie meets Hervé Dandieu, a dentist, it is love at first sight and they soon marry. However, it isn't long before they begin to fall out and start bickering over everything... [More...]
Michel Boisrond
When Virginie meets Hervé Dandieu, a dentist, it is love at first sight and they soon marry. However, it isn't long before they begin to fall out and start bickering over everything... [More...]
Les Yeux de l'amour (1959)
Denys de La Patellière
In the spring of 1944, France remains under Nazi occupation and prisoners are still being taken by the Germans, who have yet to discover that the war is already lost... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
In the spring of 1944, France remains under Nazi occupation and prisoners are still being taken by the Germans, who have yet to discover that the war is already lost... [More...]