French cinema: 1960s
On a volé la Joconde (1966)
Michel Deville
The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world, and the most alluring. As soon as Vincent sets eyes on this remarkable work of art he knows that he must possess it, which is not so unlikely as it seems because he is the most accomplished burglar in the world...
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Michel Deville
Oscar (1967)
Edouard Molinaro
Bertrand Barnier is a rich businessman whose pride and joy is his designer house in which he leads a tranquil life with his wife Germaine and daughter Colette...
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Edouard Molinaro
L'Ours et la poupée (1969)
Michel Deville
Since separating from his wife, violinist Gaspard has two passions in his life: music and nature. Felicia is a rich woman who does nothing else but go to parties in her Rolls-Royce and amuse herself with her many male admirers...
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Michel Deville
Le Pacha (1968)
Georges Lautner
Early one morning, an armoured van loaded with diamonds sets out from the Place Vendôme in the heart of Paris to Bourget airport, accompanied by a police escort...
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Georges Lautner
Par un beau matin d'été (1965)
Jacques Deray
On the Côte d'Azur, Francis and his sister Monique make a comfortable living by dubious means. Monique lures men to her bedroom where, in the course of their lovemaking, they are surprised by Francis, who demands financial reparation to avoid a scandal...
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Jacques Deray
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
Jacques Demy
France, 1957. Geneviève is a 17 year-old girl who works in her mother's umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a young garage mechanic, Guy, whom she plans to marry... [More...]
Jacques Demy
France, 1957. Geneviève is a 17 year-old girl who works in her mother's umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a young garage mechanic, Guy, whom she plans to marry... [More...]
Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)
René Clément
Paris, August 1944. Now that the Allied forces are sweeping en masse towards the French capital, confident of victory, the German armies are in retreat... [More...]
René Clément
Paris, August 1944. Now that the Allied forces are sweeping en masse towards the French capital, confident of victory, the German armies are in retreat... [More...]
Paris nous appartient (1961)
Jacques Rivette
Paris, June 1957. Anne Goupil, a student from the provinces, is half-heartedly revising for her exams when she finds herself drawn into an intrigue revolving around the death of a Spanish musician named Juan... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Paris, June 1957. Anne Goupil, a student from the provinces, is half-heartedly revising for her exams when she finds herself drawn into an intrigue revolving around the death of a Spanish musician named Juan... [More...]
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga (1965)
Jean Becker
At the NATO offices in Paris, where she was hired as a cleaner, Rosa Patache manages to steal for her lover Alexis Narenev a microfilm known in the spies' code as 'Aunt Olga's caviar'... [More...]
Jean Becker
At the NATO offices in Paris, where she was hired as a cleaner, Rosa Patache manages to steal for her lover Alexis Narenev a microfilm known in the spies' code as 'Aunt Olga's caviar'... [More...]
Les Pas perdus (1964)
Jacques Robin
Georges Guichard is a young artist who makes his living painting billboards in Paris. One day, he meets Yolande Simonnet, an attractive woman to whom he is strongly attracted, even though she is considerably older than he is... [More...]
Jacques Robin
Georges Guichard is a young artist who makes his living painting billboards in Paris. One day, he meets Yolande Simonnet, an attractive woman to whom he is strongly attracted, even though she is considerably older than he is... [More...]
Le Passage du Rhin (1960)
André Cayatte
Paris, 1939. War is about to be declared any day. Roger works in a bakery and Jean is a reporter for the magazine L'Espoir... [More...]
André Cayatte
Paris, 1939. War is about to be declared any day. Roger works in a bakery and Jean is a reporter for the magazine L'Espoir... [More...]
Le Passager de la pluie (1969)
René Clément
Whilst her husband, an airline navigator, is away from home, Mellie is stalked by strange man. After the man has broken into her home and raped her, Mellie shoots him dead and dumps his body in the sea... [More...]
René Clément
Whilst her husband, an airline navigator, is away from home, Mellie is stalked by strange man. After the man has broken into her home and raped her, Mellie shoots him dead and dumps his body in the sea... [More...]
Patate (1964)
Robert Thomas
Léon Rollo is an inventor who, try as he might, struggles to find a buyer for his marvellous creations. Meanwhile, his childhood friend Noël Carradine has made a phenomenal success of his career as a businessman... [More...]
Robert Thomas
Léon Rollo is an inventor who, try as he might, struggles to find a buyer for his marvellous creations. Meanwhile, his childhood friend Noël Carradine has made a phenomenal success of his career as a businessman... [More...]
Les Patates (1969)
Claude Autant-Lara
In 1942, France is under Nazi Occupation and the country is divided in two, with the north controlled by the Germans and the south governed by the Vichy administration... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
In 1942, France is under Nazi Occupation and the country is divided in two, with the north controlled by the Germans and the south governed by the Vichy administration... [More...]
Peau de banane (1963)
Marcel Ophüls
Cathy, a seductive young woman, decides to take revenge on two crooks, Bontemps and Lachard. These two are responsible for the bankruptcy and ruin of her father, and so she asks Michel, her ex-husband, to give her a helping hand... [More...]
Marcel Ophüls
Cathy, a seductive young woman, decides to take revenge on two crooks, Bontemps and Lachard. These two are responsible for the bankruptcy and ruin of her father, and so she asks Michel, her ex-husband, to give her a helping hand... [More...]
La Peau douce (1964)
François Truffaut
Pierre Lachenay is a world-renowned literary expert and publisher. He is married to Franca and lives in Paris with his young daughter Sabine... [More...]
François Truffaut
Pierre Lachenay is a world-renowned literary expert and publisher. He is married to Franca and lives in Paris with his young daughter Sabine... [More...]
Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (1966)
Jean Eustache
Daniel is an unemployed young man who lives in the southern French town of Narbonne. When he isn't busy chatting up pretty girls, he is indulging in various little scams with his friends to earn himself a bit of badly needed cash... [More...]
Jean Eustache
Daniel is an unemployed young man who lives in the southern French town of Narbonne. When he isn't busy chatting up pretty girls, he is indulging in various little scams with his friends to earn himself a bit of badly needed cash... [More...]
Le Petit baigneur (1968)
Robert Dhéry
The inventor André Castagnier, and his sister, Charlotte, win the coveted first prize of the San Remo regatta, thanks to Castagnier's revolutionary new dinghy... [More...]
Robert Dhéry
The inventor André Castagnier, and his sister, Charlotte, win the coveted first prize of the San Remo regatta, thanks to Castagnier's revolutionary new dinghy... [More...]
Le Petit soldat (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard
It is 1958, at the height of France's war with Algeria. A deserter from the French army, Bruno Forestier, belongs to an extreme right-wing terrorist cell operating in Geneva... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
It is 1958, at the height of France's war with Algeria. A deserter from the French army, Bruno Forestier, belongs to an extreme right-wing terrorist cell operating in Geneva... [More...]
La Petite vertu (1968)
Serge Korber
Ferdinand, known to his friends as Freddy, is a young photographer who appears destined for great things. One day, he arranges to meet up in a bar with a potential cover-girl, Claire Augagneur... [More...]
Serge Korber
Ferdinand, known to his friends as Freddy, is a young photographer who appears destined for great things. One day, he arranges to meet up in a bar with a potential cover-girl, Claire Augagneur... [More...]
Les Petits matins (1962)
Jacqueline Audry
Agathe, a young Belgian secretary, is looking forward to her two weeks' holiday by the sea, but when the Belgian weather turns bad she takes the advice of a total stranger and heads off for the Côte d'Azur, hoping that at her journey's end she will meet her Prince Charming... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
Agathe, a young Belgian secretary, is looking forward to her two weeks' holiday by the sea, but when the Belgian weather turns bad she takes the advice of a total stranger and heads off for the Côte d'Azur, hoping that at her journey's end she will meet her Prince Charming... [More...]
Pierrot la tendresse (1960)
François Villiers
Pierrot la Tendresse makes a respectable living as a professional killer, although no one could possibly mistake the seemingly harmless old man for a murderer... [More...]
François Villiers
Pierrot la Tendresse makes a respectable living as a professional killer, although no one could possibly mistake the seemingly harmless old man for a murderer... [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...]
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...]
La Piscine (1969)
Jacques Deray
Jean-Paul, a failed writer turned advertising executive, is enjoying a month's holiday at a Saint-Tropez villa, in the company of Marianne, his partner of two years' standing... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Jean-Paul, a failed writer turned advertising executive, is enjoying a month's holiday at a Saint-Tropez villa, in the company of Marianne, his partner of two years' standing... [More...]
Playtime (1967)
Jacques Tati
Paris is not what it once was, as a party of American tourists soon discover when they arrive in the capital. To their disappointment, the city has become just like any other they are familiar with... [More...]
Jacques Tati
Paris is not what it once was, as a party of American tourists soon discover when they arrive in the capital. To their disappointment, the city has become just like any other they are familiar with... [More...]
Plein soleil (1960)
René Clément
An impoverished young American, Tom Ripley, is offered a handsome reward by a wealthy businessman to bring his son, Philippe Greenleaf, back home to take over the family business... [More...]
René Clément
An impoverished young American, Tom Ripley, is offered a handsome reward by a wealthy businessman to bring his son, Philippe Greenleaf, back home to take over the family business... [More...]
Pleins feux sur l'assassin (1961)
Georges Franju
Realising that he is about to die, the Count of Keraudren hides himself behind a one-way mirror in a secret room at his chateau... [More...]
Georges Franju
Realising that he is about to die, the Count of Keraudren hides himself behind a one-way mirror in a secret room at his chateau... [More...]
Pleins feux sur Stanislas (1965)
Jean-Charles Dudrumet
Stanislas Dubois has just retired from the espionage business and embarks on a comfortable retirement so that he can write his 'memoirs of a spy'... [More...]
Jean-Charles Dudrumet
Stanislas Dubois has just retired from the espionage business and embarks on a comfortable retirement so that he can write his 'memoirs of a spy'... [More...]
Les Plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
Claude Chabrol
The Benefactors of Fumiko: In Tokyo, a young bar hostess is impressed when an older man boasts that he has spent a fortune on his platinum dentures and has a large sum of cash in his bag... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
The Benefactors of Fumiko: In Tokyo, a young bar hostess is impressed when an older man boasts that he has spent a fortune on his platinum dentures and has a large sum of cash in his bag... [More...]
Pouic-Pouic (1963)
Jean Girault
Léonard Monestier is a canny businessman who owes his success to his unerring ability to spot a sound investment. His wife Cynthia, alas, has no such talent and seems determined to bankrupt them both by splashing out on dodgy shares... [More...]
Jean Girault
Léonard Monestier is a canny businessman who owes his success to his unerring ability to spot a sound investment. His wife Cynthia, alas, has no such talent and seems determined to bankrupt them both by splashing out on dodgy shares... [More...]