French cinema: 1960s
Sept jours ailleurs (1969)
Marin Karmitz
Jacques is a 30-something musician who is married, has a young daughter, but is far from fulfilled. Trapped in a sterile marriage, he welcomes the opportunity to spend seven days on tour with a modern dance company in the south of France...
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Marin Karmitz
Les Sept péchés capitaux (1962)
Philippe de Broca
Anger: A friendly mood prevails throughout a small town one Sunday after church. Everyone seems to like one another and not a single unpleasant word is exchanged...
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Philippe de Broca
Le Septième juré (1962)
Georges Lautner
In a moment of madness, Grégoire Duval, a respectable pharmacist, kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake...
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Georges Lautner
Shéhérazade (1963)
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
In 809, Charlemagne sends an ambassador, Renaud de Villecroix, to his equal in power, the Caliph of Baghdad, Haroun-al-Raschid, in the hope of forging an alliance...
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Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Si j'étais un espion (1967)
Bertrand Blier
Dr Lefèvre is a widower who leads a peaceful life with his daughter Sylvie in the suburbs of Paris. One evening, he is called to visit one of his patients, a depressive named Guérin, but gets no reply when he rings the doorbell...
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Bertrand Blier
La Sirène du Mississippi (1969)
François Truffaut
Louis Mahé, the wealthy owner of a tobacco plantation on the island of Réunion, decides to get married - to Julie Roussel, a woman he found through the personal ads pages of his newspaper... [More...]
François Truffaut
Louis Mahé, the wealthy owner of a tobacco plantation on the island of Réunion, decides to get married - to Julie Roussel, a woman he found through the personal ads pages of his newspaper... [More...]
Slogan (1969)
Pierre Grimblat
Serge Faberger is a forty-something publicity director who does not allow his keen interest in the opposite sex to get in the way of a highly successful career... [More...]
Pierre Grimblat
Serge Faberger is a forty-something publicity director who does not allow his keen interest in the opposite sex to get in the way of a highly successful career... [More...]
Snobs! (1962)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
When the president of a dairy farmers' cooperative in Normandy drowns in a vat of milk, elections are soon arranged to find his replacement... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
When the president of a dairy farmers' cooperative in Normandy drowns in a vat of milk, elections are soon arranged to find his replacement... [More...]
Le Soleil des voyous (1967)
Jean Delannoy
After a life of crime, Denis Farrand has retired to a provincial town where he runs a chic bar, which just happens to be opposite a bank... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
After a life of crime, Denis Farrand has retired to a provincial town where he runs a chic bar, which just happens to be opposite a bank... [More...]
Sous le signe du taureau (1968)
Gilles Grangier
The industrialist Albert Raynal has high hopes for his latest project, a revolutionary new missile, the SR01. Unfortunately, the missile explodes on its first test flight and Raynal's financial bankers, one of whom is his brother-in-law Jérôme Laprade, withdraw their support for any further research and development... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
The industrialist Albert Raynal has high hopes for his latest project, a revolutionary new missile, the SR01. Unfortunately, the missile explodes on its first test flight and Raynal's financial bankers, one of whom is his brother-in-law Jérôme Laprade, withdraw their support for any further research and development... [More...]
Les Sultans (1966)
Jean Delannoy
Laurent is a successful businessman whose main preoccupation at the moment is his 18-year-old daughter Kim. The latter, it seems, is in a wretched state after being let down by her boyfriend... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
Laurent is a successful businessman whose main preoccupation at the moment is his 18-year-old daughter Kim. The latter, it seems, is in a wretched state after being let down by her boyfriend... [More...]
Symphonie pour un massacre (1963)
Jacques Deray
Paoli, Clavet, Jabeke and Valoti run a gambling club which is, in truth, a cover for their illicit activities. Repellini, a notorious Marseilles gangster, offers to sell them a large quantity of drugs, which they can sell for twice the price he is asking... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Paoli, Clavet, Jabeke and Valoti run a gambling club which is, in truth, a cover for their illicit activities. Repellini, a notorious Marseilles gangster, offers to sell them a large quantity of drugs, which they can sell for twice the price he is asking... [More...]
Tante Zita (1968)
Robert Enrico
Teenager Annie lives in a Parisian apartment with her mother Yvette and her aunt Zita. When she comes home from school one day, Annie finds her aunt lying on the ground and immediately alerts the house doctor, Bernard... [More...]
Robert Enrico
Teenager Annie lives in a Parisian apartment with her mother Yvette and her aunt Zita. When she comes home from school one day, Annie finds her aunt lying on the ground and immediately alerts the house doctor, Bernard... [More...]
Le Tatoué (1968)
Denys de La Patellière
The wealthy art dealer Félicien Mézeray is paying a visit to the painter Dubois when he makes the acquaintance of an ageing legionnaire named Legrain... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
The wealthy art dealer Félicien Mézeray is paying a visit to the painter Dubois when he makes the acquaintance of an ageing legionnaire named Legrain... [More...]
Tendre voyou (1966)
Jean Becker
When he loses his job as a chauffeur, Tony Maréchal decides to live off the wealthy women who succumb so easily to his seductive charms... [More...]
Jean Becker
When he loses his job as a chauffeur, Tony Maréchal decides to live off the wealthy women who succumb so easily to his seductive charms... [More...]
Terrain vague (1960)
Marcel Carné
For the rebellious youngsters on a deprived Parisian housing estate, home is not a tiny room in a cramped apartment but a place amongst the shattered ruins of a derelict factory on a barren wasteland nearby... [More...]
Marcel Carné
For the rebellious youngsters on a deprived Parisian housing estate, home is not a tiny room in a cramped apartment but a place amongst the shattered ruins of a derelict factory on a barren wasteland nearby... [More...]
Le Testament d'Orphée (1960)
Jean Cocteau
A poet from the 18th century somehow manages to lose himself in time and ends up two hundred years in the future. Here he searches for a professor who alone can end his torment, piercing him with a special temporal bullet that allows him to reborn in the world... [More...]
Jean Cocteau
A poet from the 18th century somehow manages to lose himself in time and ends up two hundred years in the future. Here he searches for a professor who alone can end his torment, piercing him with a special temporal bullet that allows him to reborn in the world... [More...]
La Tête du client (1965)
Jacques Poitrenaud
To go by his outward appearance, Gaston Berrien would seem to be the very epitome of bourgeois respectability. A hat maker, he runs his own business in Vaucresson and is happily married to Françoise, an outgoing woman who is mostly preoccupied with the crime novels she writes... [More...]
Jacques Poitrenaud
To go by his outward appearance, Gaston Berrien would seem to be the very epitome of bourgeois respectability. A hat maker, he runs his own business in Vaucresson and is happily married to Françoise, an outgoing woman who is mostly preoccupied with the crime novels she writes... [More...]
Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962)
Georges Franju
Thérèse Desqueyroux tries to kill her husband, Bernard, by poisoning him, but the attempt fails. To avoid a scandal that will ruin his name, Bernard gives false evidence which results in his wife's acquittal... [More...]
Georges Franju
Thérèse Desqueyroux tries to kill her husband, Bernard, by poisoning him, but the attempt fails. To avoid a scandal that will ruin his name, Bernard gives false evidence which results in his wife's acquittal... [More...]
Thomas l'imposteur (1965)
Georges Franju
September 1914. At the start of the First World War, the inhabitants of Paris flee the capital, fearing an impending invasion by German troops... [More...]
Georges Franju
September 1914. At the start of the First World War, the inhabitants of Paris flee the capital, fearing an impending invasion by German troops... [More...]
Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche (1964)
Claude Chabrol
Baskine, the Turkish ambassador, arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Baskine, the Turkish ambassador, arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France... [More...]
Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite (1965)
Claude Chabrol
Secret agent Louis Rapière - code name “The Tiger” - is sent to French Guyana to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Secret agent Louis Rapière - code name “The Tiger” - is sent to French Guyana to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship... [More...]
Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'Or (1961)
Jean-Jacques Vierne
Captain Haddock can hardly believe his good fortune when he receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a ship named The Golden Fleece from an old friend of his, Paparanic... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Vierne
Captain Haddock can hardly believe his good fortune when he receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a ship named The Golden Fleece from an old friend of his, Paparanic... [More...]
Tintin et les oranges bleues (1964)
Philippe Condroyer
Professor Tournesol's personal campaign against world hunger results in him being sent a most peculiar package from Valencia - a fluorescent blue orange that may, believe it or not, solve the world's food scarcity problems in one fell swoop... [More...]
Philippe Condroyer
Professor Tournesol's personal campaign against world hunger results in him being sent a most peculiar package from Valencia - a fluorescent blue orange that may, believe it or not, solve the world's food scarcity problems in one fell swoop... [More...]
Tire-au-flanc 62 (1961)
Claude de Givray
It is with reluctance that Jean Lerat de la Grignotière, a young man of noble birth, sets out to accomplish his military service... [More...]
Claude de Givray
It is with reluctance that Jean Lerat de la Grignotière, a young man of noble birth, sets out to accomplish his military service... [More...]
Tirez sur le pianiste (1960)
François Truffaut
It wasn't so long ago that Charlie Kohler was considered one of the great virtuoso pianists of his time. Of course, he went by a different name in those days - Édouard Saroyan - and he had a wife Thérésa who meant everything to him... [More...]
François Truffaut
It wasn't so long ago that Charlie Kohler was considered one of the great virtuoso pianists of his time. Of course, he went by a different name in those days - Édouard Saroyan - and he had a wife Thérésa who meant everything to him... [More...]
Le Tonnerre de Dieu (1965)
Denys de La Patellière
Léandre Brassac is an ageing veterinary who lives in a large house near to Nantes with his wife Marie, whom he openly despises and frequently abuses... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Léandre Brassac is an ageing veterinary who lives in a large house near to Nantes with his wife Marie, whom he openly despises and frequently abuses... [More...]
Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
Georges Lautner
Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican... [More...]
Les Tortillards (1960)
Jean Bastia
A successful manufacturer of a leading brand of insecticide, Émile Durand cannot believe his ears when he discovers that his ungrateful son Gérard has run away from home to join a travelling theatre company... [More...]
Jean Bastia
A successful manufacturer of a leading brand of insecticide, Émile Durand cannot believe his ears when he discovers that his ungrateful son Gérard has run away from home to join a travelling theatre company... [More...]
Tout l'or du monde (1961)
René Clair
The small village of Cabosse is renowned for one thing: the people who live there can enjoy a long and healthy life, thanks to the pure country air... [More...]
René Clair
The small village of Cabosse is renowned for one thing: the people who live there can enjoy a long and healthy life, thanks to the pure country air... [More...]