French cinema: 1960s
Les Bonnes femmes (1960)
Claude Chabrol
Four attractive young women who work together in an electrical appliance shop do all they can to escape from the tedious monotony of their uneventful lives...
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Claude Chabrol
Les Bons vivants (1965)
Gilles Grangier
Three tales concerning the strange history of a brothel lantern. In La Fermeture, Monsieur Charles and Madame Blanche are forced to close their popular brothel in Paris when, just after the war, the government brings in new legislation outlawing such establishments...
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Gilles Grangier
Le Bossu (1960)
André Hunebelle
In the dying days of the reign of Louis XIV, the scheming prince Philippe de Gonzague decides to murder his cousin, Philippe de Nevers, so that he can take both his fortune and his wife, Isabelle de Caylus...
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André Hunebelle
Boulevard (1960)
Julien Duvivier
Driven away from home by his shrewish stepmother, 15-year-old Jojo finds a place to live by himself, a tiny garret room overlooking the Place Pigalle...
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Julien Duvivier
La Bourse et la vie (1966)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Lucien Pélépan, the financial director of a large construction firm in Toulouse, is far from pleased when he discovers that three of his associates, the Robinhoude brothers, have lost the ten million francs that were supposed to be deposited with his lawyer...
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Jean-Pierre Mocky
Les Bricoleurs (1962)
Jean Girault
Edouard and Félix are a pair of bungling estate agents who have no aptitude for the job whatsoever. Tired of their mishaps, their employer is ready to dismiss them but he gives them one last chance... [More...]
Jean Girault
Edouard and Félix are a pair of bungling estate agents who have no aptitude for the job whatsoever. Tired of their mishaps, their employer is ready to dismiss them but he gives them one last chance... [More...]
La Bride sur le cou (1961)
Roger Vadim
Famous cover girl Sophie dreams of another life than the one she currently has with high class reporter Philippe. Her liking for Philippe soon turns to hate when she discovers that he has fallen for a rich American girl, Barbara... [More...]
Roger Vadim
Famous cover girl Sophie dreams of another life than the one she currently has with high class reporter Philippe. Her liking for Philippe soon turns to hate when she discovers that he has fallen for a rich American girl, Barbara... [More...]
Brigitte et Brigitte (1966)
Luc Moullet
Brigitte has just arrived in Paris from the provinces to start her first year at university. So too has Brigitte. The two Brigittes are dressed identically and arrive at the same train station - which is where they meet... [More...]
Luc Moullet
Brigitte has just arrived in Paris from the provinces to start her first year at university. So too has Brigitte. The two Brigittes are dressed identically and arrive at the same train station - which is where they meet... [More...]
La Brune que voilà (1960)
Robert Lamoureux
Germain, a second hand car dealer, has a real talent when it comes to conning his customers into buying the most unroadworthy of vehicles... [More...]
Robert Lamoureux
Germain, a second hand car dealer, has a real talent when it comes to conning his customers into buying the most unroadworthy of vehicles... [More...]
Bye bye, Barbara (1969)
Michel Deville
Jérôme Tomas is a sportswriter who is covering an important rugby match in Biarritz when, one evening, he enters a bar and encounters a strange young woman dressed in white... [More...]
Michel Deville
Jérôme Tomas is a sportswriter who is covering an important rugby match in Biarritz when, one evening, he enters a bar and encounters a strange young woman dressed in white... [More...]
C'est pas moi, c'est l'autre (1962)
Jean Boyer
A second rate music hall troupe is struggling to find an audience as it hobbles wearily from one provincial venue to another, like a dying animal waiting to be put out of its misery... [More...]
Jean Boyer
A second rate music hall troupe is struggling to find an audience as it hobbles wearily from one provincial venue to another, like a dying animal waiting to be put out of its misery... [More...]
Le Caïd (1960)
Bernard Borderie
An oil refinery in southern France is the site of a bloody hold-up in which a crook named Toni escapes with thirty million francs... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
An oil refinery in southern France is the site of a bloody hold-up in which a crook named Toni escapes with thirty million francs... [More...]
Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle (1960)
Norbert Carbonnaux
Adopted by a wealthy baron, the orphaned Candide grows to accept the optimistic philosophy of his wise tutor, Dr Pangloss, that 'all is for the best in the best of all worlds'... [More...]
Norbert Carbonnaux
Adopted by a wealthy baron, the orphaned Candide grows to accept the optimistic philosophy of his wise tutor, Dr Pangloss, that 'all is for the best in the best of all worlds'... [More...]
Le Capitaine Fracasse (1961)
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
It is 17th century France. The impoverished baron de Sigognac allows a band of travelling actors to spend the night in his run-down castle... [More...]
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
It is 17th century France. The impoverished baron de Sigognac allows a band of travelling actors to spend the night in his run-down castle... [More...]
Le Capitan (1960)
André Hunebelle
France, 1616. After the assassination of Henri IV, the queen mother Marie de Médicis governs France in the name of the young king, Louis XIII... [More...]
André Hunebelle
France, 1616. After the assassination of Henri IV, the queen mother Marie de Médicis governs France in the name of the young king, Louis XIII... [More...]
Le Caporal épinglé (1962)
Jean Renoir
June, 1940. In a German prisoner-of-war camp in North-East France, three soldiers are united by their desire to escape and return to their ordinary civilian lives... [More...]
Jean Renoir
June, 1940. In a German prisoner-of-war camp in North-East France, three soldiers are united by their desire to escape and return to their ordinary civilian lives... [More...]
Les Carabiniers (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard
Two country peasants are recruited to join the army and serve in the war. They are promised wealth, fulfilment and freedom to do whatever they wish whilst in active service... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Two country peasants are recruited to join the army and serve in the war. They are promised wealth, fulfilment and freedom to do whatever they wish whilst in active service... [More...]
Carambolages (1963)
Marcel Bluwal
Paul Martin may be a lowly groundfloor employee of a leisure events company but he has big ambitions, and you can see why... [More...]
Marcel Bluwal
Paul Martin may be a lowly groundfloor employee of a leisure events company but he has big ambitions, and you can see why... [More...]
Caroline chérie (1968)
Denys de La Patellière
France, July, 1789. The French Revolution has just started to get under way but, oblivious to the tempest that is heading their way, a group of aristocrats amuse themselves one sunny day in the Bois de Vincennes... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
France, July, 1789. The French Revolution has just started to get under way but, oblivious to the tempest that is heading their way, a group of aristocrats amuse themselves one sunny day in the Bois de Vincennes... [More...]
La Carrière de Suzanne (1963)
Eric Rohmer
Bertrand and Guillaume, two students at university in Paris, are very different in both their temperament and their attitude... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Bertrand and Guillaume, two students at university in Paris, are very different in both their temperament and their attitude... [More...]
Cartouche (1962)
Philippe de Broca
France in the early 1700s. Calling himself Cartouche, Louis Dominique Bourguignon belongs to a gang of Parisian thieves led by the tyrannical Malichot... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
France in the early 1700s. Calling himself Cartouche, Louis Dominique Bourguignon belongs to a gang of Parisian thieves led by the tyrannical Malichot... [More...]
Le Cave se rebiffe (1961)
Gilles Grangier
Brothel owner Charles Lepicard is desperately in need of a new source of income when the introduction of a new law threatens his business... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
Brothel owner Charles Lepicard is desperately in need of a new source of income when the introduction of a new law threatens his business... [More...]
Ce sacré grand-père (1967)
Jacques Poitrenaud
Jéricho invites his grandson Jacques and his wife Marie to spend their summer holiday with him at his home in Lourmarin in the south of France... [More...]
Jacques Poitrenaud
Jéricho invites his grandson Jacques and his wife Marie to spend their summer holiday with him at his home in Lourmarin in the south of France... [More...]
Ce soir ou jamais (1961)
Michel Deville
Laurent is a poster designer who is about to begin rehearsals for his first stage play, a musical comedy. To celebrate this auspicious event, he holds a party at his apartment, to which his best friends are all invited... [More...]
Michel Deville
Laurent is a poster designer who is about to begin rehearsals for his first stage play, a musical comedy. To celebrate this auspicious event, he holds a party at his apartment, to which his best friends are all invited... [More...]
Cent briques et des tuiles (1965)
Pierre Grimblat
Small-time crook Marcel finds himself in deep water when two heavies show up at his apartment after he has lost his gang's recent ill-gotten gains - twenty million francs... [More...]
Pierre Grimblat
Small-time crook Marcel finds himself in deep water when two heavies show up at his apartment after he has lost his gang's recent ill-gotten gains - twenty million francs... [More...]
Cent mille dollars au soleil (1964)
Henri Verneuil
Castigliano is the owner of a long-distance transport business in Morocco. His existing staff - Rocco, Hervé and Mitch-Mitch - become suspicious when a new driver named Steiner is hired to drive a brand new lorry with an unknown consignment... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Castigliano is the owner of a long-distance transport business in Morocco. His existing staff - Rocco, Hervé and Mitch-Mitch - become suspicious when a new driver named Steiner is hired to drive a brand new lorry with an unknown consignment... [More...]
Certains l'aiment... froide (1960)
Jean Bastia
Before he dies on 4th July 1759, the Marquis of Valmorin drafts a will which he insists will not be opened until 200 years have passed... [More...]
Jean Bastia
Before he dies on 4th July 1759, the Marquis of Valmorin drafts a will which he insists will not be opened until 200 years have passed... [More...]
Le Cerveau (1969)
Gérard Oury
Not long after pulling off a spectacular train robbery in Great Britain, the criminal genius The Brain is soon planning his next lucrative enterprise... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Not long after pulling off a spectacular train robbery in Great Britain, the criminal genius The Brain is soon planning his next lucrative enterprise... [More...]
Ces messieurs de la famille (1967)
Raoul André
Gabriel Pelletier is the commercial director of a company that has a precarious future unless it can secure a partnership with Eric Strumberger, a wealthy American industrialist... [More...]
Raoul André
Gabriel Pelletier is the commercial director of a company that has a precarious future unless it can secure a partnership with Eric Strumberger, a wealthy American industrialist... [More...]
Le Chagrin et la pitié (1969)
Marcel Ophüls
Life in France at the time of the Nazi Occupation during World War II. Those who actively participated in the drama - politicians, soldiers, aristocrats, spies, collaborators and resistance supporters - recount their personal experiences with lucidity, eloquence and emotion.... [More...]
Marcel Ophüls
Life in France at the time of the Nazi Occupation during World War II. Those who actively participated in the drama - politicians, soldiers, aristocrats, spies, collaborators and resistance supporters - recount their personal experiences with lucidity, eloquence and emotion.... [More...]