French cinema: 1960s
La Cuisine au beurre (1963)
Gilles Grangier
During WWII, Fernand Jouvin escapes from the camp where he has been held as a prisoner-of-war and is taken in by a pleasant Austrian woman named Gerda...
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Gilles Grangier
Les Culottes rouges (1962)
Alex Joffé
During WWII, Antoine Rossi is a prisoner in a POW camp in Germany. He has made several attempts to escape, but on each occasion he has failed and has to wear short red trousers as a warning to other would-be fugitives...
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Alex Joffé
Le Curé de Cucugnan [TV] (1968)
Marcel Pagnol
In the rural French village of Cucugnan, an old parish priest named Martin decides that desperate measures are called for if he is to avoid preaching to an empty church...
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Marcel Pagnol
La Curée (1966)
Roger Vadim
Tired of her sham marriage, Renée, the young wife of the wealthy financier Alexandre Saccard, starts an affair with her husband's son, Maxime...
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Roger Vadim
Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964)
Abel Gance
In 1642, France is in a state of political turmoil. Louis XIII is the king in name only. The real power lies with Cardinal Richelieu, whose battles with the Marquis de Cinq-Mars have resulted in a growing rift between the king and his queen, Anne of Austria, threatening the peace of the nation...
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Abel Gance
Dans l'eau qui fait des bulles (1961)
Maurice Delbez
Businessman Paul Ernzer is happily indulging in his favourite pastime, fishing on a Swiss lake, when he lands a catch of the most surprising kind - the dead body of the recently deceased Jean-Louis Preminger... [More...]
Maurice Delbez
Businessman Paul Ernzer is happily indulging in his favourite pastime, fishing on a Swiss lake, when he lands a catch of the most surprising kind - the dead body of the recently deceased Jean-Louis Preminger... [More...]
De l'amour (1964)
Jean Aurel
Raoul is a dentist by trade, an inveterate Don Juan by habit. His young wife Hélène gets her revenge by leaving him and starting a relationship with Serge, a man who accosts her in the street and insists on making love to her... [More...]
Jean Aurel
Raoul is a dentist by trade, an inveterate Don Juan by habit. His young wife Hélène gets her revenge by leaving him and starting a relationship with Serge, a man who accosts her in the street and insists on making love to her... [More...]
Déclic et des claques (1965)
Philippe Clair
Four young men from Algeria arrive in Paris and are soon busy enjoying the delights of the capital as they embark on their search for love and fortune... [More...]
Philippe Clair
Four young men from Algeria arrive in Paris and are soon busy enjoying the delights of the capital as they embark on their search for love and fortune... [More...]
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Jacques Demy
Delphine and Solange are twin sisters living in the French town of Rochefort. Delphine gives ballet lessons whilst Solange teaches music... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Delphine and Solange are twin sisters living in the French town of Rochefort. Delphine gives ballet lessons whilst Solange teaches music... [More...]
Le Démoniaque (1968)
René Gainville
Whilst American film producer Floyd Delaney does the rounds at the Cannes Film Festival, his adolescent son Jay keeps himself to himself, spending most of his time locked up in his hotel room... [More...]
René Gainville
Whilst American film producer Floyd Delaney does the rounds at the Cannes Film Festival, his adolescent son Jay keeps himself to himself, spending most of his time locked up in his hotel room... [More...]
La Dénonciation (1962)
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
October 1961. Michel Jussieu, a successful film producer, returns to a Parisian nightclub he visited the previous night to collect a sweater... [More...]
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
October 1961. Michel Jussieu, a successful film producer, returns to a Parisian nightclub he visited the previous night to collect a sweater... [More...]
La Dérive (1964)
Paula Delsol
In the 1960s, Jacquie is twenty and desperate to escape from her humble background which offers her scant chance of real fulfilment and happiness... [More...]
Paula Delsol
In the 1960s, Jacquie is twenty and desperate to escape from her humble background which offers her scant chance of real fulfilment and happiness... [More...]
Deux heures à tuer (1966)
Ivan Govar
For the past two months, a serial killer has been at large in the inconsequential little French town of Auvemaux. So far the fiend has murdered three women, and on each occasion he takes with him one of the shoes of his unfortunate victim... [More...]
Ivan Govar
For the past two months, a serial killer has been at large in the inconsequential little French town of Auvemaux. So far the fiend has murdered three women, and on each occasion he takes with him one of the shoes of his unfortunate victim... [More...]
Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard
Paris is a city that is in a state of constant evolution, and so are the people who live there. It has many visages, many guilty secrets, many illusions - and so have the people who live there... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Paris is a city that is in a state of constant evolution, and so are the people who live there. It has many visages, many guilty secrets, many illusions - and so have the people who live there... [More...]
Le Deuxième souffle (1966)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Eight years into his prison sentence, a notorious gangster named Gustave Minda (nicknamed Gu) escapes and returns to Paris... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Eight years into his prison sentence, a notorious gangster named Gustave Minda (nicknamed Gu) escapes and returns to Paris... [More...]
Le Diable et les dix commandements (1962)
Julien Duvivier
The ageing warden of a convent is berated by the Mother Superior for his bad language. To cure him of his affliction, the Bishop, an old friend of his, gives him a copy of the Bible and asks him to learn the Ten Commandments by heart... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
The ageing warden of a convent is berated by the Mother Superior for his bad language. To cure him of his affliction, the Bishop, an old friend of his, gives him a copy of the Bible and asks him to learn the Ten Commandments by heart... [More...]
Le Diable par la queue (1969)
Philippe de Broca
Now that her aristocratic family have fallen on hard times, a proud marquise is forced to turn her somewhat dilapidated country residence into a hotel... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
Now that her aristocratic family have fallen on hard times, a proud marquise is forced to turn her somewhat dilapidated country residence into a hotel... [More...]
Diaboliquement vôtre (1968)
Julien Duvivier
A man wakes up in hospital after a near-fatal road accident but finds he has lost his memory. It appears that he is Georges Campo, a successful businessman with interests in the Far East... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
A man wakes up in hospital after a near-fatal road accident but finds he has lost his memory. It appears that he is Georges Campo, a successful businessman with interests in the Far East... [More...]
Le Dialogue des Carmélites (1960)
Philippe Agostini
May, 1789. In Compiègne, a town in northern France, two young women enter a Carmelite convent, each determined to devote their lives to the service of Christ... [More...]
Philippe Agostini
May, 1789. In Compiègne, a town in northern France, two young women enter a Carmelite convent, each determined to devote their lives to the service of Christ... [More...]
Le Dimanche de la vie (1967)
Jean Herman
France, 1936. Julia Ségovie, a mature but not unattractive woman, is leading a contented life as a haberdasher in Le Bouscat, a quaint suburb of Bordeaux, when she falls madly in love... [More...]
Jean Herman
France, 1936. Julia Ségovie, a mature but not unattractive woman, is leading a contented life as a haberdasher in Le Bouscat, a quaint suburb of Bordeaux, when she falls madly in love... [More...]
Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962)
Serge Bourguignon
A country in Asia is being ravaged by war. A young pilot named Pierre is flying over a village where soldiers and civilians are caught in a bloody onslaught... [More...]
Serge Bourguignon
A country in Asia is being ravaged by war. A young pilot named Pierre is flying over a village where soldiers and civilians are caught in a bloody onslaught... [More...]
Les Distractions (1960)
Jacques Dupont
Paul Frapier is a reporter whose only preoccupations are his work, his car and girls. He is more or less in love with a cover-girl Vera but doesn't want any commitment... [More...]
Jacques Dupont
Paul Frapier is a reporter whose only preoccupations are his work, his car and girls. He is more or less in love with a cover-girl Vera but doesn't want any commitment... [More...]
La Dolce vita (1960)
Federico Fellini
Marcello Rubini is an Italian gossip columnist who loves to bask in the reflected glory of the rich and famous, his only chance of enjoying the sweet life of Rome's upper set... [More...]
Federico Fellini
Marcello Rubini is an Italian gossip columnist who loves to bask in the reflected glory of the rich and famous, his only chance of enjoying the sweet life of Rome's upper set... [More...]
Don Camillo en Russie (1965)
Luigi Comencini
Don Camillo can scarcely believe his ears when he receives the news that, thanks to the machinations of his arch-rival Peppone, his Italian town is to be twinned with a village in Communist Russia... [More...]
Luigi Comencini
Don Camillo can scarcely believe his ears when he receives the news that, thanks to the machinations of his arch-rival Peppone, his Italian town is to be twinned with a village in Communist Russia... [More...]
Le Doulos (1962)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Maurice Faugel is a career burglar who has just completed a stretch in prison. He is preparing a house break-in with some equipment provided by a friend, Silien... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Maurice Faugel is a career burglar who has just completed a stretch in prison. He is preparing a house break-in with some equipment provided by a friend, Silien... [More...]
Du grabuge chez les veuves (1964)
Jacques Poitrenaud
It is only after her husband Guillaume's death that Isabelle Valmont discovers he has been leading an incredible double life for years... [More...]
Jacques Poitrenaud
It is only after her husband Guillaume's death that Isabelle Valmont discovers he has been leading an incredible double life for years... [More...]
Du mou dans la gâchette (1966)
Louis Grospierre
Jo Laguerre is a king of the Parisian underworld, a ruthless gangster boss who expects unswerving loyalty and total commitment from those he hires for his nefarious exploits... [More...]
Louis Grospierre
Jo Laguerre is a king of the Parisian underworld, a ruthless gangster boss who expects unswerving loyalty and total commitment from those he hires for his nefarious exploits... [More...]
Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux (1962)
Marcel Carné
Monsieur Armand appears to be a respectable man and is the owner of a large house in Paris. He is in fact a gangster who bought the house with money from a hold-up a few years back... [More...]
Marcel Carné
Monsieur Armand appears to be a respectable man and is the owner of a large house in Paris. He is in fact a gangster who bought the house with money from a hold-up a few years back... [More...]
Du rififi à Paname (1966)
Denys de La Patellière
Paul Berger, known to his associates as Paulo les Diams, runs a highly lucrative gold smuggling operation between Paris, Munich and Tokyo with his old friend Walter, a former antiques dealer... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Paul Berger, known to his associates as Paulo les Diams, runs a highly lucrative gold smuggling operation between Paris, Munich and Tokyo with his old friend Walter, a former antiques dealer... [More...]
L'Eau à la bouche (1960)
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
In the East-Pyrenees, Milena lives in the baroque castle of her grandmother, Lady Henriette, who lies on her deathbed. Miguel, the family solicitor who once had an affair with Milena, is to read the will after the old woman's death... [More...]
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
In the East-Pyrenees, Milena lives in the baroque castle of her grandmother, Lady Henriette, who lies on her deathbed. Miguel, the family solicitor who once had an affair with Milena, is to read the will after the old woman's death... [More...]