French cinema: 1960s
L'Insoumis (1964)
Alain Cavalier
When his wife leaves him, Thomas enlists in the French foreign legion and is posted to Algeria. During the 1961 uprising, Thomas deserts and goes into hiding...
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Alain Cavalier
L'Invitée (1969)
Vittorio De Seta
In Paris, Anne, a young designer, is awaiting the return of her husband Laurent, a biologist who is often away from home attending conferences...
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Vittorio De Seta
Jaloux comme un tigre (1964)
Darry Cowl
Henri and Sophie would seem to be the ideal couple, and they would be if it were not for the fact that Henri is pathologically jealous...
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Darry Cowl
Le Jardinier d'Argenteuil (1966)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Monsieur Martin, known as Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris...
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Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
Alain Resnais
Leaving hospital after a failed suicide attempt, Claude Ridder is accosted by two strangers, who make him a bizarre proposal...
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Alain Resnais
Jeff (1969)
Jean Herman
After successfully pulling off a jewel heist that will make them all rich, five hardened gangsters meet up at an agreed location whilst their leader, Jeff, heads off to Antwerp to find a buyer for their ill-gotten gains... [More...]
Jean Herman
After successfully pulling off a jewel heist that will make them all rich, five hardened gangsters meet up at an agreed location whilst their leader, Jeff, heads off to Antwerp to find a buyer for their ill-gotten gains... [More...]
La Jetée (1962)
Chris Marker
The world lies in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone into the past or the future to ask for help... [More...]
Chris Marker
The world lies in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone into the past or the future to ask for help... [More...]
Le Jeu de la vérité (1961)
Robert Hossein
One evening, a group of society friends gather to attend a party. Their host suggests they play a game of confessions, in which each guest reveals some unknown truths about him or herself... [More...]
Robert Hossein
One evening, a group of society friends gather to attend a party. Their host suggests they play a game of confessions, in which each guest reveals some unknown truths about him or herself... [More...]
Jeu de massacre (1967)
Alain Jessua
The author of a series of comic books, Pierre Meyrand is suffering from a severe case of writer's block. When he receives an invitation to the house of Bob Neuman, a great admirer of his work, in Switzerland he cautiously accepts, accompanied by his wife Jacqueline, who illustrates his books... [More...]
Alain Jessua
The author of a series of comic books, Pierre Meyrand is suffering from a severe case of writer's block. When he receives an invitation to the house of Bob Neuman, a great admirer of his work, in Switzerland he cautiously accepts, accompanied by his wife Jacqueline, who illustrates his books... [More...]
Le Jour et l'heure (1963)
René Clément
During WWII, Thérèse Dutheil refuses to have any interest in politics, even though her husband is being held a prisoner-of-war in Germany... [More...]
René Clément
During WWII, Thérèse Dutheil refuses to have any interest in politics, even though her husband is being held a prisoner-of-war in Germany... [More...]
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (1964)
Luis Buñuel
In the early 1930s, a young woman named Célestine leaves Paris to take up the post of a house maid with the Monteils, a bourgeois family living in rural France... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
In the early 1930s, a young woman named Célestine leaves Paris to take up the post of a house maid with the Monteils, a bourgeois family living in rural France... [More...]
Le Journal d'une femme en blanc (1965)
Claude Autant-Lara
Claude Sauvage is a maternity nurse at a large Parisian hospital who recounts her daily experiences in her diary. She has to deal not only with pregnant young woman from unstable backgrounds but also older woman who already have too many children... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Claude Sauvage is a maternity nurse at a large Parisian hospital who recounts her daily experiences in her diary. She has to deal not only with pregnant young woman from unstable backgrounds but also older woman who already have too many children... [More...]
Judex (1963)
Georges Franju
The banker Favraux has made his fortune by preying on others far less scrupulous than he. One day, he receives a letter from someone named Judex threatening him with death unless he returns his ill-gotten gains to those from whom he stole them... [More...]
Georges Franju
The banker Favraux has made his fortune by preying on others far less scrupulous than he. One day, he receives a letter from someone named Judex threatening him with death unless he returns his ill-gotten gains to those from whom he stole them... [More...]
Jules et Jim (1962)
François Truffaut
It is in Paris, in around 1910, that Jules, a German, and Jim, a Frenchmen, meet and become the closest of friends. Aspiring writers, they have a shared interest in literature, art and women... [More...]
François Truffaut
It is in Paris, in around 1910, that Jules, a German, and Jim, a Frenchmen, meet and become the closest of friends. Aspiring writers, they have a shared interest in literature, art and women... [More...]
Landru (1963)
Claude Chabrol
Whilst Europe is being ravaged by the 1914-18 war, Henri Désiré Landru is busy making a dishonest living to keep himself, his wife, his mistress and his four children in the bourgeois manner to which they have all grown accustomed... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Whilst Europe is being ravaged by the 1914-18 war, Henri Désiré Landru is busy making a dishonest living to keep himself, his wife, his mistress and his four children in the bourgeois manner to which they have all grown accustomed... [More...]
La Leçon particulière (1968)
Michel Boisrond
Olivier Fermond is a comfortably off 17-year-old high school student who enjoys chasing girls of his own age. Then he discovers real love, in the form of Frédérique Dampierre, a woman eight years his senior... [More...]
Michel Boisrond
Olivier Fermond is a comfortably off 17-year-old high school student who enjoys chasing girls of his own age. Then he discovers real love, in the form of Frédérique Dampierre, a woman eight years his senior... [More...]
Lemmy pour les dames (1962)
Bernard Borderie
Pursued by autograph hunters at every turn, the world's most famous FBI agent, Lemmy Caution, soon regrets taking a holiday on the French Riviera... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
Pursued by autograph hunters at every turn, the world's most famous FBI agent, Lemmy Caution, soon regrets taking a holiday on the French Riviera... [More...]
Léon Morin, prêtre (1961)
Jean-Pierre Melville
With France under Nazi occupation, life goes on as usual in a small provincial town, the only novelty being the presence of German soldiers in the streets... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
With France under Nazi occupation, life goes on as usual in a small provincial town, the only novelty being the presence of German soldiers in the streets... [More...]
La Ligne de démarcation (1966)
Claude Chabrol
During the Second World War, a small village in the Jura is split in two by the river Loue, which marks the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and the Free Zone... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
During the Second World War, a small village in the Jura is split in two by the river Loue, which marks the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and the Free Zone... [More...]
Les Lions sont lâchés (1961)
Henri Verneuil
Bored of her husband and her humdrum life in the country, Albertine is seriously contemplating a divorce, so she sets out for a short stay in Paris to mull things over... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Bored of her husband and her humdrum life in the country, Albertine is seriously contemplating a divorce, so she sets out for a short stay in Paris to mull things over... [More...]
La Loi des hommes (1962)
Charles Gérard
Paris in the early hours. A hold-up of incredible daring has just been committed in broad daylight. Two crooks managed to make off with a van laden with a fortune, leaving the driver for dead... [More...]
Charles Gérard
Paris in the early hours. A hold-up of incredible daring has just been committed in broad daylight. Two crooks managed to make off with a van laden with a fortune, leaving the driver for dead... [More...]
La Loi du survivant (1967)
José Giovanni
Kroll, alias Le Kalmouk, is an adventurer who made his fortune by digging up a fabulous treasure somewhere in Asia with two of his companions... [More...]
José Giovanni
Kroll, alias Le Kalmouk, is an adventurer who made his fortune by digging up a fabulous treasure somewhere in Asia with two of his companions... [More...]
Lola (1961)
Jacques Demy
Lola is a cabaret singer and dancer in the French port of Nantes. A prostitute, she is popular with the town's sailors, especially an American sailor named Frankie, who is madly in love with her... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Lola is a cabaret singer and dancer in the French port of Nantes. A prostitute, she is popular with the town's sailors, especially an American sailor named Frankie, who is madly in love with her... [More...]
Lucky Jo (1964)
Michel Deville
Lucky Jo is a crook for whom nothing ever seems to go right. He is an amiable sort of guy, always means to do good, but somehow the gods are never on his side - as his gang discovers when he wrecks their criminal exploits... [More...]
Michel Deville
Lucky Jo is a crook for whom nothing ever seems to go right. He is an amiable sort of guy, always means to do good, but somehow the gods are never on his side - as his gang discovers when he wrecks their criminal exploits... [More...]
Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Louis is a devout Catholic who discovers his ideal partner, an attractive blonde student named Françoise, whilst attending mass one evening... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Louis is a devout Catholic who discovers his ideal partner, an attractive blonde student named Françoise, whilst attending mass one evening... [More...]
Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Jean-Luc Godard
Paula Nelson, a young journalist, arranges to meet up with her ex-boyfriend, Richard Politzer, in Atlantic City. Shortly after her arrival in this most ordinary of French towns Paul learns that Richard is dead, the victim of an unknown assassin... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Paula Nelson, a young journalist, arranges to meet up with her ex-boyfriend, Richard Politzer, in Atlantic City. Shortly after her arrival in this most ordinary of French towns Paul learns that Richard is dead, the victim of an unknown assassin... [More...]
Le Magot de Josefa (1963)
Claude Autant-Lara
Musician Pierre Corneille and songwriter Justin Truculia are delighted when they receive their first paycheque for a song they have written together... [More...]
Claude Autant-Lara
Musician Pierre Corneille and songwriter Justin Truculia are delighted when they receive their first paycheque for a song they have written together... [More...]
Maigret voit rouge (1963)
Gilles Grangier
One night, a man is shot dead in the busy Pigalle district of Paris, apparently the victim of a drive-by killing. The sole witness to the crime is Inspector Lognon, who hurries away to notify the police... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
One night, a man is shot dead in the busy Pigalle district of Paris, apparently the victim of a drive-by killing. The sole witness to the crime is Inspector Lognon, who hurries away to notify the police... [More...]
Le Majordome (1965)
Jean Delannoy
By working as a valet to an eminent lawyer who now regrets sending so many people to the scaffold, Léopold has gained himself a remarkably in-depth understanding of French law... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
By working as a valet to an eminent lawyer who now regrets sending so many people to the scaffold, Léopold has gained himself a remarkably in-depth understanding of French law... [More...]
Les Malabars sont au parfum (1966)
Guy Lefranc
Convinced that her soon-to-be married nephew Michel is harbouring a dark secret, Aunt Berthe hires a private detective to discover what he is hiding... [More...]
Guy Lefranc
Convinced that her soon-to-be married nephew Michel is harbouring a dark secret, Aunt Berthe hires a private detective to discover what he is hiding... [More...]