French cinema: 1962
Adieu Philippine (1962)
Jacques Rozier
Paris, in the summer of 1960. Michel is a young Frenchman who, just before he is due to start his military service in Algeria, works as a television studio trainee...
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Jacques Rozier
Adorable menteuse (1962)
Michel Deville
Adorable liar... what better way to describe Juliette, the cute little charmer who just cannot help lying to everyone, even her sister Sophie...
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Michel Deville
Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962)
Edouard Molinaro
The funeral of the successful businessman André Laroche is attended by scores of important public figures, all keen to pay homage to a great man of industry...
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Edouard Molinaro
L'Assassin est dans l'annuaire (1962)
Léo Joannon
Albert Rinaldi is a simple bank employee whose naivety makes him an object of ridicule amongst his colleagues. When a woman named Jenny fails to keep an appointment with him, he is certain that once again his colleagues are having a joke at his expense...
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Léo Joannon
Le Bateau d'Émile (1962)
Denys de La Patellière
Realising he is close to death, Charles-Edmond Larmentiel returns to his home town of La Rochelle to enact a cruel vengeance on his family...
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Denys de La Patellière
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...]
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 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...]
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...]
La Chambre ardente (1962)
Julien Duvivier
A dedicated student of history, Mathias Desgrez is an old man who lives alone in his castle buried deep in the Black Forest... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
A dedicated student of history, Mathias Desgrez is an old man who lives alone in his castle buried deep in the Black Forest... [More...]
Le Chevalier de Pardaillan (1962)
Bernard Borderie
Intent on deposing Henri IV, the ambitious Duke de Guise plans to marry a woman who has a stronger claim to the throne than he does, and thereby make himself the rightful King of France... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
Intent on deposing Henri IV, the ambitious Duke de Guise plans to marry a woman who has a stronger claim to the throne than he does, and thereby make himself the rightful King of France... [More...]
Climats (1962)
Stellio Lorenzi
Philippe Marcenat, the manager of a successful family printing firm in Paris, is preparing a catalogue on the famous Louvre Museum... [More...]
Stellio Lorenzi
Philippe Marcenat, the manager of a successful family printing firm in Paris, is preparing a catalogue on the famous Louvre Museum... [More...]
Le Combat dans l'île (1962)
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Le Crime ne paie pas (1962)
Gérard Oury
Segment one: Lucrezia kills her unfaithful lover but she doesn't expect that his other mistress will take revenge on her..... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Segment one: Lucrezia kills her unfaithful lover but she doesn't expect that his other mistress will take revenge on her..... [More...]
La Croix des vivants (1962)
Ivan Govar
Some time after he was falsely accused of the murder of his stepfather, Yan returns to his home village in Flanders. Franz, the local garage owner is not happy with his return... [More...]
Ivan Govar
Some time after he was falsely accused of the murder of his stepfather, Yan returns to his home village in Flanders. Franz, the local garage owner is not happy with his return... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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 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...]
Et Satan conduit le bal (1962)
Grisha Dabat
Yvan, a 20-year-old drifter, is idling away his days in the south of France in the company of his naive girlfriend Emmanuelle... [More...]
Grisha Dabat
Yvan, a 20-year-old drifter, is idling away his days in the south of France in the company of his naive girlfriend Emmanuelle... [More...]
La Fayette (1962)
Jean Dréville
In 1776, the British colonies in America have begun to rise up against the British crown, intent on creating their own independent republic... [More...]
Jean Dréville
In 1776, the British colonies in America have begun to rise up against the British crown, intent on creating their own independent republic... [More...]
Le Gentleman d'Epsom (1962)
Gilles Grangier
Retired military officer Richard Briand-Charmery, known to all as “The Commandant”, gambles every centime he has on horse racing bets... [More...]
Gilles Grangier
Retired military officer Richard Briand-Charmery, known to all as “The Commandant”, gambles every centime he has on horse racing bets... [More...]
Le Gorille a mordu l'archevêque (1962)
Maurice Labro
Shortly after arriving in the Congo, Georges Pacefons is arrested, his plan to assassinate the French Secretary General apparently thwarted... [More...]
Maurice Labro
Shortly after arriving in the Congo, Georges Pacefons is arrested, his plan to assassinate the French Secretary General apparently thwarted... [More...]
La Guerre des boutons (1962)
Yves Robert
Longueverne and Velrans are two quaint little French villages that have been at war for generations. It is a peculiar kind of war because it is prosecuted only by the boys of the two villages, but this isn't to say that the war is not fiercely fought... [More...]
Yves Robert
Longueverne and Velrans are two quaint little French villages that have been at war for generations. It is a peculiar kind of war because it is prosecuted only by the boys of the two villages, but this isn't to say that the war is not fiercely fought... [More...]
Heureux anniversaire (1962)
Jean-Claude Carrière
In her Parisian apartment, a young woman is busy preparing a meal to celebrate her wedding anniversary. Meanwhile, her husband is struggling with the rush hour traffic to get back home... [More...]
Jean-Claude Carrière
In her Parisian apartment, a young woman is busy preparing a meal to celebrate her wedding anniversary. Meanwhile, her husband is struggling with the rush hour traffic to get back home... [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...]
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...]
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...]