French cinema: 1962
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...
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Charles Gérard
Le Masque de fer (1962)
Henri Decoin
After France has won the war against Spain, King Louis XIV must marry the daughter of the King of Spain to forge a lasting alliance between the two countries...
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Henri Decoin
Le Monte-Charge (1962)
Marcel Bluwal
Released from prison one Christmas evening, Robert Herbin tries to contact his mother, only to find that she died whilst he was in jail...
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Marcel Bluwal
Les Mystères de Paris (1962)
André Hunebelle
Paris, 1840. The fortunes of the Marquis Rodolphe de Sombreuil, a frivolous dandy, and Marie Godin, one of the city's malnourished poor, become inextricably linked on the day that the former's horse-drawn carriage knocks down the latter's father...
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André Hunebelle
Nous irons à Deauville (1962)
Francis Rigaud
Two friends head off for their holidays in the seaside resort of Deauville, accompanied by their wives and the niece of one of them...
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Francis Rigaud
L'Oeil du malin (1962)
Claude Chabrol
Embittered by his failure to make a success of his career as a journalist, Albin Mercier enjoys nothing more than bringing misery to others, particularly those who have made something of their lives... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Embittered by his failure to make a success of his career as a journalist, Albin Mercier enjoys nothing more than bringing misery to others, particularly those who have made something of their lives... [More...]
L'Oeil du monocle (1962)
Georges Lautner
Twenty years ago, with WWII turning in favour of the allies, the Germans dropped a chest filled with gold and important secret documents into the sea off the coast of Corsica... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Twenty years ago, with WWII turning in favour of the allies, the Germans dropped a chest filled with gold and important secret documents into the sea off the coast of Corsica... [More...]
Les Petits matins (1962)
Jacqueline Audry
Agathe, a young Belgian secretary, is looking forward to her two weeks' holiday by the sea, but when the Belgian weather turns bad she takes the advice of a total stranger and heads off for the Côte d'Azur, hoping that at her journey's end she will meet her Prince Charming... [More...]
Jacqueline Audry
Agathe, a young Belgian secretary, is looking forward to her two weeks' holiday by the sea, but when the Belgian weather turns bad she takes the advice of a total stranger and heads off for the Côte d'Azur, hoping that at her journey's end she will meet her Prince Charming... [More...]
Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962)
Robert Bresson
Rouen, 1431. After falling into the hands of her English enemies, Jeanne, the young peasant girl who became a figurehead of the French army during the Hundred Years War, is placed on trial for heresy... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Rouen, 1431. After falling into the hands of her English enemies, Jeanne, the young peasant girl who became a figurehead of the French army during the Hundred Years War, is placed on trial for heresy... [More...]
Les Quatre vérités (1962)
Alessandro Blasetti
The famous fables of Jean de la Fontaine have inspired many tales of love. Here are just a few... In Death and the Woodcutter, a modest pianist is driven to thoughts of suicide when he is caught up in the implacable machinery of a police investigation... [More...]
Alessandro Blasetti
The famous fables of Jean de la Fontaine have inspired many tales of love. Here are just a few... In Death and the Woodcutter, a modest pianist is driven to thoughts of suicide when he is caught up in the implacable machinery of a police investigation... [More...]
Que personne ne sorte (1962)
Ivan Govar
A lonely widow Adélia is delighted when Jo, the charming man she met on holiday, turns up at her Bruges mansion one Christmas Eve... [More...]
Ivan Govar
A lonely widow Adélia is delighted when Jo, the charming man she met on holiday, turns up at her Bruges mansion one Christmas Eve... [More...]
Rencontres (1962)
Philippe Agostini
Bella Krastner is sunbathing on a beach on the Côte d'Azur when she attracts the attention of an attractive younger man, Ralph Scaffari... [More...]
Philippe Agostini
Bella Krastner is sunbathing on a beach on the Côte d'Azur when she attracts the attention of an attractive younger man, Ralph Scaffari... [More...]
Le Repos du guerrier (1962)
Roger Vadim
A beautiful young woman, Genevieve, has just inherited a fortune from an aunt. Before going to see her lawyer, she checks into a hotel where, mixing up her room number, she comes across a young man who has just taken an overdose of tablets... [More...]
Roger Vadim
A beautiful young woman, Genevieve, has just inherited a fortune from an aunt. Before going to see her lawyer, she checks into a hotel where, mixing up her room number, she comes across a young man who has just taken an overdose of tablets... [More...]
Rififi à Tokyo (1962)
Jacques Deray
Before he retires, the veteran crook Van Hekkin plans to pull off the crime of his career, by stealing a huge and valuable diamond from a vault in a Tokyo bank... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Before he retires, the veteran crook Van Hekkin plans to pull off the crime of his career, by stealing a huge and valuable diamond from a vault in a Tokyo bank... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Georges Lautner
In a moment of madness, Grégoire Duval, a respectable pharmacist, kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake... [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...]
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...]
Un cheval pour deux (1962)
Jean-Marc Thibault
On the very day that Paris is liberated by the Allies, 24th August 1944, a young man named Maurice is glad to be released from prison... [More...]
Jean-Marc Thibault
On the very day that Paris is liberated by the Allies, 24th August 1944, a young man named Maurice is glad to be released from prison... [More...]
Un singe en hiver (1962)
Henri Verneuil
A young man, Gabriel Fouquet, arrives in a coastal town in Normandy to visit his daughter, who is staying in a boarding school... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
A young man, Gabriel Fouquet, arrives in a coastal town in Normandy to visit his daughter, who is staying in a boarding school... [More...]
Les Veinards (1962)
Philippe de Broca
Every day, the newspapers we buy tell us about a fortunate man or woman who has won some spectacular prize. Do these people really exist... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
Every day, the newspapers we buy tell us about a fortunate man or woman who has won some spectacular prize. Do these people really exist... [More...]
La Vendetta (1962)
Jean Chérasse
In moving to the small Corsican town of Arbella Monsieur Lauriston was hoping for a long and peaceful retirement. His arrival coincides with an election campaign following the death of the town's previous mayor... [More...]
Jean Chérasse
In moving to the small Corsican town of Arbella Monsieur Lauriston was hoping for a long and peaceful retirement. His arrival coincides with an election campaign following the death of the town's previous mayor... [More...]
Vie privée (1962)
Louis Malle
Within virtually no time at all, an 18 years old girl Jill is propelled from total obscurity to stardom. Whilst pursuing dancing lessons in Paris, she is hired as a fashion model, before starting a career as an actress... [More...]
Louis Malle
Within virtually no time at all, an 18 years old girl Jill is propelled from total obscurity to stardom. Whilst pursuing dancing lessons in Paris, she is hired as a fashion model, before starting a career as an actress... [More...]
Vive le Tour (1962)
Louis Malle
La Grande Boucle, better known as the Tour de France, is the most eagerly anticipated sporting event in France each year... [More...]
Louis Malle
La Grande Boucle, better known as the Tour de France, is the most eagerly anticipated sporting event in France each year... [More...]
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Jean-Luc Godard
Nana is an attractive woman, in her early twenties, who works in a Paris shop that sells records. Her job bores her and she dreams of becoming an actress... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Nana is an attractive woman, in her early twenties, who works in a Paris shop that sells records. Her job bores her and she dreams of becoming an actress... [More...]