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French cinema: 1963

Mélodie en sous-sol (1963)
Henri Verneuil

Monsieur Charles has only been out of jail five minutes after completing his last stretch before he begins planning his next robbery...   [More...]

Le Mépris (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard

Paul Javal, a crime fiction writer, is engaged by the American film producer Jeremy Prokosch to re-write a film about Homer's Odyssey...   [More...]

Muriel (1963)
Alain Resnais

Hélène lives in the French sea town of Boulogne with her step-son Bernard, running an antiques business from her apartment...   [More...]

Peau de banane (1963)
Marcel Ophüls

Cathy, a seductive young woman, decides to take revenge on two crooks, Bontemps and Lachard. These two are responsible for the bankruptcy and ruin of her father, and so she asks Michel, her ex-husband, to give her a helping hand...   [More...]

Le Petit soldat (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard

It is 1958, at the height of France's war with Algeria. A deserter from the French army, Bruno Forestier, belongs to an extreme right-wing terrorist cell operating in Geneva...   [More...]

Pouic-Pouic (1963)
Jean Girault

Léonard Monestier is a canny businessman who owes his success to his unerring ability to spot a sound investment. His wife Cynthia, alas, has no such talent and seems determined to bankrupt them both by splashing out on dodgy shares...   [More...]

Shéhérazade (1963)
Pierre Gaspard-Huit

In 809, Charlemagne sends an ambassador, Renaud de Villecroix, to his equal in power, the Caliph of Baghdad, Haroun-al-Raschid, in the hope of forging an alliance...   [More...]

Symphonie pour un massacre (1963)
Jacques Deray

Paoli, Clavet, Jabeke and Valoti run a gambling club which is, in truth, a cover for their illicit activities. Repellini, a notorious Marseilles gangster, offers to sell them a large quantity of drugs, which they can sell for twice the price he is asking...   [More...]

Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
Georges Lautner

Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican...   [More...]

Un drôle de paroissien (1963)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

It is a proud boast that the Lachesnayes have never had to work for their living, and even though times are hard now, it is a tradition that the present generation have no intention of giving up...   [More...]

Un roi sans divertissement (1963)
François Leterrier

In the nineteenth century, a young police captain, Langlois, is sent to a remote snow-covered village to investigate the disappearance of a girl...   [More...]

Un soir... par hasard (1963)
Ivan Govar

At an important research centre in Saclay, just outside Paris, 20-year-old atomic physicist André Ségonne has made what could well be one of the scientific breakthroughs of the century when he creates a small quantity of anti-matter in his laboratory...   [More...]

Vénus Impérial (1963)
Jean Delannoy

Pauline Bonaparte, the preferred sister of the Emperor Napoléon, was destined to lead a life that would be governed more by her brother's political ambitions than her own desires...   [More...]

Le Vice et la vertu (1963)
Roger Vadim

Paris 1944. Justine is about to about to marry Jean, a member of the resistance, when the latter is suddenly arrested by the Gestapo...   [More...]

Les Vierges (1963)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

Five young women from very different backgrounds in the 1960s experience their first romantic coupling: Marie Claude flirts with two young men, François and Rémy, but she gives herself to a total stranger at the fairground...   [More...]

Le Voyage à Biarritz (1963)
Gilles Grangier

For twenty years, station master Guillaume Dodut has dreamt of taking a holiday with his wife and son in the seaside town of Biarritz...   [More...]


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