French cinema: 1965
La 317e section (1965)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
In 1954, at the height of the Indochina War, a French platoon comprising four French soldiers and around forty Laotians is instructed to abandon Luong Ba, an outpost on the border with Laos, and relieve Lao Tsaï, a town 150 kilometres to the south...
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Pierre Schoendoerffer
Alphaville (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard
Lemmy Caution, a secret agent from the Outlands, arrives in Alphaville on a special mission - to kill the dangerous scientist Professor von Braun and destroy his creation, an all-seeing, all-controlling computer named Alpha-60...
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Jean-Luc Godard
L'Arme à gauche (1965)
Claude Sautet
Whilst staying in the Caribbean, sailor Jacques Cournot, is hired by businessman Hendrix to check out a luxury yacht the latter is planning to buy...
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Claude Sautet
Le Bonheur (1965)
Agnès Varda
François has an idyllic life and cannot imagine how he could be happier. He enjoys working as a carpenter with his older brother...
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Agnès Varda
Les Bons vivants (1965)
Gilles Grangier
Three tales concerning the strange history of a brothel lantern. In La Fermeture, Monsieur Charles and Madame Blanche are forced to close their popular brothel in Paris when, just after the war, the government brings in new legislation outlawing such establishments...
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Gilles Grangier
Cent briques et des tuiles (1965)
Pierre Grimblat
Small-time crook Marcel finds himself in deep water when two heavies show up at his apartment after he has lost his gang's recent ill-gotten gains - twenty million francs... [More...]
Pierre Grimblat
Small-time crook Marcel finds himself in deep water when two heavies show up at his apartment after he has lost his gang's recent ill-gotten gains - twenty million francs... [More...]
Compartiment tueurs (1965)
Costa-Gavras
When a sleeper train from Marseille to Paris stops at Avignon, a young woman named Benjamine Bombat climbs aboard and offers a place in her compartment to a handsome young stranger, Daniel, who has omitted to buy a ticket... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
When a sleeper train from Marseille to Paris stops at Avignon, a young woman named Benjamine Bombat climbs aboard and offers a place in her compartment to a handsome young stranger, Daniel, who has omitted to buy a ticket... [More...]
Les Copains (1965)
Yves Robert
One summer, seven men who have been the closest of friends since childhood decide to spend their holidays together. To make this a memorable occasion, they agree to launch a campaign against three of France's main institutions: the army, the church and local government... [More...]
Yves Robert
One summer, seven men who have been the closest of friends since childhood decide to spend their holidays together. To make this a memorable occasion, they agree to launch a campaign against three of France's main institutions: the army, the church and local government... [More...]
Le Corniaud (1965)
Gérard Oury
Antoine Maréchal is about to set off for a holiday in Italy when his 2CV is smashed to pieces by a Rolls-Royce, driven by the wealthy business man Léopold Saroyan... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Antoine Maréchal is about to set off for a holiday in Italy when his 2CV is smashed to pieces by a Rolls-Royce, driven by the wealthy business man Léopold Saroyan... [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...]
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...]
La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo (1965)
Denys de La Patellière
In the 13th century, Marco Polo's dreams of adventure in distant lands look set to become reality when his father, a once great merchant now fallen on hard times, delivers a letter to Pope Gregory... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
In the 13th century, Marco Polo's dreams of adventure in distant lands look set to become reality when his father, a once great merchant now fallen on hard times, delivers a letter to Pope Gregory... [More...]
Fantômas se déchaîne (1965)
André Hunebelle
A year after his disappearance, the arch-criminal Fantômas announces on television that he intends to build a new secret weapon which will make him master of the world... [More...]
André Hunebelle
A year after his disappearance, the arch-criminal Fantômas announces on television that he intends to build a new secret weapon which will make him master of the world... [More...]
Les Fêtes galantes (1965)
René Clair
Way back in the 18th century, life was hard and unpredictable - especially when you found yourself at the mercy of a conquering power... [More...]
René Clair
Way back in the 18th century, life was hard and unpredictable - especially when you found yourself at the mercy of a conquering power... [More...]
Furia à Bahia pour OSS 117 (1965)
André Hunebelle
Following the assassination of several prominent politicians in South America, the French secret services send their best agent - Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, better known as OSS 117 - to investigate... [More...]
André Hunebelle
Following the assassination of several prominent politicians in South America, the French secret services send their best agent - Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, better known as OSS 117 - to investigate... [More...]
Le Gendarme à New York (1965)
Jean Girault
With an international police conference due to take place in New York, the police brigade of St-Tropez is given the honour of attending the event as France's representative... [More...]
Jean Girault
With an international police conference due to take place in New York, the police brigade of St-Tropez is given the honour of attending the event as France's representative... [More...]
La Grosse caisse (1965)
Alex Joffé
Louis Bourdin, a modest ticket puncher on the Paris metro, is so enamoured of crime fiction that he decides to write his own novel, expecting that one day he will be as famous as Auguste Le Breton... [More...]
Alex Joffé
Louis Bourdin, a modest ticket puncher on the Paris metro, is so enamoured of crime fiction that he decides to write his own novel, expecting that one day he will be as famous as Auguste Le Breton... [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...]
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...]
Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha (1965)
Claude Chabrol
A man named Dumont is on a train heading for Switzerland when he is killed by secret agent Bruno Kerrien. The latter finds what he is after in the dead man's possession - an odd-looking item of jewellery in the shape of a blue panther's head with rubies for its eyes... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
A man named Dumont is on a train heading for Switzerland when he is killed by secret agent Bruno Kerrien. The latter finds what he is after in the dead man's possession - an odd-looking item of jewellery in the shape of a blue panther's head with rubies for its eyes... [More...]
La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Three small-time crooks - Edmond, Arthur and Rouquemoute - are planning to mount a small-time heist. To buy the equipment needed for this adventure, they trick notorious art thief Alphonse to lend them some money in exchange for a share in the booty... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Three small-time crooks - Edmond, Arthur and Rouquemoute - are planning to mount a small-time heist. To buy the equipment needed for this adventure, they trick notorious art thief Alphonse to lend them some money in exchange for a share in the booty... [More...]
Par un beau matin d'été (1965)
Jacques Deray
On the Côte d'Azur, Francis and his sister Monique make a comfortable living by dubious means. Monique lures men to her bedroom where, in the course of their lovemaking, they are surprised by Francis, who demands financial reparation to avoid a scandal... [More...]
Jacques Deray
On the Côte d'Azur, Francis and his sister Monique make a comfortable living by dubious means. Monique lures men to her bedroom where, in the course of their lovemaking, they are surprised by Francis, who demands financial reparation to avoid a scandal... [More...]
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga (1965)
Jean Becker
At the NATO offices in Paris, where she was hired as a cleaner, Rosa Patache manages to steal for her lover Alexis Narenev a microfilm known in the spies' code as 'Aunt Olga's caviar'... [More...]
Jean Becker
At the NATO offices in Paris, where she was hired as a cleaner, Rosa Patache manages to steal for her lover Alexis Narenev a microfilm known in the spies' code as 'Aunt Olga's caviar'... [More...]
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard
Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair... [More...]
Pleins feux sur Stanislas (1965)
Jean-Charles Dudrumet
Stanislas Dubois has just retired from the espionage business and embarks on a comfortable retirement so that he can write his 'memoirs of a spy'... [More...]
Jean-Charles Dudrumet
Stanislas Dubois has just retired from the espionage business and embarks on a comfortable retirement so that he can write his 'memoirs of a spy'... [More...]
Quand passent les faisans (1965)
Edouard Molinaro
Small-time swindler Arsène Baudu comes unstuck when he attempts to pull a con-trick on police inspector Hyacinthe Camus... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Small-time swindler Arsène Baudu comes unstuck when he attempts to pull a con-trick on police inspector Hyacinthe Camus... [More...]
La Tête du client (1965)
Jacques Poitrenaud
To go by his outward appearance, Gaston Berrien would seem to be the very epitome of bourgeois respectability. A hat maker, he runs his own business in Vaucresson and is happily married to Françoise, an outgoing woman who is mostly preoccupied with the crime novels she writes... [More...]
Jacques Poitrenaud
To go by his outward appearance, Gaston Berrien would seem to be the very epitome of bourgeois respectability. A hat maker, he runs his own business in Vaucresson and is happily married to Françoise, an outgoing woman who is mostly preoccupied with the crime novels she writes... [More...]
Thomas l'imposteur (1965)
Georges Franju
September 1914. At the start of the First World War, the inhabitants of Paris flee the capital, fearing an impending invasion by German troops... [More...]
Georges Franju
September 1914. At the start of the First World War, the inhabitants of Paris flee the capital, fearing an impending invasion by German troops... [More...]
Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite (1965)
Claude Chabrol
Secret agent Louis Rapière - code name “The Tiger” - is sent to French Guyana to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Secret agent Louis Rapière - code name “The Tiger” - is sent to French Guyana to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship... [More...]
Le Tonnerre de Dieu (1965)
Denys de La Patellière
Léandre Brassac is an ageing veterinary who lives in a large house near to Nantes with his wife Marie, whom he openly despises and frequently abuses... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Léandre Brassac is an ageing veterinary who lives in a large house near to Nantes with his wife Marie, whom he openly despises and frequently abuses... [More...]