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French cinema: 1970s

Le Retour du grand blond (1974)
Yves Robert

Cambrai, a modest captain in the French secret service, discovers that his superior, Colonel Toulouse, was responsible for the death of his rival Milan...   [More...]

Les Ringards (1978)
Robert Pouret

Believing them to be dangerous gangsters, police superintendent Garmiche and his deputy Benoit closely monitor the activities of three suspicious looking individuals - Aldo, Charlot and Jeannot...   [More...]

Robert et Robert (1978)
Claude Lelouch

Jacques Millet is the director of a marriage agency and prides himself on always being able to match the right man to the right woman, with the aid of his expensive, state-of-the-art computer...   [More...]

Le Roi des bricoleurs (1977)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

Businessman Goumic is over the moon when he learns that he, his wife and his brother-in-law, Malju, have inherited a grand old house in a popular spa town...   [More...]

Les Routes du sud (1978)
Joseph Losey

It is 1975. The Spanish dictator Franco is dying, but his regime still holds on to power. Amongst those who support the communist resistance against Franco are Jean and Eve, exiles living in France...   [More...]

Rude journée pour la reine (1973)
René Allio

For Jeanne, life has become one never-ending round of disappointments. How foolish she must have been, as a little girl, to think that one day she would be a film star or a princess...   [More...]

La Rupture (1970)
Claude Chabrol

Hélène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their infant son...   [More...]

La Salamandre (1971)
Alain Tanner

Pierre, a writer, enlists the help of a friend, Paul, to investigate a real-life story in which a young woman, Rosmonde, was tried for the attempted murder of her uncle...   [More...]

Sale rêveur (1978)
Jean-Marie Périer

Jérôme, a wild young man in his early thirties, lives on a patch of wasteland on the outskirts of Paris with several other luckless marginals...   [More...]

Salut l'artiste (1973)
Yves Robert

Like many in his profession, Nicolas Montei dreams of making the big time as an actor but he has to content himself with whatever bit parts he can grab for himself in his never-ending struggle to make ends meet...   [More...]

Sans mobile apparent (1971)
Philippe Labro

In Nice, Inspector Carella is puzzled by the seemingly motiveless murders of two men - Tony Forest and Pierre Barroyer. The two victims would seem to have nothing in common, apart from the manner in which they were killed - both were shot in the centre of the forehead by a sniper rifle...   [More...]

Le Sauvage (1975)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

In Caracas, Nelly, a nightclub artiste, is about to wed the wealthy Vittorio when she has a sudden change of heart and decides to return to France...   [More...]

Le Sauveur (1971)
Michel Mardore

In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, 14-year-old Nanette lives with her family on their rural farm. One summer's day, she comes across an attractive young man who introduces himself as Claude, an English airman...   [More...]

La Scoumoune (1972)
José Giovanni

In the mid-1930s, contract killer Roberto Borgo leaves Sicily and heads for Marseille, coming to the aid of his old friend Xavier Saratov, who has just been arrested for murder...   [More...]

Le Secret (1974)
Robert Enrico

In a mysterious secure establishment, a prisoner named David effects a remarkable escape. Convinced that he is being pursued, he flees to the open countryside...   [More...]

Section spéciale (1975)
Costa-Gavras

In 1941, a demonstration by French communists against the Vichy government is broken up by Nazi soldiers. When a handful of the demonstrators are executed, their comrades take revenge by killing a German naval officer...   [More...]

Les Seins de glace (1974)
Georges Lautner

A television scriptwriter François Rollin is walking on the beach in Nice when he encounters Peggy, a mysterious blonde to whom he is instantly attracted...   [More...]

Sept morts sur ordonnance (1975)
Jacques Rouffio

Dr Pierre Losseray works at a clinic in a French provincial town and is married to the lovely Muriel. When he suffers a heart attack, his rivals are quick to exploit the situation...   [More...]

La Septième compagnie au clair de lune (1977)
Robert Lamoureux

With France now under German occupation, the members of the ill-fated 7th Company make a belated return to civilian life and it would appear that their wartime escapades are finally at an end...   [More...]

Série noire (1979)
Alain Corneau

Franck Poupart is a neurotic door-to-door salesman working in a run-down suburb of Paris. His wife has just walked out on him and his employer treats him with contempt...   [More...]

Le Serpent (1973)
Henri Verneuil

Colonel Vlassov, an important KGB agent, arrives in Paris and declares his intention to defect to the west. Naturally, the CIA are delighted by this news and its director Allan Davies listens attentively as Vlassov reels off the names of KGB agents who presently hold important posts within NATO...   [More...]

Si c'était à refaire (1976)
Claude Lelouch

Aged 35, Catherine Berger leaves prison after having completed a 15 year prison sentence for complicity in the murder of her employer...   [More...]

Le Silencieux (1973)
Claude Pinoteau

A party of Soviet nuclear scientists are visiting London when one of their number, the distinguished physicist Haliakov, is involved in a road accident...   [More...]

La Situation est grave... mais pas désespérée (1976)
Jacques Besnard

Bertrand Duvenois is a property developer with great ambitions. To secure the go-ahead for a new construction project, he invites Jean-Pierre Mazard, the Minister of Quality and Culture, to spend a weekend with him and his wife, Sophie de Valrude, at their sprawling country estate...   [More...]

Les Soeurs Brontë (1979)
André Téchiné

After the death of his wife, the pastor Patrick Brontë lives in the small village of Haworth in West Yorkshire, England, with his three daughters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - and his one son Branwell...   [More...]

Soldat Duroc, ça va être ta fête (1975)
Michel Gérard

In 1944, a regiment of gallant French soldiers is preparing to liberate the northern French town of Senlis from its occupying Germans, but before they can do so the Americans show up in force and do the job for them...   [More...]

Les Soleils de l'Ile de Pâques (1972)
Pierre Kast

The purpose of the famous stone statues on Easter Island, the moai, has long been a source of speculation and controversy...   [More...]

Solo (1970)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

Vincent Cabral, a violinist and occasional jewel thief, returns to France hoping to renew his acquaintance with his younger brother Virgile, whom he has not seen for three years...   [More...]

Le Souffle au coeur (1971)
Louis Malle

France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon...   [More...]

Souvenirs d'en France (1975)
André Téchiné

In a small French provincial town of the 1930s, Pierre arrives at a factory owned by the wealthy businessman Pedret desperately in search of work...   [More...]



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