Une belle fille comme moi (1972)
François Truffaut

Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist who is writing a thesis on criminal women (which, we are told, is never published)...   [More...]

L'Une chante, l'autre pas (1977)
Agnès Varda

Paris, 1962. Pauline is a seventeen year old girl whose main preoccupation is singing in the school choir. One day, she meets a photographer, Jérôme, whose girlfriend Suzanne is pregnant with his third child...   [More...]

Une femme à sa fenêtre (1976)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

The year 1936 offers the decadent and soulless world of the Greek bourgeoisie few opportunities for intense living. This is felt most by Margot Santorini, who conceals her romantic streak beneath a mask of frivolity and cynicism...   [More...]

Une histoire simple (1978)
Claude Sautet

Marie decides to break up with her boyfriend Georges and to abort his unborn child. As she nears forty she seems to have reached a crossroads in her life but doesn't know where she is heading...   [More...]

Une partie de plaisir (1975)
Claude Chabrol

Philippe and Ester appear to be the perfect couple. They have been together for eight years and, although they have never married, they have a six year old daughter who is testament to the solidity of their relationship...   [More...]

Une vraie jeune fille (1976)
Catherine Breillat

When school breaks up for the summer holidays, Alice, a 14 year old girl, returns to her parents' home in the country. As she gradually becomes aware of her transition to womanhood, the young teenager starts to experience bizarre sexual fantasies...   [More...]

Va voir maman, papa travaille (1978)
François Leterrier

Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme...   [More...]

Les Vacanciers (1974)
Michel Gérard

The Chatton family - Benjamin, Rosy, and their two grown-up children, Philippe and Charlotte - plan to spend a month's holiday in a village in Alsace...   [More...]

La Valise (1973)
Georges Lautner

Having succeeded in making himself the enemy of the entire Arab world, Commander Bloch, a senior agent in the Israeli secret services, flees to Libya and soon finds himself holed up in the French Embassy in Tripoli...   [More...]

Les Valseuses (1974)
Bertrand Blier

Jean-Claude and Pierrot are two long-haired social drop-outs who kill time by committing petty crimes and harassing women...   [More...]

Verdict (1974)
André Cayatte

André Léoni is put on trial for the rape and murder of his girlfriend Annie Chartier, the daughter of a respectable middle-class couple...   [More...]

La Veuve Couderc (1971)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

France, in the mid-1930s. Tati Couderc is a severe-looking woman in her fifties who single-handedly manages a small farm in a remote backwater of rural France...   [More...]

Le Viager (1972)
Pierre Tchernia

France, 1930. Louis Martinet, a 59 year old bachelor, learns from his doctor, Léon Galipeau, that he has only a few years left to live...   [More...]

La Vie devant soi (1977)
Moshé Mizrahi

In her younger days, Madame Rosa used to make a decent living for herself as a prostitute in a popular district of Paris...   [More...]

La Vieille fille (1972)
Jean-Pierre Blanc

After reaching the grand old age of 35, Muriel Bouchon decides to end her days of dull spinsterhood and now devote herself to finding a male companion to share her remaining years...   [More...]

Le Vieux fusil (1975)
Robert Enrico

It is 1944 and Germany is losing the war in Europe. The allied forces have broken through on the Normandy front and the occupying troops have begun their retreat...   [More...]

La Ville-bidon (1973)
Jacques Baratier

With the help of an architect and a real estate agent, a deputy mayor plans to build a new town on a site that is presently occupied by a slum and a rubbish tip...   [More...]

Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres (1974)
Claude Sautet

Every weekend without fail, three old friends - Vincent, François and Paul - meet up to take their mind off their personal and professional anxieties...   [More...]

Violette & François (1977)
Jacques Rouffio

Violette loses her job in a bank after a heated argument with her boss. Her good-for-nothing boyfriend François is unable to hold a job down for more than a few days and so is unable to make up the shortfall in their household income...   [More...]

Violette Nozière (1978)
Claude Chabrol

In 1933, Violette Nozière, 18, leads a respectable middleclass existence with her father Baptiste, a railway engineer, and mother Germaine...   [More...]

Les Voraces (1973)
Sergio Gobbi

A croupier at a casino in Cannes, the handsome Kosta can no longer stand and watch idle millionaires fritter away and rake in money at the gambling tables...   [More...]

Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine (1977)
Coluche

Long, long ago, France is ruled by King Gros Pif I, a man who likes to party. In fact so extravagant are the king's banquets that they are bankrupting the country and his faithful musketeers have to resort to ever more brutal methods to extract taxes from the stinking masses, which is okay because they rather enjoy it...   [More...]

Le Voyou (1970)
Claude Lelouch

Escaped convict Simon Duroc evades capture by the police by ducking into a cinema and getting a woman he has never met before to kiss him...   [More...]

La Zizanie (1978)
Claude Zidi

Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze is an ambitious man. The mayor of a small town in France, he has high hopes for his anti-pollution inventions...   [More...]