French cinema: 1970s
L'Incorrigible (1975)
Philippe de Broca
Within minutes of being released from prison, Victor Vautier resumes his career as a confidence trickster and crook. An incorrigible liar and master of disguise, he rents his former girlfriend's luxury apartment to an American ambassador and sells non-existent military aircraft to an African state...
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Philippe de Broca
India Song (1975)
Marguerite Duras
India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of the French ambassador, has a comfortable existence in Calcutta but, with so few things to occupy her, she soon becomes hopelessly bored...
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Marguerite Duras
Les Innocents aux mains sales (1975)
Claude Chabrol
Forced into earlier retirement after a near-fatal heart attack, hard-nosed businessman Louis Wormser now leads a peaceful existence with his young wife Julie on the French Riviera...
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Claude Chabrol
L'Insolent (1973)
Jean-Claude Roy
Emmanuel Ristack, a ruthless American gangster nicknamed 'L'Insolent', succeeds in escaping from the Santé prison...
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Jean-Claude Roy
L'Invitation (1973)
Claude Goretta
Rémy Placet is a humble office employee who has worked for the same insurance company for the past twenty years. When his mother dies, he is given two months' compassionate leave, during which time he sells his city centre house in Geneva and acquires a much larger property, with ample gardens, in the countryside just outside the city...
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Claude Goretta
Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout (1973)
Pierre Richard
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is a 30-something idealist who is far from happy with being the son of an incredibly rich arms manufacturer... [More...]
Pierre Richard
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is a 30-something idealist who is far from happy with being the son of an incredibly rich arms manufacturer... [More...]
Je suis timide... mais je me soigne (1978)
Pierre Richard
Ever since he was a boy, Pierre Renaud has been afflicted with a chronic shyness that prevents him from establishing any kind of relationship with a member of the opposite sex... [More...]
Pierre Richard
Ever since he was a boy, Pierre Renaud has been afflicted with a chronic shyness that prevents him from establishing any kind of relationship with a member of the opposite sex... [More...]
Je t'aime moi non plus (1976)
Serge Gainsbourg
Immigrant gay lovers Krassky and Padovan eke out a living in France by transporting refuse to a rubbish dump in the middle of nowhere... [More...]
Serge Gainsbourg
Immigrant gay lovers Krassky and Padovan eke out a living in France by transporting refuse to a rubbish dump in the middle of nowhere... [More...]
Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 (1976)
Alain Tanner
In Geneva in the mid-1970s, Mathieu struggles to find work to support himself and his pregnant wife Mathilde. Another couple, Marcel and Marguerite, come to their rescue, offering them a place to live and work on their farm... [More...]
Alain Tanner
In Geneva in the mid-1970s, Mathieu struggles to find work to support himself and his pregnant wife Mathilde. Another couple, Marcel and Marguerite, come to their rescue, offering them a place to live and work on their farm... [More...]
Le Jouet (1976)
Francis Veber
Unemployed for nearly two years, journalist François Perrin is all too eager to accept an offer of a job on a Parisian magazine... [More...]
Francis Veber
Unemployed for nearly two years, journalist François Perrin is all too eager to accept an offer of a job on a Parisian magazine... [More...]
Judith Therpauve (1978)
Patrice Chéreau
After the death of her husband, a respected combatant who served in the French Resistance during the war, Judith Therpauve lives alone in her country house... [More...]
Patrice Chéreau
After the death of her husband, a respected combatant who served in the French Resistance during the war, Judith Therpauve lives alone in her country house... [More...]
Le Juge et l'assassin (1976)
Bertrand Tavernier
France, 1893. When the young woman he is infatuated with rejects him, Joseph Bouvier, a sergeant in the French army, shoots her and then turns the gun on himself... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
France, 1893. When the young woman he is infatuated with rejects him, Joseph Bouvier, a sergeant in the French army, shoots her and then turns the gun on himself... [More...]
Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977)
Yves Boisset
Jean-Marie Fayard is an incorruptible young judge who appears determined to live up to his nickname 'Le Shériff'. His present investigation into a series of deaths linked to a prominent businessman brings him into conflict with his superiors, who are keen to see him redirect his efforts towards less problematic cases... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Jean-Marie Fayard is an incorruptible young judge who appears determined to live up to his nickname 'Le Shériff'. His present investigation into a series of deaths linked to a prominent businessman brings him into conflict with his superiors, who are keen to see him redirect his efforts towards less problematic cases... [More...]
Juliette et Juliette (1974)
Rémo Forlani
Juliette Vidal is a journalist who works on the popular woman's magazine Pénélope, primarily in the role of an agony aunt... [More...]
Rémo Forlani
Juliette Vidal is a journalist who works on the popular woman's magazine Pénélope, primarily in the role of an agony aunt... [More...]
Juste avant la nuit (1971)
Claude Chabrol
Charles Masson is a successful advertising executive who has a devoted wife, Hélène, and two adorable children... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Charles Masson is a successful advertising executive who has a devoted wife, Hélène, and two adorable children... [More...]
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
Louis Malle
The location is a small provincial town in south-west France. It is June 1944 and the country is still under Nazi occupation... [More...]
Louis Malle
The location is a small provincial town in south-west France. It is June 1944 and the country is still under Nazi occupation... [More...]
Laisse aller, c'est une valse (1971)
Georges Lautner
Notorious crook Serge Aubin has served three years in prison for his part in a jewel theft. No sooner has he been released than he is abducted by a rival gang, led by Varèse... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Notorious crook Serge Aubin has served three years in prison for his part in a jewel theft. No sooner has he been released than he is abducted by a rival gang, led by Varèse... [More...]
Lancelot du Lac (1974)
Robert Bresson
Their number reduced through countless skirmishes in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, weary and defeated... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Their number reduced through countless skirmishes in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, weary and defeated... [More...]
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Paul is a 45-year-old American who is coming to terms with his wife's seemingly inexplicable suicide. Jeanne is a 20-something Parisian who is engaged to Tom, an aspiring filmmaker who intends making her the star of his next film... [More...]
Bernardo Bertolucci
Paul is a 45-year-old American who is coming to terms with his wife's seemingly inexplicable suicide. Jeanne is a 20-something Parisian who is engaged to Tom, an aspiring filmmaker who intends making her the star of his next film... [More...]
Le Locataire (1976)
Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky is a shy office clerk who is about to take up residence in an old apartment block in Paris. When he learns that the previous tenant tried to kill herself by jumping from an upstairs window, he feels compelled to visit her in hospital... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky is a shy office clerk who is about to take up residence in an old apartment block in Paris. When he learns that the previous tenant tried to kill herself by jumping from an upstairs window, he feels compelled to visit her in hospital... [More...]
Lucky Luke - Daisy Town (1971)
René Goscinny
When it was founded by an enterprising party of American settlers not so long ago, Daisy Town was intended to be a haven of peace, a place where parents could bring up their children in safety and where neighbours could live side-by-side in perfect harmony... [More...]
René Goscinny
When it was founded by an enterprising party of American settlers not so long ago, Daisy Town was intended to be a haven of peace, a place where parents could bring up their children in safety and where neighbours could live side-by-side in perfect harmony... [More...]
Ludwig (1972)
Luchino Visconti
Ludwig II is a mere youth of nineteen when he ascends to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. A sensitive and idealistic young man, he shows far more interest in the arts and architecture than he does in matters of state... [More...]
Luchino Visconti
Ludwig II is a mere youth of nineteen when he ascends to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. A sensitive and idealistic young man, he shows far more interest in the arts and architecture than he does in matters of state... [More...]
Mado (1976)
Claude Sautet
Simon Léotard is a 50-something real estate financier who finds himself in dire straits when his business partner of many years, Julien, commits suicide... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Simon Léotard is a 50-something real estate financier who finds himself in dire straits when his business partner of many years, Julien, commits suicide... [More...]
Le Magnifique (1973)
Philippe de Broca
When a secret agent is eaten by a shark in a telephone box, ace spy Bob Saint-Clair is sent on a mission to Mexico, to confront his arch-enemy Karpof, assisted by his beautiful partner Tatiana… Thus begins the latest pulp fiction novel by François Merlin, a lonely middle-aged writer who dreams of having a love affair with his neighbour Christine and of getting his revenge on his odious publisher Charron - fantasies which he plays out in his novels... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
When a secret agent is eaten by a shark in a telephone box, ace spy Bob Saint-Clair is sent on a mission to Mexico, to confront his arch-enemy Karpof, assisted by his beautiful partner Tatiana… Thus begins the latest pulp fiction novel by François Merlin, a lonely middle-aged writer who dreams of having a love affair with his neighbour Christine and of getting his revenge on his odious publisher Charron - fantasies which he plays out in his novels... [More...]
Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal (1971)
Joël Séria
Anne de Boissy and Lore Fournier are the best of friends. Both come from respectable bourgeois families and they share the same propensity for mischief-making at the strict convent school where they are reluctant boarders... [More...]
Joël Séria
Anne de Boissy and Lore Fournier are the best of friends. Both come from respectable bourgeois families and they share the same propensity for mischief-making at the strict convent school where they are reluctant boarders... [More...]
La Maison des Bories (1970)
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Julien Durras is a highly regarded geologist who lives with his younger wife Isabelle and their two children, Laurent and Lise, at a remote country villa in Provence known as the House of the Bories... [More...]
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Julien Durras is a highly regarded geologist who lives with his younger wife Isabelle and their two children, Laurent and Lise, at a remote country villa in Provence known as the House of the Bories... [More...]
Le Maître-nageur (1979)
Jean-Louis Trintignant
This is the story of Marie, a woman whose dreams always come true. Once, she dreamt that she would fall in love and would become incredibly rich... [More...]
Jean-Louis Trintignant
This is the story of Marie, a woman whose dreams always come true. Once, she dreamt that she would fall in love and would become incredibly rich... [More...]
Maîtresse (1976)
Barbet Schroeder
Olivier, a thirty-something from the provinces, arrives in Paris and through a friend finds work as a door-to-door book salesman... [More...]
Barbet Schroeder
Olivier, a thirty-something from the provinces, arrives in Paris and through a friend finds work as a door-to-door book salesman... [More...]
Les Malheurs d'Alfred (1972)
Pierre Richard
Ever since he was a child, Alfred Dhumonttye has been afflicted with chronic bad luck. The most cursed of all architects, every building he has ever designed suffers the misfortune of some disaster or other... [More...]
Pierre Richard
Ever since he was a child, Alfred Dhumonttye has been afflicted with chronic bad luck. The most cursed of all architects, every building he has ever designed suffers the misfortune of some disaster or other... [More...]