French cinema: 1970s
La Maman et la putain (1973)
Jean Eustache
Alexandre is an unemployed intellectual who, having no money of his own, sponges off his lover, Marie, with whom he lives...
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Jean Eustache
Marie-poupée (1976)
Joël Séria
Marie is a naive 17-year-old orphan who lives with her grandparents. One day, she enters a dolls shop and immediately attracts the attention of its owner, a charming young man named Claude...
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Joël Séria
Les Mariés de l'an II (1971)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
After killing an aristocrat, commoner Nicolas Philibert bids a hasty farewell to his native France and arrives in the United States, where he soon makes his fortune as a crop merchant...
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Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Max et les ferrailleurs (1971)
Claude Sautet
Disillusioned with the French legal system, Max abandons his career as a judge to become a policeman, believing that he will be more effective at bringing criminals to justice...
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Claude Sautet
La Meilleure façon de marcher (1976)
Claude Miller
In the summer of 1960, Marc and Philippe work as supervisors in a French summer camp for boys. Their different methods of treating their young charges reflect their different personalities...
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Claude Miller
La Menace (1977)
Alain Corneau
Dominique Montlaure owns a substantial trucking business near to Bordeaux, which she runs with the help of her boyfriend, Henri Savin... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Dominique Montlaure owns a substantial trucking business near to Bordeaux, which she runs with the help of her boyfriend, Henri Savin... [More...]
La Merveilleuse visite (1974)
Marcel Carné
One morning, the rector of a small French village comes across a young man, lying unclothed and unconscious on a deserted beach... [More...]
Marcel Carné
One morning, the rector of a small French village comes across a young man, lying unclothed and unconscious on a deserted beach... [More...]
Mes petites amoureuses (1974)
Jean Eustache
12 year old Daniel is living contentedly with his grandmother in a rural French town. He has many friends, he is doing well at school and he looks set to have a happy and successful future... [More...]
Jean Eustache
12 year old Daniel is living contentedly with his grandmother in a rural French town. He has many friends, he is doing well at school and he looks set to have a happy and successful future... [More...]
Messidor (1979)
Alain Tanner
Tired of her dull urban life, Jeanne, a young history student, decides to abandon her studies and take a break in the country... [More...]
Alain Tanner
Tired of her dull urban life, Jeanne, a young history student, decides to abandon her studies and take a break in the country... [More...]
Le Milieu du monde (1974)
Alain Tanner
Paul, a high-flying engineer, is proud to have been born in a Swiss town the locals refer to as the Centre of the World. He is running for a local election when he meets Adriana, a young Italian waitress in a café... [More...]
Alain Tanner
Paul, a high-flying engineer, is proud to have been born in a Swiss town the locals refer to as the Centre of the World. He is running for a local election when he meets Adriana, a young Italian waitress in a café... [More...]
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous (1973)
Jean Yanne
In 1973, the landscape of urban France is coloured by protracted strikes and demonstrations by left-wing political activists... [More...]
Jean Yanne
In 1973, the landscape of urban France is coloured by protracted strikes and demonstrations by left-wing political activists... [More...]
Moi, Pierre Rivière... (1976)
René Allio
The third of June 1835 was an eventful day in the life of the twenty-year old Normandy peasant Pierre Rivière. On this day, he chose to slit the throats of his mother, his sister and his younger brother with a hand scythe... [More...]
René Allio
The third of June 1835 was an eventful day in the life of the twenty-year old Normandy peasant Pierre Rivière. On this day, he chose to slit the throats of his mother, his sister and his younger brother with a hand scythe... [More...]
Monsieur Klein (1976)
Joseph Losey
Paris, January 1942. Robert Klein is an art dealer who has grown rich by trading in valuable art treasures sold by Jews who are desperate to raise cash to escape deportation to Nazi Germany... [More...]
Joseph Losey
Paris, January 1942. Robert Klein is an art dealer who has grown rich by trading in valuable art treasures sold by Jews who are desperate to raise cash to escape deportation to Nazi Germany... [More...]
Mort d'un pourri (1977)
Georges Lautner
Xavier Maréchal agrees to provide his friend Philippe Dubaye with an alibi when the latter confesses to him that he has just murdered a business associate, Serrano... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Xavier Maréchal agrees to provide his friend Philippe Dubaye with an alibi when the latter confesses to him that he has just murdered a business associate, Serrano... [More...]
Mourir d'aimer (1971)
André Cayatte
In 1968, Danièle teaches literature at a high school in Rouen. A staunch advocate of modern teaching methods, she invites her pupils back to her home and makes no distinction between her private and professional lives... [More...]
André Cayatte
In 1968, Danièle teaches literature at a high school in Rouen. A staunch advocate of modern teaching methods, she invites her pupils back to her home and makes no distinction between her private and professional lives... [More...]
La Moutarde me monte au nez (1974)
Claude Zidi
A teacher at a girls' school in Aix-en-Provence, Pierre Durois finds he has an aptitude for writing which others are more than willing to exploit... [More...]
Claude Zidi
A teacher at a girls' school in Aix-en-Provence, Pierre Durois finds he has an aptitude for writing which others are more than willing to exploit... [More...]
Le Mouton enragé (1974)
Michel Deville
Nicolas Mallet is a modest bank employee whose lack of personal ambition is matched by a crippling lack of self-confidence... [More...]
Michel Deville
Nicolas Mallet is a modest bank employee whose lack of personal ambition is matched by a crippling lack of self-confidence... [More...]
Le Mur de l'Atlantique (1970)
Marcel Camus
In 1943, Léon Duchemin is leading a peaceful life in Nazi occupied France. Twenty years after his wife walked out on him, he now lives in a small Normandy town with his sister Marie and daughter Juliette, and together they run a restaurant that is popular with German officers and black marketeers, as well as members of the French Resistance... [More...]
Marcel Camus
In 1943, Léon Duchemin is leading a peaceful life in Nazi occupied France. Twenty years after his wife walked out on him, he now lives in a small Normandy town with his sister Marie and daughter Juliette, and together they run a restaurant that is popular with German officers and black marketeers, as well as members of the French Resistance... [More...]
Les Murs ont des oreilles (1974)
Jean Girault
After breaking up with his wife Muriel, Guillaume, a successful writer, moves into his new house in the country with his grown-up children, Jean-Louis and Marion, and secretary Claudine... [More...]
Jean Girault
After breaking up with his wife Muriel, Guillaume, a successful writer, moves into his new house in the country with his grown-up children, Jean-Louis and Marion, and secretary Claudine... [More...]
Nada (1974)
Claude Chabrol
Nada is a small leftwing terrorist group made up of six people from very different backgrounds. Diaz, the most militant of the group, plans to kidnap the American ambassador Richard Poindexter, in a bid to draw attention to their cause... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Nada is a small leftwing terrorist group made up of six people from very different backgrounds. Diaz, the most militant of the group, plans to kidnap the American ambassador Richard Poindexter, in a bid to draw attention to their cause... [More...]
Nathalie Granger (1972)
Marguerite Duras
Isabelle Granger is a young woman who lives with her husband and daughter Nathalie in a large house in the Yvelines district of Paris... [More...]
Marguerite Duras
Isabelle Granger is a young woman who lives with her husband and daughter Nathalie in a large house in the Yvelines district of Paris... [More...]
Les Noces rouges (1973)
Claude Chabrol
Pierre Maury and Lucienne Delamare are enjoying a wildly passionate extra-marital affair. The intensity of their clandestine meetings makes them aware of the emptiness of their lives... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Pierre Maury and Lucienne Delamare are enjoying a wildly passionate extra-marital affair. The intensity of their clandestine meetings makes them aware of the emptiness of their lives... [More...]
Noirs et blancs en couleur (1976)
Jean-Jacques Annaud
January, 1915. Far from the battlefields of Europe, a small group of French nationals live an uneventful life in a village on the Ivory Coast... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Annaud
January, 1915. Far from the battlefields of Europe, a small group of French nationals live an uneventful life in a village on the Ivory Coast... [More...]
Nous irons tous au paradis (1977)
Yves Robert
When he finds a photograph of his wife kissing another man, Etienne Dorsay becomes mad with jealousy and decides to conduct his own investigation, trailing his wife wherever she goes... [More...]
Yves Robert
When he finds a photograph of his wife kissing another man, Etienne Dorsay becomes mad with jealousy and decides to conduct his own investigation, trailing his wife wherever she goes... [More...]
Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972)
Maurice Pialat
For the past six years, Jean, a struggling filmmaker in his forties, has been pursuing a turbulent love affair with a much younger woman, Catherine... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
For the past six years, Jean, a struggling filmmaker in his forties, has been pursuing a turbulent love affair with a much younger woman, Catherine... [More...]
Les Novices (1970)
Guy Casaril
Sister Agnès has become so bored with her life in a convent that she decides to run away to Paris. Whilst looking in vain for a job, she meets Mona Lisa, a kind-hearted prostitute who invites her to share her way of life... [More...]
Guy Casaril
Sister Agnès has become so bored with her life in a convent that she decides to run away to Paris. Whilst looking in vain for a job, she meets Mona Lisa, a kind-hearted prostitute who invites her to share her way of life... [More...]
La Nuit américaine (1973)
François Truffaut
A film company is shooting the film Je vous présente Pamela in the south of France. The tensions and problems that arise during the filming greatly surpass the drama of the film being made... [More...]
François Truffaut
A film company is shooting the film Je vous présente Pamela in the south of France. The tensions and problems that arise during the filming greatly surpass the drama of the film being made... [More...]
La Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1977)
Bob Swaim
A private detective Nestor Burma has a rendez-vous with a jazz trumpet player in a cheap hotel, to recover some stolen jewellery... [More...]
Bob Swaim
A private detective Nestor Burma has a rendez-vous with a jazz trumpet player in a cheap hotel, to recover some stolen jewellery... [More...]
Nuits rouges (1974)
Georges Franju
A mysterious master criminal is determined to recover the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, but the one man who may be able to help him - the historian Maxime de Borrego - prefers death to giving away the secret... [More...]
Georges Franju
A mysterious master criminal is determined to recover the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, but the one man who may be able to help him - the historian Maxime de Borrego - prefers death to giving away the secret... [More...]
OK patron (1974)
Claude Vital
When Mario, the head of the French Mafia, is mortally wounded by his enemies, his mistress Mélissa immediately sets about finding a successor, unaware that a host of hardened gangsters are poised to take over his organisation... [More...]
Claude Vital
When Mario, the head of the French Mafia, is mortally wounded by his enemies, his mistress Mélissa immediately sets about finding a successor, unaware that a host of hardened gangsters are poised to take over his organisation... [More...]