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French cinema: 1973

L'Affaire Dominici (1973)
Claude Bernard-Aubert

In August 1952, Sir Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their ten-year-old daughter are taking a holiday in the Haute Provence region of France...   [More...]

L'An 01 (1973)
Jacques Doillon

One Tuesday afternoon, the whole of France comes to a total standstill. Everyone stops working and all activity ceases. The old world is finished...   [More...]

Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Gérard Oury

In his hurry to get to his daughter's wedding, industrialist Victor Pivert forces his chauffeur, Salomon, to drive his car off the road and into a lake...   [More...]

La Bonne année (1973)
Claude Lelouch

Simon is released from prison after having served a seven year stretch for an audacious jewel robbery at Cannes in 1966. He returns to Paris, hoping to meet up with his accomplice, Charlot (who managed to escape with the stolen jewels) and a young antique dealer, Françoise, with whom he is hoping to start a new life...   [More...]

Le Complot (1973)
René Gainville

In March 1962, the French government has signed a treaty with Algeria that will allow the latter country to gain its independence...   [More...]

Le Concierge (1973)
Jean Girault

On graduating from university with honours, Christophe Mérignac has high hopes for his future but he is as yet unsure as to which direction to take as regards his chosen career...   [More...]

The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Fred Zinnemann

Dissatisfied with President De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to Algeria, a number of men in the French military form an underground organisation, the OAS, with the sole aim of assassinating the president...   [More...]

Défense de savoir (1973)
Nadine Trintignant

A lawyer, Jean-Pierre Laubray, is appointed to defend Simone Hild, who has been arrested for the murder of her boyfriend, Jean Ravier...   [More...]

Deux hommes dans la ville (1973)
José Giovanni

Thanks to the support and influence of a kindly parole officer, Gino Strabliggi is released from prison and has a chance to start a new life...   [More...]

Du côté d'Orouët (1973)
Jacques Rozier

One September, three young women take a break from their routine lives in Paris and head for a quiet seaside resort on the Atlantic coast...   [More...]

L'Emmerdeur (1973)
Edouard Molinaro

François Pignon is a man who has lost the will to live. After his wife Louise deserted him for her lover, this pathetic little salesman has only one thought: to hang himself...   [More...]

L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune (1973)
Jacques Demy

Marco Mazetti is a driving instructor who leads a happy and harmonious life with his attractive girlfriend Irène, the owner of a hairdressing salon...   [More...]

Far West (1973)
Jacques Brel

Dressed as a cowboy, 40-year-old Jacques makes his way across present-day Belgium in pursuit of a dream. He wants to go to the Far West and begin a new life...   [More...]

La Femme en bleu (1973)
Michel Deville

Pierre, a music critic in his forties, has enjoyed many liaisons with the opposite sex but somehow his ideal partner has always managed to elude him - until the day he catches a glimpse of a mysterious woman dressed in blue...   [More...]

Le Fils (1973)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

Ange Orahona is a renowned gangster who decides to take a break from his criminal exploits in New York and returns to his rural hometown of Montemaggiore on the island of Corsica...   [More...]

Le Grand bazar (1973)
Claude Zidi

Gérard, Jean-Guy, Phil and Jean are four friends in their early twenties who live in the same high-rise apartment block in one of the less salubrious districts of town...   [More...]

La Grande bouffe (1973)
Marco Ferreri

One winter, four well-off middle-aged men who have grown tired of life decide to kill themselves. For Marcello, an Italian airline pilot with an over-developed libido, life has become intolerable now that he is impotent...   [More...]

Les Granges brulées (1973)
Jean Chapot

Les Granges Brûlées is the name of an isolated farm in the snow-capped Haut Doubs mountains of the Jura which is home to Rose, a strong-willed woman in her fifties, her husband Pierre and their two grown-up sons, Paul and Louis...   [More...]

L'Héritier (1973)
Philippe Labro

When his father, an incredibly wealthy magnate, dies in an aeroplane crash, Bart Cordell finds himself at the head a vast business empire...   [More...]

Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu (1973)
André Cayatte

With no serious contender to oppose him, Joseph Boussard is confident that he will be re-elected as mayor of Chavigny, a small town on the outskirts of Paris...   [More...]

L'Insolent (1973)
Jean-Claude Roy

Emmanuel Ristack, a ruthless American gangster nicknamed 'L'Insolent', succeeds in escaping from the Santé prison...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...]

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...]

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...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles (1973)
Georges Lautner

Situated in the Lot department of southwest France, Loubressac is an idyllic spot to live. You'd think this would be a haven for those seeking the peace and quiet of the countryside, but no...   [More...]

R.A.S. (1973)
Yves Boisset

In 1956, France's professional army lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold onto at any price...   [More...]



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