French cinema: 1977
À chacun son enfer (1977)
André Cayatte
A desperate woman makes a mad dash to the television studios, anxious not to waste one second of the air time she has been granted...
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André Cayatte
Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977)
Claude Chabrol
After walking out on her husband, Alice gets into her car and sets out for what she hopes will be a new life. Whilst driving through the countryside a storm breaks and her windscreen suddenly cracks...
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Claude Chabrol
L'Animal (1977)
Claude Zidi
Michel Gaucher is a stuntman who is about to marry his fiancée, Jane Gardner. Unfortunately, on the morning of his wedding he has to cancel the ceremony because he is required to perform a stunt for a movie...
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Claude Zidi
Armaguedon (1977)
Alain Jessua
After the death of his brother, 40-something Louis Carrier suddenly finds himself a very wealthy man. He gives up his job and devotes himself to a carefully conceived plan to make himself famous...
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Alain Jessua
Arrête ton char... bidasse! (1977)
Michel Gérard
Four young Frenchmen travel to Germany to begin their military service at a French forces camp. None of them were expecting a holiday but the rigour and discipline of army life soon begin to get them down...
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Michel Gérard
Cet obscur objet du désir (1977)
Luis Buñuel
Shortly after boarding a train in Seville, a respectable old man pours a bucket of water over a young woman standing on the platform... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Shortly after boarding a train in Seville, a respectable old man pours a bucket of water over a young woman standing on the platform... [More...]
Comme la lune (1977)
Joël Séria
Roger Pouplard, a forty-something refrigerator repairman with Alpha Male tendencies, leaves his respectable wife and daughter so that he can live with his nubile young mistress Nadia... [More...]
Joël Séria
Roger Pouplard, a forty-something refrigerator repairman with Alpha Male tendencies, leaves his respectable wife and daughter so that he can live with his nubile young mistress Nadia... [More...]
La Communion solennelle (1977)
René Féret
Towards the mid-1970s, a large family get-together is arranged at a tranquil spot in the north of France. Attending the out-of-doors communion dinner are around thirty people who span three generations, their life stories stretching right back to the 1890s... [More...]
René Féret
Towards the mid-1970s, a large family get-together is arranged at a tranquil spot in the north of France. Attending the out-of-doors communion dinner are around thirty people who span three generations, their life stories stretching right back to the 1890s... [More...]
Le Crabe-Tambour (1977)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
The Jaureguiberry, a mighty escort ship, leaves the port of Lorient in the northwest of France and sets out on its long journey across the stormy Atlantic... [More...]
Pierre Schoendoerffer
The Jaureguiberry, a mighty escort ship, leaves the port of Lorient in the northwest of France and sets out on its long journey across the stormy Atlantic... [More...]
La Dentellière (1977)
Claude Goretta
Pomme may be 19 but, in her outlook and behaviour, she is still a child. A trainee hairdresser in Paris, she lives in her dreams and makes no attempt to find herself a boyfriend... [More...]
Claude Goretta
Pomme may be 19 but, in her outlook and behaviour, she is still a child. A trainee hairdresser in Paris, she lives in her dreams and makes no attempt to find herself a boyfriend... [More...]
Le Diable probablement (1977)
Robert Bresson
The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand... [More...]
Robert Bresson
The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand... [More...]
Diabolo menthe (1977)
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
Le Gang (1977)
Jacques Deray
In the aftermath of World War II, France is in a state of confusion, and the police are fighting an uphill battle to re-impose the rule of law on a nation still scarred by its sorry period of Nazi Occupation... [More...]
Jacques Deray
In the aftermath of World War II, France is in a state of confusion, and the police are fighting an uphill battle to re-impose the rule of law on a nation still scarred by its sorry period of Nazi Occupation... [More...]
L'Homme pressé (1977)
Edouard Molinaro
Pierre Niox is a busy man. Life is too short to waste on inconsequentialities, so Pierre gallops along like a hyperactive steeplechaser, spending no more time than is necessary on every aspect of his existence... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Pierre Niox is a busy man. Life is too short to waste on inconsequentialities, so Pierre gallops along like a hyperactive steeplechaser, spending no more time than is necessary on every aspect of his existence... [More...]
L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977)
François Truffaut
Before his abrupt, tragic and somewhat farcical death in his mid-forties, Bernard Morane was the most inveterate of skirt chasers... [More...]
François Truffaut
Before his abrupt, tragic and somewhat farcical death in his mid-forties, Bernard Morane was the most inveterate of skirt chasers... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Les Passagers (1977)
Serge Leroy
Whilst his new wife Nicole is busy redecorating their Paris apartment, Alex Moineau sets out for Rome to collect her 11-year-old son Marc at his school... [More...]
Serge Leroy
Whilst his new wife Nicole is busy redecorating their Paris apartment, Alex Moineau sets out for Rome to collect her 11-year-old son Marc at his school... [More...]
Plus ça va, moins ça va (1977)
Michel Vianey
In an affluent corner of the South of France, two police inspectors, Pignon and Melville, are investigating the mysterious killing of an attractive young woman... [More...]
Michel Vianey
In an affluent corner of the South of France, two police inspectors, Pignon and Melville, are investigating the mysterious killing of an attractive young woman... [More...]
Pourquoi pas! (1977)
Coline Serreau
A typically French ménage à trois arrangement seems to suit Fernand, Louis and Alexa, three disparate individuals in their late twenties who are each, in one way or another, a fugitive from life... [More...]
Coline Serreau
A typically French ménage à trois arrangement seems to suit Fernand, Louis and Alexa, three disparate individuals in their late twenties who are each, in one way or another, a fugitive from life... [More...]
La Question (1977)
Laurent Heynemann
Algiers, 1957. Henri Charlegue is the editor of a newspaper that is sympathetic to the cause of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front)... [More...]
Laurent Heynemann
Algiers, 1957. Henri Charlegue is the editor of a newspaper that is sympathetic to the cause of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front)... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Un moment d'égarement (1977)
Claude Berri
Pierre and Victor have been the closest of friends since childhood. Now in their mid-forties, both men are separated from their wives and have teenage daughters, Martine and Françoise... [More...]
Claude Berri
Pierre and Victor have been the closest of friends since childhood. Now in their mid-forties, both men are separated from their wives and have teenage daughters, Martine and Françoise... [More...]
Un taxi mauve (1977)
Yves Boisset
After the death of his son, Philippe Marchal, a French writer, seeks the seclusion of a small coastal village in Ireland... [More...]
Yves Boisset
After the death of his son, Philippe Marchal, a French writer, seeks the seclusion of a small coastal village in Ireland... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]