French cinema: 1978
L'Amour violé (1978)
Yannick Bellon
One evening, a nurse, Nicole, is heading home on her moped when she is driven off the road by a van. Four men get out of the van and proceed to taunt her, before abducting her...
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Yannick Bellon
L'Argent des autres (1978)
Christian de Chalonge
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank...
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Christian de Chalonge
Attention, les enfants regardent (1978)
Serge Leroy
With their parents away working on a film in Ireland, four children, aged between 5 and 13, have the run of the family villa in the south of France...
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Serge Leroy
La Ballade des Dalton (1978)
René Goscinny
The Wild West has its fair share of desperados, but few are as desperate as the Dalton brothers, the sad bunch of despicable outlaws who are now just a few days into their two and half thousand year long prison sentence...
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René Goscinny
Les Belles manières (1978)
Jean-Claude Guiguet
Camille, an uneducated young man from the provinces, arrives in Paris to take up the post of housekeeper for the wealthy Hélène Courtray and her reclusive son Pierre...
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Jean-Claude Guiguet
Les Bronzés (1978)
Patrice Leconte
In the late 1970s, a party of hyped up French holidaymakers arrives at a popular holiday club on the Ivory Coast, looking forward to a week of unbridled escape from their humdrum lives... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
In the late 1970s, a party of hyped up French holidaymakers arrives at a popular holiday club on the Ivory Coast, looking forward to a week of unbridled escape from their humdrum lives... [More...]
La Cage aux folles (1978)
Edouard Molinaro
Renato and Albin are a gay couple living in St Tropez, Renato managing a notorious night club in which Albin performs a drag act... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Renato and Albin are a gay couple living in St Tropez, Renato managing a notorious night club in which Albin performs a drag act... [More...]
La Carapate (1978)
Gérard Oury
May 1968. Sentenced to death for murder, Martial Gaulard is being held in a prison in Lyons. Convinced of his innocence, his lawyer - Jean-Philippe Duroc - is sure he can get the death sentence commuted by “presidential grace”... [More...]
Gérard Oury
May 1968. Sentenced to death for murder, Martial Gaulard is being held in a prison in Lyons. Convinced of his innocence, his lawyer - Jean-Philippe Duroc - is sure he can get the death sentence commuted by “presidential grace”... [More...]
La Chambre verte (1978)
François Truffaut
In late 1920s France, Julien Davenne devotes his life to the memory of the dead. He writes impassioned obituaries for an obscure newspaper and has converted his house's Green Room into a mausoleum to his wife, who died ten years earlier shortly after their marriage... [More...]
François Truffaut
In late 1920s France, Julien Davenne devotes his life to the memory of the dead. He writes impassioned obituaries for an obscure newspaper and has converted his house's Green Room into a mausoleum to his wife, who died ten years earlier shortly after their marriage... [More...]
La Chanson de Roland (1978)
Frank Cassenti
In Twelfth Century France, Turold and his troupe of itinerant storytellers accompany a party of peasants on their long and hazardous pilgrimage to the holy town of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain... [More...]
Frank Cassenti
In Twelfth Century France, Turold and his troupe of itinerant storytellers accompany a party of peasants on their long and hazardous pilgrimage to the holy town of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain... [More...]
Chaussette surprise (1978)
Jean-François Davy
After a road accident, Bernard, Raphael and Antoine end up sharing the same hospital ward. As they create pandemonium from their hospital beds (helped by Raphael's compulsive habit of inventing useless gadgets), their wives make the most of their newfound freedom... [More...]
Jean-François Davy
After a road accident, Bernard, Raphael and Antoine end up sharing the same hospital ward. As they create pandemonium from their hospital beds (helped by Raphael's compulsive habit of inventing useless gadgets), their wives make the most of their newfound freedom... [More...]
La Clé sur la porte (1978)
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone... [More...]
Comment se faire réformer (1978)
Philippe Clair
Two rebellious young men are prepared to resort to any means possible to escape their military service. Neither has any intention of serving under his country's colours for the stipulatory whole year, so as a last resort they decide to open fire on their superiors' tent during a firing exercise...... [More...]
Philippe Clair
Two rebellious young men are prepared to resort to any means possible to escape their military service. Neither has any intention of serving under his country's colours for the stipulatory whole year, so as a last resort they decide to open fire on their superiors' tent during a firing exercise...... [More...]
Le Dossier 51 (1978)
Michel Deville
A mysterious foreign power has set its sights on recruiting Dominique Auphal, a prominent French diplomat, as an agent. In order to put leverage on him to get him to comply, the security service of this foreign power embarks on a massive campaign of information gathering targeted at him... [More...]
Michel Deville
A mysterious foreign power has set its sights on recruiting Dominique Auphal, a prominent French diplomat, as an agent. In order to put leverage on him to get him to comply, the security service of this foreign power embarks on a massive campaign of information gathering targeted at him... [More...]
L'Horoscope (1978)
Jean Girault
It is only when he sets foot in the church where he is to be married that Antoine Fromont comes to his senses and realises that he is making a terrible mistake... [More...]
Jean Girault
It is only when he sets foot in the church where he is to be married that Antoine Fromont comes to his senses and realises that he is making a terrible mistake... [More...]
L'Hôtel de la plage (1978)
Michel Lang
The arrival of August, the month of long summer holidays offering freedom from school and work, is eagerly awaited by every man, woman and child in France... [More...]
Michel Lang
The arrival of August, the month of long summer holidays offering freedom from school and work, is eagerly awaited by every man, woman and child in France... [More...]
Ils sont fous ces sorciers (1978)
Georges Lautner
Modest employee Julien Picard is sent by his boss to Mauritius to negotiate an important contract with the inventor of a Creole bouillabaisse... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Modest employee Julien Picard is sent by his boss to Mauritius to negotiate an important contract with the inventor of a Creole bouillabaisse... [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...]
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 Passe-montagne (1978)
Jean-François Stévenin
When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage... [More...]
Jean-François Stévenin
When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage... [More...]
Perceval le Gallois (1978)
Eric Rohmer
Brought up by his widowed mother to know nothing about war and pageantry, the Welsh youth Perceval is awe-struck when he meets a knight for the first time... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Brought up by his widowed mother to know nothing about war and pageantry, the Welsh youth Perceval is awe-struck when he meets a knight for the first time... [More...]
Les Petits câlins (1978)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Sophie, a young mother who has lost the care of her daughter after her divorce, lives with her friends, Corine and Sylivie, in an apartment in the Paris suburbs... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
Sophie, a young mother who has lost the care of her daughter after her divorce, lives with her friends, Corine and Sylivie, in an apartment in the Paris suburbs... [More...]
Le Pion (1978)
Christian Gion
Bertrand Barabi has serious aspirations of becoming a successful author but, whilst he devotes all of his free time to writing, he lacks the confidence to complete his first novel and find a publisher... [More...]
Christian Gion
Bertrand Barabi has serious aspirations of becoming a successful author but, whilst he devotes all of his free time to writing, he lacks the confidence to complete his first novel and find a publisher... [More...]
Préparez vos mouchoirs (1978)
Bertrand Blier
Raoul has tried everything he can think of to cure his wife Solange of her habitual melancholia, but in vain. In desperation, he coerces a stranger he meets in a restaurant into sleeping with her... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Raoul has tried everything he can think of to cure his wife Solange of her habitual melancholia, but in vain. In desperation, he coerces a stranger he meets in a restaurant into sleeping with her... [More...]
La Raison d'état (1978)
André Cayatte
Just as he is about to attend a conference in Italy, Professeur Marrot, a world-renowned biologist, comes across a compromising document... [More...]
André Cayatte
Just as he is about to attend a conference in Italy, Professeur Marrot, a world-renowned biologist, comes across a compromising document... [More...]
Les Ringards (1978)
Robert Pouret
Believing them to be dangerous gangsters, police superintendent Garmiche and his deputy Benoit closely monitor the activities of three suspicious looking individuals - Aldo, Charlot and Jeannot... [More...]
Robert Pouret
Believing them to be dangerous gangsters, police superintendent Garmiche and his deputy Benoit closely monitor the activities of three suspicious looking individuals - Aldo, Charlot and Jeannot... [More...]
Robert et Robert (1978)
Claude Lelouch
Jacques Millet is the director of a marriage agency and prides himself on always being able to match the right man to the right woman, with the aid of his expensive, state-of-the-art computer... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Jacques Millet is the director of a marriage agency and prides himself on always being able to match the right man to the right woman, with the aid of his expensive, state-of-the-art computer... [More...]
Les Routes du sud (1978)
Joseph Losey
It is 1975. The Spanish dictator Franco is dying, but his regime still holds on to power. Amongst those who support the communist resistance against Franco are Jean and Eve, exiles living in France... [More...]
Joseph Losey
It is 1975. The Spanish dictator Franco is dying, but his regime still holds on to power. Amongst those who support the communist resistance against Franco are Jean and Eve, exiles living in France... [More...]
Sale rêveur (1978)
Jean-Marie Périer
Jérôme, a wild young man in his early thirties, lives on a patch of wasteland on the outskirts of Paris with several other luckless marginals... [More...]
Jean-Marie Périer
Jérôme, a wild young man in his early thirties, lives on a patch of wasteland on the outskirts of Paris with several other luckless marginals... [More...]
Le Sucre (1978)
Jacques Rouffio
Adrien Courtois is a tax inspector in his late fifties who has the good fortune to be married to a wealthy woman, Hilda. After a series of generous inheritances, the couple are sufficiently well-off to retire and settle in Paris, where Adrien hopes to make some wise investments that will make him even richer... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
Adrien Courtois is a tax inspector in his late fifties who has the good fortune to be married to a wealthy woman, Hilda. After a series of generous inheritances, the couple are sufficiently well-off to retire and settle in Paris, where Adrien hopes to make some wise investments that will make him even richer... [More...]