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French cinema: 1960s (Page 1 of 17)

La 317e section (1965)

Pierre Schoendoerffer

In 1954, at the height of the Indochina War, a French platoon comprising four French soldiers and around forty Laotians is instructed to abandon Luong Ba, an outpost on the border with Laos, and relieve Lao Tsaï, a town 150 kilometres to the south. The platoon is led by the young lieutenant Torrens and his adjutant, Willsdorff, who served in the German army during the Second World War... [More...]

À bout de souffle (1960)

Jean-Luc Godard

Michel Poiccard is a small-time crook who is on the run after having shot dead a policeman. Hoping to recover some money he is owed by some shady associates of his, Michel returns to Paris. Here, he meets up with Patricia, a young student and aspiring journalist with whom he had enjoyed a brief affair in Nice... [More...]

À cause, à cause d’une femme (1963)

Michel Deville

The young and seductive Rémi is a lady’s man of the first degree. He knows that women find his charms irresistible and he exploits the fact to his advantage, oblivious to the hearts he may break along the way. Rémi’s present entourage includes Nathalie, who loves him with indifference, Lisette, who loves him with a childish playfulness, Agathe, who loves him passionately, and Chloé, who loves him with a fierce possessiveness bordering on sociopathic obsession... [More...]

À coeur joie (1967)

Serge Bourguignon

Cécile, a fashion model, seems to be happy with her partner, Philippe. But one July 14th evening, she meets Vincent and she falls madly in love again. By chance, Cécile and Vincent see each other again in London, a short time later, when the former is presenting a new collection. They decide to give free rein to their amorous passion during a stay in Scotland, but both of them know that there is a ticket back home and a difficult choice will soon have to be made..... [More...]

À toi de faire... mignonne (1963)

Bernard Borderie

An FBI agent is murdered just as she discovers some important documents concerning Professor Elmer Whittaker. When the professor goes missing, Lemmy Caution is sent to investigate. A short while later, the professor’s fiancée Géraldine Montevecchio is kidnapped from her hotel. The only clue that Caution has to go on is that Géraldine has been taken to Paris... [More...]

À tout casser (1968)

John Berry

Frankie and his friends open a nightclub above the lair of Morelli, a notorious gangster. The latter is planning the heist of the century and resents the noise made by the young people enjoying themselves above him. In the end, Morelli decides to use whatever means necessary to drive the noisemakers away... [More...]

Adieu l’ami (1968)

Jean Herman

Dino Barran and Franz Popp, two ex-combatants of the Algerian War arrive in Marseilles, hoping to start a new life. Shortly after their parting, Dino is persuaded by a strange young woman to join in a bizarre scheme – to return some stolen bonds to a vault in her company’s basement. On the night on which Dino is to execute the plan, he learns that a vast fortune in bank notes has just been deposited in the safe... [More...]

Adieu Philippine (1962)

Jacques Rozier

Michel is a young man who works as a trainee operator in television, a temporary job before his military service. He meets and becomes friendly with two young women, Liliane and Juliette, aspiring actresses who lack the talent to land roles in anything greater than mediocre TV ads. The three friends share a holiday in Corsica, which will be Michel’s last break before being drafted into the French army, most probably to fight in the war in Algeria... [More...]

Adorable menteuse (1962)

Michel Deville

Juliette is a young woman who just can’t help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie’s fiancé Martin, and to all the men she attracts with her womanly charms. But when she falls for an older man, a 40-year old lawyer, her reputation as a liar precedes her and she cannot convince him that he really does love him… ... [More...]

L’Affaire d’une nuit (1960)

Henri Verneuil

One day, Michel Ferréol reluctantly meets up with an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco. Michel didn’t like Antoine much when they were at school and tries to get away by making an excuse. He changes his mind when Antoine introduces him to his wife, a beautiful brunette named Christine. From the latter’s revelations about her husband, Michel suspects that she may be willing to spend a night with him... [More...]

L’Âge ingrat (1964)

Gilles Grangier

Two students, Antoine and Marie, decide that their families should get to know one another before they get married. Antoine invites Marie’s family, who live in Normandy, to come and stay with his family for a while at their home in the South of France. Things start badly when the two fathers, Emile and Adolphe, fail to hit it off, and only get worse when Antoine and Marie have a lover’s row..... [More...]

L’Aîné des Ferchaux (1963)

Jean-Pierre Melville

After a series of match defeats, a young boxer named Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager and is forced to look for alternative employment to make ends meet. He is engaged as a secretary to a wealthy banker, Dieudonné Ferchaux, not realising that the latter has become implicated in a high-profile fraud and must flee the country to escape prosecution... [More...]

Alexandre le bienheureux (1968)

Yves Robert

All that Alexandre wants is to live a quiet life, to be as free and contented as the birds and beasts of his treasured countryside. Unfortunately, he is married to someone who acts like a one-woman Fascist dictatorship, expecting him to spend every waking hour working at full tilt on their extensive farm... [More...]

Allez France! (1964)

Robert Dhéry

On the day before he is due to get married, a Frenchman named Henri Martineau decides to make full use of his last few hours of bachelor freedom by attending the France v. England rugby match at Twickenham. Naturally, Henri cannot tell his fiancée the truth, so he pretends to be away visiting a sick aunt... [More...]

Alphaville (1965)

Jean-Luc Godard

Posing as the journalist Ivan Johnson, secret agent Lemmy Caution arrives in Alphaville to look for a renowned scientist, Professor von Braun. Caution soon discovers that he has entered a world that is very unlike his own, one where love has been abolished and where any show of emotion is punishable by death... [More...]

L’Amant de cinq jours (1961)

Philippe de Broca

Madeleine and Claire are two close friends who live in Paris. Madeleine runs a well-known fashion house, while Claire lives with her husband Georges and their two children in an upmarket hotel. On the day that Madeleine is showing her new fashion collection, Claire meets a charming young man named Antoine... [More...]

Les Amitiés particulières (1964)

Jean Delannoy

In the 1930s, Georges de Sarre, a fifteen-year old boy from an aristocratic background, begins his studies in a Jesuit boarding school. He strikes up an immediate friendship with a fellow student of his own age, Lucien. On discovering that Lucien already has a close relationship with another boy, André, Georges contrives to get the latter expelled from the school... [More...]

L’Amour fou (1969)

Jacques Rivette

Sébastien is directing a theatrical production of Jean Racine’s version of the Greek tragedy Andromaque, in which he also plays the lead role of Pyrrhus. During rehearsals, which take place in front of a film crew, Sébastien’s relationship with Claire, his wife and lead actress, begins to deteriorate... [More...]

Amours célèbres (1961)

Michel Boisrond

Segment one: The Duke of Lauzun is in love with Mademoiselle de Monaco but when he learns that Louis XIV has his eye on his lover, he realises that he must use his wits to avoid the king’s displeasure... Segment two: Jenny de Lacour is a middle-aged woman who is madly in love with the young but unfaithful René de la Roche, so she has to find something that will allow her to keep him for herself, even something horrible..... [More...]

Angélique et le roy (1966)

Bernard Borderie

After her second husband, Philippe de Plessis-Bellières, has been killed in battle, the influential marquise Angélique withdraws from court life to look after her children. Her retirement is short-lived, however. The King of France, Louis XIV, summons her to fulfil an essential mission of state: she must charm the Persian ambassador into signing a vital pact with France... [More...]

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