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French cinema: 1960s (Page 12 of 17)

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)

Jacques Demy

Geneviève is a 17 year-old girl who works in her mother’s umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a young garage mechanic, Guy, whom she plans to marry. Her mother does not approve, since Geneviève is too young and Guy too poor. To pay off a debt, Geneviève’s mother is forced to sell her necklace to a wealthy jeweller, Roland Cassard... [More...]

Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)

René Clément

August 1944. With the invasion of Europe well underway and Germany in retreat, the Allied forces are poised to take the French capital. General Von Choltitz receives a direct order from Hitler that if he cannot hold Paris he must destroy it, completely. After a group of students serving in the French resistance are massacred, Colonel Tanguy incites the public to turn on the occupying Nazis... [More...]

Paris nous appartient (1960)

Jacques Rivette

At a party, literature student Anne Goupil meets Philip Kaufman, a refugee from McCarthyist America, and Gérard Lenz, a theatre director. Gérard is accompanied by a young woman, Terry, who reveals that her boyfriend, a Spaniard, recently killed himself. Intrigued and determined to discover the reason for the suicide, Anne joins Gérard’s theatre company, who are rehearsing a performance of Shakespeare’s play Percicles... [More...]

Paris vu par... (1965)

Claude Chabrol

Six films, six directors, six views of Paris... [More...]

Les Parisiennes (1962)

Marc Allégret

Four stories about Parisian women in the sixties. 1) Ella, a dancer from Pigalle, has a meeting with an American producer. Worried that she may arrive too late, she shares a taxi with a stranger, not knowing that he is the man she is going to see... 2) Françoise returns from the United States and decides to take revenge on her best friend by seducing her fiancé..... [More...]

Les Pas perdus (1964)

Jacques Robin

In the centre of Le Vésinet, a leafy suburb of Paris, Yolande Simonnet lives a uneventful bourgeois life with her husband Pierre and their two children. The only time she has for herself is when she goes into town to watch a movie. On one of these excursions, she meets Georges, a young painter who is struggling to make a living by his craft... [More...]

Le Passage du Rhin (1960)

André Cayatte

Paris, 1939. War is about to be declared any day. Roger works in a bakery and Jean is a reporter for the magazine L’Espoir. The two men have nothing is common other than the war which is soon to engulf their lives. Although Jean is engaged to be married, he is determined to fight for freedom and does not hesitate to enlist in the army... [More...]

Le Passager de la pluie (1969)

René Clément

Whilst her husband, an airline navigator, is away from home, Mellie is stalked by strange man. After the man has broken into her home and raped her, Mellie shoots him dead and dumps his body in the sea. A short while later, the traumatised young woman realises she is being trailed by another man, Colonel Dobbs... [More...]

Peau de banane (1963)

Marcel Ophüls

Cathy, a seductive young woman, decides to take revenge on two crooks, Bontemps and Lachard. These two are responsible for the bankruptcy and ruin of her father, and so she asks Michel, her ex-husband, to give her a helping hand. There is no other solution for them than to become crooks themselves, so they conceive a shady deal with Bontemps on a island in Brittany... [More...]

La Peau douce (1964)

François Truffaut

Pierre Lachenay is a world-renowned literary expert and publisher. He is married to Franca and lives in Paris with his young daughter Sabine. On the flight to Lisbon, where he is to give a lecture on Balzac, he meets air hostess Nicole and is instantly drawn to her. Pierre and Nicole later meet up in Lisbon and begin a passionate love affair, which they continue in secrecy on their return to Paris... [More...]

Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (1966)

Jean Eustache

An unemployed young man, Daniel, walks the streets of his town, trying to chat up girls, making money here and there through scams with his friends. To earn money to buy himself a new coat, he accepts a job from a local photographer to dress up and pose as a pavement Santa Claus. In his new costume, Daniel finds that he is treated far more kindly by people, especially women..... [More...]

Le Petit baigneur (1968)

Robert Dhéry

The inventor André Castagnier, and his sister, Charlotte, win the coveted first prize of the San Remo regatta, thanks to Castagnier’s revolutionary new dinghy. A short while later, Castagnier disgraces himself when another boat he worked on is damaged on its maiden launch. His employer, the irascible Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, dismisses him, but quickly realises his error... [More...]

Le Petit soldat (1963)

Jean-Luc Godard

It is 1958, at the height of France’s war with Algeria. A deserter from the French army, Bruno Forestier, belongs to an extreme right-wing terrorist cell operating in Geneva. To prove his credentials, he must assassinate a Swiss journalist who is collaborating with a rival left-wing group supporting the Algerian terrorists, the FLN... [More...]

La Petite vertu (1968)

Serge Korber

Ferdinand, a young photographer, meets Claire, a supposed cover girl, in a café. Although he is instantly attracted towards Claire, Ferdinand soon learns that she is a professional thief, working for her husband, a thug named Brady. Claire has had enough of her criminal life and hopes to make a fresh start with Ferdinand... [More...]

Les Petits chats (1965)

Jacques R. Villa

A gang of young girls from a modern apartment block in the suburbs decide to adopt a small river island as their secret hideaway. Here, they befriend Michèle, a lonely adolescent girl who lives on the island. When Michèle is told by her teacher that she must leave the island, she lets slip the secrets that the girls have confided in her..... [More...]

Les Petits matins (1962)

Jacqueline Audry

Agathe, a young Belgian girl, has won a two weeks’ holiday on the Côte d’Azur. She sets out, hitchhiking her way to Paris, hoping that at her journey’s end she will meet her Prince Charming. Unfortunately, her adventure will be very different from what she had imagined and she will learn that people do not always act through the best intentions... [More...]

Piège pour Cendrillon (1965)

André Cayatte

A young woman named Michèle Isola is badly burned in a horrific fire. After surgical intervention, Dr Doulin is hopeful that she will recover her good looks, but she still suffers from amnesia. After a few days’ rest, Michèle feels better physically but not mentally. Dr Doulin allows her to receive her first visit, from her former nanny Jeanne Murneau... [More...]

Pierrot le fou (1965)

Jean-Luc Godard

Weary of his comfortable bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon leaves his wife and elopes with his baby sitter, Marianne, with whom he once had a love affair. When a dead body is found in Marianne’s Paris apartment, the two lovers head for the South of France to escape being caught up in gangster activities... [More...]

La Piscine (1969)

Jacques Deray

An unemployed writer Jean-Paul lives with his lover Marianne in a luxury villa near to St Tropez. Their languid summer break is disturbed by the arrival of Marianne’s former boyfriend, Harry, who turns up unexpectedly with his daughter Penelope. Despite appearances that their past differences have been settled, old enmities between Jean-Paul and Harry soon begin to resurface – with deadly consequences… ... [More...]

Playtime (1967)

Jacques Tati

A party of American tourists land at Paris Airport and embark on a one-day sightseeing tour of the French capital. The famous landmarks have long since been replaced by towering office blocks and only a few signs of old Paris remain – for example, an old woman selling flowers on a street corner... [More...]

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