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French cinema: 1960s (Page 9 of 17)

Ho! (1968)

Robert Enrico

François Holin, known to his friend as Ho, loses his licence as a racing driver after an accident which resulted in the death of his partner. Unemployed, he finds works as a chauffeur for a band of gangsters, hoping that he can keep this from his girlfriend Benedite, a cover girl. In the course of a car robbery which goes horribly wrong, Ho is arrested, but manages to escape... [More...]

L’Homme à la Buick (1968)

Gilles Grangier

Armand Favrot decides to put his erstwhile gangster career firmly behind him when he moves to the small town of Honfleur. To the locals, he appears to be an upstanding citizen, generously buying tombola tickets and ferrying children to Switzerland for their holidays. In truth, he continues his trade as a jeweller smuggler to pay for his retirement... [More...]

L’Homme de Rio (1964)

Philippe de Broca

French air force pilot Adrien Dufourquet returns to Paris for a week’s leave just before his girlfriend, Agnès, is kidnapped. In a desperate bid to rescue the woman he loves, Adrien pursues her abductors and ends up on a plane bound for Rio de Janeiro. Upon his arrival in Brazil, Adrien wastes no time in resuming his search for Agnès and soon discovers why she was kidnapped... [More...]

Les Honneurs de la guerre (1960)

Jean Dewever

August 1944. A company of German troops has managed to reclaim the French provincial town of Nanteuil shortly after its liberation, but a few locals resist, taking pot-shots at the soldiers from the sanctuary of a bell tower. Tired and leaderless, the German soldiers decide to admit defeat. They send a hostage to take a message to a nearby French village to arrange a surrender... [More...]

Il Cambio della guardia (1962)

Giorgio Bianchi

In April 1943, the sound of gunfire shatters the peace of Ardea, a small town somewhere between Rome and Naples. As the German troops retreat, the town’s inhabitants consider the consequences of the liberation. Mario Venicio is nominated mayor by the Fascists, but considers it prudent to give up his place to the innkeeper Attilio Capellaro... [More...]

Indomptable Angélique (1967)

Bernard Borderie

Once she has learnt that her first husband, Joffrey de Peyrac, is still alive, having escaped execution for sorcery, Angélique sets out to the south of France to find him. Her quest leads her to a remote island where she meets Vivonne, a nobleman who has been sent by King Louix IV to return her to Versailles... [More...]

L’Insoumis (1964)

Alain Cavalier

When his wife leaves him, Thomas enlists in the French foreign legion and is posted to Algeria. During the 1961 uprising, Thomas deserts and goes into hiding. One day he receives an unexpected visit from his former lieutenant, who has also defected and now works for the OAS, the group that opposes Algerian independence... [More...]

Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)

Alain Resnais

Leaving hospital after a failed suicide attempt, Claude Ridder is accosted by two strangers, who make him a bizarre proposal. They invite him to participate in an experiment which could change the course of human history. With nothing better to do and having nothing to lose, Claude allows the strangers to drive him to a secret research laboratory, which is disguised as a centre for agronomical research... [More...]

Jeff (1969)

Jean Herman

Having successfully pulled off a meticulously planned jewel robbery, five crooks meet up at an agreed rendez-vous. There, they await with growing impatience the arrival of their chief, Jeff, who will decide how the spoils of the robbery are to be shared. When Jeff fails to turn up, the crooks suspect they have been betrayed... [More...]

La Jetée (1962)

Chris Marker

The world is in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone into the past or the future to ask for help. After a number of failed experiments, the scientists find one man, whose strong recollection of a childhood experience at Orly Airport makes him the ideal subject... [More...]

Les Jeunes loups (1968)

Marcel Carné

Alain is a flashy, opportunistic young man who prides himself on the ease with which he can lure beautiful women into bed. Sylvie is an easy conquest. Although she is outgoing and confident, she has never had a lover before and so she offers no resistance when Alain works his seductive charms on her... [More...]

Le Jour et l’heure (1963)

René Clément

During WWII, Thérèse Dutheil refuses to have any interest in politics, even though her husband is being held a prisoner-of-war in Germany. Arriving in the village where she was born, Thérèse learns that an American aeroplane has been shot down and that the Germans are looking for the three airmen who parachuted out to safety before the plane crashed... [More...]

Le Journal d’une femme de chambre (1964)

Luis Buñuel

In the late 1930s, a young woman, Célestine, leaves Paris to take up the post of a chambermaid with the Monteils, a bourgeois family living in rural France. Célestine’s initial observation that life in the country is trite is soon disproved when she discovers that the Monteuils are barely on speaking terms, their father, Monsieur Rabour, has an obsessive shoe fetish, and their servant Joseph is an extreme right-ring activist... [More...]

Le Journal d’une femme en blanc (1965)

Claude Autant-Lara

Claude Sauvage is a maternity nurse at a large Parisian hospital who recounts her daily experiences in her diary. She has to deal not only with pregnant young woman from unstable backgrounds but also older woman who already have too many children. One day, Claude finds that she herself is pregnant, by Pascal, one of her doctor colleagues... [More...]

Judex (1963)

Georges Franju

The banker Favraux has made his fortune by preying on others far less scrupulous than he. One day, he receives a letter from someone named Judex threatening him with death unless he returns his ill-gotten gains to those from whom he stole them. Favraux scorns these threats but soon pays the price. At a masked ball to celebrate his daughter Jacqueline’s engagement he suddenly drops dead..... [More...]

Jules et Jim (1962)

François Truffaut

It is in Paris, in around 1910, that Jules, a German, and Jim, a Frenchmen, meet and become the closest of friends. Aspiring writers, they have a shared interest in literature, art and women. Having encountered a statue of a woman’s head with a beguiling smile, the two young men are surprised when they meet a young woman named Catherine with the same smile... [More...]

Landru (1963)

Claude Chabrol

During World War I, a seemingly respectable middle-aged man Henri Landru has devised an ingenious means of obtaining money to supplement his dwindling income. Adopting various assumed names, he lures middle-class women to his villa at Gambais just outside Paris, where he kills them and burns their bodies... [More...]

Lemmy pour les dames (1962)

Bernard Borderie

Pursued by autograph hunters at every turn, the world’s most famous FBI agent, Lemmy Caution, soon regrets taking a holiday on the French Riviera. The holiday is soon over when a strange Italian woman is murdered shortly after soliciting help from Caution. The redoubtable FBI agent confronts the dead woman’s three female fiends, each of whom is married to a powerful politician or industrialist... [More...]

Léon Morin, prêtre (1961)

Jean-Pierre Melville

Barny is a young widow living with her daughter in a small French town during the Nazi Occupation. A communist militant and staunch atheist, she considers that her view of life is rational and morally sound. One day, she enters a church with the intention of criticising religion with a Catholic priest... [More...]

Lettere di una novizia (1960)

Alberto Lattuada

A young novice is about to take her vows upon entering a convent when her recent past comes back to haunt her. Her priest has received an anonymous letter which suggests she is far from capable of pursuing the life of a nun. Distraught, the novice reveals the tragic tale that drove her to her present predicament... [More...]

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