French films 1960s All genres
Austerlitz (1960) 
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When the English renege on a peace treaty with France, the French general Napoléon Bonaparte has no recourse but to pursue a bitter war against England and her allies. Political conspiracies are rife and Napoléon brings forward his planned coronation to secure his position. Yet he needs one more great military victory to secure his future and enable him to realise his ambitions...
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Classe tous risques (1960) 
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Abel Davos, an ageing crook hunted by the police, decides to give up his life of crime, but only after having pulled off one last hold-up in Italy. The robbery is a success and he flees with the loot, accompanied by his wife and two sons. They get as far as the French border but are apprehended by customs inspectors. Although Davos and his two sons manage to escape...
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Comment qu'elle est! (1960)
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FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives from the USA, his mission to uncover a dangerous spy named Varley. The French secret services, led by the anti-American General Rupert, are engaged on the same assignment and agree reluctantly to work with him. Caution’s investigation leads him to a seductive woman art dealer, just as a fellow agent...
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Crésus (1960)
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Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be his wife. One day, Jules comes across an unexploded bomb lying on the ground in open countryside. After a few foolhardy attempts to set the bomb off, Jules makes a surprising discovery...
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Et mourir de plaisir (1960)
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Carmilla von Karstein becomes anxious when she hears the legend of an ancestor of hers, Millarca, who escaped the grisly death reserved for vampires. During a lavish party organised by her cousin Leopoldo to celebrate his engagement to Georgia Monteverdi an explosion destroys a nearby abbey. A secret passage is revealed...
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Fortunat (1960)
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When her husband, an agent of the French Resistance, is captured by the German police, a middle class woman, Juliet, is forced to flee from the Nazi occupied part of France with her two young sons. She is escorted by a poacher, Noël Fortunat, who poses as her husband. When they arrive safely in Toulouse, Noël...
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Les Honneurs de la guerre (1960) 
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August 1944. A small German army unit 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...
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L'Affaire d'une nuit (1960)
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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...
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La Corde raide (1960)
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Bored with her marriage to businessman Daniel Marechal, Cora falls for the charms of Henri, the owner of a garage that sells second hand cars. She is impatient to live with Henri and plans to kill her husband. Even though she knows that Daniel suspects her of being unfaithful, Cora slips up by calling Henri. She is unaware that her husband is eavesdropping on another phone...
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La Française et l'amour (1960)
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The seven stages of woman – seven stories about French women and love in the sixties. Childhood: A seven-year-old girl wants to know the secrets of birth. Her parents do not know how to explain such a delicate matter... Adolescence: A sixteen-year-old girl is flirting with several admirers. Her parents must help her to find the right way.....
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La Menace (1960)
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Josépha is bored with her life in a dull provincial town. She lives with her uncle and looks on in envy at the gang of young people who drive past her house on their motorcycles. She would do almost anything to join the gang, even give false testimony that will have an innocent man convicted of the rape and murder of a young woman......
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La Vérité (1960)
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Dominique Marceau is in jail, charged with the murder of her lover, Gilbert Tellier. As her trial proceeds, she calls to mind the past events that led to her present predicament. We see her life with her parents and her sister Annie, who was Gilbert’s fiancée. Dominique seduced Gilbert for fun and lived her own life...
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Le Bois des amants (1960)
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Brittany, Christmas 1943. Herta von Stauffen, a German soldier, makes an attempt to join her husband, Colonel von Stauffen, whom she has not seen since their wedding day. But Von Stauffen has orders to celebrate Christmas with his troops and so Herta is sent to the house of the widow Parisot, an old woman who regards Herta as an enemy because she is a German...
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Le Bossu (1960)
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In the dying days of the reign of Louis XIV, the scheming prince Philippe de Gonzague decides to murder his cousin, Philippe de Nevers, so that he can take both his fortune and his wife, Isabelle de Caylus. The assassination is thwarted by a noble swordmaster, Henri de Lagardère. However, in a second ambush, Philippe de Nevers is killed...
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Le Capitan (1960)
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In 1616, France is governed by Marie de Médicis and her favourite, Concino Concini, acting in the name of the young king Louis XIII. Concini’s tyranny is widely felt and a faction is plotting to overthrow his regime and replace Louis with another pretender to the throne. A sword master, François de Capestan...
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Le Dialogue des Carmélites (1960)
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In May 1789, two young women enter a Carmelite convent in the town of Compiègne, France. One of the girls, Sister Constance, is a happy soul who willingly offers herself up to the austere life of the community. The other, Sister Blanche, is fearful and obsessed with death. Not long after the revolution begins, Sister Blanche’s brother...
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Le Mouton (1960)
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Fernand Castel is a timid police functionary, happy with his deskbound job, but wishing he could earn more money so that he can impress Gisèle, the attractive waitress he has fallen in love with. One day, his superior offers him a pay rise if he will undertake an important mission for the police – to gain the confidence of a notorious crook...
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Le Testament d'Orphée (1960)
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A dying poet wandering through time finds himself before a court, accused of entering a world no mortal should see. Found guilty of the charge of innocence, he is given the maximum sentence: life. The poet yearns only to die so that he may be reborn and so achieve the immortality he craves. With his companion, Cégeste...
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Le Trou (1960)
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1947. A young man, Gaspard Claude, is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he is innocent of the crime. He is sent to the notorious Santé Prison in Paris and is placed in a cell with four hardened criminals. The latter have decided to escape from the prison by digging their way out of their cell...
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Le Baron de l'écluse (1960)
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The baron Jérôme Antoine is an inveterate gambler, often losing, sometimes winning. One day, he wins a million francs when playing cards with the marquis de Villamayor. As a deposit, the marquis gives the baron a luxury yacht. On the spur of the moment, the baron sets out on a leisure cruise on his new boat with a former mistress...
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