French films 1960s All genres
La Jetée (1962) 
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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....
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La Guerre des boutons (1962) 
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For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this is no ordinary conflict, for the on-going hostilities are between two armies of young schoolboys. Their idea of war may be less damaging than that practiced by their elders, but it is prosecuted with just as much spirit and determination...
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Le Chevalier de Pardaillan (1962) 
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Paris, 1588. When the adventurous knight Pardaillan thwarts the kidnap of a gypsy girl, Violetta, he makes himself the mortal enemy of the ambitious Duke de Guise. The latter has discovered the true lineage of Violetta – she is the legitimate heir to the throne of France – and intends to marry her so that he can become King...
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Le Crime ne paie pas (1962)
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Segment one: Lucrezia kills her unfaithful lover but she doesn’t expect that his other mistress will take revenge on her... Segment two: In 1878, Clovis Hughes kills one his many political rivals in a duel. Intent on revenge, his wife Jeanne murders a man and a trial is inevitable... Segment three: In 1913, because the manipulative Gabrielle Fenayrou wants her husband Martin dead she...
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Le Diable et les dix commandements (1962)
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The ageing warden of a convent is berated by the Mother Superior for his bad language. To cure him of his affliction, the Bishop, an old friend of his, gives him a copy of the Bible and asks him to learn the Ten Commandments by heart. As the warden begins his task, the Devil leaps from the pages of the book in the form of a serpent and relishes in watching as one by one the Commandments are...
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Le Monte-Charge (1962)
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Released from prison one Christmas evening, Robert Herbin tries to contact his mother, only to find that she died whilst he was in jail. Alone and uncertain where to go, Robert enters a café where he meets a solitary woman and her young daughter. The woman, Marthe, pleases Robert and, out of kindness, he escorts her and her child back to her apartment...
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Le Septième juré (1962)
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In a moment of madness, Grégoire Duval, a respectable pharmacist, kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, Duval flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. The murder is blamed on the young woman’s lover, Sautral, who has been arrested and is soon to be tried before a court of law...
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Le Caporal épinglé (1962)
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June, 1940. In a German prisoner-of-war camp in North-East France, three soldiers are united by their desire to escape and return to their ordinary civilian lives. They are a middle-class corporal, a myopic intellectual, Ballochet, and an ordinary working class man nicknamed Pater. After their first attempt fails, thanks to Ballochet losing his spectacles...
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Le Combat dans l'île (1962)
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Clément belongs to an extreme right-wing terrorist cell. In a failed assassination attempt, Clément is betrayed by one of his comrades and he goes into hiding with his wife. They stay with a friend, Paul, who lives in the country. When he discovers which member of his gang betrayed him, Clément sets out to take his revenge...
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Le Doulos (1962)
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Maurice Faugel is a burglar who has just finished a prison sentence. He is preparing a house break-in with some equipment provided by a friend, Silien. Unfortunately, someone tips off the police after Faugel has set out and the police arrive during the robbery. Faugel manages to escape but his accomplice is killed in an exchange of fire in which a policeman is also killed...
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Lemmy pour les dames (1962) 
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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...
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Les Culottes rouges (1962)
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During WWII, Antoine Rossi is a prisoner in a POW camp in Germany. He has made several attempts to escape, but on each occasion he has failed and has to wear short red trousers as a warning to other would-be fugitives. Antoine is not deterred, however, and prepares to make yet another break-out attempt. Hiding beneath the stage of the camp theatre...
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Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962)
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A country in Asia is being ravaged by war. A young pilot named Pierre is flying his aeroplane over a village where soldiers and civilians are being killed. He cannot takes his eyes off the frightened face of a little girl who is hiding under a tree. His plane comes under fire and he escapes miraculously when he crashes into the ground...
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Les Mystères de Paris (1962)
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Paris, 1840. Whilst driving his fiancée Irène home in his horse-drawn carriage, the Marquis Rodolphe de Sombreuil accidentally knocks down a poor man in the street. Believing the man is only slightly injured, Rodolphe gives him a purse containing some money as a recompense. But the man dies not long afterwards...
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Les Petits matins (1962)
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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...
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Les Sept péchés capitaux (1962)
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Anger: A friendly mood prevails throughout a small town one Sunday after church. Everyone seems to like one another and not a single unpleasant word is exchanged. But the atmosphere soon changes at lunchtime, when every man finds a fly in his soup. Anger soon works his...
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Les Veinards (1962)
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Every day, the newspapers we buy tell us about a fortunate man or woman who has won some spectacular prize. Do these people really exist? Here are the stories of five such lucky individuals......
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Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962)
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Having been arrested for her part in an unsuccessful uprising against the French government, Joan of Arc is to face a trial led by the Bishop Cauchon. Her enemies have already decided that she should be burnt as a witch, but the trial must first establish her guilt - which means torturing her until she confesses......
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Rencontres (1962)
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Once a famous pianist, Carl Krasner is now a bitter and violent man, having lost the use of his hands in a terrible accident. He fritters away his money in a casino, knowing that he will soon be bankrupt, but he doesn’t care. He lives in a villa near the sea with his beautiful wife Bella, his daughter and his secretary...
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Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962)
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Thérèse Desqueyroux tries to kill her husband, Bernard, by poisoning him, but the attempt fails. To avoid a scandal that will ruin his name, Bernard gives false evidence which results in his wife’s acquittal. When Thérèse is returning to her home in Argelouse, she brings to mind the events that led to her present predicament...
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