French cinema: 1960s
Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle (1960)
Norbert Carbonnaux
Adopted by a wealthy baron, the orphaned Candide grows to accept the optimistic philosophy of his wise tutor, Dr Pangloss, that 'all is for the best in the best of all worlds'...
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Norbert Carbonnaux
Le Caporal épinglé (1962)
Jean Renoir
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...
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Jean Renoir
Les Carabiniers (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard
Two country peasants are recruited to join the army and serve in the war. They are promised wealth, fulfilment and freedom to do whatever they wish whilst in active service...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Le Cave se rebiffe (1961)
Gilles Grangier
Brothel owner Charles Lepicard is desperately in need of a new source of income when the introduction of a new law threatens his business...
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Gilles Grangier
Ce soir ou jamais (1961)
Michel Deville
Laurent is a poster designer who is about to begin rehearsals for his first stage play, a musical comedy. To celebrate this auspicious event, he holds a party at his apartment, to which his best friends are all invited...
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Michel Deville
Le Cerveau (1969)
Gérard Oury
Not long after pulling off a spectacular train robbery in Great Britain, the criminal genius The Brain is soon planning his next lucrative enterprise... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Not long after pulling off a spectacular train robbery in Great Britain, the criminal genius The Brain is soon planning his next lucrative enterprise... [More...]
Le Chagrin et la pitié (1969)
Marcel Ophüls
Life in France at the time of the Nazi Occupation during World War II. Those who actively participated in the drama - politicians, soldiers, aristocrats, spies, collaborators and resistance supporters - recount their personal experiences with lucidity, eloquence and emotion.... [More...]
Marcel Ophüls
Life in France at the time of the Nazi Occupation during World War II. Those who actively participated in the drama - politicians, soldiers, aristocrats, spies, collaborators and resistance supporters - recount their personal experiences with lucidity, eloquence and emotion.... [More...]
Chair de poule (1963)
Julien Duvivier
Daniel and Paul are two hard-up factory workers who supplement their income by some nocturnal safe-cracking. However, it isn't long before their luck runs out... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Daniel and Paul are two hard-up factory workers who supplement their income by some nocturnal safe-cracking. However, it isn't long before their luck runs out... [More...]
La Chinoise (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard
One summer, whilst living together in an apartment lent to them by a wealthy friend, five students discuss how they can apply the teachings of Mao Tse-tung to their own lives... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
One summer, whilst living together in an apartment lent to them by a wealthy friend, five students discuss how they can apply the teachings of Mao Tse-tung to their own lives... [More...]
Chronique d'un été (1961)
Edgar Morin
Paris, 1960. The sociologist Edgar Morin and ethnologist filmmaker Jean Rouch embark on a study to probe the psyche of ordinary Parisians... [More...]
Edgar Morin
Paris, 1960. The sociologist Edgar Morin and ethnologist filmmaker Jean Rouch embark on a study to probe the psyche of ordinary Parisians... [More...]
Le Clan des Siciliens (1969)
Henri Verneuil
The Malanese family are one of Italy's most notorious criminal gangs, better know as the Sicilian Clan. Their latest criminal exploit will be the theft of a valuable collection of jewels as it is being shipped by air from Paris to New York... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
The Malanese family are one of Italy's most notorious criminal gangs, better know as the Sicilian Clan. Their latest criminal exploit will be the theft of a valuable collection of jewels as it is being shipped by air from Paris to New York... [More...]
Classe tous risques (1960)
Claude Sautet
Doggedly pursued by the police, seasoned gangster Abel Davos evades capture by fleeing to Italy with his wife Thérèse and their two young sons... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Doggedly pursued by the police, seasoned gangster Abel Davos evades capture by fleeing to Italy with his wife Thérèse and their two young sons... [More...]
Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961)
Agnès Varda
Paris, 1960. Cléo is an attractive younger singer who is anxiously awaiting the results of a medical examination. She has already convinced herself that she has cancer and will soon die from the disease, so she thinks morbid thoughts over the next two hours as she drifts without purpose around the capital... [More...]
Agnès Varda
Paris, 1960. Cléo is an attractive younger singer who is anxiously awaiting the results of a medical examination. She has already convinced herself that she has cancer and will soon die from the disease, so she thinks morbid thoughts over the next two hours as she drifts without purpose around the capital... [More...]
Le Combat dans l'île (1962)
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Alain Cavalier
Clément Lesser belongs to a clandestine group of rightwing political extremists who have no time for democracy and who believe in taking political power by force... [More...]
Les Compagnons de la marguerite (1967)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
An expert in restoring old manuscripts at the National Library, Jean-Louis Matouzec is not a happily married man, but his wife Françoise refuses to give him a divorce... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
An expert in restoring old manuscripts at the National Library, Jean-Louis Matouzec is not a happily married man, but his wife Françoise refuses to give him a divorce... [More...]
Compartiment tueurs (1965)
Costa-Gavras
When a sleeper train from Marseille to Paris stops at Avignon, a young woman named Benjamine Bombat climbs aboard and offers a place in her compartment to a handsome young stranger, Daniel, who has omitted to buy a ticket... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
When a sleeper train from Marseille to Paris stops at Avignon, a young woman named Benjamine Bombat climbs aboard and offers a place in her compartment to a handsome young stranger, Daniel, who has omitted to buy a ticket... [More...]
Le Corniaud (1965)
Gérard Oury
Antoine Maréchal is about to set off for a holiday in Italy when his 2CV is smashed to pieces by a Rolls-Royce, driven by the wealthy business man Léopold Saroyan... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Antoine Maréchal is about to set off for a holiday in Italy when his 2CV is smashed to pieces by a Rolls-Royce, driven by the wealthy business man Léopold Saroyan... [More...]
Les Créatures (1966)
Agnès Varda
Still suffering from the trauma of a road accident, a writer named Edgar finds himself afflicted with a mild case of writer's block... [More...]
Agnès Varda
Still suffering from the trauma of a road accident, a writer named Edgar finds himself afflicted with a mild case of writer's block... [More...]
La Croix des vivants (1962)
Ivan Govar
Some time after he was falsely accused of the murder of his stepfather, Yan returns to his home village in Flanders. Franz, the local garage owner is not happy with his return... [More...]
Ivan Govar
Some time after he was falsely accused of the murder of his stepfather, Yan returns to his home village in Flanders. Franz, the local garage owner is not happy with his return... [More...]
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Jacques Demy
Delphine and Solange are twin sisters living in the French town of Rochefort. Delphine gives ballet lessons whilst Solange teaches music... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Delphine and Solange are twin sisters living in the French town of Rochefort. Delphine gives ballet lessons whilst Solange teaches music... [More...]
La Dénonciation (1962)
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
October 1961. Michel Jussieu, a successful film producer, returns to a Parisian nightclub he visited the previous night to collect a sweater... [More...]
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
October 1961. Michel Jussieu, a successful film producer, returns to a Parisian nightclub he visited the previous night to collect a sweater... [More...]
Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard
Paris is a city that is in a state of constant evolution, and so are the people who live there. It has many visages, many guilty secrets, many illusions - and so have the people who live there... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Paris is a city that is in a state of constant evolution, and so are the people who live there. It has many visages, many guilty secrets, many illusions - and so have the people who live there... [More...]
Le Deuxième souffle (1966)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Eight years into his prison sentence, a notorious gangster named Gustave Minda (nicknamed Gu) escapes and returns to Paris... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Eight years into his prison sentence, a notorious gangster named Gustave Minda (nicknamed Gu) escapes and returns to Paris... [More...]
Le Dialogue des Carmélites (1960)
Philippe Agostini
May, 1789. In Compiègne, a town in northern France, two young women enter a Carmelite convent, each determined to devote their lives to the service of Christ... [More...]
Philippe Agostini
May, 1789. In Compiègne, a town in northern France, two young women enter a Carmelite convent, each determined to devote their lives to the service of Christ... [More...]
Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962)
Serge Bourguignon
A country in Asia is being ravaged by war. A young pilot named Pierre is flying over a village where soldiers and civilians are caught in a bloody onslaught... [More...]
Serge Bourguignon
A country in Asia is being ravaged by war. A young pilot named Pierre is flying over a village where soldiers and civilians are caught in a bloody onslaught... [More...]
La Dolce vita (1960)
Federico Fellini
Marcello Rubini is an Italian gossip columnist who loves to bask in the reflected glory of the rich and famous, his only chance of enjoying the sweet life of Rome's upper set... [More...]
Federico Fellini
Marcello Rubini is an Italian gossip columnist who loves to bask in the reflected glory of the rich and famous, his only chance of enjoying the sweet life of Rome's upper set... [More...]
Le Doulos (1962)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Maurice Faugel is a career burglar who has just completed a stretch in prison. He is preparing a house break-in with some equipment provided by a friend, Silien... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Maurice Faugel is a career burglar who has just completed a stretch in prison. He is preparing a house break-in with some equipment provided by a friend, Silien... [More...]
L'Eau à la bouche (1960)
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
In the East-Pyrenees, Milena lives in the baroque castle of her grandmother, Lady Henriette, who lies on her deathbed. Miguel, the family solicitor who once had an affair with Milena, is to read the will after the old woman's death... [More...]
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
In the East-Pyrenees, Milena lives in the baroque castle of her grandmother, Lady Henriette, who lies on her deathbed. Miguel, the family solicitor who once had an affair with Milena, is to read the will after the old woman's death... [More...]
L'Enfance nue (1968)
Maurice Pialat
Abandoned by his own parents, François, a nine-year old boy, is placed in the care of Mr and Mrs Josselin, an ordinary working class family with a young daughter of their own... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
Abandoned by his own parents, François, a nine-year old boy, is placed in the care of Mr and Mrs Josselin, an ordinary working class family with a young daughter of their own... [More...]
Erotissimo (1969)
Gérard Pirès
Annie and Philippe are a young married couple who appear to have a perfectly satisfactory love life. Then, one day, Annie is prompted by an article to ask herself if she is living up to her marital responsibilities... [More...]
Gérard Pirès
Annie and Philippe are a young married couple who appear to have a perfectly satisfactory love life. Then, one day, Annie is prompted by an article to ask herself if she is living up to her marital responsibilities... [More...]