French cinema: 1960s
Le Président (1961)
Henri Verneuil
Émile Beaufort was once Prime Minister of France, before a public defeat forced him to resign his position. He now lives in retirement at his grand house in the country, a solitary old man who has nothing else to do but dictate his memoirs to his secretary, Mademoiselle Milleran...
[More...]
Henri Verneuil
La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966)
Roberto Rossellini
France, 1661. As the once powerful Cardinal Mazarin lies dying in his bedroom at Vincennes, the young Louis XIV readies himself to take over the reins of power and guide his country's destiny like his fathers before him...
[More...]
Roberto Rossellini
La Prisonnière (1968)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stanislas Hessler is an art dealer and owner of a modern art gallery in Paris which is presently promoting the work of up-and-coming artist Gilbert Moreau...
[More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962)
Robert Bresson
Rouen, 1431. After falling into the hands of her English enemies, Jeanne, the young peasant girl who became a figurehead of the French army during the Hundred Years War, is placed on trial for heresy...
[More...]
Robert Bresson
Quand passent les faisans (1965)
Edouard Molinaro
Small-time swindler Arsène Baudu comes unstuck when he attempts to pull a con-trick on police inspector Hyacinthe Camus...
[More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Que la bête meure (1969)
Claude Chabrol
When his young son is killed in a hit-and-run car accident, writer Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
When his young son is killed in a hit-and-run car accident, writer Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer... [More...]
Recours en grâce (1960)
Laslo Benedek
Mario Di Donati, an Italian immigrant, is leading an idyllic life in France, happily settled with his lover Germaine Tourier and her infant daughter from an earlier failed relationship... [More...]
Laslo Benedek
Mario Di Donati, an Italian immigrant, is leading an idyllic life in France, happily settled with his lover Germaine Tourier and her infant daughter from an earlier failed relationship... [More...]
La Religieuse (1966)
Jacques Rivette
Suzanne Simonin is forced by her parents to enter a convent at the age of 16. Traumatised by the harassment she receives from her Mother Superior, she starts to rebel and is transferred to another convent... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Suzanne Simonin is forced by her parents to enter a convent at the age of 16. Traumatised by the harassment she receives from her Mother Superior, she starts to rebel and is transferred to another convent... [More...]
Le Révélateur (1968)
Philippe Garrel
A couple and their child are on the run, as if pursued by a war that only shows itself in their faces. They flee from their house, then run across fields, down roads and through forests... [More...]
Philippe Garrel
A couple and their child are on the run, as if pursued by a war that only shows itself in their faces. They flee from their house, then run across fields, down roads and through forests... [More...]
Les Risques du métier (1967)
André Cayatte
Jean Doucet and his wife Suzanne both teach at a school in the small Normandy village where they have lived peacefully for some years... [More...]
André Cayatte
Jean Doucet and his wife Suzanne both teach at a school in the small Normandy village where they have lived peacefully for some years... [More...]
Le Roi de coeur (1966)
Philippe de Broca
October 1918. With the allied forces sweeping across France, a German battalion is ordered to retreat from a rural French town... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
October 1918. With the allied forces sweeping across France, a German battalion is ordered to retreat from a rural French town... [More...]
Le Samouraï (1967)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Killing comes easy to Jef Costello. It is his job, it is what he does best. Others are willing to pay handsomely for his service, which he discharges with cool deadly efficiency... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Killing comes easy to Jef Costello. It is his job, it is what he does best. Others are willing to pay handsomely for his service, which he discharges with cool deadly efficiency... [More...]
Sept jours ailleurs (1969)
Marin Karmitz
Jacques is a 30-something musician who is married, has a young daughter, but is far from fulfilled. Trapped in a sterile marriage, he welcomes the opportunity to spend seven days on tour with a modern dance company in the south of France... [More...]
Marin Karmitz
Jacques is a 30-something musician who is married, has a young daughter, but is far from fulfilled. Trapped in a sterile marriage, he welcomes the opportunity to spend seven days on tour with a modern dance company in the south of France... [More...]
Le Septième juré (1962)
Georges Lautner
In a moment of madness, Grégoire Duval, a respectable pharmacist, kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake... [More...]
Georges Lautner
In a moment of madness, Grégoire Duval, a respectable pharmacist, kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake... [More...]
Si j'étais un espion (1967)
Bertrand Blier
Dr Lefèvre is a widower who leads a peaceful life with his daughter Sylvie in the suburbs of Paris. One evening, he is called to visit one of his patients, a depressive named Guérin, but gets no reply when he rings the doorbell... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Dr Lefèvre is a widower who leads a peaceful life with his daughter Sylvie in the suburbs of Paris. One evening, he is called to visit one of his patients, a depressive named Guérin, but gets no reply when he rings the doorbell... [More...]
La Sirène du Mississippi (1969)
François Truffaut
Louis Mahé, the wealthy owner of a tobacco plantation on the island of Réunion, decides to get married - to Julie Roussel, a woman he found through the personal ads pages of his newspaper... [More...]
François Truffaut
Louis Mahé, the wealthy owner of a tobacco plantation on the island of Réunion, decides to get married - to Julie Roussel, a woman he found through the personal ads pages of his newspaper... [More...]
Snobs! (1962)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
When the president of a dairy farmers' cooperative in Normandy drowns in a vat of milk, elections are soon arranged to find his replacement... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
When the president of a dairy farmers' cooperative in Normandy drowns in a vat of milk, elections are soon arranged to find his replacement... [More...]
Terrain vague (1960)
Marcel Carné
For the rebellious youngsters on a deprived Parisian housing estate, home is not a tiny room in a cramped apartment but a place amongst the shattered ruins of a derelict factory on a barren wasteland nearby... [More...]
Marcel Carné
For the rebellious youngsters on a deprived Parisian housing estate, home is not a tiny room in a cramped apartment but a place amongst the shattered ruins of a derelict factory on a barren wasteland nearby... [More...]
Le Testament d'Orphée (1960)
Jean Cocteau
A poet from the 18th century somehow manages to lose himself in time and ends up two hundred years in the future. Here he searches for a professor who alone can end his torment, piercing him with a special temporal bullet that allows him to reborn in the world... [More...]
Jean Cocteau
A poet from the 18th century somehow manages to lose himself in time and ends up two hundred years in the future. Here he searches for a professor who alone can end his torment, piercing him with a special temporal bullet that allows him to reborn in the world... [More...]
Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962)
Georges Franju
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... [More...]
Georges Franju
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... [More...]
Thomas l'imposteur (1965)
Georges Franju
September 1914. At the start of the First World War, the inhabitants of Paris flee the capital, fearing an impending invasion by German troops... [More...]
Georges Franju
September 1914. At the start of the First World War, the inhabitants of Paris flee the capital, fearing an impending invasion by German troops... [More...]
Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'Or (1961)
Jean-Jacques Vierne
Captain Haddock can hardly believe his good fortune when he receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a ship named The Golden Fleece from an old friend of his, Paparanic... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Vierne
Captain Haddock can hardly believe his good fortune when he receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a ship named The Golden Fleece from an old friend of his, Paparanic... [More...]
Tirez sur le pianiste (1960)
François Truffaut
It wasn't so long ago that Charlie Kohler was considered one of the great virtuoso pianists of his time. Of course, he went by a different name in those days - Édouard Saroyan - and he had a wife Thérésa who meant everything to him... [More...]
François Truffaut
It wasn't so long ago that Charlie Kohler was considered one of the great virtuoso pianists of his time. Of course, he went by a different name in those days - Édouard Saroyan - and he had a wife Thérésa who meant everything to him... [More...]
Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
Georges Lautner
Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican... [More...]
Trans-Europ-Express (1966)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
A writer-director meets up with his film producer and production secretary at Paris's busy Gare du Nord and together they take the Trans-Europ Express to the Belgian town of Antwerp... [More...]
Alain Robbe-Grillet
A writer-director meets up with his film producer and production secretary at Paris's busy Gare du Nord and together they take the Trans-Europ Express to the Belgian town of Antwerp... [More...]
Trois chambres à Manhattan (1965)
Marcel Carné
François Combe is an actor whose hopes of becoming a big star in Hollywood are dashed within a very short time of his arrival in America... [More...]
Marcel Carné
François Combe is an actor whose hopes of becoming a big star in Hollywood are dashed within a very short time of his arrival in America... [More...]
Le Trou (1960)
Jacques Becker
In 1947, a young man named Claude Gaspard is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he insists he is innocent of the crime... [More...]
Jacques Becker
In 1947, a young man named Claude Gaspard is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he insists he is innocent of the crime... [More...]
Un homme et une femme (1966)
Claude Lelouch
Jean-Louis Duroc is a racing car driver. Anne Gauthier is a script-girl. Both are in their mid-thirties, recently widowed and have a small child... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Jean-Louis Duroc is a racing car driver. Anne Gauthier is a script-girl. Both are in their mid-thirties, recently widowed and have a small child... [More...]
Un soir, un train (1968)
André Delvaux
Mathias is professor of linguistics at a Belgian university. Although middle-aged, he is unmarried, but has a mistress, Anne... [More...]
André Delvaux
Mathias is professor of linguistics at a Belgian university. Although middle-aged, he is unmarried, but has a mistress, Anne... [More...]
Un taxi pour Tobrouk (1960)
Denys de La Patellière
Libya, 1942. Four soldiers in the Free French Forces are crossing the desert when their jeep breaks down. They have no other option but to continue their journey to Tobruk on foot... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Libya, 1942. Four soldiers in the Free French Forces are crossing the desert when their jeep breaks down. They have no other option but to continue their journey to Tobruk on foot... [More...]