French cinema: 1960s
La 317e section (1965)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
In 1954, at the height of the Indochina War, a French platoon comprising four French soldiers and around forty Laotians is instructed to abandon Luong Ba, an outpost on the border with Laos, and relieve Lao Tsaï, a town 150 kilometres to the south...
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Pierre Schoendoerffer
À bout de souffle (1960)
Jean-Luc Godard
Michel Poiccard is a small-time crook on a mission: to recover some money owed to him by his criminal associates. To that end, he steals a car in Marseille and heads for Paris...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Adieu Philippine (1962)
Jacques Rozier
Paris, in the summer of 1960. Michel is a young Frenchman who, just before he is due to start his military service in Algeria, works as a television studio trainee...
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Jacques Rozier
L'Aîné des Ferchaux (1963)
Jean-Pierre Melville
After a series of match defeats, a young boxer named Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager and is forced to look for alternative employment to make ends meet...
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Alexandre le bienheureux (1968)
Yves Robert
All that Alexandre wants is to live a quiet life, to be as free and contented as the birds and beasts of his treasured countryside... [More...]
Yves Robert
All that Alexandre wants is to live a quiet life, to be as free and contented as the birds and beasts of his treasured countryside... [More...]
Allez France! (1964)
Robert Dhéry
On the eve of his wedding day, Henri Martineau decides to make full use of his last few hours of bachelor freedom by attending the France versus England rugby match at Twickenham... [More...]
Robert Dhéry
On the eve of his wedding day, Henri Martineau decides to make full use of his last few hours of bachelor freedom by attending the France versus England rugby match at Twickenham... [More...]
Alphaville (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard
Lemmy Caution, a secret agent from the Outlands, arrives in Alphaville on a special mission - to kill the dangerous scientist Professor von Braun and destroy his creation, an all-seeing, all-controlling computer named Alpha-60... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Lemmy Caution, a secret agent from the Outlands, arrives in Alphaville on a special mission - to kill the dangerous scientist Professor von Braun and destroy his creation, an all-seeing, all-controlling computer named Alpha-60... [More...]
Les Amitiés particulières (1964)
Jean Delannoy
In the 1930s, Georges de Sarre, a fifteen-year old boy from an aristocratic background, begins his studies in a Jesuit boarding school... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
In the 1930s, Georges de Sarre, a fifteen-year old boy from an aristocratic background, begins his studies in a Jesuit boarding school... [More...]
L'Amour fou (1969)
Jacques Rivette
To those who know them, Sébastien and Claire are the model of the perfectly happy married couple. But as they rehearse a stage production of Racine's play Andromaque, the fault lines in their marriage are already starting to show... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
To those who know them, Sébastien and Claire are the model of the perfectly happy married couple. But as they rehearse a stage production of Racine's play Andromaque, the fault lines in their marriage are already starting to show... [More...]
L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
Alain Resnais
The location is a sprawling baroque hotel set in beautiful sculptured gardens. At a large social gathering, a stranger, X, accosts a young woman, A, and tries to convince her that they have met before, one year ago, perhaps at Marienbad... [More...]
Alain Resnais
The location is a sprawling baroque hotel set in beautiful sculptured gardens. At a large social gathering, a stranger, X, accosts a young woman, A, and tries to convince her that they have met before, one year ago, perhaps at Marienbad... [More...]
L'Arbre de Noël (1969)
Terence Young
As has become his custom after losing his mother, ten-year-old Pascal joins his father Laurent, a millionaire businessman, in Paris for the summer holidays... [More...]
Terence Young
As has become his custom after losing his mother, ten-year-old Pascal joins his father Laurent, a millionaire businessman, in Paris for the summer holidays... [More...]
L'Armée des ombres (1969)
Jean-Pierre Melville
October, 1942. During the Nazi occupation of France, Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, heads a small network in the French Resistance... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
October, 1942. During the Nazi occupation of France, Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, heads a small network in the French Resistance... [More...]
Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962)
Edouard Molinaro
The funeral of the successful businessman André Laroche is attended by scores of important public figures, all keen to pay homage to a great man of industry... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
The funeral of the successful businessman André Laroche is attended by scores of important public figures, all keen to pay homage to a great man of industry... [More...]
Au coeur de la ville (1960)
Pierre Gautherin
Louis, a solitary man in his early sixties, earns a modest crust working as a sandwich man for a small advertising firm in Paris run by Monsieur Verdier... [More...]
Pierre Gautherin
Louis, a solitary man in his early sixties, earns a modest crust working as a sandwich man for a small advertising firm in Paris run by Monsieur Verdier... [More...]
Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Robert Bresson
Shortly after he is born in a rural part of France, a donkey is adopted by a small girl named Marie, who christens him Balthazar and treats him as a treasured plaything... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Shortly after he is born in a rural part of France, a donkey is adopted by a small girl named Marie, who christens him Balthazar and treats him as a treasured plaything... [More...]
La Baie des anges (1963)
Jacques Demy
Jean Fournier is a modest young bank clerk living in Paris. He is sensible, respectable, and so it is with reluctance that he agrees to accompany his friend Caron to a casino... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Jean Fournier is a modest young bank clerk living in Paris. He is sensible, respectable, and so it is with reluctance that he agrees to accompany his friend Caron to a casino... [More...]
Baisers volés (1968)
François Truffaut
Antoine Doinel is twenty when he is discharged from the army for his frequent lapses of discipline. Returning to Paris he hopes to resume his former love affair with Christine Darbon but he has difficulty adjusting to civilian life once more... [More...]
François Truffaut
Antoine Doinel is twenty when he is discharged from the army for his frequent lapses of discipline. Returning to Paris he hopes to resume his former love affair with Christine Darbon but he has difficulty adjusting to civilian life once more... [More...]
Ballade pour un voyou (1963)
Claude-Jean Bonnardot
Recently released from prison, juvenile delinquent Vincent Vivant tries to make a fresh start as a garage mechanic. Tempted by easy money, he agrees to act as a courier for a spy named Stéphane, his errand being to take a mysterious suitcase to its intended owner... [More...]
Claude-Jean Bonnardot
Recently released from prison, juvenile delinquent Vincent Vivant tries to make a fresh start as a garage mechanic. Tempted by easy money, he agrees to act as a courier for a spy named Stéphane, his errand being to take a mysterious suitcase to its intended owner... [More...]
La Bande à Bonnot (1968)
Philippe Fourastié
In 1911, a group of hard-line anarchists - including Raymond-la-science, Garnier, Carouy, Soudy and Marie la Belge - give up their peaceful struggle against the bourgeoisie and, led by Jules Bonnot, become a gang of desperate armed criminals... [More...]
Philippe Fourastié
In 1911, a group of hard-line anarchists - including Raymond-la-science, Garnier, Carouy, Soudy and Marie la Belge - give up their peaceful struggle against the bourgeoisie and, led by Jules Bonnot, become a gang of desperate armed criminals... [More...]
Bande à part (1964)
Jean-Luc Godard
Odile is a young woman who lives in Paris, working as a housekeeper for her aunt, Madame Victoria. She tells Franz, a fellow student at the language school she attends, that her neighbour, Mr Stoltz, keeps a huge stash of money in an unlocked cupboard... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Odile is a young woman who lives in Paris, working as a housekeeper for her aunt, Madame Victoria. She tells Franz, a fellow student at the language school she attends, that her neighbour, Mr Stoltz, keeps a huge stash of money in an unlocked cupboard... [More...]
Les Barbouzes (1964)
Georges Lautner
After the death of an eminent armaments manufacturer Constantin Benard Shah, four ruthless secret agents nicknamed Les Barbouzes are assigned to recover the plans for a revolutionary thermonuclear device that are hidden amongst the deceased's personal effects... [More...]
Georges Lautner
After the death of an eminent armaments manufacturer Constantin Benard Shah, four ruthless secret agents nicknamed Les Barbouzes are assigned to recover the plans for a revolutionary thermonuclear device that are hidden amongst the deceased's personal effects... [More...]
Belle de jour (1967)
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Although she is loved by her husband Pierre, Séverine Serizy cannot bring herself to have a physical relationship with him... [More...]
Benjamin ou les Mémoires d'un puceau (1968)
Michel Deville
France, 1750. Benjamin has spent his entire childhood and early adolescence in the sole company of his tutor Camille. Now that he is 17, he must go to live with his aunt and uncle, two wealthy aristocrats, at the château de Valandry... [More...]
Michel Deville
France, 1750. Benjamin has spent his entire childhood and early adolescence in the sole company of his tutor Camille. Now that he is 17, he must go to live with his aunt and uncle, two wealthy aristocrats, at the château de Valandry... [More...]
Les Biches (1968)
Claude Chabrol
Frédérique, a wealthy heiress in her mid-thirties, is wandering listlessly across Paris when she happens upon an attractive young woman sketching chalk pictures on the pavement on the Pont des Arts... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Frédérique, a wealthy heiress in her mid-thirties, is wandering listlessly across Paris when she happens upon an attractive young woman sketching chalk pictures on the pavement on the Pont des Arts... [More...]
Le Bonheur (1965)
Agnès Varda
François has an idyllic life and cannot imagine how he could be happier. He enjoys working as a carpenter with his older brother... [More...]
Agnès Varda
François has an idyllic life and cannot imagine how he could be happier. He enjoys working as a carpenter with his older brother... [More...]
Les Bonnes causes (1963)
Christian-Jaque
Paul Dupré dies at the hands of his nurse Gina Bianchi when she administers his daily injection. His wife Catherine accuses the nurse of murdering her husband but Gina insists that she is innocent... [More...]
Christian-Jaque
Paul Dupré dies at the hands of his nurse Gina Bianchi when she administers his daily injection. His wife Catherine accuses the nurse of murdering her husband but Gina insists that she is innocent... [More...]
Les Bonnes femmes (1960)
Claude Chabrol
Four attractive young women who work together in an electrical appliance shop do all they can to escape from the tedious monotony of their uneventful lives... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Four attractive young women who work together in an electrical appliance shop do all they can to escape from the tedious monotony of their uneventful lives... [More...]
Le Bossu (1960)
André Hunebelle
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... [More...]
André Hunebelle
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... [More...]
Brigitte et Brigitte (1966)
Luc Moullet
Brigitte has just arrived in Paris from the provinces to start her first year at university. So too has Brigitte. The two Brigittes are dressed identically and arrive at the same train station - which is where they meet... [More...]
Luc Moullet
Brigitte has just arrived in Paris from the provinces to start her first year at university. So too has Brigitte. The two Brigittes are dressed identically and arrive at the same train station - which is where they meet... [More...]