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...]

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...   [More...]

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...   [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...]

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...]

La Fille aux yeux d'or (1961)
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco

Henri Marsav is a 20-something fashion photographer who revels in hedonistic youth with his circle of equally debauched friends...   [More...]

Léon Morin, prêtre (1961)
Jean-Pierre Melville

With France under Nazi occupation, life goes on as usual in a small provincial town, the only novelty being the presence of German soldiers in the streets...   [More...]

Lola (1961)
Jacques Demy

Lola is a cabaret singer and dancer in the French port of Nantes. A prostitute, she is popular with the town's sailors, especially an American sailor named Frankie, who is madly in love with her...   [More...]

Paris nous appartient (1961)
Jacques Rivette

Paris, June 1957. Anne Goupil, a student from the provinces, is half-heartedly revising for her exams when she finds herself drawn into an intrigue revolving around the death of a Spanish musician named Juan...   [More...]

Pleins feux sur l'assassin (1961)
Georges Franju

Realising that he is about to die, the Count of Keraudren hides himself behind a one-way mirror in a secret room at his chateau...   [More...]

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...]

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...]

Une femme est une femme (1961)
Jean-Luc Godard

Angela is an attractive nightclub striptease artist who shares a small Parisian apartment with her boyfriend Emile. One day, on the spur of the moment, she decides that she must have a baby...   [More...]