French cinema: 1969
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...
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Jacques Rivette
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...
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Terence Young
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...
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Jean-Pierre Melville
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...
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Gérard Oury
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....
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Marcel Ophüls
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...]
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...]
La Femme infidèle (1969)
Claude Chabrol
Charles Desvallées is a respectable insurance agent who lives with his younger wife Hélène and their son Michel at their comfortable villa in the leafy suburbs of Paris... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Charles Desvallées is a respectable insurance agent who lives with his younger wife Hélène and their son Michel at their comfortable villa in the leafy suburbs of Paris... [More...]
La Fiancée du pirate (1969)
Nelly Kaplan
In a tightly knit rural community, Marie and her mother are outcasts, living in a small wood cabin. Marie is exploited and abused by both her employer, a lesbian landowner, and her oversexed male neighbours, who include the town's mayor and a seemingly respectable shopkeeper... [More...]
Nelly Kaplan
In a tightly knit rural community, Marie and her mother are outcasts, living in a small wood cabin. Marie is exploited and abused by both her employer, a lesbian landowner, and her oversexed male neighbours, who include the town's mayor and a seemingly respectable shopkeeper... [More...]
Goto, l'île d'amour (1969)
Walerian Borowczyk
Goto is an island nation that has been cut off from the rest of the world for over a century. Since the late 1800s, when a massive earthquake devastated the region, the indigenous population has lived in a totally closed society, governed by a succession of all-powerful despots, all named after this benighted land... [More...]
Walerian Borowczyk
Goto is an island nation that has been cut off from the rest of the world for over a century. Since the late 1800s, when a massive earthquake devastated the region, the indigenous population has lived in a totally closed society, governed by a succession of all-powerful despots, all named after this benighted land... [More...]
Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Louis is a devout Catholic who discovers his ideal partner, an attractive blonde student named Françoise, whilst attending mass one evening... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Louis is a devout Catholic who discovers his ideal partner, an attractive blonde student named Françoise, whilst attending mass one evening... [More...]
La Piscine (1969)
Jacques Deray
Jean-Paul, a failed writer turned advertising executive, is enjoying a month's holiday at a Saint-Tropez villa, in the company of Marianne, his partner of two years' standing... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Jean-Paul, a failed writer turned advertising executive, is enjoying a month's holiday at a Saint-Tropez villa, in the company of Marianne, his partner of two years' standing... [More...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Une femme douce (1969)
Robert Bresson
Shortly after her husband has left their Parisian apartment, a young woman commits suicide by leaping from a balcony. As the smashed body of the dead woman lies before him, the bereaved husband recollects their shared history together in an attempt to understand what drove her to such a drastic act... [More...]
Robert Bresson
Shortly after her husband has left their Parisian apartment, a young woman commits suicide by leaping from a balcony. As the smashed body of the dead woman lies before him, the bereaved husband recollects their shared history together in an attempt to understand what drove her to such a drastic act... [More...]
La Voie lactée (1969)
Luis Buñuel
Two tramps, Pierre and his younger friend Jean, undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to visit the sacred tomb of Saint James... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Two tramps, Pierre and his younger friend Jean, undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to visit the sacred tomb of Saint James... [More...]