French cinema: 1970s
Le Trio infernal (1974)
Francis Girod
After serving with distinction in the First World War, Georges Sarret now makes a respectable living as a lawyer in the town of Marseille...
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Francis Girod
Un condé (1970)
Yves Boisset
Transferred to another police department after running into difficulties with his superiors, Inspector Favenin is paired up with a younger, more inexperienced colleague Barnero in the pursuit of a notorious drugs trafficker Tavernier, known to his associates as Le Mandarin...
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Yves Boisset
Un éléphant ça trompe énormément (1976)
Yves Robert
Étienne, Simon, Daniel and Bouly are four friends in their forties who enjoy a shared passion for tennis. Another thing they have in common is that they are all nearing a point of crisis in their private lives; luckily they can count on the others' support to help them through...
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Yves Robert
Un enfant dans la foule (1976)
Gérard Blain
During the Nazi Occupation of France, a 13-year-old boy named Paul lives with his mother and sister in his grandmother's cramped apartment...
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Gérard Blain
Un flic (1972)
Jean-Pierre Melville
A gang of crooks raid a bank in a windswept coastal town on the west coast of France. In the course of the robbery, one member of the gang sustains a gunshot wound and must be taken to a clinic for treatment...
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Un papillon sur l'épaule (1978)
Jacques Deray
Arriving in Barcelona to meet up with his wife, Roland Fériaud checks into a hotel and is surprised to find a dead man in the room next to his... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Arriving in Barcelona to meet up with his wife, Roland Fériaud checks into a hotel and is surprised to find a dead man in the room next to his... [More...]
Un sac de billes (1975)
Jacques Doillon
Paris, 1941. Joseph and Maurice are two boys whose father, a Jew, owns a barber's shop. Joseph is 10, his brother is 12, and neither understands why it is a crime to be a Jew... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Paris, 1941. Joseph and Maurice are two boys whose father, a Jew, owns a barber's shop. Joseph is 10, his brother is 12, and neither understands why it is a crime to be a Jew... [More...]
Un taxi mauve (1977)
Yves Boisset
After the death of his son, Philippe Marchal, a French writer, seeks the seclusion of a small coastal village in Ireland... [More...]
Yves Boisset
After the death of his son, Philippe Marchal, a French writer, seeks the seclusion of a small coastal village in Ireland... [More...]
L'Une chante, l'autre pas (1977)
Agnès Varda
Paris, 1962. Pauline is a seventeen year old girl whose main preoccupation is singing in the school choir. One day, she meets a photographer, Jérôme, whose girlfriend Suzanne is pregnant with his third child... [More...]
Agnès Varda
Paris, 1962. Pauline is a seventeen year old girl whose main preoccupation is singing in the school choir. One day, she meets a photographer, Jérôme, whose girlfriend Suzanne is pregnant with his third child... [More...]
Une histoire simple (1978)
Claude Sautet
Marie decides to break up with her boyfriend Georges and to abort his unborn child. As she nears forty she seems to have reached a crossroads in her life but doesn't know where she is heading... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Marie decides to break up with her boyfriend Georges and to abort his unborn child. As she nears forty she seems to have reached a crossroads in her life but doesn't know where she is heading... [More...]
Une partie de plaisir (1975)
Claude Chabrol
Philippe and Ester appear to be the perfect couple. They have been together for eight years and, although they have never married, they have a six year old daughter who is testament to the solidity of their relationship... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Philippe and Ester appear to be the perfect couple. They have been together for eight years and, although they have never married, they have a six year old daughter who is testament to the solidity of their relationship... [More...]
Va voir maman, papa travaille (1978)
François Leterrier
Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme... [More...]
François Leterrier
Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme... [More...]
Les Valseuses (1974)
Bertrand Blier
Jean-Claude and Pierrot are two long-haired social drop-outs who kill time by committing petty crimes and harassing women... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Jean-Claude and Pierrot are two long-haired social drop-outs who kill time by committing petty crimes and harassing women... [More...]
La Veuve Couderc (1971)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
France, in the mid-1930s. Tati Couderc is a severe-looking woman in her fifties who single-handedly manages a small farm in a remote backwater of rural France... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
France, in the mid-1930s. Tati Couderc is a severe-looking woman in her fifties who single-handedly manages a small farm in a remote backwater of rural France... [More...]
La Vie devant soi (1977)
Moshé Mizrahi
In her younger days, Madame Rosa used to make a decent living for herself as a prostitute in a popular district of Paris... [More...]
Moshé Mizrahi
In her younger days, Madame Rosa used to make a decent living for herself as a prostitute in a popular district of Paris... [More...]
Le Vieux fusil (1975)
Robert Enrico
It is 1944 and Germany is losing the war in Europe. The allied forces have broken through on the Normandy front and the occupying troops have begun their retreat... [More...]
Robert Enrico
It is 1944 and Germany is losing the war in Europe. The allied forces have broken through on the Normandy front and the occupying troops have begun their retreat... [More...]
Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres (1974)
Claude Sautet
Every weekend without fail, three old friends - Vincent, François and Paul - meet up to take their mind off their personal and professional anxieties... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Every weekend without fail, three old friends - Vincent, François and Paul - meet up to take their mind off their personal and professional anxieties... [More...]
Violette Nozière (1978)
Claude Chabrol
In 1933, Violette Nozière, 18, leads a respectable middleclass existence with her father Baptiste, a railway engineer, and mother Germaine... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
In 1933, Violette Nozière, 18, leads a respectable middleclass existence with her father Baptiste, a railway engineer, and mother Germaine... [More...]
La Zizanie (1978)
Claude Zidi
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze is an ambitious man. The mayor of a small town in France, he has high hopes for his anti-pollution inventions... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze is an ambitious man. The mayor of a small town in France, he has high hopes for his anti-pollution inventions... [More...]