Best Of...

                                           
French cinema: 1971

Les Amis (1971)
Gérard Blain

Paul is a 16-year-old boy who lives with his mother in social housing in Paris. He left school at 13 and is in no hurry to find a job, imagining that one day he will begin a career as an actor...   [More...]

Les Assassins de l'ordre (1971)
Marcel Carné

Judge Level is investigating the death of a man named Saugeat, who died shortly after being arrested for a minor offence by two police inspectors one December morning...   [More...]

Le Chat (1971)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

Julien and Clémence Bouin have been living together as man and wife for over twenty-five years. He is a retired typographer, she is a former trapeze artist who is now partly crippled after an accident...   [More...]

Comptes à rebours (1971)
Roger Pigaut

Revenge is the only thing on François Nolan's mind when he returns to Paris, having spent the past ten years in prison for his part in a bank robbery that went disastrously wrong...   [More...]

Les Deux Anglaises et le continent (1971)
François Truffaut

Paris, 1899. It is whilst pursuing her studies in sculpture that Anne Brown, a dark-haired English woman who is not yet 20, falls under the spell of Claude Roc, a bourgeois French student of her own age...   [More...]

La Folie des grandeurs (1971)
Gérard Oury

Don Salluste is the all-power minister and tax collector of the King of Spain. He delights in tyrannising the peasants with his band of loyal Black Knights...   [More...]

Jo (1971)
Jean Girault

Under the pretence of researching his next thriller play, writer Antoine Brisebard consults his lawyer friend Adrien Colas on how to commit the perfect murder...   [More...]

Juste avant la nuit (1971)
Claude Chabrol

Charles Masson is a successful advertising executive who has a devoted wife, Hélène, and two adorable children...   [More...]

Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal (1971)
Joël Séria

Anne de Boissy and Lore Fournier are the best of friends. Both come from respectable bourgeois families and they share the same propensity for mischief-making at the strict convent school where they are reluctant boarders...   [More...]

Mourir d'aimer (1971)
André Cayatte

In 1968, Danièle teaches literature at a high school in Rouen. A staunch advocate of modern teaching methods, she invites her pupils back to her home and makes no distinction between her private and professional lives...   [More...]

Out 1: Noli me Tangere (1971)
Jacques Rivette

In Paris in the late 1960s, two theatrical companies are immersed in rehearsing performances of two well-known works by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes...   [More...]

Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971)
Robert Bresson

One night, a young painter, Jacques comes across a young woman, Marthe, who is about to commit suicide by jumping off the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris...   [More...]

Raphaël ou le débauché (1971)
Michel Deville

In 1830, Aurore de Chéroy is a young widow who lives a simple but contented life on her country estate in France. A devout Christian, she devotes herself to charitable works and spurns proposals of marriage from such men as the selfish and cynical Horace de Granville...   [More...]

La Salamandre (1971)
Alain Tanner

Pierre, a writer, enlists the help of a friend, Paul, to investigate a real-life story in which a young woman, Rosmonde, was tried for the attempted murder of her uncle...   [More...]

Le Souffle au coeur (1971)
Louis Malle

France, 1954. Laurent Chevalier is a 14-year old boy who enjoys a comfortable, cosseted existence with his affluent middleclass family in Dijon...   [More...]

Trafic (1971)
Jacques Tati

The car manufacturer Altra is eager to show of its latest creation - a luxury camping car equipped with of all the latest must-have appliances - at a prestigious motor show in Amsterdam...   [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...]

Copyright © filmsdefrance.com 1998-2024
All rights reserved



All content on this page is protected by copyright