L'Aile ou la cuisse (1976)
Claude Zidi

At 60, Charles Duchemin is the most revered of France's culinary experts. Not only is he a food critic of some considerable renown, he is also the author of the country's most popular restaurant guide...   [More...]

L'Argent de poche (1976)
François Truffaut

In the picturesque French town of Thiers, several primary school children are learning some important lessons in life as the end of the school term approaches...   [More...]

Bartleby (1976)
Maurice Ronet

With a backlog of paperwork accumulating around him, a Parisian bailiff is relieved when someone turns up in his office in response to his job advertisement...   [More...]

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)
Jacques Rivette

In modern day Paris, Leni, the Queen of the Night, and Viva, the Queen of the Sun, are locked in a private battle for possession of a diamond that has magical powers...   [More...]

Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 (1976)
Alain Tanner

In Geneva in the mid-1970s, Mathieu struggles to find work to support himself and his pregnant wife Mathilde. Another couple, Marcel and Marguerite, come to their rescue, offering them a place to live and work on their farm...   [More...]

Le Juge et l'assassin (1976)
Bertrand Tavernier

France, 1893. When the young woman he is infatuated with rejects him, Joseph Bouvier, a sergeant in the French army, shoots her and then turns the gun on himself...   [More...]

Le Locataire (1976)
Roman Polanski

Trelkovsky is a shy office clerk who is about to take up residence in an old apartment block in Paris. When he learns that the previous tenant tried to kill herself by jumping from an upstairs window, he feels compelled to visit her in hospital...   [More...]

Mado (1976)
Claude Sautet

Simon Léotard is a 50-something real estate financier who finds himself in dire straits when his business partner of many years, Julien, commits suicide...   [More...]

Maîtresse (1976)
Barbet Schroeder

Olivier, a thirty-something from the provinces, arrives in Paris and through a friend finds work as a door-to-door book salesman...   [More...]

Marie-poupée (1976)
Joël Séria

Marie is a naive 17-year-old orphan who lives with her grandparents. One day, she enters a dolls shop and immediately attracts the attention of its owner, a charming young man named Claude...   [More...]

La Meilleure façon de marcher (1976)
Claude Miller

In the summer of 1960, Marc and Philippe work as supervisors in a French summer camp for boys. Their different methods of treating their young charges reflect their different personalities...   [More...]

Moi, Pierre Rivière... (1976)
René Allio

The third of June 1835 was an eventful day in the life of the twenty-year old Normandy peasant Pierre Rivière. On this day, he chose to slit the throats of his mother, his sister and his younger brother with a hand scythe...   [More...]

Monsieur Klein (1976)
Joseph Losey

Paris, January 1942. Robert Klein is an art dealer who has grown rich by trading in valuable art treasures sold by Jews who are desperate to raise cash to escape deportation to Nazi Germany...   [More...]

Police Python 357 (1976)
Alain Corneau

Orléans police inspector Marc Ferrot leads a focused, solitary existence. With no family and few friends, he devotes himself to his work and his interest in firearms...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...   [More...]