French cinema: 1977
À chacun son enfer (1977)
André Cayatte
A desperate woman makes a mad dash to the television studios, anxious not to waste one second of the air time she has been granted...
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André Cayatte
Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977)
Claude Chabrol
After walking out on her husband, Alice gets into her car and sets out for what she hopes will be a new life. Whilst driving through the countryside a storm breaks and her windscreen suddenly cracks...
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Claude Chabrol
Armaguedon (1977)
Alain Jessua
After the death of his brother, 40-something Louis Carrier suddenly finds himself a very wealthy man. He gives up his job and devotes himself to a carefully conceived plan to make himself famous...
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Alain Jessua
Cet obscur objet du désir (1977)
Luis Buñuel
Shortly after boarding a train in Seville, a respectable old man pours a bucket of water over a young woman standing on the platform...
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Luis Buñuel
Le Crabe-Tambour (1977)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
The Jaureguiberry, a mighty escort ship, leaves the port of Lorient in the northwest of France and sets out on its long journey across the stormy Atlantic...
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Pierre Schoendoerffer
La Dentellière (1977)
Claude Goretta
Pomme may be 19 but, in her outlook and behaviour, she is still a child. A trainee hairdresser in Paris, she lives in her dreams and makes no attempt to find herself a boyfriend... [More...]
Claude Goretta
Pomme may be 19 but, in her outlook and behaviour, she is still a child. A trainee hairdresser in Paris, she lives in her dreams and makes no attempt to find herself a boyfriend... [More...]
Le Diable probablement (1977)
Robert Bresson
The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand... [More...]
Robert Bresson
The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand... [More...]
Diabolo menthe (1977)
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977)
François Truffaut
Before his abrupt, tragic and somewhat farcical death in his mid-forties, Bernard Morane was the most inveterate of skirt chasers... [More...]
François Truffaut
Before his abrupt, tragic and somewhat farcical death in his mid-forties, Bernard Morane was the most inveterate of skirt chasers... [More...]
Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977)
Yves Boisset
Jean-Marie Fayard is an incorruptible young judge who appears determined to live up to his nickname 'Le Shériff'. His present investigation into a series of deaths linked to a prominent businessman brings him into conflict with his superiors, who are keen to see him redirect his efforts towards less problematic cases... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Jean-Marie Fayard is an incorruptible young judge who appears determined to live up to his nickname 'Le Shériff'. His present investigation into a series of deaths linked to a prominent businessman brings him into conflict with his superiors, who are keen to see him redirect his efforts towards less problematic cases... [More...]
La Menace (1977)
Alain Corneau
Dominique Montlaure owns a substantial trucking business near to Bordeaux, which she runs with the help of her boyfriend, Henri Savin... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Dominique Montlaure owns a substantial trucking business near to Bordeaux, which she runs with the help of her boyfriend, Henri Savin... [More...]
Mort d'un pourri (1977)
Georges Lautner
Xavier Maréchal agrees to provide his friend Philippe Dubaye with an alibi when the latter confesses to him that he has just murdered a business associate, Serrano... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Xavier Maréchal agrees to provide his friend Philippe Dubaye with an alibi when the latter confesses to him that he has just murdered a business associate, Serrano... [More...]
La Question (1977)
Laurent Heynemann
Algiers, 1957. Henri Charlegue is the editor of a newspaper that is sympathetic to the cause of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front)... [More...]
Laurent Heynemann
Algiers, 1957. Henri Charlegue is the editor of a newspaper that is sympathetic to the cause of the FLN (Algerian National Liberation Front)... [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...]
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...]