French cinema: 1970s
Themroc (1973)
Claude Faraldo
Themroc is a typical blue-collar worker working for a typical medium-sized factory. When he is caught spying on his boss he is reprimanded, and he instantly rebels...
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Claude Faraldo
Tony Arzenta (1973)
Duccio Tessari
Tony Arzenta is more than just a regular hit-man. He is one of the Mafia's most prized professional killers, valued for his skill, his courage and his unswerving loyalty...
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Duccio Tessari
La Tortue sur le dos (1978)
Luc Béraud
Despite his best efforts, Paul, a once successful writer, cannot overcome the crippling mental block that is preventing him from writing his next book...
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Luc Béraud
Le Toubib (1979)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
In the early 1980s, Jean-Marie Desprée is a highly respected surgeon with a thriving practice in Paris. The settled forty-year-old's world suddenly begins to fall apart when his wife walks out on him...
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Pierre Granier-Deferre
Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil (1972)
Jean Yanne
Christian Gerber is a reporter for Radio-Plus, France's most popular radio station. Whilst he attempts to accurately report the peaceful revolution taking place in a Latin American country, his colleagues fabricate their reports in an attempt to draw a larger audience...
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Jean Yanne
Tout va bien (1972)
Jean-Luc Godard
An American reporter and her husband, a burnt-out film director, are interviewing the manager of a sausage factory when there is a workers' revolt... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
An American reporter and her husband, a burnt-out film director, are interviewing the manager of a sausage factory when there is a workers' revolt... [More...]
Toute une vie (1974)
Claude Lelouch
The lives and loves of three generations of Parisians are played against the backdrop of historic events of the Twentieth Century... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
The lives and loves of three generations of Parisians are played against the backdrop of historic events of the Twentieth Century... [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...]
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...]
Traitement de choc (1973)
Alain Jessua
A stressed-out retail manager Hélène Masson decides to submit herself to a course of therapy at a centre run by the secretive Dr Devilers... [More...]
Alain Jessua
A stressed-out retail manager Hélène Masson decides to submit herself to a course of therapy at a centre run by the secretive Dr Devilers... [More...]
La Traque (1975)
Serge Leroy
A young English woman, Helen Wells, arrives in a small Normandy village, where she intends to rent an old farmhouse. A short while later, she encounters a party of men who are hunting wild boar... [More...]
Serge Leroy
A young English woman, Helen Wells, arrives in a small Normandy village, where she intends to rent an old farmhouse. A short while later, she encounters a party of men who are hunting wild boar... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Le Trouble-fesses (1976)
Raoul Foulon
Having dishonoured the daughter of a Mafia godfather, Ernesto Capoli must leave Rome in a hurry. Arriving in Paris, he turns to his uncle, a successful businessman, for help... [More...]
Raoul Foulon
Having dishonoured the daughter of a Mafia godfather, Ernesto Capoli must leave Rome in a hurry. Arriving in Paris, he turns to his uncle, a successful businessman, for help... [More...]
Le Tueur (1972)
Denys de La Patellière
Superintendent Le Guen thought he had seen the last of Georges Gassot, a relentless serial killer, when he arrested him and had him placed behind bars... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Superintendent Le Guen thought he had seen the last of Georges Gassot, a relentless serial killer, when he arrested him and had him placed behind bars... [More...]
Un amour de pluie (1974)
Jean-Claude Brialy
Elisabeth Delerue, a married woman, spends her summer holidays with her 15-year-old daughter Cécile in Vittel, just as they do every year... [More...]
Jean-Claude Brialy
Elisabeth Delerue, a married woman, spends her summer holidays with her 15-year-old daughter Cécile in Vittel, just as they do every year... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Un moment d'égarement (1977)
Claude Berri
Pierre and Victor have been the closest of friends since childhood. Now in their mid-forties, both men are separated from their wives and have teenage daughters, Martine and Françoise... [More...]
Claude Berri
Pierre and Victor have been the closest of friends since childhood. Now in their mid-forties, both men are separated from their wives and have teenage daughters, Martine and Françoise... [More...]
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 peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1971)
Jacques Deray
Gilles Lantier is a young man with a brilliant future ahead of him as a journalist. But just as his career is about to take off he has a severe nervous breakdown and his life instantly falls apart... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Gilles Lantier is a young man with a brilliant future ahead of him as a journalist. But just as his career is about to take off he has a severe nervous breakdown and his life instantly falls apart... [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...]
Une belle fille comme moi (1972)
François Truffaut
Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist who is writing a thesis on criminal women (which, we are told, is never published)... [More...]
François Truffaut
Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist who is writing a thesis on criminal women (which, we are told, is never published)... [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...]
Une vraie jeune fille (1976)
Catherine Breillat
When school breaks up for the summer holidays, Alice, a 14 year old girl, returns to her parents' home in the country. As she gradually becomes aware of her transition to womanhood, the young teenager starts to experience bizarre sexual fantasies... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
When school breaks up for the summer holidays, Alice, a 14 year old girl, returns to her parents' home in the country. As she gradually becomes aware of her transition to womanhood, the young teenager starts to experience bizarre sexual fantasies... [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 Vacanciers (1974)
Michel Gérard
The Chatton family - Benjamin, Rosy, and their two grown-up children, Philippe and Charlotte - plan to spend a month's holiday in a village in Alsace... [More...]
Michel Gérard
The Chatton family - Benjamin, Rosy, and their two grown-up children, Philippe and Charlotte - plan to spend a month's holiday in a village in Alsace... [More...]