French cinema: 1970s
La Valise (1973)
Georges Lautner
Having succeeded in making himself the enemy of the entire Arab world, Commander Bloch, a senior agent in the Israeli secret services, flees to Libya and soon finds himself holed up in the French Embassy in Tripoli...
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Georges Lautner
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...
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Bertrand Blier
Verdict (1974)
André Cayatte
André Léoni is put on trial for the rape and murder of his girlfriend Annie Chartier, the daughter of a respectable middle-class couple...
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André Cayatte
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...
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Pierre Granier-Deferre
Le Viager (1972)
Pierre Tchernia
France, 1930. Louis Martinet, a 59 year old bachelor, learns from his doctor, Léon Galipeau, that he has only a few years left to live...
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Pierre Tchernia
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...]
La Vieille fille (1972)
Jean-Pierre Blanc
After reaching the grand old age of 35, Muriel Bouchon decides to end her days of dull spinsterhood and now devote herself to finding a male companion to share her remaining years... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Blanc
After reaching the grand old age of 35, Muriel Bouchon decides to end her days of dull spinsterhood and now devote herself to finding a male companion to share her remaining years... [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...]
La Ville-bidon (1973)
Jacques Baratier
With the help of an architect and a real estate agent, a deputy mayor plans to build a new town on a site that is presently occupied by a slum and a rubbish tip... [More...]
Jacques Baratier
With the help of an architect and a real estate agent, a deputy mayor plans to build a new town on a site that is presently occupied by a slum and a rubbish tip... [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 & François (1977)
Jacques Rouffio
Violette loses her job in a bank after a heated argument with her boss. Her good-for-nothing boyfriend François is unable to hold a job down for more than a few days and so is unable to make up the shortfall in their household income... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
Violette loses her job in a bank after a heated argument with her boss. Her good-for-nothing boyfriend François is unable to hold a job down for more than a few days and so is unable to make up the shortfall in their household income... [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...]
Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine (1977)
Coluche
Long, long ago, France is ruled by King Gros Pif I, a man who likes to party. In fact so extravagant are the king's banquets that they are bankrupting the country and his faithful musketeers have to resort to ever more brutal methods to extract taxes from the stinking masses, which is okay because they rather enjoy it... [More...]
Coluche
Long, long ago, France is ruled by King Gros Pif I, a man who likes to party. In fact so extravagant are the king's banquets that they are bankrupting the country and his faithful musketeers have to resort to ever more brutal methods to extract taxes from the stinking masses, which is okay because they rather enjoy it... [More...]
Le Voyou (1970)
Claude Lelouch
Escaped convict Simon Duroc evades capture by the police by ducking into a cinema and getting a woman he has never met before to kiss him... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Escaped convict Simon Duroc evades capture by the police by ducking into a cinema and getting a woman he has never met before to kiss him... [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...]