French cinema: 1970s
Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès (1972)
René Vautier
It is 1961 and France is locked into a seemingly interminable war with its North African colony of Algeria. The French government of course does not recognise this as a war as such, but rather a 'campaign of pacification'...
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René Vautier
La Ballade des Dalton (1978)
René Goscinny
The Wild West has its fair share of desperados, but few are as desperate as the Dalton brothers, the sad bunch of despicable outlaws who are now just a few days into their two and half thousand year long prison sentence...
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René Goscinny
Barocco (1976)
André Téchiné
In a gloomy seaport, a bitterly fought election campaign is underway and a young boxer named Samson sees an easy way to earn himself a large amount of cash...
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André Téchiné
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...
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Maurice Ronet
Les Belles manières (1978)
Jean-Claude Guiguet
Camille, an uneducated young man from the provinces, arrives in Paris to take up the post of housekeeper for the wealthy Hélène Courtray and her reclusive son Pierre...
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Jean-Claude Guiguet
La Bête (1975)
Walerian Borowczyk
To safeguard the future of his country estate, the Marquis de l'Esperance arranges a marriage between his son, Mathurin, and an English heiress, Lucy Broadhurst... [More...]
Walerian Borowczyk
To safeguard the future of his country estate, the Marquis de l'Esperance arranges a marriage between his son, Mathurin, and an English heiress, Lucy Broadhurst... [More...]
Les Bidasses en folie (1971)
Claude Zidi
Five inseparable buddies - Jean-Guy, Phil, Gérard, Luis and Jean - are united by their shared obsession, which is to form their own rock band, The Tourists... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Five inseparable buddies - Jean-Guy, Phil, Gérard, Luis and Jean - are united by their shared obsession, which is to form their own rock band, The Tourists... [More...]
Les Bidasses s'en vont en guerre (1974)
Claude Zidi
Not everyone is suited for army life - as Gérard, Phil, Jean and Jean-Guy quickly discover when they begin their military service... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Not everyone is suited for army life - as Gérard, Phil, Jean and Jean-Guy quickly discover when they begin their military service... [More...]
Black Moon (1975)
Louis Malle
The world is caught in an interminable war in which men round up women and execute them. An adolescent girl named Lily narrowly escapes the same fate as she makes her way across a war-torn landscape... [More...]
Louis Malle
The world is caught in an interminable war in which men round up women and execute them. An adolescent girl named Lily narrowly escapes the same fate as she makes her way across a war-torn landscape... [More...]
Blaise Pascal (1972)
Roberto Rossellini
Blaise Pascal is 16 years old when his family moves to Rouen in 1639 so that his father Étienne can take up his new position as the king's commissioner of taxes... [More...]
Roberto Rossellini
Blaise Pascal is 16 years old when his family moves to Rouen in 1639 so that his father Étienne can take up his new position as the king's commissioner of taxes... [More...]
Le Bon et les méchants (1976)
Claude Lelouch
This is the story of Jacques, a young car mechanic who dreams of becoming a professional boxer, and his kind-hearted Jewish friend, Simon... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
This is the story of Jacques, a young car mechanic who dreams of becoming a professional boxer, and his kind-hearted Jewish friend, Simon... [More...]
La Bonne année (1973)
Claude Lelouch
Simon is released from prison after having served a seven year stretch for an audacious jewel robbery at Cannes in 1966. He returns to Paris, hoping to meet up with his accomplice, Charlot (who managed to escape with the stolen jewels) and a young antique dealer, Françoise, with whom he is hoping to start a new life... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Simon is released from prison after having served a seven year stretch for an audacious jewel robbery at Cannes in 1966. He returns to Paris, hoping to meet up with his accomplice, Charlot (who managed to escape with the stolen jewels) and a young antique dealer, Françoise, with whom he is hoping to start a new life... [More...]
Bons baisers... à lundi (1974)
Michel Audiard
Three small-time hoodlums, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri, are convinced they can make a mint by holding-up a soiree hosted by showbiz king Frankie Strong at his Paris apartment... [More...]
Michel Audiard
Three small-time hoodlums, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri, are convinced they can make a mint by holding-up a soiree hosted by showbiz king Frankie Strong at his Paris apartment... [More...]
Borsalino (1970)
Jacques Deray
Marseille, 1930. After completing a six month stretch in prison, Roch Siffredi returns to his girlfriend to find her in the company of another man, François Capella... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Marseille, 1930. After completing a six month stretch in prison, Roch Siffredi returns to his girlfriend to find her in the company of another man, François Capella... [More...]
Borsalino & Co. (1974)
Jacques Deray
France, 1934. Over the past few years, Roch Siffredi and François Capella were two of the most notorious gangsters in Marseille... [More...]
Jacques Deray
France, 1934. Over the past few years, Roch Siffredi and François Capella were two of the most notorious gangsters in Marseille... [More...]
Le Boucher (1970)
Claude Chabrol
After serving in both the Indochina and Algerian wars, Paul Thomas returns to his home village in a provincial backwater of France and takes over his father's butcher's shop... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
After serving in both the Indochina and Algerian wars, Paul Thomas returns to his home village in a provincial backwater of France and takes over his father's butcher's shop... [More...]
Les Bronzés font du ski (1979)
Patrice Leconte
A year has passed since Nathalie and Bernard came close to wrecking their marriage at a holiday club on the Ivory Coast. Now that they have patched up their differences, they plan to spend a more agreeable vacation in the French alps, staying at their recently acquired timeshare apartment... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
A year has passed since Nathalie and Bernard came close to wrecking their marriage at a holiday club on the Ivory Coast. Now that they have patched up their differences, they plan to spend a more agreeable vacation in the French alps, staying at their recently acquired timeshare apartment... [More...]
Les Bronzés (1978)
Patrice Leconte
In the late 1970s, a party of hyped up French holidaymakers arrives at a popular holiday club on the Ivory Coast, looking forward to a week of unbridled escape from their humdrum lives... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
In the late 1970s, a party of hyped up French holidaymakers arrives at a popular holiday club on the Ivory Coast, looking forward to a week of unbridled escape from their humdrum lives... [More...]
Buffet froid (1979)
Bertrand Blier
Alphonse Tram, an unemployed man in his early thirties, lives with his wife Josyane in a recently constructed apartment block that is virtually uninhabited... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Alphonse Tram, an unemployed man in his early thirties, lives with his wife Josyane in a recently constructed apartment block that is virtually uninhabited... [More...]
C'est pas parce qu'on a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule... (1975)
Jacques Besnard
The fact that Max and Riton are two of the most inept crooks in France does not deter criminal mastermind Fano from employing them in his latest meticulously thought-out nefarious exploit... [More...]
Jacques Besnard
The fact that Max and Riton are two of the most inept crooks in France does not deter criminal mastermind Fano from employing them in his latest meticulously thought-out nefarious exploit... [More...]
La Cage aux folles (1978)
Edouard Molinaro
Renato and Albin are a gay couple living in St Tropez, Renato managing a notorious night club in which Albin performs a drag act... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Renato and Albin are a gay couple living in St Tropez, Renato managing a notorious night club in which Albin performs a drag act... [More...]
La Cage (1975)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Julien, a successful property developer, gets more than he bargained for when he accepts an invitation to dinner with his ex-wife Hélène at her detached residence in the suburbs of Paris... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Julien, a successful property developer, gets more than he bargained for when he accepts an invitation to dinner with his ex-wife Hélène at her detached residence in the suburbs of Paris... [More...]
Calmos (1976)
Bertrand Blier
Paul Dufour is a middle-aged doctor whose wife's conjugal demands on him are beginning to get him down. One day he meets another man, Albert, who is in the same predicament... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Paul Dufour is a middle-aged doctor whose wife's conjugal demands on him are beginning to get him down. One day he meets another man, Albert, who is in the same predicament... [More...]
Cannabis (1970)
Pierre Koralnik
Serge Morgan is a hitman in the employ of the American Mafia. Having fulfilled his latest contract, he takes a plane to Paris... [More...]
Pierre Koralnik
Serge Morgan is a hitman in the employ of the American Mafia. Having fulfilled his latest contract, he takes a plane to Paris... [More...]
La Carapate (1978)
Gérard Oury
May 1968. Sentenced to death for murder, Martial Gaulard is being held in a prison in Lyons. Convinced of his innocence, his lawyer - Jean-Philippe Duroc - is sure he can get the death sentence commuted by “presidential grace”... [More...]
Gérard Oury
May 1968. Sentenced to death for murder, Martial Gaulard is being held in a prison in Lyons. Convinced of his innocence, his lawyer - Jean-Philippe Duroc - is sure he can get the death sentence commuted by “presidential grace”... [More...]
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses! (1979)
Edouard Molinaro
François Perrin is a radio reporter who is coping badly with living by himself after his divorce. One evening, the solitude becomes so unbearable that he picks up the telephone and dials a number at random... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
François Perrin is a radio reporter who is coping badly with living by himself after his divorce. One evening, the solitude becomes so unbearable that he picks up the telephone and dials a number at random... [More...]
Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974)
Jacques Rivette
It is in a park in Paris that Julie, a shy librarian, first makes the acquaintance of Céline, a stage magician. Intrigued by the other woman, Julie follows her around the city until she loses sight of her... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
It is in a park in Paris that Julie, a shy librarian, first makes the acquaintance of Céline, a stage magician. Intrigued by the other woman, Julie follows her around the city until she loses sight of her... [More...]
Le Cercle rouge (1970)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Police superintendent Mattei is escorting a suspected criminal, Vogel, across France on a train. After a daring escape, Vogel, goes on the run... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
Police superintendent Mattei is escorting a suspected criminal, Vogel, across France on a train. After a daring escape, Vogel, goes on the run... [More...]
César et Rosalie (1972)
Claude Sautet
After her divorce, 30-something Rosalie decides to live with César, a wealthy scrap-metal dealer who is prone to violent bursts... [More...]
Claude Sautet
After her divorce, 30-something Rosalie decides to live with César, a wealthy scrap-metal dealer who is prone to violent bursts... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]