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French cinema: 1970s

Le Grand bazar (1973)
Claude Zidi

Gérard, Jean-Guy, Phil and Jean are four friends in their early twenties who live in the same high-rise apartment block in one of the less salubrious districts of town...   [More...]

Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972)
Yves Robert

Colonel Louis Toulouse, a senior operative in the French security service, has become so fed up with his ambitious rival, Milan, that he decides to send him off on a wild goose chase, in the hope that it will ruin his career...   [More...]

La Grande bouffe (1973)
Marco Ferreri

One winter, four well-off middle-aged men who have grown tired of life decide to kill themselves. For Marcello, an Italian airline pilot with an over-developed libido, life has become intolerable now that he is impotent...   [More...]

Les Granges brulées (1973)
Jean Chapot

Les Granges Brûlées is the name of an isolated farm in the snow-capped Haut Doubs mountains of the Jura which is home to Rose, a strong-willed woman in her fifties, her husband Pierre and their two grown-up sons, Paul and Louis...   [More...]

La Guerre des polices (1979)
Robin Davis

In the early hours of the morning, police superintendent Ballestrat is about to arrest Hector Sarlat, the most wanted criminal in France, when a rival police squad led by Jacques Fush puts in an unexpected and unwelcome appearance...   [More...]

La Gueule de l'autre (1979)
Pierre Tchernia

An election campaign is well under way in Paris when one of the candidates, Martial Perrin, the leader of a right-wing political party, is thrown into a sudden panic...   [More...]

Les Guichets du Louvre (1974)
Michel Mitrani

Paris, 16th July 1942. Paul, a young student, has just been tipped off that the French police are about to begin a massive round up of Jews in the Saint-Paul district of the capital...   [More...]

L'Héritier (1973)
Philippe Labro

When his father, an incredibly wealthy magnate, dies in an aeroplane crash, Bart Cordell finds himself at the head a vast business empire...   [More...]

Heureux qui comme Ulysse (1970)
Henri Colpi

Antonin is an ageing farmhand who leads a peaceful existence in a small village in Provence. One day, his employer gives him an errand that he would rather not discharge - to take his old farm horse Ulysse to Arles, to end his days in the bullring...   [More...]

L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)
François Truffaut

A young woman arrives in Halifax, the capital city of Nova Scotia, in 1863, and immediately sets about looking for the man she has lost her heart to...   [More...]

Histoire d'O (1975)
Just Jaeckin

The story of O begins with a beautiful young woman agreeing to be taken to a house in the country, Château Roissy, by her devoted boyfriend René...   [More...]

L'Homme en colère (1979)
Claude Pinoteau

When he is informed of the death of his son Julien, Romain Dupré goes to Canada to identify the body. The dead man turns out not be Dupré's son, but a stranger who, for some reason, is carrying Julien's identification papers...   [More...]

L'Homme orchestre (1970)
Serge Korber

The world famous choreographer Evan Evans and his famous ballet company are in Monaco completing their rehearsals ahead of an important European tour...   [More...]

L'Homme pressé (1977)
Edouard Molinaro

Pierre Niox is a busy man. Life is too short to waste on inconsequentialities, so Pierre gallops along like a hyperactive steeplechaser, spending no more time than is necessary on every aspect of his existence...   [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...]

L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974)
Bertrand Tavernier

In the Saint-Paul district of Lyons, a middle-aged watchmaker, Michel Descombes, leads a peaceful and contented bachelor existence...   [More...]

L'Horoscope (1978)
Jean Girault

It is only when he sets foot in the church where he is to be married that Antoine Fromont comes to his senses and realises that he is making a terrible mistake...   [More...]

La Horse (1970)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

Auguste Maroilleur is a man in his sixties who is proud of his heritage and has no intention of letting it slip from his grasp...   [More...]

L'Hôtel de la plage (1978)
Michel Lang

The arrival of August, the month of long summer holidays offering freedom from school and work, is eagerly awaited by every man, woman and child in France...   [More...]

I... comme Icare (1979)
Henri Verneuil

The official investigation into the assassination of a popular head of state concludes he was killed by a lone assassin, who shot himself immediately after the event...   [More...]

L'Ibis rouge (1975)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

A serial killer is at large in Paris, in the vicinity of the canal Saint-Martin. The victims, all attractive young women, have been strangled by someone the police would least suspect - a mild-mannered social security employee named Jérémie...   [More...]

Il Conformista (1970)
Bernardo Bertolucci

In 1930s Italy, Marcello Clerici makes the decision to join the Fascist secret police. Eager to prove himself, Clerici agrees to assassinate his former teacher Professor Quadri, an anti-Fascist intellectual who is now living in exile in Paris...   [More...]

Il faut vivre dangereusement (1975)
Claude Makovski

Once a police inspector in the vice squad, Richard Diquet now earns his crust as a private detective. Presently he is concerned with the mysterious death of another detective, Edouard Lory, whose body appears to have been thrown from a train...   [More...]

Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu (1973)
André Cayatte

With no serious contender to oppose him, Joseph Boussard is confident that he will be re-elected as mayor of Chavigny, a small town on the outskirts of Paris...   [More...]

L'Important c'est d'aimer (1975)
Andrzej Zulawski

A freelance photographer, Servais Mont, falls in love with Nadine Chevalier, an aspiring actress who, having failed to make the big time, has no other option than to appear in cheap exploitative movies...   [More...]

L'Incorrigible (1975)
Philippe de Broca

Within minutes of being released from prison, Victor Vautier resumes his career as a confidence trickster and crook. An incorrigible liar and master of disguise, he rents his former girlfriend's luxury apartment to an American ambassador and sells non-existent military aircraft to an African state...   [More...]

India Song (1975)
Marguerite Duras

India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of the French ambassador, has a comfortable existence in Calcutta but, with so few things to occupy her, she soon becomes hopelessly bored...   [More...]

Les Innocents aux mains sales (1975)
Claude Chabrol

Forced into earlier retirement after a near-fatal heart attack, hard-nosed businessman Louis Wormser now leads a peaceful existence with his young wife Julie on the French Riviera...   [More...]

L'Insolent (1973)
Jean-Claude Roy

Emmanuel Ristack, a ruthless American gangster nicknamed 'L'Insolent', succeeds in escaping from the Santé prison...   [More...]

L'Invitation (1973)
Claude Goretta

Rémy Placet is a humble office employee who has worked for the same insurance company for the past twenty years. When his mother dies, he is given two months' compassionate leave, during which time he sells his city centre house in Geneva and acquires a much larger property, with ample gardens, in the countryside just outside the city...   [More...]



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