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French cinema: 1970s

Le Passe-montagne (1978)
Jean-François Stévenin

When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage...   [More...]

Peau d'âne (1970)
Jacques Demy

On her deathbed, the queen of strange and distant land asks her husband, the king, never to marry again anyone less beautiful than she...   [More...]

La Peau de torpedo (1970)
Jean Delannoy

To everyone who knows him, including his wife Dominique, Nicolas Krestowics is a respectable antiquarian. In truth, he works for an enemy spy ring and uses his work as a cover for his espionage activities...   [More...]

Perceval le Gallois (1978)
Eric Rohmer

Brought up by his widowed mother to know nothing about war and pageantry, the Welsh youth Perceval is awe-struck when he meets a knight for the first time...   [More...]

Le Permis de conduire (1974)
Jean Girault

Michel Martenot, a modest bank employee in the suburbs of Paris, has a chronic aversion to cars. Despite being pressurised by his wife, two children and his interfering brother-in-law, he has no desire to learn how to drive...   [More...]

Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir (1970)
Jean Renoir

Le dernier réveillon: one Christmas Eve, a tramp is paid to mournfully watch a party of revellers enjoying themselves at an expensive restaurant...   [More...]

Les Petits câlins (1978)
Jean-Marie Poiré

Sophie, a young mother who has lost the care of her daughter after her divorce, lives with her friends, Corine and Sylivie, in an apartment in the Paris suburbs...   [More...]

Les Pétroleuses (1971)
Christian-Jaque

Louise, nicknamed Frenchie King, is the leader of a woman's gang with her four sisters. They attack a train and steal important documents belonging to Doc Miller, which include the deeds to a ranch at Bougival Junction...   [More...]

Peur sur la ville (1975)
Henri Verneuil

After receiving a series of threatening phone calls, Nora Elmer falls to her death from a high-rised apartment. The death is investigated by police inspector Jean Letellier, who soon receives a mysterious phone call from someone calling himself Minos and who claims to want to purge Paris of loose women...   [More...]

Le Pion (1978)
Christian Gion

Bertrand Barabi has serious aspirations of becoming a successful author but, whilst he devotes all of his free time to writing, he lacks the confidence to complete his first novel and find a publisher...   [More...]

Police Python 357 (1976)
Alain Corneau

Orléans police inspector Marc Ferrot leads a focused, solitary existence. With no family and few friends, he devotes himself to his work and his interest in firearms...   [More...]

Pourquoi pas! (1977)
Coline Serreau

A typically French ménage à trois arrangement seems to suit Fernand, Louis and Alexa, three disparate individuals in their late twenties who are each, in one way or another, a fugitive from life...   [More...]

Préparez vos mouchoirs (1978)
Bertrand Blier

Raoul has tried everything he can think of to cure his wife Solange of her habitual melancholia, but in vain. In desperation, he coerces a stranger he meets in a restaurant into sleeping with her...   [More...]

Le Pull-over rouge (1979)
Michel Drach

The body of a nine-year old girl, Elisa Garcia, is found about twenty kilometres from Marseille, not long after the girl was abducted by a stranger...   [More...]

Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971)
Robert Bresson

One night, a young painter, Jacques comes across a young woman, Marthe, who is about to commit suicide by jumping off the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris...   [More...]

Que la fête commence... (1975)
Bertrand Tavernier

France, 1719. Four years after the death of the Sun King Louis XIV, the reins of power are held by the regent, Philippe d'Orléans...   [More...]

Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles (1973)
Georges Lautner

Situated in the Lot department of southwest France, Loubressac is an idyllic spot to live. You'd think this would be a haven for those seeking the peace and quiet of the countryside, but no...   [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...]

Qui? (1970)
Léonard Keigel

Marina has just had the closest brush with death she can imagine. She can scarcely believe she is still alive. Less than ten minutes ago, she and her boyfriend Claude were cruising along a stretch of coastal road in Brittany when they got into a violent argument...   [More...]

R.A.S. (1973)
Yves Boisset

In 1956, France's professional army lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold onto at any price...   [More...]

La Race des seigneurs (1974)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

An ambitious deputy in the Republic Party, Julien Dandieu neglects his wife Betty, his son Alain and even his mistress Creezy, a famous cover girl...   [More...]

La Raison d'état (1978)
André Cayatte

Just as he is about to attend a conference in Italy, Professeur Marrot, a world-renowned biologist, comes across a compromising document...   [More...]

Raphaël ou le débauché (1971)
Michel Deville

In 1830, Aurore de Chéroy is a young widow who lives a simple but contented life on her country estate in France. A devout Christian, she devotes herself to charitable works and spurns proposals of marriage from such men as the selfish and cynical Horace de Granville...   [More...]

René la canne (1976)
Francis Girod

Paris, 1942. Even though France is under Nazi occupation, René Bornier, better known as René la Canne, is making a reasonable living for himself as a small-time crook...   [More...]

Le Retour du grand blond (1974)
Yves Robert

Cambrai, a modest captain in the French secret service, discovers that his superior, Colonel Toulouse, was responsible for the death of his rival Milan...   [More...]

Les Ringards (1978)
Robert Pouret

Believing them to be dangerous gangsters, police superintendent Garmiche and his deputy Benoit closely monitor the activities of three suspicious looking individuals - Aldo, Charlot and Jeannot...   [More...]

Robert et Robert (1978)
Claude Lelouch

Jacques Millet is the director of a marriage agency and prides himself on always being able to match the right man to the right woman, with the aid of his expensive, state-of-the-art computer...   [More...]

Le Roi des bricoleurs (1977)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

Businessman Goumic is over the moon when he learns that he, his wife and his brother-in-law, Malju, have inherited a grand old house in a popular spa town...   [More...]

Les Routes du sud (1978)
Joseph Losey

It is 1975. The Spanish dictator Franco is dying, but his regime still holds on to power. Amongst those who support the communist resistance against Franco are Jean and Eve, exiles living in France...   [More...]

Rude journée pour la reine (1973)
René Allio

For Jeanne, life has become one never-ending round of disappointments. How foolish she must have been, as a little girl, to think that one day she would be a film star or a princess...   [More...]



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