French cinema: 1970
L'Aveu (1970)
Costa-Gavras
Prague, 1951. A.L. is the deputy foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, a man with an impeccable record. Having fought on the side of the Brigadas Internacionales during the Spanish Civil War, and then with the French Resistance during WWII, A.L.'s devotion to communism seems to be beyond dispute...
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Costa-Gavras
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...
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Jacques Deray
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...
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Claude Chabrol
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...
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Pierre Koralnik
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...
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Champignon (1970)
Marc Simenon
Éric Calder is a 30-year-old doctor who has just opened a new surgery on the banks of Lake Geneva. His marriage soon comes under strain as his young wife, Anne, is often away from home pursuing a busy career as a producer of advertising films... [More...]
Marc Simenon
Éric Calder is a 30-year-old doctor who has just opened a new surgery on the banks of Lake Geneva. His marriage soon comes under strain as his young wife, Anne, is often away from home pursuing a busy career as a producer of advertising films... [More...]
Les Choses de la vie (1970)
Claude Sautet
Pierre Bérard, a 40-year-old architect, is on his way to a business appointment when his car collides with a lorry on a quiet country road... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Pierre Bérard, a 40-year-old architect, is on his way to a business appointment when his car collides with a lorry on a quiet country road... [More...]
Le Cinéma de papa (1970)
Claude Berri
In 1946, 12-year-old Claude Langmann lives with his parents, Jewish immigrants, and newborn sister Arlette in a busy district of Paris... [More...]
Claude Berri
In 1946, 12-year-old Claude Langmann lives with his parents, Jewish immigrants, and newborn sister Arlette in a busy district of Paris... [More...]
Le Clair de terre (1970)
Guy Gilles
Pierre Brumeu, 21, lives in Paris and has a strained relationship with his father, a widower who is still mourning the loss of his wife many years ago... [More...]
Guy Gilles
Pierre Brumeu, 21, lives in Paris and has a strained relationship with his father, a widower who is still mourning the loss of his wife many years ago... [More...]
Cran d'arrêt (1970)
Yves Boisset
Dr Lucas Lamberti has just left prison after serving a three year stretch for killing one of his patients. An old friend, Dr Carrua, persuades him to take a friendly interest in his son, David, who has recently become an alcoholic depressive... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Dr Lucas Lamberti has just left prison after serving a three year stretch for killing one of his patients. An old friend, Dr Carrua, persuades him to take a friendly interest in his son, David, who has recently become an alcoholic depressive... [More...]
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1970)
Michel Audiard
Hitch-hiking his way home after an unsuccessful day betting on the horses, Alfred Mulanet is abducted by a group of gangsters, led by the sinister Monsieur K... [More...]
Michel Audiard
Hitch-hiking his way home after an unsuccessful day betting on the horses, Alfred Mulanet is abducted by a group of gangsters, led by the sinister Monsieur K... [More...]
Dernier domicile connu (1970)
José Giovanni
As a result of a serious professional blunder, Inspector Leonetti finds himself transferred to a minor police department... [More...]
José Giovanni
As a result of a serious professional blunder, Inspector Leonetti finds himself transferred to a minor police department... [More...]
Le Distrait (1970)
Pierre Richard
Pierre Malaquet is a likeable young man but he is hopelessly absent-minded and cannot sustain a train of thought for more than a few seconds... [More...]
Pierre Richard
Pierre Malaquet is a likeable young man but he is hopelessly absent-minded and cannot sustain a train of thought for more than a few seconds... [More...]
Domicile conjugal (1970)
François Truffaut
Now 26, Antoine Doinel is happily married to Christine Darbon. The couple share a small but comfortable apartment in Paris, and while she gives violin lessons, he earns a meagre wage dyeing flowers for a florist... [More...]
François Truffaut
Now 26, Antoine Doinel is happily married to Christine Darbon. The couple share a small but comfortable apartment in Paris, and while she gives violin lessons, he earns a meagre wage dyeing flowers for a florist... [More...]
Élise ou la vraie vie (1970)
Michel Drach
It is 1957 and France has been at war with Algeria for three years. Elise, a young woman in her early twenties, live in Bordeaux with her family in a cramped apartment... [More...]
Michel Drach
It is 1957 and France has been at war with Algeria for three years. Elise, a young woman in her early twenties, live in Bordeaux with her family in a cramped apartment... [More...]
Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)
Michel Audiard
Through her work as a housecleaner, Germaine finds out things about her employers which, if widely known, would provoke a scandal... [More...]
Michel Audiard
Through her work as a housecleaner, Germaine finds out things about her employers which, if widely known, would provoke a scandal... [More...]
L'Enfant sauvage (1970)
François Truffaut
Summer, 1798. In the forests of a rural area of southern France, a party of hunters discover and capture a 12 year old boy who appears to have spent his life living like a wild animal... [More...]
François Truffaut
Summer, 1798. In the forests of a rural area of southern France, a party of hunters discover and capture a 12 year old boy who appears to have spent his life living like a wild animal... [More...]
L'Étalon (1970)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
William Chaminade would hardly have thought of himself as a great benefactor of the female sex, but this is what he becomes, thanks to a chance incident during his well-deserved holiday in the south of France... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
William Chaminade would hardly have thought of himself as a great benefactor of the female sex, but this is what he becomes, thanks to a chance incident during his well-deserved holiday in the south of France... [More...]
La Faute de l'abbé Mouret (1970)
Georges Franju
Serge Mouret has recently taken up his first position as parish priest in the Provençal village of Artauds. The locals have little interest in religion and for most of the time Mouret is giving sermons to an empty church... [More...]
Georges Franju
Serge Mouret has recently taken up his first position as parish priest in the Provençal village of Artauds. The locals have little interest in religion and for most of the time Mouret is giving sermons to an empty church... [More...]
Le Gendarme en balade (1970)
Jean Girault
To their dismay, the entire gendarmerie of St Tropez find themselves retired, replaced by a team of younger, fitter gendarmes... [More...]
Jean Girault
To their dismay, the entire gendarmerie of St Tropez find themselves retired, replaced by a team of younger, fitter gendarmes... [More...]
Le Genou de Claire (1970)
Eric Rohmer
A 35 year old diplomat, Jérôme, takes a summer holiday in the picturesque French lakeside resort where he spent his childhood... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
A 35 year old diplomat, Jérôme, takes a summer holiday in the picturesque French lakeside resort where he spent his childhood... [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...]
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'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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
La Maison des Bories (1970)
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Julien Durras is a highly regarded geologist who lives with his younger wife Isabelle and their two children, Laurent and Lise, at a remote country villa in Provence known as the House of the Bories... [More...]
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Julien Durras is a highly regarded geologist who lives with his younger wife Isabelle and their two children, Laurent and Lise, at a remote country villa in Provence known as the House of the Bories... [More...]
Le Mur de l'Atlantique (1970)
Marcel Camus
In 1943, Léon Duchemin is leading a peaceful life in Nazi occupied France. Twenty years after his wife walked out on him, he now lives in a small Normandy town with his sister Marie and daughter Juliette, and together they run a restaurant that is popular with German officers and black marketeers, as well as members of the French Resistance... [More...]
Marcel Camus
In 1943, Léon Duchemin is leading a peaceful life in Nazi occupied France. Twenty years after his wife walked out on him, he now lives in a small Normandy town with his sister Marie and daughter Juliette, and together they run a restaurant that is popular with German officers and black marketeers, as well as members of the French Resistance... [More...]
Les Novices (1970)
Guy Casaril
Sister Agnès has become so bored with her life in a convent that she decides to run away to Paris. Whilst looking in vain for a job, she meets Mona Lisa, a kind-hearted prostitute who invites her to share her way of life... [More...]
Guy Casaril
Sister Agnès has become so bored with her life in a convent that she decides to run away to Paris. Whilst looking in vain for a job, she meets Mona Lisa, a kind-hearted prostitute who invites her to share her way of life... [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...]
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...]
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...]