French cinema: 1972
L'Amour l'après-midi (1972)
Eric Rohmer
Frédéric had thought that by marrying Hélène he would never again be tempted by another woman...
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Eric Rohmer
L'Attentat (1972)
Yves Boisset
In the immediate aftermath of a coup d'état in an unnamed North African state, a progressive member of the opposition, Sadiel, fears for his life and is forced to flee to Switzerland...
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Yves Boisset
L'Aventure, c'est l'aventure (1972)
Claude Lelouch
Realising that times have changed, five unscrupulous crooks decide it is time for a reappraisal of their line of business...
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Claude Lelouch
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
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...
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Roberto Rossellini
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...]
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)
Luis Buñuel
Monsieur and Madame Senechal have invited their friends, the Thevenots and Don Rafael, the Ambassador of a South American republic, to dinner, but, owing to a misunderstanding, their guests turn up a day early... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Monsieur and Madame Senechal have invited their friends, the Thevenots and Don Rafael, the Ambassador of a South American republic, to dinner, but, owing to a misunderstanding, their guests turn up a day early... [More...]
Coup pour coup (1972)
Marin Karmitz
When two of their colleagues are dismissed for unruly behaviour, the mostly female staff of a French textiles factory decide to go on strike to demand better pay and the reinstatement of their sacked co-workers... [More...]
Marin Karmitz
When two of their colleagues are dismissed for unruly behaviour, the mostly female staff of a French textiles factory decide to go on strike to demand better pay and the reinstatement of their sacked co-workers... [More...]
La Course du lièvre à travers les champs (1972)
René Clément
Antoine Cardot is tried in France for killing some gypsy children with his aeroplane. When the court decides the deaths were the result of a tragic accident, Antoine is set free... [More...]
René Clément
Antoine Cardot is tried in France for killing some gypsy children with his aeroplane. When the court decides the deaths were the result of a tragic accident, Antoine is set free... [More...]
Docteur Popaul (1972)
Claude Chabrol
Dr Paul Simay is a lady's man who claims to prefer ugly women and he makes his point by winning a bet that he can sleep with the world's plainest women... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Dr Paul Simay is a lady's man who claims to prefer ugly women and he makes his point by winning a bet that he can sleep with the world's plainest women... [More...]
État de siège (1972)
Costa-Gavras
Michael Santore is working in South America as a communications officer for an international aid agency when he is abducted by a gang of extreme leftwing revolutionaries who call themselves the Tupamaros... [More...]
Costa-Gavras
Michael Santore is working in South America as a communications officer for an international aid agency when he is abducted by a gang of extreme leftwing revolutionaries who call themselves the Tupamaros... [More...]
L'Étrangleur (1972)
Paul Vecchiali
As a child, Émile is walking through the streets after dark when he encounters a stranger. The latter takes his white woollen scarf and uses it to strangle an attractive young woman... [More...]
Paul Vecchiali
As a child, Émile is walking through the streets after dark when he encounters a stranger. The latter takes his white woollen scarf and uses it to strangle an attractive young woman... [More...]
Faustine et le bel été (1972)
Nina Companéez
Faustine is 16 years old and has yet to experience her first romantic adventure. Whilst staying at her grandparents' country farm one summer she becomes fascinated by the inhabitants of a neighbouring country house... [More...]
Nina Companéez
Faustine is 16 years old and has yet to experience her first romantic adventure. Whilst staying at her grandparents' country farm one summer she becomes fascinated by the inhabitants of a neighbouring country house... [More...]
Les Feux de la chandeleur (1972)
Serge Korber
Alexandre and Marie-Louise Boursault are a married couple who are deeply in love but cannot come to terms with each other's politics... [More...]
Serge Korber
Alexandre and Marie-Louise Boursault are a married couple who are deeply in love but cannot come to terms with each other's politics... [More...]
Les Fous du stade (1972)
Claude Zidi
As a nearby village makes ready to welcome the torch carrier of the International Games, four friends - Jean-Guy, Phil, Gérard and Jean - are enjoying a stress-free holiday in Provence... [More...]
Claude Zidi
As a nearby village makes ready to welcome the torch carrier of the International Games, four friends - Jean-Guy, Phil, Gérard and Jean - are enjoying a stress-free holiday in Provence... [More...]
Le Franc-tireur (1972)
Jean-Max Causse
Whilst the Allied forces arrive in the North to liberate the French nation from German Occupation, the South is still very much in the grip of Nazi control... [More...]
Jean-Max Causse
Whilst the Allied forces arrive in the North to liberate the French nation from German Occupation, the South is still very much in the grip of Nazi control... [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...]
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...]
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Paul is a 45-year-old American who is coming to terms with his wife's seemingly inexplicable suicide. Jeanne is a 20-something Parisian who is engaged to Tom, an aspiring filmmaker who intends making her the star of his next film... [More...]
Bernardo Bertolucci
Paul is a 45-year-old American who is coming to terms with his wife's seemingly inexplicable suicide. Jeanne is a 20-something Parisian who is engaged to Tom, an aspiring filmmaker who intends making her the star of his next film... [More...]
Ludwig (1972)
Luchino Visconti
Ludwig II is a mere youth of nineteen when he ascends to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. A sensitive and idealistic young man, he shows far more interest in the arts and architecture than he does in matters of state... [More...]
Luchino Visconti
Ludwig II is a mere youth of nineteen when he ascends to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. A sensitive and idealistic young man, he shows far more interest in the arts and architecture than he does in matters of state... [More...]
Les Malheurs d'Alfred (1972)
Pierre Richard
Ever since he was a child, Alfred Dhumonttye has been afflicted with chronic bad luck. The most cursed of all architects, every building he has ever designed suffers the misfortune of some disaster or other... [More...]
Pierre Richard
Ever since he was a child, Alfred Dhumonttye has been afflicted with chronic bad luck. The most cursed of all architects, every building he has ever designed suffers the misfortune of some disaster or other... [More...]
Nathalie Granger (1972)
Marguerite Duras
Isabelle Granger is a young woman who lives with her husband and daughter Nathalie in a large house in the Yvelines district of Paris... [More...]
Marguerite Duras
Isabelle Granger is a young woman who lives with her husband and daughter Nathalie in a large house in the Yvelines district of Paris... [More...]
Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972)
Maurice Pialat
For the past six years, Jean, a struggling filmmaker in his forties, has been pursuing a turbulent love affair with a much younger woman, Catherine... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
For the past six years, Jean, a struggling filmmaker in his forties, has been pursuing a turbulent love affair with a much younger woman, Catherine... [More...]
La Scoumoune (1972)
José Giovanni
In the mid-1930s, contract killer Roberto Borgo leaves Sicily and heads for Marseille, coming to the aid of his old friend Xavier Saratov, who has just been arrested for murder... [More...]
José Giovanni
In the mid-1930s, contract killer Roberto Borgo leaves Sicily and heads for Marseille, coming to the aid of his old friend Xavier Saratov, who has just been arrested for murder... [More...]
Les Soleils de l'Ile de Pâques (1972)
Pierre Kast
The purpose of the famous stone statues on Easter Island, the moai, has long been a source of speculation and controversy... [More...]
Pierre Kast
The purpose of the famous stone statues on Easter Island, the moai, has long been a source of speculation and controversy... [More...]
Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil (1972)
Jean Yanne
Christian Gerber is a reporter for Radio-Plus, France's most popular radio station. Whilst he attempts to accurately report the peaceful revolution taking place in a Latin American country, his colleagues fabricate their reports in an attempt to draw a larger audience... [More...]
Jean Yanne
Christian Gerber is a reporter for Radio-Plus, France's most popular radio station. Whilst he attempts to accurately report the peaceful revolution taking place in a Latin American country, his colleagues fabricate their reports in an attempt to draw a larger audience... [More...]
Tout va bien (1972)
Jean-Luc Godard
An American reporter and her husband, a burnt-out film director, are interviewing the manager of a sausage factory when there is a workers' revolt... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
An American reporter and her husband, a burnt-out film director, are interviewing the manager of a sausage factory when there is a workers' revolt... [More...]
Le Tueur (1972)
Denys de La Patellière
Superintendent Le Guen thought he had seen the last of Georges Gassot, a relentless serial killer, when he arrested him and had him placed behind bars... [More...]
Denys de La Patellière
Superintendent Le Guen thought he had seen the last of Georges Gassot, a relentless serial killer, when he arrested him and had him placed behind bars... [More...]
Un flic (1972)
Jean-Pierre Melville
A gang of crooks raid a bank in a windswept coastal town on the west coast of France. In the course of the robbery, one member of the gang sustains a gunshot wound and must be taken to a clinic for treatment... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Melville
A gang of crooks raid a bank in a windswept coastal town on the west coast of France. In the course of the robbery, one member of the gang sustains a gunshot wound and must be taken to a clinic for treatment... [More...]
Une belle fille comme moi (1972)
François Truffaut
Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist who is writing a thesis on criminal women (which, we are told, is never published)... [More...]
François Truffaut
Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist who is writing a thesis on criminal women (which, we are told, is never published)... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]