French cinema: 1977
À chacun son enfer (1977)
André Cayatte
A desperate woman makes a mad dash to the television studios, anxious not to waste one second of the air time she has been granted...
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André Cayatte
Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977)
Claude Chabrol
After walking out on her husband, Alice gets into her car and sets out for what she hopes will be a new life. Whilst driving through the countryside a storm breaks and her windscreen suddenly cracks...
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Claude Chabrol
L'Animal (1977)
Claude Zidi
Michel Gaucher is a stuntman who is about to marry his fiancée, Jane Gardner. Unfortunately, on the morning of his wedding he has to cancel the ceremony because he is required to perform a stunt for a movie...
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Claude Zidi
Armaguedon (1977)
Alain Jessua
After the death of his brother, 40-something Louis Carrier suddenly finds himself a very wealthy man. He gives up his job and devotes himself to a carefully conceived plan to make himself famous...
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Alain Jessua
Arrête ton char... bidasse! (1977)
Michel Gérard
Four young Frenchmen travel to Germany to begin their military service at a French forces camp. None of them were expecting a holiday but the rigour and discipline of army life soon begin to get them down...
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Michel Gérard
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...]
Comme la lune (1977)
Joël Séria
Roger Pouplard, a forty-something refrigerator repairman with Alpha Male tendencies, leaves his respectable wife and daughter so that he can live with his nubile young mistress Nadia... [More...]
Joël Séria
Roger Pouplard, a forty-something refrigerator repairman with Alpha Male tendencies, leaves his respectable wife and daughter so that he can live with his nubile young mistress Nadia... [More...]
La Communion solennelle (1977)
René Féret
Towards the mid-1970s, a large family get-together is arranged at a tranquil spot in the north of France. Attending the out-of-doors communion dinner are around thirty people who span three generations, their life stories stretching right back to the 1890s... [More...]
René Féret
Towards the mid-1970s, a large family get-together is arranged at a tranquil spot in the north of France. Attending the out-of-doors communion dinner are around thirty people who span three generations, their life stories stretching right back to the 1890s... [More...]
Le Crabe-Tambour (1977)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
The Jaureguiberry, a mighty escort ship, leaves the port of Lorient in the northwest of France and sets out on its long journey across the stormy Atlantic... [More...]
Pierre Schoendoerffer
The Jaureguiberry, a mighty escort ship, leaves the port of Lorient in the northwest of France and sets out on its long journey across the stormy Atlantic... [More...]
La Dentellière (1977)
Claude Goretta
Pomme may be 19 but, in her outlook and behaviour, she is still a child. A trainee hairdresser in Paris, she lives in her dreams and makes no attempt to find herself a boyfriend... [More...]
Claude Goretta
Pomme may be 19 but, in her outlook and behaviour, she is still a child. A trainee hairdresser in Paris, she lives in her dreams and makes no attempt to find herself a boyfriend... [More...]
Le Diable probablement (1977)
Robert Bresson
The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand... [More...]
Robert Bresson
The body of a twenty-year old man, shot through the head, is found in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There is a loaded gun in his hand... [More...]
Diabolo menthe (1977)
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
Diane Kurys
September 1963 marks the beginning of an important phase in the lives of two teenage sisters, Anne and Frédérique Weber... [More...]
Le Gang (1977)
Jacques Deray
In the aftermath of World War II, France is in a state of confusion, and the police are fighting an uphill battle to re-impose the rule of law on a nation still scarred by its sorry period of Nazi Occupation... [More...]
Jacques Deray
In the aftermath of World War II, France is in a state of confusion, and the police are fighting an uphill battle to re-impose the rule of law on a nation still scarred by its sorry period of Nazi Occupation... [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...]
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...]
François Truffaut
Before his abrupt, tragic and somewhat farcical death in his mid-forties, Bernard Morane was the most inveterate of skirt chasers... [More...]
Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977)
Yves Boisset
Jean-Marie Fayard is an incorruptible young judge who appears determined to live up to his nickname 'Le Shériff'. His present investigation into a series of deaths linked to a prominent businessman brings him into conflict with his superiors, who are keen to see him redirect his efforts towards less problematic cases... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Jean-Marie Fayard is an incorruptible young judge who appears determined to live up to his nickname 'Le Shériff'. His present investigation into a series of deaths linked to a prominent businessman brings him into conflict with his superiors, who are keen to see him redirect his efforts towards less problematic cases... [More...]
La Menace (1977)
Alain Corneau
Dominique Montlaure owns a substantial trucking business near to Bordeaux, which she runs with the help of her boyfriend, Henri Savin... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Dominique Montlaure owns a substantial trucking business near to Bordeaux, which she runs with the help of her boyfriend, Henri Savin... [More...]
Mort d'un pourri (1977)
Georges Lautner
Xavier Maréchal agrees to provide his friend Philippe Dubaye with an alibi when the latter confesses to him that he has just murdered a business associate, Serrano... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Xavier Maréchal agrees to provide his friend Philippe Dubaye with an alibi when the latter confesses to him that he has just murdered a business associate, Serrano... [More...]
Nous irons tous au paradis (1977)
Yves Robert
When he finds a photograph of his wife kissing another man, Etienne Dorsay becomes mad with jealousy and decides to conduct his own investigation, trailing his wife wherever she goes... [More...]
Yves Robert
When he finds a photograph of his wife kissing another man, Etienne Dorsay becomes mad with jealousy and decides to conduct his own investigation, trailing his wife wherever she goes... [More...]
La Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1977)
Bob Swaim
A private detective Nestor Burma has a rendez-vous with a jazz trumpet player in a cheap hotel, to recover some stolen jewellery... [More...]
Bob Swaim
A private detective Nestor Burma has a rendez-vous with a jazz trumpet player in a cheap hotel, to recover some stolen jewellery... [More...]
Les Passagers (1977)
Serge Leroy
Whilst his new wife Nicole is busy redecorating their Paris apartment, Alex Moineau sets out for Rome to collect her 11-year-old son Marc at his school... [More...]
Serge Leroy
Whilst his new wife Nicole is busy redecorating their Paris apartment, Alex Moineau sets out for Rome to collect her 11-year-old son Marc at his school... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
La Septième compagnie au clair de lune (1977)
Robert Lamoureux
With France now under German occupation, the members of the ill-fated 7th Company make a belated return to civilian life and it would appear that their wartime escapades are finally at an end... [More...]
Robert Lamoureux
With France now under German occupation, the members of the ill-fated 7th Company make a belated return to civilian life and it would appear that their wartime escapades are finally at an end... [More...]
Un moment d'égarement (1977)
Claude Berri
Pierre and Victor have been the closest of friends since childhood. Now in their mid-forties, both men are separated from their wives and have teenage daughters, Martine and Françoise... [More...]
Claude Berri
Pierre and Victor have been the closest of friends since childhood. Now in their mid-forties, both men are separated from their wives and have teenage daughters, Martine and Françoise... [More...]
Un taxi mauve (1977)
Yves Boisset
After the death of his son, Philippe Marchal, a French writer, seeks the seclusion of a small coastal village in Ireland... [More...]
Yves Boisset
After the death of his son, Philippe Marchal, a French writer, seeks the seclusion of a small coastal village in Ireland... [More...]
L'Une chante, l'autre pas (1977)
Agnès Varda
Paris, 1962. Pauline is a seventeen year old girl whose main preoccupation is singing in the school choir. One day, she meets a photographer, Jérôme, whose girlfriend Suzanne is pregnant with his third child... [More...]
Agnès Varda
Paris, 1962. Pauline is a seventeen year old girl whose main preoccupation is singing in the school choir. One day, she meets a photographer, Jérôme, whose girlfriend Suzanne is pregnant with his third child... [More...]
La Vie devant soi (1977)
Moshé Mizrahi
In her younger days, Madame Rosa used to make a decent living for herself as a prostitute in a popular district of Paris... [More...]
Moshé Mizrahi
In her younger days, Madame Rosa used to make a decent living for herself as a prostitute in a popular district of Paris... [More...]
Violette & François (1977)
Jacques Rouffio
Violette loses her job in a bank after a heated argument with her boss. Her good-for-nothing boyfriend François is unable to hold a job down for more than a few days and so is unable to make up the shortfall in their household income... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
Violette loses her job in a bank after a heated argument with her boss. Her good-for-nothing boyfriend François is unable to hold a job down for more than a few days and so is unable to make up the shortfall in their household income... [More...]