Released Date:
1961-02-07
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
(46737 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Luc GodardFranèois Truffaut (story)
Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.
Released Date:
1961-05-09
Languages:
Italian, German
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (5807 Reviews)
Director:
Vittorio De SicaAlberto Moravia (novel)
Cesare Zavattini (adaptation)
Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second world war. They travel to the village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village, the mother does everything to protect Rosetta. However, on one occasion they both get raped by soldiers hiding in a church. This cruel event is too much for the always powerful fighting Cesira and she suffers from a breakdown. During their stay in the village, a young intellectual, Michele falls in love with Cesira who does not know how to reply to the advances of such a gentleman.
Released Date:
1961-09-22
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (2013 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Pierre MelvilleBèatrix Beck (novel)
Jean-Pierre Melville (screenplay)
In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live in a farm in the countryside and finds that Sabine's brother has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The atheist Barny decides to baptize her daughter to protect her and chooses priest Lèon Morin to discuss with him themes related to religion and Catholicism and Lèon lends books to her. Barny converts to the Catholicism and becomes closer to Lèon, feeling an unrequited desire for him.
Released Date:
1961-09-06
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (9481 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Luc GodardAngela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she goes after Emile's friend Alfred.
Released Date:
1961-06-13
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (249 Reviews)
Director:
Mauro BologniniGenres:
DramaMario Pratesi (novel)
Vasco Pratolini
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Massimo Franciosa
Released Date:
1964-02-05
Languages:
French, English, Portuguese
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (2564 Reviews)
Director:
Philippe de BrocaJean-Paul Rappeneau (screenplay)
Ariane Mnouchkine (screenplay)
Daniel Boulanger (screenplay)
Philippe de Broca (screenplay)
Daniel Boulanger (dialogue)
Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her sweetheart, Adrien, an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy), foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must traverse Rio, Brasèlia, and the Amazon heartland... all before the end of his week's leave.
Released Date:
1969-01-08
Languages:
French, English, Italian
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (17085 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Luc GodardFerdinand Griffon is married with his wealthy Italian wife and has been recently fired from the television where he worked. His wife forces him to go to a party in the house of her influent father that wants to introduce Ferdinand to a potential employer. Her brother brings the babysitter Marianne Renoir to take care of their children. Ferdinand feels bored in the bourgeois party and borrows his brother-in-law's car to return home. He meets Marianne, who was his lover five years ago and insists to call him Pierrot, and offers to take her home; however, he spends the night with her and finds that she is involved in smuggling weapons. When Marianne is chased by terrorists, they decide to travel to the beach without any money, leaving Paris and his family behind in a crazy journey to nowhere.
Released Date:
1966-10-26
Languages:
French, German, English
Countries:
France, USA
Runtime:
173 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (2570 Reviews)
Director:
Renè ClèmentLarry Collins (book)
Dominique Lapierre (book)
Gore Vidal (screenplay)
Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay)
Marcel Moussy (additional material for French scenes)
Beate von Molo (additional material for German scenes)
Jean Aurenche
Pierre Bost
Claude Brulè
In this sprawling, star-laden film, we see the struggles of various French resistance factions to regain control of Paris near the end of World War II. The Nazi general in charge of Paris, Dietrich von Cholitz (Frèbe), is under orders from Hitler himself to burn the city if he cannot control it or if the Allies get too close. Much of the drama centers around the moral deliberations of the general, the Swedish ambassador (Welles), and the eager but desperate leaders of the resistance.
Released Date:
1967-08-23
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (927 Reviews)
Director:
Louis MalleGeorges Darien (novel)
Jean-Claude Carrière (screenplay)
Louis Malle (screenplay)
Daniel Boulanger (dialogue)
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.
Released Date:
1970-08-13
Languages:
French, Italian
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (2037 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques DerayJean-Claude Carrière
Jean Cau
Jacques Deray
Eugène Saccomano (book)
Claude Sautet
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
Released Date:
1971-04-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy, Romania
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (855 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Paul RappeneauJean-Paul Rappeneau (scenario)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau (adaptation)
Maurice Clavel (adaptation)
Claude Sautet (adaptation)
After his escape to America in the year 1787 Nicolas Phillibert wants to marry a rich American heiress. In his homeland France he is still married however to the pretty Charlotte. In order to obtain the divorce, he must return therefore to France. In confusions of the french revolution he soon gets between Royalisten and republicans. After numerous bold adventures he finds his life-merry wife as bride of the best sword fighter of the Bourbonen.
Released Date:
1974-05-15
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1173 Reviews)
Director:
Alain ResnaisIrrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.
Released Date:
1977-10-05
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1475 Reviews)
Director:
Claude ZidiMichel Audiard (dialogue)
Michel Audiard (screenplay)
Dominique Fabre
Claude Zidi
A movie about a good-for-nothing stuntman called Mike Gaucher who can't do one single job without something going wrong. His fiancèe wants to kill him, the film studios don't want to give him any more work and, as King Kong for a promotion in a supermarket, he winds up destroying some display shelves. The only role he plays well is pretending not to be able to hear, speak and walk in order to get money from the government. Then along comes the "beautiful" actor called Bruno Ferrari. Supposedly a fearless stuntman, Ferrari turns out to be afraid of heights once his feet leave the ground. So a stuntman is needed to prevent a scandal. And who is the man who looks most (or exactly) like Bruno? You guessed it, good-for-nothing Mike...
Released Date:
1979-03-28
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
107 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1250 Reviews)
Director:
Georges LautnerMichel Grisolia (novel)
Jean Herman (adaptation)
Michel Audiard (dialogue)
Released Date:
1981-10-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
108 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (8442 Reviews)
Director:
Georges LautnerPatrick Alexander (novel)
Jacques Audiard
Michel Audiard
Georges Lautner
French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the French secret service turns him in to the African authorities, and he is sentenced to a long-term imprisonment. After the daring escape he returns to France and deliberately informs his former chiefs of his presence promising them to kill Njala who has just arrived to the country with the official visit.
Released Date:
1988-11-30
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, West Germany
Runtime:
125 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1346 Reviews)
Director:
Claude LelouchReleased Date:
1995-11-03
Languages:
French, German, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
175 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (3121 Reviews)
Director:
Claude LelouchVictor Hugo (novel)
Claude Lelouch
Henri Fortin is poor and iliterate former boxer. Ziman is rich Jewish lawyer from Paris. During WWII they meet when Fortin agrees to drive Ziman's family to Switzerland. Intrigued by Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables", Fortin asks the Zimans to read that book to him during the travel. Before the end of movie every main character would see his character in situations similar to those in Hugo's novel.
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