Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
The Woman Next Door (1981)
The Woman Next Door (1981) Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde,
Stolen Kisses (1968)
Stolen Kisses (1968) Antoine Doinel joined the army but has just been discharged. The film tells his reunion with Christine Darbon, the girl he was in love with before the beginning of the film, and his adventures in his jobs : first as a night watchman, then as a private investigator, especially du
The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
The Man Who Loved Women (1977) Bertrand Morane's burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel. A film about romantic relationships, the need to charm, and the lit
The Wild Child (1970)
The Wild Child (1970) 1798. In a forest, some countrymen catch a wild child who can not walk, speak, read nor write. Doctor Itard is interested by the child, and starts to educate him. Everybody thinks he will fail, but with a lot of love and patience, he manages to obtain results and the child cont
The 400 Blows (1959)
The 400 Blows (1959) Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14 year-old Antoine Doinel returns at the end of every day to a drab and unhappy home life. His parents have little money and he sleeps on a couch that's been pushed into the kitchen. He knows his mother is having an affair and his parent
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972)
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972) Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs...
Jules and Jim (1962)
Jules and Jim (1962) In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the story of three people in love, a l
Two English Girls (1971)
Two English Girls 1971 At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Cl
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said co
The Story of Adele H (1975)
The Story of Adele H (1975) Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
The Bride Wore Black (1968) After trying to commit suicide, the widow Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) pretends to her mother that she will leave her town. Actually she stays, chases and assassinates the five men that accidentally killed her beloved husband in the stairs of the church immediately after
The Soft Skin (1964)
The Soft Skin (1964) Pierre Lachenay, a middle-aged, well-known publisher and lecturer, is married to Franca, an unbalanced woman, and father of Sabine, a 10-year-old girl. While traveling to Lisbon for a lecture, Pierre Lachenay has a one night stand with Nicole, the Panair do Brasil air stewardess
Bed & Board (1970)
Bed & Board (1970) Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine Darbon (Claude Jade) are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives private classes of violin. When Christine is near to have a baby, Antoine decides
Confidentially Yours (1983)
Confidentially Yours (1983) Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is v
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960) Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once
Small Change (1976)
Small Change 1976 In the town of Thiers, summer of 1976, teachers and parents give their children skills, love, and attention A teacher has his first child, a single mother hopes to meet Mr Right, another mom reaches out to Patrick, a motherless lad who is just discovering the opposite sex Patrick b
The Green Room (1978)
The Green Room (1978) A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys the room, he renovates a little chapel and devotes it to Julie and his other dead persons
Love on the Run (1979)
Love on the Run 1979 Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty He divorces from Christine He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer She buys Antoines first published autobiographical novel They meet again in a station
The Mischief Makers (1957)
The Mischief Makers 1957 Five young boys in pre puberty are collectively attracted by a beautiful, young woman, Bernadette Jouve She awakes in them the springs of luminous sensuality As they are too young to love her, they decide to hate and torment her instead Wherever Bernadette and her sweetheart