Cast: François Maistre

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Fernando Rey · Paul Frankeur · Delphine Seyrig · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Plot Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Louis Seigner · Roland Bertin · Michael Lonsdale · Ivo Garrani

Plot In occupied France during WWII, a German naval officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Michel Piccoli · Jean Rochefort · Michael Lonsdale · Monica Vitti

Plot One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on...

Direction Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Cast Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina · Leila Shenna · Yorgo Voyagis · Cheikh Nourredine

Plot The beginings of the Algerian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a peasant. It tells the history of Algeria since the beginning of World War II until 1954. A...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Betty Schneider · Giani Esposito · Françoise Prévost · Daniel Crohem

Plot Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping...

Direction René Allio

Cast Sylvie · Victor Lanoux · Etienne Bierry · Pascale de Boysson

Plot The Shameless Old Lady should have been a wry French satire of society's misconceptions about the elderly; alas, the film is defeated by its own preciousness. That irreplaceable Gallic character...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Romy Schneider · Rod Steiger · François Maistre · Paolo Giusti

Plot Saint Tropez, France. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him,...

Direction André Hunebelle

Cast Frederick Stafford · Mylène Demongeot · Raymond Pellegrin · Perrette Pradier

Plot A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug.

Direction Michel Clément

Cast Françoise Arnoul · Rosanna Schiaffino · Michel Piccoli · François Patrice

Direction Alexandre Astruc

Cast Jean-Claude Brialy · Christiane Krüger · Maurice Biraud · Jacques Duby

Plot An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.

Direction Alain Boudet

Cast Dirk Sanders · Geneviève Casile · Pierre Massimi · François Maistre

Direction Maurice Labro

Cast Marc Briand · Marilú Toló · Heinz Drache · Maria Minh

Plot Judoka Marc Saint-Clair tries to save the world from nuclear disaster fighting Chinese and Russians.

Direction Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Cast Maurice Ronet · Françoise Brion · Nicole Berger · Sacha Pitoeff

Direction Pierre Kast

Cast Clara D'Ovar · Pierre Vaneck · Pierre Dudan · François Maistre

Direction Bernard Borderie

Cast Michel Albertini · Michel Creton · Marion Game · Georges Marchal

Plot Once a Huguenot, Marquis Sylvain de Bois Doré was converted to catholicism at the same time as King Henri IV, whose campaigned he shared. He now leads a comfortable life...

Direction Charles Gérard

Cast Françoise Arnoul · Petula Clark · Marcel Dalio · René Havard

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Geneviève Cluny · Jean-Louis Maury · Robert Vattier

Direction Claude Boissol

Cast Bernard Verley · Jean Marais · Danièle Gaubert · Marianne Koch

Direction Michel Caputo

Cast Bernadette Lafont · Patrick Messe · Michel Galabru · François Maistre

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Anouk Aimée · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Palau · Geneviève Cluny

Plot Edouard Berlon (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a happy-go-lucky rogue who takes nothing seriously and flits irresponisbly from one affair to another. When he meets Helene Larouch (Anouk Aimee), he woos her...