Cinematography: Raoul Coutard

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Irene Papas · Jacques Perrin

Plot In a country ruled by a fragile democracy where the police and the military are set on erradicating all threats from the political left, a member of the parliamentary opposition...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Anna Karina · Sady Rebbot · André S. Labarthe · Guylaine Schlumberger

Plot Nana (Anna Karina) is a beautiful Parisian in her early twenties who deliberately leaves her husband and her infant son hoping to become an actress. Without money, beyond what she...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jean Seberg · Daniel Boulanger · Henri-Jacques Huet

Plot The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time...

Direction Edgar Morin · Jean Rouch

Cast Edgar Morin · Jean Rouch

Plot A market researcher's question put to Parisians, "Tell us, are you happy?", provokes this multi-layered, manipulated cinema-verité snapshot of France in the 60s.

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean Desailly · Françoise Dorléac · Nelly Benedetti · Daniel Ceccaldi

Plot Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Oskar Werner · Henri Serre · Marie Dubois

Plot From the time of their meeting in 1912, two men, Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre), share a close friendship. Shortly before the First World War, Jules marries Catherine...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Michel Piccoli · Jack Palance · Georgia Moll

Plot French playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is hired by the arrogant American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) to rewrite the screenplay of a commercial version of Ulysses and his Odyssey,...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Anna Karina · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jean-Claude Brialy · Henri Attal

Plot Angela, 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...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Anna Karina · Dirk Sanders · Jean-Pierre Léaud

Plot Ferdinand Griffon, AKA 'Pierrot' (Jean-Paul Belmondo) escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne (Anna Karina), a babysitter hired by his wife (Graziella Galvani)...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · Gabriele Ferzetti · Michel Vitold

Plot Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement....

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Anouk Aimée · Marc Michel · Alan Scott · Jacques Harden

Plot In Nantes, a bored young man named Roland is letting life pass him by when he has a chance meeting with a woman he knew in his teens: she's Lola,...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Anna Karina · Claude Brasseur · Sami Frey · Louisa Colpeyn

Plot Three young people, Odile, Arthur and Franz meet up at an English language class and become instant friends. They share an interest in literature and crime fiction. When Odile reveals...

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Mehdi Belhaj Kacem · Julia Faure · Michel Subor · Mathieu Genet

Plot A film director wants to make an anti-drug film (his wife died of a heroin overdose). He’s planned the lead role for a young actress with who he's in love...

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Lou Castel · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Johanna ter Steege · Dominique Reymond

Plot Paul and Marcus are buddies. Paul has kids, Marcus doesn't. Marcus loves Hélène, his girlfriend. Paul loves Ulrika, but she doesn't love him, so he stays with Fanchon out of...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Macha Méril · Bernard Noël · Philippe Leroy · Roger Leenhardt

Plot Director Jean-Luc Godard narrates this study of a married woman who begins an affair with another man. After becoming pregnant, she is unable to figure out which man is the...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Jean-François Adam · Patrick Auffay

Plot After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen year old Antoine Doinel, having been provided opportunity to get out of that delinquent life, is now an upstanding member of...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Anne Wiazemsky · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Juliet Berto · Michel Semeniako

Plot A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Michel Subor · Anna Karina · Henri-Jacques Huet · Paul Beauvais

Plot During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing...

Direction François Truffaut · Renzo Rossellini · Shintaro Ishihara · Marcel Ophüls

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Rosy Varte · Cristina Gaioni

Plot Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Claude Rich · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michel Bouquet

Plot Julie Kohler, whose husband is inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding, is prevented from suicide by his mother. She leaves the town. She will track down,...