Soundtrack: Georges Delerue

Direction Oliver Stone

Cast Charlie Sheen · Tom Berenger · Willem Dafoe · Kevin Dillon

Plot In PLATOON, Oliver Stone draws on his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the brutality of guerrilla warfare: the heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Jacqueline Bisset · Nathalie Baye · Alexandra Stewart

Plot A film company at work. Actors arrive and depart; liaisons develop. Julie, the beautiful but possibly unstable lead, is recovering from a breakdown, aided by an older physician, her new...

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 Fred Zinnemann

Cast Paul Scofield · Wendy Hiller · Leo McKern · Robert Shaw

Plot The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles,...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Edward Fox · Michael Lonsdale · Derek Jacobi · Alan Badel

Plot Year 1963. President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of...

Direction Jean-Claude Brisseau

Cast Isabelle Pasco · María Luisa García · Danièle Lebrun · Damien Dutrait

Plot At 22, Céline receives several shocks: her father dies and she learns she was adopted; she rejects her inheritance, so her fiancé jilts her. She's suicidal. A nurse sees her...

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 Alain Resnais

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Eiji Okada · Bernard Fresson · Stella Dassas

Plot A young French actress is making an anti-war film in the rebuilt Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of the Second...

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 Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Stefania Sandrelli · Dominique Sanda · Gastone Moschin

Plot This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more...

Direction Robert Enrico · Richard T. Heffron

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Jane Seymour · François Cluzet · Jean-François Balmer

Plot A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of...

Direction Juan Antonio Bardem

Cast Corinne Marchand · Antonio Casas · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Julia Gutiérrez Caba

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Fanny Ardant · Henri Garcin · Michèle Baumgartner

Plot Bernard Coudray (Gérard Depardieu) lives with his wife and young son in a remote country house near to Grenoble. One day, a married couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard (Fanny Ardant),...

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Patricia Gozzi · Dean Stockwell · Gunnel Lindblom

Plot A dark fairy tale set against the rugged beauty of the Brittany seacoast, it tells the story of a young girl whose lonely isolation under the watchful eye of her...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Catherine Deneuve · Jean Poiret · Andrea Ferréol

Plot Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater...

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 François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Stecey Tenderer · Kika Markham · Sylvia Marriott

Plot In Paris of the early 1900s, a young French dandy, Claude Roc, strikes up a friendship with a young English woman, Anne Brown. The latter invites Claude to stay with...

Direction Maurice Pialat

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 Henri Colpi

Cast Alida Valli · Georges Wilson · Charles Blavette · Amédée

Plot 1961: Cannes Film Festival (Golden Palm - ex aequo with "Viridiana").