Topic: French New Wave

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claire Maurier · Albert Rémy · Guy Decomble

Plot 14-year-old Antoine Doinel has troubles at home and at school. Ignored and neglected by his parents, his relationship with his mother is further strained when he discovers that she has...

Direction Jean Eustache

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Françoise Lebrun · Bernadette Lafont · Jean Douchet

Plot It focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish...

Direction Jacques Rivette · Suzanne Schiffman

Cast Michéle Moretti · Hermine Karagheuz · Karen Puig · Pierre Baillot

Plot Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's 'Seven Against Thebes', while Thomas (Michel Lonsdale) is in charge of a state-funded...

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 Louis Malle

Cast Maurice Ronet · Léna Skerla · Jeanne Moreau · Yvonne Clech

Plot In a private nursing home near to Paris, a burnt out writer, Alain Leroy, is being treated for alcoholism. Despite being almost cured of his addiction, Alain, in his mid-thirties,...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Bulle Ogier · Jean-Pierre Kalfon · André S. Labarthe · Josée Destoop

Plot Sébastien is directing a theatrical production of Jean Racine’s version of the Greek tragedy Andromaque, in which he also plays the lead role of Pyrrhus. During rehearsals, which take place...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Françoise Fabian · Marie-Christine Barrault · Antoine Vitez

Plot 3rd entry in the series "Six Moral Tales" by Eric Rohmer. The narrator (Jean-Louis), a devout Catholic, moves to a provincial town and vows to marry Francoise, a pretty blond...

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 Jacques Rozier

Cast Bernard Menez · Danièle Croisy · Françoise Guégan · Patrick Verde

Plot Du côté d'Orouët, a nearly three hour film of a trio of young girls taking their summer vacation at a villa on the coast, spends its great deal of time...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Bernard Verley · Zouzou · Françoise Verley · Daniel Ceccaldi

Plot The last of Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting...

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 Agnès Varda

Cast Corinne Marchand · Antoine Bourseiller · Dorothée Blanck · Loye Payen

Plot Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that...

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 Alain Resnais

Cast Delphine Seyrig · Giorgio Albertazzi · Sacha Pitoeff · Françoise Bertin

Plot A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a...

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 Agnès Varda

Cast Jean-Claude Drouot · Marie-France Boyer · Claire Drouot · Olivier Drouot

Plot Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. One day, Francois meets...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Juliet Berto · Dominique Labourier · Barbet Schroeder · Bulle Ogier

Plot Through a series of chance meetings, Céline, a shy librarian, and Julie, a cabaret performer and magician, strike up a friendship. Julie moves into Céline’s apartment and recounts a strange...