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French cinema: 1975

Adieu, poulet (1975)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

In the course of a fiercely contested election in the French town of Rouen, a violent fight breaks out between the supporters of the two candidates...   [More...]

L'Agression (1975)
Gérard Pirès

The Varlins are an ordinary French family who are looking forward to their holiday on the Grande Motte, a mountain in the Savoie region of France...   [More...]

La Bête (1975)
Walerian Borowczyk

To safeguard the future of his country estate, the Marquis de l'Esperance arranges a marriage between his son, Mathurin, and an English heiress, Lucy Broadhurst...   [More...]

Black Moon (1975)
Louis Malle

The world is caught in an interminable war in which men round up women and execute them. An adolescent girl named Lily narrowly escapes the same fate as she makes her way across a war-torn landscape...   [More...]

C'est pas parce qu'on a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule... (1975)
Jacques Besnard

The fact that Max and Riton are two of the most inept crooks in France does not deter criminal mastermind Fano from employing them in his latest meticulously thought-out nefarious exploit...   [More...]

La Cage (1975)
Pierre Granier-Deferre

Julien, a successful property developer, gets more than he bargained for when he accepts an invitation to dinner with his ex-wife Hélène at her detached residence in the suburbs of Paris...   [More...]

La Chair de l'orchidée (1975)
Patrice Chéreau

A young woman named Claire escapes from a lunatic asylum and falls under the protection of Louis Delage, a loner who rears horses for a living...   [More...]

Le Chat et la souris (1975)
Claude Lelouch

Madame Richard entertains the prospect of murdering her husband when he, a successful architect, begins an extra-marital affair with an actress of erotic movies...   [More...]

Chobizenesse (1975)
Jean Yanne

Clément Mastard is the owner of a revue theatre who is fighting a losing battle against bankruptcy. In a desperate attempt to stave off financial ruin he enters into a business agreement with a group of hardnosed businessmen who insist that their industry, the manufacture and exploitation of steel, be represented in Mastard's next show...   [More...]

La Course à l'échalote (1975)
Claude Zidi

With his boss away on holiday, Pierre Vidal finds himself elevated to the highest position in the bank where he works. Anxious to ensure that nothing goes wrong whilst he is in charge, Pierre rules with an iron grip, even going so far as to stage a fake hold-up to test his staff's reactions...   [More...]

Cousin, cousine (1975)
Jean-Charles Tacchella

Ludovic and Marthe, two cousins by marriage, meet at the most auspicious of occasions - their parents' wedding. Although they are both already married, unhappily as it turns out, the cousins take pleasure in each other's company and decide to see each other after the wedding, seeking nothing more than mutual companionship...   [More...]

Dupont-Lajoie (1975)
Yves Boisset

Georges Lajoie, the respectable manager of a Parisian bistro, can hardly wait to begin his holidays on the Riviera, in the company of his wife Ginette and their grown-up son Léon...   [More...]

Flic Story (1975)
Jacques Deray

Paris, 1947. Roger Borniche sees himself as the star cop of the Sûreté nationale, but he despises the brutal methods used by his colleagues...   [More...]

Folle à tuer (1975)
Yves Boisset

After spending five years in a psychiatric clinic, Julie Ballenger seems to have made a full recovery and gladly accepts an offer of work from the rich businessman Mostri...   [More...]

Les Galettes de Pont-Aven (1975)
Joël Séria

Peacefully nestled in the Loire Valley in the west of France is the picturesque town of Samur. This is home to Henri Serin, a modest umbrella salesman who devotes his free time to his two main pleasures in life - women and painting...   [More...]

Le Gitan (1975)
José Giovanni

For two years, Hugo Sennart has been busy settling old scores with a society that has persecuted his gypsy brothers and sisters for decades...   [More...]

L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)
François Truffaut

A young woman arrives in Halifax, the capital city of Nova Scotia, in 1863, and immediately sets about looking for the man she has lost her heart to...   [More...]

Histoire d'O (1975)
Just Jaeckin

The story of O begins with a beautiful young woman agreeing to be taken to a house in the country, Château Roissy, by her devoted boyfriend René...   [More...]

L'Ibis rouge (1975)
Jean-Pierre Mocky

A serial killer is at large in Paris, in the vicinity of the canal Saint-Martin. The victims, all attractive young women, have been strangled by someone the police would least suspect - a mild-mannered social security employee named Jérémie...   [More...]

Il faut vivre dangereusement (1975)
Claude Makovski

Once a police inspector in the vice squad, Richard Diquet now earns his crust as a private detective. Presently he is concerned with the mysterious death of another detective, Edouard Lory, whose body appears to have been thrown from a train...   [More...]

L'Important c'est d'aimer (1975)
Andrzej Zulawski

A freelance photographer, Servais Mont, falls in love with Nadine Chevalier, an aspiring actress who, having failed to make the big time, has no other option than to appear in cheap exploitative movies...   [More...]

L'Incorrigible (1975)
Philippe de Broca

Within minutes of being released from prison, Victor Vautier resumes his career as a confidence trickster and crook. An incorrigible liar and master of disguise, he rents his former girlfriend's luxury apartment to an American ambassador and sells non-existent military aircraft to an African state...   [More...]

India Song (1975)
Marguerite Duras

India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of the French ambassador, has a comfortable existence in Calcutta but, with so few things to occupy her, she soon becomes hopelessly bored...   [More...]

Les Innocents aux mains sales (1975)
Claude Chabrol

Forced into earlier retirement after a near-fatal heart attack, hard-nosed businessman Louis Wormser now leads a peaceful existence with his young wife Julie on the French Riviera...   [More...]

Pas de problème! (1975)
Georges Lautner

Riddled with bullet wounds, the victim of a vendetta manages to drag himself to the door of Anita Boucher where he begs for shelter...   [More...]

Peur sur la ville (1975)
Henri Verneuil

After receiving a series of threatening phone calls, Nora Elmer falls to her death from a high-rised apartment. The death is investigated by police inspector Jean Letellier, who soon receives a mysterious phone call from someone calling himself Minos and who claims to want to purge Paris of loose women...   [More...]

Que la fête commence... (1975)
Bertrand Tavernier

France, 1719. Four years after the death of the Sun King Louis XIV, the reins of power are held by the regent, Philippe d'Orléans...   [More...]

Le Sauvage (1975)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

In Caracas, Nelly, a nightclub artiste, is about to wed the wealthy Vittorio when she has a sudden change of heart and decides to return to France...   [More...]

Section spéciale (1975)
Costa-Gavras

In 1941, a demonstration by French communists against the Vichy government is broken up by Nazi soldiers. When a handful of the demonstrators are executed, their comrades take revenge by killing a German naval officer...   [More...]

Sept morts sur ordonnance (1975)
Jacques Rouffio

Dr Pierre Losseray works at a clinic in a French provincial town and is married to the lovely Muriel. When he suffers a heart attack, his rivals are quick to exploit the situation...   [More...]



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