Best French movies of 1960s

Actors : Micheline Presle, Liselotte Pulver, Francine Bergé, Anna Karina,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior (Madame de Moni, Sister Sainte-Christine, and Madame de ...

Actors : Guy Frangin, Dominique Sanda, Jeanne Lobre, Claude Ollier,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to...

Actors : Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist, Luce Fabiole,
Directors : Claude Berri,

Claude is a Jew. Because of the risks of an arrest (France is occupied by the Nazis), his parents send him away to an elderly couple in the country. Pepe, the husband, is a Petain supporter...

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel, Nicole Courcel,
Directors : Serge Bourguignon,

After killing a child when his plane crashes in a Vietnamese village, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a...

Actors : Jean Dasté, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Yves Montand,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

Diego is one of the chief of the spanish Communist Party. He is travelling back to Paris (where he lives) from a mission in Madrid. He is arrested at the border for an identity check but ...

Actors : Michael Lonsdale, Claude Gensac, Bernard Alane, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His...

Actors : Anouk Ferjac, Claude Rich, Alain MacMoy, Olga Georges-Picot,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to ...

Actors : Jean Bouise, Romy Schneider, Gérard Lartigau, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.

Actors : Paulette Dubost, George Hamilton, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau,
Directors : Louis Malle,

Somewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a singer in a circus. She decides to stay with the circus,...

Actors : Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Christophe, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.

Actors : Jean-Claude Drouot, Sandrine Drouot, Claire Drouot, Olivier Drouot,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

François, a young carpenter, lives a happy, uncomplicated life with his wife Thérèse and their two small children. One day he meets Emilie, a clerk in the local post office.

Actors : Essy Persson, Anne Vernon, Barbara Laage, Anna Gaël,
Directors : Radley Metzger,

Two young girls experience awakening sexuality in the heated atmosphere of a Swiss girls' boarding school...

Actors : Michel Terrazon, Pierrette Deplanque, Linda Gutenberg, Raoul Billerey,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

An anguished foster child takes to mischief and lies as his foster parents do their best to love and care for him. But it might be too little, too late in this emotionally devastating portrayal of the orphaned child.

Actors : Suzanne Flon, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war,...

Actors : Nicole Calfan, Alain Janey, Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini,
Directors : Pierre Étaix,

After fifteen years of average married life and stifling in-laws, a businessman undergoes a midlife crisis and pursues his attractive young secretary.

Actors : Paul Le Person, Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert, Françoise Brion,
Directors : Yves Robert,

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and ...

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Luciana Angiolillo, Jacques Perrin, Renato Baldini,
Directors : Valerio Zurlini,

Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for...

Actors : Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Lino Ventura, Francis Blanche,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which...

Actors : Ursula Andress, Valérie Lagrange, Maria Pacôme, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

The farcical adventures of unhappy suicidal billionaire Arthur Lempereur.

Actors : Pierre Mondy, Leslie Caron, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol,
Directors : Abel Gance,

Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians.