Best French movies of 1970s

Actors : Anouk Ferjac, Núria Espert, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques,
Directors : Fernando Arrabal,

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is ...

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, François Périer, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

An inspector is having a secret relationship with a woman. When she is murdered by his boss, all proof is against him.

Actors : Ismaila Diagne, Matoura Dia, Tabata Ndiaye, Moustapha Yade,
Directors : Ousmane Sembene,

The Ceddo try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap ...

Actors : Von Gretchen Shepard, Georges Géret, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Romanelli,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Alexandre Dupré is a con artist, accidentally involved in a hunt for microfilm, containing a valuable invention of a recently murdered French scientist.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Maurice Biraud, Romy Schneider, Paul Amiot,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Julien Guiomar, Lino Ventura, Victor Lanoux,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit...

Actors : Michel Constantin, Lino Ventura, Paul Crauchet, Marlène Jobert,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Police inspector Léonetti, a tough, efficient policeman, has been sent to a second-rate police station after being reprimanded. There he is given a partner, young and beautiful Jeanne Dumas...

Actors : Simone Signoret, Jean Tissier, Ottavia Piccolo, Alain Delon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow. She is happy because World War I is over and she is ...

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Catherine Samie, Maria Pacôme, Pierre Richard,
Directors : Pierre Richard,

A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company. He topples from one problem to another.

Actors : Charles Gérard, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Michel Galabru, Rosy Varte, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Pierre Tchernia,

Doctor Galipeau has a brother, Emile, whose wife has just given birth to a baby boy and who dreams of owning a house. He has just examined Louis Martinet, an old man who, according to him, ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Bruno Cremer, Roger Pigaut, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

A simple story about simple people. A 38 old divorced woman (Marie), who now has a lover (Serge) but decides to leave him, abort his baby, and then returns with her ex-husband (Georges). ...

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : André Téchiné,

The story of a girl in love with a boxer. They plan to go abroad after making a lot of money by participating in an interview intended to discredit a politician at elections time. But the ...

Actors : Lila Kedrova, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Reciprocal consolation. The background of two middle-aged people (Michel and Lydia) is gradually unfolded. Michel's wife is incurably ill. They had agreed that she would take her life on ...

Actors : Michel Constantin, Claudia Cardinale, Enrique Lucero, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Episodic portrait of a criminal, from 1934 until after the war. Roberto Borgo is tough, cool, sardonic, loyal, and deadly. He comes to Marseilles to help his friend Xavier Saratov get out ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Charles Gérard, Christine Lelouch, Danièle Delorme,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Story about an incurable thief, his success and his failures.

Actors : Claude Rich, Jeanne Moreau, Sydne Rome, Alain Delon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs. However his reputation is somewhat ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Ottavia Piccolo, Michel Piccoli, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival ...

Actors : Mascha Gonska, Romy Schneider, Philippe Brizard, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Francis Girod,

A cunning French legal adviser teams up with an unemployed German girl and her sister to commit murders in Marseille.