Director: René Clément (1966)
This epic World War II film focuses on the final days of the war, when the French attempted to liberate Paris, and the Nazis made a last-ditch effort to destroy the city before their retreat. Employing a documentary style, the movie shows the Paris uprising, the German army’s efforts to stop the [...]
Director: Jacques Besnard (1966)
Farce of the troubles of a restaurant when a President of a South American state is kidnapped while dining at his restaurant.
With: Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, Maria-Rosa Rodriguez.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (1966)
Veteran gangster Gustave (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison to find his sister is being blackmailed by some petty thugs in this crime thriller. He plans one last caper to steal enough money in hopes of retiring to a tropical paradise. He and his gang are sought by a detective (Paul Meurisse), the [...]
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1966)
Catherine Deneuve stars in this romantic comedy as Marie, the beautiful and bored wife of Jerome (Noiret), a man content to live in his creaky chateau on the French countryside near Normandy. It’s 1944 and Marie longs for the excitement of Paris and to leave the German occupied countryside. However, her life [...]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1966)
Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and dishillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his friends and peers (’the children of Marx and Coca Cola’, as the credits announce) and their social and [...]