Director: José Giovanni (1973)
In this French psychological drama, a bank robber is finally released after serving 10 years. His being paroled is due to the influence of his old friend, a social worker. The ex-convict returns to his wife and begins living an honest life. Unfortunately, his old crook friends begin trying to lure him [...]
Director: Claude Bernard-Aubert (1973)
A reconstruction of the true story of the Dominici affair: on the night of the 4-5th August 1953 an English couple and their daughter were murdered in their tents. The old farmer Gaston Dominici was accused, and sentenced to death in 1954.
With: Jeanne Allard, Max Amyl, Michel Bertay, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Gabin, [...]
Director: Marco Ferreri (1973)
In Ferreri’s decadent and depraved masterpiece, four friends hole up with three prostitutes and a local schoolteacher in a Parisian villa to eat themselves to death.
With: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi.
Director: François Truffaut (1973)
Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit americaine was director Francois Truffaut’s loving and humorous tribute to the communal insanity of making a movie. The film details the making of a family drama called ‘Meet Pamela’ about the tragedy that follows when a young French man introduces his parents [...]
Director: Gérard Oury (1973)
Victor Pivert is a very tolerant man, provided you are white, Catholic, and French. To everyone else, he is a shameless racist, who believes foreigners should go back where they came from. On his way to his daughter’s wedding, Victor uncovers a group of scheming Arab revolutionaries. After Victor is discovered, he [...]