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1. Without Apparent Motive (1971)
PG | 100 min | Mystery, Thriller
A strange series of murders are being committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissionaire Carella is in charge and tries desperately to find a missing link between all of these ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Labro | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Sacha Distel, Carla Gravina
Votes: 948
2. Shock Treatment (1973)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A French businesswoman goes to a remote and popular rejuvenation clinic after a breakup, and begins to suspect the treatment methods used by the head doctor, and slowly uncovers the horrible secret behind the clinic's success.
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 1,775
3. Armaguedon (1977)
95 min | Crime, Thriller
After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Alain Delon, Jean Yanne, Renato Salvatori, Marie Déa
Votes: 732
4. The Dogs (1979)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Pierre Vernier
Votes: 650
5. Police Python 357 (1976)
Not Rated | 126 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An inspector is having a secret relationship with a woman. When she is murdered by his boss, all proof is against him.
Director: Alain Corneau | Stars: Yves Montand, François Périer, Simone Signoret, Stefania Sandrelli
Votes: 2,074
6. La Menace (1977)
117 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The main character is unhappily married and has an affair. When his wife finds out, she lures his girlfriend to a cliff and throws herself of it, making the girlfriend look as her killer. ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Corneau | Stars: Yves Montand, Carole Laure, Marie Dubois, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 895
7. Serie Noire (1979)
Not Rated | 116 min | Crime, Drama
Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Corneau | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant, Bernard Blier
Votes: 3,506
8. The Cop (1970)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
While investigating a drug case, an inspector is shot dead by a gangster. His colleague, Inspector Favenin, is assigned to solve this crime. He is ready to do anything to save his colleague's honor, even if it means going beyond the law.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Françoise Fabian, Gianni Garko, Michel Constantin
Votes: 702
9. R.A.S. (1973)
110 min | Drama, War
Three French conscripts with diverse political motives, are sent to a disciplinary battalion in the midst of the Algerian war. Major Lecoq is to build an elite unit with these wayward soldiers who are exposed to war, torture and death.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Jacques Villeret, Jacques Weber, Claude Brosset
Votes: 216
10. The Common Man (1975)
100 min | Drama
A family holiday turns to tragedy when hostilities between the French holidaymakers and a group of local Arab workers turns violent.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Jean Carmet, Pierre Tornade, Jean Bouise, Michel Peyrelon
Votes: 992
11. Le juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977)
112 min | Crime, Drama
The young judge Fayard is not afraid of anybody as he does his work honestly.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Aurore Clément, Philippe Léotard, Michel Auclair
Votes: 743
12. Hothead (1979)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The miserable football player becomes a town hero after bringing victory in extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge to the team star for the previous mockeries.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma, Maurice Barrier
Votes: 2,249
13. La traque (1975)
97 min | Drama, Thriller
A young tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.
Director: Serge Leroy | Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Luc Bideau
Votes: 738
14. Attention, les enfants regardent (1978)
103 min | Drama, Thriller
In a seaside villa, where under the care of a nanny, a group of children spend most of their days watching violent television shows.
Director: Serge Leroy | Stars: Alain Delon, Richard Constantini, Tiphaine Leroux, Sophie Renoir
Votes: 482
15. Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)
Unrated | 102 min | Drama, Horror
Two bored Catholic schoolgirls spending summer in the countryside decide to become Satanists, and begin committing a series of morbid and increasingly dangerous crimes.
Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener, Bernard Dhéran, Gérard Darrieu
Votes: 2,733
16. Charlie and His Two Chicks (1973)
90 min | Comedy
A Ménage A Trois on the roads of France.
Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Serge Sauvion, Jeanne Goupil, Nathalie Drivet, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Votes: 214
17. Cookies (1975)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
Henri is a middle-aged travelling umbrella salesman from Saumur. One night on the roads of Brittany he hits a boar with his car. He meets Émile, a rude and carefree painter who lives in a cottage near Riec-sur-Belon.
Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Claude Piéplu, Jeanne Goupil, Dolores McDonough
Votes: 1,079
18. Marie-poupée (1976)
120 min | Drama
Marie is a 17-year old who was orphaned as a young girl. as a result, she has a tad of arrested development that makes her act much younger than her age. One day she looks in a store window... See full summary »
Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Jeanne Goupil, André Dussollier, Andréa Ferréol, Marie Mergey
Votes: 366
19. Comme la lune (1977)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard - unemployed heating engineer, working in his girlfriend's butcher's - decides to marry her and leave for good his (... See full synopsis »
Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Sophie Daumier, Dominique Lavanant, Marco Perrin
Votes: 312
20. Themroc (1973)
100 min | Comedy
Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, this is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.
Director: Claude Faraldo | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Marilù Tolo, Francesca Romana Coluzzi
Votes: 1,649
21. Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy (1971)
110 min | Comedy
Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.
Directors: Claude Faraldo, Jean-David Lefebvre | Stars: Marie Dubois, Julian Negulesco, Paul Crauchet, Marie-Hélène Breillat
Votes: 228
22. Le Sex Shop (1972)
X | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
The owner of a book shop in Paris suffers a personal crisis. In order to solve it he decides to convert his library into a sex shop, but the only effect is that he turns himself into a sexual obsessive.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Juliet Berto, Claude Berri, Francesca Romana Coluzzi
Votes: 361 | Gross: $0.31M
23. The First Time (1976)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
Claude is in his last year of high-school, but he doesn't care much for school. Instead all his thoughts circle around girls and getting laid. But since he doesn't look very studly, he has ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Alain Cohen, Charles Denner, Zorica Lozic, Delphine Lévy
Votes: 144
24. In a Wild Moment (1977)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. On the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez,... See full summary »
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Victor Lanoux, Christine Dejoux, Agnès Soral
Votes: 658
25. Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
X | 100 min | Drama
Marie is a young girl from a working class family, who falls in love with Gérard. Not long after beginning their relationship, Gérard shows his sadistic, twisted tendencies and begins to abuse her physically and psychologically.
Director: Daniel Duval | Stars: Miou-Miou, Maria Schneider, Niels Arestrup, Jean Benguigui
Votes: 670
26. A Full Day's Work (1973)
95 min | Comedy, Crime
A father plans to kill, in the same day, the nine members of the jury who had condemned his son to the death sentence.
Director: Jean-Louis Trintignant | Stars: Jacques Dufilho, Luce Marquand, Franco Pesce, Albin Guichard
Votes: 448
27. Le maître nageur (1979)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A cruel fable about the relationships of a gold digger proletarian woman and her old-fashioned/has-been crooner husband, who is hired as a lifeguard by a nasty, disabled and self-sufficient billionaire at his estate in the South of France.
Director: Jean-Louis Trintignant | Stars: Guy Marchand, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Claude Brialy, Moustache
Votes: 156
28. Rider on the Rain (1970)
PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marlène Jobert, Gabriele Tinti
Votes: 3,862 | Gross: $0.71M
29. Donkey Skin (1970)
91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle
Votes: 6,349
30. One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, History
The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès, Mona Mairesse
Votes: 2,532 | Gross: $0.02M
31. The Devil, Probably (1977)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano
Votes: 4,727 | Gross: $0.03M
32. Claire's Knee (1970)
GP | 105 min | Drama, Romance
On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan
Votes: 12,489 | Gross: $0.04M
33. Love in the Afternoon (1972)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Françoise Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi
Votes: 9,338
34. We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A husband and wife in a loveless marriage struggle to remain ignorant to their failed relationship.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, Christine Fabréga, Patricia Pierangeli
Votes: 2,188 | Gross: $0.01M
35. The Night Caller (1975)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli, Rosy Varte
Votes: 4,315
36. Going Places (1974)
R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two thugs harass assault, steal, murder, Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor, on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Christian Alers
Votes: 9,941 | Gross: $0.77M
37. Femmes Fatales (1976)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy
Two men flee to the countryside to escape their sexual duties and settle for a quiet, rustic life.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Blier, Brigitte Fossey
Votes: 1,449
38. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Carole Laure, Patrick Dewaere, Michel Serrault
Votes: 4,279
39. Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
As loyal as a dove, a family man is about to tell his first lie to his wife when he falls for an enchanting woman in a billowy red dress. With a bit of help, he just might get what he wishes for; however, is love always a bed of roses?
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux
Votes: 2,354
40. Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
PG | 110 min | Comedy
Sequel to Pardon Mon Affaire. Four men continue to explore the fallout from their personal lives. This time they buy a house in the country, but struggle to escape their troubles.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux
Votes: 1,292
41. The Old Gun (1975)
R | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During World War II, a peaceful French surgeon decides to ruthlessly exterminate an SS squad because of the atrocities they'd just committed in his countryside home and childhood village.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen
Votes: 4,854
42. L'alliance (1970)
90 min | Mystery
A vet meets a mysterious woman through a dating agency and moves into her large apartment. As the apartment fills with animals and insects, strange goings on and suspicions between the couple increase.
Director: Christian de Chalonge | Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Carrière, Isabelle Sadoyan, Tsilla Chelton
Votes: 171
43. Horse (1970)
90 min | Crime, Thriller
Near the Baie de la Seine swamps, opposite the Port of Le Havre, Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean Gabin, Danièle Ajoret, Michel Barbey, Christian Barbier
Votes: 965
44. La meilleure façon de marcher (1976)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance
In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc surprises Philippe... See full summary »
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Patrick Bouchitey, Christine Pascal, Claude Piéplu
Votes: 1,640
45. L'ombre des châteaux (1976)
90 min | Drama
In the north of France, the life of a nice family of marginalized.
Director: Daniel Duval | Stars: Philippe Léotard, Albert Dray, Zoé Chauveau, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 92
46. Graduate First (1978)
TV-14 | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A study of a group of young working class people in a French village, who are embarking upon adult life. The film follows the choices and decisions made for their futures.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Annick Alane, Michel Caron
Votes: 994
47. Raging Fists (1975)
90 min | Drama
Director: Eric Le Hung | Stars: Gilles Chevallier, Françoise Dorner, Tony Gatlif, Patrick Jeantet
Votes: 17
48. Peppermint Soda (1977)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A year in the life of two adolescent sisters at an all-girls school in France as they experience a rapid-fire onslaught of 'firsts' during a time of political protest and social change.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel, Anouk Ferjac, Michel Puterflam
Votes: 1,609
49. State of Siege (1972)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber
Votes: 6,056 | Gross: $1.13M
50. Le seuil du vide (1972)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy
The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-François Davy | Stars: Dominique Erlanger, Odette Duc, Catherine Rich, Michel Lemoine
Votes: 107
51. La ville-bidon (1971)
90 min | Drama
A deputy mayor wants to build the buildings of a new city on land occupied by a landfill and a slum.
Director: Jacques Baratier | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Daniel Duval, Jean-Pierre Darras, Roland Dubillard
Votes: 51
52. Le chant du départ (1975)
82 min | Drama
What's happening in Madame Vaussart 's lonely hearts club?
Director: Pascal Aubier | Stars: Rufus, Brigitte Fossey, Germaine Montero, Paulette Frantz
Votes: 16
53. Demain les mômes (1976)
91 min
These brats have understood that grown-ups failed and they do not need them anymore.
Director: Jean Pourtalé | Stars: Niels Arestrup, Brigitte Roüan, Michel Esposito, Gérald Denizot
Votes: 53
54. The $2 Haircut (1974)
106 min | Drama
Director: Philippe Condroyer | Stars: Didier Sauvegrain, Roselyne Vuillaume, Alain Noël, Jean-Pierre Frescaline
Votes: 38
55. That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
R | 109 min | Drama, Romance
Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Claude Dauphin
Votes: 4,645 | Gross: $0.02M
56. Last Exit Before Roissy (1977)
107 min | Drama
Director: Bernard Paul | Stars: Pierre Mondy, Sabine Haudepin, Patrick Fierry, Anne Jousset
Votes: 11
57. Lifesize (1974)
X | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Michel is a middle aged man with a troubled marriage. He feels lonely, has been unfaithful to his wife Isabelle in various occasions, and despite she seems to accept this situation, they ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Valentine Tessier, Rada Rassimov, Lucienne Hamon
Votes: 450
58. Fill 'er Up with Super (1976)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Klouk drives a station wagon with his friends.
Director: Alain Cavalier | Stars: Patrick Bouchitey, Etienne Chicot, Bernard Crombey, Xavier Saint-Macary
Votes: 382
59. La faille (1975)
110 min | Thriller
A quiet man in his forties is arrested for a minor reason and sent to prison.
Director: Peter Fleischmann | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi, Mario Adorf, Adriana Asti
Votes: 301
60. Docteur Popaul (1972)
95 min | Comedy
Doctor Popaul doesn't trust beautiful women: he says he prefers "moral beauty". Among colleagues he makes a bet who manages to sleep with the most ugly woman during the next year - and wins... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mia Farrow, Laura Antonelli, Daniel Lecourtois
Votes: 730
61. Troubleshooters (1971)
100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The heroes of this tape are two released ahead of schedule for exemplary behavior. In prison, they developed an ingenious plan for a further comfortable life. They thought they had thought of everything. But, alas, one of them is married.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean Yanne, Mireille Darc, Bernard Blier, Michel Constantin
Votes: 456
62. L'acrobate (1976)
101 min | Comedy
Léon, who works as a bath-shower-sauna boy, discovers a passion for tango that will change his life.
Director: Jean-Daniel Pollet | Stars: Claude Melki, Laurence Bru, Micheline Dax, Edith Scob
Votes: 151
63. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
210 min | Drama, Romance
The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.
Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten
Votes: 6,676
64. Act of Aggression (1975)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a businessman who decides to take his wife and daughter on a vacation. ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Philippe Brigaud
Votes: 484
65. Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
R | 138 min | Drama, War
In 1944, an 18-year-old boy from small-town France collaborates with the Gestapo and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler, Therese Giehse
Votes: 7,711
66. Black Moon (1975)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro
Votes: 6,220
67. The Key Is in the Door (1978)
98 min | Drama
The life of Marie, a French teacher, is completely upset by the arrival in her class of a hectic schoolboy.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Annie Girardot, Patrick Dewaere, Stéphane Jobert, Eléonore Klarwein
Votes: 139
68. The Contract (1971)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama
Unintentional witness of a murder in New York, pursued by one of the assassin's henchmen and manipulated by the police, Bruno Pradal, returns to France and his native village where the cowardice of the people will lead him to his loss.
Director: Claude Mulot | Stars: Bruno Pradal, Charles Southwood, Gabriele Tinti, Ewa Swann
Votes: 90
69. It Only Happens to Others (1971)
PG | 90 min | Drama
Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.
Director: Nadine Trintignant | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Serge Marquand, Dominique Labourier
Votes: 270
70. The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bertrand Morane's burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an ... See full summary »
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel
Votes: 7,332
71. The Crook (1970)
G | 120 min | Crime, Thriller
Story about an incurable thief, his success and his failures.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Danièle Delorme, Charles Gérard, Christine Lelouch
Votes: 960
72. Les passagers (1977)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
Director: Serge Leroy | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mireille Darc, Bernard Fresson, Richard Constantini
Votes: 193
73. Happy New Year (1973)
PG | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard, André Falcon
Votes: 1,989 | Gross: $0.16M
74. The French Detective (1975)
91 min | Crime, Drama
Two policemen risk of interfering with a corrupt politician.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 1,859
75. 7 morts sur ordonnance (1975)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
Director: Jacques Rouffio | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Jane Birkin, Marina Vlady
Votes: 623
76. The Tenant (1976)
R | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Votes: 47,603 | Gross: $1.92M
77. The Red Circle (1970)
Not Rated | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand
Votes: 28,137 | Gross: $0.37M
78. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau
Votes: 24,799 | Gross: $0.06M
79. Pleasure Party (1975)
R | 100 min | Drama
A philandering husband convinces his wife to have affairs, believing she can't find a lover as interesting as he.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Danièle Gégauff, Paul Gégauff, Paula Moore, Clémence Gégauff
Votes: 734
80. L'imprécateur (1977)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
The management orders an investigation about the inflammatory leaflets that are spread, because they assume that an internal opposition is at work.
Director: Jean-Louis Bertuccelli | Stars: Jean Yanne, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 114
81. La cage (1975)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A vengeful woman traps her ex husband in their basement. He realizes that the only chance he has of ever getting out is to try and beat her at her own psychological mind game.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Lino Ventura, Ingrid Thulin, William Sabatier, Sophie Sam
Votes: 479
82. Cops Is Cops (1972)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Crime
For a special mission to destroy drug dealers in Nice, hardcore bachelor inspector Campana has to don the role of a married man with a child. He adjusts himself well but will have to fight a lot before being able to achieve final victory.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Michel Constantin, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 733
83. Les loulous (1976)
90 min | Drama
Director: Patrick Cabouat | Stars: Jean-Louis Robert, Valérie Mairesse, Charlie Nelson, Françoise Pagès
Votes: 21
84. The Witness (1978)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A sexually adventurous young woman approaches Antonio, an Italian art-restorer working at a cathedral in France. He resists getting involved with her but later he finds out she was raped and murdered in a derelict house.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Philippe Noiret, Roland Dubillard, Gisèle Préville
Votes: 405
85. Alice or The Last Escapade (1977)
93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Fernand Ledoux, François Perrot
Votes: 1,245
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