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- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAmidouJanine MagnanAn exploration of the formation of a couple from both points of view.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsLucia AmramMarie-Ange AnièsJean d'EstréeSensationalist view of the role of woman in social life.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsGuy MairesseJanine MagnanJean FranvalA middle aged man gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news bulletins warn the population against a recently escaped sadist who is known to prey on young women.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJanine MagnanJean-Pierre KalfonJacques PortetFive youths quit their low paying work to become thieves, and inspired by film noir study boxing and judo to set up a school for future gangsters.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAmidouPierre BarouhJean-Pierre KalfonFour prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAnouk AiméeJean-Louis TrintignantPierre BarouhA widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsYves MontandCandice BergenAnnie GirardotThe bitter relationships between a journalist and his women.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAmidouCaroline CellierJanine Magnan"Life, Love, Death" was made before the abolition of capital punishment in France. Its central message is the inhumanity of the guillotine. The film, which is shot somewhat in a cinema verite style, divides roughly into three acts. In Act One, there is a series of murders of prostitutes in Paris. An obviously deeply disturbed man is hiring these prostitutes and then strangling them. Suspicion falls on François (Amidou), a married man with a child. The police put him under surveillance. (Viewers will recognize the inspector in charge of the team as Marcel Bozzuffi, who would play Popeye Doyle's nemesis in The French Connection a couple of years later.) Ironically, François is experiencing spiritual healing and renewal through the power of love---not with his wife, of course, this being a French film, but through an affair with a beautiful young woman he has met (not a prostitute). But just as this is happening and François seems to have lost the need to commit violent crimes, he is arrested. Act Two is the arraignment, trial and exposition of François's life and history. His recent transformation, of course, makes no impression on the court, and he is sentenced to death by guillotine. Act Three is a documentary-style record of François's last days in prison and his execution. The last scene in the film is an image of the guillotine's blade beginning its descent; it slows and freezes and there is a fade to black, as a voiceover issues a passionate plea for abolition of the guillotine.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Paul BelmondoAnnie GirardotMaria Pia ConteFilming in the USA, Henri and Françoise meet and fall in love with each other.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Louis TrintignantDanièle DelormeCharles GérardStory about an incurable thief, his success and his failures.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsCatherine AllégretAmidouJean CollombCharles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards and live in the same construction facility. One day, Amidou leaves them to marry Catherine, a salesgirl. The trouble for Charles and Jean is that going to their friend's wedding means buying new clothes, which is problematic given their low income. They are determined to make this day an unforgettable one, despite their lack of money. Will they be able achieve their aim?
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsLino VenturaJacques BrelCharles DennerWhen they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions. Among their hostages are singer Johnny Hallyday and an ambassador in Latin America. They get framed by a guerrilla leader, who had been kidnapped by them before, and while being tried the French Government decides to let them flee to Africa where they get on with the same old game.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsLino VenturaFrançoise FabianCharles GérardReleased 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 Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsMarthe KellerAndré DussollierCharles DennerThe movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsBulle OgierRufusMarie DéaFrom 1944 to 1974, the evolution of a couple established in Normandy. As the husband climbs the ladder of social hierarchy, the relationship with his wife slowly deteriorate.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsMichèle MorganSerge ReggianiPhilippe LéotardA very unorthodox police inspector is assigned to investigate a millionaire's mysterious death.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsMarlène JobertJacques DutroncBrigitte FosseyThe story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsCatherine DeneuveAnouk AiméeCharles DennerCatherine has just served a prison sentence for complicity in the murder of her boss who raped her. There she gives birth to a son, Simon. After her release she wants to make up for the lost years and tries to built up a close relationship to her already grown-up son. Despite some tensions when she finds out that he has a love affair with her best girl-friend, her efforts work out and in the "happy" end they become a real family when she finds the perfect lover - Simon's teacher.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJames CaanGeneviève BujoldFrancis HusterThe story of gaining the West with dedication of the people that built it. All framed up in a photograph of a couple's legacy.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsCharles DennerJacques VilleretJean-Claude BrialyTwo misfits meet at a dating agency and breakthrough in the social world in ways they never imagined.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsCatherine DeneuveJacques DutroncJacques VilleretSimon Lacassaine a thief with cultural attachments has just broken out of jail. Through circumstances, he falls in with upmarket hooker Deneuve, also on the constabulary's wanted list, and between them they spend the better part of the movie evading both the Gendarmes and US Authorities.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsRobert HosseinNicole GarciaGeraldine ChaplinThrough fabulous music, this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several of them, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor, at an anti-famine concert.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsEvelyne BouixJacques VilleretFrancis HusterThe world's most popular entertainer and Europe's greatest boxer: the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in New York, transatlantic plane flights, Cerdan's loss of the world middleweight title to Jake Lamotta, and Piaf's gift for tragic love songs.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsCharlotte RamplingMichel PiccoliJean-Louis TrintignantThe movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAnnie GirardotJean-Louis TrintignantFrançoise FabianSalomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiograpy. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...