Movie List for "france"

Crescendo (1970)

Stefanie Powers stars as an American girl who goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer. Year 1970.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: Alan Gibson
Writer: Jimmy Sangster (screenplay), Alfred Shaughnessy (screenplay), Alfred Shaughnessy (from an original screenplay by)
Actors: Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott, Jane Lapotaire

Road to Salina (1970)

Jonas (Walker Jr) is on the road to Salina. He stops at a gas station/restaurant and its owner, Mara (Hayworth), is struck by his resemblance to her dead son, Rocky (Porel). He decides to … Year 1970.

Generes: Drama
Director: Georges Lautner
Writer: Georges Lautner (screenplay), Maurice Cury (novel), Pascal Jardin (adaptation), Jack Miller (adaptation)
Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Robert Walker Jr., Ed Begley, Bruce Pecheur

Fruits of Passion (1981)

A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him. Year 1981.

Generes: Drama
Director: Shûji Terayama
Writer: Dominique Aury (novel), Shûji Terayama (adaptation), Rio Kishida (adaptation), Dominique Aury (text)
Actors: Isabelle Illiers, Klaus Kinski, Arielle Dombasle, Pîtâ

Io e Caterina (1980)

Enrico Melotti, a businessman middle-aged, is dominated by a fierce as naive form of machismo sees women only for what they can give… Year 1980.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Alberto Sordi
Writer: Rodolfo Sonego (story), Alberto Sordi (screenplay)
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Edwige Fenech, Catherine Spaak, Valeria Valeri

Lady Oscar (1979)

The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution. Year 1979.

Generes: Drama, History, Romance
Director: Jacques Demy
Writer: Jacques Demy (screenplay), Patricia Louisianna Knop (screenplay), Jacques Demy (adaptation), Patricia Louisianna Knop (adaptation), Riyoko Ikeda (manga: Versailles no bara/La Rose de Versailles)
Actors: Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, Christine Böhm, Jonas Bergström

Another Man, Another Chance (1977)

A photographer, who has been hired to photograph the wild west of America where he has lived his entire life, tells his client of a photograph he has that was taken one hundred years ago by… Year 1977.

Generes: Western
Director: Claude Lelouch
Writer: Claude Lelouch
Actors: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell

The Purple Taxi (1977)

With its mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patients, while trying to help them find their way. Year 1977.

Generes: Drama
Director: Yves Boisset
Writer: Anne Dutter (adaptation), Georges Dutter (French adaptation), Michel Déon (novel), Michel Déon (screenplay)
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Noiret, Peter Ustinov, Fred Astaire

Operation Thunderbolt (1977)

In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to … Year 1977.

Generes: Action, Drama, History
Director: Menahem Golan
Writer: Ken Globus (dialogue), Menahem Golan, Clarke Reynolds
Actors: Yehoram Gaon, Gila Almagor, Assi Dayan, Klaus Kinski

Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)

Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian … Year 1977.

Generes: Biography, Drama
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Writer: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Actors: Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels

A Child in the Crowd (1976)

Abandoned by his father and ignored by his mother, a French youth (César Chauveau) seeks love and affection with the soldiers and other men he meets on the streets of Paris during the German occupation. Year 1976.

Generes: Drama
Director: Gérard Blain
Writer: Gérard Blain, Michel Pérez
Actors: Jean François Cimino, César Chauveau, Annie Kovaks, Cécile Cousseau

Submission (1976)

1940 France just before the great invasion. Eliane is a pharmacist who is married to her dull husband and has a teenage daughter. Eliane is an attractive woman who has let her passion fall … Year 1976.

Generes: Drama, War
Director: Salvatore Samperi
Writer: Ottavio Jemma (screenplay), Salvatore Samperi (screenplay & story)
Actors: Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Raymond Pellegrin, Andréa Ferréol

Todo modo (1976)

Party leader and power broker Aldo Moro, holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansings. Year 1976.

Generes: Drama
Director: Elio Petri
Writer: Leonardo Sciascia (novel), Elio Petri (screenplay), Berto Pelosso (collaborator)
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Ciccio Ingrassia

Le Sauvage (1975)

Caracas, Venezuela. Just after her engagement with Vittorio, Nelly runs away from him. As he pursued her, she looks for help to Martin, a French middle-aged man she met by accident. He … Year 1975.

Generes: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Writer: Jean-Paul Rappeneau (scenario), Élisabeth Rappeneau (scenario), Jean-Loup Dabadie (scenario), Jean-Loup Dabadie (dialogue)
Actors: Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Luigi Vannucchi, Tony Roberts

Scar Tissue (1975)

A naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy food mogul. Her and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a vengeful movie star. Year 1975.

Generes: Crime, Thriller
Director: René Clément
Writer: Nicola Badalucco (screenplay), Nicola Badalucco (story), René Clément (screenplay), Mark Peploe (screenplay), Luciano Vincenzoni (screenplay), Luciano Vincenzoni (story)
Actors: Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Vic Morrow, Robert Vaughn

Steppenwolf (1974)

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and … Year 1974.

Generes: Drama
Director: Fred Haines
Writer: Hermann Hesse (novel), Fred Haines
Actors: Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clémenti, Carla Romanelli

Big Bad Mama (1974)

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law. Year 1974.

Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Steve Carver
Writer: William W. Norton, Frances Doel
Actors: Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett