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1960s Movies

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

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Delphine Garnier (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange Garnier (Françoise Dorléac) are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence (Jacques Perrin) is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon (Michel Piccoli) owns a music shop, he left Paris once month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close…

1970s Movies

Un Flic (1972)

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Un Flic movie storyline. Paris Police Commissioner Edouard Coleman (Alain Delon) is able to detach himself from the gruesome and morbid details of the cases on which he works. He demands the respect of those with who he works, he not afraid to use his position to get what he needs from his associates or the supposed perpetrators. He is a night owl by necessity as that’s when most of his life’s major crimes occur.

1960s Movies / François Truffaut Movies

Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

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Mississippi Mermaid movie storyline. In Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, the owner of a cigarette factory Louis Mahé is engaged through correspondence with Julie Roussel and he does not know her.

1980s Movies / François Truffaut Movies

The Last Metro (1980)

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The Last Metro movie storyline. Paris, 1942. With the Germans in control and her Jewish theatre producer-director husband on the run from them, an actress, Marion Steiner (played by Catherine Deneuve) is left with the task of running his theatre. She starts rehearsals for a new play, written by her husband, and hires a new director and a leading man, Bernard Granger (Gerard Depardieu).

1960s Movies / Roman Polanski Movies

Repulsion (1965)

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Repulsion movie storyline. In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. Helen uses the word “sensitive” to describe Carol’s overall demeanor, which is almost like she walks around in a daze, rarely speaking up about anything.

1970s Movies

Tristana (1970)

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In the 30’s, in Spain, the teenager Tristana becomes an orphan when her mother, who is the servant of Don Lope (Fernando Rey), dies. Don Lope is a decadent but respected aristocrat, anticlerical and liberal with socialist principles, and he becomes the guardian of Tristana. Don Lope sexually abuses of Tristana and develops a strange lover/father relationship with her.

1960s Movies

Mayerling (1969)

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Mayerling movie storyline. It’s the late nineteenth century Austria. The Emperor Franz-Joseph and his son, the Crown Prince, Archduke Rudolf, have never seen eye to eye. While the Emperor retains the traditions of the empire in the rapidly changing world keeping it a police state, Rudolf is liberal, wanting to see the people have a say in what happens in their lives.

1960s Movies

Belle de Jour (1967)

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Belle de Jour movie storyline. Séverine and Pierre are a young relatively newly married Parisienne couple in a comfortable upper middle class life.

1960s Movies

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg movie storyline. The lives of Geneviève Emery and Guy Foucher of Cherbourg, France are presented in 4 acts, in director Jacques Demy’s fable of young love.