Movie List for "french"

Torture Me, Kiss Me (1970)

Count Henri de Prave revisits the French bistro where he played a small part in the downfall of the Nazis years earlier. He recounts the story of how the evil Nazi Commandant Max von … Year 1970.

Generes: N/A
Director: David R. Friedberg
Writer: Henri Claude De Lyon
Actors: Frank MacIntosh, Blaine Quincy, Christine Cybelle, Nick Linkov

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

Poto and Cabengo (1980)

Two young twins in the USA have invented their own shared language. Scientists are wanting to study the language but social workers are trying to get the twins to leave their secret … Year 1980.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Jean-Pierre Gorin
Writer: Jean-Pierre Gorin
Actors: Jean-Pierre Gorin

Blank Generation (1980)

Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and… Year 1980.

Generes: Music, Drama
Director: Ulli Lommel
Writer: Ulli Lommel (story), Ulli Lommel (screenplay), Richard Hell (screenplay), Robert Madero (screenplay), Peter Muller (screenplay)
Actors: Carole Bouquet, Richard Hell, Ulli Lommel, Suzanna Love

City on Fire (1979)

A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city. Year 1979.

Generes: Action, Drama
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Writer: Jack Hill, David P. Lewis, Céline La Frenière
Actors: Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen

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

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

When seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade a small town, replicating the residents one body at a time. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: W.D. Richter (screenplay), Jack Finney (novel)
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright

Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

During the early 1960s, U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam discover the same challenges that plagued the French army in Indochina ten years prior. Year 1978.

Generes: Drama, War
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Daniel Ford (novel), Wendell Mayes
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer

The Turning Point (1977)

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family. Year 1977.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Herbert Ross
Writer: Arthur Laurents
Actors: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Tom Skerritt, Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977)

Raggedy Ann and Andy leave their playroom to rescue Babette, a beautiful French doll kidnapped by a pirate. Year 1977.

Generes: Animation, Comedy, Family
Director: Richard Williams
Writer: Johnny Gruelle (based on the original stories & characters created by), Patricia Thackray (screenplay), Max Wilk (screenplay)
Actors: Claire Williams, Didi Conn, Mark Baker, Fred Stuthman

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

The Deep (1977)

In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck. Year 1977.

Generes: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Peter Yates
Writer: Peter Benchley (novel), Peter Benchley (screenplay), Tracy Keenan Wynn (screenplay)
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams, Robert Shaw

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. Year 1977.

Generes: Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon

One Way Boogie Woogie (1977)

Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic … Year 1977.

Generes: Documentary
Director: James Benning
Writer: N/A
Actors: N/A