Cannes 1973
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1. A Promessa (1973)
102 min | Drama
A couple of traditional fishermen are linked by a secret vote of chastity. One day, they take in a wounded gypsy man, out of their Christian piety. As time goes by, a relationship, and love... See full summary »
Director: António de Macedo | Stars: Guida Maria, Sinde Filipe, João Mota, Luís Santos
Votes: 72
In Competition
2. Anna and the Wolves (1973)
100 min | Drama
A British governess comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José María Prada, José Vivó
Votes: 1,985
In Competition
3. Belle (1973)
96 min | Drama
The aging romancier Mathieu Grégoire falls in love with a female stranger who doesn't even understand his language. Their uncommon relationship upsets his family.
Director: André Delvaux | Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, Danièle Delorme, Adriana Bogdan, Roger Coggio
Votes: 222
In Competition
4. Secrets of a Nurse (1973)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Portraits of a pushy surgeon and a nurse with many secrets, in a big city hospital.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Gabriele Ferzetti, Senta Berger, Luciano Salce
Votes: 213
In Competition
5. Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
PG | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ambitious but diminutive motorcycle cop John Wintergreen patrols the Arizona highways, yearning for promotion to Homicide Detective, while investigating a murder tied to hippies.
Director: James William Guercio | Stars: Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley
Votes: 6,430 | Gross: $1.60M
In Competition
6. Love & Anarchy (1973)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Lina Polito, Eros Pagni
Votes: 3,530
In Competition
7. Godspell (1973)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
An adaption of the musical, in a modern-day song-and-dance recreation of the Gospel of St. Matthew.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Victor Garber, Lynne Thigpen, Katie Hanley, David Haskell
Votes: 3,732 | Gross: $1.20M
In Competition
8. Jeremy (1973)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Shy cellist boy meets upperclassman ballet-student girl at school. They experience first-time love, then happenstance pulls them apart
Director: Arthur Barron | Stars: Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Len Bari, Leonardo Cimino
Votes: 1,077
In Competition
9. The Invitation (1973)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean Champion, Corinne Coderey, Pierre Collet
Votes: 674
In Competition
10. The Big Feast (1973)
NC-17 | 130 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi
Votes: 14,715
In Competition
11. 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: 6,705
In Competition
12. The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
115 min | Drama
A young girl that came to Montréal to find her dad is exploited by a bar owner.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Carole Laure, Willie Lamothe, Daniel Pilon, Pauline Julien
Votes: 329
In Competition
13. La otra imagen (1973)
90 min | Romance
A blind couple's marriage is tested when the wife is drawn to a blind writer.
Director: Antoni Ribas | Stars: Asunción Balaguer, Jordi Bofill, Miquel Bordoy, Marta Flores
In Competition
14. Fantastic Planet (1973)
PG | 72 min | Animation, Sci-Fi
On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
Director: René Laloux | Stars: Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart
Votes: 36,857 | Gross: $0.19M
In Competition
15. Far West (1973)
90 min | Comedy, Western
Jacques, a 40-year-old citizen of Brussels, meets the fakir, Abracadabra who, before dying, gives him a special power.
Director: Jacques Brel | Stars: Jacques Brel, Danièle Evenou, Gabriel Jabbour, Véronique Mucret Rouveyrollis
Votes: 96
In Competition
16. O Lucky Man! (1973)
R | 178 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe
Votes: 8,793
In Competition
17. Petöfi '73 (1973)
89 min | Drama, History
High school students improvise a reenactment of Hungary's 1848 revolution through the lens of Sandor Petöfi's poetry.
Director: Ferenc Kardos | Stars: Mihály Kovács, Nóra Kovács, Can Togay, Tibor Csizmadia
Votes: 53
In Competition
18. The Sandglass (1973)
124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.
Director: Wojciech Has | Stars: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska
Votes: 4,977
In Competition
19. Scarecrow (1973)
R | 112 min | Drama
An ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by a homeless ex-sailor, so they partner up as they head east together.
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth
Votes: 19,244 | Gross: $9.00M
In Competition
20. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
PG | 100 min | Drama
A middle-aged misfit struggles to raise her daughters, one popular and the other a promising science student.
Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach, Judith Lowry
Votes: 2,661 | Gross: $0.18M
In Competition
21. The Hireling (1973)
PG | 95 min | Drama
A young British woman suffering from depression over the loss of her husband develops an unusual relationship with her chauffeur.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles, Peter Egan, Caroline Mortimer
Votes: 865
In Competition
22. One Hamlet Less (1973)
70 min | Drama
A meditation on Art through the elements of the most famous tragedy.
Director: Carmelo Bene | Stars: Carmelo Bene, Luciana Cante, Sergio Di Giulio, Franco Leo
Votes: 192
In Competition
23. Monologue (1973)
100 min | Drama
A professor of science dedicated to his work, but alienated from his personal life, struggles to reconcile with his estranged daughter.
Director: Ilya Averbakh | Stars: Mikhail Gluzskiy, Margarita Terekhova, Marina Neyolova, Stanislav Lyubshin
Votes: 409
In Competition
24. Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973)
98 min | Comedy
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Duilio Del Prete, Giuseppe Maffioli
Votes: 660
In Competition
25. A Doll's House (II) (1973)
G | 106 min | Drama
Nora Helmer, years earlier, committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband, Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Jane Fonda, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyrig
Votes: 807
Out of Competition
26. Future Shock (1972)
43 min | Documentary, Short
Describes the constant, bewildering barrage of new technologies and all the resulting societal changes those technologies bring about.
Director: Alexander Grasshoff | Stars: Orson Welles, John Bray, Verlin Cobb, Charles Epstein
Votes: 139
Out of Competition
27. Story of a Love Story (1973)
110 min | Drama
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality ... See full summary »
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Alan Bates, Dominique Sanda, Michel Auclair, Evans Evans
Votes: 177
Out of Competition
28. Day for Night (1973)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 24,795 | Gross: $0.02M
Out of Competition
29. Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan
Votes: 4,848 | Gross: $6.03M
Out of Competition
30. Lo Païs (1973)
90 min | Drama
Young country-boy Gaston leaves his parents' farm to look for work in paris. The people he encounters there, and the problems he meets in his job, lead him to realise how much young workers... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Guérin | Stars: Olivier Bousquet, Nada Strancar, Anne-Marie Coffinet, Raymond Miquelestorena
Votes: 7
Out of Competition
31. Olivier Messiaen et les oiseaux (1973)
80 min | Documentary
Directors: Michel Fano, Denise Tual | Stars: Michel Beroff, Sylvio Gualda, Yvonne Loriod, Alain Louvier
Out of Competition
32. Swastika (1973)
Not Rated | 113 min | Documentary, History, War
The Nazification of Germany from 1933 to 1945 told through a compilation of Nazi footage, newsreels, propaganda films and Eva Braun's home movies.
Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Eva Braun, Galeazzo Ciano, Albert Einstein, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 390
Out of Competition
33. The Holy Mountain (1973)
16+ | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara
Votes: 48,075 | Gross: $0.06M
Out of Competition
34. Visions of Eight (1973)
G | 110 min | Documentary, Sport
Eight film artists from different countries are given carte blanche to make a collection of short documentaries on the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, offering unexpected, original and often humorous perspectives.
Directors: Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuriy Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling | Stars: Vasiliy Alekseev, Nikolay Avilov, Valery Borzov, Avery Brundage
Votes: 748 | Gross: $0.28M
Out of Competition
35. Cries & Whispers (1972)
R | 91 min | Drama
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin
Votes: 37,011 | Gross: $1.74M
Out of Competition
36. Wattstax (1973)
R | 103 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music
Documentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, The Staples Singers, and more.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: The Dramatics, The Staple Singers, Kim Weston, Jimmy Jones
Votes: 1,089
Out of Competition
37. We Can't Go Home Again (1973)
TV-MA | 93 min | Drama
The most complete, newly restored version of Nicholas Ray's experimental masterpiece embodies the director's practice of film-making as a "communal way of life." Ray plays himself in the ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Richard Bock, Tom Farrell, Danny Fisher, Jill Gannon
Votes: 548
Out of Competition
38. El faham (1973)
97 min | Drama
Director: Mohamed Bouamari | Stars: Mustapha El Anka, Youcef Hadjam, Ahmed Hamoudi, Fettouma Ousliha-Bouamari
Votes: 21
International Critics' Week
39. Gaki zôshi (1973)
92 min | Drama
A Buddhist priest rescues a homeless girl and brings her into his temple's household. Soon she becomes an essential part of the place. One night she is raped by a man who then becomes her lover. The priest becomes erotically obsessed.
Director: Yôichi Takabayashi | Stars: Yûtarô Ban, Akira Nitta
Votes: 33
International Critics' Week
40. Ganja & Hess (1973)
R | 112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
Director: Bill Gunn | Stars: Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn, Sam L. Waymon
Votes: 2,601 | Gross: $0.02M
International Critics' Week
41. Kashima Paradise (1973)
110 min | Documentary
Directors: Bénie Deswarte, Yann Le Masson | Star: Chris Marker
Votes: 35
International Critics' Week
42. Ya no basta con rezar (1972)
80 min | Drama
A priest is so concerned about the harsh conditions of living of Chilean lower classes that he gradually becomes a political activist and 'worker-priest'.
Director: Aldo Francia | Stars: Marcelo Romo, Tennyson Ferrada, Leonardo Perucci, Roberto Navarrete
Votes: 131
International Critics' Week
43. Vivre ensemble (1973)
92 min | Drama
The turbulent love affair between a fuddy duddy history teacher and a free spirited hippie girl leads to drug abuse and domestic violence.
Director: Anna Karina | Stars: Anna Karina, Michel Lancelot, Monique Morelli, Viviane Blassel
Votes: 123
International Critics' Week
44. Non ho tempo (1973)
105 min | Biography, History
Director: Ansano Giannarelli | Stars: Mario Garriba, Franco Agostini, Bruno Alessandro, Pier Giovanni Anchisi
Votes: 18
International Critics' Week
45. Stone Wedding (1973)
90 min | Drama
Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.
Directors: Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu | Stars: Leopoldina Balanuta, Eliza Petrachescu, Nina Doniga, Adrian Georgescu
Votes: 587
International Critics' Week
46. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Votes: 62,326
47. The Sparrow (1972)
105 min | Drama
Set shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Salah Qabil, Ali El Sherif, Mahmoud Al Meleji, Seif Abdelrahman
Votes: 393
Directors' Fortnight
48. Bel ordure (1973)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Pierre used to be a top-level football player but he quit. Now he is both a prestidigitator and a stool pigeon, benefiting from the protection of the chief inspector. In his dreams he is ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Marboeuf | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Claude Brasseur, Jean Rochefort, Andréas Voutsinas
Votes: 36
Directors' Fortnight
49. Desaster (1973 TV Movie)
96 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Klaus Löwitsch, Margarethe von Trotta, Dieter Laser, Ruth-Maria Kubitschek
Votes: 8
Directors' Fortnight
50. Drustvena igra (1972)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Director of this movie gave an advertisement in many Yugoslav papers calling everybody who wants to act in movie regardless of age, look or profession to reply. From 7000 arrived letters, ... See full summary »
Director: Srdjan Karanovic | Stars: Dusan Hudjec, Mirjana Tintar, Goran Bukilic, Ratko Tankosic
Votes: 72
Directors' Fortnight
51. El cambio (1971)
86 min | Drama
Two young people leave city life for the simplicity of life in the province. Unfortunately, the beach they are going to live next to is being polluted by a local factory.
Director: Alfredo Joskowicz | Stars: Héctor Bonilla, Sergio Jiménez, Ofelia Medina, Sofia Joskowicz
Votes: 44
Directors' Fortnight
52. Farlige kys (1972)
82 min | Drama, Romance
A young psychiatrist falls in love with a female patient who was admitted to the state hospital after killing her unsympathetic man during a quarrel. The psychiatrist, who has been finding ... See full summary »
Director: Henrik Stangerup | Stars: Lotte Tarp, Erik Wedersøe, Jens Østerholm, Anne-Lise Gabold
Votes: 21
Directors' Fortnight
53. Fotográfia (1973)
82 min | Drama
A photographer and a retoucher are wandering in small villages. They go from house to house offering their services. They try to record the truth, the true faces of these people.
Director: Pál Zolnay | Stars: István Iglódi, Ferenc Sebö, Márk Zala
Votes: 299
Directors' Fortnight
54. History Lessons (1972)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, History
A shot from a car coursing through Rome in 1972 opens this interpretation of Brecht's unfinished experimental novel The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar. In a second part set in ... See full summary »
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Gottfried Bold, Johann Unterpertinger, Henri Ludwigg, Carl Vaillant
Votes: 318
Directors' Fortnight
55. Hannibal (1972)
100 min | Drama
Director: Xavier Koller | Stars: Marcus Mislin, Fred Tanner, Anestis Vlahos, Maria Giourousi
Votes: 6
Directors' Fortnight
56. Days of '36 (1972)
105 min | Drama, History
When a trade unionist is murdered in broad daylight, the suspects rounded up include Sofianos, who doggedly maintains his innocence. When a minister visits his cell, he tricks his warders and takes the man hostage, threatening to kill him.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Vangelis Kazan, Kostas Pavlou, Thanos Grammenos, Giorgos Kyritsis
Votes: 1,195
Directors' Fortnight
57. Coup d'Etat (1973)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Yasuo Miyake, Akiko Kurano, Tadahiko Sugano
Votes: 536
Directors' Fortnight
58. La città del sole (1973 TV Movie)
84 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Giulio Brogi, Bedy Moratti, Daniel Sherrill, Giancarlo Palermo
Votes: 21
Directors' Fortnight
59. La villeggiatura (1973)
112 min | Drama
Rossini (Adalberto Maria Merli), history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mussolini imposed ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Leto | Stars: Adalberto Maria Merli, Adolfo Celi, Milena Vukotic, John Steiner
Votes: 37
Directors' Fortnight
60. La vita in gioco (1973)
100 min | Drama
A filmmaker of committed films, together with his lover, plans to commit suicide within a few days.
Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi | Stars: Giulio Brogi, Mimsy Farmer, William Berger, Paolo Turco
Votes: 10
Directors' Fortnight
61. Le sourire vertical (1973)
100 min | Drama
Research about Joan of Arc, in the Contemporary France.
Director: Robert Lapoujade | Stars: Françoise Brion, François Perrot, Henri Serre, Olivier Hussenot
Votes: 19
Directors' Fortnight
62. Metamorfosis del jefe de la policía política (1974)
105 min | Drama
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Marcelo Romo, Patricia Guzmán, Rafael Benavente, Arnaldo Berríos
Votes: 10
Directors' Fortnight
63. Payday (1973)
R | 103 min | Drama, Music
Maury Dann (Rip Torn, in one of his most memorable performances) is a not-so-nice country-Western singer. He ruthlessly manipulates everyone around him to suit his selfish needs...he even ... See full summary »
Director: Daryl Duke | Stars: Rip Torn, Ahna Capri, Elayne Heilveil, Michael C. Gwynne
Votes: 1,024
Directors' Fortnight
64. Quem é Beta? (1973)
85 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophe that modified the world's natural state and destroyed civilized society, a couple begins a new life in a shelter. Their relationship is disturbed by the arrival of a woman.
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Frédéric de Pasquale, Sylvie Fennec, Regina Rosenburgo, Dominique Rhule
Votes: 70
Directors' Fortnight
65. Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
96 min | Crime, Drama
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Jean Lajeunesse, Luce Guilbeault, J. Léo Gagnon, Therese Cadorette
Votes: 407
Directors' Fortnight
66. Some Call It Loving (1973)
R | 103 min | Drama
A woman who's been asleep for years is part of a carnival that sells her kisses for a buck. A lonely jazz musician buys her. Once awake, the two of them and his two girlfriends hook up. But sometimes, dreams are better than reality.
Director: James B. Harris | Stars: Zalman King, Carol White, Tisa Farrow, Richard Pryor
Votes: 450
Directors' Fortnight
67. Slonce wschodzi raz na dzien (1972)
94 min | Drama
After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.
Director: Henryk Kluba | Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Ryszard Filipski, Stanislaw Gronkowski, Teresa Marczewska
Votes: 85
Directors' Fortnight
68. All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973)
102 min | Drama
Rich, spoiled youngman encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.
Director: Arnaldo Jabor | Stars: Paulo Porto, Darlene Glória, Elza Gomes, Paulo César Peréio
Votes: 630
Directors' Fortnight
69. Touki Bouki (1973)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang, Christoph Colomb, Mustapha Ture
Votes: 4,106
Directors' Fortnight
70. The Triple Echo (1972)
R | 90 min | Drama, War
During World War II, a deserting soldier dresses as a woman to escape detection, hiding at a farm run by a POW's wife, but is soon hit-on by a lusty sergeant.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon, Anthony May
Votes: 935
Directors' Fortnight
71. Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (1973)
97 min | Drama
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, a newborn who witnesses the drastic changes a French family experiences in a brief period of time.
Director: Claude Weisz | Stars: Germaine Montero, Claude Richard, Hélène Darche, Raphaëlle Devins
Votes: 56
Directors' Fortnight
72. Wedding in White (1972)
R | 103 min | Drama
A father will do anything to protect his family's reputation when his unmarried teenage daughter becomes pregnant because she was raped by her brother's friend.
Director: William Fruet | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Carol Kane, Doris Petrie, Leo Phillips
Votes: 377
Directors' Fortnight
73. Zwartziek (1973)
59 min | Drama
A husband can't accept that his wife would like to live something else than her life as a wife.
Director: Jacob Bijl | Stars: Burt Henderson, Jessamin Stärcke
Directors' Fortnight
74. Une larme dans l'océan (1973)
86 min | Drama
Jewish fighters and their non violent religious neighbors, deal with the Nazis in Poland. The Jewish fighters finally connect with the Polish underground, hopeful about joining them and receiving arms, but the Poles refuse to arm them.
Director: Henri Glaeser | Stars: Alexandre Stere, Dominique Rollin, Armand Abplanalp, Henri Glaeser
Votes: 16
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
75. Near Orouet (1971)
150 min | Drama
A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rozier | Stars: Caroline Cartier, Danièle Croisy, Françoise Guégan, Patrick Verde
Votes: 461
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
76. Le grand sabordage (1972)
86 min
Director: Alain Périsson | Stars: Nathalie Drivet, Pascal Bressy, Luce Guilbeault, Frédérique Cantrel
Votes: 9
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
77. George qui? (1973)
110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
This interrogation of famed 19th century French writer, proto feminist George Sand, includes discussion with the new early 1970s feminist movement and a critique of the limitations of her progressivism (she opposed the 1871 Paris Commune).
Director: Michèle Rosier | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Alain Libolt, Denis Gunsbourg, Geneviève Mnich
Votes: 57
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
78. Home Sweet Home (II) (1973)
Two boys meet a girl, and the three of them go wandering together; they stop in a house and there the past mixes with the present.
Director: Liliane de Kermadec
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
79. L'accalmie (1973)
80 min | Drama
Director: Alain Magrou | Stars: Danièle Ajoret, Philippe Avron, René Clermont, Michel Duchaussoy
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
80. L'école sauvage (1973)
80 min | Documentary
Directors: Costa Natsis, Adam Pianko | Stars: Rufus, Romain Bouteille, Didier Kaminka
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
81. La vie facile (1971)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Albin is a mercenary soldier. He's paid to kill, but he only agrees to jobs where he's killing those who need to be killed. Anyway, he trusts his buddies, and they trust him: in this case ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Warin | Stars: Henri Serre, Michèle Bompart, Marianne Eggerickx, Bernard Haller
Votes: 15
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
82. Le journal d'un suicidé (1972)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
On a Mediterranean cruise, a young man hired as a tour guide is intrigued by the beauty of a female interpreter hiding behind her sunglasses. He makes advances to her by venturing into a series of strange stories.
Director: Stanislav Stanojevic | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Sami Frey, Marie-France Pisier, Sacha Pitoëff
Votes: 79
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
83. Salut, voleurs! (1973)
85 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Frank Cassenti | Stars: Jacques Higelin, László Szabó, Anouk Ferjac, Jean-Luc Bideau
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
84. Sambizanga (1972)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
Director: Sarah Maldoror | Stars: Elisa Andrade, Domingos de Oliveira, Jean M'Vondo, Dino Abelino
Votes: 774
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85. Tristan et Iseult (1972)
60 min | Drama
The ancient legend of Tristan and Isolde to the accompaniment of an operatic musical score.
Director: Yvan Lagrange | Stars: Claire Wauthion, Yvan Lagrange
Votes: 40
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86. L'Italien des Roses (1972)
82 min | Drama
A young man, called The Italian of the Roses, is on the roof edge of an eight-story building ready to jump into the void. Downstairs, his family and gradually a whole crowd of indifferent people are waiting for the young man's to jump.
Director: Charles Matton | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Isabelle Mercanton, Andrée Fleur, Beatrice Ruth
Votes: 29
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87. Le soldat Laforêt (1972)
97 min | Drama, War
When he gets separated from his unit, Laforêt (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a ... See full summary »
Director: Guy Cavagnac | Stars: Roger Van Hool, Catherine Rouvel, Francisco Rabal, Fernand Sardou
Votes: 15
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88. The Strangler (1970)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile, a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings.
Director: Paul Vecchiali | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Julien Guiomar, Eva Simonet, Paul Barge
Votes: 348
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89. Les gants blancs du diable (1973)
90 min | Crime, Drama
A one-eyed hit man finds himself as part of an elaborate conspiracy.
Director: László Szabó | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Yves Afonso, Georgette Anys
Votes: 48
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90. Valparaiso, Valparaiso (1971)
90 min | Comedy
A film about the two most important things: the revolution and love.
Director: Pascal Aubier | Stars: Alain Cuny, Bernadette Lafont, László Szabó, Albane Navizet
Votes: 38
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91. Vaudou (1973)
100 min | Documentary
It was from Dahomey (now Benin, Africa) that the cult of the deads was exported - through the slave trade - to Brazil, and Haiti. The film narrates the modern story of this ethnographical, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Magneron
Votes: 17
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