The 400 Blows (1959), Day for Night (1973), Elevator to the Gallows (1958), The Beaches of Agnès (2008), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), My Night at Maud's (1969), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best French New Wave movies.
Storyline: Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena...
Plot Keywords: pianist, based on novel, paris france, nouvelle vague, female nudity, french new wave, piano player ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Angela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she goes after Emile's friend Alfred.
Plot Keywords: rehearsal, jukebox, infidelity, immaturity, friendship between men, flashback, femme fatale ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pierre Lachenay, a middle-aged, well-known publisher and lecturer, is married to Franca, an unbalanced woman, and father of Sabine, a 10-year-old girl. While traveling to Lisbon for a lecture, Pierre Lachenay has a one night stand with Nicole, the Panair do Brasil air stewardess. He wants to see her again and again, they travel to Reims together, and Pierre hides the affair from his family, mostly to spare his daughter the anguish of a separation. Nicole is taking it lightly but Pierre, misunderstanding her feelings and expectations, decides to live with her. The couple's break-up leads to a tragic end.—Artemis-9
Plot Keywords: neglected wife, adultery, flight attendant, airport, writer, shot to death, motel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: student, russian roulette, paris france, chandelier, bookstore, apartment, party ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Plot Keywords: dystopia, neo noir, avant garde, nouvelle vague, surrealism, comic violence, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paris, spring 1968. While most students take the lead in the May 'revolution', a French poet's twin son Theo and daughter Isabelle enjoy the good life in his grand Paris home. As film buffs they meet and 'adopt' modest, conservatively educated Californian student Matthew. With their parents away for a month, they drag him into an orgy of indulgence of all senses, losing all of his and the last of their innocence. A sexual threesome shakes their rapport, yet only the outside reality will break it up.
Plot Keywords: female full frontal nudity, sex scene, brother sister incest, loss of virginity, male frontal nudity, male nudity, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A supposedly-idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into an endless nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism, and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: surrealism, satire, car crash, black comedy, nihilism, violence, long take ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: There are two parts to this film: sequences of life in the fishing village of La Pointe Courte (a government inspector's visit, the death of a child) alternate with others following a couple - He is from La Pointe Courte, she is Parisian - coming to terms with their changing relationship.—Alison Smith <mla22@cc.keele.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: fishing village, independent film, directorial debut, nouvelle vague, title directed by female, french new wave, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical novel. They meet again in a station...—Yepok
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, nonlinear timeline, flashback, wine cellar, female lawyer, record store, thirty something ...
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