Highest-Rated Movies about 'Nouvelle Vague'

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), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Jules and Jim (1962) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Nouvelle Vague movies.

#16. The Cousins (1959)

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 ...

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#17. Alphaville (1965)

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 ...

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#18. The Dreamers (2003)

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 ...

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#19. La Pointe Courte (1956)

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 ...

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