French films of 1974
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A list of film
s produced in France
in 1974
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Film
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s produced in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in 1974
1974 in film
The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...
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1974
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| 1974 1974 in film The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J... |
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| Les Demoniaques Les Démoniaques Les Démoniaques is a 1974 film directed by Jean Rollin, about a group of shipwrecked sailors who brutally rape two young woman and the woman re-emerge after making a pact with the devil to get their revenge.-Plot:... |
Jean Rollin Jean Rollin Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to... |
Joëlle Coeur | Horror drama | |
| And Now My Love And Now My Love And Now My Love , is a film released in 1974 by French writer/director Claude Lelouch, starring Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Charles Denner, and Charles Gérard. The film tells the story of several generations of family members and the love affairs they experience... |
Claude Lelouch | Nominated for Oscar & Golden Globe, +1 win | ||
| Black Thursday | Michel Mitrani Michel Mitrani Michel Mitrani was a French film director and screenwriter. He was the founder of the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels... |
Entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival 24th Berlin International Film Festival The 24th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 21 to July 2, 1974.-Jury:* Rodolfo Kuhn * Margaret Hinxmann* Pietro Bianchi* Gérard Ducaux-Rupp* Kurt Heinz* Akira Iwasaki* Arthur Knight* Manfred Purzer... |
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| Celine and Julie Go Boating Celine and Julie Go Boating Céline and Julie Go Boating is a 1974 French film directed by Jacques Rivette.Shot casually in a documentary style, we see a red-haired woman—we will learn that it is Julie --sitting on a bench in a pleasant but rather non-descript Parisian park. She is reading a book, we can see, on magic... |
Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1.... |
Juliet Berto Juliet Berto Juliet Berto was a French actress. A member of the same loose group of student radicals as Anne Wiazemsky, she first appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her, and would go on to appear in many of Godard's subsequent films, including La Chinoise, Week End, Le Gai Savoir,... , Dominique Labourier Dominique Labourier Dominique Labourier is a French actress. She starred as Julie in Jacques Rivette's film Celine and Julie Go Boating. She has appeared in over 40 films since 1968... |
Fantasy drama | 1 win |
| The Clockmaker The Clockmaker -Selected cast:*Philippe Noiret as Michel Descombes*Jean Rochefort as Insp. Guilboud*Jacques Denis as Antoine*Yves Afonso as Insp. Bricard*Julien Bertheau as Edouard*Jacques Hilling as Costes*Clotilde Joano as Janine Boitard*Andrée Tainsy as Madeleine Fourmet... |
Bertrand Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen... |
Won the Jury Grand Prix Jury Grand Prix The Jury Grand Prix is a Silver Bear award given by the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival to one of the feature films in competition... at Berlin 24th Berlin International Film Festival The 24th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 21 to July 2, 1974.-Jury:* Rodolfo Kuhn * Margaret Hinxmann* Pietro Bianchi* Gérard Ducaux-Rupp* Kurt Heinz* Akira Iwasaki* Arthur Knight* Manfred Purzer... |
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| Emmanuelle Emmanuelle (film) Emmanuelle is a 1974 French softcore erotic film, directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel. The screenplay was written by Jean-Louis Richard, based on the novel Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman by Emmanuelle Arsan. The music score is by Pierre Bachelet. The film was highly successful in... |
Just Jaeckin Just Jaeckin Just Jaeckin is a French film director.-Life:He was born in Vichy France during the Nazi Occupation, but left with his mother and father for England: after the war, he returned to France where he studied art and photography, much of it he did before and after serving with the French Army: while... |
Sylvia Kristel Sylvia Kristel Sylvia Kristel is a Dutch actress, model and singer. Her most famous role is in the French film Emmanuelle.- Early life :... |
Erotic | |
| Le fantôme de la liberté Le fantôme de la liberté The Phantom of Liberty is a 1974 film by Luis Buñuel, produced by Serge Silberman and starring Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau and Jean-Claude Brialy.-Plot:... |
Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:... |
Surrealist | Won Silver Ribbon (Italy) | |
| The Garden That Tilts The Garden That Tilts The Garden That Tilts is a 1974 French drama film directed by Guy Gilles.-Cast:*Philippe Chemin ... Roland*Guy Bedos ... Maurice Garcia*Caroline Cartier ... Sophie*Pierre Fabre ... L'homme du banc... |
Guy Gilles Guy Gilles Guy Gilles born Guy Chiche was a French film director.- Biography :He directed his first short film, Soleil éteint in 1958. He changed his surname to Gilles based on the name of his mother to create a pseudonym... |
Drama | ||
| The Girls of Kamare The Girls of Kamare The Girls of Kamare is a Situationist film by René Viénet. Unlike Viénet's previous work, Can dialectics break bricks? , The Girls of Kamare includes original 16 mm hardcore inserts shot by Viénet.... |
René Viénet René Viénet René Viénet is a French sinologist who is famous as a situationist writer and filmmaker. Viénet used the situationist technique of détournement — the diversion of already existing cultural elements to new subversive purposes.- Career :... |
Situationist | ||
| La Gueule ouverte La Gueule ouverte The Mouth Agape is a 1974 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat. It depicts, in a cinematic realist fashion, a woman going through a terminal illness and also dealing with the tumorous lives of her husband and son. It was one of the least commercially successful of Pilat's films. It was... |
Maurice Pialat Maurice Pialat Maurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films... |
Monique Mélinand, Philippe Léotard Philippe Léotard Philippe Léotard was a French actor, poet, and singer.... , Hubert Deschamps, Nathalie Baye Nathalie Baye Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye is a French film, television, and stage actress. After having dance and dramatic education, Baye began acting in 1970. She has appeared in more than 70 films. She won four César Awards for Sauve qui peut , Une étrange affaire , La Balance , and Le Petit Lieutenant... |
Drama | |
| Immoral Tales Immoral Tales (film) Immoral Tales is a 1974 French anthology film directed by Walerian Borowczyk. The film was Borowczyk's most sexually explicit at the time. The film is split into four erotic themed stories that involve the loss of virginity, masturbation, bloodlust and incest.After the release of Immoral Tales,... |
Walerian Borowczyk Walerian Borowczyk Walerian Borowczyk was a Polish film director. He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. His career as a film director was mainly in France.-Biography:... |
Paloma Picasso Paloma Picasso Anne Paloma Picasso known professionally as Paloma Picasso, is a French/Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman, best known for her jewelry designs and signature perfumes. She is the youngest daughter of famed 20th-century artist Pablo Picasso and painter and writer Françoise Gilot... |
Surreal erotic | |
| Lacombe Lucien Lacombe Lucien Lacombe Lucien is a 1974 French film that tells the story of a teenage boy during the German occupation of France in World War II. It is based in part on director Louis Malle's own experiences.-Plot:... |
Louis Malle Louis Malle Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,... |
Pierre Blaise Pierre Blaise Pierre Blaise, born Pierre-Marc Blaise, , a French actor. He is best known for the role of Lucien Lacombe in director Louis Malle's 1974 film Lacombe, Lucien.-Personal:... |
Drama | Nominated for Oscar, +5 wins, +3 nom. |
| Lancelot du Lac | Robert Bresson Robert Bresson -Life and career:Bresson was born at Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme, the son of Marie-Élisabeth and Léon Bresson. Little is known of his early life and the year of his birth, 1901 or 1907, varies depending on the source. He was educated at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, close to Paris, and... |
Luc Simon | Drama / War | 1 win |
| Parade Parade (film) Parade was the final film directed by Jacques Tati. It was made for television and featured Tati as a clown in a circus. The film was screened at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.... |
Jaques Tati | Jaques Tati | Performance | |
| Le retour du grand blond | Yves Robert Yves Robert Yves Robert was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.Born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, in his teens Robert went to Paris to pursue a career in acting, starting with unpaid parts on stage in the city's various theatre workshops. To support himself, he worked at a variety of jobs... |
Pierre Richard Pierre Richard Pierre Richard is a popular French actor best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films... , Jean Carmet Jean Carmet Jean Carmet, born July 25, 1920 in Bourgueil, Indre-et-Loire, France; died April 20, 1994 in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, was a French actor.-Biography:... |
Comedy | |
| Stavisky Stavisky Stavisky... is a 1974 French film drama based on the life of the financier and embezzler Alexandre Stavisky and the circumstances leading to his mysterious death in 1934. This gave rise to a political scandal known as the Stavisky Affair, which led to fatal riots in Paris, the resignation of two... |
Alain Resnais Alain Resnais Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began... |
Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.-Career:Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football."Did you box professionally very long?" "Not very long... , Anny Duperey Anny Duperey -External links:*... |
Drama | 2 wins & 1 nomination |
| Les Valseuses Les Valseuses Going Places is a 1974 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Blier, adapted from a novel by Blier, and starring Miou-Miou, Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere. The French title translates into English as "The Waltzers", a French vulgar term for the testicles. The film had a total of... |
Bertrand Blier Bertrand Blier Bertrand Blier is a French screenwriter and film director.Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is the son of Bernard Blier.... |
Gérard Depardieu Gérard Depardieu Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor... , Miou-Miou Miou-Miou Miou-Miou is a French actress. In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Michel Gondry, Bertrand Blier, Yves Boisset, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Michel Deville, Diane Kurys, Radu Mihăileanu, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey and Louis Malle.-Career:She was born... |
Crime comedy | |
| The Others The Others (1974 film) The Others is a 1974 French drama film directed by Hugo Santiago. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Maurice Born - Durtain* Noëlle Chatelet - Valérie* Patrice Dally - Roger Spinoza* Pierrette Destanque - Agnès... |
Hugo Santiago Hugo Santiago Hugo Santiago was born Hugo Santiago Muchnick in 1939 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has lived in France since 1959. He studied Literature, Philosophy and Music. From 1959 to 1966 he was assistant director to Robert Bresson... |
Entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival 1974 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :*René Clair *Jean-Loup Dabadie *Kenne Fant *Félix Labisse *Irwin Shaw *Michel Soutter *Monica Vitti *Alexander Walker *Rostislav Yurenev -Feature film competition:... |
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| Verdict Verdict (1974 film) Verdict is a 1974 French-Italian drama film directed by André Cayatte and starring Sophia Loren, Jean Gabin, Julien Bertheau, Muriel Catalá and Michel Albertini. An Italian judge comes under intense personal pressure to acquit a man who is accused of murdering his lover... |
André Cayatte André Cayatte André Cayatte was a French New Wave filmmaker and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility, themes which Cayatte persisted in affirming regardless of changing contemporary attitudes.Some of Cayatte's earlier films that covered these... |
Sophia Loren Sophia Loren Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance... , Jean Gabin Jean Gabin -Biography:Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, he grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, about 22 mi north of Paris. The son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly... |
Drama | |
| Violins at the Ball Violins at the Ball Violins at the Ball is a 1974 French drama film directed by Michel Drach. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival where Marie-José Nat won the award for Best Actress.-Cast:* Jean-Louis Trintignant - Lui... |
Michel Drach Michel Drach Michel Drach was a French film director, writer, producer and actor. His fims include Le Passé simple , which he directed and scripted.-Selected filmography:... |
Jean-Louis Trintignant Jean-Louis Trintignant Jean-Louis Trintignant is a French actor who has enjoyed an international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.-Career:... , Marie-José Nat Marie-José Nat Marie-José Nat is a French film and television actress.-Early life and family:Marie-José Nat was born Mary-José Benhalassa in Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, to a Kabyle father and a Corsican mother... |
Marie-José Nat won Best Actress at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival 1974 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :*René Clair *Jean-Loup Dabadie *Kenne Fant *Félix Labisse *Irwin Shaw *Michel Soutter *Monica Vitti *Alexander Walker *Rostislav Yurenev -Feature film competition:... |
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External links
- French films of 1974 at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- 1970s film at Filmsdefrance.com
- Films by year at Cinema-francais.fr