Movies: Philippe de Broca

  • 1960
    Breathless

    Breathless (1960)

    Breathless

    7.51960HD

    A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him....

    Breathless
  • 1990
    1001 Nights

    1001 Nights (1990)

    1001 Nights

    5.11990HD

    Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connub...

    1001 Nights
  • 1959
    The 400 Blows

    The 400 Blows (1959)

    The 400 Blows

    81959HD

    For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one...

    The 400 Blows
  • 1964
    That Man from Rio

    That Man from Rio (1964)

    That Man from Rio

    7.51964HD

    French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribe...

    That Man from Rio
  • 1973
    The Magnificent One

    The Magnificent One (1973)

    The Magnificent One

    7.01973HD

    A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand....

    The Magnificent One
  • 1965
    Up to His Ears

    Up to His Ears (1965)

    Up to His Ears

    7.11965HD

    A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him....

    Up to His Ears
  • 1962
    Cartouche

    Cartouche (1962)

    Cartouche

    6.41962HD

    In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributi...

    Cartouche
  • 1997
    On Guard

    On Guard (1997)

    On Guard

    6.71997HD

    France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect...

    On Guard
  • 1966
    King of Hearts

    King of Hearts (1966)

    King of Hearts

    6.91966HD

    An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache....

    King of Hearts
  • 2004
    Viper in the Fist

    Viper in the Fist (2004)

    Viper in the Fist

    6.42004HD

    1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, until the death of their grandmother. The return of their mother, a worthy descendant of fairytales' witches, brings an all new atmosphere to their home....

    Viper in the Fist
  • 1975
    Incorrigible

    Incorrigible (1975)

    Incorrigible

    6.31975HD

    Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life go...

    Incorrigible
  • 1962
    The Seven Deadly Sins

    The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)

    The Seven Deadly Sins

    5.61962HD

    Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to...

    The Seven Deadly Sins
  • 1988
    Chouans!

    Chouans! (1988)

    Chouans!

    5.91988HD

    Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouans are revolting against the young Republic and fight for the monarchy restauration. The civil war di...

    Chouans!
  • 1980
    Jupiter's Thigh

    Jupiter's Thigh (1980)

    Jupiter's Thigh

    6.21980HD

    Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to don...

    Jupiter's Thigh
  • 1967
    The Oldest Profession

    The Oldest Profession (1967)

    The Oldest Profession

    5.11967HD

    A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages....

    The Oldest Profession
  • 1969
    The Devil by the Tail

    The Devil by the Tail (1969)

    The Devil by the Tail

    6.11969HD

    In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want ...

    The Devil by the Tail
  • 1958
    Le beau Serge

    Le beau Serge (1958)

    Le beau Serge

    6.91958HD

    After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic....

    Le beau Serge
  • 1978
    Dear Inspector

    Dear Inspector (1978)

    Dear Inspector

    5.91978HD

    When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a D...

    Dear Inspector
  • 1960
    The Love Game

    The Love Game (1960)

    The Love Game

    6.31960HD

    Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in this light, fast-paced comedy-drama by Philippe de Broca. Suzanne needs more reassurance from Victor about the future of their relationship. He is a pa...

    The Love Game
  • 1983
    The African

    The African (1983)

    The African

    6.31983HD

    Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted conservationist who left her three years ago to live in the jungle. Can you imagine his enthusiasm when s...

    The African