# 🇫🇷 FILMS - FRENCH CINEMA - [ ] Breathless (A bout de souffle) (1960) - [x] The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959) - [ ] Jules et Jim (Jules and Jim, 1962) - [x] Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - [x] Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Lift to the Scaffold, 1958) - french new wave noir - [x] Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime (1968) - time travel - [ ] Les Enfants du Paradis (1943) - [ ] La Règle du Jeu (1939) - [x] The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) - [x] Band of Outsiders (Bande a Part) (1964) - [ ] Le Mépris (Contempt, 1963) - [ ] Les Bonnes Femmes (The Good Girls, 1960) - [ ] Lola (1961) - [x] Weekend (1967) - [ ] Tirez sur le Pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player, 1960) - [x] Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face, 1960) - [ ] La Vie en rose (2007) - [ ] Orphee (1950) - [x] Pierrot the Madman (Pierrot Le Fou) (1965) - [x] Playtime (1967) - [x] Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964) - [x] Alphaville (1965) 🇫🇷 🌊 FRENCH NEW WAVE (1950s-1960s) --------------------------------------------------------------- - [x] The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959) - [x] Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964) - [ ] Jules et Jim (Jules and Jim, 1962) - [x] Band of Outsiders (Bande a Part) (1964) - [x] Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - [ ] Le Mépris (Contempt, 1963) - [ ] Breathless (A bout de souffle) (1960) - [x] Alphaville (1965) - [ ] Les Bonnes Femmes (The Good Girls, 1960) - [ ] Lola (1961) - [x] Weekend (1967) - [ ] Tirez sur le Pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player, 1960) - [x] Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face, 1960) - [x] Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Lift to the Scaffold, 1958) - french new wave noir - [x] Pierrot the Madman (Pierrot Le Fou) (1965) French New Wave Directors François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard Due to Nazi / WWII, American cinema was banned in France; after the war Hollywood movies flooded France; fearing cultural take over lead to new wave 🇫🇷🤮 NEW FRENCH EXTREMITY -------------------------------------------------- - [x] Martyrs (2008) - [x] High Tension (2003) - [x] Inside (2007) - [x] Climax (2018) - [x] Raw (2016) - [x] Them (2006) - [ ] Frontier(s) (2007) - [ ] Trouble Every Day (2001) - [ ] Caché (2005) - [ ] Enter the Void (2009) - [ ] Revenge (2017) - [ ] Sheitan (2006) - [ ] Irreversible (2002) - [ ] I Stand Alone (1998) - [ ] Intimacy (2001) - [ ] Romance (1999) - [ ] L'humanité (1999) - [ ] In My Skin (2002) - [ ] Sitcom (1998) - [ ] Calvaire (2004) - [ ] Demonlover (2002) - [ ] The Pornographer (2001) - [ ] The Ordeal (2004) - [ ] Man Bites Dog (1992) - [ ] Les amants criminels (1999) - [ ] Fat Girl (2001) - [ ] The Horde (2009) Nasty sub-genre of horror (or torture porn with a French accent Coined by critic James Quandt as a rather pejorative term to recall a series of French transgressive films developed under the turn of the 21st century * excessive brutality and sexuality; * everyday life’s violence depictions; * implications or lack of behind sex; * social decadence; * psychotic struggle of inner urges; * construction (or destruction) of identities Tags: films