The Nouvelle Vague: A Beginner's Guide

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"The films below are meant as a beginner’s guide to the most well known and influential films made by French directors in the Cahiers group, Left Bank group, and those outsiders in France who were associated with the movement, made from the early 1960s through the early 1970s." – www.newwavefilm.com

1-14 – The Cahiers du Cinema Directors

15 – 22 – The Left Bank Group

23 – 35 – Innovators, Mavericks and Inheritors

  1. 1.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  2. 2.
    Breathless (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  3. 3.
    Shoot the Piano Player (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  4. 4.
    Les Bonnes Femmes
    by Claude Chabrol

  5. 5.
    Jules and Jim (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  6. 6.
    Vivre sa vie (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  7. 7.

  8. 8.
    Band of Outsiders (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  9. 9.
    Alphaville (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  10. 11.
    Weekend
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  11. 12.
    My Night At Maud's
    by Eric Rohmer

  12. 13.
    Le Boucher
    by Claude Chabrol

  13. 14.
    Celine and Julie Go Boating
    by Jacques Rivette

  14. 15.
    Hiroshima Mon Amour (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais

  15. 16.
    Jacques Demy's Lola

  16. 17.
    Last Year at Marienbad (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais

  17. 18.
    The Long Absence (1961)
    by Henri Colpi

  18. 19.
    Cleo from 5 to 7 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Agnès Varda

  19. 20.
    La Jetee (1962)
    by Chris Marker

  20. 21.
    Muriel
    by Alain Resnais

  21. 22.
    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
    by Jacques Demy

  22. 23.
    Bob le Flambeur (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

  23. 24.
    ...And God Created Woman (The Criterion Collection)
    by Roger Vadim

  24. 25.
    Elevator to the Gallows (The Criterion Collection)
    by Louis Malle

  25. 26.
    ?
    L’Eau a la Bouche
    by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

  26. 27.
    Eyes Without a Face (The Criterion Collection)
    by Georges Franju

  27. 28.
    Chronique d'un été (Chronicle of a Summer) (1961)
    by Edgar Morin / Jean Rouch

  28. 29.
    ?
    Adieu Philippine (1962)
    by Jacques Rozier

  29. 30.
    The Fire Within (The Criterion Collection)
    by Louis Malle

  30. 31.
    A Man and a Woman
    by Claude Lelouch

  31. 32.

  32. 33.
    Le Samourai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

  33. 34.
    Le Maman Et La Putain / The Mother And The Whore (1973)
    by Jean Eustache

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Created by alk0 on Apr 13, 2011.
 

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