62 Films & TV Shows Set In France During The 1970s
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Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
🇫🇷 France The 1970sEveryone Has A Motive But He Does Not Have A Clue — Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France. When a criminal car sabotage related to threatening letters wreak havoc in the villa, Tranchant goes in search of the best agent for the investigation. In the middle of this hot summer, only the arrogant and incompetent agent Boullin is available... To catch the suspect and solve the mystery, he will have no choice but to impersonate a newly hired butler and will turn everyone’s vacation into a hilarious game of ‘Cluedo’!
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Madame Claude
🇫🇷 France The 1960s The 1970s The 1990sParis, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the french political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
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The Man Standing Next
🇫🇷 France 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1970sLoyalty. Betrayal. Execution. — In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park, who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In the midst of reign of fear, a former KCIA director, PARK Yong-gak who knows all about the government’s obscure operations, exiles to the U.S. where the investigation of ‘Koreagate’ is underway. As the tension escalates, the stifling political maneuvering by the all second-in-command’s unfolds.
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Dark Phoenix
New York 🇫🇷 France Africa - General The 1970s The 1990sThe Phoenix will rise. — The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.
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Pretenders
New York England 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980sA love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.
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Rocketman
New York California England 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Fantasy — The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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In the Name of the Land
🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sPierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family.
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Something in the Air
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sSomething in the Air is a one hour documentary that shows new risks in the most essential element for survival – air – that affect our brains, our DNA, and how new technology is changing the equation for the better.
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
England 🇫🇷 France 🇬🇷 Greece Tokyo Prefecture The 1970s The 1980s The 2010sDiscover how it all began. — Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.
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Knife+Heart
🇫🇷 France The 1970sIn the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.
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I, Tonya
Michigan Oregon 🇳🇴 Norway 🇫🇷 France The 1990s The 1970s The 1980s The 2000sFitting in is overrated — Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
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All the Money in the World
California England 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sJ. Paul Getty had a fortune. Everyone else paid the price. — The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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Mersal
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇳 India The 1970sA few individuals in the medical profession are murdered or kidnapped, and the cop investigating the case suspects a doctor and arrests him. But is he the one who is behind these crimes? And why are they being committed?
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The African Doctor
🇫🇷 France The 1970sSeyolo Zantoko is a doctor from Congo who wants to get away from dictatorship and he is hired by the mayor of a small village in the north of France. The locals fear Seyolo and his family as they have never seen African people before, and Seyolo and his family struggle to adapt to this new life. But Seyolo is determined to succeed and to win the trust of the villagers.
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Summertime
🇫🇷 France The 1970sIn 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.
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The Walk
New York 🇫🇷 France The 1970sDream High. — The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
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By the Sea
🇫🇷 France The 1970sWhen we die on the inside, the outside is left wandering dangerously by the sea. — Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.
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Marguerite & Julien
🇫🇷 France The 17th Century The 1970sJulien and Marguerite de Ravalet, son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, have loved each other tenderly since childhood. But as they grow up, their affection veers toward voracious passion.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
New York 🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇳 China 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970s The 2020sTo save the future, they must alter the past — The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
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The Monuments Men
🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1970sIt was the greatest art heist in history — Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
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The Connection
🇫🇷 France The 1970sMarseille 1975. To stop a dangerous drug lord, you need a dangerous cop. — Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
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Saint Laurent
🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1960sThe story that has never been told before — 1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
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Get on Up
Georgia New York Massachusetts 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe Funk Don't Quit — A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart
🇫🇷 France The 1970sBetween 1978 and 1979, the inhabitants of the Oise are in fear of a maniac who kills several hitchhikers and escape the police. He was then dubbed "the killer of the Oise" is actually a shy young policeman who will investigate his own murder, only to lose control of the situation.
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Jodorowsky's Dune
🇫🇷 France The 1970sThe greatest science fiction movie never made. — Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film. After spending 2 years and millions of dollars, the massive undertaking eventually fell apart, but the artists Jodorowsky assembled for the legendary project continued to work together. This group of artists, or his “warriors” as Jodorowsky named them, went on to define modern sci-fi cinema with such films as Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Total Recall.
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