French Cinema

YEAR	KEY FILMS AND EVENTS

1895	La Sortie des Usines Lumière (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory) by Louis Lumière is the first film to be shown to a paying audience
1901	L'Histoire d'un Crime by Ferdinand Zecca, produced by Pathé
1902	Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès
1908	L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise (The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) by Charles Le Bargy and André Calmette, produced by Film d'Art
1910	First of the 'Max'' series of films, starring Max Linder
1915-1916	Les Vampires by Louis Feuillade, produced by Gaumont
1927	Napoléon by Abel Gance
1929-1939	Golden Age of French cinema
1929	Mystères du Château de Dé (The Mysteries of the Château de Dé) by Man Ray
1930	Sang d'un Poète (Blood of a Poet) byJean Cocteau
1934	L'Atalante by Jean Vigo
1936	Le Roman d'un Tricheur (Story of a Cheat) by Sacha Guitry La Belle Équipe by Julien Duvivier
1937	La Grande Illusion by Jean Renoir
1938	Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows) by Marcel Carné La Femme du Boulanger (The Baker's Wife) by Marcel Pagnol
1939	La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) by Jean Renoir
1943	Le Corbeau (The Raven) by Henri-Georges Clouzot
1945	Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) by Marcel Carné
1946	Creation of the Centre National de la Cinématographie
1948	Legislation passed for government grants to be given to the film industry
1952	Casque d'Or (Golden Marie) by Jacques Becker
1953	Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Monsieur Hulot's Holiday) by Jacques Tati
1954	Les Diaboliques by Henri-Georges Clouzot
1956	Un Condamné à Mort s'est Échappé (A Man Escaped) by Robert Bresson Et Dieu Créa la Femme (And God Created Woman) by Roger Vadim, starring Brigitte Bardot
1957	Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud (Lift to the Scaffold) by Louis Malle
1958-1968	Nouvelle vague (New Wave) period of French cinema
1958	Les Amants (The Lovers) by Louis Malle Moi, un Noir by Jean Rouch
1959	Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face) by Georges Franju
1959-1960	Release of first feature-length films from Claude Chabrol (Le Beau Serge/Bitter Reunion), François Truffaut (Les Quatre Cents Coups/The 400 Blows), Jean-Luc Godard (À Bout de Souffle/Breathless), and Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, mon Amour). Establishment of loans fund given to film-makers as an advance on subsequent receipts
1960	Plein Soleil by René Clément
1961	Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cleo From 5 to 7) by Agnès Varda
1964	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) by Jacques Demy
1966	La Grande Vadrouille (Don't Look Now) by Gérard Oury Un Homme et une Femme (A Man and a Woman) by Claude Lelouch
1969	L'Armée des Ombres (The Shadow Army) by Jean-Pierre Melville Ma Nuit Chez Maud (My Night with Maud) by Eric Rohmer
1973	La Maman et la Putain (The Mother and the Whore) by Jean Eustache
1974	Les Valseuses (Going Places) by Bertrand Blier
1976	Moi, Pierre Rivière... by René Allio
1980	Loulou by Maurice Pialat Le Roi et l'Oiseau by Paul Grimault
1981	Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix
1983	L'Argent by Robert Bresson
1985	Shoah by Claude Lanzmann
1986	37°2, le Matin (Betty Blue) by Jean-Jacques Beineix Jean de Floret, Manon des Sources; written by Marcel Pagnol, directed by Claude Berri
1988	Le Grand Bleu (The Big Blue) by Luc Besson
1990	Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean-Paul Rappeneau Delicatessen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
1991	La Belle Noiseuse (Beautiful Troublemaker) by Jacques Rivette Les Amants du Pont Neuf by Leos Carax
1992	Les Nuits Fauves (Savage Nights) by Cyril Collard
1995	La Haine (Hatred) by Mathieu Kasovitz
1998	La Vie Rêvée des Anges (The Dream Life of Angels) by Erick Zonca Le Dîner de Cons by Francis Veber
1999	Le Temps Retrouvé (Time Regained) by Raoul Ruiz Le Goût des Autres (The Taste of Others) by Agnès Jaoui
2001	Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2005	Caché (Hidden) by Michael Haneke De Battre mon Coeur s'est Arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) by Jacques Audiard L'Enfant by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne