Made in U.S.A

Jan 27, 1967

1h 25m

★ 6.1

Overview

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Comedy

Production Companies

S.E.P.I.C.

Rome-Paris Films

Anouchka Films

Made in U.S.A Trailers

Cast

Paula Nelson

Anna Karina

Paul Widmark

László Szabó

Donald Siegel

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Marianne Faithfull

David Goodis

Yves Afonso

Man with Marianne Faithfull (uncredited)

Claude Bakka

Policeman (uncredited)

Daniel Bart

Richard Nixon (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Biesse

Inspector Aldrich (uncredited)

Jean-Claude Bouillon

Bill Poster (uncredited)

Fernand Coquet

Barman (uncredited)

Marc Dudicourt

Workman in Bar (uncredited)

Rémo Forlani

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7.5

Band of Outsiders

Aug 5, 1964

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.

6.9

Weekend

Dec 29, 1967

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

7.8

Day for Night

May 24, 1973

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

6.9

La Chinoise

Aug 30, 1967

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

7.3

Stolen Kisses

Sep 4, 1968

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

7.2

Antoine and Colette

Jun 22, 1962

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

7.0

Love on the Run

Jan 24, 1979

Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first published autobiography, leading them to a chance meeting.

7.3

A Woman Is a Woman

Sep 6, 1961

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

6.5

A Story of Water

Mar 3, 1961

A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.

6.6

Paris Belongs to Us

Dec 13, 1961

A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.

6.0

First Name: Carmen

Dec 1, 1983

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.

5.9

For Ever Mozart

Nov 27, 1996

Episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France.

6.6

Godard Mon Amour

Jun 24, 2017

In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.

7.2

Masculin Féminin

Mar 22, 1966

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

6.8

Love at Twenty

Jun 22, 1962

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

7.7

Cléo from 5 to 7

Apr 11, 1962

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.