French films 1980s All genres
La Cage aux folles II (1980) 
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In Nice, the flamboyant impresario Renato still manages the popular night club La Cage aux folles with his transvestite partner Albin. When Renato suggests he is too old to impersonate Marlene Dietrich for his stage act, Albin goes off in a huff and intends to prove he is still attractive to other men. To his surprise, Albin soon finds himself being dragged off to a hotel room by a strange...
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Chère inconnue (1980) 
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Louise lives with her wheelchair-bound brother Gilles, in an isolated house on the coast of Brittany. Their only contact with the outside world is Yvette, a local baker who has taken a liking to Gilles. Well into middle age, Louise partly resents having dedicated her life to caring for her brother and decides to place an ad in the local newspaper in the hope of attracting her ideal mate...
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Inspecteur la Bavure (1980)
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As a boy, Michel Clément, promised his dying father that he would follow in his footsteps and become a police inspector. Twenty years on, Clément just manages to scrape through police school and lands a trainee place in Paris. Clément’s lack of enthusiasm and talent for the job soon become apparent...
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Je vous aime (1980)
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After breaking up with her latest boyfriend, Alice recalls her previous relationships. She has had many previous boyfriends, whom she loved intensely for a while. She is forced to reflect that, perhaps, she is ultimately doomed to go on having short-lived romances for the rest of her life....
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L'Avare (1980)
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Harpagon lives a frugal life although he has accumulated a fortune, which he has buried in his garden. The old man is ruthlessly tight-fisted and, to further his wealthy, he intends to marry his daughter off to a wealthy man whilst he himself marries a wealthy heiress. Unfortunately, his daughter is in love with another young man...
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La Banquière (1980)
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Towards the end of the 1920s, Emma Eckhert has become one of the most talked about women in France. Not only is she stunningly beautiful and a staunch supporter of moral campaigns, she is also a hugely successful banker. Having made a fortune speculating on the stock exchange, she intends to share her wealth with her investors...
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La Boum (1980)
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Newly installed in Paris with her parents, fourteen-year old Vic is more than ready for her first taste of love. At a party, she meets Mathieu, and it’s love at first sight. From that moment, her sole preoccupation is to spend a night with him. Knowing where this first fling is likely to end, Vic’s liberal-minded grandmother Poupette lends a helping hand...
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La Mort en direct (1980) 
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In the near future, disease has been practically wiped out by medical science – to the extent that those who do die prematurely find themselves the object of great public interest. When she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, writer Katherine Mortenhoe is determined to avoid ending up as television ratings fodder...
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La Femme de l'aviateur (1980)
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A postal worker, François, is about to visit his girlfriend, Anne, early one morning, when he sees another man leaving her apartment. When she is confronted by François later that day, Anne tells him nothing about the incident. In fact, the mysterious man was one of Anne’s former lovers, an airline pilot named Christian...
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La Femme flic (1980)
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A young female police inspector, Corinne Levasseur, is re-assigned to a provincial town after having implicated a public figure in a drugs scandal. Here, Levasseur investigates a case of suspected child abuse and uncovers a paedophile ring. Unfortunately, again she finds that she is up against some influential people and the police are not on her side......
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Le Cheval d'orgueil (1980)
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Pierre-Jakez Helias recounts his childhood experience from 1908 to 1918. Growing up in a small Brittany village, Helias recalls with affection his father Pierre-Alain and mother Anne-Marie. Life in this tightly knit peasant community is hard and death is never far away. Then war breaks out and Pierre-Alain is mobilised...
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Le Guignolo (1980)
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After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees...
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Le Dernier métro (1980)
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At the time of the Nazi occupation of France, Bernard Granger joins a theatre company in Paris managed by Marion Steiner. Marion is the wife of a famous stage director, the Jew Lucas Steiner, who is hiding in the cellars of the theatre. As Marion and Bernard rehearse Lucas’ latest play, the two actors become attracted to each other...
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Les Sous-doués (1980)
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The Cours Louis XIV, a small college in Versailles, has acquired a notorious reputation and attracts only the least able of students, as the constant steam of exam failures testify. The headmistress, Madame Jumaucourt, decides enough is enough and institutes a new regime to ensure things change for the better. Her latest set of hopeless students are unimpressed by constant surveillance of...
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Loulou (1980)
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Nelly leaves her affluent partner, André, to have a passionate love affair with Loulou, an unemployed layabout. Although André has the money, Loulou has time – and seemingly inexhaustible sexual magnetism....
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Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
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An eminent biologist, Henri Laborit, illustrates how behavioural theories about survival and social development pertaining to animals can be applied to human beings. He does this by making reference to the lives of three people: Jean, an ambitious writer and politician, Janine, an aspiring actress, and René, a country boy who ends up managing a textile factory...
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Pile ou face (1980)
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Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix, who apparently fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more...
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Trois hommes à abattre (1980)
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One evening, Michel Gerfaut, a professional gambler, comes across a badly injured man in a wrecked car. He takes the man to the nearest hospital and thinks no more about the incident. Whilst on holiday in Trouville with his girlfriend Béa, he discovers that the man he tried to save died from gunshot wounds, along with two of his colleagues in the weapons industry...
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Un mauvais fils (1980)
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Having spent five years in an American prison for drugs dealing, Bruno Calgagni returns to France to make a fresh start. He meets up with his father, a foreman on a building site, and learns that his mother died whilst he was in jail. The initially warm reunion of father and son quickly turns sour, and Bruno walks out on his father when he discovers he has a secret mistress...
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Une semaine de vacances (1980)
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At 31, Laurence, a teacher at a Lyons high school, no longer feels up to her job. She is thinking about giving up teaching altogether but her doctor advises her to take a week off work rather than make a rash decision. Laurence takes advantage of her prescribed holiday to visit her parents and catch up with some friends...
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