French films 1990s All genres
Aux yeux du monde (1990) 
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A slightly unbalanced young man, Bruno, hijacks a bus carrying school children. Threatening to kill his hostages with a pistol, he orders the driver to take him to where his girlfriend lives. There is no malice behind this act. Bruno is doing it just to prove to his girlfriend that he loves her. Unfortunately, the police view his act of bravado with less romantic eyes…...
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Conte de printemps (1990)
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Jeanne is a high school philosophy teacher who decides that she cannot bear to stay in her fiancé’s untidy flat whilst he is away from home. Unfortunately, she has already loaned her own flat to a friend. At a party she meets a young girl, Natacha, who offers to let her stay in her flat. She loans Jeanne the room belonging to her father...
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) 
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The popular swordsman and poet, Cyrano de Bergerac harbours a deep love for his cousin, Roxanne. However, his features are deformed by a large nose which, he fears, will ruin any chance of gaining her affections. Roxanne is herself in love with another soldier, Christian, but he lacks wit and conversation. Realising his suit is lost...
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Daddy Nostalgie (1990) 
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Caroline, a scriptwriter living in Paris, learns that her father has just had a serious operation. Anxious to heal the rift in their relationship, she rejoins her parents at their home in the south of France. Whilst her father has been busy pursuing a successful career as a businessman, Caroline has been denied the parental affection she craves...
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Docteur Petiot (1990)
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1942, during the German occupation of France. Dr Marcel Petiot appears to be a model citizen, a man who is dedicated to helping others, caring for the sick and giving free consultations to his less well-off patients. But there is a darker side to Dr Petiot. He offers to help Jewish families escape the Nazis, but he merely takes them to their death in a macabre ritual so that he can steal...
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Dr. M (1990) 
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Inspector Hartmann is assigned to look into a spectacular wave of suicides that is sweeping Berlin. His investigation leads him to an attractive young woman, Sonja Vogle, whose portrait appears on screens throughout the country promoting the holiday company Theratos. The latter is owned by Sonja’s adopted father, the powerful media magnate Heinrich Marsfeldt...
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Gaspard et Robinson (1990)
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Rejected by others, two solitary outsiders Gaspard and Robinson form a close bond of friendship and retreat to the barren salt marshes of Marseilles to open a seaside café. Gaspard’s wife walked out on him when he lost his job; Robinson was abandoned by his parents when he was a child. When Robinson meets an old woman alone by the side of the road...
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La Gloire de mon père (1990)
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This film recounts the early childhood years of a French film director, Marcel. Growing up in the south of France in a happy family environment, he is the son of a primary school teacher. One summer, the family sets out for a long holiday in a villa in rural Provence. Here, Marcel makes friends with a local boy, Lili, with whom he explores the wild countryside...
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Green Card (1990)
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Although they barely know each other, Georges Fauré and Brontë Parrish agree to get married. Both see this as just a formality to enable Georges to obtain a permit for residency in the US, a Green Card, and so that Brontë can be given tenancy of a dream apartment. The marriage ceremony over, they go their separate ways...
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Il y a des jours... et des lunes (1990)
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The lunar phases have a profound impact on male-female relationships - at least that is the theory of one old physician. But is it true? Does the moon bring couples together, only to drive them apart at a later date, or is this just crackpot lunacy? Let us see what happens to Caroline and Jacques as they embark on what looks like the perfect conjugal idyll...
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La Baule-les-Pins (1990)
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July 1958. 13-year-old Frédérique and her 8-year-old sister Sophie set out from their home in Lyons to spend their summer holiday in La Baule, on the northwest coast of France. This year, however, neither their mother Léna nor their father Michel is accompanying them. Instead, they are put into the care of Odette...
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La Désenchantée (1990)
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Beth is a 17 year old girl who lives with her sick mother, Thérèse, a former prostitute, and her younger brother. Their only income is from one of Thérèse’s former clients, whom she calls “Uncle”, and who offers to reward Beth if she chooses to follow her mother’s example...
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La Discrète (1990)
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Antoine, an unsuccessful writer, is taken aback when his girlfriend, Solange, leaves him for another man. Usually, it is he who ends a relationship, not his partner. In a fit of pique, he decides to take his revenge, not against Solange, but against all womankind. Jean, an ageing book dealer, suggests that Antoine should avenge his wounded male pride by seducing a woman selected at random...
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Lacenaire (1990)
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In the 1830s, Pierre-François Lacenaire was the most notorious criminal in France. From an early age, he rebelled against his comfortable bourgeois background, managing to get himself expelled from a Jesuit seminary. Thereafter, he made a career of antagonising the Church, the army and the middle classes through his conduct and intemperate writings...
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Le Château de ma mère (1990)
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Having spent last summer in the mountains of Provence, 19th century schoolboy Marcel longs to return to his country retreat with his family. To his joy, his father agrees to a short stay during Christmas and Easter. Then, the family decides to do the same every weekend, even though it means an 8 kilometre trek on foot to get there...
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Le Mari de la coiffeuse (1990)
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Antoine looks back on his life and recalls his childhood, which was marked by two events. The first was having to wear woollen swimming trunks knitted for him by his mother. The second was his lustful obsession with the plump hairdresser Madame Sheaffer. Since, he has had one objective in his life: to marry a hairdresser...
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Milou en mai (1990)
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Émile Vieuzac (Milou) lives with his mother in a grand country house in provincial France. When his mother dies suddenly, he invites a whole host of relatives to the house to hear the will and attend the funeral. This is at the time of the student uprising in 1968, with food and petrol shortages, and wild confrontations between police and protesters in Paris...
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Nikita (1990)
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Nikita is the sole survivor of a bloody shoot out between police and a band of drug-crazed social dropouts. Violently aggressive and mentally unstable, the young woman is taken into police custody, but soon find herself a prisoner in a secret government department. She is offered a choice: to die for the crime she has committed...
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Nuit d'été en ville (1990)
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Having made love for the first time, a young couple attempt to get to know one another. Neither had expected anything more than a one-night stand when he, Louis, accepted an invitation from her, Emilie, back to her apartment one hot summer’s evening. As they talk, they enter into each other’s lives, and it becomes clear that their relationship will last well beyond the next morning…...
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Ripoux contre ripoux (1990)
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After five years of partnership with his fellow crooked policeman, René, François decides to go straight, in the hope of getting a promotion to the rank of commissioner. Unfortunately, François’ first attempt at changing his habits backfires, and he and René are suspended when a charge is brought against them...
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