Clair de femme (1979)
Costa-Gavras
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La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982)
Jacques Rouffio
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Le Dernier combat (1983)
Luc Besson
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Clair de femme is not the kind of film you would
associate with director Costa-Gavras. Best known for his high profile political
thrillers, such as Z
(1969) and État
de siege (1973)... [More...]
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In her final film appearance, Romy Schneider gives one of her finest
performances – in fact two performances, since she gets to play two
quite different characters caught up in a compelling revenge
drama... [More...]
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Luc Besson’s first full-length film is this extraordinarily bizarre yet stunningly realised
post-apocalyptic drama which demands at least three viewings to make sense of it... [More...]
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Le Grand bleu (1988)
Luc Besson
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Nikita (1990)
Luc Besson
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Les Visiteurs (1993)
Jean-Marie Poiré
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Luc Besson’s most personal film is a haunting visual elegy concerned with one man’s passion
to be united with the sea he loves and another man’s obsession to dominate it... [More...]
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Although it has not aged particularly well, Nikita was one of the most influential
films of the 1990s. It further raised the profile of contraversial director Luc
Besson and had great influence on subsequent films of... [More...]
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The plot would appear ludicrous, but the film succeeds admirably and, in terms of box
office receipts, was one of the most successful films made in France... [More...]
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Léon (1994)
Luc Besson
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Les Rivières pourpres (2000)
Mathieu Kassovitz
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Décalage horaire (2002)
Danièle Thompson
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With Léon, French film director Luc Besson followed the successful formula
he skilfully engineered in his earlier film Nikita, creating another fast-moving action
movie based around the traumatised lives of its... [More...]
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Mathieu Kassovitz’s first venture into the big budget genre film is a bold attempt to
beat the Americans at their own game – a fast-moving... [More...]
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After the success of her first film as a director,
La Buche, in 1999, Danièle Thompson
once again took up the directorial reins with this lightweight romantic comedy... [More...]
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