French cinema: 1980s
Sans soleil (1983)
Chris Marker
Itinerant filmmaker Sandor Krasna offers his personal reflection on the threads that connect the multifarious aspects of humanity through a film that combines readings of letters with stark visual images...
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Chris Marker
Sans toit ni loi (1985)
Agnès Varda
One cold winter's morning, a farm worker is surprised to come across the body of a young woman in a ditch. From her appearance - her clothes are torn and dirty, her hair and face filthy - it is at once apparent that she has been living rough for some time before she died...
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Agnès Varda
Sous le soleil de Satan (1987)
Maurice Pialat
In a rural village in the north of France in the 1920s, an inexperienced Catholic priest, Donissan, is beginning to have doubts about his suitability for the priesthood...
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Maurice Pialat
Subway (1985)
Luc Besson
Helena, the beautiful young wife of a wealthy businessman, invites a stranger Fred to her party. Fred repays her by stealing compromising documents from her husband's safe, with the aim of blackmailing the couple...
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Luc Besson
Tandem (1987)
Patrice Leconte
For the past 25 years, Michel Mortez has hosted the popular radio game show The Cat's Tongue. Over that time, the show has become the most important thing in Mortez's life and now, in the twilight of his career, he has neither friends nor family...
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Patrice Leconte
Tchao pantin (1983)
Claude Berri
Lambert, a chronically introverted man in his forties, leads the most solitary of lives. He is more than happy to forget his past and shuns the company of others, content with working nights at an anonymous petrol station in a busy downmarket district of Paris... [More...]
Claude Berri
Lambert, a chronically introverted man in his forties, leads the most solitary of lives. He is more than happy to forget his past and shuns the company of others, content with working nights at an anonymous petrol station in a busy downmarket district of Paris... [More...]
Tricheurs (1984)
Barbet Schroeder
Elric is a compulsive gambler who is at the end of his tether when he meets a young woman, Suzy, on the island of Madeira... [More...]
Barbet Schroeder
Elric is a compulsive gambler who is at the end of his tether when he meets a young woman, Suzy, on the island of Madeira... [More...]
Trois places pour le 26 (1988)
Jacques Demy
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, the town where he grew up and began his career, to prepare an international tour... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, the town where he grew up and began his career, to prepare an international tour... [More...]
Trop belle pour toi (1989)
Bertrand Blier
Bernard Barthélémy is a successful car dealer who has a beautiful and adoring wife, Florence. His ordered, middle-class life is suddenly upended when he falls in love with his secretary, Colette... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Bernard Barthélémy is a successful car dealer who has a beautiful and adoring wife, Florence. His ordered, middle-class life is suddenly upended when he falls in love with his secretary, Colette... [More...]
Un dimanche à la campagne (1984)
Bertrand Tavernier
Monsieur Ladmiral is an ageing painter who lives alone in his large country house, cared for by his loyal housekeeper Mercédès... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Monsieur Ladmiral is an ageing painter who lives alone in his large country house, cared for by his loyal housekeeper Mercédès... [More...]
Un mauvais fils (1980)
Claude Sautet
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... [More...]
Claude Sautet
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... [More...]
Un monde sans pitié (1989)
Eric Rochant
Better a dropout than a yuppie, that's the philosophy of Hippo, a young man who has turned his back on the entire capitalist system... [More...]
Eric Rochant
Better a dropout than a yuppie, that's the philosophy of Hippo, a young man who has turned his back on the entire capitalist system... [More...]
Une affaire de femmes (1988)
Claude Chabrol
During the Nazi occupation of France, a young woman, Marie, provides an abortion service for pregnant women who are single or whose husbands are away from home... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
During the Nazi occupation of France, a young woman, Marie, provides an abortion service for pregnant women who are single or whose husbands are away from home... [More...]
Une chambre en ville (1982)
Jacques Demy
Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike... [More...]
Une étrange affaire (1981)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Louis Coline, a man in his early thirties, leads a comfortable but fairly routine life, working as a publicity officer for a large department store in Paris... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Louis Coline, a man in his early thirties, leads a comfortable but fairly routine life, working as a publicity officer for a large department store in Paris... [More...]
Les Uns et les autres (1981)
Claude Lelouch
Forty-five years of turmoil, passion and tragedy, seen through the eyes of two generations of four families. In Moscow, 1936, an aspiring dancer Tatiana marries a man, Boris, who will give her a son just before he is killed during World War II... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Forty-five years of turmoil, passion and tragedy, seen through the eyes of two generations of four families. In Moscow, 1936, an aspiring dancer Tatiana marries a man, Boris, who will give her a son just before he is killed during World War II... [More...]
Urgences (1988)
Raymond Depardon
The outward grandeur of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris betrays nothing of the human dramas being played out within its austere walls... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
The outward grandeur of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris betrays nothing of the human dramas being played out within its austere walls... [More...]
La Vallée fantôme (1987)
Alain Tanner
In Geneva, Paul, a filmmaker in his fifties, has lost interest in his profession. He wants to make another film, but he lacks inspiration and cannot decide either on the subject or the location... [More...]
Alain Tanner
In Geneva, Paul, a filmmaker in his fifties, has lost interest in his profession. He wants to make another film, but he lacks inspiration and cannot decide either on the subject or the location... [More...]
La Vie continue (1981)
Moshé Mizrahi
Jeanne Lemaire leads a simple but contented life with her husband Gérard and their three children. Her cosy routine is thrown into a turmoil one Sunday morning when her husband suffers a fatal heart attack... [More...]
Moshé Mizrahi
Jeanne Lemaire leads a simple but contented life with her husband Gérard and their three children. Her cosy routine is thrown into a turmoil one Sunday morning when her husband suffers a fatal heart attack... [More...]
La Vie de famille (1985)
Jacques Doillon
Emmanuel lives in Aix-en-Provence with his second wife Mara and the latter's teenage daughter Natacha. Emmanuel's relationship with his stepdaughter is strained... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Emmanuel lives in Aix-en-Provence with his second wife Mara and the latter's teenage daughter Natacha. Emmanuel's relationship with his stepdaughter is strained... [More...]
La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille (1988)
Étienne Chatiliez
When she breaks up with her boyfriend, a paediatric surgeon, a nurse reveals that, twelve years ago, she switched two babies just after their birth... [More...]
Étienne Chatiliez
When she breaks up with her boyfriend, a paediatric surgeon, a nurse reveals that, twelve years ago, she switched two babies just after their birth... [More...]
La Vie est un roman (1983)
Alain Resnais
On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome... [More...]
Alain Resnais
On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome... [More...]
La Vie et rien d'autre (1989)
Bertrand Tavernier
France, 1920. It is two years since the signing of the Armistice that brought an end to the First World War, but the clearing up still continues... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
France, 1920. It is two years since the signing of the Armistice that brought an end to the First World War, but the clearing up still continues... [More...]
Vivement dimanche! (1983)
François Truffaut
When a man named Massoulier is shot dead, estate agent Julien Vercel is arrested as his fingerprints are on the dead man's car... [More...]
François Truffaut
When a man named Massoulier is shot dead, estate agent Julien Vercel is arrested as his fingerprints are on the dead man's car... [More...]