French cinema: 1981
Beau-père (1981)
Bertrand Blier
Rémi is a failed 30-something musician who ekes out a meagre existence playing the piano in upmarket nightclubs and restaurants...
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Bertrand Blier
La Chèvre (1981)
Francis Veber
When his daughter Maria goes missing shortly after her arrival in Acapulco, wealthy businessman Alexandre Bens engages private detective Campana to find her...
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Francis Veber
Le Choix des armes (1981)
Alain Corneau
Three criminals break out of prison and go on the run. In a bloody shootout, one of them is wounded. His punk accomplice, Mickey, takes him to a remote country house belonging to a former gangland boss, Noël Durieux...
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Alain Corneau
Coup de torchon (1981)
Bertrand Tavernier
1938, West Africa. Lucien Cordier is the police chief of a small French colonial town, Bourkassa Ourbangui, but no one takes him seriously...
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Bertrand Tavernier
Diva (1981)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jules, a young Parisian postman, illegally records a concert performance given by the world famous opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises...
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Jean-Jacques Beineix
La Femme d'à côté (1981)
François Truffaut
Bernard and Arlette Coudray are a young couple who live with their infant son at a remote country house near to Grenoble... [More...]
François Truffaut
Bernard and Arlette Coudray are a young couple who live with their infant son at a remote country house near to Grenoble... [More...]
La Fille prodigue (1981)
Jacques Doillon
Anne is a young woman who, in a fit of depression, leaves her husband Jean-Marie and chooses to live alone in a shoebox Parisian apartment... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Anne is a young woman who, in a fit of depression, leaves her husband Jean-Marie and chooses to live alone in a shoebox Parisian apartment... [More...]
Garde à vue (1981)
Claude Miller
In a small French town, two young girls are found raped and murdered. The obvious suspect is a prominent lawyer, Jérôme Martinaud, who is known to have been in the vicinity of both killings when they took place... [More...]
Claude Miller
In a small French town, two young girls are found raped and murdered. The obvious suspect is a prominent lawyer, Jérôme Martinaud, who is known to have been in the vicinity of both killings when they took place... [More...]
Hôtel des Amériques (1981)
André Téchiné
Hélène is a 30-something anaesthetist at a hospital in the French seaside town of Biarritz. One evening, whilst driving home in a distracted state, she almost runs over a pedestrian, Gilles... [More...]
André Téchiné
Hélène is a 30-something anaesthetist at a hospital in the French seaside town of Biarritz. One evening, whilst driving home in a distracted state, she almost runs over a pedestrian, Gilles... [More...]
Merry-Go-Round (1981)
Jacques Rivette
Ben, a young American, and Léo, a young French woman, meet at an airport in Paris. They had been hoping to meet up with Léo's sister Elisabeth, who is also Ben's girlfriend, but she is mysteriously absent... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Ben, a young American, and Léo, a young French woman, meet at an airport in Paris. They had been hoping to meet up with Léo's sister Elisabeth, who is also Ben's girlfriend, but she is mysteriously absent... [More...]
Psy (1981)
Philippe de Broca
Where now are the ideals of May '68? This is a question that Marc, a man in his mid-thirties and former soixante-huitard, might have cause to ruminate on as he profits from bourgeois angst by running weekend psychotherapy courses at a large house in the country belonging to his partner Colette... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
Where now are the ideals of May '68? This is a question that Marc, a man in his mid-thirties and former soixante-huitard, might have cause to ruminate on as he profits from bourgeois angst by running weekend psychotherapy courses at a large house in the country belonging to his partner Colette... [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...]
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...]