Baptême (1989)
René Féret

A mining town in northern France, 1935. Aline, a young waitress in a café, falls in love with one of her customers, Pierre, and persuades her reluctant parents to let him marry her...   [More...]

La Fille de 15 ans (1989)
Jacques Doillon

Juliette is a girl of fifteen years who thinks she has understood all there is to know about love. Her present beau is a boy of her own age, Thomas, with whom she enjoys a close but, so far, platonic relationship...   [More...]

Force majeure (1989)
Pierre Jolivet

Philippe is a promising student about to sit his exams and who is looking forward to a successful research career. Daniel is another young man who has a girl friend, a baby, and who enjoys his hedonistic freedom...   [More...]

I Want to Go Home (1989)
Alain Resnais

An ageing American cartoonists, Joey Wellman, makes a visit to Paris to attend an exhibition of his work. He plans to meet up with his daughter, Elsie, who is studying at the Sorbonne, but she has little respect for her father and fails to keep the rendez-vous...   [More...]

Je suis le seigneur du château (1989)
Régis Wargnier

Brittany, 1954. After the death of his wife, wealthy landowner Jean Béraud hires a governess, Madame Vernet, to take care of his 10-year old son Thomas...   [More...]

Mes meilleurs copains (1989)
Jean-Marie Poiré

At his house in the country, Richard invites four old friends of his - Jean-Michel, Guido, Antoine and Dany - to share a weekend with him and reminisce on their wild youth in the 1960s...   [More...]

Monsieur Hire (1989)
Patrice Leconte

Monsieur Hire is a respectable middle-aged man who lives alone in the suburbs where he runs his own business as a tailor...   [More...]

Romuald et Juliette (1989)
Coline Serreau

Romuald Blindet, the young managing director of a major French yoghurt manufacturing company, finds himself in deep water when he tries to increase productivity at one of his factories...   [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...]

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...]

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...]