French cinema: 1991
Agantuk (1991)
Satyajit Ray
Anila Bose lives in Calcutta with her husband Sudhindra and their young son Satyaki. The family is comfortably off and live in a grand house which they have inherited...
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Satyajit Ray
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
Leos Carax
Paris, 1989. Leaving a shelter for homeless people, Alex, a wild-looking young man in his twenties, heads across town to his favourite spot on the Pont-Neuf...
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Leos Carax
Bar des rails (1991)
Cédric Kahn
Richard leads a humdrum existence in a typically dull French provincial town. He is 16 and lives with his mother, who makes enough money to support them on her income as a dressmaker...
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Cédric Kahn
La Belle noiseuse (1991)
Jacques Rivette
A young Parisian artist, Nicolas, arrives in provincial France with his girlfriend, Marianne, to visit a reclusive, once great artist, Edouard Frenhofer...
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Jacques Rivette
Delicatessen (1991)
Marc Caro
In a grim, post-apocalyptic future, food is so scarce that people are forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive...
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Marc Caro
La Double vie de Véronique (1991)
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Weronika is a young concert singer who lives in Poland with her father. One day, she glimpses a woman on a coach who looks exactly like her... [More...]
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Weronika is a young concert singer who lives in Poland with her father. One day, she glimpses a woman on a coach who looks exactly like her... [More...]
L'Homme qui a perdu son ombre (1991)
Alain Tanner
Suffering from a creative block, a writer, Paul, walks away from his wife and job and hides away in a remote Spanish resort in the hope of regaining his inspiration... [More...]
Alain Tanner
Suffering from a creative block, a writer, Paul, walks away from his wife and job and hides away in a remote Spanish resort in the hope of regaining his inspiration... [More...]
Hors la vie (1991)
Maroun Bagdadi
In the late 1980s, Patrick Perrault, a French photographer and journalist, travels to Beirut to make a report on the war that is tearing the region apart... [More...]
Maroun Bagdadi
In the late 1980s, Patrick Perrault, a French photographer and journalist, travels to Beirut to make a report on the war that is tearing the region apart... [More...]
J'entends plus la guitare (1991)
Philippe Garrel
Marianne and Gérard are a couple enjoying a languorous holiday at a villa in the Italian coastal town of Positano... [More...]
Philippe Garrel
Marianne and Gérard are a couple enjoying a languorous holiday at a villa in the Italian coastal town of Positano... [More...]
Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
Agnès Varda
In the late 1930s, 8-year-old Jacques Demy lives with his father, a garage mechanic, and mother, a hairdresser, in a small town near to the large seaport of Nantes... [More...]
Agnès Varda
In the late 1930s, 8-year-old Jacques Demy lives with his father, a garage mechanic, and mother, a hairdresser, in a small town near to the large seaport of Nantes... [More...]
Mon père, ce héros (1991)
Gérard Lauzier
After separating from his wife Irina, 40-something André becomes obsessively preoccupied with his teenage daughter Véronique, who is growing up much faster than he would like... [More...]
Gérard Lauzier
After separating from his wife Irina, 40-something André becomes obsessively preoccupied with his teenage daughter Véronique, who is growing up much faster than he would like... [More...]
Paris s'éveille (1991)
Olivier Assayas
19-year old Adrien leaves his mother in Toulouse after becoming mixed up in a theft. He heads for Paris where he hopes his estranged father, Clément, will offer him a helping hand... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
19-year old Adrien leaves his mother in Toulouse after becoming mixed up in a theft. He heads for Paris where he hopes his estranged father, Clément, will offer him a helping hand... [More...]
Toto le héros (1991)
Jaco Van Dormael
In a retirement home, old Thomas looks back on his life, a life marred by hatred for one man: Alfred. As a boy, Thomas was convinced that he and Alfred, his next-door neighbour, were switched at birth... [More...]
Jaco Van Dormael
In a retirement home, old Thomas looks back on his life, a life marred by hatred for one man: Alfred. As a boy, Thomas was convinced that he and Alfred, his next-door neighbour, were switched at birth... [More...]
Tous les matins du monde (1991)
Alain Corneau
At the time of Louis XIV of France, a brilliant court musician, Marin Marais, reflects on his tutelage under the great viola player, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe... [More...]
Alain Corneau
At the time of Louis XIV of France, a brilliant court musician, Marin Marais, reflects on his tutelage under the great viola player, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe... [More...]
Van Gogh (1991)
Maurice Pialat
In the spring of 1890, the impoverished artist Vincent Van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, not far from Paris. He stays at a modest inn and places himself under the care of the kindly Dr Gachet... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
In the spring of 1890, the impoverished artist Vincent Van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, not far from Paris. He stays at a modest inn and places himself under the care of the kindly Dr Gachet... [More...]
La Vie des morts (1991)
Arnaud Desplechin
Deciding that life is not worth living, Patrick, a depressed 20-year-old man, attempts suicide by putting a bullet in his head... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Deciding that life is not worth living, Patrick, a depressed 20-year-old man, attempts suicide by putting a bullet in his head... [More...]