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French cinema: 1994

Le Colonel Chabert (1994)
Yves Angelo

Colonel Chabert is mistaken for dead during the Napoleonic war with Russia. When he returns to Paris some years later, he finds that his wife, Anne, has married the Count Ferraud, and is using Chabert's wealth to finance Ferraud's social advancement...   [More...]

L'Enfer (1994)
Claude Chabrol

Paul Pieur is the proud owner of a country hotel which has no difficulty attracting guests, despite its proximity to an airbase...   [More...]

Le Fils préféré (1994)
Nicole Garcia

Jean-Paul Mantegna is the 40-something owner of a hotel on the French Riviera. Saddled with debts, he desperately needs to raise a large sum of money to keep his business afloat, so he turns to the only members of his family who can help him - his brothers Francis and Philippe...   [More...]

Grosse fatigue (1994)
Michel Blanc

Actor-director Michel Blanc is going through a rough time. He is unable to get his next film off the ground, women no longer find him as irresistible as they should, and, to cap it all, he is unjustly arrested for the rape of Josianne Balasko...   [More...]

Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les Batailles (1994)
Jacques Rivette

Upon hearing a message from God, a young French maid, Jeanne, feels compelled to leave her home in Domremy. She finally manages to get an audience with Charles, the dauphin of France, and she persuades him that it is her destiny to lead the French to victory against the English...   [More...]

Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons (1994)
Jacques Rivette

After her victory at Orleans, Joan of Arc is emboldened to continue her assault against the English armies. Despite the ambivalence of the Dauphin and his advisers, she galvanises her troops and victory follows victory...   [More...]

Léon (1994)
Luc Besson

Léon is a professional hitman whose life is changed forever when he meets Mathilda, a twelve year old girl who lives a few doors next to him...   [More...]

Le Parfum d'Yvonne (1994)
Patrice Leconte

A bewildered young man looks back into the embers of his past, trying to find some sense in what he has experienced. In 1958, he sought refuge in Switzerland to avoid the Algerian war, posing as a Russian count, Victor Chmara...   [More...]

Les Patriotes (1994)
Eric Rochant

Immediately after turning 18, Ariel Brenner, a Parisian Jew, leaves his comfortable middleclass home and family in France and sets out for Israel, to live in a kibbutz...   [More...]

Le Péril jeune (1994)
Cédric Klapisch

Former classmates Bruno, Alain, Momo and Léon find themselves reunited in a hospital several years after leaving school...   [More...]

Quand j'avais 5 ans je m'ai tué (1994)
Jean-Claude Sussfeld

In the 1960s, Gil is eight years old, a boy who is forever locked in his own dreamworld. A hyper-sensitive, hyper-imaginative child, he is already in love, with a little girl called Jessica...   [More...]

Regarde les hommes tomber (1994)
Jacques Audiard

Simon Hirsch is a fifty-something travelling salesman who is beginning to lose his enthusiasm for living. Bored with his job, no longer interested in women, he teeters on the brink of depression...   [More...]

La Reine Margot (1994)
Patrice Chéreau

Paris, August, 1572 - a troubled time in the history of France, a country scarred by interminable religious wars. To appease the Protestants, the Catholic queen mother Catherine de Medici arranges a marriage between her daughter, Margot, and the King of Navarre, Henri...   [More...]

Les Roseaux sauvages (1994)
André Téchiné

France, 1962. Whilst the Algerian war is at its height, four young people staying at a borading school in Provence experience their political and sexual awakenings...   [More...]

La Séparation (1994)
Christian Vincent

Pierre and Anne are a young couple in their thirties who have been together for several years. They have enjoyed a harmonious and loving relationship for some time, living together in their cosy apartment with their two-year-old son Loulou...   [More...]

Trois couleurs Rouge (1994)
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Valentine is an attractive young fashion model living in Geneva. Whilst driving home one evening, she accidentally runs over a dog...   [More...]

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