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French cinema: 1995

À la vie, à la mort! (1995)
Robert Guédiguian

In Estaque, the working class district of north Marseilles, a family of Spanish immigrants struggles to survive. Marie-Sol's job as a housekeeper provides both an income and a modest home, but her husband Patrick has been unemployed for years...   [More...]

L'Appât (1995)
Bertrand Tavernier

An adolescent girl, Nathalie, shares a small Parisian apartment with her two friends, Eric and Bruno. None of them has any hope of getting a job but they all have unrealistic aspirations...   [More...]

Les Apprentis (1995)
Pierre Salvadori

Antoine Parent is an aspiring writer who suffers from depression and a chronic inability to make money from his art. He lives in Paris and shares a modest apartment with his good-for-nothing friend Fred Rouyer, who appears to be more than content with his life as an inveterate loser...   [More...]

Augustin (1995)
Anne Fontaine

Augustin is a friendless 30-year-old who works for an insurance company but dreams of becoming a big film star. As he waits for opportunity to come knocking on his door, he goes for auditions for walk-on parts, so far with limited success...   [More...]

La Cérémonie (1995)
Claude Chabrol

The Lelievres are a happy, comfortably rich family who live in a remote mansion near the Brittany coast. Madame Lelievre is far too busy to take on all the domestic chores, so she hires a maid to do all this for her...   [More...]

Douce France (1995)
Malik Chibane

A portrait of four young French people of Arab descent living on a housing estate in the Saint-Denis district of Paris. Jean-Luc uses the heist from a jewel robbery to set himself up as a lawyer, his office being a room in the bar managed by his friend Moussa...   [More...]

En avoir (ou pas) (1995)
Laetitia Masson

When she loses her job at a fish canning factory, Alice, a young woman from a socially deprived background, decides to make some major changes in her life...   [More...]

Gazon maudit (1995)
Josiane Balasko

Laurent, a successful estate agent, and his wife Loli have two children, a nice house in the South of France and appear to be the very model of a happily married couple...   [More...]

La Haine (1995)
Mathieu Kassovitz

This film follows one day in the lives of three unemployed young men who live on a housing estate in a deprived suburb of Paris...   [More...]

Les Misérables (1995)
Claude Lelouch

France, 1900. When his employer shoots himself after a New Year's party, chauffeur Henri Fortin is condemned for murder and sentenced to a term of hard labour...   [More...]

Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Claude Sautet

Through a meeting with a friend, Nelly is introduced to a wealthy retired business man, Monsieur Arnaud. Nelly talks a little about her life - she is married to an unemployed layabout and, having lost a well-paid job, she is now heavily in arrears on her rent...   [More...]

Le Plus bel âge... (1995)
Didier Haudepin

A few weeks into a preparatory course for entry to the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, Delphine witnesses the suicide of a fellow student, Claude...   [More...]

L'Univers de Jacques Demy (1995)
Agnès Varda

An engaging portrait of Jacques Demy, one of the France's most significant film directors, seen through the eyes of his widow, Agnès Varda...   [More...]

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