French cinema: 1980s
Scout toujours... (1985)
Gérard Jugnot
In the spring of 1965, a scout group from Paris decide they have had enough of their authoritarian leader and apply their scout cunning to the matter of his disposal...
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Gérard Jugnot
Signé Furax (1981)
Marc Simenon
One by one, the great historic monuments of Paris are being stolen and replaced with cheap imitations. These crimes against France's cultural heritage are all signed by the criminal mastermind Furax...
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Marc Simenon
Signes extérieurs de richesse (1983)
Jacques Monnet
Jean-Jacques Lestrade, known to his friends as Gigi, is a veterinary surgeon who has grown accustomed to living the high life...
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Jacques Monnet
Simone Barbès ou la vertu (1980)
Marie-Claude Treilhou
Simone Barbès works as an usherette at a pornographic cinema in Paris. Her evenings consist of checking tickets and eyeing a strange assortment of salivating saddos as they drift in and out of the film theatre like lost souls...
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Marie-Claude Treilhou
La Smala (1984)
Jean-Loup Hubert
When his wife leaves him to pursue an affair with a riot police officer, Robert, a former violinist who has been without work for years, is left to bring up their five demanding offspring by himself...
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Jean-Loup Hubert
Le Solitaire (1987)
Jacques Deray
A jaundiced police commissioner, Stan Jalard, is planning to start a new life, running a hotel in the Antilles with best friend... [More...]
Jacques Deray
A jaundiced police commissioner, Stan Jalard, is planning to start a new life, running a hotel in the Antilles with best friend... [More...]
La Soupe aux choux (1981)
Jean Girault
In the remote French countryside, two old men - Le Glaude and Le Bombé - live out their solitary retirement, contenting themselves with their friendship, their wine and their irresistible cabbage soup... [More...]
Jean Girault
In the remote French countryside, two old men - Le Glaude and Le Bombé - live out their solitary retirement, contenting themselves with their friendship, their wine and their irresistible cabbage soup... [More...]
Sous le soleil de Satan (1987)
Maurice Pialat
In a rural village in the north of France in the 1920s, an inexperienced Catholic priest, Donissan, is beginning to have doubts about his suitability for the priesthood... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
In a rural village in the north of France in the 1920s, an inexperienced Catholic priest, Donissan, is beginning to have doubts about his suitability for the priesthood... [More...]
Les Sous-doués en vacances (1982)
Claude Zidi
Bébel is looking forward to his holiday with his American girlfriend, but when she dumps him at the airport he ends up living in a tent in Paris... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Bébel is looking forward to his holiday with his American girlfriend, but when she dumps him at the airport he ends up living in a tent in Paris... [More...]
Les Sous-doués (1980)
Claude Zidi
Madame Jumaucourt has the dubious honour of being the head mistress of one of the worst performing schools in the whole of France... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Madame Jumaucourt has the dubious honour of being the head mistress of one of the worst performing schools in the whole of France... [More...]
Spécial police (1985)
Michel Vianey
By hiding herself in the cellar, Isabelle Rodin just manages to avoid the fate of her brother Robin and his wife, both murdered by unknown assassins one evening... [More...]
Michel Vianey
By hiding herself in the cellar, Isabelle Rodin just manages to avoid the fate of her brother Robin and his wife, both murdered by unknown assassins one evening... [More...]
Les Spécialistes (1985)
Patrice Leconte
Whilst being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
Whilst being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape... [More...]
Subway (1985)
Luc Besson
Helena, the beautiful young wife of a wealthy businessman, invites a stranger Fred to her party. Fred repays her by stealing compromising documents from her husband's safe, with the aim of blackmailing the couple... [More...]
Luc Besson
Helena, the beautiful young wife of a wealthy businessman, invites a stranger Fred to her party. Fred repays her by stealing compromising documents from her husband's safe, with the aim of blackmailing the couple... [More...]
La Table tournante (1988)
Paul Grimault
The acclaimed animator Paul Grimault returns to his workshop where he is greeted by a small cartoon clown who is curious to know everything about life and cartoons... [More...]
Paul Grimault
The acclaimed animator Paul Grimault returns to his workshop where he is greeted by a small cartoon clown who is curious to know everything about life and cartoons... [More...]
Tandem (1987)
Patrice Leconte
For the past 25 years, Michel Mortez has hosted the popular radio game show The Cat's Tongue. Over that time, the show has become the most important thing in Mortez's life and now, in the twilight of his career, he has neither friends nor family... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
For the past 25 years, Michel Mortez has hosted the popular radio game show The Cat's Tongue. Over that time, the show has become the most important thing in Mortez's life and now, in the twilight of his career, he has neither friends nor family... [More...]
Tchao pantin (1983)
Claude Berri
Lambert, a chronically introverted man in his forties, leads the most solitary of lives. He is more than happy to forget his past and shuns the company of others, content with working nights at an anonymous petrol station in a busy downmarket district of Paris... [More...]
Claude Berri
Lambert, a chronically introverted man in his forties, leads the most solitary of lives. He is more than happy to forget his past and shuns the company of others, content with working nights at an anonymous petrol station in a busy downmarket district of Paris... [More...]
Tenue de soirée (1986)
Bertrand Blier
Antoine and Monique are a young couple who find that their relationship is falling apart. Despite Antoine's declarations of love, Monique is so fed up with their squalid life of poverty that she is on the verge of walking out on him... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Antoine and Monique are a young couple who find that their relationship is falling apart. Despite Antoine's declarations of love, Monique is so fed up with their squalid life of poverty that she is on the verge of walking out on him... [More...]
Tête à claques (1982)
Francis Perrin
Alex Berthier is thirty, divorced and lives in a small apartment with his 10-year-old son Bruno. He writes songs that no one wants to buy and just about scrapes by on what he can earn as a taxi driver... [More...]
Francis Perrin
Alex Berthier is thirty, divorced and lives in a small apartment with his 10-year-old son Bruno. He writes songs that no one wants to buy and just about scrapes by on what he can earn as a taxi driver... [More...]
Le Thé au harem d'Archimède (1985)
Mehdi Charef
Pat and Madjid are two teenagers who come from a run-down housing estate in Paris. After failing to find work, they begin to lose hope and drift into a life of petty crime... [More...]
Mehdi Charef
Pat and Madjid are two teenagers who come from a run-down housing estate in Paris. After failing to find work, they begin to lose hope and drift into a life of petty crime... [More...]
Tout dépend des filles... (1980)
Pierre Fabre
Jean-Luc and his friend Mathieu lead a carefree existence in Montmartre. One is a cabinet maker, the other a sculptor, but only nominally - their real objective seems to be to get through life by doing as little work as possible... [More...]
Pierre Fabre
Jean-Luc and his friend Mathieu lead a carefree existence in Montmartre. One is a cabinet maker, the other a sculptor, but only nominally - their real objective seems to be to get through life by doing as little work as possible... [More...]
Tout feu, tout flamme (1982)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
It has been several years since Pauline last saw her father, Victor. Whilst he has been hiding away in North America after a series of ill-judged and slightly illegal ventures, she has had to take care of her two younger sisters and grandmother, whilst pursuing a career as a government adviser... [More...]
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
It has been several years since Pauline last saw her father, Victor. Whilst he has been hiding away in North America after a series of ill-judged and slightly illegal ventures, she has had to take care of her two younger sisters and grandmother, whilst pursuing a career as a government adviser... [More...]
Train d'enfer (1984)
Roger Hanin
A young Arab is attacked and killed on a high-speed train by some young thugs and a right-wing activist. A young woman reports the crime to the police but she herself is later killed... [More...]
Roger Hanin
A young Arab is attacked and killed on a high-speed train by some young thugs and a right-wing activist. A young woman reports the crime to the police but she herself is later killed... [More...]
Tricheurs (1984)
Barbet Schroeder
Elric is a compulsive gambler who is at the end of his tether when he meets a young woman, Suzy, on the island of Madeira... [More...]
Barbet Schroeder
Elric is a compulsive gambler who is at the end of his tether when he meets a young woman, Suzy, on the island of Madeira... [More...]
Trois hommes à abattre (1980)
Jacques Deray
Late one evening, professional gambler Michel Gerfaut is on his way to a poker game when he comes across a badly injured man in a wrecked car... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Late one evening, professional gambler Michel Gerfaut is on his way to a poker game when he comes across a badly injured man in a wrecked car... [More...]
Trois places pour le 26 (1988)
Jacques Demy
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, the town where he grew up and began his career, to prepare an international tour... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, the town where he grew up and began his career, to prepare an international tour... [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...]
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...]
La Truite (1982)
Joseph Losey
Frédérique is an introspective young woman who works on her parents' trout farm deep in the Jura region of France... [More...]
Joseph Losey
Frédérique is an introspective young woman who works on her parents' trout farm deep in the Jura region of France... [More...]
Twist again à Moscou (1986)
Jean-Marie Poiré
In 1984, some years before the fall of Communism, pop singer Tatiana tours Soviet Russia, accompanied by her boyfriend Iouri... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
In 1984, some years before the fall of Communism, pop singer Tatiana tours Soviet Russia, accompanied by her boyfriend Iouri... [More...]
Un amour de Swann (1984)
Volker Schlöndorff
Jewish intellectual Charles Swann has overcome prejudice and now occupies a prominent position in society, enjoying the friendship of such notables as the Baron de Charlus... [More...]
Volker Schlöndorff
Jewish intellectual Charles Swann has overcome prejudice and now occupies a prominent position in society, enjoying the friendship of such notables as the Baron de Charlus... [More...]
Un assassin qui passe (1981)
Michel Vianey
Jacques, a modest bank employee in Paris, finds it hard to enter into any kind of normal relationship with the opposite sex... [More...]
Michel Vianey
Jacques, a modest bank employee in Paris, finds it hard to enter into any kind of normal relationship with the opposite sex... [More...]