French cinema: 1980s
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles (1983)
Bernard Guillou
Joseph Cohen is a small-scale farmer in Brittany who just manages to eke out a living. When his landlord, Alexandre, decides to terminate his lease, Joseph has no other choice but to turn to his stepbrother, Pierre, whom he has not seen for years...
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Bernard Guillou
Un dimanche à la campagne (1984)
Bertrand Tavernier
Monsieur Ladmiral is an ageing painter who lives alone in his large country house, cared for by his loyal housekeeper Mercédès...
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Bertrand Tavernier
Un été d'enfer (1984)
Michael Schock
After an accident, Philippe Darlan is forced to give up his career as a professional motorcyclist and ends up working for his uncle's private detective agency...
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Michael Schock
Un mauvais fils (1980)
Claude Sautet
Having spent five years in an American prison for drugs dealing, Bruno Calgagni returns to France to make a fresh start. He meets up with his father, a foreman on a building site, and learns that his mother died whilst he was in jail...
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Claude Sautet
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...
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Eric Rochant
Une affaire de femmes (1988)
Claude Chabrol
During the Nazi occupation of France, a young woman, Marie, provides an abortion service for pregnant women who are single or whose husbands are away from home... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
During the Nazi occupation of France, a young woman, Marie, provides an abortion service for pregnant women who are single or whose husbands are away from home... [More...]
Une chambre en ville (1982)
Jacques Demy
Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Nantes, during the workers' strike of 1955. One of the strikers is François Guilbaud, a steel worker who rents a room in the apartment of Margot Langlois, a bourgeois widow who opposes the strike... [More...]
Une étrange affaire (1981)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Louis Coline, a man in his early thirties, leads a comfortable but fairly routine life, working as a publicity officer for a large department store in Paris... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Louis Coline, a man in his early thirties, leads a comfortable but fairly routine life, working as a publicity officer for a large department store in Paris... [More...]
Une robe noire pour un tueur (1981)
José Giovanni
Despite the best efforts of his lawyer, Florence Nath, Simon Risler is sentenced to death for killing a police officer. Risler manages to escape the guillotine by taking a hostage, although he is injured by a gunshot during his escape... [More...]
José Giovanni
Despite the best efforts of his lawyer, Florence Nath, Simon Risler is sentenced to death for killing a police officer. Risler manages to escape the guillotine by taking a hostage, although he is injured by a gunshot during his escape... [More...]
Une semaine de vacances (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier
At the age of 31, Laurence feels she has arrived at a crossroads in her life. Once a dedicated school teacher, she now feels she isn't up to the job and contemplates starting a new profession... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
At the age of 31, Laurence feels she has arrived at a crossroads in her life. Once a dedicated school teacher, she now feels she isn't up to the job and contemplates starting a new profession... [More...]
L'Union sacrée (1989)
Alexandre Arcady
Simon Atlan, a Jewish anti-narcotics cop, is teamed up with Karim Hamida, secret agent for an Arab government. Tensions between the two men run high as they investigate an international drugs ring operating in state schools... [More...]
Alexandre Arcady
Simon Atlan, a Jewish anti-narcotics cop, is teamed up with Karim Hamida, secret agent for an Arab government. Tensions between the two men run high as they investigate an international drugs ring operating in state schools... [More...]
Les Uns et les autres (1981)
Claude Lelouch
Forty-five years of turmoil, passion and tragedy, seen through the eyes of two generations of four families. In Moscow, 1936, an aspiring dancer Tatiana marries a man, Boris, who will give her a son just before he is killed during World War II... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Forty-five years of turmoil, passion and tragedy, seen through the eyes of two generations of four families. In Moscow, 1936, an aspiring dancer Tatiana marries a man, Boris, who will give her a son just before he is killed during World War II... [More...]
Urgence (1985)
Gilles Béhat
One night, Lyza sees her brother, the reporter Max Forestier, killed and narrowly escapes death herself at the hands of an unknown assailant... [More...]
Gilles Béhat
One night, Lyza sees her brother, the reporter Max Forestier, killed and narrowly escapes death herself at the hands of an unknown assailant... [More...]
Urgences (1988)
Raymond Depardon
The outward grandeur of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris betrays nothing of the human dramas being played out within its austere walls... [More...]
Raymond Depardon
The outward grandeur of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris betrays nothing of the human dramas being played out within its austere walls... [More...]
La Vallée fantôme (1987)
Alain Tanner
In Geneva, Paul, a filmmaker in his fifties, has lost interest in his profession. He wants to make another film, but he lacks inspiration and cannot decide either on the subject or the location... [More...]
Alain Tanner
In Geneva, Paul, a filmmaker in his fifties, has lost interest in his profession. He wants to make another film, but he lacks inspiration and cannot decide either on the subject or the location... [More...]
La Vengeance du serpent à plumes (1984)
Gérard Oury
On the death of his grandmother, odd-job man Loulou Dupin is delighted to learn that he has inherited a large Parisian apartment... [More...]
Gérard Oury
On the death of his grandmother, odd-job man Loulou Dupin is delighted to learn that he has inherited a large Parisian apartment... [More...]
La Vie continue (1981)
Moshé Mizrahi
Jeanne Lemaire leads a simple but contented life with her husband Gérard and their three children. Her cosy routine is thrown into a turmoil one Sunday morning when her husband suffers a fatal heart attack... [More...]
Moshé Mizrahi
Jeanne Lemaire leads a simple but contented life with her husband Gérard and their three children. Her cosy routine is thrown into a turmoil one Sunday morning when her husband suffers a fatal heart attack... [More...]
La Vie de famille (1985)
Jacques Doillon
Emmanuel lives in Aix-en-Provence with his second wife Mara and the latter's teenage daughter Natacha. Emmanuel's relationship with his stepdaughter is strained... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Emmanuel lives in Aix-en-Provence with his second wife Mara and the latter's teenage daughter Natacha. Emmanuel's relationship with his stepdaughter is strained... [More...]
La Vie dissolue de Gérard Floque (1987)
Georges Lautner
On the day he loses his job with an advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and that his wife is having a raunchy affair with a TV presenter... [More...]
Georges Lautner
On the day he loses his job with an advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and that his wife is having a raunchy affair with a TV presenter... [More...]
La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille (1988)
Étienne Chatiliez
When she breaks up with her boyfriend, a paediatric surgeon, a nurse reveals that, twelve years ago, she switched two babies just after their birth... [More...]
Étienne Chatiliez
When she breaks up with her boyfriend, a paediatric surgeon, a nurse reveals that, twelve years ago, she switched two babies just after their birth... [More...]
La Vie est un roman (1983)
Alain Resnais
On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome... [More...]
Alain Resnais
On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome... [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...]
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...]
Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine (1981)
Patrice Leconte
Guy is a young man who likes to have a good time, but unfortunately the world seems determined to thwart him in this ambition... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
Guy is a young man who likes to have a good time, but unfortunately the world seems determined to thwart him in this ambition... [More...]
Vivement dimanche! (1983)
François Truffaut
When a man named Massoulier is shot dead, estate agent Julien Vercel is arrested as his fingerprints are on the dead man's car... [More...]
François Truffaut
When a man named Massoulier is shot dead, estate agent Julien Vercel is arrested as his fingerprints are on the dead man's car... [More...]
Le Vol du Sphinx (1984)
Laurent Ferrier
A cruel disappointment in love compels a young Frenchman named Tom to give up his old life and start a new one as a pilot in the south of Morocco... [More...]
Laurent Ferrier
A cruel disappointment in love compels a young Frenchman named Tom to give up his old life and start a new one as a pilot in the south of Morocco... [More...]
La Vouivre (1989)
Georges Wilson
France, 1919. A small village bears the imprint of the First World War through the noticeable lack of young men who were once its life and soul... [More...]
Georges Wilson
France, 1919. A small village bears the imprint of the First World War through the noticeable lack of young men who were once its life and soul... [More...]
Le Voyage à Paimpol (1985)
John Berry
Maryvonne's dreams are a world apart from her daily reality. Her life as a factory worker in a humdrum town receives a boost when she starts a romance with a young Arab co-worker, Joël... [More...]
John Berry
Maryvonne's dreams are a world apart from her daily reality. Her life as a factory worker in a humdrum town receives a boost when she starts a romance with a young Arab co-worker, Joël... [More...]
Zig Zag Story (1983)
Patrick Schulmann
A drop of water falling from the guttering of a building causes a chain reaction ending in a traffic jam which allows Gil Darmon, an aspiring painter, to meet Cat, a radio presenter... [More...]
Patrick Schulmann
A drop of water falling from the guttering of a building causes a chain reaction ending in a traffic jam which allows Gil Darmon, an aspiring painter, to meet Cat, a radio presenter... [More...]
Zone rouge (1986)
Robert Enrico
One summer evening, on a quiet road on the outskirts of Lyon, some tins of paint fall from a lorry. It's hard to imagine that such an innocuous event could have such devastating consequences..... [More...]
Robert Enrico
One summer evening, on a quiet road on the outskirts of Lyon, some tins of paint fall from a lorry. It's hard to imagine that such an innocuous event could have such devastating consequences..... [More...]