French cinema: 1980s
Je suis le seigneur du château (1989)
Régis Wargnier
Brittany, 1954. After the death of his wife, wealthy landowner Jean Béraud hires a governess, Madame Vernet, to take care of his 10-year old son Thomas...
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Régis Wargnier
Je vous aime (1980)
Claude Berri
After breaking up with her latest boyfriend, Alice looks back on her life and remembers her past loves. Although she is still only in her mid-thirties, Alice has had many partners, all of whom she has loved intensely, for a while...
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Claude Berri
Je vous salue, Marie (1985)
Jean-Luc Godard
Mary, a student who plays basketball and works in her father's petrol station, discovers that she is pregnant, even though she has not slept with any man...
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean de Florette (1986)
Claude Berri
Early in the 1920s, tax collector Jean Cadoret gives up his life in the city to make a fresh start in Provence, with his wife Aimée and young daughter Manon...
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Claude Berri
Le Jeune marié (1983)
Bernard Stora
Billy, a construction worker in the South of France, decides to get married, not because he is in love, but because he feels it is what is expected of him...
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Bernard Stora
Joyeuses Pâques (1984)
Georges Lautner
Stéphane Margelle is a successful businessman, in his fifties, who cannot give up chasing after pretty women, although so far he has managed to conceal his philandering exploits from his wife, Sophie... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Stéphane Margelle is a successful businessman, in his fifties, who cannot give up chasing after pretty women, although so far he has managed to conceal his philandering exploits from his wife, Sophie... [More...]
Le Juge (1984)
Philippe Lefebvre
François Muller is a respected judge in Marseille who is committed to clamping down on the illegal drugs trade in his region... [More...]
Philippe Lefebvre
François Muller is a respected judge in Marseille who is committed to clamping down on the illegal drugs trade in his region... [More...]
Le Jumeau (1984)
Yves Robert
Matthias Duval is a 30-something businessman with a fatal addiction to gambling. A night spent at the poker table during his holiday on the Riviera ends with him being seriously out of pocket, but then - for once - Lady Luck smiles on him... [More...]
Yves Robert
Matthias Duval is a 30-something businessman with a fatal addiction to gambling. A night spent at the poker table during his holiday on the Riviera ends with him being seriously out of pocket, but then - for once - Lady Luck smiles on him... [More...]
Les Keufs (1987)
Josiane Balasko
Growing up in state care doesn't seen to have harmed Mireille Molyneux's career aspirations, nor her determination to get things done... [More...]
Josiane Balasko
Growing up in state care doesn't seen to have harmed Mireille Molyneux's career aspirations, nor her determination to get things done... [More...]
Ki lo sa? (1985)
Robert Guédiguian
Dada, a solitary thirty-something, maintains the vast gardens of a once grand house in Marselles. He recalls the happy childhood he spent in the gardens with the children who lived in the area... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
Dada, a solitary thirty-something, maintains the vast gardens of a once grand house in Marselles. He recalls the happy childhood he spent in the gardens with the children who lived in the area... [More...]
La Lectrice (1988)
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading... [More...]
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading... [More...]
Légitime violence (1982)
Serge Leroy
Martin Modot's life is torn to shreds when the three people who are closest to him - his wife, his daughter and his mother - are all brutally murdered in what seems to be an armed robbery at Deauville station... [More...]
Serge Leroy
Martin Modot's life is torn to shreds when the three people who are closest to him - his wife, his daughter and his mother - are all brutally murdered in what seems to be an armed robbery at Deauville station... [More...]
Lévy et Goliath (1987)
Gérard Oury
Moïse Lévy is an orthodox Jew living in Antwerp. He has no time for his brother Albert, who has given up the traditions of his Jewish background for a modern life, running a café in Paris and marrying a non-Jew... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Moïse Lévy is an orthodox Jew living in Antwerp. He has no time for his brother Albert, who has given up the traditions of his Jewish background for a modern life, running a café in Paris and marrying a non-Jew... [More...]
Le Lieu du crime (1986)
André Téchiné
In rural France, a 13 year old boy, Thomas, runs into an escaped convict who orders him to return with some money. Thomas is on holiday from the boarding school he loathes and is staying with his mother Lili after her recent divorce from his father Maurice... [More...]
André Téchiné
In rural France, a 13 year old boy, Thomas, runs into an escaped convict who orders him to return with some money. Thomas is on holiday from the boarding school he loathes and is staying with his mother Lili after her recent divorce from his father Maurice... [More...]
Liste noire (1984)
Alain Bonnot
David, Jacky and Nathalie are three teenage rebels who decide to hold up a bank. The weaponry is provided by a man who, unbeknown to them, belongs to a gang that intends to use their hold up as a diversion for their own daylight heist... [More...]
Alain Bonnot
David, Jacky and Nathalie are three teenage rebels who decide to hold up a bank. The weaponry is provided by a man who, unbeknown to them, belongs to a gang that intends to use their hold up as a diversion for their own daylight heist... [More...]
Louise... l'insoumise (1985)
Charlotte Silvera
A family of Tunisian Jews settles in a suburb of Paris in the early 1960s. The mother, Edith, governs her children with an iron hand, determined that they should all strictly adhere to her family's religious customs... [More...]
Charlotte Silvera
A family of Tunisian Jews settles in a suburb of Paris in the early 1960s. The mother, Edith, governs her children with an iron hand, determined that they should all strictly adhere to her family's religious customs... [More...]
Loulou (1980)
Maurice Pialat
Nelly is a liberated young woman who enjoys a comfortable bourgeois existence with her partner André but somehow she feels there is something missing in her life... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
Nelly is a liberated young woman who enjoys a comfortable bourgeois existence with her partner André but somehow she feels there is something missing in her life... [More...]
La Lune dans le caniveau (1983)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
In present day Marseille, a young dockworker named Gérard Delmas is haunted by the brutal death of his sister, who committed suicide with a razor after being raped in the street... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Beineix
In present day Marseille, a young dockworker named Gérard Delmas is haunted by the brutal death of his sister, who committed suicide with a razor after being raped in the street... [More...]
Ma femme s'appelle reviens (1982)
Patrice Leconte
Bernard finds himself teetering on the brink of a mid-life crisis when the woman he has been married to for five years suddenly walks out on him... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
Bernard finds himself teetering on the brink of a mid-life crisis when the woman he has been married to for five years suddenly walks out on him... [More...]
La Machine à découdre (1986)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
In a coastal town in the south of France an unemployed man, Steff Muller, is desperate to raise cash as his wife is about to give birth... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
In a coastal town in the south of France an unemployed man, Steff Muller, is desperate to raise cash as his wife is about to give birth... [More...]
La Maison assassinée (1988)
Georges Lautner
In the aftermath of the First World War, Séraphin Monge returns to his home village in the south of France and sets about finding himself a job... [More...]
Georges Lautner
In the aftermath of the First World War, Séraphin Monge returns to his home village in the south of France and sets about finding himself a job... [More...]
Le Maître d'école (1981)
Claude Berri
Gérard Barbier is a man in his early thirties who likes to look on the bright side of life. Working as a shop assistant, he feels inclined to take the side of a child who is caught in the act of stealing some footwear... [More...]
Claude Berri
Gérard Barbier is a man in his early thirties who likes to look on the bright side of life. Working as a shop assistant, he feels inclined to take the side of a child who is caught in the act of stealing some footwear... [More...]
Maladie d'amour (1987)
Jacques Deray
On a train to Bordeaux, Clément, a promising young intern at a cancer clinic, encounters for the first time Juliette, an attractive young woman who works as a hairdresser... [More...]
Jacques Deray
On a train to Bordeaux, Clément, a promising young intern at a cancer clinic, encounters for the first time Juliette, an attractive young woman who works as a hairdresser... [More...]
Manon des sources (1986)
Claude Berri
After the tragic death of his neighbour Jean Cadoret, César Soubeyran purchases his land so that his nephew Ugolin Soubeyran can grow carnations on an industrial scale... [More...]
Claude Berri
After the tragic death of his neighbour Jean Cadoret, César Soubeyran purchases his land so that his nephew Ugolin Soubeyran can grow carnations on an industrial scale... [More...]
Marche à l'ombre (1984)
Michel Blanc
After bumming their way around the Mediterranean, two dropouts in their late twenties, François and Denis, return to France without a sou to their name... [More...]
Michel Blanc
After bumming their way around the Mediterranean, two dropouts in their late twenties, François and Denis, return to France without a sou to their name... [More...]
Le Marginal (1983)
Jacques Deray
In Marseille, police superintendent Jordan is waging a determined personal war against the city's drug barons, foremost of whom is Sauveur Meccaci, a gangster of formidable repute... [More...]
Jacques Deray
In Marseille, police superintendent Jordan is waging a determined personal war against the city's drug barons, foremost of whom is Sauveur Meccaci, a gangster of formidable repute... [More...]
Le Mariage du siècle (1985)
Philippe Galland
Accompanied by her father King George and his royal entourage, Princess Charlotte arrives in Paris for a banquet arranged in honour of her forthcoming marriage to Duke Duillaume of Spatz-Hohenburg... [More...]
Philippe Galland
Accompanied by her father King George and his royal entourage, Princess Charlotte arrives in Paris for a banquet arranged in honour of her forthcoming marriage to Duke Duillaume of Spatz-Hohenburg... [More...]
Les Maris, les femmes, les amants (1989)
Pascal Thomas
As is their custom during the summer holidays, a party of male friends descend on the island of Ré with their children whilst their wives and girlfriends stay at home in Paris... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
As is their custom during the summer holidays, a party of male friends descend on the island of Ré with their children whilst their wives and girlfriends stay at home in Paris... [More...]
Masques (1987)
Claude Chabrol
Christian Legagneur is one of France's best-loved TV personalities, the genial host of a popular talent show in which the over-sixties compete for big prizes by crooning sentimental songs of yesteryear... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Christian Legagneur is one of France's best-loved TV personalities, the genial host of a popular talent show in which the over-sixties compete for big prizes by crooning sentimental songs of yesteryear... [More...]
Le Matelot 512 (1984)
René Allio
Marseille, circa 1900. Max is 18 and thinks of nothing but the sea. In search of adventure on the high seas, he enlists in the French navy and soon manages to impress his commandant, Roger, with his enthusiasm and commitment... [More...]
René Allio
Marseille, circa 1900. Max is 18 and thinks of nothing but the sea. In search of adventure on the high seas, he enlists in the French navy and soon manages to impress his commandant, Roger, with his enthusiasm and commitment... [More...]