French cinema: 1980s
Papy fait de la résistance (1983)
Jean-Marie Poiré
France, 1940. The Bourdelles are a family of gifted musicians who are so patriotic that they refuse to give any more public recitals until their country, now under Nazi occupation, has been liberated...
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Jean-Marie Poiré
Parole de flic (1985)
José Pinheiro
A former French police officer, Daniel Pratt now lives out a peaceful retirement in Africa. One day, a telegram arrives notifying him that his grown-up daughter Mylène has been killed in Lyon whilst carrying out a robbery with some friends...
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José Pinheiro
Paroles et musique (1984)
Élie Chouraqui
A thriving artistic agent, Margaux Marker is having a hard time juggling her professional and family life in Paris. Her already hectic schedule is thrown into further disarray when her husband Peter, a best-selling writer, leaves her on the spur of the moment and heads off to America for what he insists will only be a temporary separation...
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Élie Chouraqui
Partir, revenir (1985)
Claude Lelouch
In 1985, Holocaust survivor Salomé Lerner publishes a book in which she recounts the traumatic wartime experiences that have scarred her life...
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Claude Lelouch
Le Passage (1986)
René Manzor
Any artist likes to have his work appreciated, but what do you do when your biggest fan turns out to be Death himself? This is the situation that Jean Diaz finds himself in when, after an unfortunate road accident, he finds himself in a coma, trapped in the void between the land of the living and the much greater realm of the hereafter...
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René Manzor
La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982)
Jacques Rouffio
Max Baumstein is the esteemed president of an international human rights organisation, so the world is shocked when he cold bloodedly kills the ambassador to Paraguay... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
Max Baumstein is the esteemed president of an international human rights organisation, so the world is shocked when he cold bloodedly kills the ambassador to Paraguay... [More...]
La Passerelle (1988)
Jean-Claude Sussfeld
Jean Nevers and Cora Elbaz are two neighbours who have yet to become acquainted. He is a 40-something bachelor who lives by himself; she is an erotic dancer in her mid-twenties who is bringing up a five-year-old son Antoine by herself... [More...]
Jean-Claude Sussfeld
Jean Nevers and Cora Elbaz are two neighbours who have yet to become acquainted. He is a 40-something bachelor who lives by himself; she is an erotic dancer in her mid-twenties who is bringing up a five-year-old son Antoine by herself... [More...]
Passion (1982)
Jean-Luc Godard
A Polish film director, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, is making a film in France during the political upheaval in Poland of the early 1980s... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
A Polish film director, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, is making a film in France during the political upheaval in Poland of the early 1980s... [More...]
Pauline à la plage (1983)
Eric Rohmer
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin Marion decide to spend their summer holidays together in a resort on the north coast of France... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin Marion decide to spend their summer holidays together in a resort on the north coast of France... [More...]
Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christmas is always a busy time for the staff of SOS Détresse-Amitié, a Paris-based phone-in counselling service that seeks to console the capital's depressed and distressed... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christmas is always a busy time for the staff of SOS Détresse-Amitié, a Paris-based phone-in counselling service that seeks to console the capital's depressed and distressed... [More...]
Péril en la demeure (1985)
Michel Deville
A young teacher, David Aurphet, agrees to give guitar lessons to Vivianne, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois couple. Straight away, David finds himself the object of unbridled desire for Vivianne's mother, Julia... [More...]
Michel Deville
A young teacher, David Aurphet, agrees to give guitar lessons to Vivianne, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois couple. Straight away, David finds himself the object of unbridled desire for Vivianne's mother, Julia... [More...]
La Petite voleuse (1988)
Claude Miller
In the 1950s, 16-year-old Janine lives with her aunt and uncle in a French provincial town after being abandoned by her mother... [More...]
Claude Miller
In the 1950s, 16-year-old Janine lives with her aunt and uncle in a French provincial town after being abandoned by her mother... [More...]
Pétrole! Pétrole! (1981)
Christian Gion
Jean-Marie Tardel, the owner of a large petroleum company, becomes anxious when his supplier, the Emir Abdullah, announces he intends increasing the price of a barrel of crude oil by seven per cent... [More...]
Christian Gion
Jean-Marie Tardel, the owner of a large petroleum company, becomes anxious when his supplier, the Emir Abdullah, announces he intends increasing the price of a barrel of crude oil by seven per cent... [More...]
Pile ou face (1980)
Robert Enrico
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others... [More...]
Robert Enrico
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others... [More...]
Pinot simple flic (1984)
Gérard Jugnot
It's mostly routine work being a beat cop, even in Paris's pretty rough-round-the-edges thirteenth arrondissement. Nearly all of Robert Pinot's days as an ordinary French cop involve patrolling the streets and dealing with minor incidents... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot
It's mostly routine work being a beat cop, even in Paris's pretty rough-round-the-edges thirteenth arrondissement. Nearly all of Robert Pinot's days as an ordinary French cop involve patrolling the streets and dealing with minor incidents... [More...]
La Pirate (1984)
Jacques Doillon
Alma, a young married woman, is taken by surprise when her former lesbian lover, Carole, returns and reawakens her erstwhile feelings for her... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Alma, a young married woman, is taken by surprise when her former lesbian lover, Carole, returns and reawakens her erstwhile feelings for her... [More...]
Pirates (1986)
Roman Polanski
On a sea infested with sharks there drifts a raft carrying two half-starved wretches: the famous pirate Captain Red and his young second-in-command, La Grenouille... [More...]
Roman Polanski
On a sea infested with sharks there drifts a raft carrying two half-starved wretches: the famous pirate Captain Red and his young second-in-command, La Grenouille... [More...]
Plein sud (1981)
Luc Béraud
Serge Laine is a 30-something philosophy professor who is on his way to Barcelona by train to attend a university conference and enjoy a second honeymoon with his wife... [More...]
Luc Béraud
Serge Laine is a 30-something philosophy professor who is on his way to Barcelona by train to attend a university conference and enjoy a second honeymoon with his wife... [More...]
Pleure pas my love (1989)
Tony Gatlif
One day, Jacques Baronski, a well-regarded filmmaker, is visited by a young man, Fred, who claims to be the son of an actress he once worked with but who subsequently committed suicide... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
One day, Jacques Baronski, a well-regarded filmmaker, is visited by a young man, Fred, who claims to be the son of an actress he once worked with but who subsequently committed suicide... [More...]
Poker (1988)
Catherine Corsini
Hélène is a Paris tourist guide who is addicted to gambling. One day, she loses fifty thousand francs in one session whilst playing poker with a gangster named Tonio... [More...]
Catherine Corsini
Hélène is a Paris tourist guide who is addicted to gambling. One day, she loses fifty thousand francs in one session whilst playing poker with a gangster named Tonio... [More...]
Polar (1984)
Jacques Bral
A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris... [More...]
Jacques Bral
A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris... [More...]
Police (1985)
Maurice Pialat
Based in an ordinary police station in Paris, Mangin is a driven police inspector who is on a personal crusade to smash a ring of drugs traffickers that is operating between Marseille and Paris... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
Based in an ordinary police station in Paris, Mangin is a driven police inspector who is on a personal crusade to smash a ring of drugs traffickers that is operating between Marseille and Paris... [More...]
Les Possédés (1988)
Andrzej Wajda
In 1870, a group of young Russian revolutionaries are planning to overturn the established order and rebuild their country anew... [More...]
Andrzej Wajda
In 1870, a group of young Russian revolutionaries are planning to overturn the established order and rebuild their country anew... [More...]
Poulet au vinaigre (1985)
Claude Chabrol
In a small French town, three prominent men - the butcher Filiol, lawyer Lavoisier and doctor Morasseau - have formed a property development consortium... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
In a small French town, three prominent men - the butcher Filiol, lawyer Lavoisier and doctor Morasseau - have formed a property development consortium... [More...]
Pour 100 briques t'as plus rien... (1982)
Edouard Molinaro
Unable to find work, Sam and Paul decide to hold up a bank. There has been a spate of bank robberies lately in Paris and one more won't make much difference... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Unable to find work, Sam and Paul decide to hold up a bank. There has been a spate of bank robberies lately in Paris and one more won't make much difference... [More...]
Pour la peau d'un flic (1981)
Alain Delon
Choucas gave up working as a regular cop some years ago and now he earns his crust as a private detective, assisted by his old friend Haymann... [More...]
Alain Delon
Choucas gave up working as a regular cop some years ago and now he earns his crust as a private detective, assisted by his old friend Haymann... [More...]
Pourquoi pas nous? (1981)
Michel Berny
Cromagnon is a loathsome wrestler when he is in the ring, an ape-like brute that people love to hate, but in real life he is as gentle as a lamb and wants only to be loved... [More...]
Michel Berny
Cromagnon is a loathsome wrestler when he is in the ring, an ape-like brute that people love to hate, but in real life he is as gentle as a lamb and wants only to be loved... [More...]
Prénom Carmen (1983)
Jean-Luc Godard
During a failed bank raid, a terrorist named Carmen is seduced by a security guard, Joseph. To escape arrest, Carmen appears to submit to her obsessed lover and the two take refuge in a seaside apartment... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard
During a failed bank raid, a terrorist named Carmen is seduced by a security guard, Joseph. To escape arrest, Carmen appears to submit to her obsessed lover and the two take refuge in a seaside apartment... [More...]
Le Prix du danger (1983)
Yves Boisset
A man is hunted to his death across a European city. Is he a criminal being pursued by the police? Is he the victim of a gangland killing... [More...]
Yves Boisset
A man is hunted to his death across a European city. Is he a criminal being pursued by the police? Is he the victim of a gangland killing... [More...]
Le Professionnel (1981)
Georges Lautner
Josselin Beaumont, an agent in the French secret service, is sent to Malagawi, a small African country, to assassinate its president, Njala... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Josselin Beaumont, an agent in the French secret service, is sent to Malagawi, a small African country, to assassinate its president, Njala... [More...]