French cinema: 1980
Atlantic City (1980)
Louis Malle
Some years after her husband Dave ran off with her sister, Sally Matthews has settled in Atlantic City, where she earns a modest crust as a waitress at one of the city's many popular casinos...
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Louis Malle
L'Avare (1980)
Louis de Funès
In the 17th century, after a life of scrimping and saving, Harpagon has managed to build up a substantial personal fortune...
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Louis de Funès
La Banquière (1980)
Francis Girod
Towards the end of the 1920s, Emma Eckhert has become one of the most talked about women in France. Not only is she stunningly beautiful and a staunch supporter of moral campaigns, she is also a hugely successful banker...
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Francis Girod
La Boum (1980)
Claude Pinoteau
François and Françoise Berreton are an ordinary middle-class couple who have recently settled in Paris with their 14-year-old daughter Vic...
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Claude Pinoteau
C'est pas moi, c'est lui (1980)
Pierre Richard
Georges Vallier owes his success as a celebrity screenwriter to his underpaid ghost writer Pierre Renard. When Pierre protests at the way he has been exploited, Valier allows him to take his place at a garden party hosted by the Italian film star Aldo Barazzutti...
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Pierre Richard
La Cage aux folles II (1980)
Edouard Molinaro
In Nice, the flamboyant impresario Renato still manages the popular night club La Cage aux folles with his transvestite partner Albin... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
In Nice, the flamboyant impresario Renato still manages the popular night club La Cage aux folles with his transvestite partner Albin... [More...]
Les Charlots contre Dracula (1980)
Jean-Pierre Desagnat
The son of the vampiric fiend Count Dracula is keen to follow in his father's footsteps, but he can only do so if he drinks a magic potion given to him by his doting mother... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Desagnat
The son of the vampiric fiend Count Dracula is keen to follow in his father's footsteps, but he can only do so if he drinks a magic potion given to him by his doting mother... [More...]
Chère inconnue (1980)
Moshé Mizrahi
Gilles and Louise are a brother and sister who have lived all their lives together in a remote house by the sea not far from Quimper in Brittany... [More...]
Moshé Mizrahi
Gilles and Louise are a brother and sister who have lived all their lives together in a remote house by the sea not far from Quimper in Brittany... [More...]
Le Cheval d'orgueil (1980)
Claude Chabrol
Pierre-Jakez Helias recounts his childhood experience from 1908 to 1918. Growing up in a small Brittany village, Helias recalls with affection his father Pierre-Alain and mother Anne-Marie... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Pierre-Jakez Helias recounts his childhood experience from 1908 to 1918. Growing up in a small Brittany village, Helias recalls with affection his father Pierre-Alain and mother Anne-Marie... [More...]
Le Coup du parapluie (1980)
Gérard Oury
Small-time actor Grégoire Lecomte thinks he has landed a starring role in a film, in which he is to play a hired killer... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Small-time actor Grégoire Lecomte thinks he has landed a starring role in a film, in which he is to play a hired killer... [More...]
La Dame aux camélias (1980)
Mauro Bolognini
At a stage performance of Alexandre Dumas fils' celebrated novel Camille, an old man reflects on the events which provided the inspiration for the story... [More...]
Mauro Bolognini
At a stage performance of Alexandre Dumas fils' celebrated novel Camille, an old man reflects on the events which provided the inspiration for the story... [More...]
Le Dernier métro (1980)
François Truffaut
With France under Nazi occupation, the Jewish playwright and stage director Lucas Steiner fears being deported like so many of his race... [More...]
François Truffaut
With France under Nazi occupation, the Jewish playwright and stage director Lucas Steiner fears being deported like so many of his race... [More...]
Extérieur, nuit (1980)
Jacques Bral
Léo and Bony are two friends who both seem to have arrived at a crossroads in their lives. They belong to the May '68 generation who believed they could change the world, only to be disillusioned by what followed... [More...]
Jacques Bral
Léo and Bony are two friends who both seem to have arrived at a crossroads in their lives. They belong to the May '68 generation who believed they could change the world, only to be disillusioned by what followed... [More...]
La Femme de l'aviateur (1980)
Eric Rohmer
A postal worker, François, is about to visit his girlfriend, Anne, early one morning, when he sees another man leaving her apartment... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
A postal worker, François, is about to visit his girlfriend, Anne, early one morning, when he sees another man leaving her apartment... [More...]
La Femme flic (1980)
Yves Boisset
A young female police inspector, Corinne Levasseur, is re-assigned to a provincial town after having implicated a public figure in a drugs scandal... [More...]
Yves Boisset
A young female police inspector, Corinne Levasseur, is re-assigned to a provincial town after having implicated a public figure in a drugs scandal... [More...]
Le Guignolo (1980)
Georges Lautner
Within days of leaving prison, international conman Alexandre Dupré is soon back to his old habits, hoping to make his fortune by preying on the gullibility and greed of others... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Within days of leaving prison, international conman Alexandre Dupré is soon back to his old habits, hoping to make his fortune by preying on the gullibility and greed of others... [More...]
Inspecteur la Bavure (1980)
Claude Zidi
Jules Clément's distinguished police career ends tragically when he is fatally wounded whilst trying to bring a notorious hoodlum to book... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Jules Clément's distinguished police career ends tragically when he is fatally wounded whilst trying to bring a notorious hoodlum to book... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Alain Resnais
Henri Laborit is a world-renowned biologist who conjectures that human beings exhibit virtually identical patterns of behaviour to other animals in stress situations... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Henri Laborit is a world-renowned biologist who conjectures that human beings exhibit virtually identical patterns of behaviour to other animals in stress situations... [More...]
La Mort en direct (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [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...]
Rendez-moi ma peau... (1980)
Patrick Schulmann
Zora is a witch who cannot bear the prospect that she is gradually losing her magical powers. Only one person can help her - the Grand Master - and she needs to get to him as quickly as she can... [More...]
Patrick Schulmann
Zora is a witch who cannot bear the prospect that she is gradually losing her magical powers. Only one person can help her - the Grand Master - and she needs to get to him as quickly as she can... [More...]
Retour en force (1980)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Leaving prison after an eight year stretch, Adrien Blausac is surprised to find that his wife Térésa is living with another man - a bus driver named Roger... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
Leaving prison after an eight year stretch, Adrien Blausac is surprised to find that his wife Térésa is living with another man - a bus driver named Roger... [More...]
Le Roi et l'oiseau (1980)
Paul Grimault
Charles, the King of Takicardie, is a cruel tyrant who likes nothing better than to go hunting birds. In this he is opposed by his most fervent enemy, a mockingbird who delights in embarrassing him... [More...]
Paul Grimault
Charles, the King of Takicardie, is a cruel tyrant who likes nothing better than to go hunting birds. In this he is opposed by his most fervent enemy, a mockingbird who delights in embarrassing him... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]