French cinema: 1982
L'As des as (1982)
Gérard Oury
Jo Cavalier is the coach for the French boxing team at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. On the train to Berlin, he is accosted by a ten year old Jewish boy, Simon, who asks for his autograph - previously Jo was a flying hero who served in the flying corps during World War I...
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Gérard Oury
La Balance (1982)
Bob Swaim
Inspector Palouzi, the head of a driven vice squad in a crime-ridden district of Paris, finds he has a problem when one of his best informers is gunned down in the street...
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Bob Swaim
Le Beau mariage (1982)
Eric Rohmer
Sabine is a 25 year old student in art history at Paris University. She is currently having an affair with a married man, Simon, but she suddenly decides to put an end to the relationship when she grows tired of the incessant phone calls from her lover's wife and children...
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Eric Rohmer
Boulevard des assassins (1982)
Boramy Tioulong
50-year-old writer Daniel Salmon is in desperate need of a break when his latest novel fails to sell. Coming in the wake of his messy divorce, this set-back has badly shaken Salmon's confidence and he needs to get away for a few weeks...
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Boramy Tioulong
Le Cadeau (1982)
Michel Lang
When banker Grégoire Dufour announces his decision to take early retirement at the age of 55, his colleagues decide to offer him the ultimate leaving present, a call girl...
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Michel Lang
Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ (1982)
Jean Yanne
At Rahatlocum, a Roman colony in North Africa, the natives are growing restless under the heel of their imperial masters... [More...]
Jean Yanne
At Rahatlocum, a Roman colony in North Africa, the natives are growing restless under the heel of their imperial masters... [More...]
Espion, lève-toi (1982)
Yves Boisset
Having worked for as a spy for the French government, Sébastien Grenier is now enjoying a peaceful life in Zurich, living with his German girlfriend and working as a financier... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Having worked for as a spy for the French government, Sébastien Grenier is now enjoying a peaceful life in Zurich, living with his German girlfriend and working as a financier... [More...]
L'Étoile du Nord (1982)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Edouard Binet has spent the last few years travelling in North Africa. On his return to France by steamboat, he meets a young dancer, Sylvie Baron, whom he introduces to a wealthy businessman, Nemrod Loktoum... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Edouard Binet has spent the last few years travelling in North Africa. On his return to France by steamboat, he meets a young dancer, Sylvie Baron, whom he introduces to a wealthy businessman, Nemrod Loktoum... [More...]
Les Fantômes du chapelier (1982)
Claude Chabrol
Léon Labbé owns a hatter's shop in a small provincial town in northern France. To the outside world, he is a respectable tradesman, dutifully caring for his disabled wife... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Léon Labbé owns a hatter's shop in a small provincial town in northern France. To the outside world, he is a respectable tradesman, dutifully caring for his disabled wife... [More...]
Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes (1982)
Tony Aboyantz
Shortly after moving into their new headquarters, the gendarmes of Saint-Tropez are told that four female trainee gendarmes are to put into their charge... [More...]
Tony Aboyantz
Shortly after moving into their new headquarters, the gendarmes of Saint-Tropez are told that four female trainee gendarmes are to put into their charge... [More...]
Le Grand frère (1982)
Francis Girod
Two French legionnaires, Rossi and Berger, crash-land in Africa. Having shot his colleague and left him for dead, Rossi runs off with some of the cash their plane was carrying... [More...]
Francis Girod
Two French legionnaires, Rossi and Berger, crash-land in Africa. Having shot his colleague and left him for dead, Rossi runs off with some of the cash their plane was carrying... [More...]
Le Grand pardon (1982)
Alexandre Arcady
At the age of 50, Raymond Bettoun finds himself at the head of one of the most notorious gangster clans in France, one that is proud of its Jewish pied-noir ancestry... [More...]
Alexandre Arcady
At the age of 50, Raymond Bettoun finds himself at the head of one of the most notorious gangster clans in France, one that is proud of its Jewish pied-noir ancestry... [More...]
Guy de Maupassant (1982)
Michel Drach
In the summer of 1891, at the height of his fame, Guy de Maupassant begins to lose his mind. Unable to complete his latest novel, L'Angélus, he falls victim to severe headaches and frightening hallucinations that cause him to think his end is near... [More...]
Michel Drach
In the summer of 1891, at the height of his fame, Guy de Maupassant begins to lose his mind. Unable to complete his latest novel, L'Angélus, he falls victim to severe headaches and frightening hallucinations that cause him to think his end is near... [More...]
L'Honneur d'un capitaine (1982)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
In the course of a television debate on the Algerian War in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounces the use of torture by French troops during the conflict... [More...]
Pierre Schoendoerffer
In the course of a television debate on the Algerian War in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounces the use of torture by French troops during the conflict... [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...]
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...]
Mille milliards de dollars (1982)
Henri Verneuil
Paul Kerjean is a journalist on a leading French news weekly, La Tribune. One day, he receives an anonymous phone call revealing that the respected industrialist Jacques Benoît-Lambert is facing financial ruin... [More...]
Henri Verneuil
Paul Kerjean is a journalist on a leading French news weekly, La Tribune. One day, he receives an anonymous phone call revealing that the respected industrialist Jacques Benoît-Lambert is facing financial ruin... [More...]
Les Misérables (1982)
Robert Hossein
Sent to jail for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean has every reason for hating humanity and embarking on a life of crime when he is released twenty years later... [More...]
Robert Hossein
Sent to jail for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean has every reason for hating humanity and embarking on a life of crime when he is released twenty years later... [More...]
Mon curé chez les nudistes (1982)
Robert Thomas
Whilst his methods are far from orthodox, a village priest is having some success in gathering a congregation for Mass. The collection has never been so bountiful since he introduced advertising as part of the service... [More...]
Robert Thomas
Whilst his methods are far from orthodox, a village priest is having some success in gathering a congregation for Mass. The collection has never been so bountiful since he introduced advertising as part of the service... [More...]
La Nuit de Varennes (1982)
Ettore Scola
June 1791. When the controversial writer and printer Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital... [More...]
Ettore Scola
June 1791. When the controversial writer and printer Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital... [More...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Le Quart d'heure américain (1982)
Philippe Galland
Desperately disillusioned with his present humdrum existence in France, Ferdinand, a balding and irascible 30-something, has made up his mind to leave the country and start a new life in the Far East... [More...]
Philippe Galland
Desperately disillusioned with his present humdrum existence in France, Ferdinand, a balding and irascible 30-something, has made up his mind to leave the country and start a new life in the Far East... [More...]
Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt! (1982)
Denys Granier-Deferre
André Joeuf, the head of an insurance company, invites his staff to spend a relaxing weekend at his house in the country... [More...]
Denys Granier-Deferre
André Joeuf, the head of an insurance company, invites his staff to spend a relaxing weekend at his house in the country... [More...]
Le Retour de Martin Guerre (1982)
Daniel Vigne
Early in the 1500s, there is a mood of celebration in the small village of Artigat in the Ariège region of southwest France... [More...]
Daniel Vigne
Early in the 1500s, there is a mood of celebration in the small village of Artigat in the Ariège region of southwest France... [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...]
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...]
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...]