French cinema: 1986
37°2 le matin (1986)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Zorg is a free-spirited thirty-something who earns a modest wage repairing holiday bungalows in the south of France. One day, he meets Betty, an impulsive young woman to whom he is instantly attracted...
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Jean-Jacques Beineix
Attention bandits! (1986)
Claude Lelouch
One-time crook Simon Verini decides to come out of retirement when Mozart, the leader of a gang of jewel thieves, offers to put some business his way...
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Claude Lelouch
The Beekeeper (1986)
Theodoros Angelopoulos
After giving up his job as a schoolteacher 60-year-old Spiros needs a hobby to occupy him, so he decides to take up beekeeping...
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Theodoros Angelopoulos
Bleu comme l'enfer (1986)
Yves Boisset
Ned is a smalltime crook whose attempt to rob a motorway snack bar is frustrated by Franck, a ruthless cop. Never one to play by the rules if he can help it, Franck takes Ned back to his home at gunpoint, with the intention of inflicting on him some suitable form of chastisement...
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Yves Boisset
Cent francs l'amour (1986)
Jacques Richard
Jérémy is a struggling young photographer who desperately needs some cash so that he can put on an exhibition of his work...
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Jacques Richard
Charlotte for Ever (1986)
Serge Gainsbourg
Twenty years ago, Stan was a highly regarded Hollywood screenwriter. Now he is a depressive alcoholic who spends his empty days wallowing in self-pity in his large house... [More...]
Serge Gainsbourg
Twenty years ago, Stan was a highly regarded Hollywood screenwriter. Now he is a depressive alcoholic who spends his empty days wallowing in self-pity in his large house... [More...]
Le Complexe du kangourou (1986)
Pierre Jolivet
Loïc, a Parisian artist in his mid-thirties, prefers to burn his paintings rather than sell them before he has perfected his talent... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Loïc, a Parisian artist in his mid-thirties, prefers to burn his paintings rather than sell them before he has perfected his talent... [More...]
Cours privé (1986)
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Shortly after she takes up a teaching post in a reputable private school, Jeanne Kern begins to receive offensive letters from an unknown admirer... [More...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Shortly after she takes up a teaching post in a reputable private school, Jeanne Kern begins to receive offensive letters from an unknown admirer... [More...]
Le Débutant (1986)
Daniel Janneau
François Veber is a young electrician who leads a humdrum existence in Touraine with his partner, a physical education instructor... [More...]
Daniel Janneau
François Veber is a young electrician who leads a humdrum existence in Touraine with his partner, a physical education instructor... [More...]
Double messieurs (1986)
Jean-François Stévenin
After 25 years, François, a modest businessman, is reunited with his childhood friend Léo, a film double. It's a reunion which affects both men profoundly, and immediately they discover their adolescent sense of fun... [More...]
Jean-François Stévenin
After 25 years, François, a modest businessman, is reunited with his childhood friend Léo, a film double. It's a reunion which affects both men profoundly, and immediately they discover their adolescent sense of fun... [More...]
L'État de grâce (1986)
Jacques Rouffio
France, 1981. Antoine Lombard is the secretary of state for Universities in the newly elected social government. During a hostile meeting with the employers' union, he meets Florence Vannier-Buchet, a hard-headed businesswoman who owns one of the country's largest sportswear companies... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
France, 1981. Antoine Lombard is the secretary of state for Universities in the newly elected social government. During a hostile meeting with the employers' union, he meets Florence Vannier-Buchet, a hard-headed businesswoman who owns one of the country's largest sportswear companies... [More...]
La Femme de ma vie (1986)
Régis Wargnier
Simon was once an acclaimed virtuoso violinist, before he became a alcoholic and sank into the mire of depression. His life is ruined, and even his wife Laura can do nothing for him... [More...]
Régis Wargnier
Simon was once an acclaimed virtuoso violinist, before he became a alcoholic and sank into the mire of depression. His life is ruined, and even his wife Laura can do nothing for him... [More...]
La Femme secrète (1986)
Sébastien Grall
Learning of his wife death's, Antoine Béraud abandons his work on an experimental submarine in the North Sea and returns to his home in Paris... [More...]
Sébastien Grall
Learning of his wife death's, Antoine Béraud abandons his work on an experimental submarine in the North Sea and returns to his home in Paris... [More...]
Les Folles années du twist (1986)
Mahmoud Zemmouri
Algeria, 1960. In a small village, the arrival of western pop music (notably "The Twist") is making an impression every bit as great as the on-going struggle between the pro- and anti- liberationists... [More...]
Mahmoud Zemmouri
Algeria, 1960. In a small village, the arrival of western pop music (notably "The Twist") is making an impression every bit as great as the on-going struggle between the pro- and anti- liberationists... [More...]
Les Fugitifs (1986)
Francis Veber
A series of bank robberies has earned Jean Lucas a five year stretch in prison. Once his term of incarceration is over, he vows to turn over a new leaf and become an honest man, a resolution which his old enemy police superintendent Duroc doubts he will stick to for long... [More...]
Francis Veber
A series of bank robberies has earned Jean Lucas a five year stretch in prison. Once his term of incarceration is over, he vows to turn over a new leaf and become an honest man, a resolution which his old enemy police superintendent Duroc doubts he will stick to for long... [More...]
La Gitane (1986)
Philippe de Broca
Hubert Durieux runs a bank in the small town of Oise in the north of France. His fairly routine existence is governed by the three women in his life - his nagging ex-wife Brigitte, his demanding daughter Florence and his over-sexed mistress Elsa... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
Hubert Durieux runs a bank in the small town of Oise in the north of France. His fairly routine existence is governed by the three women in his life - his nagging ex-wife Brigitte, his demanding daughter Florence and his over-sexed mistress Elsa... [More...]
Inspecteur Lavardin (1986)
Claude Chabrol
In a small town on a drab stretch of the Brittany coastline, the renowned Catholic writer Raoul Mons leads an exemplary life, intent on upholding moral standards in the district... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
In a small town on a drab stretch of the Brittany coastline, the renowned Catholic writer Raoul Mons leads an exemplary life, intent on upholding moral standards in the district... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
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...]
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...]
Mauvais sang (1986)
Leos Carax
Paris, 1986. As Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth, the capital is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave... [More...]
Leos Carax
Paris, 1986. As Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth, the capital is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave... [More...]
Max mon amour (1986)
Nagisa Ôshima
Suspecting that his wife, Margaret, is having a secret love affair, Peter Jones, a British ambassador in Paris, engages a private detective to investigate... [More...]
Nagisa Ôshima
Suspecting that his wife, Margaret, is having a secret love affair, Peter Jones, a British ambassador in Paris, engages a private detective to investigate... [More...]
Mélo (1986)
Alain Resnais
Two old friends, Marcel and Pierre, get together one evening for a meal and to reminisce on old times. Marcel is now a world famous virtuoso violinist whilst Pierre has settled down for a quiet life with his wife, Romaine... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Two old friends, Marcel and Pierre, get together one evening for a meal and to reminisce on old times. Marcel is now a world famous virtuoso violinist whilst Pierre has settled down for a quiet life with his wife, Romaine... [More...]
Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1986)
Jacques Rouffio
The esteemed anthropologist Octave Clapoteau is the happiest of men on the day when he is admitted to the Académie Française with the support of his friend Etienne Sembadel, a well-known psychiatrist... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
The esteemed anthropologist Octave Clapoteau is the happiest of men on the day when he is admitted to the Académie Française with the support of his friend Etienne Sembadel, a well-known psychiatrist... [More...]
Mort un dimanche de pluie (1986)
Joël Santoni
Elaine Briand lives with her husband David in a futuristic house in the country which he, a distinguished architect, designed... [More...]
Joël Santoni
Elaine Briand lives with her husband David in a futuristic house in the country which he, a distinguished architect, designed... [More...]
Noir et blanc (1986)
Claire Devers
Antoine is a boring young accountant who leads a boring humdrum existence. For his latest assignment, he is sent to a sports centre to sort out the company's accounts... [More...]
Claire Devers
Antoine is a boring young accountant who leads a boring humdrum existence. For his latest assignment, he is sent to a sports centre to sort out the company's accounts... [More...]
Le Paltoquet (1986)
Michel Deville
Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance... [More...]
Michel Deville
Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]