French cinema: 1987
Agent trouble (1987)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
One winter's morning a coach laden with tourists careers off the road and plunges into an icy lake in the Pyrenees. Fifty are killed...
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Jean-Pierre Mocky
L'Ami de mon amie (1987)
Eric Rohmer
In a pristine new town on the outskirts of Paris, a young civil servant, Blanche, strikes up a friendship with a computer programmer, Léa...
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Eric Rohmer
L'Amoureuse (1987)
Jacques Doillon
Eight girlfriends meet up at a resort on the Normandy coast to celebrate the birthday of their friend. The nine friends are each on the rebound from some emotional crisis but they manage to amuse themselves, mainly by trying to seduce and humiliate any men they can find...
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Jacques Doillon
Association de malfaiteurs (1987)
Claude Zidi
Thierry, Gérard and Francis have all managed to make a success of their lives but their college friend Daniel only succeeds in getting himself into trouble with his get rich quick schemes...
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Claude Zidi
Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
Louis Malle
France, 1944, during the Nazi Occupation. The Christmas holidays over, 12-year-old Julien Quentin must leave his comfortable middleclass home in Paris and return to his Catholic boarding school in the country...
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Louis Malle
Le Beauf (1987)
Yves Amoureux
Gilbert has settled into a humdrum life. To support his family, he works for a bank where his sole task is to operating a machine which incinerates banknotes... [More...]
Yves Amoureux
Gilbert has settled into a humdrum life. To support his family, he works for a bank where his sole task is to operating a machine which incinerates banknotes... [More...]
Le Cri du hibou (1987)
Claude Chabrol
An artist, Robert, moves to Vichy after having separated from his wife, Véronique. He relieves his depression by spying on a young woman, Juliette, who lives in a house in the countryside with her fiancé Patrick... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
An artist, Robert, moves to Vichy after having separated from his wife, Véronique. He relieves his depression by spying on a young woman, Juliette, who lives in a house in the countryside with her fiancé Patrick... [More...]
De guerre lasse (1987)
Robert Enrico
May, 1942. After her husband, a Jewish surgeon, commits suicide, Alice leaves Nazi-controlled Austria with Jerôme, a diplomat... [More...]
Robert Enrico
May, 1942. After her husband, a Jewish surgeon, commits suicide, Alice leaves Nazi-controlled Austria with Jerôme, a diplomat... [More...]
Les Deux crocodiles (1987)
Joël Séria
Émile Rivereau, a modest ironmonger from Saumur in western France, travels to Brittany for his holidays and to visit his aged mother, who has moved into a retirement home in Quimper... [More...]
Joël Séria
Émile Rivereau, a modest ironmonger from Saumur in western France, travels to Brittany for his holidays and to visit his aged mother, who has moved into a retirement home in Quimper... [More...]
L'Été en pente douce (1987)
Gérard Krawczyk
Fane is a beer swigging lout living on a poor housing estate. When he learns of his mother's death, he jumps at the chance to start a new life in the countryside... [More...]
Gérard Krawczyk
Fane is a beer swigging lout living on a poor housing estate. When he learns of his mother's death, he jumps at the chance to start a new life in the countryside... [More...]
Le Grand chemin (1987)
Jean-Loup Hubert
In the summer of 1959, a coach arrives in a small village in rural Brittany, bringing a pregnant mother Claire and her nine-year-old son Louis... [More...]
Jean-Loup Hubert
In the summer of 1959, a coach arrives in a small village in rural Brittany, bringing a pregnant mother Claire and her nine-year-old son Louis... [More...]
Les Innocents (1987)
André Téchiné
Jeanne, a young woman from the north of France, travels to the Mediterranean sea town of Toulon to attend the wedding of her older sister to a North African man... [More...]
André Téchiné
Jeanne, a young woman from the north of France, travels to the Mediterranean sea town of Toulon to attend the wedding of her older sister to a North African man... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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 Miraculé (1987)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Papu, an unscrupulous peddler, is selling balloons one evening when he is run over by a car. Pretending he has lost the use of his legs, he hopes to profit from an insurance claim, but he has no desire to remain a pretend invalid for the rest of his life... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Papu, an unscrupulous peddler, is selling balloons one evening when he is run over by a car. Pretending he has lost the use of his legs, he hopes to profit from an insurance claim, but he has no desire to remain a pretend invalid for the rest of his life... [More...]
Les Mois d'avril sont meurtriers (1987)
Laurent Heynemann
When an informer is executed, his dismembered remains found in several bin bags, Fred, a resilient police inspector, leads the murder investigation with his customary dogged determination... [More...]
Laurent Heynemann
When an informer is executed, his dismembered remains found in several bin bags, Fred, a resilient police inspector, leads the murder investigation with his customary dogged determination... [More...]
Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987)
Eric Rohmer
During a holiday in the countryside, a Parisian teenager Mirabelle meets a country girl Reinette, who lives in a converted barn and whose interests include nature and art... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
During a holiday in the countryside, a Parisian teenager Mirabelle meets a country girl Reinette, who lives in a converted barn and whose interests include nature and art... [More...]
La Rumba (1987)
Roger Hanin
In 1938, Beppo Manzoni is one of the kings of the Parisian underworld, thanks to his large network of casinos and nightclubs... [More...]
Roger Hanin
In 1938, Beppo Manzoni is one of the kings of the Parisian underworld, thanks to his large network of casinos and nightclubs... [More...]
Le Solitaire (1987)
Jacques Deray
A jaundiced police commissioner, Stan Jalard, is planning to start a new life, running a hotel in the Antilles with best friend... [More...]
Jacques Deray
A jaundiced police commissioner, Stan Jalard, is planning to start a new life, running a hotel in the Antilles with best friend... [More...]
Sous le soleil de Satan (1987)
Maurice Pialat
In a rural village in the north of France in the 1920s, an inexperienced Catholic priest, Donissan, is beginning to have doubts about his suitability for the priesthood... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
In a rural village in the north of France in the 1920s, an inexperienced Catholic priest, Donissan, is beginning to have doubts about his suitability for the priesthood... [More...]
Tandem (1987)
Patrice Leconte
For the past 25 years, Michel Mortez has hosted the popular radio game show The Cat's Tongue. Over that time, the show has become the most important thing in Mortez's life and now, in the twilight of his career, he has neither friends nor family... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
For the past 25 years, Michel Mortez has hosted the popular radio game show The Cat's Tongue. Over that time, the show has become the most important thing in Mortez's life and now, in the twilight of his career, he has neither friends nor family... [More...]
La Vallée fantôme (1987)
Alain Tanner
In Geneva, Paul, a filmmaker in his fifties, has lost interest in his profession. He wants to make another film, but he lacks inspiration and cannot decide either on the subject or the location... [More...]
Alain Tanner
In Geneva, Paul, a filmmaker in his fifties, has lost interest in his profession. He wants to make another film, but he lacks inspiration and cannot decide either on the subject or the location... [More...]
La Vie dissolue de Gérard Floque (1987)
Georges Lautner
On the day he loses his job with an advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and that his wife is having a raunchy affair with a TV presenter... [More...]
Georges Lautner
On the day he loses his job with an advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and that his wife is having a raunchy affair with a TV presenter... [More...]