French cinema: 1988
36 fillette (1988)
Catherine Breillat
Whilst on a camping holiday in Biarritz with her family, a 14 year old girl named Lili becomes obsessed with losing her virginity...
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Catherine Breillat
À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur (1988)
Edouard Molinaro
Yan, a successful artist, is waiting for his date, Florence, to turn up at his apartment. His doorbell rings and on his doorstep he finds another young woman, his neighbour Eva, dressed in her underwear...
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Edouard Molinaro
Les Années sandwiches (1988)
Pierre Boutron
In July 1947, a Jewish boy named Victor runs away from his adopted home in the south of France and heads for Paris. The 15-year-old has no one to turn, not after his parents were arrested and sent off to the concentration camps during the war...
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Pierre Boutron
La Bande des quatre (1988)
Jacques Rivette
Constance Dumas is a renowned drama teacher who, for many years, has only taken budding young actresses under her wing. Four of her pupils, Claude, Joyce, Lucia and Anna live together in a house in the suburbs...
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Jacques Rivette
Bernadette (1988)
Jean Delannoy
In 1858, 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous and her family take up residence in a disused prison in the French town of Lourdes...
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Jean Delannoy
Bonjour l'angoisse (1988)
Pierre Tchernia
Michaud is a timid 50-something who works for Stopalarm, a company that specialises in high-tech alarm systems. Despite his 32 years of loyal service, Michaud is threatened with early retirement... [More...]
Pierre Tchernia
Michaud is a timid 50-something who works for Stopalarm, a company that specialises in high-tech alarm systems. Despite his 32 years of loyal service, Michaud is threatened with early retirement... [More...]
Camille Claudel (1988)
Bruno Nuytten
In the early 1880s, Camille Claudel settles in Paris with her family, and with the support of her mother and brother Paul she is able to devote herself to her art with the hope of becoming a great sculptor... [More...]
Bruno Nuytten
In the early 1880s, Camille Claudel settles in Paris with her family, and with the support of her mother and brother Paul she is able to devote herself to her art with the hope of becoming a great sculptor... [More...]
Chocolat (1988)
Claire Denis
A young French woman named France returns to Cameroon after twenty years and is prompted to recall the happy childhood years she spent there in the 1950s... [More...]
Claire Denis
A young French woman named France returns to Cameroon after twenty years and is prompted to recall the happy childhood years she spent there in the 1950s... [More...]
Chouans! (1988)
Philippe de Broca
The Count Savinien de Kerfadec is a Breton aristocrat who is so devoted to his dream of building a flying machine that he scarcely notices the revolutionary sentiment that is sweeping his country... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
The Count Savinien de Kerfadec is a Breton aristocrat who is so devoted to his dream of building a flying machine that he scarcely notices the revolutionary sentiment that is sweeping his country... [More...]
De bruit et de fureur (1988)
Jean-Claude Brisseau
After the death of his grandmother, 14-year-old Bruno goes to live with his mother on a low income housing estate on the outskirts of Paris... [More...]
Jean-Claude Brisseau
After the death of his grandmother, 14-year-old Bruno goes to live with his mother on a low income housing estate on the outskirts of Paris... [More...]
Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre (1988)
François Dupeyron
Late one evening, an attractive woman in her mid-forties is brutally ejected from a car driven by her husband. They have had yet another row, but this time France has good reason to think that her marriage may be over as her irate husband drives off at speed, leaving her stranded by the side of the road... [More...]
François Dupeyron
Late one evening, an attractive woman in her mid-forties is brutally ejected from a car driven by her husband. They have had yet another row, but this time France has good reason to think that her marriage may be over as her irate husband drives off at speed, leaving her stranded by the side of the road... [More...]
En toute innocence (1988)
Alain Jessua
Paul Duchène and his son Thomas run an architectural business from their country estate. One day, Paul returns home to find Thomas' wife, Catherine, making love with one of his business associates... [More...]
Alain Jessua
Paul Duchène and his son Thomas run an architectural business from their country estate. One day, Paul returns home to find Thomas' wife, Catherine, making love with one of his business associates... [More...]
L'Étudiante (1988)
Claude Pinoteau
Valentine and Edouard have nothing in common, and they could hardly be more different, but as soon as their paths cross during a skiing holiday they know they are right for each other... [More...]
Claude Pinoteau
Valentine and Edouard have nothing in common, and they could hardly be more different, but as soon as their paths cross during a skiing holiday they know they are right for each other... [More...]
Frantic (1988)
Roman Polanski
Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper... [More...]
Le Grand bleu (1988)
Luc Besson
Jacques Mayol and and Enzo Molinari are two men who have shared an intense passion for the sea since their childhood. Molinari, the current world free diving champion, coerces Mayol into competing against him in the next tournament... [More...]
Luc Besson
Jacques Mayol and and Enzo Molinari are two men who have shared an intense passion for the sea since their childhood. Molinari, the current world free diving champion, coerces Mayol into competing against him in the next tournament... [More...]
Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté (1988)
Claude Lelouch
Sam Lion has led a full and successful life. As a young boy, abandoned by his mother, he was adopted by a circus family, where he developed an afinity for big cats... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Sam Lion has led a full and successful life. As a young boy, abandoned by his mother, he was adopted by a circus family, where he developed an afinity for big cats... [More...]
La Lectrice (1988)
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading... [More...]
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading... [More...]
La Maison assassinée (1988)
Georges Lautner
In the aftermath of the First World War, Séraphin Monge returns to his home village in the south of France and sets about finding himself a job... [More...]
Georges Lautner
In the aftermath of the First World War, Séraphin Monge returns to his home village in the south of France and sets about finding himself a job... [More...]
Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort (1988)
José Pinheiro
A disillusioned police inspector, Roger Scatti, leads an extreme right-wing cell “Fidélité Police”, which applies its own notion of justice to underworld crooks - usually in the form of summary execution... [More...]
José Pinheiro
A disillusioned police inspector, Roger Scatti, leads an extreme right-wing cell “Fidélité Police”, which applies its own notion of justice to underworld crooks - usually in the form of summary execution... [More...]
L'Oeuvre au noir (1988)
André Delvaux
In Europe during the 16th century, Zénon Ligre is a prominent surgeon and alchemist who devotes his life to the study of the human body and the relief of mortal suffering... [More...]
André Delvaux
In Europe during the 16th century, Zénon Ligre is a prominent surgeon and alchemist who devotes his life to the study of the human body and the relief of mortal suffering... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Quelques jours avec moi (1988)
Claude Sautet
Martial Pasquier returns home after a spell in a psychiatric home. His mother, the head of a successful supermarket chain, hires him to look into the accounts of some of her less profitable stores... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Martial Pasquier returns home after a spell in a psychiatric home. His mother, the head of a successful supermarket chain, hires him to look into the accounts of some of her less profitable stores... [More...]
Les Saisons du plaisir (1988)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Happy newly weds Charles and Emmanuelle Van Bert can be forgiven for wanting to take things more easily. Both are over a hundred years old and are keen to get on with their retirement, but first Charles has the somewhat onerous task of appointing his successor... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Happy newly weds Charles and Emmanuelle Van Bert can be forgiven for wanting to take things more easily. Both are over a hundred years old and are keen to get on with their retirement, but first Charles has the somewhat onerous task of appointing his successor... [More...]
Sans peur et sans reproche (1988)
Gérard Jugnot
In the late 1400s, King Charles VIII of France sends his armies to Italy to seize the kingdom of Naples. One of the King's most devoted captains is Bellabre, who is looking for an opportunity to redeem himself after being made a laughing stock in a jousting tournament by a common stable hand Pierre Terrail... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot
In the late 1400s, King Charles VIII of France sends his armies to Italy to seize the kingdom of Naples. One of the King's most devoted captains is Bellabre, who is looking for an opportunity to redeem himself after being made a laughing stock in a jousting tournament by a common stable hand Pierre Terrail... [More...]
La Table tournante (1988)
Paul Grimault
The acclaimed animator Paul Grimault returns to his workshop where he is greeted by a small cartoon clown who is curious to know everything about life and cartoons... [More...]
Paul Grimault
The acclaimed animator Paul Grimault returns to his workshop where he is greeted by a small cartoon clown who is curious to know everything about life and cartoons... [More...]
Trois places pour le 26 (1988)
Jacques Demy
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, the town where he grew up and began his career, to prepare an international tour... [More...]
Jacques Demy
Popular singer Yves Montand returns to Marseilles, the town where he grew up and began his career, to prepare an international tour... [More...]
Une affaire de femmes (1988)
Claude Chabrol
During the Nazi occupation of France, a young woman, Marie, provides an abortion service for pregnant women who are single or whose husbands are away from home... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
During the Nazi occupation of France, a young woman, Marie, provides an abortion service for pregnant women who are single or whose husbands are away from home... [More...]