French cinema: 1989
Baptême (1989)
René Féret
A mining town in northern France, 1935. Aline, a young waitress in a café, falls in love with one of her customers, Pierre, and persuades her reluctant parents to let him marry her...
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René Féret
Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989)
Enki Bilal
In the not too distant future, a violent civil war brings down a totalitarian state. As the war rages on the surface, the high ranking leaders of the old regime take flight and seek the sanctuary offered by Bunker Palace Hotel...
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Enki Bilal
Deux (1989)
Claude Zidi
Marc Lambert is a composer of contemporary music who makes a comfortable living organising concerts and promoting the work of up-and-coming composers...
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Claude Zidi
Dieu vomit les tièdes (1989)
Robert Guédiguian
Many years ago, four children - three boys and one girl - made a sacred vow that they would never forget their humble origins, no matter which course their lives took...
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Robert Guédiguian
La Fille de 15 ans (1989)
Jacques Doillon
Juliette is a girl of fifteen years who thinks she has understood all there is to know about love. Her present beau is a boy of her own age, Thomas, with whom she enjoys a close but, so far, platonic relationship...
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Jacques Doillon
Force majeure (1989)
Pierre Jolivet
Philippe is a promising student about to sit his exams and who is looking forward to a successful research career. Daniel is another young man who has a girl friend, a baby, and who enjoys his hedonistic freedom... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Philippe is a promising student about to sit his exams and who is looking forward to a successful research career. Daniel is another young man who has a girl friend, a baby, and who enjoys his hedonistic freedom... [More...]
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre (1989)
Denis Amar
France, 1954. With the country's economy still in a parlous state since the end of the Second World War, housing is not the government's number one priority... [More...]
Denis Amar
France, 1954. With the country's economy still in a parlous state since the end of the Second World War, housing is not the government's number one priority... [More...]
I Want to Go Home (1989)
Alain Resnais
An ageing American cartoonists, Joey Wellman, makes a visit to Paris to attend an exhibition of his work. He plans to meet up with his daughter, Elsie, who is studying at the Sorbonne, but she has little respect for her father and fails to keep the rendez-vous... [More...]
Alain Resnais
An ageing American cartoonists, Joey Wellman, makes a visit to Paris to attend an exhibition of his work. He plans to meet up with his daughter, Elsie, who is studying at the Sorbonne, but she has little respect for her father and fails to keep the rendez-vous... [More...]
L'Invité surprise (1989)
Georges Lautner
Invité surprise is a popular reality TV show in which a man is apparently shot dead 'on air', to the consternation of a shocked audience... [More...]
Georges Lautner
Invité surprise is a popular reality TV show in which a man is apparently shot dead 'on air', to the consternation of a shocked audience... [More...]
Je suis le seigneur du château (1989)
Régis Wargnier
Brittany, 1954. After the death of his wife, wealthy landowner Jean Béraud hires a governess, Madame Vernet, to take care of his 10-year old son Thomas... [More...]
Régis Wargnier
Brittany, 1954. After the death of his wife, wealthy landowner Jean Béraud hires a governess, Madame Vernet, to take care of his 10-year old son Thomas... [More...]
Les Maris, les femmes, les amants (1989)
Pascal Thomas
As is their custom during the summer holidays, a party of male friends descend on the island of Ré with their children whilst their wives and girlfriends stay at home in Paris... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
As is their custom during the summer holidays, a party of male friends descend on the island of Ré with their children whilst their wives and girlfriends stay at home in Paris... [More...]
Mes meilleurs copains (1989)
Jean-Marie Poiré
At his house in the country, Richard invites four old friends of his - Jean-Michel, Guido, Antoine and Dany - to share a weekend with him and reminisce on their wild youth in the 1960s... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
At his house in the country, Richard invites four old friends of his - Jean-Michel, Guido, Antoine and Dany - to share a weekend with him and reminisce on their wild youth in the 1960s... [More...]
Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours (1989)
Andrzej Zulawski
Lucas is a software developer who is suffering from a rare brain condition that has already begun to affect his memory. As his health begins to deteriorate he starts to feel prematurely aged and becomes increasingly preoccupied with his mortality... [More...]
Andrzej Zulawski
Lucas is a software developer who is suffering from a rare brain condition that has already begun to affect his memory. As his health begins to deteriorate he starts to feel prematurely aged and becomes increasingly preoccupied with his mortality... [More...]
Monsieur Hire (1989)
Patrice Leconte
Monsieur Hire is a respectable middle-aged man who lives alone in the suburbs where he runs his own business as a tailor... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
Monsieur Hire is a respectable middle-aged man who lives alone in the suburbs where he runs his own business as a tailor... [More...]
Noce blanche (1989)
Jean-Claude Brisseau
François Hainaut, a fifty year old philosophy teacher, is content with his work and his marriage. But then Mathilde Tessier, a 17 year old student, crashes into his life... [More...]
Jean-Claude Brisseau
François Hainaut, a fifty year old philosophy teacher, is content with his work and his marriage. But then Mathilde Tessier, a 17 year old student, crashes into his life... [More...]
Nocturne indien (1989)
Alain Corneau
Arriving in Bombay with a small suitcase, a young Frenchman named Rossignol immediately sets about looking for a friend of his, Xavier, who went missing about a year ago... [More...]
Alain Corneau
Arriving in Bombay with a small suitcase, a young Frenchman named Rossignol immediately sets about looking for a friend of his, Xavier, who went missing about a year ago... [More...]
L'Otage de l'Europe (1989)
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
After his humiliating defeat at Waterloo in 1815, the Emperor Napoléon has no choice but to give himself up and surrender himself to the mercy of the British... [More...]
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
After his humiliating defeat at Waterloo in 1815, the Emperor Napoléon has no choice but to give himself up and surrender himself to the mercy of the British... [More...]
Pleure pas my love (1989)
Tony Gatlif
One day, Jacques Baronski, a well-regarded filmmaker, is visited by a young man, Fred, who claims to be the son of an actress he once worked with but who subsequently committed suicide... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
One day, Jacques Baronski, a well-regarded filmmaker, is visited by a young man, Fred, who claims to be the son of an actress he once worked with but who subsequently committed suicide... [More...]
Radio Corbeau (1989)
Yves Boisset
Situated in the Jura mountains, Saint-Meyrand would seem to be an idyllic French town. Yet beneath the surface calm there are long-standing antagonisms that are being nourished by a series of shocking announcements from a new pirate radio station that calls itself Radio Corbeau... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Situated in the Jura mountains, Saint-Meyrand would seem to be an idyllic French town. Yet beneath the surface calm there are long-standing antagonisms that are being nourished by a series of shocking announcements from a new pirate radio station that calls itself Radio Corbeau... [More...]
Romuald et Juliette (1989)
Coline Serreau
Romuald Blindet, the young managing director of a major French yoghurt manufacturing company, finds himself in deep water when he tries to increase productivity at one of his factories... [More...]
Coline Serreau
Romuald Blindet, the young managing director of a major French yoghurt manufacturing company, finds himself in deep water when he tries to increase productivity at one of his factories... [More...]
Trop belle pour toi (1989)
Bertrand Blier
Bernard Barthélémy is a successful car dealer who has a beautiful and adoring wife, Florence. His ordered, middle-class life is suddenly upended when he falls in love with his secretary, Colette... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Bernard Barthélémy is a successful car dealer who has a beautiful and adoring wife, Florence. His ordered, middle-class life is suddenly upended when he falls in love with his secretary, Colette... [More...]
Un monde sans pitié (1989)
Eric Rochant
Better a dropout than a yuppie, that's the philosophy of Hippo, a young man who has turned his back on the entire capitalist system... [More...]
Eric Rochant
Better a dropout than a yuppie, that's the philosophy of Hippo, a young man who has turned his back on the entire capitalist system... [More...]
L'Union sacrée (1989)
Alexandre Arcady
Simon Atlan, a Jewish anti-narcotics cop, is teamed up with Karim Hamida, secret agent for an Arab government. Tensions between the two men run high as they investigate an international drugs ring operating in state schools... [More...]
Alexandre Arcady
Simon Atlan, a Jewish anti-narcotics cop, is teamed up with Karim Hamida, secret agent for an Arab government. Tensions between the two men run high as they investigate an international drugs ring operating in state schools... [More...]
La Vie et rien d'autre (1989)
Bertrand Tavernier
France, 1920. It is two years since the signing of the Armistice that brought an end to the First World War, but the clearing up still continues... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
France, 1920. It is two years since the signing of the Armistice that brought an end to the First World War, but the clearing up still continues... [More...]
La Vouivre (1989)
Georges Wilson
France, 1919. A small village bears the imprint of the First World War through the noticeable lack of young men who were once its life and soul... [More...]
Georges Wilson
France, 1919. A small village bears the imprint of the First World War through the noticeable lack of young men who were once its life and soul... [More...]