French cinema: 1990s
Restons groupés (1998)
Jean-Paul Salomé
At Los Angeles airport, a party of French tourists have just arrived, brimming with excitement to begin their holiday of a lifetime on the sunny West Coast of the United States...
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Jean-Paul Salomé
Le Retour de Casanova (1992)
Edouard Niermans
Well into middle-age, Casanova finds himself wandering purposelessly in the South of France, accompanied by his ever-loyal valet Camille...
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Edouard Niermans
Ridicule (1996)
Patrice Leconte
France, 1780. Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy is a country aristocrat and engineer who has committed himself to a drainage project that will vastly improve the lives of the poor people of his region...
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Patrice Leconte
Rien à faire (1999)
Marion Vernoux
An unemployed working class woman, Marie, has difficulty filling her empty days until one day she meets Pierre at a supermarket checkout...
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Marion Vernoux
Rien ne va plus (1997)
Claude Chabrol
Victor and Betty are an odd couple. He is sixty; she is thirty. They could scarcely be more different, and yet they seem to be inseparable, a sort of cross-generational Bonnie and Clyde...
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Claude Chabrol
Rien sur Robert (1999)
Pascal Bonitzer
A middle-aged film critic's life is turned upside down when his younger wife leaves him to start an affair with a TV director... [More...]
Pascal Bonitzer
A middle-aged film critic's life is turned upside down when his younger wife leaves him to start an affair with a TV director... [More...]
Riens du tout (1992)
Cédric Klapisch
The owners of a failing department store are planning to close it down, but offer one final reprieve. The store will remain open if its new manager, Monsieur Lepetit, can significantly improve its sales figures... [More...]
Cédric Klapisch
The owners of a failing department store are planning to close it down, but offer one final reprieve. The store will remain open if its new manager, Monsieur Lepetit, can significantly improve its sales figures... [More...]
Ripoux contre ripoux (1990)
Claude Zidi
After five years of partnership with his fellow crooked policeman, René, François decides to go straight, in the hope of getting a promotion to the rank of commissioner... [More...]
Claude Zidi
After five years of partnership with his fellow crooked policeman, René, François decides to go straight, in the hope of getting a promotion to the rank of commissioner... [More...]
Le Roi de Paris (1995)
Dominique Maillet
In the 1930s, Victor Derval is the most admired stage actor in Paris. One night, he is accosted by a young Hungarian woman, Lisa Lanska... [More...]
Dominique Maillet
In the 1930s, Victor Derval is the most admired stage actor in Paris. One night, he is accosted by a young Hungarian woman, Lisa Lanska... [More...]
Romance (1999)
Catherine Breillat
Marie is a young schoolteacher who is in a stable and loving relationship with her boyfriend Paul, a male model who is often away from home... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
Marie is a young schoolteacher who is in a stable and loving relationship with her boyfriend Paul, a male model who is often away from home... [More...]
Les Roseaux sauvages (1994)
André Téchiné
France, 1962. Whilst the Algerian war is at its height, four young people staying at a borading school in Provence experience their political and sexual awakenings... [More...]
André Téchiné
France, 1962. Whilst the Algerian war is at its height, four young people staying at a borading school in Provence experience their political and sexual awakenings... [More...]
Rosetta (1999)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Rosetta is an adolescent girl for whom every day is a struggle against an unsympathetic world. Living on a squalid campsite with her drunken mother, she has no friends and has to sell second hand clothes to make ends meet... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Rosetta is an adolescent girl for whom every day is a struggle against an unsympathetic world. Living on a squalid campsite with her drunken mother, she has no friends and has to sell second hand clothes to make ends meet... [More...]
S'en fout la mort (1990)
Claire Denis
Jocelyn and Doh are two illegal immigrants from Africa who work for a disreputable restaurateur Pierre Ardennes, training cocks to fight in an illicit gambling hall just outside Paris... [More...]
Claire Denis
Jocelyn and Doh are two illegal immigrants from Africa who work for a disreputable restaurateur Pierre Ardennes, training cocks to fight in an illicit gambling hall just outside Paris... [More...]
Sale comme un ange (1991)
Catherine Breillat
A fifty-something police inspector Georges Deblache appears to have had enough of life. A confirmed bachelor, who has grown used to dinners-for-one and nights with prostitutes, he envies his young partner, Didier Theron, who has recently married an attractive woman, Barbara... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
A fifty-something police inspector Georges Deblache appears to have had enough of life. A confirmed bachelor, who has grown used to dinners-for-one and nights with prostitutes, he envies his young partner, Didier Theron, who has recently married an attractive woman, Barbara... [More...]
Le Schpountz (1999)
Gérard Oury
Irénée Fabre has one dream - to become a great film actor. It's no small ambition for a man who lives in deepest Provence and spends his days working in his uncle's modest grocery business... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Irénée Fabre has one dream - to become a great film actor. It's no small ambition for a man who lives in deepest Provence and spends his days working in his uncle's modest grocery business... [More...]
Secret défense (1998)
Jacques Rivette
Sylvie, a young biologist, receives an impromptu visit from her brother who claims to have proof that their father was murdered by Walser, his right-hand man... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Sylvie, a young biologist, receives an impromptu visit from her brother who claims to have proof that their father was murdered by Walser, his right-hand man... [More...]
La Sentinelle (1992)
Arnaud Desplechin
Mathias, the son of diplomat in Berlin, is about to begin his training as a pathologist in Paris. Whilst crossing the Franco-German border on a train, he is singled out and harassed by customs officials... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Mathias, the son of diplomat in Berlin, is about to begin his training as a pathologist in Paris. Whilst crossing the Franco-German border on a train, he is singled out and harassed by customs officials... [More...]
La Séparation (1994)
Christian Vincent
Pierre and Anne are a young couple in their thirties who have been together for several years. They have enjoyed a harmonious and loving relationship for some time, living together in their cosy apartment with their two-year-old son Loulou... [More...]
Christian Vincent
Pierre and Anne are a young couple in their thirties who have been together for several years. They have enjoyed a harmonious and loving relationship for some time, living together in their cosy apartment with their two-year-old son Loulou... [More...]
Le Septième ciel (1997)
Benoît Jacquot
On the surface, Mathilde is a happily married young woman, working in her mother's law office whilst her husband pursues a successful career as a surgeon... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot
On the surface, Mathilde is a happily married young woman, working in her mother's law office whilst her husband pursues a successful career as a surgeon... [More...]
Seul contre tous (1998)
Gaspar Noé
A former butcher leaves prison to start a new life, but, with no money, and trapped in a loveless relationship with his pregnant girlfriend, he is full of rage and lust for revenge... [More...]
Gaspar Noé
A former butcher leaves prison to start a new life, but, with no money, and trapped in a loveless relationship with his pregnant girlfriend, he is full of rage and lust for revenge... [More...]
Si je t'aime, prends garde à toi (1998)
Jeanne Labrune
After separating from her partner, Muriel finds herself living alone in Paris, adapting badly to a life that feels increasingly dull and empty... [More...]
Jeanne Labrune
After separating from her partner, Muriel finds herself living alone in Paris, adapting badly to a life that feels increasingly dull and empty... [More...]
Simple mortel (1991)
Pierre Jolivet
Stéphane Marais, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive bizarre radio messages in one of the languages he is studying... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Stéphane Marais, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive bizarre radio messages in one of the languages he is studying... [More...]
Sitcom (1998)
François Ozon
Once upon a time there was a respectable bourgeois family, living a harmonious and respectable bourgeois life in a typically respectable bourgeois house... [More...]
François Ozon
Once upon a time there was a respectable bourgeois family, living a harmonious and respectable bourgeois life in a typically respectable bourgeois house... [More...]
Smoking / No Smoking (1993)
Alain Resnais
In a village in Yorkshire, Celia Teasdale, the wife of a school headmaster, is busy with her spring cleaning. Venturing out into her garden, she considers whether she should light a cigarette or not... [More...]
Alain Resnais
In a village in Yorkshire, Celia Teasdale, the wife of a school headmaster, is busy with her spring cleaning. Venturing out into her garden, she considers whether she should light a cigarette or not... [More...]
La Soif de l'or (1993)
Gérard Oury
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to evade a fine for tax evasion... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to evade a fine for tax evasion... [More...]
Sombre (1998)
Philippe Grandrieux
Following the route of the Tour de France, a solitary motorist Jean periodically stops off to pick up and brutally kill a prostitute... [More...]
Philippe Grandrieux
Following the route of the Tour de France, a solitary motorist Jean periodically stops off to pick up and brutally kill a prostitute... [More...]
Le Souper (1992)
Edouard Molinaro
France, 1815. With Napoleon in exile after his defeat at Waterloo, the Royalists seize the moment and take control of Paris, intending to restore the monarchy... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
France, 1815. With Napoleon in exile after his defeat at Waterloo, the Royalists seize the moment and take control of Paris, intending to restore the monarchy... [More...]
Le Sourire (1994)
Claude Miller
Pierre François Le Clainche is a sixty-something neuro-psychiatrist who has just survived a near-fatal heart attack... [More...]
Claude Miller
Pierre François Le Clainche is a sixty-something neuro-psychiatrist who has just survived a near-fatal heart attack... [More...]
Sous les pieds des femmes (1997)
Rachida Krim
Aya and Moncef are an Algerian couple who have made France their home. In 1996, Aya is reunited with her former lover, whom she has not seen for 35 years... [More...]
Rachida Krim
Aya and Moncef are an Algerian couple who have made France their home. In 1996, Aya is reunited with her former lover, whom she has not seen for 35 years... [More...]
Superlove (1999)
Jean-Claude Janer
The Holy Mother is very selective in whom she chooses to show herself to these days. Not one for the celebrity phenomenon that plagues our modern era, she tends to keep herself to herself, putting in the odd appearance now and again just to keep the old faith alive and reassure her believers that they are on the right lines... [More...]
Jean-Claude Janer
The Holy Mother is very selective in whom she chooses to show herself to these days. Not one for the celebrity phenomenon that plagues our modern era, she tends to keep herself to herself, putting in the odd appearance now and again just to keep the old faith alive and reassure her believers that they are on the right lines... [More...]