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French cinema: 1990s

Caméléone (1996)
Benoît Cohen

One night, Léa, a former prostitute, shoots dead a man who has been stalking her. The killing is witnessed by two newspaper delivery men, Luc and Jean, who offer Léa protection...   [More...]

Capitaine Conan (1996)
Bertrand Tavernier

In the final months of World War I, the French infantry are actively engaged in mopping up the enemy trenches on the Macedonian Front...   [More...]

Les Caprices d'un fleuve (1996)
Bernard Giraudeau

In 1786, Jean-François de la Plaine, a friend of King Louis XVI of France, kills a man in a duel. By way of punishment, he is sent into exile and made governor of a small French trading post in West Africa, Port Saint-Louis...   [More...]

Casque bleu (1994)
Gérard Jugnot

Bordeaux winegrower Patrick Ponsac finds himself on the receiving end of his jealous wife's ire when he dares to start an affair with another woman...   [More...]

Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
Agnès Varda

Simon Cinéma is an old man who lives alone in a castle museum with his faithful butler Firmin. A one time actor, producer and filmmaker, he is convinced that he is the last word on cinema...   [More...]

La Cérémonie (1995)
Claude Chabrol

The Lelievres are a happy, comfortably rich family who live in a remote mansion near the Brittany coast. Madame Lelievre is far too busy to take on all the domestic chores, so she hires a maid to do all this for her...   [More...]

Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (1998)
Patrice Chéreau

Before his death, a world-famous painter, Jean-Baptiste, requests that he be buried in the cemetery at Limoges, a town that is reputed for accommodating more dead people than living...   [More...]

Chacun cherche son chat (1996)
Cédric Klapisch

Chloé is a young make-up assistant living in Paris. She shares an apartment with a gay friend Michel and her treasured cat Gris-Gris...   [More...]

La Chasse aux papillons (1992)
Otar Iosseliani

Two old ladies, Marie-Agnès de Bayonnette and her cousin Solange, live in a chateau in the French countryside. They represent a way of life that is perilously close to disappearing...   [More...]

Le Château de ma mère (1990)
Yves Robert

After his previous summer, 11-year-old Marcel is so in love with the countryside of Provence that he can scarcely bear to be separated from it...   [More...]

Cible émouvante (1993)
Pierre Salvadori

Whilst fulfilling one of his contracts, hitman Victor Meynard is spotted by delivery boy Antoine. Logically, Victor knows he should kill Antoine as he is a dangerous witness, but he can't bring himself to do it...   [More...]

Le Ciel, les oiseaux,... et ta mère! (1999)
Djamel Bensalah

Four adolescent young men from a rough Parisian housing estate win first prize in an amateur film-making competition, the prize being a dream holiday in the seaside down of Biarritz...   [More...]

La Cité de la peur (1994)
Alain Berbérian

Odile Deray, press secretary responsible for promoting the low budget horror film “Red is Dead”, hires a security agent, Serge Karamazov, to protect the film's star, Simon Jérémi, during the Cannes Film Festival...   [More...]

La Cité des enfants perdus (1995)
Marc Caro

On an isolated disused sea rig live the remnants of a mad scientist's experiments into creating alternative life forms. These include Irvin, a brain in a fish tank, six identical clones of the inventor himself, and Krank, a Frankensteinesque monster who ages prematurely because he cannot dream...   [More...]

La Classe de neige (1998)
Claude Miller

Nicolas is a quiet 12 year old boy who goes on a school skiing trip with his classmates. Worried that there might be a coach accident, Nicholas' over-protective father insists on taking his son to the alpine chalet himself...   [More...]

Les Clés du paradis (1991)
Philippe de Broca

Despite his success as a writer, Gaspard is bored with his life and, thanks to his ex-wife's over-generous alimony, is facing financial ruin...   [More...]

Clubbed to Death (Lola) (1996)
Yolande Zauberman

Lola, a young woman in her early twenties, takes a daytrip to Paris from her home in the provinces but ends up missing the last bus home...   [More...]

Le Coeur fantôme (1996)
Philippe Garrel

Philippe, a middle-aged artist, leaves his wife and children when he learns that his wife has a lover. He consoles himself with the company of prostitutes until he meets Justine, a young woman who instantly falls in love with him...   [More...]

Le Colonel Chabert (1994)
Yves Angelo

Colonel Chabert is mistaken for dead during the Napoleonic war with Russia. When he returns to Paris some years later, he finds that his wife, Anne, has married the Count Ferraud, and is using Chabert's wealth to finance Ferraud's social advancement...   [More...]

Comme elle respire (1998)
Pierre Salvadori

Jeanne is a mythomaniac, lying constantly to anyone she meets. She arrives in Paris and gets work as a waitress, where she meets an old woman, Madeleine, who recruits her as a housekeeper...   [More...]

Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996)
Arnaud Desplechin

Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years...   [More...]

Consentement mutuel (1994)
Bernard Stora

Going by appearances, Romain and Jeanne's divorce is an amiable affair. The couple arrive at an equitable settlement - their daughter Mado will live with Jeanne and will spend every other weekend and half of her school holidays with Romain...   [More...]

Conte d'automne (1998)
Eric Rohmer

Magali is an attractive widow in her mid-forties who, since her children left home, now lives alone, tending to her large vineyard in the Rhone valley...   [More...]

Conte d'été (1996)
Eric Rohmer

Gaspard, an introspective maths student, plans to spend his summer holidays in the Brittany town of Dinard. When his girlfriend Léna fails to turn up as agreed he is left alone to lie on the beach and compose songs with his guitar...   [More...]

Conte d'hiver (1992)
Eric Rohmer

During a summer holiday, Félicie and Charles meet and have a whirlwind romance. Due to a mix-up with their addresses, they lose track of one another, even though Félicie is carrying Charles' child...   [More...]

Conte de printemps (1990)
Eric Rohmer

Jeanne is a high school teacher of philosophy who finds herself temporarily homeless when her fiancé Mathieu goes away for a few days...   [More...]

Les Convoyeurs attendent (1999)
Benoît Mariage

A new millennium beckons but life goes on as usual in a dull industrial town in Belgium. Family man Roger Closset works as a journalist on a local newspaper, L'Espoir, zipping around on his moped in search of an interesting news story, with little hope of finding one...   [More...]

Les Couloirs du temps: Les Visiteurs 2 (1998)
Jean-Marie Poiré

Returning to his own time, 12th Century France, Comte Godefroy de Montmirail discovers that his marriage to Frénégonde is forbidden by his future father-in-law...   [More...]

Le Cousin (1997)
Alain Corneau

His family life in disarray, his career threatened when he is implicated in a drugs dealing racket, a police detective kills himself...   [More...]

Le Créateur (1999)
Albert Dupontel

After the success of his first play, writer Darius ends up in a hospital to cure him of his alcoholism. When he returns to Paris six months later, his producer immediately demands his next play, which is about to go into rehearsal...   [More...]



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