French cinema: 1990s
Les Infortunes de la beauté (1999)
John Lvoff
Daphné isn't confident that her amazing good looks and scintillating personality are enough to convince the man she loves, Vincent, that he should give up his compulsive philandering and devote himself entirely to her...
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John Lvoff
IP5 (1992)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Street graffiti artist Tony and his child rap-obsessed companion Jockey are heading for Grenoble to deliver a consignment of overgrown gnomes for some skinheads...
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Jean-Jacques Beineix
Irma Vep (1996)
Olivier Assayas
A once great film director, René Vidal, attempts a come back by remaking Louis Feuillade's classic crime serial, Les Vampires...
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Olivier Assayas
J'ai horreur de l'amour (1997)
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Annie, a 30-something divorcee, is a doctor with her own medical practice in Paris. One summer, her working days feel as empty and uneventful as her love life - until two men enter her surgery and her life...
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Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
J'embrasse pas (1991)
André Téchiné
An idealistic 17-year old youth, Pierre, leaves his home in the rural South-West of France, hoping to make a career as an actor in Paris...
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André Téchiné
J'entends plus la guitare (1991)
Philippe Garrel
Marianne and Gérard are a couple enjoying a languorous holiday at a villa in the Italian coastal town of Positano... [More...]
Philippe Garrel
Marianne and Gérard are a couple enjoying a languorous holiday at a villa in the Italian coastal town of Positano... [More...]
Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
Agnès Varda
In the late 1930s, 8-year-old Jacques Demy lives with his father, a garage mechanic, and mother, a hairdresser, in a small town near to the large seaport of Nantes... [More...]
Agnès Varda
In the late 1930s, 8-year-old Jacques Demy lives with his father, a garage mechanic, and mother, a hairdresser, in a small town near to the large seaport of Nantes... [More...]
Le Jaguar (1996)
Francis Veber
In a bid to raise awareness about the plight of the Amazonians, whose way of life is threatened by the destruction of the rain forests, anthropologist Jean Campana begins a tour of France in the company of Wanu, a shaman... [More...]
Francis Veber
In a bid to raise awareness about the plight of the Amazonians, whose way of life is threatened by the destruction of the rain forests, anthropologist Jean Campana begins a tour of France in the company of Wanu, a shaman... [More...]
Je règle mon pas sur le pas de mon père (1999)
Rémi Waterhouse
When his mother dies, Sauveur, a young trainee chef, finally discovers the identity of his absent father. He tries to make contact with the man to whom he owes his existence, but the latter evidently has no interest in meeting the fruit of his youthful misadventures... [More...]
Rémi Waterhouse
When his mother dies, Sauveur, a young trainee chef, finally discovers the identity of his absent father. He tries to make contact with the man to whom he owes his existence, but the latter evidently has no interest in meeting the fruit of his youthful misadventures... [More...]
Je suis né d'une cigogne (1999)
Tony Gatlif
Otto, one of the long-term unemployed, lives with his mother in state housing. His girlfriend, Louna, works as a hairdresser and lives with an old woman who is being preyed upon by the bailiffs... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
Otto, one of the long-term unemployed, lives with his mother in state housing. His girlfriend, Louna, works as a hairdresser and lives with an old woman who is being preyed upon by the bailiffs... [More...]
Je suis vivante et je vous aime (1998)
Roger Kahane
In the spring of 1944, a railway worker Julien is checking over a train carrying deportees, when he is handed a piece of paper bearing an address and a simple message: “I'm alive and I love you.” All that Julien can do is to take this message to the address, a farmhouse where two elderly Hungarian Jews are living... [More...]
Roger Kahane
In the spring of 1944, a railway worker Julien is checking over a train carrying deportees, when he is handed a piece of paper bearing an address and a simple message: “I'm alive and I love you.” All that Julien can do is to take this message to the address, a farmhouse where two elderly Hungarian Jews are living... [More...]
Jeanne et le garçon formidable (1998)
Olivier Ducastel
Receptionist for a travel agency, Jeanne is looking for the man of her dreams. So far, her amorous encounters have been a disappointment, but she thinks she has struck lucky when she meets Olivier, a boy who is totally unlike any she has ever met before... [More...]
Olivier Ducastel
Receptionist for a travel agency, Jeanne is looking for the man of her dreams. So far, her amorous encounters have been a disappointment, but she thinks she has struck lucky when she meets Olivier, a boy who is totally unlike any she has ever met before... [More...]
Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les Batailles (1994)
Jacques Rivette
Upon hearing a message from God, a young French maid, Jeanne, feels compelled to leave her home in Domremy. She finally manages to get an audience with Charles, the dauphin of France, and she persuades him that it is her destiny to lead the French to victory against the English... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Upon hearing a message from God, a young French maid, Jeanne, feels compelled to leave her home in Domremy. She finally manages to get an audience with Charles, the dauphin of France, and she persuades him that it is her destiny to lead the French to victory against the English... [More...]
Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons (1994)
Jacques Rivette
After her victory at Orleans, Joan of Arc is emboldened to continue her assault against the English armies. Despite the ambivalence of the Dauphin and his advisers, she galvanises her troops and victory follows victory... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
After her victory at Orleans, Joan of Arc is emboldened to continue her assault against the English armies. Despite the ambivalence of the Dauphin and his advisers, she galvanises her troops and victory follows victory... [More...]
Le Jour et la nuit (1997)
Bernard-Henri Lévy
A film producer, Filippi, and his leading actress, Laure, arrive in a region of Mexico to try to persuade a retired writer, Alexandre, to agree to a film adaptation of his first novel... [More...]
Bernard-Henri Lévy
A film producer, Filippi, and his leading actress, Laure, arrive in a region of Mexico to try to persuade a retired writer, Alexandre, to agree to a film adaptation of his first novel... [More...]
Le Journal du séducteur (1996)
Danièle Dubroux
A young student, Claire, falls obsessively in love with a another student, Gregoire after having read his copy of Kierkegaard's novel, Le Journal du séducteur... [More...]
Danièle Dubroux
A young student, Claire, falls obsessively in love with a another student, Gregoire after having read his copy of Kierkegaard's novel, Le Journal du séducteur... [More...]
Karnaval (1999)
Thomas Vincent
After a dispute with his father, a young Arab man Larbi decides to leave his home town of Dunkirk and head south to start a new life in Marseilles... [More...]
Thomas Vincent
After a dispute with his father, a young Arab man Larbi decides to leave his home town of Dunkirk and head south to start a new life in Marseilles... [More...]
Kennedy et moi (1999)
Sam Karmann
Simon Polaris is going through the mother of mid-life crises. Despite being comfortably married with two children and a successful career as a writer, the 48-year-old has arrived at an impasse in his life... [More...]
Sam Karmann
Simon Polaris is going through the mother of mid-life crises. Despite being comfortably married with two children and a successful career as a writer, the 48-year-old has arrived at an impasse in his life... [More...]
L.627 (1992)
Bertrand Tavernier
Lucien Marguet is a committed cop who gets on the wrong side of his superiors when he voices his dissatisfaction with the rigid set of procedures he is expected to abide by in the pursuit of his duties, procedures that, in his opinion, render the police complacent and ineffective... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Lucien Marguet is a committed cop who gets on the wrong side of his superiors when he voices his dissatisfaction with the rigid set of procedures he is expected to abide by in the pursuit of his duties, procedures that, in his opinion, render the police complacent and ineffective... [More...]
Lacenaire (1990)
Francis Girod
In the 1830s, Pierre-François Lacenaire was the most notorious criminal in France. From an early age, he rebelled against his comfortable bourgeois background, managing to get himself expelled from a Jesuit seminary... [More...]
Francis Girod
In the 1830s, Pierre-François Lacenaire was the most notorious criminal in France. From an early age, he rebelled against his comfortable bourgeois background, managing to get himself expelled from a Jesuit seminary... [More...]
Lautrec (1998)
Roger Planchon
The son of an aristocrat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec would never live up to his parents' expectations. Handicapped by a genetic condition that stunted his growth, he willingly swaps his life of privilege for that of a humble artist in Paris... [More...]
Roger Planchon
The son of an aristocrat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec would never live up to his parents' expectations. Handicapped by a genetic condition that stunted his growth, he willingly swaps his life of privilege for that of a humble artist in Paris... [More...]
Léon (1994)
Luc Besson
Léon is a professional hitman whose life is changed forever when he meets Mathilda, a twelve year old girl who lives a few doors next to him... [More...]
Luc Besson
Léon is a professional hitman whose life is changed forever when he meets Mathilda, a twelve year old girl who lives a few doors next to him... [More...]
The Lost Son (1999)
Chris Menges
Xavier Lombard, an impoverished private detective living alone in London, is hired by a wealthy couple to trace their missing son, Leon... [More...]
Chris Menges
Xavier Lombard, an impoverished private detective living alone in London, is hired by a wealthy couple to trace their missing son, Leon... [More...]
Louis, enfant roi (1993)
Roger Planchon
France, 1648. Whilst the nobility attempt to hold onto their power, the masses rise up in protest, and the country is torn by civil war and famine... [More...]
Roger Planchon
France, 1648. Whilst the nobility attempt to hold onto their power, the masses rise up in protest, and the country is torn by civil war and famine... [More...]
Love, etc. (1996)
Marion Vernoux
Benoît, a banker in his early thirties, and Pierre, a literature professor, have been friends for longer than either of them can remember... [More...]
Marion Vernoux
Benoît, a banker in his early thirties, and Pierre, a literature professor, have been friends for longer than either of them can remember... [More...]
Lovers (1999)
Jean-Marc Barr
Jeanne, a young woman in her twenties, works in a bookshop in Paris. One day, a good-looking man of about her own age enters the shop in search of a book on the painter Rossetti... [More...]
Jean-Marc Barr
Jeanne, a young woman in her twenties, works in a bookshop in Paris. One day, a good-looking man of about her own age enters the shop in search of a book on the painter Rossetti... [More...]
Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Claude Berri
Lyon, 1943. In Nazi occupied France, Raymond Aubrac is a leading member of the French Resistance. Shortly after blowing up a German supply train, he is arrested, ostensibly for blackmarketeering... [More...]
Claude Berri
Lyon, 1943. In Nazi occupied France, Raymond Aubrac is a leading member of the French Resistance. Shortly after blowing up a German supply train, he is arrested, ostensibly for blackmarketeering... [More...]
Lumière et compagnie (1995)
Theodoros Angelopoulos
To mark the centenary of the invention of the cinematograph by the Lumière brothers in 1885, forty filmmakers from around the world each contribute a 52 second film, shot with the Lumières' original camera...... [More...]
Theodoros Angelopoulos
To mark the centenary of the invention of the cinematograph by the Lumière brothers in 1885, forty filmmakers from around the world each contribute a 52 second film, shot with the Lumières' original camera...... [More...]
Ma petite entreprise (1999)
Pierre Jolivet
Ivan is the owner of a carpentry business which has been in his family for three generations. Imagine his despair when, one day, his workshop and most of his stock are decimated by a fire... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Ivan is the owner of a carpentry business which has been in his family for three generations. Imagine his despair when, one day, his workshop and most of his stock are decimated by a fire... [More...]