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French cinema: 1991

Agantuk (1991)
Satyajit Ray

Anila Bose lives in Calcutta with her husband Sudhindra and their young son Satyaki. The family is comfortably off and live in a grand house which they have inherited...   [More...]

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
Leos Carax

Paris, 1989. Leaving a shelter for homeless people, Alex, a wild-looking young man in his twenties, heads across town to his favourite spot on the Pont-Neuf...   [More...]

Atlantis (1991)
Luc Besson

Contrary to the legend, Atlantis was not destroyed centuries ago but continues to exist, a vast and fabulous kingdom beneath the waves inhabited by fantastic creatures of all shapes and sizes...   [More...]

Bar des rails (1991)
Cédric Kahn

Richard leads a humdrum existence in a typically dull French provincial town. He is 16 and lives with his mother, who makes enough money to support them on her income as a dressmaker...   [More...]

La Belle noiseuse (1991)
Jacques Rivette

A young Parisian artist, Nicolas, arrives in provincial France with his girlfriend, Marianne, to visit a reclusive, once great artist, Edouard Frenhofer...   [More...]

Le Brasier (1991)
Eric Barbier

1931, in a mining town in Trieux, Northern France, mutual distrust and resentment divides the native French population and the growing community of Polish immigrants who work along side each other in the mines...   [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...]

Delicatessen (1991)
Marc Caro

In a grim, post-apocalyptic future, food is so scarce that people are forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive...   [More...]

La Double vie de Véronique (1991)
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Weronika is a young concert singer who lives in Poland with her father. One day, she glimpses a woman on a coach who looks exactly like her...   [More...]

L'Homme qui a perdu son ombre (1991)
Alain Tanner

Suffering from a creative block, a writer, Paul, walks away from his wife and job and hides away in a remote Spanish resort in the hope of regaining his inspiration...   [More...]

Hors la vie (1991)
Maroun Bagdadi

In the late 1980s, Patrick Perrault, a French photographer and journalist, travels to Beirut to make a report on the war that is tearing the region apart...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...]

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...]

Ma vie est un enfer (1991)
Josiane Balasko

Léah is a dowdy spinster in her mid-thirties. She resents her self-obsessed mother and hates her job as a dental assistant...   [More...]

Madame Bovary (1991)
Claude Chabrol

In 19th century France, Charles Bovary is a country doctor who, after the death of his first wife, does not delay in marrying the daughter of one of his patients, Emma Rouault...   [More...]

Massacres (1991)
Jean-Claude Roy

To clear his gambling debts, a young psychopath named Ronny agrees to deliver a suitcase to Seoul, not realising that the suitcase contains plates for printing forged banknotes...   [More...]

Merci la vie (1991)
Bertrand Blier

One day, a shy teenager Camille comes across a young woman, Joëlle, lying in the middle of the road in a wedding dress...   [More...]

Mon père, ce héros (1991)
Gérard Lauzier

After separating from his wife Irina, 40-something André becomes obsessively preoccupied with his teenage daughter Véronique, who is growing up much faster than he would like...   [More...]

Netchaïev est de retour (1991)
Jacques Deray

Netchaïev is the code name of a notorious political activist who turned to terrorism in the late 1960s, working as part of an international network of revolutionaries...   [More...]

On peut toujours rêver (1991)
Pierre Richard

Charles de Boilesve is a man who inspires fear and respect in all who know him. Known as The Emperor, he presides over a corporate empire and he owns a football team, but nothing in his life satisfies him...   [More...]

L'Opération Corned-Beef (1991)
Jean-Marie Poiré

Philippe Boulier, code name “Le Squale” is an agent in the French secret service. He is recalled from South America to help dismantle an arms trafficking network in France, “Operation Corned Beef”...   [More...]

Paris s'éveille (1991)
Olivier Assayas

19-year old Adrien leaves his mother in Toulouse after becoming mixed up in a theft. He heads for Paris where he hopes his estranged father, Clément, will offer him a helping hand...   [More...]

Pour Sacha (1991)
Alexandre Arcady

In 1967, Sacha, a former philosophy professor, and Laura, a violinist, leave for Israel, to live in a kibbutz near to the border with Syria...   [More...]

La Reine blanche (1991)
Jean-Loup Hubert

In 1940, Jean Ripoche and Yvon Legualoudec had a fierce falling out over their love for the same woman, Liliane. Whilst Jean remained in his hometown of Nantes to marry Liliane, his rival went off to Antilles, to start a new life...   [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...]

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...]

Sushi Sushi (1991)
Laurent Perrin

Forty-something university arts lecturer Maurice Hartmann has grown tired of his predictable life and longs for a change...   [More...]

La Totale! (1991)
Claude Zidi

To all who know him, François Voisin is nothing more than an ordinary family man and telecoms engineer. In reality, he is an experienced secret agent whose improbable exploits of the past two decades could fill the pages of several long (albeit mediocre) thriller novels...   [More...]

Toto le héros (1991)
Jaco Van Dormael

In a retirement home, old Thomas looks back on his life, a life marred by hatred for one man: Alfred. As a boy, Thomas was convinced that he and Alfred, his next-door neighbour, were switched at birth...   [More...]



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