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French cinema: 1995

À la vie, à la mort! (1995)
Robert Guédiguian

In Estaque, the working class district of north Marseilles, a family of Spanish immigrants struggles to survive. Marie-Sol's job as a housekeeper provides both an income and a modest home, but her husband Patrick has been unemployed for years...   [More...]

Les Anges gardiens (1995)
Jean-Marie Poiré

Antoine Carco, the proprietor of a seedy Parisian night club, travels to Hong Kong to honour the dying wishes of an old friend...   [More...]

L'Appât (1995)
Bertrand Tavernier

An adolescent girl, Nathalie, shares a small Parisian apartment with her two friends, Eric and Bruno. None of them has any hope of getting a job but they all have unrealistic aspirations...   [More...]

Les Apprentis (1995)
Pierre Salvadori

Antoine Parent is an aspiring writer who suffers from depression and a chronic inability to make money from his art. He lives in Paris and shares a modest apartment with his good-for-nothing friend Fred Rouyer, who appears to be more than content with his life as an inveterate loser...   [More...]

Au petit Marguery (1995)
Laurent Bénégui

For the past 30 years, Hippolyte and his wife Joséphine have managed a chic restaurant, Le petit Marguery, in a busy district of Paris...   [More...]

Augustin (1995)
Anne Fontaine

Augustin is a friendless 30-year-old who works for an insurance company but dreams of becoming a big film star. As he waits for opportunity to come knocking on his door, he goes for auditions for walk-on parts, so far with limited success...   [More...]

Le Bonheur est dans le pré (1995)
Étienne Chatiliez

Francis Bergeade is heading for a mid-life crisis. The workers in his factory which manufactures toilet accessories are up in arms when he announces cut backs...   [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...]

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...]

Dis-moi oui... (1995)
Alexandre Arcady

Stéphane Villiers, a thirty-something paediatrician in Bordeaux, gets more than he bargained for when he befriends a 12-year-old girl named Éva one evening...   [More...]

Douce France (1995)
Malik Chibane

A portrait of four young French people of Arab descent living on a housing estate in the Saint-Denis district of Paris. Jean-Luc uses the heist from a jewel robbery to set himself up as a lawyer, his office being a room in the bar managed by his friend Moussa...   [More...]

Élisa (1995)
Jean Becker

When her husband walks out on her, Elisa attempts to kill her young daughter Marie and then commits suicide. Marie, however, survives, and grows up in an orphanage...   [More...]

En avoir (ou pas) (1995)
Laetitia Masson

When she loses her job at a fish canning factory, Alice, a young woman from a socially deprived background, decides to make some major changes in her life...   [More...]

La Fille seule (1995)
Benoît Jacquot

Early one morning, Valérie meets up as agreed with her boyfriend Rémi at a café neat St-Lazare station in Paris...   [More...]

La Flor de mi secreto (1995)
Pedro Almodóvar

Leo Macías is a writer of trashy romantic fiction who, under the pseudonym Amanda Gris, is one of the most popular authors in Spain...   [More...]

Gazon maudit (1995)
Josiane Balasko

Laurent, a successful estate agent, and his wife Loli have two children, a nice house in the South of France and appear to be the very model of a happily married couple...   [More...]

La Haine (1995)
Mathieu Kassovitz

This film follows one day in the lives of three unemployed young men who live on a housing estate in a deprived suburb of Paris...   [More...]

Le Hussard sur le toit (1995)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

In the summer of 1832, Europe is in the grip of a terrible cholera epidemic. With the demise of Napoleon and the disintegration of the French Empire, Austria is poised to overtake Italy...   [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...]

Les Milles (1995)
Sébastien Grall

Early in June 1940, Commandant Charles Perrochon is placed in charge of an interment camp built on the site of a disused tile factory in Les Milles, a small town in the south of France...   [More...]

Les Misérables (1995)
Claude Lelouch

France, 1900. When his employer shoots himself after a New Year's party, chauffeur Henri Fortin is condemned for murder and sentenced to a term of hard labour...   [More...]

Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Claude Sautet

Through a meeting with a friend, Nelly is introduced to a wealthy retired business man, Monsieur Arnaud. Nelly talks a little about her life - she is married to an unemployed layabout and, having lost a well-paid job, she is now heavily in arrears on her rent...   [More...]

Par-delà les nuages (1995)
Michelangelo Antonioni

An American film director visits exotic locations in Europe, recalling tales of love and desire. On his travels, he meets and is instantly attracted to young woman who admits to having murdered her father......   [More...]

Le Plus bel âge... (1995)
Didier Haudepin

A few weeks into a preparatory course for entry to the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, Delphine witnesses the suicide of a fellow student, Claude...   [More...]

Les Rendez-vous de Paris (1995)
Eric Rohmer

Three tales where an amorous rendezvous in Paris ends with an unexpected twist. In the first, 'Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures', a young woman, Esther, is mulling over whether her boyfriend is cheating on her when another young man tries to chat her up...   [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...]

Les Trois frères (1995)
Didier Bourdon

Didier, Bernard and Pascal - three men from three very different walks of life - are brought together in a solicitor's office when they each learn of their mother's death...   [More...]

Les Truffes (1995)
Bernard Nauer

Patrick has had enough of his miserable life in the rain-sodden north of France. If he's not being beaten to a pulp in rigged boxing matches for the benefit of his coach M'sieur Martinez, he is being nagged to death by his annoying neighbour or else threatened by intimidating baillifs...   [More...]

L'Univers de Jacques Demy (1995)
Agnès Varda

An engaging portrait of Jacques Demy, one of the France's most significant film directors, seen through the eyes of his widow, Agnès Varda...   [More...]

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