French cinema: 1996
The Pillow Book (1996)
Peter Greenaway
Nagiko, an attractive fashion model in Hong Kong, has inherited her father's love of calligraphy, which he transmitted to her at an early age...
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Peter Greenaway
Le Plus beau métier du monde (1996)
Gérard Lauzier
After an acrimonious divorce, Laurent Monier takes a teaching job in a problem area just outside Paris so that he can be near to his children...
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Gérard Lauzier
Ponette (1996)
Jacques Doillon
Leaving hospital with minor injuries after a car accident which nearly cost her her life, four-year-old Ponette finds she has to come to terms with the death of the mother to whom she was utterly devoted...
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Jacques Doillon
Pour rire! (1996)
Lucas Belvaux
Alice is a successful barrister who lives with her stay-at-home boyfriend Nicholas. When their mutual friend Juliette splits up with her partner Michel, Nicholas takes solace in the fact that his relationship with Alice is a stable one...
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Lucas Belvaux
La Promesse (1996)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
In the dismal suburbs of a Belgian town, Roger makes a sordid living by smuggling illegal immigrants into the country from Africa and then forcing them to work for a pittance on his construction projects...
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Tiré à part (1996)
Bernard Rapp
Edward Lamb, the owner of a small publishing house, is surprised when he receives a manuscript from a French author, Nicholas Fabry... [More...]
Bernard Rapp
Edward Lamb, the owner of a small publishing house, is surprised when he receives a manuscript from a French author, Nicholas Fabry... [More...]
Trois vies et une seule mort (1996)
Raoul Ruiz
A radio broadcaster narrates a series of remarkable tales from his studio, beginning with the story of travelling salesman Mateo Strano... [More...]
Raoul Ruiz
A radio broadcaster narrates a series of remarkable tales from his studio, beginning with the story of travelling salesman Mateo Strano... [More...]
Un air de famille (1996)
Cédric Klapisch
Whilst his brother Philippe is making a name for himself as a high-flying company executive, Henri has to content himself with running the saloon bar he inherited from his father... [More...]
Cédric Klapisch
Whilst his brother Philippe is making a name for himself as a high-flying company executive, Henri has to content himself with running the saloon bar he inherited from his father... [More...]
Un divan à New York (1996)
Chantal Akerman
Henry Harriston, a successful psychoanalyst living in New York City decides he needs a break from the constant daily grind of attending to other people's bruised psyches... [More...]
Chantal Akerman
Henry Harriston, a successful psychoanalyst living in New York City decides he needs a break from the constant daily grind of attending to other people's bruised psyches... [More...]
Un héros très discret (1996)
Jacques Audiard
In the 1930s, Albert Dehousse is an imaginative but solitary boy growing up in a village in Northern France. His mother is devoted to him and clings to the memory of her husband, who died a hero's death in the First World War... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
In the 1930s, Albert Dehousse is an imaginative but solitary boy growing up in a village in Northern France. His mother is devoted to him and clings to the memory of her husband, who died a hero's death in the First World War... [More...]
Les Victimes (1996)
Patrick Grandperret
Pierre Duval is a publisher who is madly in love with Manou, an attractive but unpredictable young woman. Unfortunately, she is married to a renowned architect, Bernard Jaillac, who has no intention of letting her go... [More...]
Patrick Grandperret
Pierre Duval is a publisher who is madly in love with Manou, an attractive but unpredictable young woman. Unfortunately, she is married to a renowned architect, Bernard Jaillac, who has no intention of letting her go... [More...]
Les Voleurs (1996)
André Téchiné
After the sudden death of his brother Ivan, Lyon-based cop Alex returns to the family home in the Rhône-Alpes with his girlfriend Juliette... [More...]
André Téchiné
After the sudden death of his brother Ivan, Lyon-based cop Alex returns to the family home in the Rhône-Alpes with his girlfriend Juliette... [More...]
Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël? (1996)
Sandrine Veysset
In the south of France, a young woman works all hours on her common-law husband's market garden farm whilst struggling to bring up her seven young children... [More...]
Sandrine Veysset
In the south of France, a young woman works all hours on her common-law husband's market garden farm whilst struggling to bring up her seven young children... [More...]