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French cinema: 1997

Alors voilà, (1997)
Michel Piccoli

Constantin is a patriarchal grandfather who insists that his three sons bring their families to his home for a meal each week...   [More...]

Amour et confusions (1997)
Patrick Braoudé

Dan is a thirty year old divorcee who designs women's lingerie for a living. One day, he meets Sarah, an ambitious businesswoman who lives only for her work, and they spend the night together...   [More...]

Artemisia (1997)
Agnès Merlet

Italy in the early 1600s. Artemisia Gentileschi is the 17-year-old daughter of a well-known painter and shows something of her father's aptitude for art...   [More...]

Assassin(s) (1997)
Mathieu Kassovitz

Monsieur Wagner is a professional hitman who loves his job but now he has to accept he is too old to continue in this line of work...   [More...]

L'Autre côté de la mer (1997)
Dominique Cabrera

Georges Montero, a French-born Algerian, travels to Paris to have a cataract operation. He makes the most of his stay in France to renew his acquaintance with family members and friends who have fled Algeria since the war of independence...   [More...]

Le Bossu (1997)
Philippe de Broca

Philippe the Duke of Nevers is in love with Blanche de Caylus, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, and he is over the moon when he learns that she has given him a child outside wedlock...   [More...]

C'est la tangente que je préfère (1997)
Charlotte Silvera

Sabine is 15 and has a special aptitude for mathematics. She earns money by giving maths lessons to her classmates and whenever she encounters a problem in her life she tries to reason it out with mathematics...   [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 Déménagement (1997)
Olivier Doran

Alain, a young writer living in Paris with his wife and daughter, decides to quit his publishing job and move house on the same day...   [More...]

Didier (1997)
Alain Chabat

Football manager Jean-Pierre Costa has his hands full when his friend Annabelle leaves him to look after her pet Labrador, Didier, whilst she jets off to Los Angeles to compile a report...   [More...]

Dobermann (1997)
Jan Kounen

Known as Dobermann, Yann Le Pentec is a notorious killer hunted by the French police. He and his gang of equally ruthless outlaws, which include his mute gypsy girlfriend Nat, a dog lover and a priest, pull off a spectacular bank robbery in Paris...   [More...]

Elles (1997)
Luís Galvão Teles

Linda is a busy television presenter who, along with her four female friends, is the wrong side of 40 and heading for a mid-life crisis...   [More...]

La Femme défendue (1997)
Philippe Harel

François and Muriel meet at a mutual friend's party. He is 39, a businessman, married with a son. She is 22 and lives alone, although she has a boyfriend, Pascal...   [More...]

The Fifth Element (1997)
Luc Besson

In the year 2259, an unknown alien force threatens to engulf the planet Earth. The only thing that can repel this evil are the Five Elements, donated to humanity at the dawn of antiquity by a race of alien benefactors...   [More...]

Fred (1997)
Pierre Jolivet

Fred is an unemployed crane operator who lives in the industrial suburbs with his girlfriend Lisa. The latter has a young son, the product of another relationship, and works in research laboratory...   [More...]

Gadjo dilo (1997)
Tony Gatlif

A young Frenchman, Stéphane, is making his way across rural Romania in search of a gypsy singer who fascinated his recently deceased father...   [More...]

Généalogies d'un crime (1997)
Raoul Ruiz

Jeanne is a middle-aged woman who belongs to the Franco-Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, which holds some very peculiar views about the nature of life...   [More...]

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...   [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...]

K (1997)
Alexandre Arcady

From childhood, Sam Bellamy has enjoyed the company of his chess mentor, Joseph Katz, a Jewish survivor of the Nazi holocaust...   [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...]

Ma vie en rose (1997)
Alain Berliner

The Fabre family moves into a new house in a respectable middle-class area. During a house-warming party, the youngest son, seven-year old Ludovic makes a grand entrance in a dress, make-up and jewellery...   [More...]

Marion (1997)
Manuel Poirier

A working class family moves to a rural Normandy village. The father, a labourer, earns barely money to keep his wife and four young children, but the family are content with what they have...   [More...]

Marius et Jeannette (1997)
Robert Guédiguian

Jeannette is a single mother who is struggling to bring up her children on a meagre salary in Estaque, a working class district of Marseilles...   [More...]

Marquise (1997)
Véra Belmont

17th Century France, during the reign of King Louis XIV. Whilst visiting a provincial town, a member of Molière's acting troupe, Gros-René, discovers a beautiful street dancer, Marquise...   [More...]

Marthe (1997)
Jean-Loup Hubert

Autumn, 1915. Wounded on a World War I battlefield, a young soldier named Simon is sent to a town on the Brittany coast to convalesce and receive medical treatment...   [More...]

Nettoyage à sec (1997)
Anne Fontaine

For the past 15 years a married couple, Jean-Marie and Nicole Kunstler, have run their own dry cleaning business in a French provincial town...   [More...]

On connaît la chanson (1997)
Alain Resnais

In Paris, Camille divides her time between studying for a degree in history and working as a tourist guide. Her sister Odile is obsessed with changing her apartment, but gets no encouragement from her mediocre husband Claude, with whom she is becoming increasingly frustrated...   [More...]

Les Palmes de M. Schutz (1997)
Claude Pinoteau

In 1894, Rodolphe Schutz, the director of the physics and chemistry department at the University of Paris, has his heart set on winning the Order of Academic Palms, the prize he believes is rightly his after years of dedicated service to academia...   [More...]

Le Pari (1997)
Didier Bourdon

Didier and Bernard are two men who appear to have nothing in common, other than the fact they are married to women who are sisters...   [More...]



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