French cinema: 1998
À la place du coeur (1998)
Robert Guédiguian
Bébé and Clémentine are a mixed race couple who live in a poor district of Marseille. They are deeply in love and even though they are still in their teens they intend to marry as soon as they can...
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Robert Guédiguian
À vendre (1998)
Laetitia Masson
Luigi Primo is a private detective hired by a disappointed bridegroom to track down the woman who jilted him on his wedding day...
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Laetitia Masson
Alice et Martin (1998)
André Téchiné
In the southwest of France, Martin is leading a tranquil childhood with his mother and her boyfriend when his wealthy father, Victor Sauvagnac, insists on taking custody of him...
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André Téchiné
L'Arrière pays (1998)
Jacques Nolot
It has been ten years since Jacques Pruez last visited the little village in the south of France where he grew up. Now a hearty fifty-year-old, who has had some modest success as a television actor and is comfortable with his homosexuality, Jacques returns to the place of his youth to visit his dying mother...
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Jacques Nolot
Bimboland (1998)
Ariel Zeitoun
Ethnology student Cécile Bussy believes she has discovered a tribe in the Amazonian rain forest which has been completely untouched by civilisation...
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Ariel Zeitoun
Ça reste entre nous (1998)
Martin Lamotte
Patrick is a happily married man. The reason for his happiness is that, as well as an adoring wife, Hélène, he also has an equally adoring mistress, Elisabeth... [More...]
Martin Lamotte
Patrick is a happily married man. The reason for his happiness is that, as well as an adoring wife, Hélène, he also has an equally adoring mistress, Elisabeth... [More...]
Les Cachetonneurs (1998)
Denis Dercourt
Roberto, a young freelance musician, agrees to give a New Year's Eve concert of chamber music and Viennese waltzes at an aristocrat's château in Normandy... [More...]
Denis Dercourt
Roberto, a young freelance musician, agrees to give a New Year's Eve concert of chamber music and Viennese waltzes at an aristocrat's château in Normandy... [More...]
Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (1998)
Patrice Chéreau
Before his death, a world-famous painter, Jean-Baptiste, requests that he be buried in the cemetery at Limoges, a town that is reputed for accommodating more dead people than living... [More...]
Patrice Chéreau
Before his death, a world-famous painter, Jean-Baptiste, requests that he be buried in the cemetery at Limoges, a town that is reputed for accommodating more dead people than living... [More...]
La Classe de neige (1998)
Claude Miller
Nicolas is a quiet 12 year old boy who goes on a school skiing trip with his classmates. Worried that there might be a coach accident, Nicholas' over-protective father insists on taking his son to the alpine chalet himself... [More...]
Claude Miller
Nicolas is a quiet 12 year old boy who goes on a school skiing trip with his classmates. Worried that there might be a coach accident, Nicholas' over-protective father insists on taking his son to the alpine chalet himself... [More...]
Comme elle respire (1998)
Pierre Salvadori
Jeanne is a mythomaniac, lying constantly to anyone she meets. She arrives in Paris and gets work as a waitress, where she meets an old woman, Madeleine, who recruits her as a housekeeper... [More...]
Pierre Salvadori
Jeanne is a mythomaniac, lying constantly to anyone she meets. She arrives in Paris and gets work as a waitress, where she meets an old woman, Madeleine, who recruits her as a housekeeper... [More...]
Conte d'automne (1998)
Eric Rohmer
Magali is an attractive widow in her mid-forties who, since her children left home, now lives alone, tending to her large vineyard in the Rhone valley... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Magali is an attractive widow in her mid-forties who, since her children left home, now lives alone, tending to her large vineyard in the Rhone valley... [More...]
Les Couloirs du temps: Les Visiteurs 2 (1998)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Returning to his own time, 12th Century France, Comte Godefroy de Montmirail discovers that his marriage to Frénégonde is forbidden by his future father-in-law... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
Returning to his own time, 12th Century France, Comte Godefroy de Montmirail discovers that his marriage to Frénégonde is forbidden by his future father-in-law... [More...]
Déjà mort (1998)
Olivier Dahan
In Nice, pizza-delivery boy Andréa introduces Laure, a 20-year-old girl he barely knows, to his friend David. A wealthy layabout, David has just started up his own pornographic photo agency with his friend Romain and is looking for new models... [More...]
Olivier Dahan
In Nice, pizza-delivery boy Andréa introduces Laure, a 20-year-old girl he barely knows, to his friend David. A wealthy layabout, David has just started up his own pornographic photo agency with his friend Romain and is looking for new models... [More...]
Dieu seul me voit (1998)
Bruno Podalydès
Albert, a shy absent-minded sound engineer, is coming to a mid-life crisis. Despite his best attempts, he still has not found the woman of his dreams - but that looks set to change... [More...]
Bruno Podalydès
Albert, a shy absent-minded sound engineer, is coming to a mid-life crisis. Despite his best attempts, he still has not found the woman of his dreams - but that looks set to change... [More...]
Le Dîner de cons (1998)
Francis Veber
Every week, a group of successful Parisian businessmen attend a dinner party to which they each invite someone who appears to be an idiot... [More...]
Francis Veber
Every week, a group of successful Parisian businessmen attend a dinner party to which they each invite someone who appears to be an idiot... [More...]
L'École de la chair (1998)
Benoît Jacquot
Dominique is respectable middle-aged woman who runs a fashion house. She meets Quentin, a promiscuous young man who works in a gay bar... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot
Dominique is respectable middle-aged woman who runs a fashion house. She meets Quentin, a promiscuous young man who works in a gay bar... [More...]
En plein coeur (1998)
Pierre Jolivet
Desperate to find the money to pay their rent, two adolescent girls Cécile and Samira attempt to hold up a jeweller's, but it all goes wrong... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Desperate to find the money to pay their rent, two adolescent girls Cécile and Samira attempt to hold up a jeweller's, but it all goes wrong... [More...]
L'Ennui (1998)
Cédric Kahn
Traumatised by the separation from his wife, a philosophy teacher, Martin finds himself experiencing a mid-life crisis. When he learns that an ageing artist he met recently died whilst making love, he is intrigued and visits the artist's studio... [More...]
Cédric Kahn
Traumatised by the separation from his wife, a philosophy teacher, Martin finds himself experiencing a mid-life crisis. When he learns that an ageing artist he met recently died whilst making love, he is intrigued and visits the artist's studio... [More...]
L'Examen de minuit (1998)
Danièle Dubroux
Keen to find a husband, Séréna places an ad in the newspapers, and receives a promising reply from a landowner living in Chateauneuf-sur-Rhône... [More...]
Danièle Dubroux
Keen to find a husband, Séréna places an ad in the newspapers, and receives a promising reply from a landowner living in Chateauneuf-sur-Rhône... [More...]
La Femme du cosmonaute (1998)
Jacques Monnet
Anna can hardly believe her good fortune when her astronaut husband, Jean-Paul, is selected for a solo space mission which will take him out of her life for six whole months... [More...]
Jacques Monnet
Anna can hardly believe her good fortune when her astronaut husband, Jean-Paul, is selected for a solo space mission which will take him out of her life for six whole months... [More...]
Fin août, début septembre (1998)
Olivier Assayas
Gabriel, in his early thirties, finds his life upended after separating from his partner Jenny and then discovering that his best friend Adrien, a writer, has a terminal illness... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
Gabriel, in his early thirties, finds his life upended after separating from his partner Jenny and then discovering that his best friend Adrien, a writer, has a terminal illness... [More...]
Hasards ou coïncidences (1998)
Claude Lelouch
Miriam Lini used to be a highly successful dancer, before she decided to give up her career and devote herself to bringing up her son, Serge... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Miriam Lini used to be a highly successful dancer, before she decided to give up her career and devote herself to bringing up her son, Serge... [More...]
L'Homme est une femme comme les autres (1998)
Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
Simon Eskanazy is a gay man from a Jewish background who just about scrapes a living as a musician in Paris. To preserve the family name, his Uncle Salomon tries to bribe him into getting married - but Simon refuses... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
Simon Eskanazy is a gay man from a Jewish background who just about scrapes a living as a musician in Paris. To preserve the family name, his Uncle Salomon tries to bribe him into getting married - but Simon refuses... [More...]
Hors jeu (1998)
Karim Dridi
Two out of work actors, Ange and Concepción, meet up during the making of a seedy television commercial. Having shared magic mushrooms together, they fall in love... [More...]
Karim Dridi
Two out of work actors, Ange and Concepción, meet up during the making of a seedy television commercial. Having shared magic mushrooms together, they fall in love... [More...]
L'Inconnu de Strasbourg (1998)
Valeria Sarmiento
Madeleine is spending an evening with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband appears unexpectedly. The latter produces a gun and forces Madeleine to join in a variant of Russian roulette, which he loses... [More...]
Valeria Sarmiento
Madeleine is spending an evening with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband appears unexpectedly. The latter produces a gun and forces Madeleine to join in a variant of Russian roulette, which he loses... [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...]
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...]
La Mère Christain (1998)
Myriam Boyer
In the early 1950s, Mother Christain runs a small bistro in the town of Lyons. Alone and impoverished, she is scarred by her recent tragic experiences... [More...]
Myriam Boyer
In the early 1950s, Mother Christain runs a small bistro in the town of Lyons. Alone and impoverished, she is scarred by her recent tragic experiences... [More...]
On a très peu d'amis (1998)
Sylvain Monod
Ivan and Serge are two friends who, having failed to make their fortune in Paris, head back to their home town of Aurillac without a sou to their name... [More...]
Sylvain Monod
Ivan and Serge are two friends who, having failed to make their fortune in Paris, head back to their home town of Aurillac without a sou to their name... [More...]