Cinema - French films - 1990s

French cinema: 1990s (Page 1 of 15)

588 rue paradis (1993)

Henri Verneuil

Forty years have passed since Azad Zakarian arrived in Marseilles with his parents, fugitives from Armenia. Under the name Pierre Zakar, Azad has become a renowned writer, his plays performed across the world. He is happily married and enjoys both wealth and fame. Memories of his modest childhood are revived when, after the death of his father, he is reunited with his mother, Mayrig, memories that will provide the inspiration for his next play..... [More...]

À cause d’elle (1993)

Jean-Loup Hubert

In 1963, Antoine is 14. He lives at Rezé, near Nantes, one of four children in a low-income family. His father, a hotel maître d’, is often away from home. Whilst revising for his exams, Antoine is distracted by his first experience of love, which begins with an innocent exchange of glances with an attractive girl of his own age... [More...]

À l’heure où les grands fauves vont boire (1993)

Pierre Jolivet

Adrien is so very close to seducing the woman of his desires when he is suddenly woken up by the telephone. The woman of his dreams is not a figment of his imagination. She exists - an ethnologist who has just made a documentary film - and Adrien is determined to get to know her more intimately. To that end, he sets out to impress her with a collection of Zulu weaponry supplied by a friend who scrapes a living on the black market..... [More...]

À la belle étoile (1993)

Antoine Desrosières

Now that he is 17, Thomas senses that finally his life is his own, and he sets out to prove it by falling in love. Four women will take part in his sentimental education - Marion, Rebecca, Claire and finally Hannah, an apprentice tightrope walker from Poland... [More...]

À la campagne (1995)

Manuel Poirier

Benoit lives happily in the country, far from the hubbub of city life which he has grown to hate. He only ventures to the city to sell the wooden toys he has made, the products of his fertile imagination and nimble fingers. One day, he meets Lila, who has recently completed a stretch in prison, and cannot help falling in love with her..... [More...]

À la folie (1994)

Diane Kurys

Alice is an aspiring artist living in Paris with her boyfriend, Franck, a boxer. Her life is upturned when her sister, Elsa, unexpectedly re-enters her life after several years of separation. Much to Franck’s chagrin, the kindly Alice allows Elsa to stay with her in her attic apartment, knowing that she has no desire to return to her cheating husband, Thomas... [More...]

À la place du coeur (1998)

Robert Guédiguian

Clim and Bébé have been close friends since childhood, growing up together on the housing estates of Marseilles. Clim is white, Bébé is black. Aged 16 and 18 respectively, they discover they are in love and find a small place to live together. Shortly after Clim discovers she is pregnant, Bébé is arrested by a racist policeman and wrongly convicted of raping a tourist... [More...]

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. Her adopted brother Jaco is also without work, and he ends up losing his family and his home when he can no longer afford to pay the rent... [More...]

À vendre (1998)

Laetitia Masson

When France Robert disappears on her wedding day with a bag of money, her jilted prospective husband sends a private detective, Luigi Primo, to recover her. Primo’s investigation takes him from Paris to Marseilles, where he learns from her former contacts that she compels her boyfriends to pay for sex, fleeing as soon as she starts to feel any genuine romantic attachment to them... [More...]

L’Accompagnatrice (1992)

Claude Miller

During the Nazi Occupation of France, Sophie Vasseur, a young pianist of humble origins, accompanies the great concert singer Irène Brice. Sophie is both fascinated and revolted by the world in which Irène lives, one in which privilege and patronage can be bought merely by aligning one’s sympathies with the Germans... [More...]

Adieu, plancher des vaches! (1999)

Otar Iosseliani

One day, Nicholas, a rich young man, decides to give up his privileged life and see for himself how ordinary folk live. He gets a job washing up dishes in a Parisian café, befriends a beggar and tries to court a barmaid, without success. The latter has fallen for the charms of another young man who spends the little money he has on nice clothes and his smart motorcycle, to give the impression he is wealthy... [More...]

Alice et Martin (1998)

André Téchiné

Immediately after the death of his father, 20 year old Martin goes into hiding for three weeks, living rough in the countryside. He then reappears unannounced on his half-brother’s doorstep in Paris. His brother, Benjamin, is pleased to see him and allows him to share his flat. Benjamin, an aspiring gay actor, is living with a struggling ill-tempered musician, Alice... [More...]

L’Amant (1992)

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Indochina, in the late 1920s. A young French girl leaves her impoverished mother and brothers and returns to the boarding school where she will soon complete her studies. On the way, she encounters a rich and handsome Chinese man – their instant attraction is mutual, and very intense. She becomes his lover, but he cannot take her as his wife, for it is not permitted for him to marry outside of his caste... [More...]

Les Amants criminels (1999)

François Ozon

A young adolescent Alice persuades her 17 year old boyfriend Luc to kill one of her classmates, Saïd. The murder accomplished, they take the body to a forest to dispose of it, but they are observed by a poacher. Luc and Alice then come across the poacher’s shack whilst he is out and are helping themselves to food when he returns, with a rifle... [More...]

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)

Leos Carax

A young man with mental problems, Alex, returns from a homeless shelter to his beloved Pont-Neuf in Paris. There he discovers Michèle, a distraught young woman, sleeping in his patch. Michèle ran away from home after breaking up with her boyfriend and when she discovered she had an eye disease which was sending her blind... [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. He agrees to take his friend’s young son, Bao, back to France to stay with his mother, but is more interested in is friend’s $40 million legacy. Realising that he has become the target of Chinese gangsters, Carco puts Bao in the care of Father Hervé Tarain, a priest who is heading back to France with a mountain of suitcases and children... [More...]

Anna Oz (1996)

Eric Rochant

By day, Anna Oz is an ordinary young woman, living in an ordinary apartment in Paris. By night, in the chasm of her dreams, she finds herself in Venice, living a life of luxury in a grand palace with Marcello, a successful art thief. Anna becomes progressively anxious as the same dream comes to her again and again, with ever increasing clarity... [More...]

L’Appartement (1996)

Gilles Mimouni

Max is about to set off for Tokyo, where he intends to get married to his fiancé and start a promising executive career. Quite by chance, he overhears the voice of a former girlfriend, Lisa, in a café. Recalling the time they spent together a few years ago, Max becomes obsessed with meeting her again... [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. Nathalie wants to become an actress; Bruno dreams of being a champion boxer; Eric thinks he can make his fortune as a retailer... [More...]

Les Apprentis (1995)

Pierre Salvadori

Antoine is an impoverished aspiring writer who squats in a Paris flat with a good-for-nothing lay-about, Fred. They have no money, no prospects, and within a very short time, have no where to live. To raise the deposit for a place to live, they raid the safe of Antonie’s newspaper employers. From that point on, things only seem to get worse..... [More...]

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