French cinema: 1978
L'Amour violé (1978)
Yannick Bellon
One evening, a nurse, Nicole, is heading home on her moped when she is driven off the road by a van. Four men get out of the van and proceed to taunt her, before abducting her...
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Yannick Bellon
L'Argent des autres (1978)
Christian de Chalonge
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank...
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Christian de Chalonge
Attention, les enfants regardent (1978)
Serge Leroy
With their parents away working on a film in Ireland, four children, aged between 5 and 13, have the run of the family villa in the south of France...
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Serge Leroy
La Ballade des Dalton (1978)
René Goscinny
The Wild West has its fair share of desperados, but few are as desperate as the Dalton brothers, the sad bunch of despicable outlaws who are now just a few days into their two and half thousand year long prison sentence...
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René Goscinny
Les Belles manières (1978)
Jean-Claude Guiguet
Camille, an uneducated young man from the provinces, arrives in Paris to take up the post of housekeeper for the wealthy Hélène Courtray and her reclusive son Pierre...
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Jean-Claude Guiguet
Les Bronzés (1978)
Patrice Leconte
In the late 1970s, a party of hyped up French holidaymakers arrives at a popular holiday club on the Ivory Coast, looking forward to a week of unbridled escape from their humdrum lives... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
In the late 1970s, a party of hyped up French holidaymakers arrives at a popular holiday club on the Ivory Coast, looking forward to a week of unbridled escape from their humdrum lives... [More...]
La Cage aux folles (1978)
Edouard Molinaro
Renato and Albin are a gay couple living in St Tropez, Renato managing a notorious night club in which Albin performs a drag act... [More...]
Edouard Molinaro
Renato and Albin are a gay couple living in St Tropez, Renato managing a notorious night club in which Albin performs a drag act... [More...]
La Chambre verte (1978)
François Truffaut
In late 1920s France, Julien Davenne devotes his life to the memory of the dead. He writes impassioned obituaries for an obscure newspaper and has converted his house's Green Room into a mausoleum to his wife, who died ten years earlier shortly after their marriage... [More...]
François Truffaut
In late 1920s France, Julien Davenne devotes his life to the memory of the dead. He writes impassioned obituaries for an obscure newspaper and has converted his house's Green Room into a mausoleum to his wife, who died ten years earlier shortly after their marriage... [More...]
La Clé sur la porte (1978)
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone... [More...]
Yves Boisset
Marie is a progressive teacher in a French high school. Since her husband left her to start a new life in Canada, she has had to bring up her three children alone... [More...]
Le Dossier 51 (1978)
Michel Deville
A mysterious foreign power has set its sights on recruiting Dominique Auphal, a prominent French diplomat, as an agent. In order to put leverage on him to get him to comply, the security service of this foreign power embarks on a massive campaign of information gathering targeted at him... [More...]
Michel Deville
A mysterious foreign power has set its sights on recruiting Dominique Auphal, a prominent French diplomat, as an agent. In order to put leverage on him to get him to comply, the security service of this foreign power embarks on a massive campaign of information gathering targeted at him... [More...]
Le Passe-montagne (1978)
Jean-François Stévenin
When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage... [More...]
Jean-François Stévenin
When his car breaks down one evening in the Jura Mountains, a Parisian architect named Georges accepts the help of a local mechanic, Serge, who tows the car to a garage... [More...]
Perceval le Gallois (1978)
Eric Rohmer
Brought up by his widowed mother to know nothing about war and pageantry, the Welsh youth Perceval is awe-struck when he meets a knight for the first time... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Brought up by his widowed mother to know nothing about war and pageantry, the Welsh youth Perceval is awe-struck when he meets a knight for the first time... [More...]
Préparez vos mouchoirs (1978)
Bertrand Blier
Raoul has tried everything he can think of to cure his wife Solange of her habitual melancholia, but in vain. In desperation, he coerces a stranger he meets in a restaurant into sleeping with her... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Raoul has tried everything he can think of to cure his wife Solange of her habitual melancholia, but in vain. In desperation, he coerces a stranger he meets in a restaurant into sleeping with her... [More...]
Robert et Robert (1978)
Claude Lelouch
Jacques Millet is the director of a marriage agency and prides himself on always being able to match the right man to the right woman, with the aid of his expensive, state-of-the-art computer... [More...]
Claude Lelouch
Jacques Millet is the director of a marriage agency and prides himself on always being able to match the right man to the right woman, with the aid of his expensive, state-of-the-art computer... [More...]
Le Témoin (1978)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Robert Maurisson is a successful businessman who married into a rich bourgeois family and is now one of the most important people in Reims... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Robert Maurisson is a successful businessman who married into a rich bourgeois family and is now one of the most important people in Reims... [More...]
Un papillon sur l'épaule (1978)
Jacques Deray
Arriving in Barcelona to meet up with his wife, Roland Fériaud checks into a hotel and is surprised to find a dead man in the room next to his... [More...]
Jacques Deray
Arriving in Barcelona to meet up with his wife, Roland Fériaud checks into a hotel and is surprised to find a dead man in the room next to his... [More...]
Une histoire simple (1978)
Claude Sautet
Marie decides to break up with her boyfriend Georges and to abort his unborn child. As she nears forty she seems to have reached a crossroads in her life but doesn't know where she is heading... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Marie decides to break up with her boyfriend Georges and to abort his unborn child. As she nears forty she seems to have reached a crossroads in her life but doesn't know where she is heading... [More...]
Va voir maman, papa travaille (1978)
François Leterrier
Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme... [More...]
François Leterrier
Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme... [More...]
Violette Nozière (1978)
Claude Chabrol
In 1933, Violette Nozière, 18, leads a respectable middleclass existence with her father Baptiste, a railway engineer, and mother Germaine... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
In 1933, Violette Nozière, 18, leads a respectable middleclass existence with her father Baptiste, a railway engineer, and mother Germaine... [More...]
La Zizanie (1978)
Claude Zidi
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze is an ambitious man. The mayor of a small town in France, he has high hopes for his anti-pollution inventions... [More...]
Claude Zidi
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze is an ambitious man. The mayor of a small town in France, he has high hopes for his anti-pollution inventions... [More...]