French cinema: 1980s
L'Effrontée (1985)
Claude Miller
For Charlotte, a 13 year old girl living in a rural village in France, adolescence is proving to be a traumatic experience...
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Claude Miller
En haut des marches (1983)
Paul Vecchiali
On her return to Toulon in 1963 Françoise Canavaggia is confronted with the spectres of her past as she sets out to finally reconcile herself to a loss that has weighed on her heavily these past twenty years...
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Paul Vecchiali
L'Été meurtrier (1983)
Jean Becker
A beautiful 19 year old girl, Eliane, moves into a provençal village with her invalid father and German mother. She immediately draws the attention of all the men in the village, but it is the timid garage owner Florimond she chooses to go out with...
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Jean Becker
Extérieur, nuit (1980)
Jacques Bral
Léo and Bony are two friends who both seem to have arrived at a crossroads in their lives. They belong to the May '68 generation who believed they could change the world, only to be disillusioned by what followed...
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Jacques Bral
La Femme d'à côté (1981)
François Truffaut
Bernard and Arlette Coudray are a young couple who live with their infant son at a remote country house near to Grenoble...
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François Truffaut
La Femme de l'aviateur (1980)
Eric Rohmer
A postal worker, François, is about to visit his girlfriend, Anne, early one morning, when he sees another man leaving her apartment... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
A postal worker, François, is about to visit his girlfriend, Anne, early one morning, when he sees another man leaving her apartment... [More...]
La Femme de ma vie (1986)
Régis Wargnier
Simon was once an acclaimed virtuoso violinist, before he became a alcoholic and sank into the mire of depression. His life is ruined, and even his wife Laura can do nothing for him... [More...]
Régis Wargnier
Simon was once an acclaimed virtuoso violinist, before he became a alcoholic and sank into the mire of depression. His life is ruined, and even his wife Laura can do nothing for him... [More...]
La Fille de 15 ans (1989)
Jacques Doillon
Juliette is a girl of fifteen years who thinks she has understood all there is to know about love. Her present beau is a boy of her own age, Thomas, with whom she enjoys a close but, so far, platonic relationship... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Juliette is a girl of fifteen years who thinks she has understood all there is to know about love. Her present beau is a boy of her own age, Thomas, with whom she enjoys a close but, so far, platonic relationship... [More...]
La Fille prodigue (1981)
Jacques Doillon
Anne is a young woman who, in a fit of depression, leaves her husband Jean-Marie and chooses to live alone in a shoebox Parisian apartment... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Anne is a young woman who, in a fit of depression, leaves her husband Jean-Marie and chooses to live alone in a shoebox Parisian apartment... [More...]
Force majeure (1989)
Pierre Jolivet
Philippe is a promising student about to sit his exams and who is looking forward to a successful research career. Daniel is another young man who has a girl friend, a baby, and who enjoys his hedonistic freedom... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Philippe is a promising student about to sit his exams and who is looking forward to a successful research career. Daniel is another young man who has a girl friend, a baby, and who enjoys his hedonistic freedom... [More...]
Frantic (1988)
Roman Polanski
Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Dr Richard Walker and his wife Sondra, an American couple, arrive in Paris ahead of a medical conference at which Dr Walker is to give a paper... [More...]
Garde à vue (1981)
Claude Miller
In a small French town, two young girls are found raped and murdered. The obvious suspect is a prominent lawyer, Jérôme Martinaud, who is known to have been in the vicinity of both killings when they took place... [More...]
Claude Miller
In a small French town, two young girls are found raped and murdered. The obvious suspect is a prominent lawyer, Jérôme Martinaud, who is known to have been in the vicinity of both killings when they took place... [More...]
Le Grand bleu (1988)
Luc Besson
Jacques Mayol and and Enzo Molinari are two men who have shared an intense passion for the sea since their childhood. Molinari, the current world free diving champion, coerces Mayol into competing against him in the next tournament... [More...]
Luc Besson
Jacques Mayol and and Enzo Molinari are two men who have shared an intense passion for the sea since their childhood. Molinari, the current world free diving champion, coerces Mayol into competing against him in the next tournament... [More...]
Le Grand chemin (1987)
Jean-Loup Hubert
In the summer of 1959, a coach arrives in a small village in rural Brittany, bringing a pregnant mother Claire and her nine-year-old son Louis... [More...]
Jean-Loup Hubert
In the summer of 1959, a coach arrives in a small village in rural Brittany, bringing a pregnant mother Claire and her nine-year-old son Louis... [More...]
L'Homme blessé (1983)
Patrice Chéreau
Henri, a young man of about 19, is seeing his sister off at a provincial train station when he suddenly notices a man spying on him from a distance... [More...]
Patrice Chéreau
Henri, a young man of about 19, is seeing his sister off at a provincial train station when he suddenly notices a man spying on him from a distance... [More...]
L'Honneur d'un capitaine (1982)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
In the course of a television debate on the Algerian War in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounces the use of torture by French troops during the conflict... [More...]
Pierre Schoendoerffer
In the course of a television debate on the Algerian War in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounces the use of torture by French troops during the conflict... [More...]
Hôtel des Amériques (1981)
André Téchiné
Hélène is a 30-something anaesthetist at a hospital in the French seaside town of Biarritz. One evening, whilst driving home in a distracted state, she almost runs over a pedestrian, Gilles... [More...]
André Téchiné
Hélène is a 30-something anaesthetist at a hospital in the French seaside town of Biarritz. One evening, whilst driving home in a distracted state, she almost runs over a pedestrian, Gilles... [More...]
I Want to Go Home (1989)
Alain Resnais
An ageing American cartoonists, Joey Wellman, makes a visit to Paris to attend an exhibition of his work. He plans to meet up with his daughter, Elsie, who is studying at the Sorbonne, but she has little respect for her father and fails to keep the rendez-vous... [More...]
Alain Resnais
An ageing American cartoonists, Joey Wellman, makes a visit to Paris to attend an exhibition of his work. He plans to meet up with his daughter, Elsie, who is studying at the Sorbonne, but she has little respect for her father and fails to keep the rendez-vous... [More...]
Les Innocents (1987)
André Téchiné
Jeanne, a young woman from the north of France, travels to the Mediterranean sea town of Toulon to attend the wedding of her older sister to a North African man... [More...]
André Téchiné
Jeanne, a young woman from the north of France, travels to the Mediterranean sea town of Toulon to attend the wedding of her older sister to a North African man... [More...]
Inspecteur Lavardin (1986)
Claude Chabrol
In a small town on a drab stretch of the Brittany coastline, the renowned Catholic writer Raoul Mons leads an exemplary life, intent on upholding moral standards in the district... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
In a small town on a drab stretch of the Brittany coastline, the renowned Catholic writer Raoul Mons leads an exemplary life, intent on upholding moral standards in the district... [More...]
Je suis le seigneur du château (1989)
Régis Wargnier
Brittany, 1954. After the death of his wife, wealthy landowner Jean Béraud hires a governess, Madame Vernet, to take care of his 10-year old son Thomas... [More...]
Régis Wargnier
Brittany, 1954. After the death of his wife, wealthy landowner Jean Béraud hires a governess, Madame Vernet, to take care of his 10-year old son Thomas... [More...]
Jean de Florette (1986)
Claude Berri
Early in the 1920s, tax collector Jean Cadoret gives up his life in the city to make a fresh start in Provence, with his wife Aimée and young daughter Manon... [More...]
Claude Berri
Early in the 1920s, tax collector Jean Cadoret gives up his life in the city to make a fresh start in Provence, with his wife Aimée and young daughter Manon... [More...]
Ki lo sa? (1985)
Robert Guédiguian
Dada, a solitary thirty-something, maintains the vast gardens of a once grand house in Marselles. He recalls the happy childhood he spent in the gardens with the children who lived in the area... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian
Dada, a solitary thirty-something, maintains the vast gardens of a once grand house in Marselles. He recalls the happy childhood he spent in the gardens with the children who lived in the area... [More...]
La Lectrice (1988)
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading... [More...]
Michel Deville
Jean listens attentively as his attractive girlfriend Constance reads to him a book about a young woman, Marie, whose greatest passion is reading... [More...]
Le Lieu du crime (1986)
André Téchiné
In rural France, a 13 year old boy, Thomas, runs into an escaped convict who orders him to return with some money. Thomas is on holiday from the boarding school he loathes and is staying with his mother Lili after her recent divorce from his father Maurice... [More...]
André Téchiné
In rural France, a 13 year old boy, Thomas, runs into an escaped convict who orders him to return with some money. Thomas is on holiday from the boarding school he loathes and is staying with his mother Lili after her recent divorce from his father Maurice... [More...]
Liste noire (1984)
Alain Bonnot
David, Jacky and Nathalie are three teenage rebels who decide to hold up a bank. The weaponry is provided by a man who, unbeknown to them, belongs to a gang that intends to use their hold up as a diversion for their own daylight heist... [More...]
Alain Bonnot
David, Jacky and Nathalie are three teenage rebels who decide to hold up a bank. The weaponry is provided by a man who, unbeknown to them, belongs to a gang that intends to use their hold up as a diversion for their own daylight heist... [More...]
Loulou (1980)
Maurice Pialat
Nelly is a liberated young woman who enjoys a comfortable bourgeois existence with her partner André but somehow she feels there is something missing in her life... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
Nelly is a liberated young woman who enjoys a comfortable bourgeois existence with her partner André but somehow she feels there is something missing in her life... [More...]
La Lune dans le caniveau (1983)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
In present day Marseille, a young dockworker named Gérard Delmas is haunted by the brutal death of his sister, who committed suicide with a razor after being raped in the street... [More...]
Jean-Jacques Beineix
In present day Marseille, a young dockworker named Gérard Delmas is haunted by the brutal death of his sister, who committed suicide with a razor after being raped in the street... [More...]
Manon des sources (1986)
Claude Berri
After the tragic death of his neighbour Jean Cadoret, César Soubeyran purchases his land so that his nephew Ugolin Soubeyran can grow carnations on an industrial scale... [More...]
Claude Berri
After the tragic death of his neighbour Jean Cadoret, César Soubeyran purchases his land so that his nephew Ugolin Soubeyran can grow carnations on an industrial scale... [More...]
Masques (1987)
Claude Chabrol
Christian Legagneur is one of France's best-loved TV personalities, the genial host of a popular talent show in which the over-sixties compete for big prizes by crooning sentimental songs of yesteryear... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Christian Legagneur is one of France's best-loved TV personalities, the genial host of a popular talent show in which the over-sixties compete for big prizes by crooning sentimental songs of yesteryear... [More...]