French cinema: 1980s
Mauvais sang (1986)
Leos Carax
Paris, 1986. As Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth, the capital is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave...
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Leos Carax
Mélo (1986)
Alain Resnais
Two old friends, Marcel and Pierre, get together one evening for a meal and to reminisce on old times. Marcel is now a world famous virtuoso violinist whilst Pierre has settled down for a quiet life with his wife, Romaine...
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Alain Resnais
Merry-Go-Round (1981)
Jacques Rivette
Ben, a young American, and Léo, a young French woman, meet at an airport in Paris. They had been hoping to meet up with Léo's sister Elisabeth, who is also Ben's girlfriend, but she is mysteriously absent...
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Jacques Rivette
Mes meilleurs copains (1989)
Jean-Marie Poiré
At his house in the country, Richard invites four old friends of his - Jean-Michel, Guido, Antoine and Dany - to share a weekend with him and reminisce on their wild youth in the 1960s...
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Jean-Marie Poiré
Mille milliards de dollars (1982)
Henri Verneuil
Paul Kerjean is a journalist on a leading French news weekly, La Tribune. One day, he receives an anonymous phone call revealing that the respected industrialist Jacques Benoît-Lambert is facing financial ruin...
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Henri Verneuil
Les Misérables (1982)
Robert Hossein
Sent to jail for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean has every reason for hating humanity and embarking on a life of crime when he is released twenty years later... [More...]
Robert Hossein
Sent to jail for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean has every reason for hating humanity and embarking on a life of crime when he is released twenty years later... [More...]
Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Alain Resnais
Henri Laborit is a world-renowned biologist who conjectures that human beings exhibit virtually identical patterns of behaviour to other animals in stress situations... [More...]
Alain Resnais
Henri Laborit is a world-renowned biologist who conjectures that human beings exhibit virtually identical patterns of behaviour to other animals in stress situations... [More...]
Monsieur Hire (1989)
Patrice Leconte
Monsieur Hire is a respectable middle-aged man who lives alone in the suburbs where he runs his own business as a tailor... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
Monsieur Hire is a respectable middle-aged man who lives alone in the suburbs where he runs his own business as a tailor... [More...]
La Mort en direct (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Mortelle randonnée (1983)
Claude Miller
Haunted by a past that he does his best to bury, fifty-something Louis Beauvoir leads a solitary life in which there is no place for sentiment or intimate human contact... [More...]
Claude Miller
Haunted by a past that he does his best to bury, fifty-something Louis Beauvoir leads a solitary life in which there is no place for sentiment or intimate human contact... [More...]
Noir et blanc (1986)
Claire Devers
Antoine is a boring young accountant who leads a boring humdrum existence. For his latest assignment, he is sent to a sports centre to sort out the company's accounts... [More...]
Claire Devers
Antoine is a boring young accountant who leads a boring humdrum existence. For his latest assignment, he is sent to a sports centre to sort out the company's accounts... [More...]
Notre histoire (1984)
Bertrand Blier
Robert Avranche is sitting by himself on a train, contemplating the utter pointlessness of his existence, when an attractive young woman enters his compartment and tries to engage him in conversation... [More...]
Bertrand Blier
Robert Avranche is sitting by himself on a train, contemplating the utter pointlessness of his existence, when an attractive young woman enters his compartment and tries to engage him in conversation... [More...]
La Nuit de Varennes (1982)
Ettore Scola
June 1791. When the controversial writer and printer Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital... [More...]
Ettore Scola
June 1791. When the controversial writer and printer Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital... [More...]
Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984)
Eric Rohmer
Louise is a young designer who lives in the suburbs of Paris with her boyfriend Rémi. Whilst the two are deeply in love, they are temperamentally very different, and this is beginning to put a strain on their relationship... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Louise is a young designer who lives in the suburbs of Paris with her boyfriend Rémi. Whilst the two are deeply in love, they are temperamentally very different, and this is beginning to put a strain on their relationship... [More...]
Le Paltoquet (1986)
Michel Deville
Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance... [More...]
Michel Deville
Each evening, four men - a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant - meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar's owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance... [More...]
Papy fait de la résistance (1983)
Jean-Marie Poiré
France, 1940. The Bourdelles are a family of gifted musicians who are so patriotic that they refuse to give any more public recitals until their country, now under Nazi occupation, has been liberated... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
France, 1940. The Bourdelles are a family of gifted musicians who are so patriotic that they refuse to give any more public recitals until their country, now under Nazi occupation, has been liberated... [More...]
La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982)
Jacques Rouffio
Max Baumstein is the esteemed president of an international human rights organisation, so the world is shocked when he cold bloodedly kills the ambassador to Paraguay... [More...]
Jacques Rouffio
Max Baumstein is the esteemed president of an international human rights organisation, so the world is shocked when he cold bloodedly kills the ambassador to Paraguay... [More...]
Pauline à la plage (1983)
Eric Rohmer
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin Marion decide to spend their summer holidays together in a resort on the north coast of France... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin Marion decide to spend their summer holidays together in a resort on the north coast of France... [More...]
Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982)
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christmas is always a busy time for the staff of SOS Détresse-Amitié, a Paris-based phone-in counselling service that seeks to console the capital's depressed and distressed... [More...]
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christmas is always a busy time for the staff of SOS Détresse-Amitié, a Paris-based phone-in counselling service that seeks to console the capital's depressed and distressed... [More...]
Péril en la demeure (1985)
Michel Deville
A young teacher, David Aurphet, agrees to give guitar lessons to Vivianne, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois couple. Straight away, David finds himself the object of unbridled desire for Vivianne's mother, Julia... [More...]
Michel Deville
A young teacher, David Aurphet, agrees to give guitar lessons to Vivianne, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois couple. Straight away, David finds himself the object of unbridled desire for Vivianne's mother, Julia... [More...]
Pile ou face (1980)
Robert Enrico
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others... [More...]
Robert Enrico
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others... [More...]
Polar (1984)
Jacques Bral
A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris... [More...]
Jacques Bral
A disgraced cop, Eugène Tarpon, sets himself up as a private detective, operating from his one room apartment in Paris... [More...]
Police (1985)
Maurice Pialat
Based in an ordinary police station in Paris, Mangin is a driven police inspector who is on a personal crusade to smash a ring of drugs traffickers that is operating between Marseille and Paris... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
Based in an ordinary police station in Paris, Mangin is a driven police inspector who is on a personal crusade to smash a ring of drugs traffickers that is operating between Marseille and Paris... [More...]
Psy (1981)
Philippe de Broca
Where now are the ideals of May '68? This is a question that Marc, a man in his mid-thirties and former soixante-huitard, might have cause to ruminate on as he profits from bourgeois angst by running weekend psychotherapy courses at a large house in the country belonging to his partner Colette... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
Where now are the ideals of May '68? This is a question that Marc, a man in his mid-thirties and former soixante-huitard, might have cause to ruminate on as he profits from bourgeois angst by running weekend psychotherapy courses at a large house in the country belonging to his partner Colette... [More...]
Le Rayon vert (1986)
Eric Rohmer
The start of July marks the beginning of the summer holidays for Delphine, a young secretary living in Paris, but her plans are ruined when her fiancé Jean-Pierre breaks off their engagement... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
The start of July marks the beginning of the summer holidays for Delphine, a young secretary living in Paris, but her plans are ruined when her fiancé Jean-Pierre breaks off their engagement... [More...]
Rendez-vous (1985)
André Téchiné
Nina is a young woman from the provinces who has just arrived in Paris with the hope of making a career as an actress. Her first priority is to find a place to live, and this is how she comes to meet Paulot, a trainee estate agent... [More...]
André Téchiné
Nina is a young woman from the provinces who has just arrived in Paris with the hope of making a career as an actress. Her first priority is to find a place to live, and this is how she comes to meet Paulot, a trainee estate agent... [More...]
Le Retour de Martin Guerre (1982)
Daniel Vigne
Early in the 1500s, there is a mood of celebration in the small village of Artigat in the Ariège region of southwest France... [More...]
Daniel Vigne
Early in the 1500s, there is a mood of celebration in the small village of Artigat in the Ariège region of southwest France... [More...]
Le Roi et l'oiseau (1980)
Paul Grimault
Charles, the King of Takicardie, is a cruel tyrant who likes nothing better than to go hunting birds. In this he is opposed by his most fervent enemy, a mockingbird who delights in embarrassing him... [More...]
Paul Grimault
Charles, the King of Takicardie, is a cruel tyrant who likes nothing better than to go hunting birds. In this he is opposed by his most fervent enemy, a mockingbird who delights in embarrassing him... [More...]
Romuald et Juliette (1989)
Coline Serreau
Romuald Blindet, the young managing director of a major French yoghurt manufacturing company, finds himself in deep water when he tries to increase productivity at one of his factories... [More...]
Coline Serreau
Romuald Blindet, the young managing director of a major French yoghurt manufacturing company, finds himself in deep water when he tries to increase productivity at one of his factories... [More...]
The Sacrifice (1986)
Andrey Tarkovskiy
Alexander is a man in his early sixties who leads a tranquil existence with his wife Adelaide, stepdaughter Marta and young son in a large house by the sea on a remote island... [More...]
Andrey Tarkovskiy
Alexander is a man in his early sixties who leads a tranquil existence with his wife Adelaide, stepdaughter Marta and young son in a large house by the sea on a remote island... [More...]