French cinema: 1980
Atlantic City (1980)
Louis Malle
Some years after her husband Dave ran off with her sister, Sally Matthews has settled in Atlantic City, where she earns a modest crust as a waitress at one of the city's many popular casinos...
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Louis Malle
L'Avare (1980)
Louis de Funès
In the 17th century, after a life of scrimping and saving, Harpagon has managed to build up a substantial personal fortune...
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Louis de Funès
Le Dernier métro (1980)
François Truffaut
With France under Nazi occupation, the Jewish playwright and stage director Lucas Steiner fears being deported like so many of his race...
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François Truffaut
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 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...
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Eric Rohmer
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Un mauvais fils (1980)
Claude Sautet
Having spent five years in an American prison for drugs dealing, Bruno Calgagni returns to France to make a fresh start. He meets up with his father, a foreman on a building site, and learns that his mother died whilst he was in jail... [More...]
Claude Sautet
Having spent five years in an American prison for drugs dealing, Bruno Calgagni returns to France to make a fresh start. He meets up with his father, a foreman on a building site, and learns that his mother died whilst he was in jail... [More...]