À nos amours (1983)
Maurice Pialat

Suzanne is a free-spirited 15-year-old who, along with her best friend Anne, is having a hard time coping with the upheavals of early adolescence...   [More...]

L'Argent (1983)
Robert Bresson

Owing money to a school friend, Norbert appeals to his parents to give him a top-up on his monthly allowance. When they refuse, he accepts a 500 franc counterfeit banknote from one of his classmates, using this to buy a picture frame in a photographer's shop...   [More...]

Benvenuta (1983)
André Delvaux

François, a young screenwriter in search of material for his next film, visits the reclusive writer Jeanne at her home in Ghent, Belgium...   [More...]

Coup de foudre (1983)
Diane Kurys

In 1942, Léna, a young Russian Jew, is interned in a camp in southern France. Her only hope of avoiding deportation to Nazi Germany is to go through with a marriage of convenience with a French solider, Michel...   [More...]

Danton (1983)
Andrzej Wajda

France, 1793. The newly established French Republic is threatened both from within and without. To prevent the Revolution from ending in ignominious failure the Committee for Public Safety, led by Maximilien Robespierre, has no option but to instigate a Reign of Terror...   [More...]

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...   [More...]

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...   [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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Sans soleil (1983)
Chris Marker

Itinerant filmmaker Sandor Krasna offers his personal reflection on the threads that connect the multifarious aspects of humanity through a film that combines readings of letters with stark visual images...   [More...]

Tchao pantin (1983)
Claude Berri

Lambert, a chronically introverted man in his forties, leads the most solitary of lives. He is more than happy to forget his past and shuns the company of others, content with working nights at an anonymous petrol station in a busy downmarket district of Paris...   [More...]

La Vie est un roman (1983)
Alain Resnais

On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome...   [More...]

Vivement dimanche! (1983)
François Truffaut

When a man named Massoulier is shot dead, estate agent Julien Vercel is arrested as his fingerprints are on the dead man's car...   [More...]