French cinema: 1987
Agent trouble (1987)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
One winter's morning a coach laden with tourists careers off the road and plunges into an icy lake in the Pyrenees. Fifty are killed...
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Jean-Pierre Mocky
L'Ami de mon amie (1987)
Eric Rohmer
In a pristine new town on the outskirts of Paris, a young civil servant, Blanche, strikes up a friendship with a computer programmer, Léa...
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Eric Rohmer
L'Amoureuse (1987)
Jacques Doillon
Eight girlfriends meet up at a resort on the Normandy coast to celebrate the birthday of their friend. The nine friends are each on the rebound from some emotional crisis but they manage to amuse themselves, mainly by trying to seduce and humiliate any men they can find...
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Jacques Doillon
Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
Louis Malle
France, 1944, during the Nazi Occupation. The Christmas holidays over, 12-year-old Julien Quentin must leave his comfortable middleclass home in Paris and return to his Catholic boarding school in the country...
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Louis Malle
De guerre lasse (1987)
Robert Enrico
May, 1942. After her husband, a Jewish surgeon, commits suicide, Alice leaves Nazi-controlled Austria with Jerôme, a diplomat...
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Robert Enrico
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...]
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...]
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...]
Sous le soleil de Satan (1987)
Maurice Pialat
In a rural village in the north of France in the 1920s, an inexperienced Catholic priest, Donissan, is beginning to have doubts about his suitability for the priesthood... [More...]
Maurice Pialat
In a rural village in the north of France in the 1920s, an inexperienced Catholic priest, Donissan, is beginning to have doubts about his suitability for the priesthood... [More...]
Tandem (1987)
Patrice Leconte
For the past 25 years, Michel Mortez has hosted the popular radio game show The Cat's Tongue. Over that time, the show has become the most important thing in Mortez's life and now, in the twilight of his career, he has neither friends nor family... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
For the past 25 years, Michel Mortez has hosted the popular radio game show The Cat's Tongue. Over that time, the show has become the most important thing in Mortez's life and now, in the twilight of his career, he has neither friends nor family... [More...]
La Vallée fantôme (1987)
Alain Tanner
In Geneva, Paul, a filmmaker in his fifties, has lost interest in his profession. He wants to make another film, but he lacks inspiration and cannot decide either on the subject or the location... [More...]
Alain Tanner
In Geneva, Paul, a filmmaker in his fifties, has lost interest in his profession. He wants to make another film, but he lacks inspiration and cannot decide either on the subject or the location... [More...]