French cinema: 1996
L'Appartement (1996)
Gilles Mimouni
Max is about to set off for Tokyo, where he intends to get married to his fiancé and start a promising executive career...
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Gilles Mimouni
Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996)
Edouard Molinaro
In France of the 1770s, the reign of King Louis XV is drawing to an end. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the son of a clocksmith, enjoys fame and notoriety as a playwright and outspoken critic of the ruling elite...
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Edouard Molinaro
Capitaine Conan (1996)
Bertrand Tavernier
In the final months of World War I, the French infantry are actively engaged in mopping up the enemy trenches on the Macedonian Front...
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Bertrand Tavernier
Chacun cherche son chat (1996)
Cédric Klapisch
Chloé is a young make-up assistant living in Paris. She shares an apartment with a gay friend Michel and her treasured cat Gris-Gris...
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Cédric Klapisch
Le Coeur fantôme (1996)
Philippe Garrel
Philippe, a middle-aged artist, leaves his wife and children when he learns that his wife has a lover. He consoles himself with the company of prostitutes until he meets Justine, a young woman who instantly falls in love with him...
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Philippe Garrel
Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996)
Arnaud Desplechin
Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years... [More...]
Arnaud Desplechin
Paul Dédalus is fast approaching thirty when he realises the mess he has made of his life. Saddled with an assistant teaching job at Nanterre university that he has come to loathe, he struggles to complete his thesis whilst agonising over whether he should end his relationship with Esther, the woman he has been living with for ten years... [More...]
Conte d'été (1996)
Eric Rohmer
Gaspard, an introspective maths student, plans to spend his summer holidays in the Brittany town of Dinard. When his girlfriend Léna fails to turn up as agreed he is left alone to lie on the beach and compose songs with his guitar... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Gaspard, an introspective maths student, plans to spend his summer holidays in the Brittany town of Dinard. When his girlfriend Léna fails to turn up as agreed he is left alone to lie on the beach and compose songs with his guitar... [More...]
Le Huitième jour (1996)
Jaco Van Dormael
Harry is a high-powered communications officer for a leading multinational bank. He is comfortably off, well-respected and an incurable workaholic... [More...]
Jaco Van Dormael
Harry is a high-powered communications officer for a leading multinational bank. He is comfortably off, well-respected and an incurable workaholic... [More...]
Irma Vep (1996)
Olivier Assayas
A once great film director, René Vidal, attempts a come back by remaking Louis Feuillade's classic crime serial, Les Vampires... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
A once great film director, René Vidal, attempts a come back by remaking Louis Feuillade's classic crime serial, Les Vampires... [More...]
Nénette et Boni (1996)
Claire Denis
Since his mother's death a few years ago, Boni, 19, has led a mostly dull life, living in the pokey Marseille flat he inherited from his mother and earning a pittance as a pizza seller... [More...]
Claire Denis
Since his mother's death a few years ago, Boni, 19, has led a mostly dull life, living in the pokey Marseille flat he inherited from his mother and earning a pittance as a pizza seller... [More...]
Ponette (1996)
Jacques Doillon
Leaving hospital with minor injuries after a car accident which nearly cost her her life, four-year-old Ponette finds she has to come to terms with the death of the mother to whom she was utterly devoted... [More...]
Jacques Doillon
Leaving hospital with minor injuries after a car accident which nearly cost her her life, four-year-old Ponette finds she has to come to terms with the death of the mother to whom she was utterly devoted... [More...]
Ridicule (1996)
Patrice Leconte
France, 1780. Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy is a country aristocrat and engineer who has committed himself to a drainage project that will vastly improve the lives of the poor people of his region... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
France, 1780. Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy is a country aristocrat and engineer who has committed himself to a drainage project that will vastly improve the lives of the poor people of his region... [More...]
Trois vies et une seule mort (1996)
Raoul Ruiz
A radio broadcaster narrates a series of remarkable tales from his studio, beginning with the story of travelling salesman Mateo Strano... [More...]
Raoul Ruiz
A radio broadcaster narrates a series of remarkable tales from his studio, beginning with the story of travelling salesman Mateo Strano... [More...]
Un air de famille (1996)
Cédric Klapisch
Whilst his brother Philippe is making a name for himself as a high-flying company executive, Henri has to content himself with running the saloon bar he inherited from his father... [More...]
Cédric Klapisch
Whilst his brother Philippe is making a name for himself as a high-flying company executive, Henri has to content himself with running the saloon bar he inherited from his father... [More...]
Un héros très discret (1996)
Jacques Audiard
In the 1930s, Albert Dehousse is an imaginative but solitary boy growing up in a village in Northern France. His mother is devoted to him and clings to the memory of her husband, who died a hero's death in the First World War... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
In the 1930s, Albert Dehousse is an imaginative but solitary boy growing up in a village in Northern France. His mother is devoted to him and clings to the memory of her husband, who died a hero's death in the First World War... [More...]
Les Voleurs (1996)
André Téchiné
After the sudden death of his brother Ivan, Lyon-based cop Alex returns to the family home in the Rhône-Alpes with his girlfriend Juliette... [More...]
André Téchiné
After the sudden death of his brother Ivan, Lyon-based cop Alex returns to the family home in the Rhône-Alpes with his girlfriend Juliette... [More...]
Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël? (1996)
Sandrine Veysset
In the south of France, a young woman works all hours on her common-law husband's market garden farm whilst struggling to bring up her seven young children... [More...]
Sandrine Veysset
In the south of France, a young woman works all hours on her common-law husband's market garden farm whilst struggling to bring up her seven young children... [More...]