Fred (1997)
Pierre Jolivet

Fred is an unemployed crane operator who lives in the industrial suburbs with his girlfriend Lisa. The latter has a young son, the product of another relationship, and works in research laboratory...   [More...]

Gadjo dilo (1997)
Tony Gatlif

A young Frenchman, Stéphane, is making his way across rural Romania in search of a gypsy singer who fascinated his recently deceased father...   [More...]

J'ai horreur de l'amour (1997)
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa

Annie, a 30-something divorcee, is a doctor with her own medical practice in Paris. One summer, her working days feel as empty and uneventful as her love life - until two men enter her surgery and her life...   [More...]

Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Claude Berri

Lyon, 1943. In Nazi occupied France, Raymond Aubrac is a leading member of the French Resistance. Shortly after blowing up a German supply train, he is arrested, ostensibly for blackmarketeering...   [More...]

Ma vie en rose (1997)
Alain Berliner

The Fabre family moves into a new house in a respectable middle-class area. During a house-warming party, the youngest son, seven-year old Ludovic makes a grand entrance in a dress, make-up and jewellery...   [More...]

Marius et Jeannette (1997)
Robert Guédiguian

Jeannette is a single mother who is struggling to bring up her children on a meagre salary in Estaque, a working class district of Marseilles...   [More...]

Nettoyage à sec (1997)
Anne Fontaine

For the past 15 years a married couple, Jean-Marie and Nicole Kunstler, have run their own dry cleaning business in a French provincial town...   [More...]

On connaît la chanson (1997)
Alain Resnais

In Paris, Camille divides her time between studying for a degree in history and working as a tourist guide. Her sister Odile is obsessed with changing her apartment, but gets no encouragement from her mediocre husband Claude, with whom she is becoming increasingly frustrated...   [More...]

Les Randonneurs (1997)
Philippe Harel

Five 30-something friends decide to take a break from their busy Parisian lives and head off on an arduous walking tour in the beautiful mountains of Corsica...   [More...]

Regarde la mer (1997)
François Ozon

One summer, Sasha, a young English woman, settles into a remote holiday cottage near the coast. With her husband away on business, her only companion is her baby daughter...   [More...]

Le Septième ciel (1997)
Benoît Jacquot

On the surface, Mathilde is a happily married young woman, working in her mother's law office whilst her husband pursues a successful career as a surgeon...   [More...]

La Vie de Jésus (1997)
Bruno Dumont

For Freddy, an unemployed young man suffering from autism, life is one long round of unending monotony. Living in Bailleul, a small backwater town in Northern France, there is nothing for him to do other than to listlessly roam the district on his motorbike with his gang of friends...   [More...]

Western (1997)
Manuel Poirier

When a Spanish sales rep Paco Cazale gives a lift to a Russian hitch-hiker, Nino, his life takes an unexpected turn. First he is stranded when Nino drives off with his car...   [More...]