French cinema: 1999
Au coeur du mensonge (1999)
Claude Chabrol
René Sterne was a successful artist before a terrorist attack left him maimed for life. Now, beset with scars that are both physical and psychological, he struggles to regain his inspiration in a quiet fishing port on the coast of Brittany...
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Claude Chabrol
Augustin, roi du Kung-fu (1999)
Anne Fontaine
The eternally optimistic bit-part actor Augustin Don Santos intends to become the next big star of the martial arts film genre...
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Anne Fontaine
Beau travail (1999)
Claire Denis
As he struggles to adjust to civilian life, a former military man Galoup recalls his past life in the French Foreign Legion, in particular the incidents which led to his humiliating dismissal...
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Claire Denis
Le Bleu des villes (1999)
Stéphane Brizé
Traffic warden Solange has grown tired of her ordinary day-to-day existence in a dull provincial town. Whilst her husband, Patrick, is perfectly content working as an assistant in a hospital morgue and decorating their new home, she yearns for a change...
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Stéphane Brizé
C'est quoi la vie? (1999)
François Dupeyron
Nicolas lives on a farm in the heart of rural France. The farm presently belongs to his father Marc, who is fighting a losing battle to pay off his accumulating debts whilst supporting his family...
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François Dupeyron
Les Convoyeurs attendent (1999)
Benoît Mariage
A new millennium beckons but life goes on as usual in a dull industrial town in Belgium. Family man Roger Closset works as a journalist on a local newspaper, L'Espoir, zipping around on his moped in search of an interesting news story, with little hope of finding one... [More...]
Benoît Mariage
A new millennium beckons but life goes on as usual in a dull industrial town in Belgium. Family man Roger Closset works as a journalist on a local newspaper, L'Espoir, zipping around on his moped in search of an interesting news story, with little hope of finding one... [More...]
La Dilettante (1999)
Pascal Thomas
On the spur of the moment, Pierette Dumortier abandons her husband and her comfortable middle-class life in Switzerland and takes the train to Paris... [More...]
Pascal Thomas
On the spur of the moment, Pierette Dumortier abandons her husband and her comfortable middle-class life in Switzerland and takes the train to Paris... [More...]
Est - Ouest (1999)
Régis Wargnier
1946. Following an amnesty from Communist leader Stalin, a physician Alexeï returns to his native Russia after a period of exile in France... [More...]
Régis Wargnier
1946. Following an amnesty from Communist leader Stalin, a physician Alexeï returns to his native Russia after a period of exile in France... [More...]
Extension du domaine de la lutte (1999)
Philippe Harel
A lonely computer programmer reflects on the empty meaningless of his loveless, solitary existence. Since his partner walked out on him two years ago, he does nothing at weekends and regards his work as a monotonous chore... [More...]
Philippe Harel
A lonely computer programmer reflects on the empty meaningless of his loveless, solitary existence. Since his partner walked out on him two years ago, he does nothing at weekends and regards his work as a monotonous chore... [More...]
L'Humanité (1999)
Bruno Dumont
In a town on the north coast of France, a sensitive young police inspector, Pharaon de Winter, investigates the rape and murder of an 11 year old girl... [More...]
Bruno Dumont
In a town on the north coast of France, a sensitive young police inspector, Pharaon de Winter, investigates the rape and murder of an 11 year old girl... [More...]
Ma petite entreprise (1999)
Pierre Jolivet
Ivan is the owner of a carpentry business which has been in his family for three generations. Imagine his despair when, one day, his workshop and most of his stock are decimated by a fire... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Ivan is the owner of a carpentry business which has been in his family for three generations. Imagine his despair when, one day, his workshop and most of his stock are decimated by a fire... [More...]
Les Passagers (1999)
Jean-Claude Guiguet
Men and women, like lost souls, drift across Paris, their journeys made easier and emptier by the new tramway system that carries them along with their solemn thoughts and sad remembrances... [More...]
Jean-Claude Guiguet
Men and women, like lost souls, drift across Paris, their journeys made easier and emptier by the new tramway system that carries them along with their solemn thoughts and sad remembrances... [More...]
Pola X (1999)
Leos Carax
Pierre is a successful young writer who enjoys a privileged, carefree existence with his mother Marie at their grand Normandy château... [More...]
Leos Carax
Pierre is a successful young writer who enjoys a privileged, carefree existence with his mother Marie at their grand Normandy château... [More...]
Ressources humaines (1999)
Laurent Cantet
With a diploma in business studies under his belt, 22-year old Franck returns to his home village, looking forward to a successful business career... [More...]
Laurent Cantet
With a diploma in business studies under his belt, 22-year old Franck returns to his home village, looking forward to a successful business career... [More...]
Rien à faire (1999)
Marion Vernoux
An unemployed working class woman, Marie, has difficulty filling her empty days until one day she meets Pierre at a supermarket checkout... [More...]
Marion Vernoux
An unemployed working class woman, Marie, has difficulty filling her empty days until one day she meets Pierre at a supermarket checkout... [More...]
Rien sur Robert (1999)
Pascal Bonitzer
A middle-aged film critic's life is turned upside down when his younger wife leaves him to start an affair with a TV director... [More...]
Pascal Bonitzer
A middle-aged film critic's life is turned upside down when his younger wife leaves him to start an affair with a TV director... [More...]
Rosetta (1999)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Rosetta is an adolescent girl for whom every day is a struggle against an unsympathetic world. Living on a squalid campsite with her drunken mother, she has no friends and has to sell second hand clothes to make ends meet... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Rosetta is an adolescent girl for whom every day is a struggle against an unsympathetic world. Living on a squalid campsite with her drunken mother, she has no friends and has to sell second hand clothes to make ends meet... [More...]
Le Temps retrouvé (1999)
Raoul Ruiz
As he lies on his death bed, attended by his maid, the writer Marcel Proust recounts his life in a series of fragmented, inter-locking recollections... [More...]
Raoul Ruiz
As he lies on his death bed, attended by his maid, the writer Marcel Proust recounts his life in a series of fragmented, inter-locking recollections... [More...]
Trois ponts sur la rivière (1999)
Jean-Claude Biette
Arthur, a history teacher living in Paris, is on the brink of a journey of self-discovery. Living alone for some years has made him self-centred and unfriendly - he argues with his colleagues and brushes aside his next-door neighbour's gestures of friendship... [More...]
Jean-Claude Biette
Arthur, a history teacher living in Paris, is on the brink of a journey of self-discovery. Living alone for some years has made him self-centred and unfriendly - he argues with his colleagues and brushes aside his next-door neighbour's gestures of friendship... [More...]
Le Vent de la nuit (1999)
Philippe Garrel
For some time, Paul, a 30-something arts student, has been having an affair with an older married woman, Hélène... [More...]
Philippe Garrel
For some time, Paul, a 30-something arts student, has been having an affair with an older married woman, Hélène... [More...]
Vénus beauté (institut) (1999)
Tonie Marshall
Angèle is a middle-aged beautician who refuses to settle down with a man, preferring a string of one night stands and short-term relationships... [More...]
Tonie Marshall
Angèle is a middle-aged beautician who refuses to settle down with a man, preferring a string of one night stands and short-term relationships... [More...]