La Tortue sur le dos (1978)
Luc Béraud

Despite his best efforts, Paul, a once successful writer, cannot overcome the crippling mental block that is preventing him from writing his next book...   [More...]

Un papillon sur l'épaule (1978)
Jacques Deray

Arriving in Barcelona to meet up with his wife, Roland Fériaud checks into a hotel and is surprised to find a dead man in the room next to his...   [More...]

Une histoire simple (1978)
Claude Sautet

Marie decides to break up with her boyfriend Georges and to abort his unborn child. As she nears forty she seems to have reached a crossroads in her life but doesn't know where she is heading...   [More...]

Va voir maman, papa travaille (1978)
François Leterrier

Agnès Lucas is a busy career woman in her mid-thirties who finds fulfilment through her work as a decorator and still manages to find time to bring up her seven-year old son, Jérôme...   [More...]

Violette Nozière (1978)
Claude Chabrol

In 1933, Violette Nozière, 18, leads a respectable middleclass existence with her father Baptiste, a railway engineer, and mother Germaine...   [More...]

La Zizanie (1978)
Claude Zidi

Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze is an ambitious man. The mayor of a small town in France, he has high hopes for his anti-pollution inventions...   [More...]