French cinema: 1990s
Profil bas (1993)
Claude Zidi
Julien Segal is a seasoned police inspector in his mid-thirties. Although he has an exemplary record, he has become disillusioned with his career and is seriously contemplating giving up his work for good...
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Claude Zidi
La Promesse (1996)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
In the dismal suburbs of a Belgian town, Roger makes a sordid living by smuggling illegal immigrants into the country from Africa and then forcing them to work for a pittance on his construction projects...
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Promotion canapé (1990)
Didier Kaminka
Catherine and Françoise, two young women from the provinces, can hardly wait to begin their exciting new life in the big city...
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Didier Kaminka
Quand j'avais 5 ans je m'ai tué (1994)
Jean-Claude Sussfeld
In the 1960s, Gil is eight years old, a boy who is forever locked in his own dreamworld. A hyper-sensitive, hyper-imaginative child, he is already in love, with a little girl called Jessica...
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Jean-Claude Sussfeld
Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)
Patrick Timsit
When his son Quasimodo shows signs of physical deformity, an important notable of El Paris places him in the care of the city's archdeacon, Serge Frollo, and adopts a pretty Cuban girl, Esmeralda, in his place...
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Patrick Timsit
Quelque chose d'organique (1998)
Bertrand Bonello
Paul lives with his young wife Marguerite and his father, an illegal Greek immigrant, in Montreal. He works as a zoo keeper and occupies himself with his infant son from an earlier marriage, who is seriously ill in hospital... [More...]
Bertrand Bonello
Paul lives with his young wife Marguerite and his father, an illegal Greek immigrant, in Montreal. He works as a zoo keeper and occupies himself with his infant son from an earlier marriage, who is seriously ill in hospital... [More...]
Le Radeau de la Méduse (1998)
Iradj Azimi
Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 resulted not only in the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy but a warming of relations between France and England... [More...]
Iradj Azimi
Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 resulted not only in the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy but a warming of relations between France and England... [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...]
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...]
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...]
Regarde les hommes tomber (1994)
Jacques Audiard
Simon Hirsch is a fifty-something travelling salesman who is beginning to lose his enthusiasm for living. Bored with his job, no longer interested in women, he teeters on the brink of depression... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
Simon Hirsch is a fifty-something travelling salesman who is beginning to lose his enthusiasm for living. Bored with his job, no longer interested in women, he teeters on the brink of depression... [More...]
La Reine blanche (1991)
Jean-Loup Hubert
In 1940, Jean Ripoche and Yvon Legualoudec had a fierce falling out over their love for the same woman, Liliane. Whilst Jean remained in his hometown of Nantes to marry Liliane, his rival went off to Antilles, to start a new life... [More...]
Jean-Loup Hubert
In 1940, Jean Ripoche and Yvon Legualoudec had a fierce falling out over their love for the same woman, Liliane. Whilst Jean remained in his hometown of Nantes to marry Liliane, his rival went off to Antilles, to start a new life... [More...]
La Reine Margot (1994)
Patrice Chéreau
Paris, August, 1572 - a troubled time in the history of France, a country scarred by interminable religious wars. To appease the Protestants, the Catholic queen mother Catherine de Medici arranges a marriage between her daughter, Margot, and the King of Navarre, Henri... [More...]
Patrice Chéreau
Paris, August, 1572 - a troubled time in the history of France, a country scarred by interminable religious wars. To appease the Protestants, the Catholic queen mother Catherine de Medici arranges a marriage between her daughter, Margot, and the King of Navarre, Henri... [More...]
Rembrandt (1999)
Charles Matton
The great painter Rembrandt van Rijn looks back on his life with regret. His talent and passion for art brought him fame and wealth... [More...]
Charles Matton
The great painter Rembrandt van Rijn looks back on his life with regret. His talent and passion for art brought him fame and wealth... [More...]
Les Rendez-vous de Paris (1995)
Eric Rohmer
Three tales where an amorous rendezvous in Paris ends with an unexpected twist. In the first, 'Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures', a young woman, Esther, is mulling over whether her boyfriend is cheating on her when another young man tries to chat her up... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
Three tales where an amorous rendezvous in Paris ends with an unexpected twist. In the first, 'Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures', a young woman, Esther, is mulling over whether her boyfriend is cheating on her when another young man tries to chat her up... [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...]
Restons groupés (1998)
Jean-Paul Salomé
At Los Angeles airport, a party of French tourists have just arrived, brimming with excitement to begin their holiday of a lifetime on the sunny West Coast of the United States... [More...]
Jean-Paul Salomé
At Los Angeles airport, a party of French tourists have just arrived, brimming with excitement to begin their holiday of a lifetime on the sunny West Coast of the United States... [More...]
Le Retour de Casanova (1992)
Edouard Niermans
Well into middle-age, Casanova finds himself wandering purposelessly in the South of France, accompanied by his ever-loyal valet Camille... [More...]
Edouard Niermans
Well into middle-age, Casanova finds himself wandering purposelessly in the South of France, accompanied by his ever-loyal valet Camille... [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...]
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 ne va plus (1997)
Claude Chabrol
Victor and Betty are an odd couple. He is sixty; she is thirty. They could scarcely be more different, and yet they seem to be inseparable, a sort of cross-generational Bonnie and Clyde... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
Victor and Betty are an odd couple. He is sixty; she is thirty. They could scarcely be more different, and yet they seem to be inseparable, a sort of cross-generational Bonnie and Clyde... [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...]
Riens du tout (1992)
Cédric Klapisch
The owners of a failing department store are planning to close it down, but offer one final reprieve. The store will remain open if its new manager, Monsieur Lepetit, can significantly improve its sales figures... [More...]
Cédric Klapisch
The owners of a failing department store are planning to close it down, but offer one final reprieve. The store will remain open if its new manager, Monsieur Lepetit, can significantly improve its sales figures... [More...]
Ripoux contre ripoux (1990)
Claude Zidi
After five years of partnership with his fellow crooked policeman, René, François decides to go straight, in the hope of getting a promotion to the rank of commissioner... [More...]
Claude Zidi
After five years of partnership with his fellow crooked policeman, René, François decides to go straight, in the hope of getting a promotion to the rank of commissioner... [More...]
Le Roi de Paris (1995)
Dominique Maillet
In the 1930s, Victor Derval is the most admired stage actor in Paris. One night, he is accosted by a young Hungarian woman, Lisa Lanska... [More...]
Dominique Maillet
In the 1930s, Victor Derval is the most admired stage actor in Paris. One night, he is accosted by a young Hungarian woman, Lisa Lanska... [More...]
Romance (1999)
Catherine Breillat
Marie is a young schoolteacher who is in a stable and loving relationship with her boyfriend Paul, a male model who is often away from home... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
Marie is a young schoolteacher who is in a stable and loving relationship with her boyfriend Paul, a male model who is often away from home... [More...]
Les Roseaux sauvages (1994)
André Téchiné
France, 1962. Whilst the Algerian war is at its height, four young people staying at a borading school in Provence experience their political and sexual awakenings... [More...]
André Téchiné
France, 1962. Whilst the Algerian war is at its height, four young people staying at a borading school in Provence experience their political and sexual awakenings... [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...]
S'en fout la mort (1990)
Claire Denis
Jocelyn and Doh are two illegal immigrants from Africa who work for a disreputable restaurateur Pierre Ardennes, training cocks to fight in an illicit gambling hall just outside Paris... [More...]
Claire Denis
Jocelyn and Doh are two illegal immigrants from Africa who work for a disreputable restaurateur Pierre Ardennes, training cocks to fight in an illicit gambling hall just outside Paris... [More...]
Sale comme un ange (1991)
Catherine Breillat
A fifty-something police inspector Georges Deblache appears to have had enough of life. A confirmed bachelor, who has grown used to dinners-for-one and nights with prostitutes, he envies his young partner, Didier Theron, who has recently married an attractive woman, Barbara... [More...]
Catherine Breillat
A fifty-something police inspector Georges Deblache appears to have had enough of life. A confirmed bachelor, who has grown used to dinners-for-one and nights with prostitutes, he envies his young partner, Didier Theron, who has recently married an attractive woman, Barbara... [More...]
Le Schpountz (1999)
Gérard Oury
Irénée Fabre has one dream - to become a great film actor. It's no small ambition for a man who lives in deepest Provence and spends his days working in his uncle's modest grocery business... [More...]
Gérard Oury
Irénée Fabre has one dream - to become a great film actor. It's no small ambition for a man who lives in deepest Provence and spends his days working in his uncle's modest grocery business... [More...]