French cinema: 1990s
Je suis vivante et je vous aime (1998)
Roger Kahane
In the spring of 1944, a railway worker Julien is checking over a train carrying deportees, when he is handed a piece of paper bearing an address and a simple message: “I'm alive and I love you.” All that Julien can do is to take this message to the address, a farmhouse where two elderly Hungarian Jews are living...
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Roger Kahane
Jeanne et le garçon formidable (1998)
Olivier Ducastel
Receptionist for a travel agency, Jeanne is looking for the man of her dreams. So far, her amorous encounters have been a disappointment, but she thinks she has struck lucky when she meets Olivier, a boy who is totally unlike any she has ever met before...
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Olivier Ducastel
Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les Batailles (1994)
Jacques Rivette
Upon hearing a message from God, a young French maid, Jeanne, feels compelled to leave her home in Domremy. She finally manages to get an audience with Charles, the dauphin of France, and she persuades him that it is her destiny to lead the French to victory against the English...
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Jacques Rivette
Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons (1994)
Jacques Rivette
After her victory at Orleans, Joan of Arc is emboldened to continue her assault against the English armies. Despite the ambivalence of the Dauphin and his advisers, she galvanises her troops and victory follows victory...
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Jacques Rivette
Le Jour et la nuit (1997)
Bernard-Henri Lévy
A film producer, Filippi, and his leading actress, Laure, arrive in a region of Mexico to try to persuade a retired writer, Alexandre, to agree to a film adaptation of his first novel...
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Bernard-Henri Lévy
Le Journal du séducteur (1996)
Danièle Dubroux
A young student, Claire, falls obsessively in love with a another student, Gregoire after having read his copy of Kierkegaard's novel, Le Journal du séducteur... [More...]
Danièle Dubroux
A young student, Claire, falls obsessively in love with a another student, Gregoire after having read his copy of Kierkegaard's novel, Le Journal du séducteur... [More...]
Karnaval (1999)
Thomas Vincent
After a dispute with his father, a young Arab man Larbi decides to leave his home town of Dunkirk and head south to start a new life in Marseilles... [More...]
Thomas Vincent
After a dispute with his father, a young Arab man Larbi decides to leave his home town of Dunkirk and head south to start a new life in Marseilles... [More...]
Kennedy et moi (1999)
Sam Karmann
Simon Polaris is going through the mother of mid-life crises. Despite being comfortably married with two children and a successful career as a writer, the 48-year-old has arrived at an impasse in his life... [More...]
Sam Karmann
Simon Polaris is going through the mother of mid-life crises. Despite being comfortably married with two children and a successful career as a writer, the 48-year-old has arrived at an impasse in his life... [More...]
L.627 (1992)
Bertrand Tavernier
Lucien Marguet is a committed cop who gets on the wrong side of his superiors when he voices his dissatisfaction with the rigid set of procedures he is expected to abide by in the pursuit of his duties, procedures that, in his opinion, render the police complacent and ineffective... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Lucien Marguet is a committed cop who gets on the wrong side of his superiors when he voices his dissatisfaction with the rigid set of procedures he is expected to abide by in the pursuit of his duties, procedures that, in his opinion, render the police complacent and ineffective... [More...]
Lacenaire (1990)
Francis Girod
In the 1830s, Pierre-François Lacenaire was the most notorious criminal in France. From an early age, he rebelled against his comfortable bourgeois background, managing to get himself expelled from a Jesuit seminary... [More...]
Francis Girod
In the 1830s, Pierre-François Lacenaire was the most notorious criminal in France. From an early age, he rebelled against his comfortable bourgeois background, managing to get himself expelled from a Jesuit seminary... [More...]
Lautrec (1998)
Roger Planchon
The son of an aristocrat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec would never live up to his parents' expectations. Handicapped by a genetic condition that stunted his growth, he willingly swaps his life of privilege for that of a humble artist in Paris... [More...]
Roger Planchon
The son of an aristocrat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec would never live up to his parents' expectations. Handicapped by a genetic condition that stunted his growth, he willingly swaps his life of privilege for that of a humble artist in Paris... [More...]
Léon (1994)
Luc Besson
Léon is a professional hitman whose life is changed forever when he meets Mathilda, a twelve year old girl who lives a few doors next to him... [More...]
Luc Besson
Léon is a professional hitman whose life is changed forever when he meets Mathilda, a twelve year old girl who lives a few doors next to him... [More...]
The Lost Son (1999)
Chris Menges
Xavier Lombard, an impoverished private detective living alone in London, is hired by a wealthy couple to trace their missing son, Leon... [More...]
Chris Menges
Xavier Lombard, an impoverished private detective living alone in London, is hired by a wealthy couple to trace their missing son, Leon... [More...]
Louis, enfant roi (1993)
Roger Planchon
France, 1648. Whilst the nobility attempt to hold onto their power, the masses rise up in protest, and the country is torn by civil war and famine... [More...]
Roger Planchon
France, 1648. Whilst the nobility attempt to hold onto their power, the masses rise up in protest, and the country is torn by civil war and famine... [More...]
Love, etc. (1996)
Marion Vernoux
Benoît, a banker in his early thirties, and Pierre, a literature professor, have been friends for longer than either of them can remember... [More...]
Marion Vernoux
Benoît, a banker in his early thirties, and Pierre, a literature professor, have been friends for longer than either of them can remember... [More...]
Lovers (1999)
Jean-Marc Barr
Jeanne, a young woman in her twenties, works in a bookshop in Paris. One day, a good-looking man of about her own age enters the shop in search of a book on the painter Rossetti... [More...]
Jean-Marc Barr
Jeanne, a young woman in her twenties, works in a bookshop in Paris. One day, a good-looking man of about her own age enters the shop in search of a book on the painter Rossetti... [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...]
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...]
Lumière et compagnie (1995)
Theodoros Angelopoulos
To mark the centenary of the invention of the cinematograph by the Lumière brothers in 1885, forty filmmakers from around the world each contribute a 52 second film, shot with the Lumières' original camera...... [More...]
Theodoros Angelopoulos
To mark the centenary of the invention of the cinematograph by the Lumière brothers in 1885, forty filmmakers from around the world each contribute a 52 second film, shot with the Lumières' original camera...... [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...]
Ma saison préférée (1993)
André Téchiné
Too old to live by herself, Berthe moves in with her daughter, Emile, who is married with grown-up children of her own. Emile's husband resents the intrusion, but the situation is aggravated when Emile's brother, Antoine visits for Christmas... [More...]
André Téchiné
Too old to live by herself, Berthe moves in with her daughter, Emile, who is married with grown-up children of her own. Emile's husband resents the intrusion, but the situation is aggravated when Emile's brother, Antoine visits for Christmas... [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...]
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...]
Ma vie est un enfer (1991)
Josiane Balasko
Léah is a dowdy spinster in her mid-thirties. She resents her self-obsessed mother and hates her job as a dental assistant... [More...]
Josiane Balasko
Léah is a dowdy spinster in her mid-thirties. She resents her self-obsessed mother and hates her job as a dental assistant... [More...]
Madame Bovary (1991)
Claude Chabrol
In 19th century France, Charles Bovary is a country doctor who, after the death of his first wife, does not delay in marrying the daughter of one of his patients, Emma Rouault... [More...]
Claude Chabrol
In 19th century France, Charles Bovary is a country doctor who, after the death of his first wife, does not delay in marrying the daughter of one of his patients, Emma Rouault... [More...]
La Maladie de Sachs (1999)
Michel Deville
Dr Bruno Sachs is the general practitioner of a small provincial town in France. Every day, his patients trundle into his consulting room with their various ailments, real and imaginary... [More...]
Michel Deville
Dr Bruno Sachs is the general practitioner of a small provincial town in France. Every day, his patients trundle into his consulting room with their various ailments, real and imaginary... [More...]
Le Mari de la coiffeuse (1990)
Patrice Leconte
In middle-age, Antoine looks back on his life and recalls happy times when he was a little boy holidaying in Luc-sur-Mer with his brother... [More...]
Patrice Leconte
In middle-age, Antoine looks back on his life and recalls happy times when he was a little boy holidaying in Luc-sur-Mer with his brother... [More...]
Marion (1997)
Manuel Poirier
A working class family moves to a rural Normandy village. The father, a labourer, earns barely money to keep his wife and four young children, but the family are content with what they have... [More...]
Manuel Poirier
A working class family moves to a rural Normandy village. The father, a labourer, earns barely money to keep his wife and four young children, but the family are content with what they have... [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...]
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...]
Les Marmottes (1993)
Élie Chouraqui
One year, Léo Klein decides to spend the Christmas holidays at his chalet in the Alps with his two sons, Max and Simon, along with their wives Marie-Claire and Frédérique, and their children... [More...]
Élie Chouraqui
One year, Léo Klein decides to spend the Christmas holidays at his chalet in the Alps with his two sons, Max and Simon, along with their wives Marie-Claire and Frédérique, and their children... [More...]
Marquise (1997)
Véra Belmont
17th Century France, during the reign of King Louis XIV. Whilst visiting a provincial town, a member of Molière's acting troupe, Gros-René, discovers a beautiful street dancer, Marquise... [More...]
Véra Belmont
17th Century France, during the reign of King Louis XIV. Whilst visiting a provincial town, a member of Molière's acting troupe, Gros-René, discovers a beautiful street dancer, Marquise... [More...]