French cinema: 1990s
588 rue paradis (1993)
Henri Verneuil
It has been forty years since Azad Zakarian, then just a boy, fled Armenia and settled in France with his family. Thanks to his parents' selfless devotion to him, Azad has had the best education a boy of his age could hope to get himself and now he is a prominent writer, better known by his pseudonym Pierre Zakar...
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Henri Verneuil
À demain (1992)
Didier Martiny
Whenever he has occasion to look back on his childhood, Pierre does so with great affection. His private sanctuary is his warm bedroom in a grand house in Paris, where he lives an idyllic childhood with his extended family - his sister, his parents, his grandparents, and his great-grandmother...
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Didier Martiny
À la folie (1994)
Diane Kurys
Alice is an aspiring artist living in Paris with her boyfriend, Franck, a boxer. Her life is upturned when her sister, Elsa, unexpectedly re-enters her life after several years of separation...
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Diane Kurys
À la place du coeur (1998)
Robert Guédiguian
Bébé and Clémentine are a mixed race couple who live in a poor district of Marseille. They are deeply in love and even though they are still in their teens they intend to marry as soon as they can...
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Robert Guédiguian
À la vie, à la mort! (1995)
Robert Guédiguian
In Estaque, the working class district of north Marseilles, a family of Spanish immigrants struggles to survive. Marie-Sol's job as a housekeeper provides both an income and a modest home, but her husband Patrick has been unemployed for years...
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Robert Guédiguian
À vendre (1998)
Laetitia Masson
Luigi Primo is a private detective hired by a disappointed bridegroom to track down the woman who jilted him on his wedding day... [More...]
Laetitia Masson
Luigi Primo is a private detective hired by a disappointed bridegroom to track down the woman who jilted him on his wedding day... [More...]
Adieu, plancher des vaches! (1999)
Otar Iosseliani
One day, Nicholas, a rich young man, decides to give up his privileged life and see for himself how ordinary folk live. He gets a job washing up dishes in a Parisian café, befriends a beggar and tries to court a barmaid, without success... [More...]
Otar Iosseliani
One day, Nicholas, a rich young man, decides to give up his privileged life and see for himself how ordinary folk live. He gets a job washing up dishes in a Parisian café, befriends a beggar and tries to court a barmaid, without success... [More...]
Agantuk (1991)
Satyajit Ray
Anila Bose lives in Calcutta with her husband Sudhindra and their young son Satyaki. The family is comfortably off and live in a grand house which they have inherited... [More...]
Satyajit Ray
Anila Bose lives in Calcutta with her husband Sudhindra and their young son Satyaki. The family is comfortably off and live in a grand house which they have inherited... [More...]
Alice et Martin (1998)
André Téchiné
In the southwest of France, Martin is leading a tranquil childhood with his mother and her boyfriend when his wealthy father, Victor Sauvagnac, insists on taking custody of him... [More...]
André Téchiné
In the southwest of France, Martin is leading a tranquil childhood with his mother and her boyfriend when his wealthy father, Victor Sauvagnac, insists on taking custody of him... [More...]
Alors voilà, (1997)
Michel Piccoli
Constantin is a patriarchal grandfather who insists that his three sons bring their families to his home for a meal each week... [More...]
Michel Piccoli
Constantin is a patriarchal grandfather who insists that his three sons bring their families to his home for a meal each week... [More...]
Les Amants criminels (1999)
François Ozon
A young adolescent Alice persuades her 17 year old boyfriend Luc to kill one of her classmates, Saïd. The murder accomplished, they take the body to a forest to dispose of it, but they are observed by a poacher... [More...]
François Ozon
A young adolescent Alice persuades her 17 year old boyfriend Luc to kill one of her classmates, Saïd. The murder accomplished, they take the body to a forest to dispose of it, but they are observed by a poacher... [More...]
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
Leos Carax
Paris, 1989. Leaving a shelter for homeless people, Alex, a wild-looking young man in his twenties, heads across town to his favourite spot on the Pont-Neuf... [More...]
Leos Carax
Paris, 1989. Leaving a shelter for homeless people, Alex, a wild-looking young man in his twenties, heads across town to his favourite spot on the Pont-Neuf... [More...]
Amour et confusions (1997)
Patrick Braoudé
Dan is a thirty year old divorcee who designs women's lingerie for a living. One day, he meets Sarah, an ambitious businesswoman who lives only for her work, and they spend the night together... [More...]
Patrick Braoudé
Dan is a thirty year old divorcee who designs women's lingerie for a living. One day, he meets Sarah, an ambitious businesswoman who lives only for her work, and they spend the night together... [More...]
L'Appartement (1996)
Gilles Mimouni
Max is about to set off for Tokyo, where he intends to get married to his fiancé and start a promising executive career... [More...]
Gilles Mimouni
Max is about to set off for Tokyo, where he intends to get married to his fiancé and start a promising executive career... [More...]
L'Appât (1995)
Bertrand Tavernier
An adolescent girl, Nathalie, shares a small Parisian apartment with her two friends, Eric and Bruno. None of them has any hope of getting a job but they all have unrealistic aspirations... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
An adolescent girl, Nathalie, shares a small Parisian apartment with her two friends, Eric and Bruno. None of them has any hope of getting a job but they all have unrealistic aspirations... [More...]
Les Apprentis (1995)
Pierre Salvadori
Antoine Parent is an aspiring writer who suffers from depression and a chronic inability to make money from his art. He lives in Paris and shares a modest apartment with his good-for-nothing friend Fred Rouyer, who appears to be more than content with his life as an inveterate loser... [More...]
Pierre Salvadori
Antoine Parent is an aspiring writer who suffers from depression and a chronic inability to make money from his art. He lives in Paris and shares a modest apartment with his good-for-nothing friend Fred Rouyer, who appears to be more than content with his life as an inveterate loser... [More...]
Après l'amour (1992)
Diane Kurys
For Lola, a 35-year-old writer of romantic fiction, the first pangs of mid-life crisis are beginning to bite. She leads a comfortable middleclass existence but is far from settled and seeks passion in her life... [More...]
Diane Kurys
For Lola, a 35-year-old writer of romantic fiction, the first pangs of mid-life crisis are beginning to bite. She leads a comfortable middleclass existence but is far from settled and seeks passion in her life... [More...]
L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993)
Eric Rohmer
The mayor of a provincial French town manages to get funding to build a media centre, in a picturesque location amidst green fields and old stone houses... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
The mayor of a provincial French town manages to get funding to build a media centre, in a picturesque location amidst green fields and old stone houses... [More...]
L'Arrière pays (1998)
Jacques Nolot
It has been ten years since Jacques Pruez last visited the little village in the south of France where he grew up. Now a hearty fifty-year-old, who has had some modest success as a television actor and is comfortable with his homosexuality, Jacques returns to the place of his youth to visit his dying mother... [More...]
Jacques Nolot
It has been ten years since Jacques Pruez last visited the little village in the south of France where he grew up. Now a hearty fifty-year-old, who has had some modest success as a television actor and is comfortable with his homosexuality, Jacques returns to the place of his youth to visit his dying mother... [More...]
Artemisia (1997)
Agnès Merlet
Italy in the early 1600s. Artemisia Gentileschi is the 17-year-old daughter of a well-known painter and shows something of her father's aptitude for art... [More...]
Agnès Merlet
Italy in the early 1600s. Artemisia Gentileschi is the 17-year-old daughter of a well-known painter and shows something of her father's aptitude for art... [More...]
Assassin(s) (1997)
Mathieu Kassovitz
Monsieur Wagner is a professional hitman who loves his job but now he has to accept he is too old to continue in this line of work... [More...]
Mathieu Kassovitz
Monsieur Wagner is a professional hitman who loves his job but now he has to accept he is too old to continue in this line of work... [More...]
Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999)
Claude Zidi
In 50 BC, all of Gaul is occupied by the Romans - all except for one small village in the north of France, which somehow manages to hold out against the might of Imperial Rome... [More...]
Claude Zidi
In 50 BC, all of Gaul is occupied by the Romans - all except for one small village in the north of France, which somehow manages to hold out against the might of Imperial Rome... [More...]
Atlantis (1991)
Luc Besson
Contrary to the legend, Atlantis was not destroyed centuries ago but continues to exist, a vast and fabulous kingdom beneath the waves inhabited by fantastic creatures of all shapes and sizes... [More...]
Luc Besson
Contrary to the legend, Atlantis was not destroyed centuries ago but continues to exist, a vast and fabulous kingdom beneath the waves inhabited by fantastic creatures of all shapes and sizes... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
Au petit Marguery (1995)
Laurent Bénégui
For the past 30 years, Hippolyte and his wife Joséphine have managed a chic restaurant, Le petit Marguery, in a busy district of Paris... [More...]
Laurent Bénégui
For the past 30 years, Hippolyte and his wife Joséphine have managed a chic restaurant, Le petit Marguery, in a busy district of Paris... [More...]
Augustin (1995)
Anne Fontaine
Augustin is a friendless 30-year-old who works for an insurance company but dreams of becoming a big film star. As he waits for opportunity to come knocking on his door, he goes for auditions for walk-on parts, so far with limited success... [More...]
Anne Fontaine
Augustin is a friendless 30-year-old who works for an insurance company but dreams of becoming a big film star. As he waits for opportunity to come knocking on his door, he goes for auditions for walk-on parts, so far with limited success... [More...]
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... [More...]
Anne Fontaine
The eternally optimistic bit-part actor Augustin Don Santos intends to become the next big star of the martial arts film genre... [More...]
L'Autre côté de la mer (1997)
Dominique Cabrera
Georges Montero, a French-born Algerian, travels to Paris to have a cataract operation. He makes the most of his stay in France to renew his acquaintance with family members and friends who have fled Algeria since the war of independence... [More...]
Dominique Cabrera
Georges Montero, a French-born Algerian, travels to Paris to have a cataract operation. He makes the most of his stay in France to renew his acquaintance with family members and friends who have fled Algeria since the war of independence... [More...]
Aux petits bonheurs (1994)
Michel Deville
Hélène returns to a grand country house she once visited in her youth, over twenty years ago, in the vain hope of finding the man she once loved... [More...]
Michel Deville
Hélène returns to a grand country house she once visited in her youth, over twenty years ago, in the vain hope of finding the man she once loved... [More...]
Aux yeux du monde (1990)
Eric Rochant
Bruno is a 22 year old man who is fed up with his mediocre life and desperately wants to make a wild dramatic gesture to prove to himself and the world that he exists... [More...]
Eric Rochant
Bruno is a 22 year old man who is fed up with his mediocre life and desperately wants to make a wild dramatic gesture to prove to himself and the world that he exists... [More...]