French cinema: 1996
Pour rire! (1996)
Lucas Belvaux
Alice is a successful barrister who lives with her stay-at-home boyfriend Nicholas. When their mutual friend Juliette splits up with her partner Michel, Nicholas takes solace in the fact that his relationship with Alice is a stable one...
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Lucas Belvaux
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
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...
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Patrice Leconte
Tiré à part (1996)
Bernard Rapp
Edward Lamb, the owner of a small publishing house, is surprised when he receives a manuscript from a French author, Nicholas Fabry...
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Bernard Rapp
Trois vies et une seule mort (1996)
Raoul Ruiz
A radio broadcaster narrates a series of remarkable tales from his studio, beginning with the story of travelling salesman Mateo Strano...
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Raoul Ruiz
Un air de famille (1996)
Cédric Klapisch
Whilst his brother Philippe is making a name for himself as a high-flying company executive, Henri has to content himself with running the saloon bar he inherited from his father... [More...]
Cédric Klapisch
Whilst his brother Philippe is making a name for himself as a high-flying company executive, Henri has to content himself with running the saloon bar he inherited from his father... [More...]
Un divan à New York (1996)
Chantal Akerman
Henry Harriston, a successful psychoanalyst living in New York City decides he needs a break from the constant daily grind of attending to other people's bruised psyches... [More...]
Chantal Akerman
Henry Harriston, a successful psychoanalyst living in New York City decides he needs a break from the constant daily grind of attending to other people's bruised psyches... [More...]
Un héros très discret (1996)
Jacques Audiard
In the 1930s, Albert Dehousse is an imaginative but solitary boy growing up in a village in Northern France. His mother is devoted to him and clings to the memory of her husband, who died a hero's death in the First World War... [More...]
Jacques Audiard
In the 1930s, Albert Dehousse is an imaginative but solitary boy growing up in a village in Northern France. His mother is devoted to him and clings to the memory of her husband, who died a hero's death in the First World War... [More...]
Les Victimes (1996)
Patrick Grandperret
Pierre Duval is a publisher who is madly in love with Manou, an attractive but unpredictable young woman. Unfortunately, she is married to a renowned architect, Bernard Jaillac, who has no intention of letting her go... [More...]
Patrick Grandperret
Pierre Duval is a publisher who is madly in love with Manou, an attractive but unpredictable young woman. Unfortunately, she is married to a renowned architect, Bernard Jaillac, who has no intention of letting her go... [More...]
Les Voleurs (1996)
André Téchiné
After the sudden death of his brother Ivan, Lyon-based cop Alex returns to the family home in the Rhône-Alpes with his girlfriend Juliette... [More...]
André Téchiné
After the sudden death of his brother Ivan, Lyon-based cop Alex returns to the family home in the Rhône-Alpes with his girlfriend Juliette... [More...]
Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël? (1996)
Sandrine Veysset
In the south of France, a young woman works all hours on her common-law husband's market garden farm whilst struggling to bring up her seven young children... [More...]
Sandrine Veysset
In the south of France, a young woman works all hours on her common-law husband's market garden farm whilst struggling to bring up her seven young children... [More...]