French cinema: 1997
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...
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Michel Piccoli
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...
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Patrick Braoudé
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...
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Agnès Merlet
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...
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Mathieu Kassovitz
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...
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Dominique Cabrera
Le Bossu (1997)
Philippe de Broca
Philippe the Duke of Nevers is in love with Blanche de Caylus, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, and he is over the moon when he learns that she has given him a child outside wedlock... [More...]
Philippe de Broca
Philippe the Duke of Nevers is in love with Blanche de Caylus, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, and he is over the moon when he learns that she has given him a child outside wedlock... [More...]
C'est la tangente que je préfère (1997)
Charlotte Silvera
Sabine is 15 and has a special aptitude for mathematics. She earns money by giving maths lessons to her classmates and whenever she encounters a problem in her life she tries to reason it out with mathematics... [More...]
Charlotte Silvera
Sabine is 15 and has a special aptitude for mathematics. She earns money by giving maths lessons to her classmates and whenever she encounters a problem in her life she tries to reason it out with mathematics... [More...]
Le Cousin (1997)
Alain Corneau
His family life in disarray, his career threatened when he is implicated in a drugs dealing racket, a police detective kills himself... [More...]
Alain Corneau
His family life in disarray, his career threatened when he is implicated in a drugs dealing racket, a police detective kills himself... [More...]
Didier (1997)
Alain Chabat
Football manager Jean-Pierre Costa has his hands full when his friend Annabelle leaves him to look after her pet Labrador, Didier, whilst she jets off to Los Angeles to compile a report... [More...]
Alain Chabat
Football manager Jean-Pierre Costa has his hands full when his friend Annabelle leaves him to look after her pet Labrador, Didier, whilst she jets off to Los Angeles to compile a report... [More...]
Dobermann (1997)
Jan Kounen
Known as Dobermann, Yann Le Pentec is a notorious killer hunted by the French police. He and his gang of equally ruthless outlaws, which include his mute gypsy girlfriend Nat, a dog lover and a priest, pull off a spectacular bank robbery in Paris... [More...]
Jan Kounen
Known as Dobermann, Yann Le Pentec is a notorious killer hunted by the French police. He and his gang of equally ruthless outlaws, which include his mute gypsy girlfriend Nat, a dog lover and a priest, pull off a spectacular bank robbery in Paris... [More...]
Elles (1997)
Luís Galvão Teles
Linda is a busy television presenter who, along with her four female friends, is the wrong side of 40 and heading for a mid-life crisis... [More...]
Luís Galvão Teles
Linda is a busy television presenter who, along with her four female friends, is the wrong side of 40 and heading for a mid-life crisis... [More...]
La Femme défendue (1997)
Philippe Harel
François and Muriel meet at a mutual friend's party. He is 39, a businessman, married with a son. She is 22 and lives alone, although she has a boyfriend, Pascal... [More...]
Philippe Harel
François and Muriel meet at a mutual friend's party. He is 39, a businessman, married with a son. She is 22 and lives alone, although she has a boyfriend, Pascal... [More...]
The Fifth Element (1997)
Luc Besson
In the year 2259, an unknown alien force threatens to engulf the planet Earth. The only thing that can repel this evil are the Five Elements, donated to humanity at the dawn of antiquity by a race of alien benefactors... [More...]
Luc Besson
In the year 2259, an unknown alien force threatens to engulf the planet Earth. The only thing that can repel this evil are the Five Elements, donated to humanity at the dawn of antiquity by a race of alien benefactors... [More...]
Fred (1997)
Pierre Jolivet
Fred is an unemployed crane operator who lives in the industrial suburbs with his girlfriend Lisa. The latter has a young son, the product of another relationship, and works in research laboratory... [More...]
Pierre Jolivet
Fred is an unemployed crane operator who lives in the industrial suburbs with his girlfriend Lisa. The latter has a young son, the product of another relationship, and works in research laboratory... [More...]
Gadjo dilo (1997)
Tony Gatlif
A young Frenchman, Stéphane, is making his way across rural Romania in search of a gypsy singer who fascinated his recently deceased father... [More...]
Tony Gatlif
A young Frenchman, Stéphane, is making his way across rural Romania in search of a gypsy singer who fascinated his recently deceased father... [More...]
Généalogies d'un crime (1997)
Raoul Ruiz
Jeanne is a middle-aged woman who belongs to the Franco-Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, which holds some very peculiar views about the nature of life... [More...]
Raoul Ruiz
Jeanne is a middle-aged woman who belongs to the Franco-Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, which holds some very peculiar views about the nature of life... [More...]
J'ai horreur de l'amour (1997)
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Annie, a 30-something divorcee, is a doctor with her own medical practice in Paris. One summer, her working days feel as empty and uneventful as her love life - until two men enter her surgery and her life... [More...]
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Annie, a 30-something divorcee, is a doctor with her own medical practice in Paris. One summer, her working days feel as empty and uneventful as her love life - until two men enter her surgery and her life... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Marthe (1997)
Jean-Loup Hubert
Autumn, 1915. Wounded on a World War I battlefield, a young soldier named Simon is sent to a town on the Brittany coast to convalesce and receive medical treatment... [More...]
Jean-Loup Hubert
Autumn, 1915. Wounded on a World War I battlefield, a young soldier named Simon is sent to a town on the Brittany coast to convalesce and receive medical treatment... [More...]
Nettoyage à sec (1997)
Anne Fontaine
For the past 15 years a married couple, Jean-Marie and Nicole Kunstler, have run their own dry cleaning business in a French provincial town... [More...]
Anne Fontaine
For the past 15 years a married couple, Jean-Marie and Nicole Kunstler, have run their own dry cleaning business in a French provincial town... [More...]
On connaît la chanson (1997)
Alain Resnais
In Paris, Camille divides her time between studying for a degree in history and working as a tourist guide. Her sister Odile is obsessed with changing her apartment, but gets no encouragement from her mediocre husband Claude, with whom she is becoming increasingly frustrated... [More...]
Alain Resnais
In Paris, Camille divides her time between studying for a degree in history and working as a tourist guide. Her sister Odile is obsessed with changing her apartment, but gets no encouragement from her mediocre husband Claude, with whom she is becoming increasingly frustrated... [More...]
Les Palmes de M. Schutz (1997)
Claude Pinoteau
In 1894, Rodolphe Schutz, the director of the physics and chemistry department at the University of Paris, has his heart set on winning the Order of Academic Palms, the prize he believes is rightly his after years of dedicated service to academia... [More...]
Claude Pinoteau
In 1894, Rodolphe Schutz, the director of the physics and chemistry department at the University of Paris, has his heart set on winning the Order of Academic Palms, the prize he believes is rightly his after years of dedicated service to academia... [More...]
Post coïtum animal triste (1997)
Brigitte Roüan
Diane Clovier is a woman in her forties who has made a success of both her professional life and her domestic life. She is married to Philippe, a busy lawyer, has two teenage children and works for a thriving publishing company... [More...]
Brigitte Roüan
Diane Clovier is a woman in her forties who has made a success of both her professional life and her domestic life. She is married to Philippe, a busy lawyer, has two teenage children and works for a thriving publishing company... [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...]