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Le père Noël est une ordure

Le père Noël est une ordure

Jean-Marie Poiré 1982 1h 28m 8.4

La permanence parisienne SOS détresse-amitié est perturbée le soir de Noël par l'arrivée de personnage marginaux farfelus qui provoquent des catastrophes en chaîne.

Le bal

Le bal

Ettore Scola 1983 1h 52m 6.5

Dans une salle de bal redéfile l'histoire de la France, des années 20 aux années 80, au gré des musiques qui ony rythmé ces décennies. Le Front Populaire, la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la Libération et Mai 68 sont ainsi évoqués sur fond de jazz, de rock'n'roll et de musique disco.

Jean de Florette

Jean de Florette

Claude Berri 1986 2h 2m 7.7

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in.

Manon des sources

Manon des sources

Claude Berri 1986 1h 55m 8.0

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.

L'amant

L'amant

Jean-Jacques Annaud 1992 1h 55m 7.2

Jane March is mesmerizing in the role of a poor French teenager who engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir (Tony Leung) in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

Gandahar

Gandahar

René Laloux 1988 1h 23m 7.8

On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.

Les amants du Pont-Neuf

Les amants du Pont-Neuf

Leos Carax 1991 2h 6m 6.6

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.

Vivement dimanche!

Vivement dimanche!

François Truffaut 1983 1h 50m 7.7

After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.

Prénom Carmen

Prénom Carmen

Jean-Luc Godard 1983 1h 25m 3.0

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1990 2h 17m 8.0

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

Van Gogh

Van Gogh

Maurice Pialat 1991 2h 38m 8.8

After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental health. He begins an affair with his host’s daughter, however, she soon realizes that he doesn’t love her and that his heart beats only for art.

L'été en pente douce

L'été en pente douce

Gérard Krawczyk 1987 1h 42m 7.5

When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand his business.

Eréndira

Eréndira

Ruy Guerra 1983 1h 43m

While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution.

La vie de bohème

La vie de bohème

Aki Kaurismäki 1992 1h 43m 8.0

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

La balance

La balance

Bob Swaim 1982 1h 43m 7.0

A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.

La voce della luna

La voce della luna

Federico Fellini 1990 2h 5.5

Ispirato al romanzo "Il poema dei lunatici" di Ermanno Cavazzoni. Due uomini si aggirano per la Pianura Padana, ascoltando la voce della luna che sale dai pozzi.

Fort Saganne

Fort Saganne

Alain Corneau 1984 3h 8.0

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

L'effrontée

L'effrontée

Claude Miller 1985 1h 36m 6.8

Charlotte is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.

Coup de torchon

Coup de torchon

Bertrand Tavernier 1981 2h 8m 7.9

In 1938 in the french West Africa, Lucien Cordier is a weak and corrupted policeman despised by the local bad boys. His wife is openly cheating on him and he hasn't got any self-respect anymore. But when comes the occasion, his revenge will be terrible.

Il faut tuer Birgitt Haas

Il faut tuer Birgitt Haas

Laurent Heynemann 1981 1h 45m 7.0

"Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. The agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is to be disguised as a crime of passion, so an agent must lure Birgitt into falling in love.

La Baule-les-Pins

La Baule-les-Pins

Diane Kurys 1990 1h 50m 8.0

A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a close relationship with the imaginary addressee of her daily diary and her parents' disintegrating marriage - all this in a rented house in a summer resort.

Mes meilleurs copains

Mes meilleurs copains

Jean-Marie Poiré 1989 1h 50m 6.5

They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend.

Passion

Passion

Jean-Luc Godard 1982 1h 27m 7.0

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.

Gwen, le livre de sable

Gwen, le livre de sable

Jean-François Laguionie 1985 1h 7m

Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.

Une affaire de femmes

Une affaire de femmes

Claude Chabrol 1988 1h 48m 8.0

During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat.

Litan

Litan

Jean-Pierre Mocky 1982 1h 28m 6.7

Un jeune couple est de passage dans la ville de Litan. Bientôt les morts mystérieuses s'accumulent autour d'eux.

El viaje

El viaje

Fernando E. Solanas 1992 2h 20m

A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.

Les frères Pétard

Les frères Pétard

Hervé Palud 1986 1h 30m 6.0

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Tandem

Tandem

Patrice Leconte 1987 1h 26m 8.3

Mortez e Rivetot sono due amici che vivono in simbiosi: il primo è un'affermata star di un programma radiofonico, il secondo è il suo braccio destro che vive nell'ombra cercando di accontentare in tutto e per tutto Mortez. Nel bene e nel male, non possono fare a meno l'uno dell'altro.

Hôtel des Amériques

Hôtel des Amériques

André Téchiné 1981 1h 35m

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up.

L'homme aux yeux d'argent

L'homme aux yeux d'argent

Pierre Granier-Deferre 1985 1h 37m

After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty young subordinate are after the criminal.

Les trois couronnes du matelot

Les trois couronnes du matelot

Raúl Ruiz 1983 1h 57m 8.0

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.

Sans toit ni loi

Sans toit ni loi

Agnès Varda 1985 1h 46m 6.8

The story of a young woman, a vagabond, who wanders through French wine country one winter.

Paradis pour tous

Paradis pour tous

Alain Jessua 1982 1h 50m

Dr. Valois develops "flashage" to treat depression. After testing on monkeys, he cures patient Alain Durieux. His wife fears personality changes as more seek treatment. Untreated subjects reject treated ones. Valois uses it on himself.

Masques

Masques

Claude Chabrol 1987 1h 40m

Hired to write a biography of a television personality, a reporter spends a few days at the man's country estate with the eccentric extended family.

Shadow of the Wolf

Shadow of the Wolf

Jacques Dorfmann, Pierre Magny 1992 1h 52m

In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northern Quebec.

Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel

Bruno Nuytten 1988 2h 55m 6.8

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.

Mélo

Mélo

Alain Resnais 1986 1h 52m 5.0

Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not, both are happy with their lives. Pierre is happily married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Marcel little suspects.

Mille milliards de dollars

Mille milliards de dollars

Henri Verneuil 1982 2h 12m 7.0

Paul Kerjean, journaliste, reçoit un jour un coup de téléphone anonyme. Son interlocuteur accuse Jacques Benoît-Lambert, un industriel, d'avoir reçu un pot-de-vin, pour céder à l'étranger une usine française. L'enquête de Kerjean confirme cette accusation.

Rendez-vous au tas de sable

Rendez-vous au tas de sable

Didier Grousset 1990 1h 35m

A tow truck driver becomes the impresario, then the singer of a new rock band.

Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein

Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein

Werner Herzog 1991 1h 45m 8.0

A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber.

La crime

La crime

Philippe Labro 1983 1h 43m 8.0

A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.

La vie et rien d'autre

La vie et rien d'autre

Bertrand Tavernier 1989 2h 15m 8.5

In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross.

Max mon amour

Max mon amour

Nagisa Ōshima 1986 1h 37m 8.0

The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.

Sous le soleil de Satan

Sous le soleil de Satan

Maurice Pialat 1987 1h 38m 7.3

Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

La révolution française

La révolution française

Richard T. Heffron, Robert Enrico 1989 5h 35m

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was imprisoned). Part two carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794.

Les fantômes du chapelier

Les fantômes du chapelier

Claude Chabrol 1982 2h 8.5

A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).

Marche à l'ombre

Marche à l'ombre

Michel Blanc 1984 1h 30m 7.0

Francois, routard fatigué, débarque dans le port de Marseille. Musicien hors-pair, il est bien décidé à exploiter son talent dans les studios parisiens. Denis, inseparable compagnon et négatif de Fançois, est un grand spécialiste de l'angoisse et ne cesse de gémir. Vu ce qui les attend a Paris, il n'est pas prêt de s'arrêter...

Une étrange affaire

Une étrange affaire

Pierre Granier-Deferre 1981 1h 45m 7.0

A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire.

La gueule de l'autre

La gueule de l'autre

Pierre Tchernia 1979 1h 40m

Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him.

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