Une histoire du cinéma français V - Today years 80-2000
by limguela | created - 04 Sep 2015 | updated - 07 Sep 2015 | PublicAn exhaustive history of French cinema coordinated by Claude Beylie.
5th part
Today years 80-2000
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The 6 chapters:
Une histoire du cinéma français I - The pioneers years 1880-1918
Une histoire du cinéma français II - Les "années folles" and the magnificent years 19-39
Une histoire du cinéma français III - The noir years and grey years 40-59
Une histoire du cinéma français IV - The breakdown years 60-79
Une histoire du cinéma français V - Today years 80-2000
Une histoire du cinéma français VI - Short films & Animated films
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1. The Taste of Others (2000)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The lives of 6 people over 35 in Rouen, France, and their relationship to each other.
Director: Agnès Jaoui | Stars: Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Agnès Jaoui
Votes: 10,358 | Gross: $0.64M
2. L'arche de Noé (2000)
57 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Philippe Ramos | Stars: Philippe Garziano, Emmanuelle Cornet, Jean-Claude Montheil, Violeta Ferrer
Votes: 15
3. So Long, Stooge (1983)
100 min | Crime, Drama
A story of an odd friendship - and the unexpected consequences.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Coluche, Richard Anconina, Agnès Soral, Mahmoud Zemmouri
Votes: 3,133
4. Marius and Jeannette (1997)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Boudet
Votes: 1,713 | Gross: $0.28M
5. Human Resources (1999)
TV-14 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: Jalil Lespert, Jean-Claude Vallod, Chantal Barré, Véronique de Pandelaère
Votes: 2,784 | Gross: $0.12M
6. Venus Beauty Institute (1999)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.
Director: Tonie Marshall | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffé
Votes: 4,407 | Gross: $0.42M
7. Smoking/No Smoking (1993)
298 min | Comedy, Drama
An examination of the possible consequences of a certain event.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Peter Hudson
Votes: 1,931 | Gross: $0.06M
8. Same Old Song (1997)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A musical story about how people find their love on the streets of beautiful Paris.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, André Dussollier
Votes: 4,465 | Gross: $0.03M
9. It All Starts Today (1999)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A teacher from a small, depressed town is trying to do something useful.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi, Nadia Kaci, Véronique Ataly
Votes: 2,896 | Gross: $0.01M
10. Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999)
Not Rated | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Inhabitants of the last unconquered village in Gaul (ancient France) use a magical potion to hold their independence from Roman invaders.
Directors: Claude Zidi, Olaf Wijnants | Stars: Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni, Michel Galabru
Votes: 45,322 | Gross: $1.64M
11. The Fifth Element (1997)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm
Votes: 505,549 | Gross: $63.54M
12. The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998)
G | 118 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Knight Godefroy has to return to our time from 1023 to get back the sacred jewels that Jacquouille has taken to the 20th century.
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Muriel Robin, Marie-Anne Chazel
Votes: 13,277 | Gross: $0.15M
13. Taxi 2 (2000)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Police inspector Emilien and his taxi-driver pal Daniel are back, this time on the tail of a group of Japanese yakuza.
Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Emma Wiklund, Marion Cotillard
Votes: 59,116 | Gross: $0.73M
14. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
PG | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, History
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.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber
Votes: 25,932 | Gross: $15.14M
15. The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
R | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche, Pierre Arditi, François Cluzet
Votes: 6,389 | Gross: $1.88M
16. Colonel Chabert (1994)
110 min | Drama, History, Romance
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory... See full summary »
Director: Yves Angelo | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier
Votes: 2,073 | Gross: $0.73M
17. Germinal (1993)
R | 160 min | Drama, Romance
In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet
Votes: 5,741 | Gross: $0.38M
18. Uranus (1990)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, History
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Votes: 1,483 | Gross: $0.34M
19. On Guard (1997)
TV-14 | 128 min | Adventure, Drama
The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Duke's heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Duke's ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain
Votes: 3,809 | Gross: $0.10M
20. The Lover (1992)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jane March, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Jeanne Moreau, Frédérique Meininger
Votes: 23,473 | Gross: $4.90M
21. The Name of the Rose (1986)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin
Votes: 117,110 | Gross: $7.15M
22. A French Woman (1995)
100 min | Drama, Romance
A French woman is a French woman. She is unable to refuse the wonderful gift of love. And I'm willing to pay a high price for it.
Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Gabriel Barylli, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 1,391 | Gross: $0.17M
23. East/West (1999)
PG-13 | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is ... See full summary »
Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, Sergey Bodrov
Votes: 5,141 | Gross: $2.78M
24. Camille Claudel (1988)
R | 175 min | Biography, Drama, History
Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.
Director: Bruno Nuytten | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grévill
Votes: 7,390 | Gross: $0.20M
25. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
R | 148 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Rab Affleck, Stéphane Algoud
Votes: 69,666 | Gross: $14.28M
"Le meilleur film de Besson"...
26. Mélo (1986)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier
Votes: 1,829
27. A Few Days with Me (1988)
PG-13 | 131 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Dominique Lavanant
Votes: 1,209
28. A Heart in Winter (1992)
105 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Stéphane is an emotionally distant but professionally dedicated violin restorer whose cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend, a beautiful violinist, falls for him.
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Elizabeth Bourgine
Votes: 10,634 | Gross: $1.67M
29. Queen Margot (1994)
R | 161 min | Biography, Drama, History
Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.
Director: Patrice Chéreau | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez
Votes: 18,977 | Gross: $2.02M
30. L'Élégant Criminel (1990)
120 min | Biography, Drama
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Girod | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Jean Poiret, Jacques Weber, François Périer
Votes: 359
31. Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed (1989)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Romance
A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.
Director: Coline Serreau | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Firmine Richard, Pierre Vernier, Maxime Leroux
Votes: 1,818 | Gross: $0.50M
32. Ménage (1986)
84 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the ... See full summary »
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Michel Creton
Votes: 3,606 | Gross: $0.93M
33. Monsieur Hire (1989)
PG-13 | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A recluse is accused of murdering a young woman simply because his neighbors think he is strange.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier, André Wilms
Votes: 7,130 | Gross: $1.42M
34. Merci La Vie (1991)
117 min | Drama
A lonely teenage girl studying her exams meets a homeless woman and befriend with her.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet
Votes: 1,365
35. Marche à l'ombre (1984)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Blanc | Stars: Gérard Lanvin, Michel Blanc, Sophie Duez, Katrine Boorman
Votes: 1,604
36. Dead Tired (1994)
R | 92 min | Comedy
What is going on here?!? French director, Michel Blanc (as Himself), just doesn't understand why his life is suddenly falling apart. This nightmarish comedy-thriller is all about identity. ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Blanc | Stars: Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko
Votes: 2,011 | Gross: $0.55M
37. The Escort (1999)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A London gigolo persuades an impoverished French writer to join his profession.
Director: Michel Blanc | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Julie Wilson Nimmo, Luisa Bradshaw-White, Michelle Gomez
Votes: 1,331
38. The Last Woman (1976)
X | 112 min | Drama
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli, Renato Salvatori
Votes: 1,491
39. Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 1,377
40. The Woman Next Door (1981)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner
Votes: 8,779
41. Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley, Aude Amiot
Votes: 1,513
42. A Good Marriage (1982)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Féodor Atkine, Arielle Dombasle
Votes: 3,775
43. Love on the Ground (1984)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Isabelle Linnartz
Votes: 643
44. The Children (1985)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy
7 year-old boy Ernesto intrigues people around him for several reasons. Despite such a young age, he looks like a man on his 40's and also seems a little more intelligent than any of his ... See full summary »
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Axel Bogousslavsky, Daniel Gélin, Tatiana Moukhine, Martine Chevallier
Votes: 193
45. Les longs manteaux (1986)
106 min | Action, Adventure, Western
A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.
Director: Gilles Béhat | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Claudia Ohana, Robert Charlebois, Federico Luppi
Votes: 159
46. Les spécialistes (1985)
94 min | Adventure, Crime
During a routine transfer of prisoners from one jail to another, an accused cop killer, Paul Brandon, is temporarily chained to a con with only a year left to serve, Stéphane Carella. Paul ... See full summary »
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Gérard Lanvin, Christiane Jean, Maurice Barrier
Votes: 1,189
47. Passion of Love (1981)
117 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He ... See full summary »
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Valeria D'Obici, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Massimo Girotti
Votes: 1,020
48. Poussière d'ange (1987)
95 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.
Director: Edouard Niermans | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Fanny Bastien, Fanny Cottençon, Michel Aumont
Votes: 346
49. Vent de panique (1987)
90 min | Comedy
Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series who have now sunk into a life of crime, answer an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with children, with the intention of selling her into prostitution.
Director: Bernard Stora | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Caroline Cellier, Olivia Brunaux, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Votes: 74
50. L'autre (1991)
100 min | Drama
A man will try everything to save another buried in the earth after a disaster.
Director: Bernard Giraudeau | Stars: Francisco Rabal, Smaïl Mekki, Julian Negulesco, Rafik Ali Ahmad
Votes: 58
51. Les caprices d'un fleuve (1996)
111 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1785, Jean-Franois de la Plaine is appointed by the King governor in West Africa, in a period when slavery was the rule.
Director: Bernard Giraudeau | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Richard Bohringer, Thierry Frémont, Roland Blanche
Votes: 330
52. A New Life (1993)
117 min | Drama
Tina is a young warehousewoman in a supermarket. She is in love with Fred but still lives at her mother Nadine's. When Nadine dies, Tina looks for meeting her father Ludovic, who she never ... See full summary »
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Sophie Aubry, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Giraudeau, Christine Boisson
Votes: 208
53. Le fils préféré (1994)
100 min | Drama
A film shows a family through an adult man's figure, and his weekdays. The main character is one of the sons of an old and ill man who is in hospital nowadays. The father has 2 other sons ... See full summary »
Director: Nicole Garcia | Stars: Gérard Lanvin, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Marc Barr, Roberto Herlitzka
Votes: 468
54. Ridicule (1996)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, History
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche
Votes: 8,178 | Gross: $2.50M
55. Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier, Anna Thomson
Votes: 6,911 | Gross: $0.09M
56. Full Moon in Paris (1984)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Louise is a suburban young interior decorator divided between a boyfriend, a lover (who is married) and the wish of having some fulfillment and some balance in her life. A change to reach ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini, Virginie Thévenet
Votes: 5,383 | Gross: $0.01M
57. Tout ça... pour ça! (1993)
PG-13 | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Marie, a young lawyer, leaves with her husband Fabrice and a couple of friends, Francis and Alessandra. They are engaged in a dangerous sentimental game together, from which their relations will not come out unseemly.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Marie-Sophie L., Francis Huster, Fabrice Luchini, Alessandra Martines
Votes: 818
58. Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
116 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain, Michel Aumont
Votes: 1,465 | Gross: $0.63M
59. Rouge-gorge (1985)
105 min | Drama
After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her studies in ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Zucca | Stars: Philippe Léotard, Laetitia Léotard, Jérôme Zucca, Victoria Abril
Votes: 33
60. Little Nothings (1992)
95 min | Comedy
A typical French department store: Les Grandes Galeries. All kind of things can be found in there, as well as all kinds of people. Mr Lepetit has just been appointed General Manager of the company.
Director: Cédric Klapisch | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Daniel Berlioux, Marc Berman, Olivier Broche
Votes: 892
61. Nothing About Robert (1999)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.
Director: Pascal Bonitzer | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Valentina Cervi, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 1,062
62. Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
106 min | Drama
When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities.
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Claire Nadeau
Votes: 5,061 | Gross: $0.86M
63. Le miraculé (1987)
88 min | Comedy
The roman catholic pilgrimage to Lourdes depicted in an anticlerical way: hypocrisy, superstition and business.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Jeanne Moreau, Sylvie Joly
Votes: 409
64. The Swindle (1997)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 2,984 | Gross: $0.23M
65. Cop Au Vin (1985)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of Filiol.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Jean Topart
Votes: 2,224
66. La Cérémonie (1995)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Votes: 13,795 | Gross: $0.08M
67. Dr. Petiot (1990)
102 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the real life of Dr. Marcel Petiot: During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France ... See full summary »
Director: Christian de Chalonge | Stars: Michel Serrault, Pierre Romans, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Zbigniew Horoks
Votes: 794
68. The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
120 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Labbé is a quiet hatter in a small town, living with his handicapped wife who never goes out. His neighbour, a tailor, is fascinated by him. A series of female murders shakes the town. Is Labbé involved?
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette, François Cluzet
Votes: 1,267
69. Deadly Circuit (1983)
120 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran
Votes: 2,672
70. Assassin(s) (1997)
128 min | Crime, Drama
Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to be his successor.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Michel Serrault, Mathieu Kassovitz, Mehdi Benoufa, Robert Gendreu
Votes: 2,227
71. The Grilling (1981)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand
Votes: 5,335
72. L'Argent (1983)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Vincent Risterucci
Votes: 11,810
73. Every Man for Himself (1980)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz
Votes: 3,934
74. Confidentially Yours (1983)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
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.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 7,488
75. Passion (1982)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A film director has an inspirational crisis while working on the production, Passion, and struggles with the nature of work and art.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
Votes: 2,842
76. Detective (1985)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
At a Paris hotel, a hotel detective fired after a murder took place there continues to investigate, helped by his inspector nephew and girlfriend. A boxing manager, owing money to a couple and the mafia, rides on a match next day.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye
Votes: 2,335
77.
Black Sequence (1984–1991)
Episode:
Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma
(1986)
52 min | Crime, Thriller
Filmmaker Gaspard Bazin is preparing a new feature film, so he urgently needs to find funding. And, although he asked for help from a fashion producer, Bazin is now in the lurch, because of... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marie Valera, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Caroline Champetier
Votes: 420
78. First Name: Carmen (1983)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent
Votes: 4,505
79. Hail Mary (1985)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Manon Andersen
Votes: 3,721
80. Keep Your Right Up (1987)
82 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A film with idiotic prince and Rita Mitsouko who records a new album.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jane Birkin, Dominique Lavanant, Pauline Lafont, Éva Darlan
Votes: 772
81. Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
62 min | Drama
Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanns Zischler, Claudia Michelsen, Nathalie Kadem
Votes: 775
82. For Ever Mozart (1996)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Madeleine Assas, Ghalya Lacroix, Bérangère Allaux, Vicky Messica
Votes: 1,154
83.
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989–1999)
Episode:
Seul le cinéma
(1994)
26 min | Documentary
An 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Serge Daney, Julie Delpy
Votes: 743
série
84. La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
Unrated | 238 min | Drama
The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt
Votes: 9,354 | Gross: $0.41M
85. The Gang of Four (1989)
160 min | Drama, Mystery
A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Benoît Régent, Fejria Deliba, Laurence Côte
Votes: 1,153
86. Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
169 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Adventures of three young women in a hot and lazy Paris in summer.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Marianne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard, Laurence Côte, André Marcon
Votes: 702
87. Secret Defense (1998)
170 min | Crime, Drama
Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Grégoire Colin, Laure Marsac
Votes: 959
88. Le Pont du Nord (1981)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Young unhinged female ex-con with a motorcycle helps a sickly young homeless woman in red discover what the map of Paris she took from her gangster boyfriend leads to.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-François Stévenin
Votes: 1,336 | Gross: $0.01M
89. Joan the Maid 1: The Battles (1994)
PG | 160 min | Biography, Drama, History
A part of Joan of Arc's life. At the beginning, Jeanne (Joan) has already left Domremy, she is trying to convince a captain to escort her to the Dauphin. It ends during Jeanne's first ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Tatiana Moukhine, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marie Richier, Baptiste Roussillon
Votes: 833 | Gross: $0.00M
90. The Color of Lies (1999)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Antoine de Caunes, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Votes: 2,494
91. Madame Bovary (1991)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Romance
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne
Votes: 4,475 | Gross: $1.94M
92. Betty (1992)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
A drunken self-destructive woman called Betty wanders through bars and meets a man that drives her to a restaurant outside Paris called Le Trou (The Hole). She meets the middle-aged ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Marie Trintignant, Stéphane Audran, Jean-François Garreaud, Yves Lambrecht
Votes: 1,741
93. Story of Women (1988)
108 min | Drama, History, Romance
A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier
Votes: 5,734 | Gross: $0.44M
94. The Eye of Vichy (1993)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, War
This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Brian Cox, Maquisard Alfonso, General Bergeret
Votes: 345
95. Hell (1994)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Paul and Nelly have everything to be happy: a dream wedding and a hotel. Until Paul starts to doubt Nelly.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone, André Wilms
Votes: 6,427 | Gross: $0.19M
96. Masks (1987)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci, Bernadette Lafont, Monique Chaumette
Votes: 1,714
97. The Green Ray (1986)
R | 99 min | Drama, Romance
It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Marie Rivière, María Luisa García, Vincent Gauthier, Amira Chemakhi
Votes: 10,465 | Gross: $0.04M
98. The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
The socialist mayor of Saint-Juire has set his heart on building a cultural and sports complex in the village meadow. He's a well liked by the local people and has managed to raise the loans needed for the complex thanks to his contacts.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Pascal Greggory, Arielle Dombasle, Fabrice Luchini, Clémentine Amouroux
Votes: 1,726
99. A Summer's Tale (1996)
G | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
As a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him. But he ends up bonding with a local young woman whose female friend is also smitten with him.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon, Aurelia Nolin
Votes: 9,954 | Gross: $0.20M
100. A Tale of Winter (1992)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
Five years after losing touch with a summer fling, a woman has difficulty choosing between her two suitors.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, Michel Voletti, Hervé Furic
Votes: 6,106 | Gross: $0.21M
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