Beau Pere

Beau Pere 1981

6.59

Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

1981

The Cabbage Soup

The Cabbage Soup 1981

6.36

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

1981

The Bunker

The Bunker 1981

6.24

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

1981

Buffet Froid

Buffet Froid 1979

7.00

Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

1979

1001 Nights

1001 Nights 1990

5.10

Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

1990

I... For Icarus

I... For Icarus 1979

7.64

Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.

1979

The King and the Mockingbird

The King and the Mockingbird 1980

7.80

A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.

1980

The Blood of Others

The Blood of Others 1984

4.96

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.

1984

Death Watch

Death Watch 1980

6.30

In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.

1980

A Bad Son

A Bad Son 1980

7.58

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

1980

Entire Days in the Trees

Entire Days in the Trees 1977

6.80

An old lady returns from Africa where she made a fortune to find her son in Paris, whom she has not seen in five years, with the intention of bringing him back with her. But this project fails.

1977

The Road

The Road 1982

7.30

When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.

1982

Heads or Tails

Heads or Tails 1980

6.70

Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.

1980

Malevil

Malevil 1981

6.60

In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...

1981

The Medic

The Medic 1979

5.40

The film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a surgeon falls in love with an idealistic nurse after an initially difficult meeting.

1979

Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague 1990

6.16

Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies, but some time later he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother?

1990

Who Wants to Kill Sara?

Who Wants to Kill Sara? 1992

3.00

A beautiful lawyer about to be married is stalked by a mysterious man who knows her too well.

1992

Le Beau Monde

Le Beau Monde 1981

1

Jean Pierre, a young Parisian salesman, decides to go on vacation by hitchhiking at random. Taken as a jaguar by a rich man, he finds himself invited to his villa in Saint Tropez and discovers a luxurious, idle and decadent universe. A tasty TV movie, written and directed by Michel Polac, with a very young Fabrice Luchini.

1981

Asphalt

Asphalt 1981

5.20

Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever.

1981

Signé Furax

Signé Furax 1981

4.80

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

1981