Cinematography: Bruno Nuytten

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Delphine Seyrig · Nicole Hiss · Michael Lonsdale · Sylvie Nuytten

Plot Film consists almost entirely of images of the deserted, deteriorating Rothschild palace near Reims, and uses the soundtrack of India Song.

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Yves Montand · Gérard Depardieu · Daniel Auteuil · Elisabeth Depardieu

Plot A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Yves Montand · Daniel Auteuil · Emmanuelle Béart · Hippolyte Girardot

Plot In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She determines to take revenge upon the...

Direction Stuart Rosenberg

Cast Robert Redford · Yaphet Kotto · Jane Alexander · Morgan Freeman

Plot When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. When he reveals himself,...

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Catherine Sellers · Christian Baltauss · Gérard Depardieu · Dionys Mascolo

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Lino Ventura · Michel Serrault · Romy Schneider · Guy Marchand

Plot Inspector Gallien is investigating the rape and murder of two little girls. The only suspect is attorney Jerome Martinaud, but the evidence against him is circumstantial. As the city celebrates...

Direction Raymonde Carasco

Cast Anne Hébraud · Emmanuelle Hébraud

Plot The movie shows a smattering of images from the story of Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva. The subject is sublimated desire.

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Delphine Seyrig · Michael Lonsdale · Mathieu Carrière · Claude Mann

Direction Andrzej Zulawski

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Sam Neill · Margit Carstensen · Heinz Bennent

Plot Mark returns to Berlin from a long business assignment to find that his wife Anna is leaving him for what he supposes is another man. It turns out that she...

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Coluche · Richard Anconina · Agnès Soral · Mahmoud Zemmouri

Plot Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. Bensoussan, raised in foster homes, now a small-time pusher for a bar owner...

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Patrick Bouchitey · Christine Pascal · Claude Piéplu

Plot In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc...

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Patrick Dewaere · Etienne Chicot · Sabine Haudepin

Plot Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a...

Direction Alain Fleischer

Cast Catherine Jourdan · Klaus Kinski · Pierre Clémenti · Lisette Malidor

Direction Marguerite Duras · Jean Mascolo · Jean-Marc Turine

Cast Axel Bogousslavsky · Daniel Gélin · Tatiana Moukhine · Martine Chevallier

Plot Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to attend, because he does...

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Marguerite Duras · Gérard Depardieu

Plot We are confronted with two images, a lorry driving through the night until dawn, a depiction of the loneliness and determination of the long-distance driver, and, intercut with it, an...

Direction Bertrand Blier

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Patrick Dewaere · Miou-Miou · Jeanne Moreau

Plot Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's...

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ruggero Raimondi · Geraldine Chaplin · Fanny Ardant

Plot Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to...

Direction André Téchiné

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Isabelle Huppert · Marie-France Pisier · Pascal Greggory

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Laurent Terzieff · Aurelle Doazan · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Nathalie Baye

Direction Alain Corneau

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Philippe Noiret · Catherine Deneuve · Sophie Marceau

Plot French civilization in the desert. Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will. In 1911, he volunteers and is posted to the Sahara under the aristocratic Colonel...