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Kanopy
82
7.4
/3461/
70
/54/
69
/99/
3.8
/3329/
100
/7/
85
/18/

A Sunday in the Country (1984)
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
poster
68
6.4
/618/
57
/18/
63
/30/
3.3
/342/
60
/1/

I Married a Shadow (1983)
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
68
7.2
/7102/
69
/191/
70
/337/
3.7
/12396/
90
/49/

Buffet Froid (1979)
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.
poster
Kanopy
62
6.3
/4015/
65
/86/
63
/85/
3.7
/9327/
75
/12/
63
/53/

Hail Mary (1985)
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
poster
MUBI
67
59
6.3
/4863/
63
/86/
59
/108/
3.6
/8448/
88
/8/
61
/44/

First Name: Carmen (1983)
The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robbery she falls in love with a security guard. The film intercuts between Carmen's escape with the guard, her uncle's attempt to make a comeback film, and a string quartet attempting to perform Beethoven.
poster
71
57
6.9
/4240/
62
/216/
65
/134/
3.3
/3319/
80
/5/
84
/12/

Beau Pere (1981)
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.
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Fandor
66
55
6.5
/3814/
65
/101/
62
/111/
3.4
/4261/
79
/14/
59
/28/

Death Watch (1980)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
54
6.5
/4243/
59
/51/
61
/75/
3.5
/8351/
90
/10/
67
/17/

Every Man for Himself (1980)
A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.
poster
64
51
6.2
/3048/
71
/60/
57
/61/
3.6
/5142/
63
/8/
62
/36/

Godard's Passion (1982)
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.
poster
MUBI
63
50
5.7
/2565/
55
/37/
51
/66/
3.2
/4135/
92
/12/
53
/27/

Detective (1985)
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.
poster
66
41
6.4
/1752/
62
/22/
62
/31/
3.6
/2965/
71
/7/
68
/8/

Nouvelle Vague (1990)
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?
poster
74
41
7.4
/1648/
70
/31/
74
/58/
3.8
/1896/
78
/9/

A Bad Son (1980)
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.
poster
59
39
6.2
/3262/
63
/129/
59
/150/
3.1
/2151/
51
/3/

Happy Easter (1984)
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
poster
60
37
5.8
/2033/
62
/70/
60
/109/
3.1
/1331/

The Loner (1987)
In Paris , Commissioner Stan Jalard and Inspector Simon Lecache plan to quit the police to go and enjoy a more peaceful life in the West Indies. In a nightclub, during a routine visit, they spot Schneider, a dreaded gangster and public enemy. At the time of his arrest, Simon is killed at close range by the criminal. Stan then decides to stay in the police to avenge Simon. Being the godfather of Christian, Simon's son, who sometimes lives in a boarding school, sometimes at home, he takes charge of his education. Two years later, Stan has been promoted, and he's told that Schneider had resurfaced in the capital. A long hunt begins.
poster
70
35
6.9
/2322/
66
/33/
65
/111/
3.5
/1795/
82
/4/

Choice of Arms (1981)
A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.
poster
Kanopy
58
34
5.9
/1650/
59
/22/
57
/50/
3.6
/3839/
45
/7/

Mad Love (1985)
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
poster
65
33
6.4
/1407/
67
/17/
63
/47/
3.4
/1162/

Our Story (1984)
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...
poster
66
31
7.0
/1316/
66
/20/
58
/47/
3.5
/834/

A Few Days with Me (1988)
After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate unexpected responsibilities and the challenges of managing the store's staff.
poster
57
31
6.4
/1237/
57
/36/
61
/61/
3.3
/1911/
40
/4/

Hotel America (1981)
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. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.
poster
71
30
7.0
/1116/
63
/16/
65
/56/
3.6
/891/
88
/8/

The Discreet (1990)
There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.
poster
Criterion Channel
62
24
6.6
/827/
54
/9/
60
/23/
3.5
/1001/

A Week's Vacation (1980)
On the verge of an emotional collapse, schoolteacher Laurence takes a week off from work to figure out her life. She reconnects with friends and family and wrestles with everything from whether she should continue her job to whether she should have a child with her boyfriend.
poster
62
24
7.0
/724/
50
/12/
61
/45/
3.5
/488/

Strange Affair (1981)
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. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.
poster
62
22
6.3
/909/
63
/22/
55
/61/
3.3
/850/
67
/1/

Waiter! (1983)
After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man.
poster
58
22
5.8
/1240/
61
/21/
51
/32/
3.1
/629/

Le Choc (1982)
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...
poster
41
21
3.4
/1977/
49
/116/
47
/64/
2.7
/651/
24
/6/

Emmanuelle 4 (1984)
In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuelle...
poster
65
20
6.8
/613/
70
/11/
57
/36/
3.4
/346/

La Femme flic (1980)
Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Berthot, Corinne is transferred to a small town in the North who lives under the thumb of a rich industrialist and his family. He is given subaltern tasks. Intrigued by the strange death of a teenager, she stubbornly leads an investigation that allows her to trace the chain of a child prostitution network in which are mixed a notable and his son-in-law. A young investigating judge decides to investigate the case, but he is the victim of pressure ...
poster
58
20
6.0
/952/
56
/9/
56
/24/
3.2
/678/

The Story of Piera (1983)
Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums. A special connection, between a mother and her daughter, full of sensuality and complicity, has allowed to portray a family full of fears, rather unbalanced, but nevertheless searching infinite love.
poster
63
20
6.5
/696/
61
/12/
62
/35/
3.3
/284/

The North Star (1982)
Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.
poster
63
19
6.7
/555/
52
/8/
65
/26/
3.4
/482/

The Little Gangster (1990)
Marc, a troubled teenager, is bored in his native, depressing city of Sete. One day, a simple phone call makes him aware of the existence of Stephanie, a sister he has never met. Armed with a pistol his mother found, he goes out to find her. He steals money from a perfume shop, and is then stopped by a policeman who wants to search him. In the car, Marc threatens the policeman with his gun, demanding that he helps him find his sister...
poster
45
19
4.6
/1372/
48
/53/
42
/38/
2.6
/726/
41
/7/

First Desires (1983)
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
19
6.4
/409/
73
/82/
61
/19/
3.5
/428/

Spoiled Children (1977)
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.
poster
60
17
5.7
/280/
56
/9/
62
/31/
3.3
/333/

Shot Pattern (1982)
A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran police inspector leads a parallel investigation.
poster
61
15
5.9
/545/
65
/6/
55
/14/
3.4
/745/
60
/8/

Mixed Blood (1984)
On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine. When Rita and her young gang members get involved in a minor turf war, the violence escalates out of control, touching everyone and sparing no one.
poster
Kanopy
47
14
4.8
/649/
47
/18/
44
/17/
3.1
/778/
36
/6/

Love Rites (1987)
Hugo, a vain clothing buyer, meets Myriam on a train and pursues a relationship with her. He is delighted to learn she is a prostitute and has no idea she has more in mind than Hugo bargained for.
poster
64
14
6.7
/338/
63
/11/
59
/20/
3.5
/298/

As the Moon (1977)
Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard, an unemployed heating engineer working in his girlfriend's butcher shop, decides to marry her and leave his wife and daughter. He'll have to struggle against his own jealousy and Nadia's incredible sex appeal to get through this 'moment de vie'.
poster
46
11
4.7
/875/
36
/14/
43
/28/
3.0
/292/
45
/1/

Harem (1985)
Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a North African desert hideaway by Selim, an Arab mogul.
poster
73
11
6.9
/554/
60
/7/
69
/14/
3.5
/233/
100
/2/

Nocturne Indien (1989)
The enigmatic but vivid imagery of this loosely plotted film is based on a similarly evocative novel by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, Noturno Indiano. An old friend of the hero's has been living in Bombay with a prostitute. His friend Peter Schlemihl (Otto Tausig) is a concentration camp survivor, who went to India after being captivated by a photograph he saw there. When the prostitute writes to him in Europe asking that he rescue his friend from a mysterious malaise, he flies into India to try and help. When he gets to Bombay, he discovers that his friend has disappeared. Following the clues left behind by the friend, and based on his acquaintance with him, he journeys to Madras to speak to a Theosophist dignitary there, and then journeys on to Portugues Goa. With each step of his journey, the hero (Jean-Hugues Anglade) becomes more identified with his friend, and re-enacts in his own person the transformations he must have experienced.
poster
51
10
5.4
/300/
38
/7/
51
/12/
3.2
/508/

The Bitch (1984)
After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a gangster and his former girlfriend…the same woman who sent the cop to prison years before.
poster
46
4
4.1
/168/
46
/6/
38
/12/
60
/1/

Superslob (1986)
A fat and disgusting man is rejected by society... A vitriolic adaptation of the famous comic strip by Reiser.
poster
?
4.1
/25/
25
/2/
40
/1/

Prunelle Blues (1986)
A man finds himself pursued by police and thugs because of a woman he has fallen in love with.
poster
?
4.8
/68/
65
/2/

Poker (1988)
Helene loves to play poker for big money in men's company. But one day she looses big time against bar manager Antonio. He grants her 24 hours to come up with the 50,000 Francs. She asks all of her friends, but nobody will help her. When she finally steals the money from her brother Stephane, she gets them into serious trouble -- she didn't know where he got it.
poster
49
?
5.5
/90/
35
/2/
40
/5/
3.4
/372/

Adieu au TNS (1998)
In 1998, Jean-Luc Godard made a short video entitled Adieu au TNS (Farewell to the TNS). Never released (or intended to be), the video is nearly impossible to see and has not been included in any Godard retrospectives to date.
poster
51
?
6.0
/211/
40
/4/
63
/8/

My Friend the Traitor (1988)
After the end of World War II, a collaborationist seeks redemption.
poster
?
4.2
/12/
10
/1/

Un dimanche à Paris (1994)
Alain finds Marie, whom he still loves, but he is embarrassed by the presence, to say the least, of Nina, who keeps asking him for services. Marie gradually becomes aware of the strong bond that unites Alain and Nina, who has never counted in his eyes.
poster
?
7.2
/18/
10
/1/
80
/2/

The Righteous (1994)
While, during World War II, European Jews were being dragged by the Nazis to the extermination camps and most people bowed their heads, some brave men and women risked their lives to save them: a journey through the world and history in search of those who, by their heroic and pious deeds, deserved to be known as the righteous.
poster
53
?
5.7
/105/
53
/3/
50
/8/

The Two Crocodiles (1987)
A taxi driving, strip club managing conman chooses a salesman as a mark. The latter falls for his hospitality, but soon appears to be already in trouble.
poster
50
?
5.4
/111/
40
/5/
57
/5/

The Tribe (1991)
Olivier Rohan, a young doctor, has just opened a general practice. However, having only a small clientele, he continues to work in the hospital's emergency room. One night, he will witness the unnatural death of a young man.
poster
?
4.2
/54/
10
/1/
20
/2/

El invierno en Lisboa (1991)
Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer.


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