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French cinema: 1979

Les Bronzés font du ski (1979)
Patrice Leconte

A year has passed since Nathalie and Bernard came close to wrecking their marriage at a holiday club on the Ivory Coast. Now that they have patched up their differences, they plan to spend a more agreeable vacation in the French alps, staying at their recently acquired timeshare apartment...   [More...]

Buffet froid (1979)
Bertrand Blier

Alphonse Tram, an unemployed man in his early thirties, lives with his wife Josyane in a recently constructed apartment block that is virtually uninhabited...   [More...]

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses! (1979)
Edouard Molinaro

François Perrin is a radio reporter who is coping badly with living by himself after his divorce. One evening, the solitude becomes so unbearable that he picks up the telephone and dials a number at random...   [More...]

Les Chiens (1979)
Alain Jessua

Not long after arriving in a small provincial town, a young doctor, Henri Ferret, is struck by the mood of fear that pervades the region...   [More...]

Confidences pour confidences (1979)
Pascal Thomas

Recalling the story of her family, Brigitte takes us back to the 1950s, when she was living an idyllic life with her sisters Pierrette and Florence, and parents, the owners of a grocers' shop...   [More...]

Coup de tête (1979)
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Life in the small industrial French town of Trincamp revolves entirely around the local football club. When François Perrin is dismissed from the club for injuring the star player, his fortunes take a turn for the worst...   [More...]

La Drôlesse (1979)
Jacques Doillon

Mado is an eleven-year-old girl who, ignored by her sisters and maltreated by her mother, leads a solitary, loveless existence...   [More...]

La Guerre des polices (1979)
Robin Davis

In the early hours of the morning, police superintendent Ballestrat is about to arrest Hector Sarlat, the most wanted criminal in France, when a rival police squad led by Jacques Fush puts in an unexpected and unwelcome appearance...   [More...]

I... comme Icare (1979)
Henri Verneuil

The official investigation into the assassination of a popular head of state concludes he was killed by a lone assassin, who shot himself immediately after the event...   [More...]

Messidor (1979)
Alain Tanner

Tired of her dull urban life, Jeanne, a young history student, decides to abandon her studies and take a break in the country...   [More...]

Le Pull-over rouge (1979)
Michel Drach

The body of a nine-year old girl, Elisa Garcia, is found about twenty kilometres from Marseille, not long after the girl was abducted by a stranger...   [More...]

Série noire (1979)
Alain Corneau

Franck Poupart is a neurotic door-to-door salesman working in a run-down suburb of Paris. His wife has just walked out on him and his employer treats him with contempt...   [More...]

Les Soeurs Brontë (1979)
André Téchiné

After the death of his wife, the pastor Patrick Brontë lives in the small village of Haworth in West Yorkshire, England, with his three daughters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - and his one son Branwell...   [More...]

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