Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Loulou (1980)- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand - Charismatic street rogue Gerard Depardieu lures an impetuous Isabelle Huppert out her stale, bourgeois partnership with Guy Marchand. Star chemistry…
Mon Oncle D'Amerique (My American Uncle) (1980)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Marie Dubois, Jean Daste - The dir. of LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD experiments with notions of human behaviour in this unusual drama, centred around the theories of a French…
Un Mauvais Fils (A Bad Son) (1980)- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey, Yves Robert - Affecting working–class drama about a young man returning to France after a jail term in the US for narcotics, where his attempt to restart his…
Young Master, The (Shi di chu ma) (1980)- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Biao Yuen - A fine early action–comedy from the phenomenal Jackie Chan, here trying to lure a wayward fellow student back to the 'right' side of martial…
Alexandria... Why? (1979)- Dir. Youssef Chahine
- An autobiographical film about the early life of director Youssef Chahine, set in Alexandria. Winner of the Silver Bear at the 29th Berlin…
Amour en fuite, L' (Love on the Run) (1979)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier - The fifth and final entry in dir. Truffaut's loosely autobiographical 'Anoine Doinel' series. Here, the footloose hero reaches his 30s and a new…
Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts) (1979)- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet… - When his lost switchblade turns up as a murder weapon, petty crim Gerard Depardieu goes on the lam in a nightmarish Paris, several disreputable…
Camera Buff (Amator) (1979)- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Pointed, if slightly familiar satire of Communist life, has a smalltown clerk in Poland buy a Super8 film camera and begin to film life around him,…
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Gian Maria Volente, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny - A writer is exiled to the remote South in the mid 1930s. Based on the autobiography of Carlos Levi, this film in four parts contrasts his political…
Egouts Du Paradis, Les (The Sewers of Paradise) (1979)- Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Francis Huster, Jean-François Balmer, Lila Kedrova - Romantic dramatization of "The Great Drain Robbery" of 1976, in which the Societe Generale Bank of France was robbed of over $10 million dollars by a…
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