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1980s French-language Movies

Public list by WPS with 420 movies or TV shows/series

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Exploits of a Young Don Juan(1986)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 63 votes)

Roger is a 16-year-old who seeks to lose his virginity in this erotic drama. His initial efforts are unsuccessful, but World War I breaks out and men are seen marching off to battle. Roger goes overboard when he is presented with several amorous opportunities.

Tender Cousins(1980)

R
| 1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 20 votes)

Teenage Julien loves his teenage cousin Julia among flowers in summer of '39 France.

Twilight Zone: The Movie(1983)

PG
| 1h 41min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 298 votes)

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the TV series "Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and featuring one original story "Time Out".

Nighthawks(1981)

R
| 1h 39min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 168 votes)

An international terrorist has New York in a grip of panic and it's up to Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva to take him down.

Wings of Desire(1987)

PG-13
| 2h 8min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 582 votes)

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.

Asterix vs. Caesar(1985)

3.2/5 (with 241 votes)

Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love arrives to visit her. However, the lovers are kidnapped by Romans; Asterix and Obelix set out to rescue them on a dangerous journey that will involve gladiators, slavers and beauracracy - and a personal encounter with the Emperor himself, Julius Caesar...

The Party(1980)

3.3/5 (with 510 votes)

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.

Chariots of Fire(1981)

PG
| 2h 3min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 368 votes)

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

Frantic(1988)

3.3/5 (with 425 votes)

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.

Henry V(1989)

PG-13
| 2h 17min | War, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 153 votes)

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

Betty Blue(1986)

3.6/5 (with 168 votes)

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

Beau Pere(1981)

3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

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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Babette's Feast(1987)

G
| 1h 42min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 158 votes)

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.

Asterix in Britain(1986)

3.4/5 (with 284 votes)

One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedius Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink.

Directed by Pino van Lamsweerde

Manon of the Spring(1986)

PG
| 1h 53min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 207 votes)

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.

The Last Metro(1980)

PG
| 2h 11min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.6/5 (with 203 votes)

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Asterix and the Big Fight(1989)

3.2/5 (with 253 votes)

Gaullish custom requires that a would-be chief must challenge and defeat another to become the leader of two tribes. Vitalstatistix is not perturbed because of Getafix's magic potion. Getafix, however has an accident and forgets how to make it. Then Vitalstatistix is suddenly challenged.

Directed by Philippe Grimond

Au Revoir les Enfants(1987)

PG
| 1h 45min | Drama, War
3.8/5 (with 271 votes)

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

L'Argent(1983)

1h 25min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 99 votes)

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.

Directed by Robert Bresson - With Alexandre Pasche, Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, François-Marie Banier, Michel Briguet, Pierre Tessier, Yves Martin, ...

Danton(1983)

2h 16min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 70 votes)

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.

The Vanishing(1988)

NR
| 1h 46min | Thriller, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 249 votes)

A man embarks on an increasingly obsessive search for his girlfriend after she disappears without a trace during a romantic summer getaway to France.

Mad Love(1985)

3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

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.

The Killing Fields(1984)

R
| 2h 22min | Drama, History, War
3.8/5 (with 310 votes)

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes(1982)

1h 40min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 237 votes)

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.

The Under-Gifted(1980)

1h 32min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 203 votes)

The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!

Mauvais Sang(1986)

NR
| 1h 59min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 100 votes)

Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.

Atlantic City(1980)

R
| 1h 44min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 104 votes)

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Jean de Florette(1986)

PG
| 2h | Drama
3.8/5 (with 228 votes)

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.

The Woman Next Door(1981)

R
| 1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 125 votes)

Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.

The Cabbage Soup(1981)

3.2/5 (with 372 votes)

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

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