1980s French-language films

Shoah

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witn...

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Good Riddance

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 8

Set in a small rural town in the Quebec Laurentians, Michelle lives in an isolated house with her mentally-challenged brother Guy and her 13 year old daughter Manon. Together the three of them survive...

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Wings of Desire

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.9

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...

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The Killing Fields

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.8

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 pul...

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Babette's Feast

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.8

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.

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Henry V

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.5

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

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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives...

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Story of Women

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 7.5

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention...

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Monsieur Hire

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.5

A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more compli...

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