La promesse(1996)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Roger uses his son Igor to ruthlessly traffic and exploit undocumented immigrants. When one of the immigrants is killed, Igor is guilt-ridden and wants to care for the dead man's family against his father's orders.



Irma Vep(1996)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.



Portraits chinois(1996)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also jobs for the movies. This is where Lise ...



Ridicule(1996)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.



Ponette(1996)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.



L'appartement(1996)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Max is on his way to Tokyo. He lives in Paris and likes to flirt but has decided to get married. By chance, he seems to have seen Lisa, his greatest love, in a cafe. Max forgets everything,...



Un air de famille(1996)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 12

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and ...



Le jaguar(1996)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin he's fascinated ...



Bernie(1996)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes ...



For Ever Mozart(1996)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the ...



Capitaine Conan(1996)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.



Tykho Moon(1996)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious ...



Karmina(1996)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Translation of the above: Karmina, a young vampire (only 140 years old) flees her Translylvanian castle where she must marry the horrible Vlad to please her father, the mean Baron, and her ...



Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi(1996)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the...



Cosmos(1996)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have ...



Le polygraphe(1996)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Lucie Champagne is given the role of the victim, Marie-Claire, in a film of a true, unsolved murder. By coincidence, Lucie's neighbour Francois, was Marie-Claire's boyfriend. He is a ...



La bouche de Jean-Pierre(1996)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A ten year old girl is received by her aunt because of her mother's confinement to a mental hospital... See full synopsis »



L'escorte(1996)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

L'ESCORTE is a comedy of manners where cynicism and false naiveté mingle in a bittersweet study of love, lies and friendship in the age of AIDS. Amid the laughter and the tears, the hustle ...



Le cri de la soie(1996)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from ...