Cannes 1986
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1. After Hours (I) (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
Votes: 81,534 | Gross: $10.60M
In Competition
2. Boris Godunov (1986)
130 min | Drama, History
Based on the Alexander Pushkin's play, epic story about Tsar Boris Godunov, who reigned over Russia between 1598 and 1605.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Alyona Bondarchuk, Gennadi Mitrofanov, Valeriy Storozhik
Votes: 288
In Competition
3. Down by Law (1986)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two men are framed and sent to jail, where they meet a murderer who helps them escape and leave the state.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
Votes: 55,329 | Gross: $1.44M
In Competition
4. Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar (1986)
110 min | Drama
Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship.
Director: Arnaldo Jabor | Stars: Fernanda Torres, Thales Pan Chacon
Votes: 525
In Competition
5. Fool for Love (1985)
R | 106 min | Drama
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid
Votes: 2,940 | Gross: $0.84M
In Competition
6. Genesis (1986)
105 min | Drama
A parable of man's exploitation of his fellow man. A weaver and a farmer live peacefully on the edge of a desert until, one day, a woman wanders into their world, and her presence slowly disrupts their routine existence.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, M.K. Raina
Votes: 141
In Competition
7. I Love You (1986)
101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Michel is a bored lonely cheap-thrills-seeker. Everything changes when he finds an unusual bobble head doll in the shape of a pretty woman that can say "I love you" and falls in love with it to the point of obsession.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Eddy Mitchell, Flora Barillaro, Agnès Soral
Votes: 557
In Competition
8. La dernière image (1986)
195 min | Comedy, Drama
Mademoiselle Boyer, teacher, arrives from mainland France. She triggers passions of love and hatred, and will eventually leave, leaving in the bruised heart of her pupil, little Mouloud, a wound that is forever indelible.
Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Stars: Véronique Jannot, Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina, Michel Boujenah, Jean Bouise
Votes: 39
In Competition
9. Scene of the Crime (1986)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ... See full summary »
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Nicolas Giraudi, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Wadeck Stanczak
Votes: 1,077 | Gross: $0.16M
In Competition
10. Max My Love (1986)
R | 92 min | Comedy
A married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Anne-Marie Besse
Votes: 1,279
In Competition
11. Mona Lisa (1986)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane
Votes: 18,728 | Gross: $5.79M
In Competition
12. The Sacrifice (1986)
PG | 149 min | Drama
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir
Votes: 31,009 | Gross: $0.30M
In Competition
13. Otello (1986)
PG | 118 min | Drama, Music
Verdi's famous opera is brought to life in this production. The immortal tale of the noble Moor and his beautiful young wife, and of his lieutenant, whose jealousy and lust for power lead him to commit the ultimate treason.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Díaz, Petra Malakova
Votes: 618 | Gross: $0.19M
In Competition
14. Poor Butterfly (1986)
120 min | Drama
In May of 1945, the news of the fall of Berlin spread to Buenos Aires. Clara is the daughter of a socialist leader named Boris who has died unexpectedly. As Clara learns more about a father... See full summary »
Director: Raúl de la Torre | Stars: Graciela Borges, Lautaro Murúa, Pepe Soriano, Víctor Laplace
Votes: 118
In Competition
15. Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Not Rated | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander, Adelheid Arndt
Votes: 1,923
In Competition
16. Runaway Train (I) (1985)
R | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner
Votes: 33,043 | Gross: $7.94M
In Competition
17. Ménage (1986)
84 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the ... See full summary »
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Michel Creton
Votes: 3,615 | Gross: $0.93M
In Competition
18. The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
PG | 98 min | Drama
Story of an aboriginal family who tries to move out of the fringe into the main white community.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Kristina Nehm, Justine Saunders, Bob Maza, Kylie Belling
Votes: 443 | Gross: $0.15M
In Competition
19. The Mission (1986)
PG | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 65,734 | Gross: $17.22M
In Competition
20. Thérèse (1986)
94 min | Drama
A story of life of St. Therese of Lisieux.
Director: Alain Cavalier | Stars: Catherine Mouchet, Hélène Alexandridis, Aurore Prieto, Clémence Massart-Weit
Votes: 994
In Competition
21. 2 Friends (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama
The evolving relationship of two teenage girls in Sydney backwards through time, from estrangement to the height of their friendship a year earlier.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Kris Bidenko, Emma Coles, Kris McQuade, Peter Hehir
Votes: 495
Un Certain Regard
22. A Girl's Own Story (1984)
27 min | Short, Drama
The awkwardness and confusion of burgeoning sexuality in teenage girls in a twisted and repressed suburban culture.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Gabrielle Shornegg, Geraldine Haywood, Marian Knight, John Godden
Votes: 876
Un Certain Regard
23. Backlash (1986)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama
Two policemen track down and arrest a woman who has been accused of murder, and begin the trek back across the desert with her.
Director: Bill Bennett | Stars: David Argue, Gia Carides, Lydia Miller, Brian Syron
Votes: 181
Un Certain Regard
24. Belizaire the Cajun (1986)
PG | 103 min | Drama, History, Romance
A Cajun man attempts to save his town.
Director: Glen Pitre | Stars: Armand Assante, Gail Youngs, Michael Schoeffling, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 521 | Gross: $1.44M
Un Certain Regard
25. Burke & Wills (1985)
PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Fargher
Votes: 284
Un Certain Regard
26. Coming Up Roses (1986)
PG | 93 min | Comedy
The last cinema in a small town in South Wales closes. This means for the projectionist Trevor and ice cream vendor Mona that they are out of job. They come up with a new idea: They want to... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Bayly | Stars: Olive Michael, Richard Lewis, Edward Lewis, Michael Lewis
Votes: 79
Un Certain Regard
27. Das zweite Schraube-Fragment (1986)
45 min | Adventure
Director: Walter Andreas Christen | Stars: Mathias Forberg, Axel Klingenberg, Paola Loew, Jost Meyer
Un Certain Regard
28. Desert Bloom (1986)
PG | 105 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic... See full summary »
Director: Eugene Corr | Stars: Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish, Ellen Barkin
Votes: 1,098 | Gross: $0.42M
Un Certain Regard
29. The Pied Piper (1986)
Not Rated | 55 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.
Director: Jirí Barta | Stars: Oldrich Kaiser, Jirí Lábus, Michal Pavlícek, Vilém Cok
Votes: 1,679
Un Certain Regard
30. Laputa (1986)
92 min | Drama
Malgorzata and Paul have a rendezvous in West Berlin to spend some time together before she has to go back to Warsaw and he returns to his wife and daughter. The two talk, disagree, argue, make-up, quarrel and talk some more.
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Sami Frey, Krystyna Janda
Votes: 213
Un Certain Regard
31. A Promise (1986)
123 min | Drama
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Orie Satô, Sachiko Murase
Votes: 183
Un Certain Regard
32. Passionless Moments (1983)
13 min | Short, Drama
A collection of everyday awkward and embarrassing moments, each with an uneasy familiarity.
Directors: Jane Campion, Gerard Lee | Stars: David Benton, Anne Berriman, Alan Brown, Sean Callinan
Votes: 1,026
Un Certain Regard
33. Man of Ashes (1986)
109 min | Drama
In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and ... See full summary »
Director: Nouri Bouzid | Stars: Imed Maalal, Khaled Ksouri, Habib Belhadi, Mohamed Dhrif
Votes: 237
Un Certain Regard
34. Salomé (1986)
R | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy
John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece... See full summary »
Director: Claude d'Anna | Stars: Tomas Milian, Pamela Salem, Tim Woodward, Jo Champa
Votes: 84
Un Certain Regard
35. Ricochets (1986)
91 min | Drama, War
The story of a platoon of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon of 1986, shortly before Israeli withdrawal, and the dilemmas they face in having to fight against Lebanese guerilla in a hostile but civilian area.
Director: Eli Cohen | Stars: Alon Aboutboul, Shaul Mizrahi, Roni Pinkovitch, Dudu Ben-Zeev
Votes: 117
Un Certain Regard
36. Ri Chu (1985)
149 min | Drama
A woman leaves her husband after the death of their son. She becomes a well-known but unhappy courtesan.
Director: Benzheng Yu | Stars: Shu Fang, Shihuai Wang, Futang Wang, Xiang Yan
Votes: 78
Un Certain Regard
37. The Unknown Soldier (1985)
197 min | Drama, War
This film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the ... See full summary »
Director: Rauni Mollberg | Stars: Risto Tuorila, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Paavo Liski, Mika Mäkelä
Votes: 3,044
Un Certain Regard
38. Wohin und zurück - Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna (1986)
127 min | Drama
In the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy - Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U. S. Army.
Director: Axel Corti | Stars: Gabriel Barylli, Nicolas Brieger, Claudia Messner, Karlheinz Hackl
Votes: 186
Un Certain Regard
39. Za kude putuvate (1986)
93 min | Comedy
This is a philosophical, eccentric and fantastic comedy. This is a fantastic escape from the reality and a dream-rebellion of the fantasy.
Director: Rangel Vulchanov | Stars: Stoyan Aleksiev, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Katerina Evro, Iossif Surchadzhiev
Votes: 52
Un Certain Regard
40. Absolute Beginners (1986)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In London in 1958, a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.
Director: Julien Temple | Stars: Patsy Kensit, Eddie O'Connell, David Bowie, James Fox
Votes: 3,730 | Gross: $0.93M
Out of Competition
41. El amor brujo (1986)
PG | 100 min | Music, Drama
In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Laura del Sol, Juan Antonio Jiménez
Votes: 977
Out of Competition
42. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey
Votes: 76,820 | Gross: $40.08M
Out of Competition
43. Pirates (1986)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas, Olu Jacobs
Votes: 9,458 | Gross: $1.64M
Out of Competition
44. Precious Images (1986)
8 min | Documentary, Short
A montage of nearly 500 film clips from eight decades of American movies, made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Director's Guild of America.
Director: Chuck Workman
Votes: 746
Out of Competition
45. The Color Purple (1985)
PG-13 | 154 min | Drama
A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery
Votes: 97,434 | Gross: $98.47M
Out of Competition
46. A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big time director whose most recent film was a very ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Berry, Evelyne Bouix
Votes: 804 | Gross: $0.23M
Out of Competition
47. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron
Votes: 24,932
Out of Competition
48. Sleepwalk (1986)
R | 78 min | Drama, Fantasy
A woman is hired to transcribe an ancient Chinese manuscript. She finds that little by little, the manuscript has powers that begin to take over her life.
Director: Sara Driver | Stars: Suzanne Fletcher, Ann Magnuson, Dexter Lee, Stephen Chen
Votes: 500
International Critics' Week
49. 40 Quadratmeter Deutschland (1986)
80 min | Drama
A Turk has brought a young Turk woman from Turkey to his flat in Germany. The woman does not know much about Germany nor can she speak German.
Director: Tevfik Baser | Stars: Özay Fecht, Yaman Okay, Demir Gökgöl, Mustafa Guelpimar
Votes: 342
International Critics' Week
50. Esther (1986)
97 min | Drama
Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to Ethiopia. Esther, using information from ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Simone Benyamini, Mohammad Bakri, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Zare Vartanian
Votes: 83
International Critics' Week
51. La donna del traghetto (1986)
Drama
Director: Amedeo Fago | Stars: Alessandro Haber, Teresa Ann Savoy, Paolo Rossi, Philippe Leroy
Votes: 22
International Critics' Week
52. San Antoñito (1986)
81 min
Director: Pepe Sánchez | Stars: Ángela Calderón, Carlos Jaramillo, Margarita María Muñoz, Jennifer Steffens
International Critics' Week
53. Beyond Innocence (1986)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The sensual story of innocence lost, desire found and an obsession that would change their lives forever... She was a married woman, tone apart from her husband. He was an innocent ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Murray | Stars: Katia Caballero, Keith Smith, John Morris, Jill Forster
Votes: 127
International Critics' Week
54. Faubourg St Martin (1986)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
Imagine a slightly-dilapidated three-star hotel in the tenth arrondissement, run by a very distinguished lady with moral fibre and panache: Mrs. Coppercage. Alongside tourists visiting ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Claude Guiguet | Stars: Patachou, Françoise Fabian, Marie Rousseau, Stéphane Jobert
Votes: 86
International Critics' Week
55. Cactus (1986)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other. Is sight the only way to see the world?
Director: Paul Cox | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Robert Menzies, Norman Kaye, Monica Maughan
Votes: 239
Directors' Fortnight
56. Dancing in the Dark (1986)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama
The present unfolds along with scenes from the past in this intense psychological drama about Edna, a woman in the hospital who each day writes down her memories.
Director: Leon Marr | Stars: Martha Henry, Neil Munro, Anne Butler, Vince Metcalfe
Votes: 100
Directors' Fortnight
57. Defense of the Realm (1985)
PG | 96 min | Thriller
After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.
Director: David Drury | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen
Votes: 2,527 | Gross: $0.75M
Directors' Fortnight
58. Devil in the Flesh (1986)
X | 114 min | Drama, Romance
A sizzling, erotic thriller about a triangle between a teenage boy, an older woman an her fiance, an imprisoned terrorist, set in a world of intrigue, betrayal and erotic pleasure, from which may be no escape.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Maruschka Detmers, Federico Pitzalis, Anita Laurenzi, Alberto Di Stasio
Votes: 1,816 | Gross: $0.55M
Directors' Fortnight
59. Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Marco Colli | Stars: Eleonora Giorgi, Sergio Castellitto, Franco Fabrizi, Gastone Pescucci
Votes: 20
Directors' Fortnight
60. Golden Eighties (1986)
96 min | Comedy, Musical
Employees and clients of a commercial gallery only live for love; they dream it, proclaim it, sing it and dance it. Experience the encounters, reunions, passions and disappointments of a malicious chorus of girls and a group of idle boys.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Lio, Pascale Salkin, Delphine Seyrig, Myriam Boyer
Votes: 575
Directors' Fortnight
61. Comic Magazine (1986)
120 min | Comedy
Kinameri is a moderately successful television journalist itching for a big scoop. So when a corrupt local businessman barricades himself in his house, of course he's going to be excited with things picking up.
Director: Yôjirô Takita | Stars: Yûya Uchida, Yumi Asô, Takeshi Kitano, Hiromi Gô
Votes: 211 | Gross: $0.03M
Directors' Fortnight
62. The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Dominique Michel, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi
Votes: 8,698 | Gross: $1.90M
Directors' Fortnight
63. Malandro (1985)
105 min | Comedy, Musical
In 1941, Brazilian government was aligned with Nazi movement, in spite of being against the popular desire. In Lapa (Rio de Janeiro), the rascal, pimp and smuggler Max Overseas explores the... See full summary »
Director: Ruy Guerra | Stars: Edson Celulari, Claudia Ohana, Elba Ramalho, Fábio Sabag
Votes: 410
Directors' Fortnight
64. Memoirs of a Sinner (1986)
114 min | Drama
A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.
Director: Wojciech Has | Stars: Piotr Bajor, Maciej Kozlowski, Janusz Michalowski, Hanna Stankówna
Votes: 189
Directors' Fortnight
65. Sacrificed Youth (1986)
92 min | Drama
A young girl from the city is sent out to work in a village of Dai people in China's cultural revolution. Here she learns to enjoy being young and gains a new outlook on life.
Director: Nuanxing Zhang | Stars: Fengxu Li, Yuanzheng Feng, Tao Song, Jianguo Guo
Votes: 142
Directors' Fortnight
66. Schmutz (1987)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
Josef Schmutz is a custodian clerk given the task of guarding an outdated industrial plant.
Director: Paulus Manker | Stars: Fritz Schediwy, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Siggi Schwientek, Josefin Platt
Votes: 89
Directors' Fortnight
67. She's Gotta Have It (1986)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Story of a woman and her three lovers.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee
Votes: 16,321 | Gross: $7.14M
Directors' Fortnight
68. Sid and Nancy (1986)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop
Votes: 34,707 | Gross: $2.83M
Directors' Fortnight
69. Sorekara (1985)
130 min | Drama
Daisuke (Yusaku Matsuda) is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Miwako Fujitani, Kaoru Kobayashi, Morio Kazama
Votes: 359
Directors' Fortnight
70. Tarot (1986)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
A film director, his fiancée, a scriptwriter and a student interact and discuss their emotions, at length.
Director: Rudolf Thome | Stars: Vera Tschechowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Katharina Böhm
Votes: 55
Directors' Fortnight
71. Visszaszámlálás (1986)
103 min | Drama
Director: Pál Erdöss | Stars: Erika Ozsda, Károly Eperjes, Dénes Ujlaky, Zoltán Bezerédi
Votes: 20
Directors' Fortnight
72. Working Girls (1986)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
A day in the life of several prostitutes in an upscale Manhattan whore house. The film is a stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch ... See full summary »
Director: Lizzie Borden | Stars: Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda Goodwin, Deborah Banks
Votes: 1,635 | Gross: $1.78M
Directors' Fortnight
73. Guardian of the Night (1986)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
A municipal policeman, Yves steals cars and attacks post offices. But that's not the money he's looking for, his quest is of a different nature. He has always loved Aurore but does not admit to him his love or his double life.
Director: Jean-Pierre Limosin | Stars: Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Aurelle Doazan, Nicolas Silberg, Vincent Perez
Votes: 69
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
74. Lien de parenté (1986)
95 min | Drama
Director: Willy Rameau | Stars: Jean Marais, Serge Ubrette, Anouk Ferjac, Roland Dubillard
Votes: 17
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
75. Maine Ocean (1986)
130 min | Comedy
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rozier | Stars: Rosa-Maria Gomes, Abdel Kedadouche, Luis Rego, Bernard Menez
Votes: 321
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
76. Accord parfait (1988)
82 min
Director: Arsène Floquet | Stars: Malo Kervern, Laurence Hamelin, Benoît Régent, Isabelle Weingarten
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
77. Trop tard Balthazar (1986)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Philippe Lopes-Curval | Stars: Tania Latarjet, Didier Craye, Marie Lenoir, Steve Kalfa
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
78. Vaudeville (1986)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This film features a husband who is tired of playing the eternal husband and his wife who would like to live one last love story with her lover.
Director: Jean Marboeuf | Stars: Marie-Christine Barrault, Guy Marchand, Roland Giraud, Jean-Marc Thibault
Votes: 63
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
79. Le spectre de la danse (1960)
21 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary about prima ballerina Nina Vyroubova. She is seen rehearsing at the Paris Opera under the direction of choreographer Serge Lifar and dancing master Yves Brieux with dancers ... See full summary »
Director: Dominique Delouche | Stars: Nina Vyroubova, Serge Lifar, Yves Brieux, Attilio Labis
Votes: 7
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
80. Richard III (1986)
135 min | Drama
Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Ariel García Valdés, Gilles Arbona, Marc Betton, Annie Perret
Votes: 25
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
81. Good Weather, But Stormy Late This Afternoon (1986)
85 min | Comedy
Jacques and Jacqueline do not have much more pleasant to say to each other after forty years of married life. When, in an inopportune way, their son Bernard arrives to present his fiancée Brigitte to them, that does not help.
Director: Gérard Frot-Coutaz | Stars: Micheline Presle, Claude Piéplu, Xavier Deluc, Tonie Marshall
Votes: 80
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
82. High Speed (1986)
87 min
Frankfurt, Germany. A young French woman coming to work, Edith, discovers the city. Unbeknownst to him, an American photographer in line, and for a few dollars, delivers his photos to a shady sponsor.
Directors: Monique Dartonne, Michel Kaptur | Stars: Mireille Perrier, Bruce Thurman, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Peter Schlesinger
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83. L'inconnue de Vienne (1986 TV Movie)
90 min
Director: Bernard Stora | Stars: Marie-France Pisier, Richard Bohringer, Gérard Klein, Catherine Frot
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84. Le bonheur a encore frappé (1986)
80 min | Comedy
Director: Jean-Luc Trotignon | Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, Michèle Brousse, Jean-Noël Brouté, Caroline Appéré
Votes: 74
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85. Les clowns de Dieu (1986)
102 min
Director: Jean Schmidt | Stars: Daniel Koenigsberg, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Jean-Roger Milo, Nathalie Schmidt
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86. Noir et blanc (1986)
80 min | Drama
Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a month to straighten out their books. The ... See full summary »
Director: Claire Devers | Stars: Francis Frappat, Jacques Martial, Joséphine Fresson, Marc Berman
Votes: 174
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87. Qui trop embrasse... (1986)
84 min | Drama
How couples unite, interact, separate, reunite or find other partners. The links in this chain begin with Christian and Nathalie, who are coworkers and friends.
Director: Jacques Davila | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Tonie Marshall, Andrzej Seweryn, Michel Gautier
Votes: 33
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88. Swing troubadour (1991)
86 min
In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved. In 1962, exiled on Hatray cruises and feeling the ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Bayen | Stars: Bérangère Bonvoisin, Philippe Clévenot, Raphaëlle Piani, Graziella Galvani
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89. Ubac (1986)
77 min | Drama
In 1930, in the majesty of the Andean mountains, the long hunt of a bounty hunter gradually turns into a strange initiation quest.
Director: Jean-Pierre Grasset | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Larry Lamb, Rufus, Pierre Malet
Votes: 6
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