Best French movies of 1980

Actors : Humbert Balsan, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the ...

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Sequel to La Cage aux folles has homosexual nightclub owner Renato and his transvesitite companion/lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly...

Actors : Christine Murillo, Valérie Mairesse, Gordon Mitchell, Pierre Richard,
Directors : Gérard Oury,

A womanizer balances his wife, mistress, and love interest.

Actors : Julien Guiomar, Dominique Lavanant, Coluche, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

The clumsy son of a deceased police hero joins the police and his task is to protect a reporter from the most famous gangster of Paris.

Actors : Von Gretchen Shepard, Georges Géret, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Romanelli,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Alexandre Dupré is a con artist, accidentally involved in a hunt for microfilm, containing a valuable invention of a recently murdered French scientist.

Actors : Hans-Jürgen Schatz, Michele Placido, Anne Bennent, Jean-Jacques Delbo,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

The story of a sexually enticing young dancer who rises up in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack 'the Ripper'.

Actors : Claudine Auger, Lewis Furey, Carole Laure, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Gilles Carle,

In this oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological ...

Actors : Carina Barone, Zora Ulla Keslerová, Françoise Gayat, Gérard Lauzier,

Three women are secretly plush prostitutes. They are successively called by a mysterious person to have sex with three different men and assuage their weird fantasies.