May 28, 1986
101 min
Full-HD

États d'âme (1986)

In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.

Category

Comedy Drama

Country

France

Companies

Tchéky Karyo

Bertrand

Robin Renucci

Maurice

Xavier Deluc

Michel

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Romain

François Cluzet

Pierrot

Sandrine Dumas

Marie Lampert

Nathalie Nell

Martine

Zabou Breitman

Hélène

Recommended For You

Comedy
2001
Movie

CQ

CQ

5.9
2001

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

Comedy
2010
Movie

On Tour

On Tour

6.4
2010

After leaving France in search of a better life in America, a television producer returns with a group of burlesque dancers to take the Paris club scene by storm.

Comedy
2026
Movie

Just an Illusion

Just an Illusion

7.3
2026

1985. Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of Paris in a middle-class family, between a distant older brother and parents in constant conflict. Although he is no longer a child and not yet an adult, the film follows his reflections and doubts about identity, friendship, family, and his questions about religion, desire, and love.

Comedy
2025
Movie

Ride Away

Ride Away

7.1
2025

From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, Mathias and Philippe, two old friends, embark on a bicycle journey that Mathias’s son made before his tragic death. The two men ride through the ordeals with tenderness, humor and emotion.

Comedy
1936
Movie

César

César

7.7
1936

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius, whose life has been fraught with calamity and poverty.

Comedy
2019
Movie

New Biz in the Hood

New Biz in the Hood

5.8
2019

Fred Bartel is the charismatic boss of a trendy Parisian communication agency, Happy Few. After a heated tax audit, he was forced by the administration to relocate overnight his company in La Courneuve. Fred and his team meet Samy, a young suburb who will quickly propose to teach them the rules and practices to adopt in this new environment.

Comedy
2020
Movie

Bye Bye Morons

Bye Bye Morons

7.2
2020

When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.

Comedy
1987
Movie

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

7.4
1987

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 illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.

Comedy
1997
Movie

SubUrbia

SubUrbia

6.2
1997

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

Comedy
2024
Movie

Meet the Leroys

Meet the Leroys

6.2
2024

A man takes his wife and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane while facing divorce.

Drama
1990
Movie

Uranus

Uranus

6.7
1990

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.

Comedy
2017
Movie

Landline

Landline

6.1
2017

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

Comedy
2019
Movie

Alice and the Mayor

Alice and the Mayor

6.2
2019

The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas and is faced with a feeling of existential emptiness. To overcome this, Paul hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann. Then follows a dialogue between two diametrically opposed personalities who will turn their certainties upside down.

Comedy
1925
Movie

Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan

6.8
1925

A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

Comedy
2023
Movie

Somewhere in Queens

Somewhere in Queens

6.3
2023

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

Comedy
1986
Movie

The Decline of the American Empire

The Decline of the American Empire

6.7
1986

Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.

Comedy
2010
Movie

My Own Love Song

My Own Love Song

6.2
2010

A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

Drama
2015
Movie

Macadam Stories

Macadam Stories

6.9
2015

Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.