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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Latin
Description
Adapted from the novel *Une vie* by Guy de Maupassant, A WOMAN'S LIFE is a tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy. Upon finishing her schooling in a convent, young aristocrat Jeanne marries local Viscount Julien de Lamare, who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful husband. As she navigates his chronic infidelity, pressure from her family and community,...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1941. The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS General, eventually reaches Berlin. Under the orders of the Gestapo, French police and collaborators hound Manouchian and his Résistants until, to escape torture, one of their...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
A successful artist leaves Paris and moves to the country to rediscover his roots and get over his recent split from his wife. He hires a gardener, who turns out to be a former school friend. Reminiscing about old times or taking a humorous look at their current dilemmas, the two men become close friends again. But events soon remind them that they're not getting any younger...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
In season three Malotru has been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Moved from camp to camp, tortured and weakened, he's close to despair. In Paris, the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) faces a dilemma: should they use all of their resources to save Malotru, who betrayed the service, his country and friends when he became a double agent working for the CIA?
6) Le Havre
Series
Criterion collection volume 619
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Director approved two-DVD special édition; widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
Marcel Marx, an old bohemian living in the French harbor city of Le Havre, stands up for a young African refugee when officials begin to pursue the boy for deportation.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Malotru has been promoted to Deputy Director of the Bureau and is a newly recruited double-agent for the CIA. He delivers highly classified information to his CIA contact, Dr. Balmes, during fake psychoanalysis sessions. In exchange for Malotru's cooperation, the CIA has guaranteed that they will rescue the love of his life, Nadia, now imprisoned by Syrians in a secret location.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
Pascal, a well-digger and widower, lives with his six daughters in the Provence countryside during World War I. Pascal dreams of marrying his daughter off to his loyal assistant, but his dream is dashed when she is impregnated by a wealthy young pilot who abandons her for the war front.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
16:9 anamorphic presertation.
Language
Français
Description
Antoine and Helene drive to South France to return their kids from a holiday camp. The traffic is dense and the atmosphere increasingly tense. Antoine becomes increasingly drunk during stops. After a fierce discussion they split and both have to face great danger during the night.
12) A woman's life
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[DVD].
Language
Français
Description
A fragmented account of the life of Jeanne as she sets out on the path of adult life and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a woman's life in the nineteenth century.
13) Cold water
Series
Criterion collection volume 944
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
The acclaimed early film by Olivier Assayas about teenage lovers in the outskirts of Paris in the early '70s, whose rebellions against family and society threaten to tear them apart. With memorable party sequences and a rock soundtrack evoking the period, it is a heartbreaking tale of the emotional tumult of being young.
14) La bûche
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen édition.
Language
Français
Description
When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to eachother for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test their love and their loyalties.
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