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21) Monsieur Vincent
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Français
Description
The remarkable journey of St. Vincent de Paul, who rose from slavery to become a trusted advisor to queens and princes. A dramatic biopic that reveals how St. Vincent de Paul's commitment to the poor made him a great humanitarian.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Agatha Christie's world-famous mysteries are delightfully adapted in a new series of highly stylized French TV movies. Set in the 1950s, these iconic stories introduce new investigators in classic Christie style: Chief Inspector Laurence, a man of class and refined taste, and the ambitious young journalist Alice Avril along with Laurence s ever-loyal secretary, Marlene.
23) Queen to play
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Lovely, repressed, and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Helene comes upon a couple engaged in an intensely sensual chess match, and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter, leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor, a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
The pride of French intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (code name OSS 117) has a new mission that takes him to Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960s. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent, he has to capture a Nazi blackmailer with a embarrassingly long list of World War II French collaborators.
27) Climax
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From director Gaspar Noe comes a hypnotic, hallucinatory, and ultimately hair-raising depiction of a party that descends into delirium over the course of one night. A troupe of young dancers gathers in a remote and empty school building to rehearse. Afterward, they begin an all-night celebration that turns nightmarish as they discover they've been pounding sangria laced with potent LSD. Tracking their journey from jubilation to chaos and anarchy,...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little is integrated into the circus...
30) Black box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
Following in the tradition of Antonioni’s Blowup or Coppola’s The Conversation, director Yann Gozlan, and an excellent cast led by the ever-impeccable Pierre Niney, crafts a taut, suspenseful intrigue, unraveling the events behind a tragic incident, this time in the aeronautics industry. Matthieu, a brilliant young black-box analyst with an extraordinarily acute ear is charged with investigating a deadly plane crash. Progressively obsessed...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked to step into the older role. With her assistant Maria prepares to play opposite a young Hollywood starlet and finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an unsettling reflection of herself.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
Malik el Djebena, who is condemned to six years in prison, cannot read or write, but soon figures out the politics of the prison. Though Malik is only 19-years-old, the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison corners him and gives him certain 'missions' to carry out. He quickly gains the confidence of the gang leader, as these assignments begin to toughen him up. But Malik soon develops some plans of his own.
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Director approved special edition.
Language
Français
Description
Featuring a magnetic breakout performance by Bǎtrice Dalle, Jean-Jacques Beineix's art-house smash, presented here in its extended director's cut, is a sexy, crazy, careening joyride of a romance that burns with the passion and beyond-all-reason fervor of all-consuming love. A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
A shell-shocked Juliette is released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. As life has moved on, she must relearn certain basics. After being banished from her family, she is now reunited with her younger sister, Lea. Hopefully, Juliette will learn to forgive herself in the process.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen format (1.66:1).
Language
Français
Description
A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's experiences as a schoolboy during the German occupation of France in World War II.
36) Violette
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Violette LeDuc is one of the foremost French writers of the twentieth century. In a beautifully mounted production, director Martin Provost depicts LeDuc's extraordinary life, from her low beginnings as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl to becoming ensconced in France's literary elite. Violette LeDuc is determined, obsessed even, to make something of her life. Writing is her ticket out of misery, and with the encouragement and mentorship...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
A lost wallet opens the door to Georges and Marguerite's romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the wallet he has found into the police. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. As George and Marguerite navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their everyday lives.
38) The class
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
Based on Bégaudeau's autobiographical novel. François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough Paris neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their...
39) Chocolat
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
40) The red turtle
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
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