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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Warsaw, December 1945: the Second World War is finally over and Mathilde is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked Benedictine nun appears at the clinic one night begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent, what she finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth and several more in advanced stages of pregnancy.
2) Full time
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet to run in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.
3) Aline
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
With the support of her family and the man she loves, the fourteenth child of a modest family will become the most famous singer in the world.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
After losing her virginity, seventeen-year-old budding beauty Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her older gentlemen clients for erotic hotel room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
What does it mean to be Jewish? Three generations of the Rashevski family grapple with the question, after the death of Rose, the secular matriarch who believed that the tango would make all troubles disappear. The characters confront issues of relationships, family, religion, love, romance, and interfaith marriage.
7) The chorus
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Follows a teacher and amateur musician as he arrives at a boarding school for troubled boys in France soon after World War II. He forms a boys' choir and befriends a rebellious youth with an angelic voice and an outsider orphan while coping with the repressive environment instituted by the school's headmaster as he attempts to rehabilitate the boys through the power of music.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor to reconcile with his equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confrom their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life.
11) The son
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen édition.
Language
Français
Description
Oliver is working as a carpentry instructor in a French suburb. He develops an obsession with a new student and offers him friendship and advice with a frightening lack of affection. Oliver's connection to the boy is slowly and painfully revealed.
13) Café de flore
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
"Chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorced, successful DJ in present day Montreal"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Special édition.
Language
Français
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
15) La Chinoise
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Fullscreen édition.
Language
Français
Description
A small group of French students who want to change the world by using any means necessary decide that they must use terrorism to ignite their own revolution.
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
Français
Description
A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel.
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen édition.
Language
Français
Description
In this remake of Fingers, Tom, a ne'er-do-well, works with two scheming real estate men who have little or no morals. He decides to return to the piano, practicing Bachs' Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that could be a life-changing event.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim neighbors in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990's. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay, come what may.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Francois Ozon's gripping drama follows three men who band together to dismantle the code of silence that continues to protect a priest who abused them decades ago. Based on events from the 2019 conviction of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon for concealing the conduct of Father Bernard Preynat, the film compassionately illustrates the varying effects of trauma on survivors and their families in an urgent portrait of resistance, the power of mobilization,...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
An expatriate French couple operates an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of "hill people" families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
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