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81) Welcome
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Français
Description
"Welcome" - - Director Philippe Lioret (109 min.) [France] : "Bilal, a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, has struggled his way through Europe for the last three months, trying to reunite with his girlfriend, who recently emigrated to England. But his journey comes to an abrupt halt when he is stopped by authorities in Calais, on the French side of the Channel. Left with no other alternatives, he decides to swim across. Bilal goes to the local swimming...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
With the age of feudalism in decline, Europe rests at a tense crossroads between the old world and the new. Respected, well-to-do horse merchant Michael Kohlhaas is a loving husband and family man leading a peaceful existence, until a ruthless nobleman steals his horses, setting off a chain of irreversible events. Kohlhaas resorts to extremes after these crimes destroy his livelihood and trust in the law, igniting a rampage through the countryside...
83) A married woman
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Charlotte is a young married woman having an affair with an actor. When she discovers that she is pregnant, she must decide which man is the father and which man she will stay with. In Godard's hands, however, the film, described as 'a film about a woman's beauty and the ugliness of her world,' is also a biting critique of consumer culture and the media constructed obsession with image.
84) The auction
Series
Film Movement volume 12, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
A man of few words, Gaby manages his family's farm--Buchard & Sons--on his own, despite his advancing age. With no actual sons to speak of and his two grown daughters living far away in the big city, he spends his days tending to the animals and land that surround him, eschewing modern technology and most social interactions. When his eldest daughter, Marie, appears at the family homestead to share news that she's finally getting divorced and in desperate...
85) The hedgehog
Publisher
Neo Classics Films Ltd
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Français
Description
The timely story of a girl bent on ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday. Using her father's old camcorder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in adults, Paloma begins to learn about life from the grumpy building concierge, Renee Michel. When Paloma's camera reveals the extensive secret library in Renee's back room, and that the often gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat, Paloma begins to understand that there are allies to be found beneath...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
François Ozon's psychological drama about Claire, a young woman whose closest friend since childhood, Lea, passes away, leaving behind her husband, David and a newborn baby. One day Claire drops by David's house unexpectedly, and finds him feeding his baby with a bottle while dressed in his dead wife's clothes. He explains that Lea was aware of his predilection, and his relief that he's able to share his secret with someone moves both of them to...
Series
Criterion collection volume 161
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Français
Description
A street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman.
88) In harmony
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Marc is an equestrian stuntman. After being traumatically injured in a serious accident, he loses all hope of ever getting back on a horse. Florence works for an insurance company and is in charge of Marc's case. Although they have nothing in common, their brief interaction will impact them in more ways than they can imagine.
Series
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Français
Description
"Few directors have portrayed the agonies and epiphanies of growsing up as poetically---and controversially---as Louis Malle. Laced with autobiographical details, Murmur of the heart, Lacombe, Lucien, and Au revoir les enfants tell stories of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. Tragic, amusing, and poignant, these three films are more than just coming-of-age stories. They are the director's ongong response to a world...
90) Come what may
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
In May 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of a small village of Pas-de-Calais decide on the recommendations of the prefecture, to give up everything to go on the road, fleeing to the coast. Among them, there is Paul, the village mayor. He led the group, seeks to maintain a minimum of order and republican spirit in this nomadic life.
91) Things to come
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
92) You will be mine
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
When Marie, a gifted pianist, is seduced by her roommate Emma, she comes in danger of losing herself completely to Emma's sadistic, controlling influence.
94) Ulysse et Mona
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
"Ulysses, is a 55-year-old contemporary artist who ran away from his family and ended his career four years earlier. Now, he spends his days in seclusion hitting tennis balls or listening to horror movie soundtracks. Mona is a 20-year-old art student. Between nude drawing workshops and boring theory classes, her life couldn't be more uneventful. But everything changes when Mona decides to meet Ulysses. After a failed first attempt and some misfortune,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 744
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
This looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people, a television producer, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute₇ to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom.
97) White mane
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, can tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, as the two go looking for the freedom that the world of men won't allow them.
98) Saint Laurent
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Dive into the color and lush textures of the incredible life of fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent. Explore the mind of a creative genius, the intricacies that turned the haute couture label into a worldwide phenomenon and the glamour and decadence that followed his footsteps of fame and fortune.
99) Code unknown
Series
Criterion collection volume 780
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Composed almost entirely of brilliantly shot, single-take vignettes focusing on characters connected to one seemingly minor incident on a Paris street, Haneke's film, with an outstanding international cast is a revelatory take on racial inequality and the failure of communication in today's increasingly diverse European landscape.
100) Sundays and cybele
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
A psychologically damaged war veteran and a neglected child begin a startlingly intimate friendship, one that ultimately ignites the suspicion and anger of his friends and neighbors in suburban Paris. It becomes a stirring contemplation of an alliance between two troubled souls.
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