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2) Twin Flower
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Two adolescents, damaged by life. Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan, escape together towards a new start.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Claire, a young woman of great beauty, arouses the uncontrollable jealousy of her stepmother Maud, who goes so far as to plan her murder. Rescued at the last moment by a mysterious man who takes her in on his farm, Claire decides to remain in the village, a decision that will awaken the emotions of its inhabitants. One, two, and soon seven men will fall under her spell!
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
From award-winning director Anca Damian comes the poetic and life-affirming story of Marona, an optimistic stray dog who looks back on the human companions she has loved throughout her life. Born the last in the litter, little Marona’s adventures take her through a series of names and owners – a colorful acrobat, a sensitive construction worker, and a little girl – with dazzling style, pushing animation in bold new directions. But through all...
6) A Couple
Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
A COUPLE is a film about a long term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia. They were married for 36 years, had 13 children, nine of whom survived. Each kept a diary. Although they lived together, in the same house, they wrote letters frequently to each other.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
Français
Description
Longing to return to the hills he grew to love during a magical summer holiday, 11-year-old Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) finds happiness once again when his father, Joseph (Philippe Caubère), is provided access to a private footpath they can use to easily travel from Marseilles to Provence. Years later as an adult, Marcel purchases a castle and realizes it is the same estate his adoring mother Augustine (Nathalie Roussel) was always terrified to cross...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
Français
Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, 11-year-old Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) accompanies his parents, Joseph (Philippe Caubère) and Augustine (Nathalie Roussel), on a life-changing holiday to the Provence countryside. During these magical summer months, he befriends a local boy, who shares with him the secrets of the rugged hills, while learning newfound respect for his gentle schoolmaster father.Based on the bestselling memoirs of French novelist,...
9) The Intruder
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
After receiving a heart transplant, an enigmatic loner (Michel Subor) journeys to Tahiti to reconnect with the son he fathered many years earlier.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Ghosted by her hunky twenty something lover, Claire, a middle-aged professor and divorced single mom, creates a fake Facebook profile to do a little undetected online snooping. But when her 24-year-old avatar "Clara" is friended by her ex's equally attractive roommate, superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrolled obsession.
11) The ComDads
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Français
Description
Christine (Anny Duperey) is distraught when her adolescent son runs away. When the cops are no help, she contacts two former lovers -- François (Pierre Richard), a suicidal teacher, and Jean Lucas (Gérard Depardieu), a burly journalist working on a story about the Mafia. She then convinces them to help find her boy by claiming that she believes one of the men is her son's father. Although they make a poor team, the two set off on a quest to find...
12) All Is Forgiven
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Victor adores his wife Annette and their young daughter Pamela, but his self-loathing and drug use take their toll and the family disintegrates. A decade later, Pamela lives in Paris where Victor still resides, and the two reunite.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
The lives of various young French people intersect in a recently constructed suburb near Paris. Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet), an uptight office worker, falls for the handsome Alexandre (Francois-Eric Gendron), whom she meets through her vibrant new friend, Lea (Sophie Renoir). Unfortunately for Blanche, Alexandre is dating the artistic Adrienne (Anne-Laure Meury), while Lea is seeing Fabien (Eric Viellard). Before long, though, these relationships...
15) La Chèvre
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Français
Description
A French tycoon sends his accident-prone accountant (Pierre Richard) and a private eye (Gérard Depardieu) to Mexico to find his missing daughter.
16) Revoir Paris
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
A gunman opens fire on a Parisian bistro. Mia (Virginie Efira) survives with no memory of the attack. Determined to remember what happened that night, Mia finds herself repeatedly returning to the bistro where the shooting happened. In the process she forms bonds with fellow survivors, reliving the worst night of her life through the eyes of the only other people who could possibly understand.
17) Pachyderme
Publisher
Miyu Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Every summer, Louise is entrusted to her grandparents for a few days of vacation in the country. The green grass of the garden, the swimming in the lake, the fishing with Grandpa, everything seems as sweet as Grandma’s strawberry pies. Yet this year, the snow will fall in summer and a monster will die.
18) Delicatessen
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
Français
Description
It has been fifteen years since the nuclear disaster. In the middle of a vacant lot stands an old building inhabited by some rather strange people whose primary concern is food. The entire Tapioca family; Mr. and Mrs. Interligator, a couple of dreadful snobs; the Kube brothers, who do nothing but manufacture little round boxes that moo when turned upside-down; Mr. Potin, holed up with his frogs and snails; and Miss Plusse, a lady of uncertain virtue;...
19) Dream Life
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
Français
Description
After starting a new job at a local film production company, free spirit Isabelle meets animator Virginie and the two become fast friends. Over the course of a freewheeling summer, the pair deepen their bond through a shared exploration of art, ambition, and desire. The first feature film directed by a woman in Quebec, Mireille Dansereau's debut moves effortlessly between filmmaking styles and tones. DREAM LIFE is one of the highlights of ’70s Canadian...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
From the masterful Max Ophüls (Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame de…) comes THERE'S NO TOMORROW, a bittersweet melodrama with a dash of film noir. Edwige Feuillère (From Mayerling to Sarajevo) commands the screen as a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a disreputable nightclub to support her young son. When her lost love (George Rigaud, I Walk Alone), now a successful doctor, suddenly reappears, she puts on...
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