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Publisher
IFC Films
Language
Français
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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...
2) Ricky
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
Français
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When Katie, a struggling single mother and French factory worker, falls in love with her Spanish co-worker Paco, they produce something truly extraordinary: an angelic baby named Ricky. It isn't long before Ricky develops bumps on his back, which looks like something that will have the media in an uproar. This miraculous little creature brings the young family challenges and joys no parent could be prepared for, or could ever live without.
3) Titane
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A Cannes Film Festival sensation and Palme d'Or winner, TITANE is a feverish and jaw-dropping ride from the mind of Julia Ducournau (RAW). With a titanium plate surgically fused to her skull following a car crash as a child, car model Alexia embarks on a wild and ultimately unpredictable journey that questions our assumptions about family, identity and love.
Publisher
Music Box Films
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Français
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Anticipating their father’s imminent death, three siblings reunite at their home in Burgundy to preserve the vineyard that ties them together in this tender and modern tale of familial strife and resilience from director Cédric Klapisch. "*As rich and earthy as a fine French wine...*” - Peter Debrudge, ***Variety*** "*Four stars... Rich and absorbing.*" - G. Allen Johnson, ***The San Francisco Chronicle***
5) Summer hours
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Français
Description
Three siblings must decide what to do with the country estate and objects they've inherited from their mother. Bonus special edition features include interview, documentaries, theatrical trailer, and booklet.
6) Sorry angel
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Français
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Paris, 1993. Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps) is a semi-renowned writer and single father in his thirties trying to maintain his sense of romance and humor in spite of the turmoil in his life and the world. While on a work trip to Brittany, he meets Arthur (Vincent Lacoste), an aspiring filmmaker in his early twenties, who is experiencing a sexual awakening and eager to get out of his parochial life. Arthur becomes instantly smitten with the older man....
7) Custody
Publisher
Kino Lorber
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Français
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A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this thrilling domestic drama. Miriam and Antoine Besson have divorced, and Miriam is seeking sole custody of their son Julien to protect him from a father she claims is violent. Antoine pleads his case as a scorned dad whose children have been turned against him by their vindictive mother. Unsure who is telling the truth, the appointed judge rules in favor of...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Français
Description
Two strangers, a criminal named Milan and a retired poetry teacher, Manesquier, meet in a sleepy French village and gradually become unlikely friends. As their friendship grows, each develops a desire to trade his life with that of the other.
10) La régle du jeu
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Français
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Description
Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 771
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
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Description
Sandra has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
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France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
13) Wages of fear
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
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Description
In the impoverished town of Las Piedras, desperate men and women scrape out a living under the watchful eye of the ruling Southern Oil Company. When a well explodes, four workers must go on a suicide mission that is their only way out.
14) A prophet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
Français
Formats
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 110
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual caricatures. Soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
17) Sarah's key
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in Paris, in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah.
18) School of life
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Trapped behind the high walls of an austere orphanage in suburban Paris, Paul has only ever known one home. His chance to discover the great wide world comes when a bohemian couple, Celestine and Borel, take him back to their countryside home. Borel is the gamekeeper for a vast estate in the untamed French countryside of Sologne. Under the poacher's tutelage, Paul will learn about life and growing up, and also about the forest and its secrets.
Series
Eric Rohmer collection. Moral tales volume 5
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
Français
Description
Satirizes a diplomat's sexual temptations. On vacation without his fiancée, he flirts with a brash, charming nymphet, while harboring a secret, peculiar obsession for her stunning teenage sister.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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