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41) A Christmas tale
Series
Criterion collection volume 492
Language
Français
Formats
Description
When steely French matriarch Junon (Catherine Deneuve) learns she has leukemia, she asks her children and grandchildren at the family Christmas gathering to see if they are eligible to become bone marrow donors. This causes deep friction in the family, especially between Junon's daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) and son Henri (Mathieu Amalric), who already have a tumultuous relationship. Their mother's sickness also recalls the traumatic loss of...
42) The third lover
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Français
Description
An often-overlooked film from the early career of prolific French director Claude Chabrol (*The Swindle*), THE THIRD LOVER follows Albin Mercier, a failed journalist, is writing an article in Germany. When he meets a couple who seem very close, he becomes jealous and sets out to destroy their relationship. He discovers that the young woman has a lover and blackmails her emotionally. The restored version of the film was an Official Selection at the...
43) The Pirogue
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
In Moussa Toure’s powerful epic fiction film, a group of 30 men sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea - and the possibility of never reaching their destination - in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered to lead one of the many pirogues that...
45) Man on the train
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.
46) 35 shots of rum
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Français
Description
Lionel is a middle-aged widower who makes his living driving a train and shares an apartment with his twenty-something daughter Josephine. Lionel and Josephine have a warm and caring relationship. Lionel's on-and-off girlfriend Gabrielle and their footloose friend Noe live in the same building, and together the four have fallen into a casual family relationship. Lionel is on edge when Jospehine's friendship with Noe begins to evolve into a romantic...
47) Slack bay
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Français
Description
The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitutionals is soon interrupted by the arrival of two bumbling inspectors investigating a string of tourists gone missing. As the macabre mysteries mount and love blossoms between the family’s genderqueer teen and the son of a local fisherman,...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Language
Français
Description
Veteran star Claude Brasseur plays the cantankerous Henri of the title in this riotous comedy of bad manners and good intentions. Bitterly opposed to the relationship between his son Paul and the flighty Valřie, Henri strikes upon a devious plan. He offers free board to attractive student Constance, who, desperate to make her own way, agrees to use her charms to drive the couple apart. What ensues is classic farce material with a whirlwind of uproarious...
50) Scarlet
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Français
Description
Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, follows up his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with this enchanting period fable. Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphaël returns home from the frontlines a widower and father to an infant daughter. Raised in rural Normandy, the child Juliette grows into a headstrong young woman who dreams of greater possibilities. She seeks refuge in the nearby woods, where she meets a...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Language
Français
Description
The decades-spanning tumultuous romance of a quintessentially French couple is chronicled in the thought-provoking and scathingly funny MR. & MRS. ADELMAN. Told in flashback from the early 1970s forward, this epic love-hate relationship begins as angst-ridden writer Victor meets Sarah, a brilliant doctoral student who falls head-over-heels. A complicated courtship and eventual marital discord ensue, as the egocentric Victor becomes a literary superstar...
52) Suzanna Andler
Publisher
Icarus Films
Language
Français
Description
Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna (Charlotte Gainsbourg), 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new house, will mark a turning point in her life. Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, SUZANNA ANDLER is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman in the 1960s. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
The lives and loves of several completely opposite men and women artfully intersect in what becomes a delightfully funny web of romantic entanglements! While negotiating differences in wealth and status, style, and taste, this vivid collection of characters mix and match in outrageously volatile combinations! Internationally acclaimed for its sexy comic sophistication-- expect the unexpected from this uncommonly entertaining motion picture!
54) Fanny's journey
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Based on a true story, FANNY’S JOURNEY is an incredible tale of bravery, strength and survival, a story of a daring young girl. In 1943, 13-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these 11 children do the impossible...
55) Serie noire
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Français
Description
Franck, a door-to-door salesman married to Jeanne, is looking for a customer who owes money when he meets Mona, a seventeen-year-old who lives with her rich and hateful aunt. Franck's wife Leaves and his boss has him arrested for embezzlement. But Mona pays back the money and suggests he kill her aunt to get hold of her fortune.
56) Souvenir
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Liliane (Isabelle Huppert) lives a modest and monotonous life. By day, she works in a pâté factory, and by night, she sits on the couch and watches TV. One day, a new worker named Jean arrives. The two form a platonic relationship, but Jean grows increasingly convinced that he recognizes Liliane from a European singing contest he saw as a child. Eventually, Jean convinces Liliane to confront her past. SOUVENIR is a beautiful portrayal of a friendship...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Français
Description
In a town on the French Riviera, detective Yvonne (Adèle Haenel) is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero idolized by their young son. When she realizes her husband was not the model of virtue she believed him to be and that an innocent man, Antoine, has spent eight years in prison as Santi’s scapegoat, her world is thrown into turmoil. Yvonne wants to do everything she can to help the young man get back to his life and his wife (Audrey...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Français
Description
Gilbert Valance is a successful theater actor who learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident. Over time, Valence's life regains a semblance of normalcy - he takes care of his orphaned grandson, strolls the streets of Pairs, frequents his favorite cafe and retuns to the stage. But when an American film director casts him against type in an English-language production of Ulysses, Valance struggles to master the...
59) Bluebeard
Series
Language
Français
Description
Legendary French New Wave director Claude Chabrol brings the shocking true story of serial killer Henri Désiré Landru to the screen. Landru is a seemingly respectable Parisian who devises a sick and ingenious scheme to supplement his dwindling income during the First World War. First, he lures wealthy dowagers to his villa. Then, he cons them into forking over their fortunes. Finally, he kills them, chops them up and immolates the pieces.
60) Aline
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
Français
Description
The youngest of a French-Canadian couple’s 14 children is propelled to global music superstardom in ALINE, a fictional musical dramedy freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion, written by, directed by and starring Valérie Lemercier.
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