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81) Potiche
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Français
Description
A housebound225}0trophy housewife' (or 'potiche') steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action.
83) Irma Vep
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[c1998]
Language
Français
Description
Aging director Henri Vidal has decided to film a remake of the legendary silent serial, Les vampires, in hopes of making a comeback. Vidal chooses Cheung to play Irma Vep, the leader of a band of jewel thieves. Arriving in Paris unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself stuck in the middle of a stressful situation when the production begins to fall apart and Vidal suffers a nervous breakdown.
84) Martin Roumagnac
Publisher
Icarus Films
Language
Français
Description
The tragic postwar romance is a tale of class anxiety and classic Romantic fatalism, run through with a typically French frankness about sex and gender. Jean Gabin is the title character, an unpretentious and proudly working-class building contractor, who falls in love with a ravishing shopgirl Blanche, quite unaware that she comes trailing a notorious sexual history and attracts the determined ardor of every man she meets. Among her current lovers...
86) Memoir of war
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Français
Description
Marguerite Duras must navigate the Resistance and the Gestapo to uncover the whereabouts of her imprisoned husband, Robert Antelme. After he's deported to Dachau in the midst of Nazi-occupied France, she becomes friendly with French collaborator Rabier to gain information at considerable risk to her underground cell. But as the months wear on, she must begin the process of confronting the unimaginable.
88) Monsieur hire
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Language
Français
Description
Adapted from the book by Georges Simenon, Monsieur Hire is a film of gorgeously muted widescreen color and 'funereal beauty' (The Washington Post) that coolly unpacks sexual obsession and romantic love with intelligence and understated intensity. A young girl is brutally murdered. The prime suspect is a cold and reclusive man who is obsessed with his beautiful neighbor. He spends his nights watching her through his window, but when she discovers that...
89) The Apartment
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Français
Description
A young corporate hotshot leaves his successful life behind to search for his elusive lost love.
90) 1:54
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
Français
Description
Tim, a 16-year-old teenager, is gifted with a natural athletic ability and driven by a fierce rage to win. How far would he be willing to go to push back his limits and to not 'disappear' under the threat of intimidation? 1:54 is a psychological drama wherein human limits are pushed to the point of no return.
91) Le navire night
Publisher
Icarus Films
Language
Français
Description
Writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras (L₂Amant, India Song) explores the matrix of love, desire and language in her characteristically oblique and experimental style. The film's lovers are never allowed to meet in person, instead carrying out their conversations over the phone, using unlisted phone lines leftover from the German occupation of Paris. Elliptical sequences play out in empty streets, nocturnal cityscapes and shadowy interiors, linked...
92) Les Compères
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Français
Description
When her teenage son runs away and her husband refuses to hunt for him, a frantic mother calls on two old lovers to help. This odd couple makes an hilarious search on the Riviera, bickering and competing as they defeat gangsters and motorcycle toughs to rescue the boy.
93) The connection
Series
Drafthouse Films volume no. 31
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Language
Français
Description
Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and children, has just been transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He decides to take on French Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin the world over. Paying heed to no one's warnings, he leads a one-man campaign against Mafia kingpin Gaetan Zampa, the most untouchable godfather of them all. But Pierre Michel will soon understand that to get results, he...
95) Mood indigo
Series
Drafthouse Films volume no. 22
Language
Français
Description
Set in a surreal Paris, Duris plays wealthy bachelor Colin, whose hobbies include developing his pianocktail (a cocktail-making piano) and devouring otherworldly dishes prepared by his trusty chef Nicolas. At a party, Colin meets Chlo ̌and, before they know it, they're plunging headfirst into a romance that is tested when an unusual illness plagues Chlo.̌
Publisher
Icarus Films
Language
Français
Description
This is the first film of D.H. Lawrence’s controversial novel, which premiered in 1955, five years before the uncensored novel even appeared in print in the UK. Danielle Darrieux (in the peak years of her stardom) is Constance Chatterley, faithful wife to her war-wounded paraplegic husband (British actor Leo Genn), whose fortune flows from a local coal mine. Everyone but she seems concerned about her loss of sexual fulfillment, and the possibility...
99) Le mouton enragé
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Français
Description
An unassuming bank teller who is determined to become a bank tycoon becomes involved in a tangled web of complicated love and tangled relationships.
100) The intouchables
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust, and human possibility. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker, The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.
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