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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
Français
Description
Stephane and Maxime are partners in an upscale violin restoration business, but their relationship becomes complicated when Maxime's girlfriend, a concert violinist, realizes she loves Stephane. Haunting sonatas by the composer Ravel heighten the emotionality in this elegant French film about the strange ways of the human heart. Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Best Film not in the English Language. Winner of a **César Award** for Best Director....
83) On My Way
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Now in her early sixties, former beauty queen Bettie (Catherine Deneuve) finds herself jilted by her lover and left alone to deal with financial problems facing her family's restaurant. What begins as a quick drive to clear her head turns into a full-fledged road trip. Along the way there are chance meetings, an ex-Miss France gala, renewed ties with her estranged daughter and grandson, and possibly at the end of the road, love. Nominated for a Golden...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
Français
Description
In Lyon's Saint-Paul district, a clock-maker leads a peaceful life shared between his work, his friends and his son Bernard. But then his boy goes on the run after killing a man. Assisting Inspector Guiboud with his enquiries, the distraught father realizes he knew nothing about his son.
85) Felix and Lola
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. (Nominee: Golden Berlin Bear - Berlin International Film Festival, 2001.)
86) Baby Blood
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
Français
Description
A cruel circus owner beats and abuses his pregnant wife, Yanka. One day the circus receives a leopard newly captured in Africa, but the animal soon dies. However, an evil creature that was inside the leopard bursts out of the animal's body, burrows into the wife's body and takes over her fetus. Yanka begins suffering from an overpowering appetite...for blood. Her unborn baby is craving for it. She kills again and again, until her little "Baby Blood"...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
At the end of the 1950s, Rachel (Virginie Efira), a young office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe (Niels Schneider), a well-educated man from a wealthy family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Over the next 50 years, their lives will be shaped by the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, overshadowed by the impossible love of a woman for a man that rejects her, and of a...
88) All Out
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
From circus to theater, from anonymity to fame, the incredible destiny of Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France. The unprecedented duo he forms with Footit is very popular in Belle Epoque Paris, until easy money, gambling and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career. The singular story of an exceptional artist.
89) Souvenir
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
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
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
In the final film from legendary director Eric Rohmer, a young man, Celadon, goes on a journey to prove his devotion to the woman he loves, Astree. When Astree falsely suspects Celadon of infidelity, the young shepherd goes on a journey to prove his devotion. To do so, he must maintain his fidelity in the face of temptation and danger.
91) In the Courtyard
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Middle-aged musician Antoine (Gustave Kervern) suddenly decides to end his career. After several days of aimless wandering, he is hired as the caretaker of an old residential building in Paris. Mathilde (Catherine Deneuve) is a recently retired resident, generous-spirited and deeply involved with the management of the building. Through a maze of misfires and anxieties, the two develop an awkward friendship. Nominated for an Best Actress at the **César...
92) The Sower
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Winner of the prestigious New Director competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Marine Francen’s debut is a sensual, visually stunning historical romance. In 1851, France’s autocratic President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte has ordered the arrest of all the men of a remote mountain farming village following a Republican uprising. The women spend years in total isolation, forced to tend the crops themselves. Some women have lost their husbands;...
93) Night Shift
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
In this moody Police drama set in Paris, Virginie, Erik and Aristide work as police officers in a local brigade, trying to hold their personal and emotional lives together while dealing with daily occurrences of violence in homes and on the streets. One night, they are assigned an unusual mission and must drive a migrant back to the border for unspecified reasons. On their way to the airport, Virginie discovers the prisoner will be sentenced to death...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Arabic
Description
This acclaimed film depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young Tunisian woman balancing the traditional expectations of her family with her creative life as the singer in a politically charged rock band. AS I OPEN MY EYES offers a nuanced portrait of the individual implications of the incipient Arab Spring. Nominated for Best Film at the **Venice Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International...
95) Bluebeard
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Français
Description
Set at the beginning of this century, this true story is about Landru, a small clerk who puts matrimonial ads in the paper for moneyed, single women without families. He meets them, seduces them, asks them to come to his home in the town of Gambais, there he kills them after they have signed over all their wealth to him. Suspicious neighbors alert the police and Landru is finally arrested and guillotined.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
Français
Description
Pierre is involved in a terrible car accident. Fatally injured, he sees his life pass before his eyes. Only now does he realize the importance of all the details of existence, the pleasures and sorrows that makeup life's happiness. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
97) The Other Son
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
עברית
Description
A moving and provocative tale of two young men, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions on themselves and their respective families. Winner of the Tokyo Grand Prix Award and the Award for Best Director at the **Tokyo International Film Festival.** "*Levy handles with aplomb what could easily have been a messy mix of emotions and politics.*"- John Anderson, ***Newsday***...
98) Ismael's Ghosts
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Twenty-one years ago, she ran away. And twenty-one years later, Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) is back from the void. But Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) has been busy rebuilding his life with Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and working on his next feature film.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Léon Blum, the Jewish French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister, stands at the heart of a new film. Janot Reichenbach (Elsa Zylberstein) fell in love with Blum (Hippolyte Girardot) when she was only sixteen. Years later, when they could finally be together, the Nazis arrived in France and Janot gave up her comfortable life to link her destiny to that of Leon Blum.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl, full of energy, who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a corpus of sensual and erotic Arabic literature he never imagined existed, Ahmed falls deep in love with Farah, and although literally overwhelmed with desire, he will try to resist it.
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