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Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
Français
Description
"A middle-aged antique dealer is flabbergasted to learn that his closest acquaintances don't actually like him. Challenged to provide an actual friend in only ten days, or lose a valued vase, his search provides a witty and thoughtful look at the meaning of friendship"--Http://www.seattlefilm.org.
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
Français
Description
Though little known outside of France, Jean Grémillon is a consummate filmmaker from his country's golden age. A classically trained violinist who discovered cinema as a young man when his orchestra was hired to accompany silent movies, he went on to make almost fifty films which ranged from documentaries to avant-garde works to melodramas with major stars in a career that started in the mid-1920s and didn't end until the late 1950s.
Remorques:...
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
Français
Description
Though little known outside of France, Jean Grémillon is a consummate filmmaker from his country's golden age. A classically trained violinist who discovered cinema as a young man when his orchestra was hired to accompany silent movies, he went on to make almost fifty films which ranged from documentaries to avant-garde works to melodramas with major stars in a career that started in the mid-1920s and didn't end until the late 1950s.
Lumière d'été:...
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
Français
Description
Though little known outside of France, Jean Grémillon is a consummate filmmaker from his country's golden age. A classically trained violinist who discovered cinema as a young man when his orchestra was hired to accompany silent movies, he went on to make almost fifty films which ranged from documentaries to avant-garde works to melodramas with major stars in a career that started in the mid-1920s and didn't end until the late 1950s.
Ciel est à...
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version ; Special edition.
Language
Français
Description
A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts.
9) Let it rain
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
Feminist writer Agathe returns to France to help her sister, Florence, sort out their deceased mother's affairs. While there, Agathe decides to test the political waters and run in a local election. She also agrees to be interviewed for a documentary about successful women by two blundering reporters. As romantic entanglements, class resentments, and the uncooperative weather intrude, Agathe's life hysterically unravels, and the bumbling filmmakers...
10) Le jour se lève
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
A working-class man finds the only way to free the woman he loves from the arms of another is to commit murder.
11) Le samouraï
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
[Special edition] ; widescreen version.
Language
Français
Description
Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nighclub owner, he finds himslef confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
12) Cafe de flore
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
In 2011, Antoine has a girlfriend, Rose, and is raising two daughters. However, Rose is not Antoine's first love, and he's still infatuated with his ex-wife Carole, the mother of his children. Carole hopes he'll someday return to her, though despite his feelings there's little evidence to suggest he will. In 1969, Jacqueline is a single mother raising a seven-year-old son with Down Syndrome who is not expected to live past 25. We learn that Jacqueline...
13) A secret
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Français
Description
A young boy who has a vivid imagination dreams up a brother for himself and a better past for his family. On his 15th birthday he finds his dreams shattered when he uncovers a shocking secret that ties his family to the Holocaust.
14) Hello goodbye
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Alain is a successful doctor in his mid-fifties who has been married to Gisele most of his adult life. Looking for a change and eager to embrace their Jewish heritage, they decide to pull up stakes and move from Paris to Tel Aviv.
15) Disengagement
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Ana, a directionless Frenchwoman, must return to Israel to find the child she abandoned at birth. Together with her half-brother, an Israeli policeman, she discovers that her now-grown daughter will soon be forcibly evicted from a Gaza Strip settlement. Amid the explosive clashes between soldiers and settlers, can one woman now face the truth about commitment, identity, and a history that can never be buried?
16) Amelie
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Français
Description
Amelie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amelie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, Amelie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the lives of others around...
17) The sweet escape
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Middle-aged graphic artist Michel is seized by a sudden crazy impulse and orders a canoe and paddles, everything he needs for an adventure. His wife Rachelle encourages him to set out alone on his escapades. So what if he's never rowed a boat in his life? Adventure is adventure. His big trip on the water turns out to be full of surprises and unexpected encounters.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Français
Description
Paul de Marseul is the passionate, demanding proprietor of his prestigious family wine estate. But he has no faith in his son, Martin, who works at the vineyard. Paul dreams of a harder-working, successful son. A dream that one day seemingly materializes when he meets Philip, the son of his dying estate manager. Can Paul turn against his own blood and turn Philip into the rightful heir of his family estate?
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
20) In her name
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
A gripping and emotional legal drama based on a true story that moved France for three decades. In 1982, Andre Bamberski learns about the death of his fourteen year-old daughter, Kalinka. Convinced that Kalinka's death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka's stepfather of the murder.
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