Gaumont (Firm)
1) Breathe
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Charlie is frustrated with her parents and bored with her life. Enter Sarah, a confident and charismatic new transfer student imbued with an intoxicating air of boldness and danger. The two form an instant connection, but this intimacy also triggers feelings of jealousy and anger, setting them on a dangerous trajectory towards an inevitable yet unforseen collapse.
Series
Criterion collection volume 337
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
A sixteen-year-old Parisian girl embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father, ineffectual mother, and brutish brother.
4) La rafle
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the true experiences of individuals caught up in the Vel' d'Hiv roundup. In the summer of 1942 the French government, on the orders of the Nazi occupiers, conducted mass arrests of Jews in Paris and herded them into the Velodrome d'Hiver and a nearby internment camp from which they were ultimately shipped to Auschwitz and executed. Over 13,000 victims, including over 4000 children, were subjects of this atrocity.
5) Rififi
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Just out of prison, a master thief is persuaded to orchestrate the nearly impossible robbery of an upscale jewelry store.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
Français
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.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
"Follows a successful yet sickly young man who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend--now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic--and the provincial life he represents"--Container.
11) Madame de
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Français
Description
The wife of a 19th century General sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts, which sets off a chain reaction of deceit that includes her husband, his mistress, and her lover.
Series
Criterion collection volume 744
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
This looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people: a television producer, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute, to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom.
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