Olivier Gourmet
1) The Midwife
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a hardworking midwife, and the lively mistress (Catherine Deneuve) of Claire's deceased father. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already has two children and too much anxiety. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, in verse, for the holidays. There's one problem: it is not written yet. Ignoring the whims of actresses, the demands of his producers, the jealousy of his wife, the stories of his best friend's heart and the lack of enthusiasm of all those around...
3) 40 Love
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 40 LOVE is the story of a father and son who are both trying to transcend their current reality to achieve their dreams. After losing his job as senior executive in a large chain store, Jérôme is determined to start his own new business, despite the concerns of his wife. Their son Ugo, though only 11, already shows great promise as a future tennis pro, and hopes to get accepted to the national training center...
4) Conviction
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
As a juror at Jacques Viguier's trial, Nora is convinced that he did not kill his wife. This intuition quickly becomes an obsession. She persuades the most famous lawyer in the country to defend him. Together they start a compulsive ght to prove his innocence against all odds. That quest has a price they might not be ready to pay.
5) Violette
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
A finely nuanced portrait of Violette LeDuc, one of the foremost French writers of the 20th century. VIOLETTE depicts LeDuc's extraordinary life, from her low beginnings as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl to becoming ensconced in France's literary elite. In spite of her wretched years as an unwanted child, followed by tense years as a black marketeer during WWII, Violette LeDuc is determined to make something of her life. Writing is her...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
7) Black Venus
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Paris 1817, at the Royal Academy of Medicine. «I have never seen a human head so similar to that of an ape». Standing by a molded cast of Saartjie Baartman's body, anatomist Georges Cuvier's verdict is break body to the audiences of London's freak shows. Free and enslaved all at the same time, «The Hottentot Venus» became an out in cheers. Seven years earlier, Saartjie left her native South Africa with her master, Caezar, to expose her categoric....
8) De Gaulle
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
May 1940. Charles de Gaulle, newly appointed French General, joins the Government in Paris while his wife and children stay behind. Facing the defeatist attitude of Pétain ready to negotiate with Hitler, DE GAULLE has one purpose: continue fighting.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
May 1940. To escape the imminent German invasion, the inhabitants of a small village in northern France flee their homes, like so many millions of their compatriots. Max, a German boy, travels with them. His father, Hans, opposed the Nazi regime and was imprisoned in Arras for having lied about his nationality. Hans is eventually set free and sets off to find his son, accompanied by a Scottish soldier who is trying to get back home. Nominated for...
11) SK1
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Franck is an eager rookie homicide squad inspector. When a woman is found with her throat cut, he shrewdly unearths parallels between previously unrelated cases. Before he knows it, Franck is caught up in an eight-year obsessive hunt for Serial Killer 1, a man whose very existence is questioned by others. Loosely based on the investigation into real-life murderer Guy Georges, aka the Beast Of The Bastille (whose lurking disorder is deftly captured...
12) Violette
Publisher
Adopt Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Violette LeDuc is one of the foremost French writers of the twentieth century. In a beautifully mounted production, director Martin Provost depicts LeDuc's extraordinary life, from her low beginnings as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl to becoming ensconced in France's literary elite. Violette LeDuc is determined, obsessed even, to make something of her life. Writing is her ticket out of misery, and with the encouragement and mentorship...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1789. The Bastille has been stormed and a breath of liberty blows through the streets of Paris. Françoise, a young washerwoman, and Basile, a drifter without a family or name, discover the unique exhilaration of love and revolution. Together with their friends and the people of the working-class districts of Paris, they begin to realize dreams of emancipation in a newly formed assembly where they witness, with both hopes and doubts, the creation...
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
When a small-time crook and his young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself.
15) Le gamin au vélo
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
"Twelve-year-old Cyril, all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, the stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on."--Container.
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