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Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Directed by a former medical doctor, the film is a darkly comic portrait of a Paris hospital as seen through the eyes of a young intern, Benjamin who begins his internship at the hospital ward run by his father. Confident and determined to be a success, Vincent soon realizes that the reality of practicing medicine is a lot grimmer than what he had imagined. Vincent finds himself overshadowed by a more talented intern Abdel who is disadvantaged by...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
This French coming of age story follows Benjamin, who is sure he's going to become a great doctor. But his first experience as junior doctor in his father's service, the Professor Barois, does not turn out the way he hoped. Benjamin will be brutally confronted with his own limitations, his fears, and those of his patients, families, doctors and staff.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
The true story of a French teenager rising out of the underprivileged suburbs through love, education and rap music. Regis is a culturally gifted boy who dreams of success for his rap band, but he must accept drug money for the sake of his project. Discovering Islam and love, he bears with the harsh loss and paybacks of delinquency, until he finds the strength to express himself through music and slam-poetry and ultimately becomes a major artist of...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
It chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as they come under the pressures of war.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations outside of his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1010
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forestier becomes infatuated.
11) A bag of marbles
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
The travels of two Jewish boys in occupied France who attempt to escape to the free zone.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Beginning with the Germans arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact. The war shatters all their lives, but a few of them, even in the shadow of destruction, reach out to find fleeting moments of connection and love.
13) Fatima
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
"Named the best French film of 2016 by the César Awards, Fatima is a brilliant and moving tale about what it means to be an immigrant today. It was inspired by the life of North African poet Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing little French and slowly taught herself the language. Fatima (Soria Zeroual) lives with her two teenage daughters in Lyon, and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through school. She is a woman pressured by her children...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sixty five years old Abdelkader Silimani, an Algerian Muslim living in France, after inadvertently witnessing a murder, closely escapes from the murderers by hiding out into a mosque. The black leather dressed masked murderers, with their firearms in hand, do not hesitate to enter the mosque full of praying men looking for the eyewitness. They leave empty handed but determined not to give up their search.
15) Mouchette
Series
Criterion collection volume 363
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
A portrait of human desperation, as Mouchette, a teenage girl, must deal with tragic events and a broken family.
16) Poil de carotte
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
François' mother, Madame Lepic, hates him and she nicknames him "Poil de Carotte" (carrot hair). His father is more interested in politics and hunting than he is in him. In spite of the affection of his godfather and his friend Mathilde, whom he calls his "fiancé," young Poil de Carotte contemplates suicide. On a particularly difficult day, he attempts to hang himself. Mr. Lepic saves his life just in time and understands he is partly to blame.
17) Marie's Story
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Français
Formats
Description
At the turn of the 19th century, a humble artisan and his wife have a daughter, Marie, who is born deaf and blind and unable to communicate with the world around her. Desperate to find a connection to their daughter and avoid sending her to an asylum, the Heurtins send fourteen-year-old Marie to the Larnay Institute in central France, where an order of Catholic nuns manage a school for deaf girls. There, the idealistic Sister Marguerite sees in Marie...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists.
19) Elle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
20) A tale of winter
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A young couple, Felicie and Charles, meet while on holiday and fall deeply in love. In a fatal slip, she gives him the wrong address, and, as a result, he disappears from her life. Five years later, at Christmas time, Felicie is a hairdresser in the Paris suburbs with a daughter and two lovers: the successful Maxence and the intellectual Loic. She loves them both, but she says "there's love and love," and the love that counts is the one she still...
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