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21) Memoir of War
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1944. In this haunting adaptation of her autobiographical novel, famed author Marguerite Duras shrewdly navigates the French Resistance and the Gestapo to uncover the whereabouts of her imprisoned husband. **César Awards** nominee.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
Français
Description
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**, UNDER THE SUN OF SATAN tells the story of Donissan, a mediocre seminarist haunted by Evil and the failure of his divine mission. He mortifies his body and is unable to establish any rapport with his parishioners, until the day the abbot meets young Mouchette who has just committed a mortal sin. Based on Georges Bernanos's novel of the same name and starring Academy Award-nominated actor Gérard...
23) Rumba
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, there is a car accident and they see their lives turned up and down and up and down and up and down.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A TOWN CALLED PANIC has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. PANIC stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the weirdest events. Cowboy and Indian's plan to gift Horse with a homemade barbeque backfires when they accidentally buy 50 million bricks. This sets off a perilously...
25) Barbara
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
An actress, Brigitte, is preparing to play famous French songstress, BARBARA in a new film. Brigitte works on her character, studying Barbara's voice, her songs, gestures and the way she carried herself. Eventually, the character of BARBARA starts to take her over. As things progress, Yves, the director becomes infatuated with her -- but does his infatuation lie with Brigitte the actress, or BARBARA?
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
From the visionary mind of François Ozon comes this one-of-a-kind gender-bending melodrama, which both shocks and delights in equal measure. THE NEW GIRLFRIEND blends the macabre with a heartfelt romance in the tale of soft-spoken Claire and her love affair with a mysterious stranger. After mourning the loss of Laura, Claire comes across Laura's husband David dressed head-to-toe in his wife's clothes. Unsure whether his new guise is the result of...
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
For Angèle, an urban planner in her 30s living on the outskirts of Paris, everything is a source of outrage. Deeply involved in politics, she never stops crusading for revolution, losing sight of her friends, family and lover in the process. After she is fired, she moves back in with her father, a former activist and the only person that understands her. Until the day she agrees to see her mother again after years without speaking to her...
28) The Apparition
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Jacques (Vincent Lindon), a journalist with a reputation as a fair investigator, is recruited by the Vatican to determine the legitimacy of a saintly apparition in a small French village. Upon his arrival, he meets Anna, who claims to have witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Confronted with opposing views, Jacques gradually uncovers the truth and finds his belief system profoundly shaken. Nominated for two **César Awards**.
29) Farinelli
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Italiano
Description
The incredible story of the world famous opera singer - who was castrated during childhood in order to preserve his voice - comes to life in this Oscar-nominated drama of high notes and even higher passions.
30) En guerre
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Despite heavy financial sacrifices on the part of their employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. The 1100 employees, led by their spokesman Laurent Amédéo, decide to fight this brutal decision, ready to do everything to save their jobs.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Français
Description
Anna and Adam, a young Parisian couple with Jewish origins, are about to travel to Poland for the first time for their honeymoon. They plan to attend a ceremony in memory of the Jewish community in the village of Adam's grandfather, which was destroyed 75 years ago. Adam is not really enthusiastic, but sees it as an occasion to spend some quality time with his wife, away from their baby boy. Anna, on the other hand, is both extremely anxious and overly...
33) Savage State
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the American Civil War breaks out, a family of french settlers must abandon their Missouri home to flee and go back to Paris. They're escorted by a former mercenary whose troubled past soon catches up with him.
35) Plonger
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
César and Paz are madly in love. Paz, a Spanish photographer, is always looking for new people to meet, new countries to discover, new experiences. But César, previously a war journalist, is looking for peace and quiet. Paz gets pregnant and the perspective of motherhood smothers her. Each day she becomes more distant, lost in a quest she can't quite grasp herself. Until she suddenly leaves Cesar and their baby behind with no explanation. A few...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
In this darkly erotic drama from cult filmmaker Jeanne Labrune, Oscar-nominee Isabelle Huppert (*Elle, The Piano Teacher*) stars as a high-class prostitute named Alice who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele, from schoolgirl innocence to S&M. Fed up with the seamy underbelly of French masculinity, Alice crosses paths with Xavier, a neurotic psychoanalyst facing a marriage crisis. The two quickly realize their professions share a thing or...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
Français
Description
Legendary French New Wave director Jacques Rivette's intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard's fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an immersive meditation...
38) The Visitors
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
Français
Description
In 1122, a brave solider and his right hand man are sent to the future by a sinister witch and an absent-minded wizard. Hilarity ensues as they try to find their way back to their own time while dealing with confusion and chaos of 21st century France.
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Indochina, 1945. Robert Tassen, a young French soldier is the only survivor of a massacre where his brother perished before his eyes. Blinded by vengeance, Robert engages in a solitary and secret quest to find the assassins. But his meeting with Maï, a young Indochinese woman, will change his beliefs. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
40) Retour du héros
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
France 1809. The charming Captain Neuville is set to marry the naive Pauline when the war breaks out, forcing Neuville to depart for the battlefield. After not hearing from the captain for months, Pauline soon starts to become ill with worry. Her sister Elizabeth starts to write fake letters on behalf of Neuville thinking he would never come back. When Neuville finally returns home unexpectedly, he is welcomed in glory but in truth is a war deserter...
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