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Series
Criterion collection volume 492
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Junon is the matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas when they learn she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn't lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. Hopefully the Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, will finally bring peace to their family....
2) Amelie
Pub. Date
[2021]
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...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], 2013.
Language
Français
Description
Arman is 33 and ready to make a change, starting with a run in the park. When he literally bumps into Amélie--slightly cynical but nevertheless lovely--on the jogging path, he's dead-set on making a connection with her. As a bit of contrived fate brings them together, Arman's best friend Benjamin suffers an unexpected stroke, relegating him to the hospital for weeks where he falls for his doting young physical therapist. Over the course of two autumns...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Rene is the boss of a chocolate factory and Angelique is a talented chocolate maker. They are both emotionally challenged people. Drawn together through a shared passion for chocolate, Jean-Rene and Angelique fall in love, but neither is able to express how they feel. Sadly, their crippling shyness is driving them apart. But eventually, they manage to overcome their lack of self-confidence, and risk baring their true feelings.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Using her sister Lena's love life as well as her own for inspiration, Ariane writes romantic stories for a popular magazine. But for these love-struck sisters, the lonely millionaires of the fiction world are miles away from the commitment-phobic boyfriends that live in their reality.
7) 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...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious classical pianist who is at odds with his manager/wife as to...
10) The rose maker
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
When horticulturalist Eve Vernet's family business of breeding and growing roses is in danger of bankruptcy, her secretary hires three employees from a prison rehabilitation program who don't have any gardening experience, but together they try to save the business.
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
When a hired killer crosses paths with a suicidal shirt salesman, the resulting calamity makes for one of the funniest, most original films ever. Ralf Milan has come to Montpellier to fulfill a "contract" that a powerful crime organization has placed on a man about to testify against the mob at an upcoming trial. As Ralf waits for the man in his hotel room with gun in hand, he notices something very strange in the attaching room next door: Franöis...
13) 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.
14) The French way
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
A farcical romantic comedy set in contemporary WWII France, about young lovers forbidden to marry by their respective families.
16) Parade
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
The director himself serves as master of ceremonies at a circus. Focusing on the spectators, this stripped down work is a testament to the communion betwen audience and entertainment.
17) Trafic
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
The bumbling Monsieur Hulot, outfitted with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris's highways and byways.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh and party.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
All the people in this countryside area can count on Jean-Pierre, the doctor who heals and reassures them day and night, seven days a week. Now Jean-Pierre is sick, so he sees Natalie, a young doctor, coming from the hospital to assist him. Will she adapt to this new life and be able to replace the man believed to be irreplaceable?
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside down when they hire Maria, a Spanish maid who introduces Jean-Louis to an alternative reality a few stories up on the sixth floor. Befriending a group of sassy Spanish maids, the women teach him there's more to life than stocks and bonds, and their influence on the house...
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