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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
A shell-shocked Juliette is released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. As life has moved on, she must relearn certain basics. After being banished from her family, she is now reunited with her younger sister, Lea. Hopefully, Juliette will learn to forgive herself in the process.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Français
Description
Sidonie, who serves as reader to Marie Antoinette and displays a singular devotion to the queen, witnesses the final days of the French Revolution from inside the walls of the Palace of Versailles. The film is seen from Sidonie's point of view, and the story takes place over the course of four days.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Français
Description
It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor to reconcile with his equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confront their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life.
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...
7) 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...
8) Aaltra
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Français
Description
Rather than feel sorry for wheelchair-bound neighbors, the embittered paraplegics decide to seek revenge against the tractor's manufacturer.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
In 2011, Antoine has a girlfriend, Rose, and is raising two daughters. However, Rose is not Antoine's first love, and he's still infatuated with his ex-wife Carole, the mother of his children. Carole hopes he'll someday return to her, though despite his feelings there's little evidence to suggest he will. In 1969, Jacqueline is a single mother raising a seven-year-old son with Down Syndrome who is not expected to live past 25. We learn that Jacqueline...
10) Amour
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 7
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the...
12) Eldorado
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
When Yvan, a quick-tempered 40-year-old vintage car dealer, catches young burglar and ex-junkie Elie trying to rob him, Yvan becomes strangely attached to Elie and agrees to drive him home to his parents in his old Chevrolet, leading to a bizarre journey through Belgium for the two loners.
13) Caché: Hidden
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Français
Description
A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple.
14) The auction
Series
Film Movement volume 12, film 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A man of few words, Gaby manages his family's farm--Buchard & Sons--on his own, despite his advancing age. With no actual sons to speak of and his two grown daughters living far away in the big city, he spends his days tending to the animals and land that surround him, eschewing modern technology and most social interactions. When his eldest daughter, Marie, appears at the family homestead to share news that she's finally getting divorced and in desperate...
15) Illegal
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan. One day, they are stopped on the street for a routine check by the police; Tania is arrested and placed in an immigration detention center for women, while Ivan manages to escape. Threatened with imminent deportation and fearful for Ivan's fate, Tania embarks on a harrowing journey, determined to preserve her dignity and find her son.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Description
Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret who inherits a farm from his mother, Florettte, and leaves his city job behind, hopping to create a "new Eden" with his loving wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, Cesar Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him. With the help of his corrupt nephew, the collusion of the clannish villagers...
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
Though little known outside of France, Jean Grémillon is a consummate filmmaker from his country's golden age. A classically trained violinist who discovered cinema as a young man when his orchestra was hired to accompany silent movies, he went on to make almost fifty films which ranged from documentaries to avant-garde works to melodramas with major stars in a career that started in the mid-1920s and didn't end until the late 1950s.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
Though little known outside of France, Jean Grémillon is a consummate filmmaker from his country's golden age. A classically trained violinist who discovered cinema as a young man when his orchestra was hired to accompany silent movies, he went on to make almost fifty films which ranged from documentaries to avant-garde works to melodramas with major stars in a career that started in the mid-1920s and didn't end until the late 1950s.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
Though little known outside of France, Jean Grémillon is a consummate filmmaker from his country's golden age. A classically trained violinist who discovered cinema as a young man when his orchestra was hired to accompany silent movies, he went on to make almost fifty films which ranged from documentaries to avant-garde works to melodramas with major stars in a career that started in the mid-1920s and didn't end until the late 1950s.
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