Released Date:
1996-11-27
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (547 Reviews)
Director:
Marion VernouxDodine Herry (adaptation)
Marion Vernoux (adaptation)
Julian Barnes (novel)
A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoèt as the world's oldest 32-year-old. The shy, well-employed Benoèt's life changes when he answers the personal ad of Marie, a 25-year-old who restores paintings. He's attracted to her and she likes his steady calm and his honest attention. They're soon a couple, and they include Pierre in their dinners, outings, and trips. What will happen when Pierre realizes that he too is in love with Marie?
Released Date:
1996-11-22
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (5732 Reviews)
Director:
Patrice LeconteRèmi Waterhouse (scenario)
Michel Fessler (screenplay)
Eric Vicaut (collaboration)
Rèmi Waterhouse (dialogue)
In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue.
Released Date:
1998-05-15
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (1593 Reviews)
Director:
Patrice ChèreauDanièle Thompson (scenario)
Patrice Chèreau (scenario)
Pierre Trividic (scenario)
Danièle Thompson (original idea)
Friends of a recently deceased minor painter Jean-Baptiste take a train in Paris for Limoges, where he wished to be buried, and all the people on the train have their problems.
Released Date:
1999-01-29
Languages:
French, English, Russian
Countries:
France, Spain
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (865 Reviews)
Director:
Anne FontaineNicole and Jean-Marie Kunstler are a nice, hard working couple who have been married for 15 years. They operate a dry cleaning business that keeps them both too busy to take a vacation, or to change their routine. A fateful trip to a drag club leads them to encounter Loic and Marilyn, a brother-sister drag queen performing team. Their shows fascinate the couple, as both Nicole and Jean-Marie find themselves growing more and more attached to Loic. Loic brings to the surface all of their suppressed desires and emotions - willingly and unwillingly. A psychological examination into the effects one attractive young man's entrance into the lives of an ordinarily seeming couple could have.
Released Date:
1998-12-16
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Portugal
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (1545 Reviews)
Director:
Cèdric KahnCèdric Kahn (adaptation)
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa (adaptation)
Alberto Moravia (based on the novel by)
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
Released Date:
1999-04-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (487 Reviews)
Franèois Dupeyron
Alain Leblanc (novel)
In the 1960s in Normandy, Mina, Georges' beautiful and sensible wife, seeks to escape from her routine life by going to the cinema with Tommy, their fifteen-year-old boy. After a screening of West Side Story, Matthias, a man they are sitting next to, invites them for a drink at a dance hall. At the same time, Georges finds a job at a building site and is compelled to stay away from home the whole week long. The growing passion between Mina and Matthias is as painful for Tommy as for Georges. He finally accepts Mina's departure, as he hopes that this love affair will not last long ...
Released Date:
2000-07-12
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Switzerland
Runtime:
180 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (953 Reviews)
Director:
Olivier AssayasOlivier Assayas
Jacques Chardonne (novel)
Jacques Fieschi
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife - and more talk when he decides to take her back. By this time he has been drawn to Pauline, niece of a Cognac distiller, and this precipitates him divorcing his wife, settling on her and his daughter the shares he owns in his family's porcelain factory. He resigns the ministry, marries Pauline, and moves to Switzerland and a tranquil life. On the death of his father he agrees to return home to save the factory, knowing the problems it will bring will change his life completely. So it proves, with service in the Great War having a further profound impact on him and those around him.
Released Date:
2000-04-26
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1381 Reviews)
Director:
Bernard RappPhilippe Balland (book)
Bernard Rapp
Gilles Taurand
Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frèdèric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.
Released Date:
2001-02-28
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (714 Reviews)
Director:
Raoul RuizMassimo Bontempelli (novel)
Franèois Dumas
Raoul Ruiz
Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side-the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that day, Camille's mother, Ariane, meets up with her son in the park. The boys appears perturbed. He is leaning against a tree, eyes cast down. He says that now he wants to return to his "real home" and his "real mother."
Released Date:
2001-09-19
Languages:
French
Countries:
Spain, France
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (827 Reviews)
Director:
Anne FontaineJean-Luc is an established gerontologist who can do no wrong; he runs a private clinic specialising in anti-ageing treatments. Honoured for his work in this field, he throws a garden party at his home. It is during this social event that his father suddenly reappears, back after a long exile. A physician, he had left decades earlier without any apparent reason to practice in Africa. He moves into his son's home for several days, phlegmatically observing everything with an enigmatic smile. He peruses Jean-Luc's life and environment with cruel objectivity. The arrival of this interloper father, who everyone thought had disappeared for good, shatters the family microcosm: Jean-Luc doesn't know how to take him, as if the memory - or the resentment - was nothing but lost time; his wife becomes fond of this highly unconventional man; after first refusing to deal with him, Jean-Luc's younger brother strikes up a modest bond with him.
Released Date:
2002-11-06
Languages:
English, French, Japanese
Countries:
France
Runtime:
129 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (3678 Reviews)
Director:
Olivier AssayasDiane works for a French firm bidding to purchase a Japanese animation outfit. Diane maliciously hatches a plot to take the job of her supervisor Karen. The plan succeeds, but then Diane faces problems when a competing American firm, represented by Elaine, becomes involved. Diane's assistant Elise remains loyal to Karen, and she frustrates Diane's every move. When it comes to light that the one of the concerned parties controls an Internet site which broadcasts actual torture, the plot thickens.
Released Date:
2002-11-06
Languages:
English, French, Japanese
Countries:
France
Runtime:
129 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (3676 Reviews)
Director:
Olivier AssayasDiane works for a French firm bidding to purchase a Japanese animation outfit. Diane maliciously hatches a plot to take the job of her supervisor Karen. The plan succeeds, but then Diane faces problems when a competing American firm, represented by Elaine, becomes involved. Diane's assistant Elise remains loyal to Karen, and she frustrates Diane's every move. When it comes to light that the one of the concerned parties controls an Internet site which broadcasts actual torture, the plot thickens.
Released Date:
2005-07-22
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (40127 Reviews)
Director:
Luc JacquetGenres:
DocumentaryLuc Jacquet (scenario)
Luc Jacquet (adaptation)
Michel Fessler (adaptation)
Jordan Roberts (narration: US edited version)
Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of year. In single file, the penguins march blinded by blizzards, buffeted by gale force winds. Guided by instinct, by the otherworldly radiance of the Southern Cross, they head unerringly for their traditional breeding ground where--after a ritual courtship of intricate dances and delicate maneuvering, accompanied by a cacophony of ecstatic song--they will pair off into monogamous couples and mate. The females remain long enough only to lay a single egg. Once this is accomplished, exhausted by weeks without nourishment, they begin their return journey across the ice-field to the fish-filled seas. The male emperors are left behind to guard and hatch the precious eggs, which they cradle at all times on top of their feet. After two long months during which the males eat nothing, the eggs begin to hatch. Once they have emerged into their ghostly white new world, the chicks can not survive for long on their fathers' limited food reserves. If their mothers are late returning from the ocean with food, the newly-hatched young will die. Once the families are reunited, the roles reverse, the mothers remaining with their new young while their mates head, exhausted and starved, for the sea, and food. While the adults fish, the chicks face the ever-present threat of attack by prowling giant petrels. As the weather grows warmer and the ice floes finally begin to crack and melt, the adults will repeat their arduous journey countless times, marching many hundreds of miles over some of the most treacherous territory on Earth, until the chicks are ready to take their first faltering dive into the deep blue waters of the Antarctic.
Released Date:
2005-07-22
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (40076 Reviews)
Director:
Luc JacquetGenres:
DocumentaryLuc Jacquet (scenario)
Luc Jacquet (adaptation)
Michel Fessler (adaptation)
Jordan Roberts (narration: US edited version)
Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of year. In single file, the penguins march blinded by blizzards, buffeted by gale force winds. Guided by instinct, by the otherworldly radiance of the Southern Cross, they head unerringly for their traditional breeding ground where--after a ritual courtship of intricate dances and delicate maneuvering, accompanied by a cacophony of ecstatic song--they will pair off into monogamous couples and mate. The females remain long enough only to lay a single egg. Once this is accomplished, exhausted by weeks without nourishment, they begin their return journey across the ice-field to the fish-filled seas. The male emperors are left behind to guard and hatch the precious eggs, which they cradle at all times on top of their feet. After two long months during which the males eat nothing, the eggs begin to hatch. Once they have emerged into their ghostly white new world, the chicks can not survive for long on their fathers' limited food reserves. If their mothers are late returning from the ocean with food, the newly-hatched young will die. Once the families are reunited, the roles reverse, the mothers remaining with their new young while their mates head, exhausted and starved, for the sea, and food. While the adults fish, the chicks face the ever-present threat of attack by prowling giant petrels. As the weather grows warmer and the ice floes finally begin to crack and melt, the adults will repeat their arduous journey countless times, marching many hundreds of miles over some of the most treacherous territory on Earth, until the chicks are ready to take their first faltering dive into the deep blue waters of the Antarctic.
Released Date:
2005-07-22
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (40078 Reviews)
Director:
Luc JacquetGenres:
DocumentaryLuc Jacquet (scenario)
Luc Jacquet (adaptation)
Michel Fessler (adaptation)
Jordan Roberts (narration: US edited version)
Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of year. In single file, the penguins march blinded by blizzards, buffeted by gale force winds. Guided by instinct, by the otherworldly radiance of the Southern Cross, they head unerringly for their traditional breeding ground where--after a ritual courtship of intricate dances and delicate maneuvering, accompanied by a cacophony of ecstatic song--they will pair off into monogamous couples and mate. The females remain long enough only to lay a single egg. Once this is accomplished, exhausted by weeks without nourishment, they begin their return journey across the ice-field to the fish-filled seas. The male emperors are left behind to guard and hatch the precious eggs, which they cradle at all times on top of their feet. After two long months during which the males eat nothing, the eggs begin to hatch. Once they have emerged into their ghostly white new world, the chicks can not survive for long on their fathers' limited food reserves. If their mothers are late returning from the ocean with food, the newly-hatched young will die. Once the families are reunited, the roles reverse, the mothers remaining with their new young while their mates head, exhausted and starved, for the sea, and food. While the adults fish, the chicks face the ever-present threat of attack by prowling giant petrels. As the weather grows warmer and the ice floes finally begin to crack and melt, the adults will repeat their arduous journey countless times, marching many hundreds of miles over some of the most treacherous territory on Earth, until the chicks are ready to take their first faltering dive into the deep blue waters of the Antarctic.
Released Date:
2007-09-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (890 Reviews)
Director:
Zabou BreitmanGenres:
DramaZabou Breitman
Agnès de Sacy
On summer holiday in Provance, Frèdèric meets Hugo and develops a powerful bond that threatens his family.
Released Date:
2009-06-05
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (4980 Reviews)
Director:
Olivier AssayasIn a small town, Hèlène is a family matriarch who has devoted her life to preserving the legacy of her artist uncle. However, while her eldest son, Frèdèric, wants to preserve her home after her passing, she harbors no such illusions as she prepares her legacy. After her death, her children realize what she anticipated as they come to terms with their inheritance's place in their own lives. In the resulting disposition of their mother's assets, treasured heirlooms of a romantic family past drift away even as their changing modern world confronts the value of their memories.
Released Date:
2013-12-13
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
109 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (8676 Reviews)
Matthieu Delaporte
Alexandre de La Patellière
Matthieu Delaporte (original play)
Alexandre de La Patellière (original play)
Vincent is about to become a father. At a meeting with childhood friends he announces the name for his future son. The scandalous name ignites a discussion which surfaces unpleasant matters from the past of the group.
Released Date:
2013-03-06
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (4738 Reviews)
Director:
David MoreauAmro Hamzawi (original idea)
Amro Hamzawi (scenario and dialogue)
David Moreau (scenario and dialogue)
Amro Hamzawi (adaptation)
David Moreau (adaptation)
Virginie Efira (adaptation)
The thirty-eight year-old ambitious and workaholic editor of the fashion magazine Rebelle Alice Lantins returns from Brazil to Paris and loses her flash memory in the airplane. However, the student of architecture Balthazar Apfel finds it and calls Alice to tell her. She schedules a meeting in the bar where Balthazar is drinking with his friends but he tells her that the device is at home. He offers a ride in his scooter to Alice and while he is putting the spare helmet on her, two coworkers of Alice see from an angle that make them believe that Balthazar is kissing Alice. They take a photo and posts it in the Twitter. On the next morning, everybody is laughing at Alice but the chief editor and her boss Vincent Khan loves the idea that Alice is dating someone twenty years younger. Alice decides to impersonate that she is in love with Balthazar to get a promotion in the magazine. But soon she learns that she should not trifle with love.
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