Released Date:
1997-12-17
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
(613 Reviews)
Director:
Sandrine VeyssetGenres:
DramaSandrine Veysset (scenario and dialogue)
Antoinette de Robien (adaptation)
A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of the farm an egotistic and authoritarian individual, who is also the lover of the woman and the father of all her children. The farmer handles them as his property, uses them as cheap labour to work in the fields, and denies them the right to leave the farm. It is only the love of the woman for her children that allows them to endure their situation; but even for her, disenchantment has set in.
Released Date:
1998-09-02
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
(94 Reviews)
Director:
Jeanne LabruneGenres:
DramaMuriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and pursues her, dropping in, asserting himself. She's willing to connect. He's passionate, then boorish, then jealous and possessive. He seems fixed on "Who's the strongest?," while she wants respect and trust. She's self-possessed as well as sexually charged, willing to laugh, and alternately firm and forgiving. He has little money, no immigration papers, few prospects, and a gambling jag. What does each want, and why does she stick with it? Is this colonial strife, war between the sexes, or a love story?
Released Date:
1999-03-03
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy, Switzerland
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (389 Reviews)
Director:
Philippe GarrelGenres:
DramaXavier Beauvois (dialogue)
Marc Cholodenko (dialogue)
Philippe Garrel (dialogue)
Philippe Garrel (script)
Arlette Langmann (dialogue)
Released Date:
2005-11-30
Languages:
French, English, German
Countries:
France
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (6802 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois OzonGenres:
DramaIn Paris, the thirty-one year old gay fashion photographer Romain learns that he has a terminal cancer and his chances with the chemotherapy are the least. His choice is to live the rest of his life without treatment. He hides the truth from his lover Sasha and his family and is cruel with them. He travels to visit his grandmother Laura and has a small talk with a waitress. He spends a couple of days with Laura and he meets by chance the waitress again that asks him for an unusual favor. Romain returns to Paris and changes his attitude toward the rest of his life.
Released Date:
2008-06-06
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (2048 Reviews)
Director:
Eric GuiradoGenres:
DramaEric Guirado (scenario)
Florence Vignon (scenario)
Eric Guirado (idea)
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds. Back in the village, accompanied by Claire, a young woman he loves but who hesitates to commit herself, he does the job half-satisfactorily. Too blunt, not in harmony with the locals, he offends them more than he serves them. Fortunately Claire, who has more business acumen, helps him to improve his skills. On the other hand, the relationships are tense with his brother Franèois and even worse with his father, who despises him. So when the latter is back in the village, the situation deteriorates...
Released Date:
2010-05-06
Languages:
Portuguese, French
Countries:
Portugal
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (389 Reviews)
Director:
Marco MartinsGenres:
DramaMarco Martins
Gonèalo M. Tavares
In a house, the last trace of a Lisbon that has long disappeared, Guilherme and Sofia grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. Guilherme, sheltered in a female universe, unable to deal with the uncorresponded love of his sister and her relationships with other boys, ends up running away. After the death of his grandmother Clara, Guilherme refugees himself in his father's house, who is immersed in a almost autistic world, which leaves him increasingly isolated. Guilherme discovers that life can not be held in a perfect circle and returns home. When the twins finally meet, they rediscover the sexual tension that surrounded them since the beginning, and love finally takes shape. "How To Draw a Perfect Circle" is intimate and silent in style, offering the pleasure of exploring the limits, creating a closed, claustrophobic universe, innocent and contagious in the simplicity of its emotions, where everyday situations become at times brutal, cruel, yet infused with a strangely perverse beauty.
Released Date:
2011-11-30
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(4847 Reviews)
Director:
Olivier MarchalOlivier Marchal (scenario)
Edgar Marie (scenario)
Olivier Marchal (adaptation)
Edmond Vidal (book)
Edgar Marie (book)
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Gang Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.
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