Released Date:
1987-12-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
Italy, France, Switzerland
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
(15678 Reviews)
Director:
Claude BerriGenres:
DramaClaude Berri (adaptation)
Gèrard Brach (adaptation)
Marcel Pagnol (novel)
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She determines to take revenge upon the men responsible for the death of her father in the first film.
Released Date:
1987-11-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (1962 Reviews)
Director:
Tom McLoughlinJim is soon to be married to Patty, but when he wakes up after a bachelor party thrown by his friends, he finds an injured angel in his pool. When Patty sees her, she thinks he's seeing someone else and gets upset and tells her father. Now he has to figure out how to; cure the angel, tell Patty what happened, keep his friends from taking the angel to the papers, and keep Patty's father from killing him. It's no wonder he has a headache.
Released Date:
1991-09-04
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Switzerland
Runtime:
238 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (4374 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques RivetteGenres:
DramaPascal Bonitzer (scenario)
Christine Laurent (scenario)
Jacques Rivette (scenario)
Honorè de Balzac (inspired by novella "Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu")
Pascal Bonitzer (dialogue)
Christine Laurent (dialogue)
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife in his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start working again on a painting called 'La Belle Noiseuse', which he gave up a long time ago. And he wants Marianne as a model. The ensuing creative process will change the characters' lives. It will become a struggle for truth and meaning, and the question about the limits of art will arise.
Released Date:
1991-11-20
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (809 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè TèchinèGenres:
DramaIsabelle Coudrier-Kleist (contributing writer)
Michel Grisolia
Jacques Nolot (screenplay)
Jacques Nolot (story)
Andrè Tèchinè
A young man leaves his native town in southern France to discover Paris. Being too unexperienced and too naive, he drops into the reality of Paris 1991. He soon gives up his dream of becoming an actor and prostitutes himself. Throughout all these modern relationships, he keeps his innocence but becomes very emotionally blocked.
Released Date:
1993-06-04
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (6888 Reviews)
Director:
Claude SautetClaude Sautet (scenario and dialogue)
Jacques Fieschi (scenario and dialogue)
Jèrème Tonnerre (scenario collaborator)
Yves Ulmann (collaborating writer)
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Released Date:
1996-06-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy, Germany
Runtime:
106 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (3188 Reviews)
Director:
Claude SautetGenres:
DramaJacques Fieschi
Claude Sautet
Yves Ulmann
When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities.
Released Date:
1996-05-22
Languages:
English, French, Czech
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (272913 Reviews)
Director:
Brian De PalmaBruce Geller (television series)
David Koepp (story)
Steven Zaillian (story)
David Koepp (screenplay)
Robert Towne (screenplay)
Based on the hit T.V. series. Jim Phelps was sent to Prague for a mission to prevent the theft of classified material. His wife Claire and his trusted partner Ethan Hunt were members of Phelps' team. Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong and the mission failed, leaving Ethan Hunt the lone survivor. After he reported the failed mission, Kettridge the head of the agency suspects Ethan of being the culprit for the failed mission. Now, Ethan uses unorthodox methods (Which includes the aid of an arms dealer going by the name "Max") to try to find who set him up and to clear his name.
Released Date:
1998-03-18
Languages:
French
Countries:
Spain, France, Germany
Runtime:
104 min
IMDB Ratings:
4.9 (353 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques WeberMolière (play)
Jacques Weber
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost. Don Juan promised to marry Donna Elvira and then forsook her. He is such a womanizer - when being saved by a fisherman from ship wreck, he causes two beautiful girls from the fishing village, Mathurine and Charlotte, fighting with each other to win his heart (and yet he never takes them seriously). Alonso and Don Carlos, Donna's brothers, are pursuing him like textbook medieval heroes bent on avenging the insult to their family's honor.
Released Date:
1999-05-19
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy, Portugal
Runtime:
169 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1772 Reviews)
Director:
Raoul RuizMarcel Proust (novel)
Gilles Taurand (scenario)
Raoul Ruiz (scenario)
Released Date:
1999-11-24
Languages:
French, English, Russian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
106 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1415 Reviews)
Director:
Danièle ThompsonDanièle Thompson
Christopher Thompson
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?
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:
2002-10-04
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (22433 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois OzonFranèois Ozon
Robert Thomas (play)
Marina de Van
One morning at an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration at all because their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? His miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent chambermaid or the loyal housekeeper? Could it possibly have been one of his two young daughters? A surprise visit from the victim's chic sister sends the household into a tizzy, encouraging hysterics, exacerbating rivalries, and encompassing musical interludes. Comedic situations arise with the revelations of dark family secrets. Seduction dances with betrayal. The mystery of the female psyche is revealed. There are eight women and each is a suspect. Each has a motive. Each has a secret. Beautiful, tempestuous, intelligent, sensual, and dangerous...one of them is guilty. Which one is it?
Released Date:
2003-08-20
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, UK
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (2574 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè TèchinèGilles Perrault (novel)
Gilles Taurand (screenplay)
Andrè Tèchinè (screenplay)
June 1940. German troops are advancing on Paris. Odile, a widowed teacher, succumbs to the widespread panic and, with her two children, joins the exodus from the city. Philippe is on the cusp of adolescence, Little Cathy knows only that they are going South. After fifty kilometres, a German plane attacks, decimating the helpless refugees. Odile and her children lose everything. A shaven-headed youth appears from nowhere and leads them away from the carnage. His name is Yvan, he's seventeen years old. Cut off from the rest of the world and living in confined quarters, Odile and Yvan find themselves confronted with their own desires.
Released Date:
2003-11-12
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
150 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1328 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques RivettePascal Bonitzer (scenario)
Christine Laurent (scenario)
Jacques Rivette (scenario)
Pascal Bonitzer (dialogue)
Christine Laurent (dialogue)
Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from Julien, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns Julien that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. Julien responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can Julien, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?
Released Date:
2004-01-07
Languages:
French, Hungarian
Countries:
France, Spain
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (3732 Reviews)
Director:
Anne FontaineGenres:
DramaPhilippe Blasband (original idea)
Jacques Fieschi
Anne Fontaine
Franèois-Olivier Rousseau
Nathalie is the name a Parisian prostitute assumes for a special mission or "private investigation." She is engaged in this unusual and secretive task by a professional, upper-middle-class wife who fears that her husband is unfaithful to her. Nathalie has to seduce the clueless husband and regularly report all details of her relationship with him, including his most intimate sexual preferences in bed. Nathalie is stunning, charming, and cunning. Can Nathalie and her reports to the mistrustful wife be trusted? Is the middle aged husband indeed unfaithful?
Released Date:
2005-11-16
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy, Belgium, Japan
Runtime:
102 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (2056 Reviews)
Director:
Danis TanovicGenres:
DramaKrzysztof Kieslowski (scenario)
Krzysztof Piesiewicz
In Paris, a family is victim of a tragic incident, when the patriarch is accused by his wife of pedophilia. Years later, the three sisters have independent dysfunctional lives and never see each other. The middle sister Sophie finds that her beloved husband and photographer Pierre is unfaithful and is having an affair with Julie and he leaves her. When the lover discovers that Pierre has two children, she ends the affair. The youngest, Anne, is student of Sorbonne and has a crush and gets pregnant of her professor Frèdèric, who is married and father of her best friend. The oldest sister, Cèline, is a lonely woman that periodically travels by train to visit her handicapped dumb mother Marie that is trapped in a wheelchair in an asylum for elders. When the stranger Sèbastien contacts Cèline, she believes he is a shy admirer; however, after an awkward encounter, he reveals secrets from the past that will affect the relationship among the sisters.
Released Date:
2007-03-07
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (2106 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè TèchinèGenres:
DramaAndrè Tèchinè (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Laurent Guyot (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Viviane Zingg (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Michel Canesi (idea)
Jamil Rahmani (idea)
June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer's return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien, meets Manu, a young gay man from the provinces who lives with his sister, an opera singer. Adrien likes Manu, loves him even, in a Platonic relationship. Sarah, a writer, and Mehdi, a vice-squad cop, have an infant. Sarah discovers she has no taste for parenthood. Adrien bring Manu to Sarah's country cabin where Mehdi saves Manu from drowning. Back in Paris, an affair begins as a plague descends on Parisian gays. There are tests, illness, anger, relief, separations, and death. A year later, these friends meet again at the summer place. They are witnesses to how happiness has changed.
Released Date:
2008-10-01
Languages:
English, Thai
Countries:
France, Belgium, UK, Australia
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (4406 Reviews)
Director:
Fabrice Du WelzFabrice Du Welz
David Greig (additional material)
Oliver Blackburn (additional dialogue)
In Phuket Island, Thailand, the architect Paul Bellmer and his wife Jeanne lost their son Joshua in a tsunami six months ago. Jeanne is disturbed and has not accepted the loss of her beloved son. While watching some footages from Myanmar (former Burma), Jeanne is convinced that a boy wearing a Manchester United shirt in a poor village is Joshua, and Paul accepts to seek out their son in the sea gypsies camp. They hire the trafficker Thaksin Gao and they travel in the boat of master Sonchai to search Joshua. After a series of weird incidents, Sonchai leaves the trio in an abandoned village. They have to walk through the jungle where they face a journey to hell.
Released Date:
2010-05-26
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
88 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (179 Reviews)
Director:
Michaèl CohenGenres:
RomanceMichaèl Cohen
Michaèl Cohen (based on the novel by)
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