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:
2005-01-14
Languages:
French, German, Corsican
Countries:
France, USA
Runtime:
133 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (60068 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Pierre JeunetSèbastien Japrisot (novel)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (story)
Guillaume Laurant (story)
Guillaume Laurant (dialogue)
Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans finish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancèe to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul.
Released Date:
2007-02-09
Languages:
English, German, Russian
Countries:
UK, Czech Republic, France, Italy
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (80460 Reviews)
Director:
Peter WebberThomas Harris (screenplay)
Thomas Harris (novel)
Mischa and Hannibal, baby brother and sister, are inseparable; it is their love for each other that ties their bond. Their companionship is forever binding, until, with their family, while hiding from the Nazi war machine a twisted set of circumstance sets the pace for a most vicious attack on the future of one Hannibal Lecter for the sworn vengeance for the brutal killing of his baby sister. Years later, we find Hannibal, the teenager, setting up in Paris, and living with his aunt Lady Murasaki Shikibu and studying at medical school here he finds his forte. Still searching for his sister's murderers, still bitter and still ever hopeful of satisfying his desire for retribution. This chance arrives, and soon we are to learn that for a pound of flesh lost a pound of flesh must be repaid. This is the horrific tale of justice and honor, a young man's growing pains that will have the guilty paying with more than just flesh and bone. This is the up and rising tale of the young Hannibal, prey you do not meet him, for meat you shall be to him. Taste his wroth.
Released Date:
2005-01-14
Languages:
French, German, Corsican
Countries:
France, USA
Runtime:
133 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (59936 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Pierre JeunetSèbastien Japrisot (novel)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (story)
Guillaume Laurant (story)
Guillaume Laurant (dialogue)
Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans finish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancèe to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul.
Released Date:
2010-11-03
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Germany
Runtime:
139 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (2578 Reviews)
Director:
Bertrand TavernierJean Cosmos
Madame de La Fayette (short story)
Franèois-Olivier Rousseau
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century. Based on a novella by the celebrated Madame de Lafayette, the action centers on the love of Marie de Mezières for her dashing cousin Henri de Guise, thwarted when her father's political ambitions force her into marriage with the well-connected Philippe de Montpensier, who she has never met. When Philippe is called away to fight, she is left in the care of Count Chabannes, an aging nobleman with a disdain for warfare, and soon becomes exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of court.
Released Date:
2014-09-24
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
150 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (2189 Reviews)
Director:
Bertrand BonelloThomas Bidegain (screenplay)
Bertrand Bonello (screenplay)
Yves Saint Laurent's life from 1967 to 1976, during which time the famed fashion designer was at the peak of his career.
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