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:
1989-11-22
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(524 Reviews)
Director:
Eric RochantEric Rochant
Arnaud Desplechin (suggestions)
25 years old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings -- he's a representative of a disillusioned generation, doesn't care what other people think of him. But of all people he falls in love with the ambitioned student Nathalie and soon finds himself forced to think about taking a job.
Released Date:
1991-05-15
Languages:
French, Arabic, English
Countries:
Belgium, France, Italy
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (136 Reviews)
Director:
Maroun BagdadiGenres:
DramaMaroun Bagdadi
Didier Decoin
Elias Khoury
A French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.
Released Date:
2004-09-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (7639 Reviews)
Director:
Mick DavisSet in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.
Released Date:
2005-07-06
Languages:
French, English, Cantonese
Countries:
France
Runtime:
87 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (3821 Reviews)
Director:
Emmanuel CarrèreJèrème Beaujour
Emmanuel Carrère (novel)
Emmanuel Carrère (screenplay)
Marc is sitting in his bath one morning and asks his wife, "how would you feel if I shaved off my mustache?" She doesn't think it's a great idea, for the 15 years they've been married, she's never known him without his 'stache. He shaves it off anyway, but when he sees his wife, she doesn't notice, neither do their friends at dinner that night, neither do his co-workers. Marc finally flips out, shouts at everyone, tells them he's tired of their little joke, and what do they really think. His wife and co-workers are appalled, what is he talking about, he's never had a mustache. In fact, he's imagining other things as well, or is he?
Released Date:
2006-11-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
Belgium, France
Runtime:
168 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (3608 Reviews)
Director:
Pascale FerranRoger Bohbot
Pascale Ferran
D.H. Lawrence (novel)
Pierre Trividic (dialogue)
Sir Clifford has returned from the Great War to his estate near Sheffield, paralyzed from the waist down. Lady Constance, his young wife, cares for him, but she's lifeless, enervated. Her physician prescribes the open air, and she finds a quiet retreat at the hut - the workplace - of Parkin, the estate's gamekeeper. The rhythms of nature awaken Connie - daffodils, pheasant chicks - and soon she and Parkin become lovers. She's now radiant. Parkin, too, opens up. Class distinctions and gender roles may be barriers to the affair becoming more. Connie's trip to France, with her father and sister, bring the lovers to a nuanced resolution.
Released Date:
2008-01-30
Languages:
French, Mandarin
Countries:
France, Taiwan
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (3256 Reviews)
Director:
Hsiao-hsien HouHsiao-hsien Hou
Franèois Margolin
In Paris, Chinese cinema student Song Fang is hired to work as the nanny of Simon by his divorced mother Suzanne, who works voicing marionettes in a theater. Suzanne is having troubles with her tenant Marc, who does not pay the rent, while she waits for the return of her older daughter Louise, who lives with her father in Brussels.
Released Date:
2009-01-28
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, UK
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
(685 Reviews)
Director:
Nicolas SaadaReleased Date:
2010-11-17
Languages:
French, Arabic
Countries:
France, Luxembourg
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (167 Reviews)
Director:
Angelo CianciThis is not the way it was supposed to happen. Like every other morning, Christian Echeveria, huissier, should have been able to levy his daily distress in this Parisian suburb, before going back to his comfortable home. But that's not what destiny had planned for him, as he'll get to understand it when Salem Atelhadj, 17, takes him a hostage, under his father's desperate eyes, in the tower's twelfth floor which will soon be surrounded by policemen and anti-terrorists squads.
Released Date:
2012-09-19
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (3593 Reviews)
Director:
Christian VincentEtienne Comar (screenplay)
Christian Vincent (screenplay)
Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch (story)
Hortense Laborie is a celebrated chef living in the Perigord region. To her great surprise, the President of the Republic appoints her as his personal cook. She accepts reluctantly but once she has accepted her nomination, Hortense works her heart and soul to produce both a stylish and authentic cuisine. For a while, she manages to impose herself thanks to her sturdy character and despite the jealousies she arouses among the other chefs. For a while only, unfortunately for her and for... the President.
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