Released Date:
1986-12-10
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (335 Reviews)
Director:
Didier GroussetLuc Besson
Didier Grousset
Albert is old, lonely, drunken and unemployed, but an expert in computers. He embarks on a mission to get rid of the people he hates most - television and invents a way to kill them, on air, from the comfort of his own living are baffled, but Inspector Romain dedicates himself to the chase...
Released Date:
1994-02-25
Languages:
French, Spanish
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
126 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1665 Reviews)
Director:
Cyril CollardCyril Collard
Jacques Fieschi (adaptation)
Jean is young, gay, and promiscuous. Only after he meets one or two women, including Laura does he come to realize his bisexuality. Jean has to overcome a personal crisis (he is HIV-positive) and a tough choice between Laura and his male lover Samy.
Released Date:
1995-05-26
Languages:
French
Countries:
Netherlands, France, Belgium
Runtime:
128 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (818 Reviews)
Director:
Martine DugowsonGenres:
DramaMartine Dugowson
The film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they became teenagers. But growing up and becoming adults they go different ways.
Released Date:
1995-11-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, France, Belgium
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (9432 Reviews)
Director:
Agnieszka HollandChristopher Hampton (screenplay)
In 1871, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), an established poet, invites boy genius Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) to live with Paul and his young pregnant wife, Mathiltde, in her father's home in Paris. Rimbaud's uncouth behavior disrupts the household as well as the insular society of French poets, but Verlaine finds the youth invigorating. Stewed in absinthe and resentment, Verlaine abuses Mathiltde; he and Rimbaud become lovers and abandon her. There are reconciliations and partings with Mathiltde and partings and reconciliations with Rimbaud, until an 1873 incident with a pistol sends one of them to prison. Codas dramatize the poets' final meeting and last illnesses.
Released Date:
1996-10-02
Languages:
French, English, Japanese
Countries:
France, Spain, Italy
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (10989 Reviews)
Director:
Gilles MimouniMax is on his way to Tokyo. He lives in Paris and likes to flirt but has decided to get married. By chance, he seems to have seen Lisa, his greatest love, in a cafe. Max forgets everything, his trip to Tokyo and his fiance. Obsessed with meeting Lisa he finds out where she lives and hides in the apartment. However, a different girl, called Alice, finds Max in the flat. Alice looks quite similar to Lisa, and they have sex. To complicate matters further, Alice is also the girlfriend of Max's buddy Lucien and Lisa is followed by an older man.
Released Date:
1997-06-25
Languages:
French
Countries:
UK, France
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
(410 Reviews)
Director:
Martine DugowsonMartine Dugowson (scenario)
Peter Chase (scenario)
Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also jobs for the movies. This is where Lise meets producer Alphonse, who is nearly 20 years older than she. Because he is unhappy with his girlfriend a secret relationship evolves. Ada has problems as well, but she's not the only one. There are also the young Emma and Nina, as well as Yves and Guido - enough people to get into complicated relationship entanglements.
Released Date:
1998-08-14
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, Italy, Germany, Spain
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1120 Reviews)
Director:
Bigas LunaCuca Canals (scenario)
Jean-Louis Benoèt (scenario)
Bigas Luna
Didier Decoin (novel)
Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.
Released Date:
1999-08-09
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Germany, Netherlands
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (300 Reviews)
Director:
Charles MattonCharles Matton
Sylvie Matton
Released Date:
2001-08-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
Australia, Italy
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (2482 Reviews)
Director:
Richard LowensteinJohn Birmingham (novel)
Richard Lowenstein
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.
Released Date:
2001-05-11
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
Sweden, Denmark, USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1654 Reviews)
Director:
Kristian LevringGenres:
DramaWilliam Shakespeare (with: inspiration from "King Lear")
Kristian Levring
Anders Thomas Jensen
While shifting airports by bus in Africa, a group of passengers is driven to the middle of nowhere in the desert by the driver that is following a defective compass. They run out of gas and they reach a ghost village inhabited by a single man, Kanana. One passenger that has experience with desert gives five advices to the others to survive in the spot, among them to keep the spirit high, while he travels through the desert seeking for help. One intellectual in the stranded group suggests the performance of King Lear to keep the morale of the survivors. Along the days, while hope decreases, the tension increases among the survivors.
Released Date:
2001-05-11
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
Sweden, Denmark, USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1652 Reviews)
Director:
Kristian LevringGenres:
DramaWilliam Shakespeare (with: inspiration from "King Lear")
Kristian Levring
Anders Thomas Jensen
While shifting airports by bus in Africa, a group of passengers is driven to the middle of nowhere in the desert by the driver that is following a defective compass. They run out of gas and they reach a ghost village inhabited by a single man, Kanana. One passenger that has experience with desert gives five advices to the others to survive in the spot, among them to keep the spirit high, while he travels through the desert seeking for help. One intellectual in the stranded group suggests the performance of King Lear to keep the morale of the survivors. Along the days, while hope decreases, the tension increases among the survivors.
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:
2009-01-28
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (725 Reviews)
Director:
MaèwennWhile shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them.
Released Date:
2013-09-04
Languages:
French
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (716 Reviews)
Director:
Denis CètèDenis Cètè (screenplay)
Winner 2013 Silver Bear (Alfred Bauer Prize) Berlin International Film Festival. Vic + Flow Saw a Bear is a darkly mysterious tale of lesbian two ex-cons, Victoria and Florence, trying to make a new life in the backwoods of Quebec. Seeking peace and quite, the couple the slowly begin to feel under siege as Vic's probation office keeps unexpectedly popping up and a strange woman in the neighborhood soon turns out to be an increasingly menacing shadow from Flo's past. With it's collection of complex and eccentric characters, unexpected plot twists and unsettling humor, director Denis Cote (Curling, Bestiaire) has created an original film that is as once traumatizing, uplifting, and utterly breathless.
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