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:
2004-01-28
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
121 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (154 Reviews)
Director:
Arnaud DesplechinGenres:
DramaEdward Bond (play)
Emmanuel Bourdieu (adaptation)
Arnaud Desplechin (adaptation)
Nicolas Saada (adaptation)
Released Date:
2006-01-11
Languages:
French, Romanian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (2353 Reviews)
Director:
Isabelle MergaultWhen farmer Aymè Pigrenet loses his wife, he is not exactly overwhelmed by sorrow, rather by the sheer amount of work that suddenly falls on his shoulders. Soon, he realizes he won't make it alone and he needs another companion to cope with it. But finding a new spouse is no simple task in his small rural town: Aymè turns to a matchmaker who quickly understands that he's not after a soul mate and advises him to go to Romania where young women will do anything to escape poverty. And indeed, it's in Romania that Aymè meets Elena...
Released Date:
2006-11-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (4411 Reviews)
Director:
Eric LartigauAlain Chabat (idea)
Philippe Mechelen
Laurent Tirard
Grègoire Vigneron
Laurent Zeitoun
At 41, Luis is a confirmed bachelor, happy with one night stands, a success as a creator of perfumes. He has one problem: his mother and five sisters, who form an intimidating family council, want him married. Luis contrives to hire a woman to pose as a fiancèe who will jilt him at the altar, leaving him disconsolate, with an excuse not to marry. He hires Emma, the sister of a colleague. She restores antique furniture and wants to adopt a child from Brazil. Things go too well: when Emma doesn't show up at the wedding, Luis's mother requires hospitalization; only Emma can bring her out of her swoon. It's time for a new plan that involves more tangled webs. And the child?
Released Date:
2008-08-13
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (675 Reviews)
Director:
Safy NebbouGenres:
DramaCyril Gomez-Mathieu
Safy Nebbou
Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression in the midst of a divorce from her husband of 12 years develops an obsession with a seven year old girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas. Determined to find out more about the girl, Elsa uses Thomas as a way into the girl's family by aiding to develop a friendship between Thomas and the girl's brother Jeremy so that in turn Elsa can then befriend the girl's mother Claire. She uses Thomas more and more in her pursuit of this obsession telling her employer and fellow employees that Thomas is seriously ill so that she can run off watch the girl (Lola) wherever she goes. Elsa even tells her parents lies that she is going out with a friend so they will baby-sit so Elsa can even go as far as hiding in the bushes outside of Lola's house and watching her at night. At first Claire doesn't suspect anything but gradually notices that Elsa is paying too much attention to Lola and confronts Elsa. Elsa in turn claims that she knows that Lola is her long presumed-dead daughter and somehow Claire has stolen her.
Released Date:
2011-09-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
102 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (1259 Reviews)
Director:
Vincent GarenqGenres:
DramaHubert Delarue (collaboration)
Serge Frydman (collaboration)
Vincent Garenq (screenplay)
Alain Marècaux (autobiography)
A family man battles to prove his innocence after being accused of a heinous crime.
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