Isabelle Adjani
1) Possession
Author
Language
English
Description
After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Mark is devastated, and seeks out Heinrich (Heinz Bennent), the man who cuckolded him, only to receive a beating. After a series of violent confrontations between Mark and Anna, Mark hires a private investigator to follow her. Anna descends into madness, and it's soon clear that she is hiding a much bigger secret -- one...
3) Sisters
Author
Language
Français
Description
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria......
4) Skirt Day
Author
Language
Français
Description
Isabelle Adjani plays Sonia Bergerac, a teacher at a tough junior high. Despite the principal's warnings, she wears a skirt to work. Scared and taking antidepressants, Sonia finds a gun in a bag belonging to one of her students and takes her class hostage, so she can finally teach a proper lesson on Moliere.
6) Possession
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Mark is devastated, and seeks out Heinrich (Heinz Bennent), the man who cuckolded him, only to receive a beating. After a series of violent confrontations between Mark and Anna, Mark hires a private investigator to follow her. Anna descends into madness, and it's soon clear that she is hiding a much bigger secret -- one...
7) Sisters
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria...
Publisher
Cinema Epoch
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
A fascinating psychological study and a socio-critical investigation. Sonia Bergerac is a teacher at a tough junior high. Despite the principal's warnings, she wears a skirt to work. She simply wants to teach her class but the insults are just too much. Scared and taking antidepressants, Sonia finds a gun in a bag belonging to one of her students. She takes her class hostage so she can finally teach a proper lesson on Moliere.
9) Diabolique
Publisher
Relativity Media
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The wife and mistress of the sadistic dean of an exclusive prep school conspire to murder him.
10) Quartet
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
A twisted relationship between a wealthy English couple and a young woman they take in, plays out against a stunning recreation of the Golden Age of 1920s Paris. In adapting Jean Rhys's 1928 autobiographical novel, Merchant Ivory achieved an artistic breakthrough that remains one of the team's finest works. Isabelle Adjani plays the vulnerable but complicated West-Indian Marya, who, after her shady husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins) is imprisoned, finds...
11) Peter Von Kant
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Based on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder classic, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, François Ozon’s unique retelling finds Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, who lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir break into the world of cinema…
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
Adele, daughter of French author and patriot Victor Hugo, is beautiful, composed and filled with the same brilliant writing talent as her famous father. However, Adele is driven not by literary aspirations but by love. Impelled by a need that will not be denied, she has run away from home to follow her handsome, womanizing lover across an ocean to wintry Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wild with desire, she'll risk everything to renew their brief affair.
14) The Tenant
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller THE TENANT. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors — mostly old recluses — eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous tenant, a beautiful young woman, jumped from the window in a suicide attempt, Trelkovsky begins obsessing over the dead woman. Growing increasingly paranoid,...
15) Queen Margot
Publisher
distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Atlantis
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope for escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her!
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.
17) Camille Claudel
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
Français
Description
Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani), a genius at sculpture, first becomes Rodin's (Gérard Depardieu) pupil, then his mistress. Their separation and the difficulties she encounters in gaining acceptance for her work gradually drive her into madness. Nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Foreign Language Film at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of Best Actress at the **Berlin...
18) The tenant
Publisher
Shout! / Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Trelkovsky is a quiet, timid file clerk increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new apartment. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant. Is Trelkovsky's dread truly justified or is it simply the result of his seemingly disintegrating mental state?
Author
Series
Captain Marleau volume 2
Language
Français
Description
Emerging from a 15-year coma, a woman sets out to recoup her losses.