Daniel Auteuil
1) In Her Name
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A gripping and emotional legal drama based on a true story that moved France for three decades. Starring Daniel Auteuil (Jean De Florette) and Sebastian Koch (Homeland, The Life of Others).
In 1982, André Bamberski (Daniel Auteuil) learns about the death of his 14-year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather (Sebastian Koch) in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka's death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to...
2) Fanny
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Abandoned and still in love, Fanny finds out she's expecting Marius' child. Now an unmarried mother, she's unable to take responsibility for her and her child's future. With the approval of her mother and of Cesar, her child's grandfather, she gives in and marries Honore Panisse, a wealthy merchant from the Old Port who is thirty years her senior. He recognizes her child and raises him as his own. Panisse also brings them wealth, a renewed social...
3) Marius
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Marius takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by Cesar and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood peddler, has secretly been in love with Marius since her childhood, Marius, never admitting it, has always loved Fanny. One day, a sailor drops by La Marine and offers him a job on an exploratory ship....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
In this sun-drenched melodrama (a remake of the 1940s classic by Marcel Pagnol), acclaimed French actor Daniel Auteuil directs and stars as the eponymous well-digger Pascal, a widower who is torn between his sense of honor and his love for his eldest daughter, Patricia (the luminous Astrid Bergès-Frisbey), when she gets impregnated by a wealthy young pilot.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
When an arrogant, self-absorbed, middle-aged antiques dealer goes to dinner with his dearest acquaintances, he is blindsided by the revelation that none of them actually like him. Business partner Catherine makes him a bet: if he can produce a best friend, she'll let him keep the massive Greek vase he acquired that afternoon on the company tab. If not, it's hers.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Description
Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of François Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates...
8) In her name
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Français
Description
A gripping and emotional legal drama based on a true story that moved France for three decades. In 1982, Andre Bamberski learns about the death of his fourteen year-old daughter, Kalinka. Convinced that Kalinka's death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka's stepfather of the murder.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Description
Jean de Florette: Jean Cadoret inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, Cesar Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring: Ten years after her father's death, Manon has no idea that her neighbor Cesar Soubeyran cheated...
11) The Confessions
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel where the world’s most powerful economists are gathered to enact provisions that will influence the world economy. One guest is a mysterious Italian monk, Salus, invited by Daniel Rochè, the Director of the International Monetary Fund. Rochè wants him to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead and Salus is now the main suspect in his death. *"The Confessions...
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
A successful artist leaves Paris and moves to the country to rediscover his roots and get over his recent split from his wife. He hires a gardener, who turns out to be a former school friend. Reminiscing about old times or taking a humorous look at their current dilemmas, the two men become close friends again. But events soon remind them that they're not getting any younger...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
Français
Description
Stephane and Maxime are partners in an upscale violin restoration business, but their relationship becomes complicated when Maxime's girlfriend, a concert violinist, realizes she loves Stephane. Haunting sonatas by the composer Ravel heighten the emotionality in this elegant French film about the strange ways of the human heart. Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Best Film not in the English Language. Winner of a **César Award** for Best Director....
14) 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
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
The hairdresser's husband: Antoine fulfills his lifelong fantasy of marrying a hairdresser, which he has dreamed of since he was a child.
Yvonne's perfume: French expatriate Victor falls in love with Yvonne, an aspiring actress.
Half a chance: Alice is released from prison and goes on an adventure with two men, one of whom she believes may be her father.
Girl on the bridge: Knife-thrower Gabor saves Adèle from jumping off a bridge and convinces...
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Adapted from the beloved French film and novel by Marcel Pagnol, the movie tells the sweeping saga of single father and well-digger Pascal Amoretti (Daniel Auteuil, Caché), who is raising a small army of young girls in the Provençal countryside. When his poor teenage daughter Patricia (the luminous Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) falls in love with the rich and dashing air force pilot Jacques (Nicolas Duvauchelle) and begins an illicit affair, she puts...
20) Jappeloup
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At the beginning of the 1980s, abandoning a promising career as a lawyer, Pierre Durand devotes himself, body and soul, to his passion: show jumping.Supported by his father, he invests everything in a young horse called Jappeloup, even though no one else Pierre has made a good choice. Too small, too temperamental, and too unpredictable, the horse has many flaws but also has remarkable poise and abilities. From competition to competition, horse and...