Christophe Rossignon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Follows a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, and a German tenor and his beloved Danish soprano as music and the spirit of Christmas create bonds between enemies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 381
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
From renowned animator and storyteller Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress , Azur & Asmar) comes a dazzling and magical new film, that is certain to delight kids, families and animation fans of all ages. Silhouetted characters are set off against exquisitely detailed backgrounds bursting with color and kaleidoscopic patterns, as the film weaves together six exotic fables each unfolding in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, the African...
6) Cyclo
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
In the heart of Ho Chi Minh City, a young cyclo (pedicab driver) transports anonymous passengers through the teeming streets, trying to eke out a meager living for his two sisters and elderly grandfather.
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
In May 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of a small village of Pas-de-Calais decide on the recommendations of the prefecture, to give up everything to go on the road, fleeing to the coast. Among them, there is Paul, the village mayor. He led the group, seeks to maintain a minimum of order and republican spirit in this nomadic life.
8) Irréversible
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
The shattering consequences of violence are explored in writer/director Gaspar Noé's graphic and profoundly powerful drama, made up of 12 one-shot sequences in reverse chronological order. After Parisian beauty Alex (Monica Bellucci) is beaten and sexually assaulted, her boyfriend and ex-husband unite to find-and exact a brutal revenge against-the attacker.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
"In The Measure of a Man, Vincent Lindon ... gives his finest performance to date as unemployed everyman Thierry, who must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work. Futile retraining courses that lead to dead ends, interviews via Skype, a workshop critique of his self-presentation by fellow jobseekers; all are mechanisms that seek to break him down and strip him of identity and self respect. In his award-winning performance,...
Publisher
NeoClassics Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
In 1981 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. U.S.-Soviet relations are at their lowest point in more than a decade. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing him highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the U.S.
Publisher
Les Productions Lazennec
Pub. Date
2012, ©2000.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
A tale of tradition, love and deception set in Hanoi, Vietnam. Three sisters who, together with a brother, two husbands and a child, are living and loving in the supportive clan they've forged since the death of their parents. But there are deep secrets that are being kept that threaten to disrupt the harmony and balance of their daily existence.
Author
Language
Français
Description
"Dear Me. Today I am seven years old and I'm writing you this letter to help you remember the promises I made when I was 7, and also to remind you of what I want to become..." Thus begins the letter that Margaret receives on her 40th birthday. An executive at a multinational construction firm, Margaret's regimented lifestyle revolves around meetings, business dinners and pre- scheduled sex with her partner. But when a retired notary delivers a stack...
Author
Language
Vietnamese
Description
An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Tran Anh Hung's "luxuriant, visually seductive debut" (New York Times) recreates antebellum Vietnam through both the wide eyes of childhood and the deep blush of first love. In 1951 Saigon, 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the lush physical details that envelope...
16) Dilili in Paris
Author
Language
English
Description
In Belle Epoque Paris, the young Dilili with the help of her delivery-boyfriend investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls. Over the course of her investigation, she encounters a series of extraordinary characters, each of whom provides her with clues that will help her in her quest.
17) Delicious
Author
Language
Français
Description
France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first restaurant.