Gaumont (Firm)
Publisher
Fox Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2000
Language
Deutsch
Description
During the Franco-Prussian war, a young widow who is saved from an attempted rape finds herself mysteriously pregnant several months later. Unaware of how this happened, she is sent away by her family and ends up marrying her rescuer, whom she doesn't know is the child's father.
Publisher
Omnibus Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It all happened way up in the Alps, where the snow is pristine, where chamois and marmots frolic, where soaring peaks scrape the clouds. A solitary little boy meets a stray dog, and so begins a story of enduring friendship. The timeless tale tells the story of how Sebastian tamed Belle; the extraordinary adventures of a resourceful, adorable boy during the Second World War.
4) Adore
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Escape to a close-knit seaside community where friendship, love and lust collide. A sensual yet thought provoking drama in which two lifelong friends find themselves entangled in passionate sexual relationships with each other's sons. As they struggle to make sense of conflicting emotions and desires, the lines between family, friendship and morality are blurred. When powerful bonds reach their breaking point, discover what truly keeps us connected....
5) Désiré
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Français
Description
A valet begins a flirtation with his employer, who is in turn involved with a class-obsessed politician.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Français
Description
The pride of French intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (code name OSS 117) has a new mission that takes him to Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960s. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent, he has to capture a Nazi blackmailer with a embarrassingly long list of World War II French collaborators.
Series
Criterion collection volume 50
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Italiano
Description
In 1914, a colorful melange of celebrities embark on a funeral voyage for a dead opera star. An allegorical film blending spectacle, humour, poignance and grotesquerie.
10) The intouchables
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust, and human possibility. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker, The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.
Series
Criterion collection volume 260
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Français
Description
A distinguished plastic surgeon's reckless driving is responsible for disfiguring his beautiful daughter's face; so he kidnaps young women intending to graft their features to make her a new face.
12) Les Vampires
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Describes the achievements of Les Vampires, a secret society of criminals led by Irma Vep. The gang uses kidnapping, poisonous gas, heavy artillery, sexual domination and murder to gain power over the elite of Paris.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
Français
Description
"Frederique is a free-spirited and impish woman who has made an art of using her sexuality to get precisely what she wants from men. On a whim, Frederique leaves her disinterested husband and the family trout farm to travel to Japan with a wealthy businessman. Her enchantment soon gives way to reflection, navigation of the swiftly-changing sexual freedoms and responsibilities of a new era, and the quest for satori, the "world of ecstasy" experienced...
14) The neon demon
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has.
15) Samba
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
A richly entertaining chronicle of an undocumented kitchen worker battling deportation from his adopted home in Paris.
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
When Claire, a beautiful but reserved young woman unwittingly provokes the furious jealousy of her evil stepmother Maud, life as she knows it is over. Sent far away from home, Claire awakens, both figuratively and literally, in a small village in the French mountains. As if by magic, her formerly shy demeanor is gone and she is suddenly aware of her feminine power. It's the beginning of a radical emancipation. As Claire meets the locals and starts...
17) Les cousins
Series
Criterion collection volume 581
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Français
Description
"Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le beau Serge, Les cousins recasts that film's stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles"--Container....
Series
Criterion collection volume 744
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Français
Description
This looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people: a television producer, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute, to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom with her lawyer roommate. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits, until the truth comes out.