Isabelle Huppert
Publisher
Franco-Swiss Coproduction ; MK2 Productions ; CAB Productions ; France 2 Cinema
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Français
Description
The lives of Mika and her husband, celebrated pianist Andre Polonski, are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned that she almost had been switched at birth with Polonski's son in the hospital. Also a pianist, Jeanne speculates that she may be Andre's daughter. Her suspicions further aroused by Mika's behavior, Jeanne begins the dangerous task of unraveling a dark web of family secrets and lies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
5) The Nun
Publisher
Les Films Du Worso ; Belle Epoque films ; Versus
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
In 1760s France, Suzanne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music, enjoying a quietly privileged life. Inexplicably sent off to a convent, she resists structure at every turn until she discovers that she is an illegitimate child. Left with no other option, she pronounces her vows and suffers the consequences of her mother's sin. Still uncertain of her path and oppressed by aggressive and inappropriate Mother Superiors, Suzanne continues...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Alice is a high-class prostitute who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele, from school girl innocence to S & M. Fed up with the seamy underbelly of French masculinity she crosses paths with Xavier, a neurotic psychoanalyst facing a marriage crisis. The two quickly realize their professions share a thing or two in common as they navigate the overlapping worlds of psychotherapy and sex therapy.
7) Greta
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to the widowed Greta. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve...
8) Amour
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
The bond between elderly loving couple Georges and Anne is tested when Anne has a stroke and Georges cares for her at home.
9) Frankie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Unfolding over the course of a late summer's day in the fabled resort town of Sintra, Portugal, this film follows three generations who have gathered for a vacation organized by the family matriarch. In this fairy tale setting, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, stirred by their romantic impulses, discover the cracks between them, as well as the unexpected depth of feeling.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Portuguese
Description
In 1810 Lisbon quakes before the impending invasion of Napoleonic forces led by Marshal Massena. Portuguese and English troops, led by the Duke of Wellington, rebuff the French, but at a terrible cost endured by peasants and aristocrats alike.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
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.
13) I Huckabees
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Kindhearted, but confused environmental activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life. All the while, a sexy, French author is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
14) Heaven's gate
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A lawman and a hitman are in love with the same woman. All three are caught up in a devastating class war, when ruthless ranchers decide to kill off the starving immigrants who have been stealing their cattle. The story is based on a real range war in the 1890s in Johnson County, Wyoming.
15) Gabrielle
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.
16) Heaven's gate
Series
Criterion collection volume 636
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
17) Elle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter, a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life.
19) La ceremonie
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie to work as her maid at her remote home in the French countryside. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne and suddenly the stage is set for murder, violence and betrayal.
20) Amateur
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A crackpot ex-nun who writes pornographic short stories crosses paths with an amnesiac wandering the streets of New York City. When they set out to uncover his identity, they come face to face with his unsavory past--including a vengeful porno actress and ruthless corporate assassins hot on their trail.