Arte France cinéma (Firm)
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
"Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the 'boys' law' in the neighborhood, Marieme ... starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the group. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection."--Container.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide, Ltd. Film
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. At the moment when the Sudan, the continent's biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old civilizing pathology re-emerges: that of colonialism, clash of empires, and yet new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources.
4) The salesman
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Persian
Description
The story of a couple whose relationship begins to turn sour during their performance of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
5) Titane
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A Cannes Film Festival sensation and Palme d'Or winner, TITANE is a feverish and jaw-dropping ride from the mind of Julia Ducournau (RAW). With a titanium plate surgically fused to her skull following a car crash as a child, car model Alexia embarks on a wild and ultimately unpredictable journey that questions our assumptions about family, identity and love.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Romanian
Description
Not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, treachery and deception. A trip to the Canary Islands to learn a secret whistling language might just be what they need to pull it off.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride and they spend the evening getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of 'a kiss without consequences'. Emilie admonishes him that a kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story unfolding in flashbacks about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone's life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
It follows filmmaker Leo, whose amorous encounter with a free-spirited shepherdess results in a baby he's forced to raise. Through a series of unexpected and unusual encounters, while simultaneously struggling to find inspiration for his next film, Leo will do whatever it takes to stay standing.
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Two adulterous lovers go from pillow talk to possible murder in this sexy, brain-teasing thriller. Julien is a middle-age salesman embroiled in a steamy love affair with a married woman who, after a round of kinky sex, makes a startling suggestion. Suddenly Julien is caught up in a police investigation, but just what exactly happened?
13) Wild side
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A group of outsiders, one transsexual, one deserter from the Russian army, and one male prostitute, find comfort in each other. However, this leads to a complicated love triangle.
14) The square
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A satirical drama reflecting the times, about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of Europe, crossed by thousands of migrants in the last...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into a friend who although being in a relationship, embarks on an affair.
Publisher
Soi︠u︡z
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Russian
Description
Still living under the same roof, the Moscow couple of Boris and Zhenya is in the terrible final stages of a bitter divorce. Under those circumstances, as both have already found new partners, the insults pour down like rain in this toxic familial battle zone, always pivoting around the irresolvable and urgent matter of Alyosha's custody, their 12-year-old only son. Unheard, unloved, and above all, unwanted, the introverted and unhappy boy feels that...
18) Knife + heart
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.
19) Gabrielle
Publisher
Wellspring
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.
20) Personal shopper
Series
Criterion collection volume 899
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way one mourn those they love.