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In the final film from legendary director Eric Rohmer, a young man, Celadon, goes on a journey to prove his devotion to the woman he loves, Astree. When Astree falsely suspects Celadon of infidelity, the young shepherd goes on a journey to prove his devotion. To do so, he must maintain his fidelity in the face of temptation and danger.
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Nelly has just left her husband. Through a mutual friend, she meets Monsieur Arnaud, 40 years her senior. He offers her a job, money and emotional comfort. Their relationship evolves into a touching and ambiguous journey through friendship, love and desire. Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Best Film not in the English Language. Winner of **César Awards** for Best Actor (Michel Serrault) and Best Director (Claude Sautet). "*It's reserved, polished...
84) Heat Wave
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On a sweltering day in the south of France, four characters find themselves on a collision course that ends in tragedy. Nominated for the Golden Camera and the C.I.C.A.E. Awards at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Winner of the Cinema Nouveau Award at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival.**
85) Baby Blood
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A cruel circus owner beats and abuses his pregnant wife, Yanka. One day the circus receives a leopard newly captured in Africa, but the animal soon dies. However, an evil creature that was inside the leopard bursts out of the animal's body, burrows into the wife's body and takes over her fetus. Yanka begins suffering from an overpowering appetite...for blood. Her unborn baby is craving for it. She kills again and again, until her little "Baby Blood"...
86) Night Shift
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In this moody Police drama set in Paris, Virginie, Erik and Aristide work as police officers in a local brigade, trying to hold their personal and emotional lives together while dealing with daily occurrences of violence in homes and on the streets. One night, they are assigned an unusual mission and must drive a migrant back to the border for unspecified reasons. On their way to the airport, Virginie discovers the prisoner will be sentenced to death...
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The decades-spanning tumultuous romance of a quintessentially French couple is chronicled in the thought-provoking and scathingly funny MR. & MRS. ADELMAN. Told in flashback from the early 1970s forward, this epic love-hate relationship begins as angst-ridden writer Victor meets Sarah, a brilliant doctoral student who falls head-over-heels. A complicated courtship and eventual marital discord ensue, as the egocentric Victor becomes a literary superstar...
88) The Sower
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Winner of the prestigious New Director competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Marine Francen’s debut is a sensual, visually stunning historical romance. In 1851, France’s autocratic President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte has ordered the arrest of all the men of a remote mountain farming village following a Republican uprising. The women spend years in total isolation, forced to tend the crops themselves. Some women have lost their husbands;...
89) In the Courtyard
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Middle-aged musician Antoine (Gustave Kervern) suddenly decides to end his career. After several days of aimless wandering, he is hired as the caretaker of an old residential building in Paris. Mathilde (Catherine Deneuve) is a recently retired resident, generous-spirited and deeply involved with the management of the building. Through a maze of misfires and anxieties, the two develop an awkward friendship. Nominated for an Best Actress at the **César...
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This acclaimed film depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young Tunisian woman balancing the traditional expectations of her family with her creative life as the singer in a politically charged rock band. AS I OPEN MY EYES offers a nuanced portrait of the individual implications of the incipient Arab Spring. Nominated for Best Film at the **Venice Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International...
92) The Other Son
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A moving and provocative tale of two young men, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions on themselves and their respective families. Winner of the Tokyo Grand Prix Award and the Award for Best Director at the **Tokyo International Film Festival.** "*Levy handles with aplomb what could easily have been a messy mix of emotions and politics.*"- John Anderson, ***Newsday***...
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Léon Blum, the Jewish French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister, stands at the heart of a new film. Janot Reichenbach (Elsa Zylberstein) fell in love with Blum (Hippolyte Girardot) when she was only sixteen. Years later, when they could finally be together, the Nazis arrived in France and Janot gave up her comfortable life to link her destiny to that of Leon Blum.
96) Olga
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A talented young gymnast from Kyiv, played by real-life former Ukrainian national team member Anastasiia Budiashkina, moves to Switzerland to pursue her Olympic dreams in Elie Grappe’s award-winning drama. Set in 2014, the film follows 15-year-old OLGA as she tries to make friends on her new team and adjust to life in her new home. As she relentlessly trains in preparation for the European Championships, her friends and family back in the Ukraine...
97) Bastards
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In this gripping thriller about money, sex and power, a ship captain returns to Paris to seek vengeance on the man suspected of causing his brother-in-law's suicide.
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Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl, full of energy, who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a corpus of sensual and erotic Arabic literature he never imagined existed, Ahmed falls deep in love with Farah, and although literally overwhelmed with desire, he will try to resist it.
99) Eleanor's Secret
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From Academy Award-nominated director Dominique Monféry comes a sumptuously animated adventure about a magic library where characters from classic children’s books come alive. Nat has fond memories of his eccentric Aunt Eleanor reading to him from her enormous collection of storybooks but is frustrated by his inability to read the books himself. So he is less than thrilled when he learns that his aunt has left him the keys to her attic library...
100) You Will Be My Son
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Paul de Marseul is the passionate, demanding proprietor of his prestigious family vineyard. But he has no faith in his son, Martin. Paul dreams of a harder-working, successful son - a dream that one day seemingly materializes when he meets Philippe, the son of his dying estate manager. Can Paul turn against his own blood and turn Philippe into the rightful heir of his family estate? Nominated for a **César Award** for Most Promising Actor. *"A strongly...
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