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Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 1995
In 1871 Paul Verlaine 1844-1896 an established poet invites boy genius Arthur Rimbaud 1854-1891 to live with Paul and his young pregnant wife Mathiltde in her fathers home in Paris. Rimbauds uncouth behavior disrupts the household as well as the insular society of French poets but Verlaine finds the youth invigorating. Stewed in absinthe and resentment Verlaine abuses Mathiltde; he...
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1995
111 min
Total Eclipse
Country: France
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1975
Halifax 1863. A young woman Miss Lewly comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson with whom she is madly in love. Actually she is Adèle Hugo the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet...
1975
96 min
The Story Of Adele H
Country: United Kingdom, Italy, France
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Year: 2002
Seduced by Jung killed by hate redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor Carl Gustav Jung takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung Freud...
2002
90 min
The Soul Keeper
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Year: 1982
During the middle of the 16th century Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin but he seems to know all about his friends his family and his wife even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin...
1982
122 min
The Return Of Martin Guerre
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 2006
Diana the Peoples Princess has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen and her family decide that for the best they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people. This also puts pressure on newly elected Tony Blair who constantly tries to convince the monarchy to address the...
2006
103 min
The Queen
Year: 1928
The sufferings of a martyr Jeanne DArc 1412-1431. Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and dEstivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue is taken to her cell and judges forge evidence against her. In her cell priests interrogate her and judges deny her the Mass. Threatened first in a torture chamber and then offered communion if she will recant she refuses. At a cemetery...
1928
110 min
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (la Passion De Jeanne D'arc)
Country: United Kingdom, France, Vietnam
Year: 1992
It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class...
1992
115 min
The Lover
Country: United Kingdom, France
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 2011
THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris. Despite distance long separations and a dangerously hostile regime their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of...
2011
132 min
The Lady
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
In Paris the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe is a quadriplegic millionaire who is interviewing candidates for the position of his carer with his red-haired secretary Magalie. Out of the blue the rude African Driss cuts the line of candidates and brings a document from the Social Security and asks Phillipe to sign it to prove that he is seeking a job position so he can receive his...
112 min
The Intouchables
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Year: 1994
The night of August 24 1572 is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults poisonings and instigations to...
1994
174 min
Queen Margot
Country: United States, France
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Year: 1991
On November 22 1963 president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby supposedly avenging the presidents death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people...
1991
189 min
Jfk
Country: France, United States
One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became president had an affair with and fathered a child with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French his...
139 min
Jefferson In Paris
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Jack Nicholsons portrait of Union leader James R. Hoffa as seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro Danny DeVito. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all the way to a conclusion that negates the theory that he disappeared in...
140 min
Hoffa
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1993
The final movie in Oliver Stones Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a freedom fighter a hustler young mother a sometime prostitute and the wife of a US. marine the girls relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as Woman and the U.S. as...
1993
Heaven & Earth
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Year: 2012
Hortense Laborie is a celebrated chef living in the Perigord region. To her great surprise the President of the Republic appoints her as his personal cook. She accepts reluctantly but once she has accepted her nomination Hortense works her heart and soul to produce both a stylish and authentic cuisine. For a while she manages to impose herself thanks to her sturdy character and despite the...
2012
95 min
Haute Cuisine
Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg
Year: 2007
James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth Bafana and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later now married to Gloria and father of three children Chris Brett and Natasha James has nothing but shame and regret as many South African Caucasians in the oppressive Apartheid-era ridiculed him leading him to hate Africans. He seeks to redeem himself by...
2007
118 min
Goodbye Bafana
Country: France, Switzerland
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Year: 1974
Ugandas dictator General Idi Amin Dada accepts a foreign crews request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations his goal of eradicating Israel his views on economic policy and his views of Nixon Kissinger and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a cabinet meeting two weeks after this meeting the foreign...
1974
General Idi Amin Dada
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Year: 1990
Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence France. He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With the co-operation of an ex-pupil of Marcels father whos a teacher they only have to walk 1 mile since they can take a shortcut along a canal through the backyards of some eccentric people. During one of...
1990
98 min
My Mother's Castle
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
A young boys life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel witnesses the success of his teacher father as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in...
105 min
My Father's Glory
Country: France, Canada
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2008
The story of Jacques Mesrine Frances public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in...
2008
133 min
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Country: United States, France, Japan
All eyes will be on you says the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film marketed for a teen audience is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinettes life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of...
123 min
Marie Antoinette
Country: United Kingdom, Chile, Spain, France
Year: 2004
Santiago capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious collegio Catholic prep school St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infantes...
2004
121 min
Machuca
Country: United Kingdom, France, Japan
Year: 1998
In the 1960s British painter Francis Bacon 1909-1992 surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar a working class man named George Dyer 30 years Bacons junior accepts. Bacon finds Dyers amorality and innocence attractive introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life Dyer dominates Bacon is the masochist. Dyers bouts with depression his drinking and pill...
1998
Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany
Two faiths two empires two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary Walsingham using as a pawn Elizabeths cousin Mary Stuart whos under house arrest in the North. The trap springs and the armada sets...
114 min
Elizabeth - Das Goldene Königreich
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France
Year: 2005
The daughter of an actor father and a social-climber mother Domino Harvey bored with her life decides to join the team of Ed Moseby and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafias money is stolen from an armored truck while Moseby and his crew are participating in a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation gets out of control when the sons of a rival mobster...
2005
127 min
Domino
Country: France, Poland
Year: 1983
Action opens in November of 1793 with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety under Robespierres incitement has begun a series of massive executions The Terror. Confident in the peoples support Danton clashes with his former ally but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers tries them before a...
1983
136 min
Danton
Country: France, Belgium
Year: 2009
Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. Shes both a seamstress for the performers and a singer earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entrée into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing...
2009
Coco Before Chanel (coco Avant Chanel)
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, South Africa
A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African heros journey to freedom. In the countrys turbulent and divided times in the 1980s Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the countrys oppressive reigning system even as police Colonel Nic Vos further...
101 min
Catch A Fire
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Stracheys homosexuality the relationship was nevertheless a deep and complicated one. When Carrington did develop a more physical relationship with soldier Ralph Partridge Strachey was able to welcome him as a friend although...
Carrington
Country: United Kingdom, Australia, France
Its 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house the Dilkes family who live in the other half. Through their association with the Dilkes the fatherless Brawne family know Mr. Brown. The Brawnes eldest daughter Fanny Brawne and Mr. Brown dont like each other. She thinks hes arrogant and rude and he feels that she is pretentious...
119 min
Bright Star
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2010
Chronicles a man who is obsessively interested in only one thingthe pictures he takes that document the way people dress. The 80-year-old New York Times photographer has two columns in the papers Style section yet nobody knows who he...
2010
84 min
Bill Cunningham New York
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Year: 1987
In 1944 upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother François travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school they have friction in their relationship. However Julien learns to respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They...
1987
104 min
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Year: 1997
Artemisia Gentileschi 1593-1653 was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth when she was guided and protected by her father the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy forbidden for her eyes led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a...
1997
Artemisia
Country: France, Spain
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Big budget account of Christopher Columbus discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants and Columbus struggle to civilize the New...
154 min
1492: Conquest Of Paradise
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Arthur did as a boy what only grandpa a fellow nature buff did as an adult: pass as white man the Bogo tribes tests of harmony with the natural worlds of trees minerals and animals. To answer a mysterious call fro help from the Mimimoy people he enters their world miniaturized. By the time he works out with friends it was a trick the mastermind has already escaped ready to strike in our...
93 min
Arthur And The Revenge Of Maltazard
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Year: 2014
An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk unless the airline transfers 150 million dollar into an off-shore...
2014
106 min
Non Stop
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
In 1970s Iran Marjane Marji Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shahs defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up she witnesses first hand how the new Iran now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent...
Persepolis
Country: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Cyprus, United States
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Year: 2013
Adam Tom Hiddleston I an underground musician reunites with his lover for centuries Tilda Swinton after he becomes depressed and tired with the direction human society has taken. Their love is interrupted and tested by her wild and uncontrollable little sister Mia...
2013
Only Lovers Left Alive
Country: United Kingdom, United States, France
Genre: Drama
When former journalist Martin Sixsmith is dismissed from the Labour Party in disgrace he is at a loss as to what do. That changes when a young Irish woman approaches him about a story of her mother Philomena who had her son taken away when she was a teenage inmate of a Catholic convent. Martin arranges a magazine assignment about her search for him that eventually leads to America. Along the...
Philomena
Country: United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Belgium
During the last two years of her life Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat...
113 min
Diana (2013)
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117 min
Jimmy P.
Genre: Drama, Music
Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow huddled against the unforgiving New York winter he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own...
Inside Llewyn Davis
Country: Ireland, Poland, Netherlands, Germany, France
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Eddie Durkan the self-proclaimed leader of the Bucks is dreading spending another summer bored out of his skull. Ireland has qualified for the Euros in Poland but with no money and apathetic mates the task falls to Eddie to get them out of Castletown and onto the road in search of football and the...
89 min
The Hardy Bucks Movie
Country: Germany, Belgium, United States, France
A look at the life-changing connection between a retired and widowed American philosophy professor and a young Parisian...
116 min
Last Love
Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma a friend of the family who has lived alone since the death of her father. The two young women develop a strange fascination for one another which soon develops into an intense mutual...
You Will Be Mine
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Set around a wife and husband on vacation in Morocco with the wife plotting to murder her husband with help from her lover. The plan goes terribly wrong when her lover and husband get into a terrible car accident on a remote desert road. They escape the multi-car pileup at a desert intersection and encounter the group of survivors including a wanted smuggler an undercover cop a kidnapper a...
Intersections
Country: Canada, France
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The ghost of a teenager who died years ago reaches out to the land of the living in order to save someone from suffering her same...
97 min
Haunter
Country: France, Ireland, Sweden
Genre: Horror
In a remote town in Ireland eleven-year-old Niamh finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals the police ignore Neves explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace...
Dark Touch
Country: Australia, France
Lil Naomi Watts and Roz Robin Wright are two lifelong friends having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds...
Adore
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
When Vincent finds himself a victim of outing in his high school he must accept to live with the drastic changes it provokes and redefine his relationships with his friends and...
86 min
You'll Get Over It
Country: France, United Kingdom, Germany
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Year: 2003
Eleven-year-old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has the entire kit but none of the skill and hes a laughingstock at school. So when a Jamaican family moves in next door and builds a cricket net in the back garden David is in seventh heaven. But this is 1960s Britain and when the neighbours start to make life difficult for the new arrivals Davids family is caught in...
2003
Wondrous Oblivion
Genre: Short, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Year: 1902
A group of men travel to the moon by being shot in a capsule from a giant cannon. They are captured by moon-men escape and return to the...
1902
13 min
A Trip To The Moon
Country: United Kingdom, France, United States
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Peter Colt an English tennis player in his thirties whose ranking slipped from 11th to 119th in the world considers he never really had to fight for anything as his wealthy but all but close family easily put him trough studies and allowed him to pursue his tennis ambitions bravely exchanges jokes with his German sparring partner Dieter Prohl in a similar position but feels its about time...
Wimbledon
Country: France, Portugal
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple...
City Of Pirates
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
The first part of Kieslowskis trilogy on Frances national motto: Liberty Equality and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband an acclaimed composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The films theme of liberty is manifested in Julies attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments belongings grief or love. She intends to numb herself by withdrawing...
Three Colors: Blue
Country: France, United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Year: 1999
A rebellious teenage monkey refuses to believe what he has been told and sets out to find the...
1999
Full
A Monkey's Tale
Genre: Horror, Thriller
In the former Yugoslavia the French medical team formed by Carole Samir and Dr. Mathias are returning from Kosovo to Paris by truck. They find a road block and the soldier tells that the army had found mines on the road and is deactivating them; therefore they should wait three hours to follow their journey. Dr. Mathias suggests Carole to drive through a secondary road and they get lost. They...
Caged
Country: United States, Switzerland, France
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an...
82 min
4:44 Last Day On Earth
Country: Iran, Tajikistan, France
Because of his special gift in identifying objects by the sounds they make a blind young boy is employed as a string instrument tuner in a small village in Tajikistan. He may be blind but that does not mean he cannot see. On his way to work he could tell the quality of the bread the young girls along the streets are peddling by simply touching their ware. His world is made more colorful and...
76 min
The Silence
