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Series
Criterion collection volume 141
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman.
3) Amélie
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Quiet and reserved, Amelie Poulin spends her days as a waitress at a Paris cafe and entertains herself by playing kindhearted practical jokes on her neighbors, finding love in the meantime.
5) High tension
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Marie and Alexa decide to spend a weekend at Alexa's parents' secluded farmhouse to prepare for their college exams. But in the dead of night, a stranger knocks on the front door and the girls' idyllic weekend turns into an endless night of horror.
Pub. Date
[2013]
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.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Lovely, repressed, and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène comes upon a couple engaged in an intensely sensual chess match, and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter, leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor, a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives.
9) Che
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Che Guevara, el joven idealista y revolucionario que luchó por los pobres y oprimidos, ha inspirado a una tras otra generación. Fascinante historia acerca de la intrépida vida del Che líder de una sangrienta rebelión socialista que sacudiría al mundo entero.
Rebel. Hero. Lover. Legend. Che has inspired generation after generation as the young idealist and revolutionary who fought for the poor and oppressed. A story about Che's fearless life...
10) The class
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher's...
11) Joyeux Noel
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Beginning with the Germans arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact. The war shatters all their lives, but a few of them, even in the shadow of destruction, reach out to find fleeting moments of connection and love.
13) The guardians
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
An affecting human drama of love, loss, and strength unfolds against the backdrop of World War I. The women of the Paridier farm, under the deft hand of Hortense, the family's matriarch, must grapple with the workload while the men are off at the front. New tools allow the women to triumph over the land, newfound independence is acquired, yet emotions are stirred, especially when the men return
14) Four Lovers
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Two couples decide to explore the boundaries of their relationships by swapping partners. What starts as a fun, free-spirited menage-a-4 experimentation full of sleepovers, shared vacations, and dinner parties soon turns into a hotbed of desire, anger, and confusion. As their arrangement leads them down an increasingly surprising and provocative path, the lovers begin to question their personal choices and lifestyles, leading to consequences none...
15) Farewell
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
In 1981 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. U.S.-Soviet relations are at their lowest point in more than a decade. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhney. Grigoriev begins passing him highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the U.S.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Murder in Arcachon (2019): Three grown daughters of an oyster farmer investigate their father's attack.
Murder in Luberon (2018): Prosecutor Elisabeth Richard teams up with Captain Charles Jouanic to investigate the death of a hunter.
Murder in Hérault (2019): Elisabeth and Charles search for a link between three very different murders.
Murder in Provence 2 (2019): Marie Jourdan hears that her friend Paul is in jail and travels to Provence to...
17) Return to Seoul
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Freddie has returned to South Korea for the first time since her adoption and move to France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country where she knows very little, including the language, to learn about where she was born.
18) Wild grass
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A lost wallet opens the door to Georges and Marguerite's romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the wallet he has found into the police. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. As George and Marguerite navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their everyday lives.
19) Water lilies
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Anne, Floriane, and Marie learn about love, friendship, and what they want from one another, during one summer in Paris.
20) The Grocer's son
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 7
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with...
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