Synopsis: When her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a 27 years old black woman, decides to look for her real mother. She is overwhelmed when she discovers that her biological mother, Cynthia, is white and that she has a 20 […]
Synopsis: In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the Police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion, and the imminent departure of the Chief […]
Synopsis: Amélie is no ordinary girl. A barmaid in a Montmartre bar, she likes observing people and letting her imagination roam free. One day, she suddenly finds her purpose in life: to fix up other people’s troubles. Among them: […]
Synopsis: Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. While the class goes through a long healing process, nobody in the school is aware of Bachir’s painful former life; nor that […]
Synopsis: Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards & punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety […]
Synopsis: Fond de l’Etang is a boarding school for troubled boys located in the French countryside. In the mid-twentieth century, it is run by the principal M. Rachin, an egotistical disciplinarian whose official unofficial mantra for the school is […]
Synopsis: In 1122, the hex of a sinister witch and the absentmindedness of a wizard combine to send a brave warrior and his footman to a batty century, ours! Godefroy de Montmirail and Jacquouille la Fripouille’s quest is not […]
Synopsis : Pierre Brochant plays a curious game with his friends: dining with idiots. On Wednesday, each person has to bring along an idiot and the one who brings the most spectacular idiot is the winner. Tonight, Brochant is […]
Synopsis: On one side is Le Quesnoy family, catholic, middle class people, perfectly educated and somehow boring. On the other side is Groseille family, poor and insane, squeezed in a filthy apartment. Both families have nothing in common, except […]
Synopsis: From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Edith Piaf’s life was a battle to sing and survive, live and love. Raised in poverty, Edith’s magical voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the […]
Synopsis: The story of Antoine Doinel – aged twelve and a half – begins on the day he is given a severe punishment at school to do at home that evening. It so happens that he is unable to […]
Synopsis: A story of love and adventure, set in 1942 in Paris, in the theater world during the German Occupation just as the French zone is about to be invaded. Lucas Steiner, a German Jew who took refuge in […]
Synopsis: Antoine Doinel joined the army but has just been discharged. The film tells his reunion with Christine Darbon, the girl he was in love with before the beginning of the film, and his adventures in his jobs : […]
Synopsis: A body wrapped in plastic floats down a river in Washington State. It is 17-year-old Teresa Banks FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole (David Lynch) calls Agent Chester Desmond (Chris Isaak) about the mysterious murder of Teresa Banks […]
Synopsis: Fred Madison, a saxophonist, is accused under mysterious circumstances of murdering his wife Renee. On death row, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton, leading a completely different life. When Pete is released, his and […]
Synopsis: Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? Set in an industrial town in which giant machines are constantly working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is inescapable, Henry Spencer lives in a building […]
Synopsis: Veronika lives in Poland. Veronique lives in France.They don’t know each other. Veronika gets a place in a music school, works hard, but collapses and dies on her first performance. At this point, Veronique’s life seems to take […]
Synopsis: The third and final part of Kieslowski’s trilogy has been acclaimed as his masterpiece. Irene Jacob is stunning as a young model who meets a retired judge by chance when she rescues his dog from a car accident. […]
Synopsis: Karol, a Polish hairdresser, is divorced by his beautiful French wife Dominique and thrown onto the streets of Paris, with no money and no passport. All seems lost until he meets a fellow Pole who ingeniously smuggles Karol […]
Synopsis: Julie loses her composer husband and their child in a car crash and, though devastated, she tries to make a new start, away from her country house and a would-be lover. But music still surrounds her and she […]
Synopsis: In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner (Rodolphe Boulanger) and a law […]
Synopsis: Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her […]
