Catherine Deneuve
2) On my way
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
When her mother tells her that her married lover has ditched her for a 25-year-old beautician's assistant, Bettie, a former Breton beauty queen turned bistro owner, takes to the road and winds up at a dive bar named Le Ranch, for an evening of drunken revelry sets. Bettie's resentful daughter, Muriel, then asks her mother to chauffeur her son, Charly, to his grandfather's, and the pair sets out on a trip that will ultimately lead Bettie to revisit...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
"Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer she knew in her youth. They are set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a lie that grows into the biggest news and political story...
5) Persepolis
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
6) Potíche
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
"A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action."--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 492
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Special édition].
Language
Français
Description
When steely French matriarch Junon (Catherine Deneuve) learns she has leukemia, she asks her children and grandchildren at the family Christmas gathering to see if they are eligible to become bone marrow donors. This causes deep friction in the family, especially between Junon's daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) and son Henri (Mathieu Amalric), who already have a tumultuous relationship. Their mother's sickness also recalls the traumatic loss of...
8) Last metro
Series
Criterion collection volume 462
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country,...
9) The midwife
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.
10) A Christmas tale
Series
Criterion collection volume 492
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A dysfunctional family's matriarch brings everyone together at Christmas to inform them she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative in order to survive. Bonus features include two documentaries and an essay from critic Philip Lopate.
13) Standing tall
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
A juvenile judge and a special educator are convinced that they can save the young delinquent Malony from himself and his violent ways.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor and a nurse fight to do their job and help them find acceptance. The four of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.
15) Beloved
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
While in London, Madeleine rekindles an affair from thirty years earlier while her daughter Vera is torn between her longtime boyfriend and an American musician.
16) Repulsion
Series
Criterion collection volume 483
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, which leaves God angry, powerless and adamant to get his power back.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full-screen format.
Language
Français
Description
Gilbert Valance is a successful theater actor who learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident. Over time, Valence's life regains a semblance of normalcy - he takes care of his orphaned grandson, strolls the streets of Pairs, frequents his favorite cafe and retuns to the stage. But when an American film director casts him against type in an English-language production of Ulysses, Valance struggles to master the...
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