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Les Hommes De L'ombre (The Shadow Men) Season 2
[ HiGloss DVD / 2 DVD - released 11/May/2017 ] Continuing from Season One, the naked trading in French politics to hold onto power is exposed with searing accuracy. It is a year since Anne Visage lost the presidential elections, and the current President, Alain Marjorie,faces two disasters:... |
The Innocent
[ Palace Films Collection DVD / DVD - released 7/Dec/2023 ] When Abel learns that his impulsive mother Sylvie is re-marrying to an inmate she met whilst teaching theatre in prison, he's more than uncomfortable. Abel's protective streak kicks in, and with the help of his best friend Clémence, he begins tailing... |
Annie's Fire
[ Palace Films Collection DVD / DVD - released 2/Nov/2023 ] 1974, regional France. When working class mother of two Annie and her husband fall pregnant, they know they can't afford to care for another child. Annie is introduced to a group of local women and doctors who offer both judgement-free support and... |
Aurore
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 14/Mar/2019 ] A hugely entertaining blend of humour, truthfulness and sensitivity, Blandine Lenoir's warm-hearted romantic comedy AURORE centres on a middle-aged woman in the midst of major personal and professional life changes. Fifty-year-old Aurore Tabort (the... |
Between Two Worlds
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2022 ] Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche), a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other... |
C'est La Vie
[ Madman / DVD - released 6/Dec/2018 ] The masterminds behind the runaway success The Intouchables are back! After organising hundreds of events over 30 years, Max is close to throwing in the towel. The latest nightmare for the irritable planner is a magnificent wedding reception in a... |
Declaration Of War
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2012 ] From now on, it's war Based on real-life events experienced by filmmaker Valerie Donzelli and co-star/writer Jeremie Elkaim, DECLARATION OF WAR tells the powerful but life-affirming story of a young Parisian couple suddenly dragged from their... |
The Disappearance
[ Acorn Media DVD / 2 DVD - released 17/May/2017 ] A French drama series starring Francois-Xavier Demaison as Bertrand Molina, a detective sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young teenager at a music festival in Lyon. With the grieving family pressing for answers, it's not long... |
Everything Went Fine
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 9/Feb/2023 ] When Andre, 85, has a stroke, his daughter Emmanuel hurries to her father's bedside. When he wakes up diminished and dependent, this vital and curious man who loves life asks his daughter to help him end his life. R13: Deals with euthanasia.... |
Farewell, Mr Haffmann
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2022 ] The legendary Daniel Auteuil gives one of his most superlative screen performances in the gripping new historical drama from writer/director Fred Cavayé based on Jean-Philippe Daguerre's celebrated, award-winning play. Occupied Paris, 1941: all... |
A Friendly Tale
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 9/Sep/2021 ] A superb all-star quartet in stellar form leads the terrific new comedy of manners from Daniel Cohen, the story of life-long friends whose loyalties to each other are unexpectedly tested. Life loving 40-something Lea (Oscar nominee Bérénice Bejo,... |
The Frozen Dead
[ Acorn DVD / 2 DVD - released 14/Sep/2017 ] A horrific discovery in a small town nestled high in the French Pyrenees begins to unravel a dark mystery that has been hidden for years. On an unforgiving winter morning, a group of workers discover the headless body of a horse, hanging suspended... |
Two Many Chefs
[ Palace Films Collection DVD / DVD - released 7/Dec/2023 ] Mikel is a young, ambitious chef in search of his third Michelin star. When he receives an unexpected visit from his father Juan, who disappeared thirty years ago, his life is thrown into turmoil. Juan is an old-school chef who believes no time has... |
Kompromat
[ Palace Films Collection DVD / DVD - released 13/Apr/2023 ] Inspired by incredible true events, Jérôme Salle's gripping, smash-hit new espionage thriller depicts the remarkable story of a French public servant who unwittingly found himself in conflict with one of the modern era's most powerful and dangerous... |
Leon - The Professional
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 12/Aug/2010 ] Jean Reno ('Da Vinci Code' & 'Ronin') is Leon, a deadly & elusive killer. He lives a routine life, alone in New York with just his pot-plant for company until the day his twelve year-old neighbour, Mathilde, (Nathalie Portman in her big screen debut)... |
Lost Illusions
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 13/Oct/2022 ] An all-star cast dazzles in the spectacular and exhilarating new film by Xavier Giannoli ('The Singer', 'Marguerite'), an adaptation of Balzac's classic novel about a young idealist who learns that anything can be bought and sold. 1821. Handsome poet... |
Lost In Paris
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 14/Mar/2019 ] Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond. When Fiona's (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a... |
The Man In The Basement
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Aug/2022 ] Simon and Helen live in Paris together, they decide to sell a basement in their building. The man who buys it has a troubled past and the couple's life is turning upside down. French with English subtitles |
The Minister
[ Hi Gloss / DVD - released 12/Mar/2015 ] The political process is often downgraded in contemporary society, reduced to cliché and soundbite. Pierre Schoeller's gripping debut film puts the daily process of politics under the spotlight as the viewer follows the well-intentioned reactions of... |
Mr Stein Goes Online
[ Rialto / DVD - released 24/Oct/2018 ] Pierre, a 75 year old widower, discovers online dating websites. Using the profile picture of Alex, his grand daughter's boyfriend, Pierre meets Flora. Charmed by his elegant conversations and intimate confessions, she asks him on a date, face to... |
Murder Party
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 9/Mar/2023 ] Jeanne, a brilliant architect has a new assignment: renovate the sumptuous Daguerre mansion inhabited by an eccentric family, owners of a Board Game empire. When the landlord and patriarch Cesar is found dead, everyone present becomes a suspect.... |
My Days Of Glory
[ Palace Films Collection DVD / DVD - released 4/Mar/2021 ] In a welcome return to his French comedy roots Vincent Lacoste (AMANDA, SORRY ANGEL) stars as Adrien, the definition of an anti-hero: self-absorbed, unemployed and sponging shamelessly off his parents. A promising career as an actor in his youth has... |
The Mystery of Henri Pick
[ Madman / DVD - released 11/Feb/2021 ] Based on David Foenkinos's 2016 book of the same name, The Mystery of Henri Pick revolves around the film's enigmatic title character who, two years after his death, has his name sprawled across the covers of a celebrated novel, The Last Hours of a... |
Non-Fiction
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Jun/2020 ] Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet reunite with acclaimed director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) for this wry, slyly seductive tale of sex, lies, and literature. Set amidst the bohemian intelligentsia of the Parisian publishing world,... |
The Oak (Rialto French Classic)
[ Rialto Distribution Ltd DVD / DVD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] It's 1989, in Romania, just before the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and the privileged Nela is about to learn the hard truth about her family, her government and her life. Nela has always adored her father, a political hardliner, but after... |
Other People's Children
[ Palace Films Collection DVD / DVD - released 2/Nov/2023 ] 40-year-old Parisian high school teacher Rachel loves her life: she's inspired by her work and is close to her friends, and family. When she meets a man in her community guitar class - the recently-separated Ali, Rachel commences a relationship with... |
Perfumes
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 14/Jul/2022 ] Anne was once the star of her industry a perfumer whose ability to produce enticing new fragrances was second to none. She remains in demand, but her intemperate behaviour has made finding work more difficult. However, striking up an unlikely... |
Petite Maman
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Aug/2022 ] After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps... |
The Returned (Les Revenants)
[ SBS DVD / 3 DVD - released 13/Mar/2014 ] The Returned is a stylish French take on the supernatural genre that combines taut mystery with rich character-led drama. In a small Alpine village in the shadow of a vast dam, a crowd of men and women find themselves in a state of confusion,... |
Rosalie Blum
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 12/Oct/2017 ] Julien Rappeneau's enchanting directorial debut ROSALIE BLUM is a warm, witty and impeccably performed comedy about a random encounter that has unexpected and far-reaching consequences. Thirty-something Vincent Machot (indelibly played by Kyan... |
Skies Of Lebanon
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 17/Nov/2022 ] As a young woman in the 1950s, Alice leaves Switzerland, her birth country, to go to sunny and exuberant Lebanon. There, she falls madly in love with Joseph, a fanciful astrophysicist who dreams of sending the first Lebanese into space. But after a... |
Sorry Angel
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 10/Oct/2019 ] At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France, SORRY ANGEL follows the intertwining journeys of Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps), a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur (Vincent Lacoste), a curious,... |
A Tale of Love and Desire
[ Palace Fiilms / DVD - released 8/Sep/2022 ] Heralded as one of the major discoveries of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Leyla Bouzid's enchanting and seductive romance depicts a university student torn between his desire for a classmate and his deeply-held ideals of cultural and... |
Transit
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Jul/2019 ] In Christian Petzold's (Barbara, Phoenix) haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is... |
The Translators
[ Palace Films Collection DVD / DVD - released 18/Mar/2021 ] From writer/director Régis Roinsard (Populaire), this ingenious new whodunit is an Agatha Christie-style mystery in the vein of recent hits Knives Out and Murder on the Orient Express, featuring a terrific international cast.The eagerly awaited final... |
The Truth
[ Palace Fiilms / DVD - released 6/Oct/2022 ] Master auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu's wry and charming new dramedy THE TRUTH pairs French screen icons Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche for the first time, as a celebrated actress and her estranged daughter whose tentative reunion offers an... |
Un Village Francais - Vol. 3
[ HiGloss DVD / 4 DVD - released 8/Apr/2016 ] The cold winter of occupation raises tensions in Villeneuve. Since June 1941, and the opening of the Russian front in WW2, paranoias have increased about Communists in the village of Villeneuve. Arrests are made by mistake at the school, the mayor is... |
Un Village Francais - Vol. 5
[ HiGloss DVD / 4 DVD - released 9/Nov/2017 ] It's August 1944. Much of France is liberated, but the Germans remain in Villeneuve. The abuses by the militia continue, and this swells the ranks of the resistance, and the struggle continues, even if life after the war is so close. The characters... |
Un Village Francais - Vol. 7
[ HiGloss DVD / 2 DVD - released 12/Apr/2018 ] This is it. After the longest war in history, some resolution. And some flash forward sequences that will complete the story. 1945 - The war is officially over, but the characters that we have followed through the series are far from clear of the... |
We'll End Up Together
[ Palace Films Collection DVD / DVD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] Writer/Director Guillaume Canet reunites the entire cast from his 2010 smash hit Little White Lies for this highly anticipated follow up. It's been years since middle-aged restaurateur Max (François Cluzet) has received his friends at his gorgeous... |
