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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... |
What's In A Name?
[ Madman / DVD - released 9/Jan/2014 ] Vincent (Patrick Bruel), a successful forty-something, is about to become a father for the first time. His sister Élisabeth (Valérie Benguigui) invites him to a dinner party at her beautiful apartment in Paris, with her academic husband Pierre... |
Clean
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 12/Apr/2007 ] When you don't have a choice, you change. Emily Wang (Cheung) is a washed-up TV hostess living a quiet but drug-addicted life with rocker husband Lee and son Jay. When Lee ODs, Emily is thrown into jail for possession and Jay is sent off to his... |
The Escort
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 9/Aug/2006 ] Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) is having a mid-life crisis. Realising that up to now he has led a very programmed life he decides to make a selfish journey into the unknown. Leaving his confused wife and son behind he flees to London to write a... |
In The Footsteps Of Tintin
[ Madman / 2 DVD - released 14/Mar/2013 ] A series of five documentary films entitled In the footsteps of Tintin: follow-ing Tintin… with a cameraman! The films are based on the theme 'dreams and reality'. How many people, young and old, have dreamed of being a fearless hero, of travelling... |
La Rupture (The Breach) (World Classics Collection)
[ Umbrella DVD / DVD - released 17/May/2017 ] Hélène Régnier (Stéphane Audran) is a good mother with a checkered past as a stripper and barmaid. She divorces her ne'er-do-well husband and her in-laws blame her for causing her husband's addiction and set out to remove their grandchild from... |
The Last Battle
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 9/Sep/2010 ] Shot in striking black-and-white, the seminal first feature from acclaimed director of The Fifth Element and Leon: The Professional;, Luc Besson, is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where only the strong survive... In the near-future, a global... |
Life is a Bed of Roses (Rialto French Classic)
[ Rialto Distribution Ltd / DVD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] An homage to some of France's greatest film makers - Georges Melies, Marcel L'Herbier, Eric Rohmer and Alain Resnais' triptych film pays tribute to the power of the imagination. Its three stories follow a utopian architect, reform-minded... |
Marriages!
[ Studio Canal / Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 12/Nov/2009 ] Johanna and Benjamin are 25 and are getting married today. The witnesses at their wedding are 35, have been together ten years and are splitting up today. Their parents are 45, broke up ten years ago and are trying to get back together today... Three... |
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... |
One Stays, One Leaves
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 21/Aug/2008 ] Two Paris art dealers find it difficult to juggle wives and mistresses in Claude Berri's compelling comedy drama One Stays, The Other Leaves. A powerful script, smart production values and brilliantly emotive performances from a stellar cast... |
The Ordeal
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2006 ] MISERY meets DELIVERANCE when a cabaret singer's van breaks down in the remote wooded south of Belgium. Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas) is on his way between gigs when his van breaks down in bad weather. In desperate need of shelter, he is directed, by... |
OSS 117 - Cairo, Nest of Spies
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 11/Jul/2007 ] Introducing Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, French special agent OSS117. After the mysterious death of his colleague Jack Jefferson while on assignment in Egypt, OSS117 is sent in to find the killers. And monitor the Suez Canal. And the British in... |
Peekaboo!
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 23/Aug/2007 ] The story of an expropriated farmer who hides in the bottom of a well. From his well, he observes the newcomers in his own house. He tries to understand, as well as to take part in the family life from which he is excluded. He is viewed in other... |
Point Blank
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 10/May/2012 ] Samuel is a nurse's aide, studying for his final nursing exams and leading a quiet kind of life. Blissfully happy in his marriage and with a baby on the way, Samuel's life is pleasantly mapped out. But one night, he saves the life of a mysterious... |
The Princess of Montpensier
[ Madman Entertainment / Studio Canal / DVD - released 7/Jul/2011 ] France 1562. Under the reign of Charles IX, war is raging between Catholics and Protestants. The beautiful young Marie de Mézières, heiress to one of the kingdom's greatest fortunes, pines for the Duc de Guise-known as Le Balafré, or "Scarface". But... |
Red Lights (Feux Rouges)
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 3/May/2006 ] It's the hottest day of the year when a couple (Antoine, an insurance clerk and Hélène, a successful lawyer) hit the road for a holiday destination towards the south of France to meet their children. The roads are packed with heavy holiday traffic... |
See You Up There
[ Umbrella / DVD - released 21/Nov/2018 ] In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, Edouard Péricourt (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Glue) saves Albert Maillard's (Albert Dupontel, Irreversible) life. The two men have nothing in common but the war. By ordering a senseless assault,... |
Tonight, I'll Sleep at Yours
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Feb/2010 ] Alex loves Laetitia. She is beautiful, funny, sparkling, radiant and she loves Alex. She even adores Jacques, Alex's best friend and publisher. In essence, she's the light and love of Alex's life, the future mother of his children, his reason for... |
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... |
