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1) The midwife
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Conscientious, inhibited and perhaps a little self-righteous, midwife Claire is in a rut. After years of placing other people before herself, she's worried she might have been left behind. One day, however, an unexpected phone call changes everything. The call is from her father's former mistress Béatrice, a capricious free spirit who walked out on the family over three decades ago. As circumstances reunite these two polar opposites, flighty Béatrice...
3) 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.
4) Spiral
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The story of how a cycle of fear, hatred, and violence has taken hold and created a resurgence of anti-Semitism in France and in the wider world.
5) Cemetery man
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Francesco is a cemetery watchman whose job is to slaughter the living dead when they rise hungry from their graves. Following a tragic tryst with a lusty young widow, Francesco begins to ponder the mysteries of existence.
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In 1954 a reclusive ex-soldier is thrown into the woes of rebellion when he's ordered to escort a villager accused of murder to prison during the Algerian War. As their journey leads them through a deadly fire-fight between settlers and rebels, the two men on opposite sides of the conflict must join forces to survive.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Ad©·le Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by L©♭a Seydoux. Directed by Adbellatif Kechiche, this finely detailed,...
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"A unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and decay.This remarkable seven-hour anthology, organized in eight thematic groups over three DVDs, presents amazing treasures from the vaults of Lobster Films in Paris and from the Blackhawk Films Collection,...