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Le Clan

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Sexy French superstars Nicolas Cazalé and Stéphane Rideau (Presque Rien) star in this epic portrait of three brother's simmering masculinity.

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Le Grand Voyage

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2006 BAFTA Nominated starring Le Clan's Nicolas Cazalé and Mohamed Majd both give outstanding performances in this beautiful and poignant film, which took home the Luigi de Laurentiis Award at...

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2 Seconds

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Champion of the mountain bike circuit Laurie (Charlotte Laurier) is, after ten years, still at the top of her game. At the start of a crucial race she falters for two seconds and loses. She is...

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The 400 Blows

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Praised by film-makers (Akira Kurosawa called it "One of the most beautiful films that I have ever seen") and critics the world over, Truffaut's 400 Blows launched the Nouvelle Vague and paved...

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5x2

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All marriages are a mystery to outsiders, they say, and François Ozon's new film succeeds in shining a light on one such mystery while somehow keeping its essential core of unknowability intact....

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A Common Thread

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Seventeen-year-old Claire Moutiers (Lola Naymark) has managed quite well since moving off her parents' farm and into a quaint studio in Angouleme. Her supermarket cashier's job pays the bills,...

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A Ma Soeur!

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Anais is twelve and seems to be carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her large body acts as a protective shield from which she processes the world and her own douleur. Either forced...

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A Slightly Pregnant Man

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A male Parisian driving school owner who complains of feeling run down goes to see his doctor and is pronounced four months pregnant...

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A Summer's Tale

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'A Summer's Tale' is the third part of Eric Rohmer's 'Four Seasons' quartet of films, which includes 'Autumn Tale', 'Tale Of Winter' and 'Tale Of Springtime'. A shy young man named Gaspard ...

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A Tale of Springtime

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This enchanting comedy of manners follows the newly formed frienship between Jeanne, a philosophy teacher, and Natasha, a music student, who meet by chance at a Paris party. Through the force of...

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A Very Long Engagement

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The director and star of Amelie reunite in this moving tale of a young woman's search for her lover - a soldier on the front line at Somme.

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A Winter's Tale

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On holiday in Brittany, Parisian hairdresser Felicie has an idyllic romance that results in the birth of her daughter, Elise. Through a mix-up over her address, she loses touch with Elise's...

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Élisa

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Man hating good time girl Marie (Vanessa Paradis - winner of a Cesar in 1990) and her felloe orphan friends Solange (Clothilde Courau) and Ahmed (Sekkoy Sall) spend their time hustling, clubbing,...

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À Ma Soeur!

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Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her body is both a fortress and the citadel for her pain. Huddled safely alone - and forgotten by others - she has long been...

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Abouna

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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's second feature following the award winning 'Bye Bye Africa' offers confirmation of the arrival of a visually assured and highly sophisticated talent in world cinema. Set in...

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Alain Delon: Screen Icons Collection

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A collection of five films starring the iconic, icy blue-eyed Alain Delon, one of the most iconic figures in recent French cinema history. This set has films from the key phases of his career,...

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Amelie

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Amelie Poulain has led a sheltered life - educated at home by over-protective parents, she retreats into a fantasy world of her own. When she finally leaves home and finds work as a waitress in a...

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An Autumn Tale

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Rohmer's light-hearted comedy, set amongst the vineyards of the Rhone Valley, concludes his film cycle 'The Tales Of The Four Seasons'. Best friends Magali, a widow, and Isabelle, a happily...

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Anatomy of Hell

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French auteur Catherine Breillat's taxing deconstruction of supposed male attitudes, ranging from bafflement to disgust, to female anatomy. Wanting to explore the outer limits of her...

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And God Created Woman

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The film that launched Brigitte Bardot on an unsuspecting world and changed the face of movies forever! Roger Vadim's directorial debut broke box office records the world over and showed St...

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Avril

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When Avril is given the chance to explore the world outside her convent before taking her vows, she immediately accepts, mostly because she wants to meet her fraternal brother with whom she was...

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The Barbarian Invasions

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One time hedonist and womaniser Remy is diagnosed with a serious illness which, although in itself tragedy, does lead to a reunion with his estranged son, Sebastien. Sebastien's attempts to keep...

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The Beat That My Heart Skipped

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Romain Duris plays a twenty-eight year-old destined to follow in his sleazy slumlord father's footsteps. But a chance encounter with a friend of his late mothers reawakens hopes of a new direction.

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Beau Travail

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Inspired by Herman Melville's 'Billy Budd', this is a stunning combination of literature, music, poetry and dance that explores the near mythical world of the French Foreign Legion. Denis Lavant...

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Bed and Breakfast

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A Year in Provence meets La Cage Aux Folles. Caroline and Bertrand are both dissatisfied by the stress, the traffic congestion and their hellish work schedules. They leave Paris for Provence,...

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Belleville Rendez-Vous

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When a dedicated cyclist competing in the Tour de France is kidnapped, his grandmother — who has devoted her life to his cycling career — enlists the aid of the family dog and a trio of...

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Betty Blue

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Zorg is a handyman working at in France, maintaining and looking after the bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. One day Betty walks...

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Betty Fisher and Other Stories

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A dark, compelling thriller adapted from crime scribe Ruth Rendell's 'The Tree of Hands', 'Betty Fisher and Other Stories' sees renowned French director Claude Miller (An Impudent Girl, La Petite...

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Bon Voyage

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Vivianne Denvers is a well-known film actress who has many male admirers. At the premiere of her latest picture she is pursued by Beaufort, a rather large government official. To get away from...

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Breathless

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Landmark French movie that turns the tragi-comic story of small time criminal Michel Poiccard/Laszlo Kovacs (Belmondo) obsessed with both Bogart and an aspiring American journo (Seberg), into a...

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Brief Crossing

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On an overnight ferry ride French sixteen year old Thomas strikes up a conversation with English thirtysomething Alice. She invites him to share her table and as the evening progresses the naïve...

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C.R.A.Z.Y

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C.R.A.Z.Y. is the sexually fueled story of a gay Montreal teenager's traumas and adventures as they are recounted in this knowing, music-filled coming-of-age drama.

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Carnages

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In Spain a young bullfighter is injured in the arena and the offending bull is killed. Overnight, the magnificent creature is dismembered, parcelled up, and dispatched to various destinations...

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The Chorus

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France, 1949: unemployed music teacher Clement Mathieu (Jugnot) is hired as supervisor in a boarding school for troubled children. The particularly repressive Rachin, the school's director, has...

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Claire's Knee

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The fifth and undeniably most accessible of French auteur Eric Rohmer's Moral Tales, Claire's Knee (LeGenou de Claire, 1970) concerns Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), an affianced diplomat who bumps...

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The Claude Berri DVD Collection

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Experience Claude Berri's finest, extraordinary and highly acclaimed films in this stunning four disc box set featuring Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Germinal and Lucie Aubrac

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Close to Leo

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12-year-old Marcel longs to be treated like an adult by his older brothers, but his parents still want him to remain the family’s little prince but he wants to know his gay brother's secret and...

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The Closet

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François Pignon, the world's most boring man, pretends to be gay in order to save his job. His bemused colleagues struggle to come to terms with his hitherto secret sexuality - whilst others see...

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Cockles & Muscles

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The fabulous French duo also dubbed the 'Pierre et Gilles of French Cinema' are back with this succSEXfully wicked comedy that tempts you to take a family holiday to "La Plage aux Folles".

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Criminal Lovers

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A compelling and shocking film that plays with fluid sexuality and blurs boundaries between fantasy and reality, retribution and crime, pleasure and pain.

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Dans Ma Peau

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After suffering deep gashes to her leg from an accidental fall, a young research analyst, Esther, becomes obsessed with her body and skin. At first merely caressing her arms, pinching excess...

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Danton

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Gerard Depardieu stars in this dramatic recounting of the power struggle between the leading figures of the French revolution, Danton and Robespierre.

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Death in a French Garden

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Michel Deville's sleek drama of eroticism and murder was released in 1985 in France to great acclaim. It has all the ingredients required for an intriguing thriller: sex, dishonesty, voyeurism,...

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Deep In The Woods

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Five sexy young actors are hired to perform at a millionaire's estate hidden deep in the woods where unsettling news bulletins report of another victim falling prey to a bloody serial killer. The...

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Dieux Du Stade 2006

Thanks to the overwhelming success of the previous years’ DVDs, the French rugby team has flung open the locker room doors once more, offering themselves in all their natural glory to the DVD world.

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Diva

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A young postal messenger's secret recording of his operatic idol gets him into unimaginable depths of trouble when the bootleg is accidentally switched with a surveillance tape. As a pair of...

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Dobermann

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Ruthless, cunning and sexy, The Dobermann (Vincent Cassel) is a class-A criminal for the 21st Century. Along with his stunning partner Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci), The Dobermann leads a crazy...

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The Double Life of Veronique

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Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, creator of the masterful THREE COLORS TRILOGY, presents this enigmatic, philosophical drama about duality in the modern world. Weronika (Irene Jacob), a...

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Drôle de Félix

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Felix (Sami Bouajila) is a thirtysomething, HIV-positive gay guy. In this film about family and the discovery of self, Felix is first seen jauntily riding his bike. When he gets laid off from...

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The Dreamers

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Warning full frontal nudity and sex! True to Bertolucci form, The Dreamers depicts an obsessive and illicit (and majorly naked) menage a trois... Most memorable is a 'long' lingering close up of...

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Eloge De L'Amour

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Film director Edgar is planning a new production. He meets Elle, who he is sure would be perfect for the lead role, but there is something strangely familiar about her. In flashback, we learn...

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En Attendant Le Deluge

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When a wealthy old man discovers that he is suffering from an incurable disease, he pledges to allow himself one final luxury, a private performance of his favourite play. Summoning a theatre...

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Errance

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With this unsparing depiction of a couple in turmoil, Odoul proves himself once more to be one of the leading French filmmakers of his generation. Set in three different places and times, from...

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The Escort

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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...

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Every Little Thing

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The protagonists in Nicolas Philibert's documentary 'Every Little Thing' are the patients and staff at the La Borde psychiatric clinic in France. Each summer they perform a play on a stage set in...

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Francois Ozon - Regarde La Mer And Other Shorts

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Francois Ozon is one of the most provocative and vibrant filmmaker's to emerge during the 1990s. His dark, mordantly psychological films draw their impact from often disturbing explorations of...

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French Twist

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When Loli becomes fed up with her husband's philandering, she moves in a butch, cigar smoking lesbian.

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Garcon Stupide

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A witty drama about a gorgeous and incredibly naive gay man who winds his way through a series of casual sexual encounters until he meets an older man who teaches him about love and intimacy.

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The Girl From Paris

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Fed up with city life, Sandrine (Mathilde Seigner) decides to leave Paris and live out her dream of becoming a farmer. It's love at first sight when she comes across a farmstead on the Vercors...

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The Girl On The Bridge

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When a girl on a bridge looks like she is determined to take her own life, a passing stranger shows her that there is a different way...

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Girls Can't Swim

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Even though they grew up on opposite sides of France, Gwen and Lise are best friends and spend every summer vacation together on the Brittany coast where Gwen lives and Lise's family has a summer...

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Grande École

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Paul and Agnès have been going out for quite some time, and Agnès is shocked to learn that Paul would rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. Each year the French...

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Harry, He's Here to Help

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When Michel bumps into old school acquaintance Harry en route to a summer holiday with his wife and young daughters, he thinks nothing of it. But when Harry invites himself and girl-friend Plum...

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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

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For young, gifted art student Angelique, love has a name: 35-year old cardiologist Loic. The only problem is that the object of her affections is not only a father-to-be but happily married... to...

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Heading South

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On the sun-drenched palm-fringed paradise island of Haiti at the end of the 1970s, Brenda, Ellen and Sue, three North American women, look for flirtation, relaxation and respite from their...

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Hidden

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This utterly compelling psychological thriller from Michael Haneke - one of cinema's most daring original and controversial directors - stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges, a television presenter who...

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Histoire de Marie et Julien

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Julien (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), a mature, unmarried watchmaker, meets the young, beautiful and vulnerable Marie (Emmanuelle Beart). The intense love sparked off between the two, leads them to...

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In Extremis

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Thomas is a handsome young hedonist living in Paris. He lives a wild, reckless life that includes sexual escapades with men and women, boozy nights clubbing and living in the moment. Despite his...

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Innocence

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Deep in the middle of a forest there is a girl's boarding school cut off from the world outside. No one is allowed to leave and those that do are never seen again.

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The Intruder

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A reclusive French hermit travels to Korea in a bid to build a ship to sail to Tahiti where he may be reunited with his estranged son... 'The Intruder' continues to demonstrate the visual poetry...

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Irréversible

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"Time destroys everything" After Alex has a fight with her boyfriend Marcus, she leaves a party alone and is attacked and raped by a stranger on her way home. Furious, Marcus and his friend...

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Is Paris Burning?

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The explosive, courage-filled story of the Allied Resistance and the Paris Liberation of 1944. As the Nazi jackboot marches through Europe, the freedom fighters of Paris mount a brave resistance....

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Je Taime Moi Non Plus

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Jane Birkin stars as petite waitress Johnny, who lives and works at a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She falls for gay garbage-truck driver Krassky (Joe Dallesandro), who is...

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Jean-Luc Godard Box Set - Alphaville/Le Petit Soldat/Une Femme Est Une Femme [1965]

In 'Alphaville' a special agent travels through space to find out the fate of his predecessor, and ends up in a totally loveless society. 'Une Femme Est Une Femme' tells the story of a nightclub...

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Jules et Jim

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Hailed by critics as one of the greatest films of all time, this internationally award-winning film is set pre- and post-World War One, and tells the tale of two young students - Jules (Oskar...

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Juste une question d'Amour

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Just a Question of Love follows the whirlwind romance of two young men in different stages of coming out. The film paints a heartbreaking portrait of the difficulties that befall a relationship...

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L'Appartement

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Simply exuding confidence from the word go, L'APPARTEMENT is a stylish and sexy combination of love story and thriller in which one man is caught up in the passion-driven fates of three women....

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L'Argent

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Bresson's classic film, adapted from a story by Tolstoy, tells of the tragic chain of events which ensue when two schoolboys pass a forged banknote in a photography shop. The note is transferred...

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La Balance

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In the dark and dangerous streets of Paris lurks an underworld full of lowlifes, pimps and hookers. The elite undercover cops turn a pimp into an informer (La Balance) in order to crack the...

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La Balance

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In the dark and dangerous streets of Paris lurks an underworld full of lowlifes, pimps and hookers. The elite undercover cops turn a pimp (Philippe Leotard) into an informer in order to crack the...

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La Belle et la Bête

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Cocteau's retelling of the classic 'Beauty and the Beast' is addressed to 'what remains of the child in all of us', but by avoiding all whimsy and sentimentality its appeal is universal. The...

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La Belle Noiseuse

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Jacques Rivette's award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled 'La...

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La Cage Aux Folles

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A timeless Gallic Classic Comedy of manners and camp in which two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married....

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La Cage Aux Folles 1 & 11

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A timeless Gallic Classic Comedy of manners and camp in which two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married....

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La Cage Aux Folles II

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Hilarious sequel to La Cage aux Folles - nightclub owner Renato and his lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly gets his hands on a role of...

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La Confusion

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A sexy and funny story of a middle-aged man who shares his bed with twenty something guy but wants to fall in love with a woman.

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La Grande Bouffe

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Marco Ferreri's Outrageous film chronicles the bizarre and ultimately fatal gastronomic weekend undertaken by four middle aged friends who retreat to an old country house for a huge 'blow out'....

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La Haine

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Responsible for causing a scandal on its domestic release, this bruising portrait of disaffected youth confirmed its writer/director Mathieu Kassovitz as the wunderkind of French cinema....

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La Lectrice

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Celebrated French director Michel Deville (Death in a French Garden) invites audiences to read between the lines in this sublimely tantalising fantasy based on a selection of works by author...

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La Peau Douce

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In director Francois Truffaut's dramatic film, 'La Peau Douce', Pierre is a successful, happily married publisher who meets Nicole, a lovely airplane stewardess, and begins a lustful affair with...

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La Vie En Rose

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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...

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Lady Chatterley

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October 1921: Constance, Lady Chatterley, and her husband Clifford have been living at Wragby Hall on the Chatterley estate in the heart of England’s mining country for a year or two. Four...

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The Last Metro

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Winning an incredible ten French Academy Awards in 1981, The Last Metro is one of Truffaut's most highly acclaimed and popular films. Starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in magnetic...

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Le Bossu

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When his great friend the Duke of Nevers is slain in a dastardly assassination plot by Count Gonzague (Luchini), fencing master Lagardere (Auteuil) swears to avenge the murder and to take care of...

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Le Dîner de Cons

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Each week, Pierre and his friends organise what is called as "un dîner de cons", in which each participant must bring the most idiotic companion as a guest with a prize awarded to the most...

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Le Mépris

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Considered Godard's finest film, Le Mepris is a sublime mediation on absurdity, compromise and integrity - in art and marriage. Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia and starring Brigitte Bardot,...

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Le Secret

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'Le Secret' stars the luminous Anne Coesens as Marie, a married woman who senses that her life lacks a certain spark, until a chance encounter with Bill West (Tony Todd), a mysterious American,...

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Le Souffle

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A very special day in the life of David, a teenager spending the summer holiday at his uncle's farm. Powerfully exquisite, this study of a boy's journey into the treacherous terrain of manhood is...

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Les Chansons D'Amour

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An unforgettable celebration of love, loss and new beginnings, Les Chansons d'Amour is a fantastic tribute to the French New Wave classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Ismael finds himself at the...

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Les Choses Secrètes

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This delectably twisted fable centers on two penniless but shapely young women who set out to better their social station by manipulating men.

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Les Clefs de Bagnol

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A typically black Gallic comedy from Laurent Baffie concerning a man who loses his car keys and finds his life rapidly spiralling out of control!

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Les Valseuses

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Les Valseuses is the controversial, groundbreaking classic that shot Gerard Depardieu to stardom and also marked the arrival of a major new talent in director Bertrand Blier. One of the key...

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Like a Brother

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An explicit french coming of age/out story that tears away at youthful dreams and the realization of electric adulthood.

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Luc Besson: Nikita / Subway

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Nikita (1990): After being convicted of killing a cop, street-tough Nikita must choose between her own execution or training with a top-secret government agency to become an assassin. Given a new...

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Ma Mère

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Starring Louis Garrel of The Dreamers (and what you didn't see in that film, you'll see full-frontal in this one...) as Pierre, a 17-year-old who sets off to spend the summer holidays with his...

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Ma Vie

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On his sixteenth birthday, Etienne is given a video camera so he can record his figure skating sessions as he prepares for the French Cup. Obsessed with his new toy, he begins recording every...

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Man Bites Dog

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Made by three Belgian film students, “Man Bites Dog” was the prize winning sensation at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and has achieved cult status. A black comedy about an amiable but...

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Man Is A Woman

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Antoine de Caunes (presenter of Eurotrash) plays Simon, a gay man living in Paris, whose homophobic uncle offers him 10 million francs toget married, produce children and continue the family...

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Monsieur Hire

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The murder of a young girl strikes a chord of fear in a neighbourhood, with the local voyeur, Monsieur Hire, pegged as the prime suspect. His solitary ways and peculiar behaviours elicit the...

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My Angel

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Colette (Vanessa Paradis) lovely and vulnerable prostitute, accepts to take care of her unknown colleague's teenage son. This new responsibility doesn't diminish Colette's desire to get pregnant...

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Noce Blanche

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Francois is a happily married fifty year old teacher. Concerned that rebellious student Mathilde is going to be expelled he sets out to help her but is soon drawn into a passionate relationship...

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Notre Musique

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