Olivier Gourmet
1) 40 Love
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 40 LOVE is the story of a father and son who are both trying to transcend their current reality to achieve their dreams. After losing his job as senior executive in a large chain store, Jérôme is determined to start his own new business, despite the concerns of his wife. Their son Ugo, though only 11, already shows great promise as a future tennis pro, and hopes to get accepted to the national training center...
2) Violette
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
A finely nuanced portrait of Violette LeDuc, one of the foremost French writers of the 20th century. VIOLETTE depicts LeDuc's extraordinary life, from her low beginnings as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl to becoming ensconced in France's literary elite. In spite of her wretched years as an unwanted child, followed by tense years as a black marketeer during WWII, Violette LeDuc is determined to make something of her life. Writing is her...
3) Conviction
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
As a juror at Jacques Viguier’s trial, Nora is convinced that he did not kill his wife. This intuition quickly becomes an obsession. She persuades the most famous lawyer in the country to defend him. Together they start a compulsive ght to prove his innocence against all odds. That quest has a price they might not be ready to pay.
4) Black Venus
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Paris 1817, at the Royal Academy of Medicine. «I have never seen a human head so similar to that of an ape». Standing by a molded cast of Saartjie Baartman’s body, anatomist Georges Cuvier’s verdict is break body to the audiences of London’s freak shows. Free and enslaved all at the same time, «The Hottentot Venus» became an out in cheers. Seven years earlier, Saartjie left her native South Africa with her master, Caezar, to expose her categoric....
5) De Gaulle
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
May 1940. Charles de Gaulle, newly appointed French General, joins the Government in Paris while his wife and children stay behind. Facing the defeatist attitude of Pétain ready to negotiate with Hitler, DE GAULLE has one purpose: continue fighting.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
May 1940. To escape the imminent German invasion, the inhabitants of a small village in northern France flee their homes, like so many millions of their compatriots. Max, a German boy, travels with them. His father, Hans, opposed the Nazi regime and was imprisoned in Arras for having lied about his nationality. Hans is eventually set free and sets off to find his son, accompanied by a Scottish soldier who is trying to get back home. Nominated for...
8) SK1
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Franck is an eager rookie homicide squad inspector. When a woman is found with her throat cut, he shrewdly unearths parallels between previously unrelated cases. Before he knows it, Franck is caught up in an eight-year obsessive hunt for Serial Killer 1, a man whose very existence is questioned by others. Loosely based on the investigation into real-life murderer Guy Georges, aka the Beast Of The Bastille (whose lurking disorder is deftly captured...
9) Altiplano
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
High in the majestic Andes of Peru, silent but deadly traces of mercury, remnants of long-ago silver mining, bring illness and death to a local village. Seeking retribution, the villagers mistakenly attribute the outbreak to Western doctors who work in the nearby mountains; violence ensues, and a doctor is killed. Altiplano is the story of two women: Saturnina, the fiancée of a villager killed by mercury poisoning; and Grace, a shell-shocked war...
10) Rosetta
Series
Criterion collection volume 621
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A young woman struggles to hold on to a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1789. The Bastille has been stormed and a breath of liberty blows through the streets of Paris. Françoise, a young washerwoman, and Basile, a drifter without a family or name, discover the unique exhilaration of love and revolution. Together with their friends and the people of the working-class districts of Paris, they begin to realize dreams of emancipation in a newly formed assembly where they witness, with both hopes and doubts, the creation...
12) Laissez-passer
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the wolf's teeth and avoid being chewed up". Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
Français
Description
Carla works in a real estate office and has a hearing problem. Carla makes the acquaintance of Paul, a small-time criminal who has just been released from prison on parole. Before long, it becomes obvious that Paul is having an influence on Carla's normally stable nature. Carla and Paul's actions go from malicious to seriously criminal when Paul hatches a scheme to rob a nightclub owner to whom he owes money -- a scheme that involves Carla's keen...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Oliver is working as a carpentry instructor in a French suburb. He develops an obsession with a new student and offers him friendship and advice with a frightening lack of affection. Oliver's connection to the boy is slowly and painfully revealed.
Publisher
Music Box Films
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.
18) La promesse
Series
Criterion collection volume 620
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.