Emilie Dequenne
Author
Language
Français
Description
Jeanne (Emilie Dequenne) lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise (Catherine Deneuve). Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein (Michel Blanc), a famous lawyer whom she knew in her youth. Jeanne and Bleistein's worlds are light years apart. However, they'll be set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a lie that grows into the biggest news and political story of the...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertaintment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Five people are killed in a freak accident when a lofty rope bridge collapses. A priest journeys to discover if there was a divine reason for the bloody disaster. Set in Lima, Peru, during the 18th century and based on the Thornton Wilder novel.
3) Our Children
Author
Language
Français
Description
Based on true events, celebrated director Joachim Lafosse's Our Children is an intense, multi-layered thriller about the breakdown of an unorthodox family unit. Murielle (Emilie Dequenne) falls for Mounir ( Tahar Rahim). The happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. With family comes ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father (Niels Arestrup).
4) Close
Publisher
A24
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Leo and Remi are two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly, tragically torn apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Lukas Dhont's second film is an emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence, and heartbreak and healing.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
In this tense French drama, a doctor brings a boy to Belgium and raises him as his own. When the boy reaches adulthood, he gets married and starts his own family, though he still relies on the doctor. When trouble strikes his family, this dependence turns into domination.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
Français
Description
Jacques is a forlorn bachelor living alone after his wife has left him. Deciding to get his life back in order, he hires a housekeeper. Laura plows through the mess that has overtaken his apartment, but he soon learns that she has never done a day's worth of housework in her life. Her presence adds a joyful spark to a life that has been missed living for too long.
7) Close
Author
Language
Français
Description
Leo and Remi are best friends whose seemingly unbreakable bond is tragically torn apart in this portrait of the intersection of friendship and love.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Français
Description
Marine Le Pen was defeated in the French election that brought Emmanuel Macron to power, but her far right-wing party, with its nationalist, anti-immigrant platform, lives on to feed the fear and resentment that begot Donald Trump’s election. THIS IS OUR LAND is a fictionalized story of an attractive working-class single mother in the North of France who naively agrees to run for mayor, representing the Patriotic Bloc. Nominated for the Golden Tulip...
9) Rosetta
Series
Criterion collection volume 621
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on her shoulder throughout.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer she knew in her youth. They are set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a lie that grows into the biggest news and political story...
11) Our children
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Murielle and Mounir fall in love and have children, as so many couples do. Unlike other couples, however, they give over the control of their family by living with Mounir's rich adoptive father. It seems as if everything is going well, but underneath it all, Murielle is suffocating.
13) Rosetta
Publisher
Movie Holic Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
Rosetta, a shy 17-year-old girl, lives with her alcoholic mother in a trailer park in Belgium. Desperate to live a normal life, her one ambition is to get and keep a job.
14) This is our land
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
An engaged but apolitical nurse gets involved in a far-right political party. Based on numerous recent events in France, it becomes about how Front National operates and how it is perceived by the French.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
When a mysterious beast ravages the countryside, two unlikely heroes are called in to fight the evil. The only way they can save the land from this unspeakable terror is to face their greatest fears, unearth a dark power, and reveal a deadly secret.
