Vincent Cassel
1) Sheitan
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
On Christmas Eve, a group of young guys meet two gorgeous girls who invite them to spend the weekend in the country, where they meet Joseph (Vincent Cassel), a creepy, unkempt man whose pregnant wife remains hidden in the large house. That evening, what begins innocently as Christmas dinner turns into disturbing conversations about sex, satanic possession, and incest. Joseph's behavior becomes increasingly erratic and the young friends realize their...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
D'Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three musketeers of the King.
3) Adrift
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Portuguese
Description
While spending summer vacation with her family on the idyllic southeast coast of Brazil, fourteen-year-old Filipa discovers that her father, a famous author, is betraying her mother by dallying with a beautiful young American woman. Wrestling with the truth, Filipa will soon discover that her father's infidelity is only the first of many dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of her seemingly perfect family.
4) Partisan
Language
English
Formats
Description
11-year-old Alexander is the oldest kid in the compound, with lots of mothers but only one dad: Gregori (Vincent Cassel), who keeps everyone safe from the outside world. He's Gregori's star pupil - and a trained assassin.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Reality and fantasy collide in the story of a family-owned circus spanning five generations of decadence, love and loss. Starring Vincent Cassel, based on a poem by Jorge de Lima. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. “*One of the Cinema Novo’s founding fathers and perhaps its most interesting exponent.*” – ***Film Comment***
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Français
Description
In the climactic second part of the Mesrine saga, Jacques Mesrine is back in France after his brazen assault on the maximum-security prison from which he daringly escaped. Once again in police custody and facing stern justice for his crime, 'the man of a thousand faces' escapes directly from the courtroom after kidnapping the judge at gunpoint. The life of Jacques comes once and for all to a full bloody circle.
Series
Mesrine saga volume pt. 1
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The first of two parts charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine, the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and the Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings, and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit.
Series
Studio classic volume 38
Language
English
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Description
A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. An insecure ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake but slowly loses her grip on sanity when a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
10) Jason Bourne
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason Bourne, the CIA's most dangerous former operative, now remembers who he truly is and comes out of hiding to uncover more hidden truths about his past.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The relationship between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud is torn apart when Sabina Spielrein, a troubled but beautiful young woman, comes between them and forever changes the face of modern thought.
12) Trance
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
After a blow to the head during his attempted robbery of a $27 million Goya painting, Simon, an art auctioneer, awakens to find that the painting, and his memory, are missing. Forced by his ruthless crime partner Frank to undergo hypnosis, Simon enters into a deadly love triangle with his seductive hypnotist.
13) Eastern promises
Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
14) Shrek
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Relive every moment of Shrek's daring quest to rescue feisty Princess Fiona, with the help of his lovable loudmouthed Donkey, and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from scheming Lord Farquaad.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In a remote university town hidden in the coldness of the French Alps, a killer is sending a message. When the police commissaire, who is France's leading serial killer investigator, is called to investigate a grisly murder, he enters a world of secrets, lies and unthinkable horrors. Each murder to follow means something more, each victim a guily conspirator in a grand immoral experiment.
17) Underwater
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
18) Tale of tales
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly are Queen and King in this gory, gorgeous grown-up fairytale full of princes and princesses, sorcerers and fairies,and fearsome monsters and ogres. Three story strands interweave with one another in this film from director Matteo Garrone. In one tale, Hayek plays a jealous queen who forfeits her husband's life. In another, Cassel plays a king whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters.
19) Birthday girl
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John should have known. Having never been lucky in love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia. At first, things seem perfect even though Nadia doesn't speak much English. But when Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption...
20) La haine =: Hate
Series
Criterion collection volume 381
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Français
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Description
Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.