Catherine Deneuve
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Portuguese
Description
In 1810 Lisbon quakes before the impending invasion of Napoleonic forces led by Marshal Massena. Portuguese and English troops, led by the Duke of Wellington, rebuff the French, but at a terrible cost endured by peasants and aristocrats alike.
2) Indochine
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
Just before the communist uprising in Indochina a plantation owner discovers that her adopted daughter has fallen in love with the owner's secret lover.
3) The midwife
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
An unlikely friendship develops between Claire, a devout and compassionate midwife, and Béatrice, her father's mistress, who unexpectedly shows up after thirty years of absence and reveals that she has a brain cancer.
4) Persepolis
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Français
Description
After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, a free-spirited teenager is sent to school in Austria and eventually makes the decision to return to Iran despite the tyrannical powers that rule her country.
5) Repulsion
Publisher
Entertainment Programs, Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Director Roman Polanski's first English language film. Catherine Deneuve stars as a London manicurist repulsed by sex. Her psychological problems ultimately lead to murder.
6) 3 hearts
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
One night in provincial France, Marc meets Sylvie after missing his train back to Paris. Instantly and intensely drawn to one another, they wander through the streets until morning in rare, almost choreographed harmony. A thwarted plan for a second meeting sends each in a separate direction: Sylvie reunites with her ex and leaves France; Marc falls in love and marries.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A housebound ȴrophy housewife' (or 'potiche') steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action.
Publisher
Wild Bunch ; Rhone-Alpes Cinema ; Fidelite Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
When her mother tells her that her married lover has ditched her for a 25-year-old beautician's assistant, Bettie, a former Breton beauty queen turned bistro owner, takes to the road and winds up at a dive bar named Le Ranch, for an evening of drunken revelry sets. Bettie's resentful daughter, Muriel, then asks her mother to chauffeur her son, Charly, to his grandfather's, and the pair sets out on a trip that will ultimately lead Bettie to revisit...
9) Apres lui
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
A divorcee is devastated when her 20-year-old son is killed in a car accident and begins to focus all of her attention on his best friend who survived the crash. But where does a broken heart draw the line between love and obsession?
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Selma, a factory worker in rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The sound of music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals out of control and the lines between reality and fantasy blur.
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.
12) The hunger
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Miriam the vampire, subsists on the blood of her lovers, who do not age, until she has had enough of them. John is currently in that position, and is expected to die in the next 24 hours. He seeks help from a doctor who does not believe his story.
Series
Criterion collection volume 593
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
The porcelain perfection of Catherine Deneuve hides a cracked interior in the actress's most iconic role: Severine, a chilly Paris housewife by night, a bordello prostitute by day.
14) The big picture
Publisher
Distributed by MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Paul Exben is a handsome and successful Parisian lawyer with a perfect family and a glimmering future in the firm he co-owns with his mentor. But behind this perfect facade lies a restless spirit who's uncomfortable in his life and envies the freedom of his neighbor, Greg, an uncompromising photojournalist. After Greg's unexpected death throws his life into chaos, Paul embarks on a cross-continent odyssey of self-discovery and reinvention.
15) The musketeer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A young man comes of age and decides to avenge the brutal murder of his parents. In a world threatened by war, and finding he has impressive combat skills, he finds the opportunity he is looking for in the elite fighting force of the infamous Musketeers. After years of disgrace, he reunites the group and brings them back to their previous glory. Along his journey, he helps the Queen of France and finds love.
16) The April fools
Publisher
Cinema Center Films; Jalem Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
English
Description
Howard Brubaker is a newly promoted man trapped in a loveless marriage. Catherine's marriage would be ideal if her husband weren't a womanizer. When Howard and Catherine meet at a trendy party for New York's corporate elite, they decide to escape and explore the city instead. Soon the pair find themselves falling in love and deciding to run off to Paris. All they have to do now is tell their spouses.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, which leaves God angry, powerless and adamant to get his power back.
Series
Criterion collection volume 462
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country,...
19) A Christmas tale
Series
Criterion collection volume 492
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Junon is the matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn't lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. Hopefully the Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, will finally bring peace to their...