France movies

Splice (2009)

Friday, June 25th, 2010
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | USA
Actors: Brody, Adrien | Hewlett, David | McGibbon, Brandon | Baird, Stephanie | Brugel, Amanda | Chanéac, Delphine | Chu, Abigail | Polley, Sarah
Directors: Natali, Vincenzo
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Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named “Dren”, the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.

Golden Door (2006)

Friday, June 25th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: France | Italy
Actors: Gainsbourg, Charlotte | Amato, Vincenzo | Schiavelli, Vincent | Quattrocchi, Aurora | Casisa, Francesco | Pucillo, Filippo | De Cola, Federica | Ragonese, Isabella | Luna, Filippo | Prodan, Andrea | Mahieux, Ernesto | Benassi, Marcelo | Sangiorgi, Giuseppe | Fazzino, Alessandra | Culino, Giuseppe
Directors: Crialese, Emanuele
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The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

Barbarella (1968)

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: France | Italy
Actors: Fonda, Jane | Law, John Phillip | Pallenberg, Anita | O'Shea, Milo | Marceau, Marcel | Dauphin, Claude | Vendell, Véronique | Cobelli, Giancarlo | Marquand, Serge | Musco, Nino | Gulà, Franco | Chevallier, Catherine | Chevallier, Marie Therese | Di Grazia, Umberto
Directors: Vadim, Roger
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The year is 40,000. Peacefully floating around in zero-gravity Barbarella is suddenly interrupted by a call from the President of Earth. A young scientist, Durand Durand, is threatening the ancient universal peace and Barbarella is the chosen one to find him and save the world. During her mission, Barbarella never finds herself in a situation where it isn’t possible to lose at least part of her already minimal dressing.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Lee, Sheryl | Wise, Ray | Amick, Mädchen | Ashbrook, Dana | Augustine, Phoebe | Bowie, David | DaRe, Eric | Ferrer, Miguel | Gidley, Pamela | Graham, Heather | Isaak, Chris | Kelly, Moira | Lipton, Peggy | Lynch, David | Marshall, James
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Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost’s earlier tv series “Twin Peaks”. The first half-hour or so concerns the investigation by FBI Agent Chet Desmond into the murder of waitress Teresa Banks. The film then cuts to one year later and follows the events during one week in the life of Laura Palmer, a story which was later to motivate much of the series. Contains a considerable amount of sex, drugs, violence, very loud music and inexplicable imagery.

Lenin: The Train (1988)

Monday, June 14th, 2010
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Countries: Austria | France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Kingsley, Ben | Caron, Leslie | Sanda, Dominique | West, Timothy | Whitman, Peter | Elorriaga, Xabier | Connery, Jason | Bonacelli, Paolo | Sbragia, Mattia | Lermitte, Robin | Halmer, Günther Maria | Schwarz, Dagmar | Mestre, Jeannine | Kraemer, Hans | Aichhorn, Michael
Directors: Damiani, Damiano
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March/April 1917. the first world war is already a couple year old. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zurich through Germany and Sweden to Saint-Petersburg. The bolsheviks on the train are lead by Vladimir J. Lenin (Kingsley). There are some unpleasant collisions taking place between enthusiastic Socialists and workers concerned about the war. During the train travel time Lenin’s affair with the gracious Inessa comes to an end, and his Nadja is prepared to take him back. The triumphant arrival in Saint-Petersburg exceeds all expectations.

The Piano (1993)

Monday, June 14th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Hunter, Holly | Keitel, Harvey | Neill, Sam | Paquin, Anna | Walker, Kerry | Lemon, Geneviève | Baker, Tungia | Mune, Ian | Dennett, Peter | Skipwith, Te Whatanui | Smith, Pete | Allpress, Bruce | Curtis, Cliff | Rupuha, Carla | Tunui, Mahina
Directors: Campion, Jane
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It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand’s South Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation.

Mr. Nobody (2009)

Monday, June 14th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: Belgium | Canada | France | Germany
Actors: Leto, Jared | Kruger, Diane | Polley, Sarah | Ifans, Rhys | Beveney, Nicholas | Brochu, Daniel | Byrne, Thomas | Capelluto, Laurent | Chaves, Pierre | Cross, Joel | De Costanzo, Noa | De Neck, Didier | Dhaenens, Valentijn | Dillon, Tedd
Directors: van Dormael, Jaco
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Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence at his wife’s side, Elise, and their 3 children until the day when reality skids and he wakes up as an old man in the year 2092. At 120, Mr. Nobody is both the oldest man in the world and the last mortal of a new mankind where nobody dies anymore. But that doesn’t seem to interest or bother him very much. The only questions that preoccupy him in the present is whether he lived the right life for himself, loved the woman whom he was supposed to love, and had the children whom he was meant to have… now his purpose is to find the right answer.

Chaplin (1992)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Chaplin, Geraldine | Rhys, Paul | Thaw, John | Kelly, Moira | Hopkins, Anthony | Aykroyd, Dan | Tomei, Marisa | Miller, Penelope Ann | Kline, Kevin | Pitillo, Maria | Jovovich, Milla | Dunn, Kevin | Moore, Deborah
Directors: Attenborough, Richard
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The biography of Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker extraordinaire. From his formitive years in England to his highest successes in America, Charlie’s life, work, and loves are followed. While his screen characters were extremely hilarious, the man behind “The Little Tramp” was constantly haunted by a sense of loss.

The Good Heart (2009)

Friday, May 28th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: Denmark | France | Germany | Iceland | USA
Actors: Axelrod, Steve | Boði | Bro, Nicolas | Buell, Bill | Burg, Michael J. | Cox, Brian | Dano, Paul | De Shields, André | DuVal, Aristedes Philip | Foreman, Darren | Henderson, Stephen | Jónsson, Haraldur | Lyndeck, Edmund | Magnusson, Leifur | McGlynn, Sean
Directors: Kári, Dagur
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Dagur Kari’s character study The Good Heart follows crusty old bar owner Jacques (Brian Cox) as he trains a generous young homeless man named Lucas (Paul Dano) to take over his beloved bar. Jacques suffers from a very bad heart, and understands that any day could be his last. However, this does not stop him from chain smoking, drinking nonstop, and hurling an endless stream of poetically vulgar insults at the regulars who gather at his establishment every night. As the two begin to slowly influence each other, Lucas falls in love with April, and Jacques insists that women have no place in his bar.

Chloe (2009)

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | USA
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Neeson, Liam | Seyfried, Amanda | Dobrev, Nina | Thieriot, Max | Reale, David | DeCarteret, Laura | Heffern, Meghan | Vellani, Mishu
Directors: Egoyan, Atom
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Catherine and David, she a doctor, he a professor, are at first glance the perfect couple. Happily married with a talented teenage son, they appear to have an idyllic life. But when David misses a flight and his surprise birthday party, Catherine’s long simmering suspicions rise to the surface. Suspecting infidelity, she decides to hire an escort to seduce her husband and test his loyalty. Catherine finds herself ‘directing’ Chloe’s encounters with David, and Chloe’s end of the bargain is to report back, the descriptions becoming increasingly graphic as the meetings multiply.