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Lost in La Mancha

By:
Keith Fulton,Louis Pepe
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Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.

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Tout Robin

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Le Pacte du silence

By:
Graham Guit
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French, français
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Dans un dispensaire brésilien, Joachim, un père médecin, découvre Soeur Sarah, une jeune carmélite, dans un état de souffrance extrême. Il l'examine mais ne trouve rien. Intrigué, il décide de suivre ce cas jusqu'en France où elle est rapatriée en secret. La menace rôde, le père Joachim ignore que la vérité va bouleverser à jamais sa vie.

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Palais royal !

By:
Valérie Lemercier
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DVD
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French, français
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Une orthophoniste toute simple, mais mariée au fils cadet du roi, devient reine malgré elle à la mort du monarque, et ça rigole pas tous les jours sous les couronnes, ou alors si.

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Paris 36

By:
Christophe Barratier
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French
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A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a leftist union-oriented candidate, Léon Blum, has been voted into power, and organized labor is feeling its new power by standing up to management.

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Partir

By:
Catherine Corsini
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Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to do the building meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all engulfing passion to the fullest.

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Pause Café

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Les Pépites

By:
Xavier de Lauzanne
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French,Khmer
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Le Père Tranquille

By:
René Clément,Noël-Noël
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French
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This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment.

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Le Petit Nicolas

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Le Petite Lili

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Claude Miller
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This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.

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Pédale Douce

By:
Gabriel Aghion
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French
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Loic and Seb are a couple living in Paris's gay district, the Marais. Seb is the owner of the district's most trendy, chic and camp nightclub. It's a world devoid of judging eyes where the clientele can be themselves. Things are just terrific. What's more, Loic's dream of transmitting his heart and soul to another human being is about to come true: he's going to be a father. He gave his sperm. Things are just terrific. Marie Haguette, their accomplice, is offering them this gift, the most beautiful gift that two gay guys could receive: a baby! She's three-months pregnant, that dicey moment when things could go wrong... Maybe this is why Loic has morning sickness, contractions and cravings. Things are just terrific. Except for love, Love with a capital L of course, upsets the pie-cart. Marie falls madly in love with Charles, a wonderful stranger, but at least he's straight. What's more, he's coming to dinner tomorrow night. What should Loic and Seb do?

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Persepolis

By:
Marjane Satrapi,Vincent Paronnaud
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Persian,French,German, français,allemand,persan
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Téhéran 1978 : Marjane, huit ans, songe à l’avenir et se rêve en prophète sauvant le monde. Choyée par des parents modernes et cultivés, particulièrement liée à sa grand-mère, elle suit avec exaltation les évènements qui vont mener à la révolution et provoquer la chute du régime du Chah. Avec l’instauration de la République islamique débute le temps des «commissaires de la révolution» qui contrôlent tenues et comportements. Marjane qui doit porter le voile, se rêve désormais en révolutionnaire. Bientôt, la guerre contre l’Irak entraîne bombardements, privations, et disparitions de proches. La répression intérieure devient chaque jour plus sévère. Dans un contexte de plus en plus pénible, sa langue bien pendue et ses positions rebelles deviennent problématiques. Ses parents décident alors de l’envoyer en Autriche pour la protéger.

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Petits Meurtres En Famille

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The story of the Egyptian Pharaoh, one of the most renowned leaders in human history. This ambitious special-event series tells the story of Tut’s rise to power and his struggle to lead Egypt to glory, while his closest advisers, friends and lovers scheme for their own nefarious interests. “Tut” opens up a fascinating window into a world filled with heart-breaking romance, epic battles, political backstabbing, conspiracy, jealousy, and even murder — proving his world was not far removed from our own — and that his reign as the youngest Egyptian king played out as a real-life drama for the ages.

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Pierre Richard

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La Pirogue

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W.S. Van Dyke
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Real life outlaw Al Jennings tells a "real" story about how he came to the aid of a woman who was abused by her alcoholic husband.

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Podium

By:
Yann Moix
Type:
DVD
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French
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Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and has a son. He used to have another profession: being French star Claude Francois. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him happy: the applause.

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Qu'est-ce qu'on attend ?

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Marie-Monique Robin
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The new documentary from director Marie-Monique Robin about the French village Ungersheim.

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Largo Winch

By:
Jérôme Salle
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Portuguese,English,Serbian,French
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After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.

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Les Ripoux

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Trobreiz

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Trobreiz

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Le Rôle De Sa Vie

By:
Deimantas Narkevičius
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DVD
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The Role of a Lifetime raises questions about the ethical and social responsibilities of the artist and about the relationship between cinematic representation and historical record. Narkevicius's film emphasises the value of doubt and the impossibility of objectivity, while providing an intimate portrait of one of Britain's most distinguished and original filmmakers, Peter Watkins.

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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

By:
Park Chan-wook
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Korean
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A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.

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Last Night

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Massy Tadjedin
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English
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The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.

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Un Balcon Sur Lamer

By:
Nicole Garcia
Type:
DVD
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French
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Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...

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Un Gars Une Fille

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Zidane

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L’Auberge Espagnole

By:
Cédric Klapisch
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DVD
Language:
Italian,German,Catalan,Danish,Spanish,French,English
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A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.

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Une femme de ménage

By:
Claude Berri
Dani Kouyaté
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DVD
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français
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Jacques, ingénieur du son, habite depuis des années le quartier Buci. Quelques mois plus tôt, sa femme l'a quitté et sa nouvelle vie de célibataire semble avoir lentement glissé dans la monotonie et la langueur d'un emploi du temps partagé entre travail, bistrot de quartier et appartement désordonné. Jusqu'au jour où il tombe sur une petite annonce : "Jeune fille cherche heures de ménage". Le voilà alors face à Laura, une banlieusarde. Au fil des jours, Jacques va découvrir le charme simple de cette demoiselle à la vitalité débordante, pour à nouveau s'éveiller, comme malgré lui, à la vie des sentiments.

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L'Auberge rouge

By:
Gérard Krawczyk
Type:
DVD
Language:
French, français
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En 1830, la sinistre auberge du Croûteux se dresse au milieu de sauvages et inquiétantes montagnes en pays ardéchois. L’établissement est tenu par Martin et Rose, un couple d’aubergistes qui fait régulièrement assassiner par Violet "leur fils adoptif sourd-muet" les voyageurs solitaires pour les détrousser. Par un soir d’orage, une diligence en difficulté trouve refuge dans l’auberge. Parmi les voyageurs, le bon père Carnus a sous sa responsabilité un novice qu’il doit conduire à un monastère perdu dans la montagne. Martin l’aubergiste apprend que le tracé d'une nouvelle route va détourner les voyageurs de son établissement. Redoutant d'être ruiné, il décide alors de supprimer puis délester tous les voyageurs, malgré l’opposition de sa femme au meurtre du prêtre.

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L’enfer

By:
Philippe Kohly
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DVD
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In a series of long interviews, 12 prime ministers talk about their experience in the upper echelons of power. The function of prime minister, torn between the president and the parliament, appointed without necessarily being elected but responsible for everything, is at the center of debate. With the exception of Jacques Chirac (1974-1976 and 1986-1988), deliberately left out because of his image as French President, those who governed France for the past 35 years agreed to discuss the exercise of power, as seen through archive footage, but also how they experienced it personally. Filmed in the same studio and sitting in the same chair, 12 French prime ministers talk freely about their time in office, from their appointment until their resignation.

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L’Ennui

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L’Exercise De L’Etat

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L’Honneur D’un Capitaine

By:
Pierre Schoendoerffer
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DVD
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French
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During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.

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L’Immortel

By:
Joseph Sargent
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DVD
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English
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A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-millionaire also finds out about the racer's blood, and is determined to get it to keep himself alive. This pilot film preceded the later TV series.

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L’instinct De Mort

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L’ours

By:
Roel Reiné
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English
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Two young couples are driving through a remote forest when their car breaks down. When a run-in with a curious grizzly bear ends up with the bear being shot to death, the bear's mate arrives on the scene and vengefully attacks their van. The couples are trapped inside the disabled car and must come up with clever ways to survive. As they battle the surprisingly intelligent creature, and contemplate their uncertain fate, secrets begin to emerge that threaten to tear the group apart before the bear does.

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Le Maghreb, l'Europe et la France

By:
Kacem Basfao
Kacem Basfao,Jean-Robert Henry
Type:
Book
Year:
1992
Language:
français
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Dames, drames et démons

les princes de la Renaissance italienne : récits historiques

By:
Juliette Benzoni
Type:
Book
Year:
1980
Language:
French, français
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Sept chroniques concernant les grandes familles italiennes de la Renaissance. A peine romancées, ces vraies histoires sont racontées de manière vivace et pittoresque par cette romancière populaire qui a réussi à construire des romans historiques (##Catherine##, ##Marianne##) avec talent et vigueur.

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L'exécution de Budapest

By:
Christian Bernadac
Type:
Book
Year:
1985
Language:
français
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L’Insurrection Du Ghetto De Varsovie

By:
Michel Borwicz
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Les Femmes dans l'Islam

un monde caché

By:
Geraldine Brooks
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Book
Year:
1995
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L'affaire Gladio

les réseaux secrets américains au cœur du terrorisme en Europe

By:
Jean-François Brozzu-Gentile
Type:
Book
Year:
1994
Language:
French, français
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L'administration chinoise après Mao

les réformes de l'ère Deng Xiaoping et leurs limites

By:
Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Type:
Book
Year:
1992
Language:
French, français
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Amicale D’Oranienburg Sachsenhausen Sachso

By:
Collectif
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Book
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Le Cercle Historia

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Collectif
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Le viol de Nankin

1937, un des plus grands massacres du XXe siècle

By:
Iris Shun-ru Chang
Type:
Book
Year:
2010
Language:
French, français
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L'un des plus grands massacres du XXe siècle s'est déroulé en Chine à la fin de 1937. Le 13 décembre, quelques mois après le début du conflit qu'ils imposent aux Chinois, les Japonais s'emparent de Nankin, alors capitale de la Chine. Durant des semaines, ils vont se livrer à une orgie de violence : tortures, viols, meurtres en masse. Dans cet ouvrage pionnier, Iris Chang raconte avec force et précision ce qui s'est passé selon le triple point de vue des bourreaux, des victimes et des Occidentaux. Elle décrit aussi comment une poignée d'Américains et d'Européens, dont un homme d'affaires nazi, John Rabe, qu'elle surnomme l'"Oskar Schindler de la Chine", ont aménagé une zone de sécurité qui leur a permis de sauver des dizaines de milliers de vies. Enfin, elle analyse le lourd traumatisme qui a suivi le drame jusqu'à nos jours, montrant combien la mémoire chinoise s'est cristallisée sur ce qu'il faut appeler le viol d'une nation. Iris Chang avait 29 ans lorsqu'elle publia ce livre incendiaire qui devient aussitôt un best-seller aux Etats-Unis et fut traduit en de nombreuses langues. Quelques années plus tard, le 9 novembre 2004, à 36 ans, elle mettait fin à ses jours sur une route désertique de Californie.--

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Les feux du désespoir

la fin d'un empire

By:
Yves Courrière
Yves Courrière
Type:
Book
Year:
1988
Language:
français
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Le grand frère

l'Union soviétique et l'Europe soviétisée

By:
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
Type:
Book
Year:
1983
Language:
French, français
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