Catherine Deneuve
1) 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.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
Français
Description
A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.
4) Park benches
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
As she does every morning, Lucie joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly, all activity in the office stops and attention turns toward a window of the building across the way and a banner reading 'Lonely Man.' Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has their own interpretation, and will try to discover what lies behind the mysterious message.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Junon is the matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas when they learn 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 family....
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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
Distributed by MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
c2013
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.
12) Belle de jour
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Français
Description
Séverine, a frigid, beautiful young woman married to a doctor, indulges her sexual fantasies by working at a brothel on weekday afternoons.
14) Tristana
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
After the death of her mother, young Tristana goes to live with her guardian, Don Lope, an older man who eventually breaks through his facade of respectability and seduces her. She repays him a hundred fold, preying on his jealousy and taunting him with perverse whimsies.
15) The midwife
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Français
Formats
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.
16) Time regained
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Raúl Ruiz’s most ambitious literary adaptation and considered his greatest cinematic achievement, TIME REGAINED distills all of Marcel Proust’s iconic "In Search of Lost Time" into a single epic feature. The film opens in 1922, as Proust is on his deathbed pouring through old photographs that summon the events of his life. Gradually, we watch as his own experiences merge with his own literary creations. In Ruiz’s deft cinematic hands the film...
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.