Niels Arestrup
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
In this tense French drama, a doctor brings a boy to Belgium and raises him as his own. When the boy reaches adulthood, he gets married and starts his own family, though he still relies on the doctor. When trouble strikes his family, this dependence turns into domination.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
Paul de Marseul is the passionate, demanding proprietor of his prestigious family vineyard. But he has no faith in his son, Martin. Paul dreams of a harder-working, successful son - a dream that one day seemingly materializes when he meets Philippe, the son of his dying estate manager. Can Paul turn against his own blood and turn Philippe into the rightful heir of his family estate? Nominated for a **César Award** for Most Promising Actor. *"A strongly...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Glenn Close stars in this story of a young Hungarian conductor's big break, a production of Wagner's masterpiece Tännhauser at the Opera Europa in Paris. But the diva is particularly difficult; the dancers go on strike; management is feuding; the sets are hideous; and the theater is picketed by environmentalists. And then the conductor falls in love. Now will Tännhauser be a success, or will the aspiring conducter return to Hungary in shame?
4) Diplomacy
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
As the Allies march toward Paris in the summer of 1944, Hitler gives orders that the French capital should not fall into enemy hands, or if it does, then ‘only as a field of rubble’. The person assigned to carry out this barbaric act is Wehrmacht commander of Greater Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, who already has mines planted on the Eiffel Tower, in the Louvre and Notre Dame and on the bridges over the Seine. Nothing should be left as...
5) Sarah's key
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in Paris, in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The last years of the great French painter Vincent van Gogh are dramatized. The focus is on the time the artist spent in Ales and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The art of painting itself and the painter's relationship with the concept of infinity are central themes. Not an exhaustive overview of all events in the final years of Van Gogh's life, but focuses on key elements the artist experienced as he struggled with mental turmoil and produced some of his...
9) Our Children
Author
Language
Français
Description
Based on true events, celebrated director Joachim Lafosse's Our Children is an intense, multi-layered thriller about the breakdown of an unorthodox family unit. Murielle (Emilie Dequenne) falls for Mounir ( Tahar Rahim). The happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. With family comes ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father (Niels Arestrup).
Author
Series
Captain Marleau volume 9
Language
Français
Description
The body of a teenager is found close to a gold mine, six years after his disappearance.