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Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology. Every self-paced language course introduces the learner to cultural insights and grammatical nuances specific to their language of choice, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Damien and Thomas are French teenagers from very different upbringings who go to the same high school but can't stand each other. When circumstances bring Damien's mother Marianne to invite Thomas to live with them, the young men are forced to coexist and work through their emerging attraction and complicated desires.
6) Séraphine
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
The true story of Seraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 110
Publisher
Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Français
Description
Tati portrays the endearingly eccentric character, Hulot, whose presence at a very proper French seaside resort provokes one outrageous catastrophe after another.
8) Polina
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
A young girl studies classical ballet. As a young woman she turns to modern dance and choreography.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Français
Description
In an alternate 1941 France, where technology is dominated by coal and steam, April, her talking cat, and a young man named Julius go in search of her scientist parents who disappeared on the brink of a major discovery, as scientists have done for decades.
13) Hannah
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Intimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she is left alone to grapple with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment.
16) A faithful man
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Eight years after she left him for his best friend, journalist Abel gets back together with his recently widowed old flame Marianne. It seems to be a beautiful new beginning, but soon the hapless Abel finds himself embroiled in all sorts of drama: the come-ons of a wily Jeune femme, the machinations of Marianne's morbid young son, and some unsavory questions about what exactly happened to his girlfriend's first husband.
17) Lost in Paris
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Multiple
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she...
18) Cross of iron
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Centers on Corporal Steiner, an accomplished but war-weary combat veteran, leading a group of German soldiers on the Russian front. Steiner gets replaced by Stransky who's only goal is to get the iron cross, Germany's highest medal.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the "missing images" of the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film recounts his firsthand experience of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime. For most of the time, the only visual material available on this regime was propaganda films depicting an idealized world of workers happily contributing to the new country Kampuchea's collective...
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