France 3 cinéma (Firm)
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
A shell-shocked Juliette is released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. As life has moved on, she must relearn certain basics. After being banished from her family, she is now reunited with her younger sister, Lea. Hopefully, Juliette will learn to forgive herself in the process.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
6) Est-Ouest
Pub. Date
2000
Language
Français
Description
Est-Ouest highlights a little-explored facet of modern Russian history: in 1946, Stalin offered amnesty to all Russian emigrants throughout the world who wanted to return to their homeland and participate in the postwar rebuilding of their nation. The film tells the story of the Russian-born doctor Alexei Golovine (Menchikov) and his French wife Marie (Bonnaire), who respond to this appeal. Instantly, upon arrival, however, it is made horrendously...
7) Persepolis
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
8) Molière
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Molière becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's wife, Elmire. But, soon after, the confrontation between...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
When Pigoil's adulterous wife leaves with his beloved son, he gambles everything to get him back. As the previous manager of the now closed Chansonia Theatre, he makes a deal with the new owner to give him one month to turn the theater around and make a profit.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Juliette Fontaine is an ex-doctor who is a frail and haunted woman. She is a shell of her former self. She has just been released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. Now she is in on the "outside" with no where to go. She ends up living with her loving but estranged younger sister Léa. Together the two sisters embark on a painful but redemptive journey to bring Juliette back from life's darkest edge.
11) Persepolis
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
