Films du losange (Firm)
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter appears to be the leader of. Includes featurette.
Series
Criterion collection ; 343
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
A law student is attracted to a girl he sees in the street and wanders the area hoping to see her again. While there, he stops in for cookies at a quaint Paris bakery and becomes interested in a pretty brunette who works there. Is he truly interested or is she just a sweet diversion?
Publisher
Les Films du Losange
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Between 1980 and 1986, director Barbet Schroeder worked hard on gathering the financing for his project "Barfly," eventually filmed and released in 1987. Charles Bukowski wrote the script. During those years, Schroeder and Bukowski met often--drinking and working--and Bukowski would regale Schroeder with stories of his own life and monologues of his views. To preserve these interesting moments and stay in practice, Schroeder assembled a small crew...
6) Amour
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
Series
Criterion collection ; 344
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Bertrand bides his time in a casually hostile and envious friendship with college chum Guillaume. But when the ladies' man Guillaume seems to be making a play for the spirited, independent Suzanne, Bertrand watches bitterly with disapproval and jealousy.
9) La boulangère de Monceau: The girl at the Monceau bakery ; La carrière de Suzanne = Suzanne's career
Publisher
Fox Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
Boulangère de Monceau (26 min.) "The narrator pursues one woman, then meets another whom he flirts with until he rediscovers the first"--Container.
La boulangère de Monceau is the story of a young man who becomes infatuated with a woman he sees on the street, but after several days without seeing her again sets his sights on a girl in the local bakery, eventually having to choose between them.
Carrière de Suzanne (52 min.) "The narrator, a timid...
Series
Criterion collection ; 346
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a "collector" of men.
12) Amnesia
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On Ibiza in the early nineties, Jo is a twenty-five-year-old music composer. He has come over from Berlin and wants to be part of the nascent electronic music revolution, ideally by getting a job first as a DJ in the new nightclub on the island, Amnesia. Martha has been living alone in her house facing the sea for forty years. One night Jo knocks on her door. Her solitude intrigues him. They become friends even as the mysteries around her accumulate:...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Español
Description
An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis.
14) Europa Europa
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
The true story of a Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as a Nazi for 7 years.
Publisher
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A gripping drama of family relationships of three generations of females. Isabelle returns home to visit her daughter, but is followed by her smitten co-star. The situation sets off a volatile 24 hours as long-smoldering resentments surface.
16) Makala
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swahili
Description
"Makala (Swahili for 'charcoal'), the new documentary by Emmanuel Gras, is a powerful testament to one man's commitment to his family, and his edurance in working to provide them with a brighter future. Kabwita, a 28-year-old man living in Congo with his wife and daughters, dreams of purchasing a plot of land to expand the family home. He sees his opportunity to earn money by selling charcoal." --
17) Raja
Series
Film Movement ; 2, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with local youth. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income,...
19) Undine
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. Will Undine defy fate when she meets a diver offering her a chance at new love?
20) Holy motors
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
Monsieur Oscar, a mysterious, shadowy character, spends a day traveling through Paris in a limousine driven by his loyal chauffeur, Celine. During his travel, he journeys from one life to the next, taking on the appearances of a wide variety of characters, including a captain of industry, an assassin, a beggar, a monster, a reptilian sex god, a melancholy father, and a dying old man.