Wild Bunch (Firm)
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A sex-addicted French financier, a fateful hotel room encounter, and a scandal that would rock the world; the mighty Gerard Depardieu gives a fearless performance in this ripped-from-the- headlines saga of sin and sleaze from boundary. Inspired by one of the most high-profile public implosions in recent memory, follows a prominent international banker as he spirals out of control during a drug and sex-fueled trip to America, culminating in a shocking...
2) 12 jours
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2018?]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
"Every year in France, 92,000 people are placed under psychiatric care without their consent. 12 DAYS focuses on those who have been involuntarily remanded to a mental hospital, and more specifically documents the hearings that, according to a 2013 law, are required to take place 12 days after each patient has been committed."--Container.
3) Goemon
Publisher
Wild Bunch
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once a lethal ninja, Goemon put down his sword to master the art of robbing the nobility to share the stash with the less fortunate. On one such escapade, he swipes an artifact that, if opened, will unleash misfortune of a massive scale. Hunted by an infamous henchman and former ally, Goemon tears a torrential path to assassinate the king.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An inscrutable 3D experimental narrative essay using 3D technology to mind-bending effect, the film follows a couple whose relationship breaks down along with the images, which in its second half takes a dog's-eye view of the world. It is a meditation on history and illusion, figures merging and weaving across the screen along with the film's ideas about romantic love and being-in-the-world.
6) The owners
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score, an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
7) Beanpole
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
8) The owners
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score, an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
9) Holy motors
Language
Français
Formats
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.
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.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
The story of Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix; his mother's attacks of madness, his father's alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life.
12) The immigrant
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Kat Connor's mother mysteriously disappears, just as Kat is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality. At first excited by her freedom, Kat soon finds herself confronted with the strange facts of her mother's departure and her own denial about the events surrounding it begin to haunt her.
14) Raw
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
In Justine's family everyone is a veterinarian and vegetarian. Sixteen-years-old, and an exceptional student, she is about to start studies at a veterinarian school where her older sister is also a student. But, she has barely arrived when the hazing starts. Justine is forced to eat raw meat. It is the first time in her life she has eaten meat of any kind. The consequences quickly make themselves felt, and Justine discovers her true nature.
15) Blood father
Publisher
LG Premiere
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When his estranged teenage daughter is targeted by a drug cartel, ex-convict John Link must call upon connections from his criminal past to save his daughter's future.
17) Beats
Language
English
Formats
Description
A universal story of friendship, rebellion, and the irresistible power of music as two best friends destined for different futures sneak out to an illegal rave in pursuit of one last crazy night together.
18) I, Daniel Blake
Series
Criterion collection volume 906
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as together they battle the national health care system.
19) The neon demon
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has.
20) Sheitan
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
"On Christmas Eve, three young guys meet two gorgeous girls who invite them to spend the weekend in the country. They arrive and meet the maniacally grinning housekeeper, Joseph. That evening, what begins innocently as Chritmas dinner turns into disturbing conversations about sex, satanic possession and evil"--Container.