Cécile de France
1) Hereafter
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, or any other means at their disposal. However, Fogg and...
3) Django
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
A powerful biopic focusing on the life of legendary Romani jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Sensual and elegant, Catherine Corsini's SUMMERTIME follows Carole and Delphine as they fall in love against the backdrop of early feminist activism in 1971 France. After living in the city, Delphine is called home to help with her family farm in the countryside and is forced to choose between her responsibility to them and the life of love she had in Paris with Carole. An enlightening tale about the infatuation of first love and its universal themes....
5) High tension
Language
Français
Description
Marie and Alexa decide to spend a weekend at Alexa's parent's secluded farmhouse to prepare for their college exams. But in the dead of night, a stranger knocks on the front door and the girl's idyllic weekend turns into an endless night of horror.
6) The new pope
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The unconventional follow-up to 2017's The Young Pope begins with Lenny Belardo, aka Pope Pius XIII, in a coma after a heart attack as the Holy See searches for his replacement. British intellectual Sir John Brannox is elected to the papal throne, assuming the name John Paul III. He soon finds that his predecessor's shadow looms large: The fiercely devoted cult of Pius XIII believes their pope will return, and their conviction proves hard to shake....
7) A secret
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
A young boy who has a vivid imagination dreams up a brother for himself and a better past for his family. On his 15th birthday he finds his dreams shattered when he uncovers a shocking secret that ties his family to the Holocaust.
Series
Mesrine saga volume pt. 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
The first of two parts charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine, the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and the Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings, and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit.
10) Mobius
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the high stakes world of espionage, one Russian FSB operative will do whatever it takes to crack an international money laundering operation and American banker, Alice, is the key. The only problem is that he isn't the only one after Alice. Now he must find out who he can trust and use everything he knows in order to get to the truth and bring down a powerful Russian oligarch.
11) Chinese puzzle
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A 40-year-old father of two still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves from Paris to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him, so he decides to move there as well.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Twelve-year-old Cyril, all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, the stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on.
13) The new pope
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jude Law and John Malkovich star in award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino's stylish and wildly unconventional follow-up to 2017's The Young Pope. The New Pope begins with Lenny Belardo (Law), aka Pope Pius XIII, in a coma after a heart attack as the Holy See searches for his replacement. British intellectual Sir John Brannox (Malkovich) is elected to the papal throne, assuming the name John Paul III. He soon finds that his predecessor's shadow...
14) Möbius
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
Français
Description
In the high stakes world of espionage, one Russian FSB operative will do whatever it takes to crack an international money laundering operation and American banker, Alice, is the key. The only problem is that he isn't the only one after Alice. Now he must find out who he can trust and use everything he knows in order to get to the truth and bring down a powerful Russian oligarch.
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Monuments Men: An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.
Hereafter: A drama centered on three people - a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy - who are touched by death in different ways.
The Good Shepherd: The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.
The Adjustment Bureau:...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Carole and Delphine fall in love against the backdrop of early feminist activism in 1971 France. After living in the city, Delphine is called home to help with her family farm in the countryside and is forced to choose between her responsibility to them and the life of love she had in Paris with Carole.
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, or any other means at their disposal. However, Fogg and...
18) Lost illusions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In the southwest of 19th-century France, the cleverness of young aspiring poet Lucien Chardon (Benjamin Voisin) won him a patron and clandestine lover in the wealthy Madame de Bargeton (Cécile de France). Their sojourn to Paris, however, found him struggling and settling for a newspaper critic's life... and the ultimate corruption of his personal ideals.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh and party.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Français
Description
An aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris. When he agrees to write rave reviews for bribes, achieving material success at the expense of his conscience, and soon discovers that the written word can be an instrument of both beauty and deceit.