Movie List for "france"

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract. Year 1963.

A rich man’s fiance dies in a car accident. Year 2002.

A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema’s projectionist. Year 1988.

A social movie about current life in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They pass away time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arab immigrants. Fre Year 1997.

The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson’s Mouchette. Year 1966.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman. Year 1962.

An Islamic faithful returns from his holy pilgrimage to Mecca with the venerated title “el hajji”. On his return he falls in love with his daughter’s friend Santou, who is already engaged to be married to Garba. El Hadji however alre Year 1971.

A documentary examining political repression in Cameroon, Central Africa. Year 1992.

A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island. Year 2011.

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her Year 1964.

While the post-revolution frenzy is at its peak in Iran, a woman attempts to help her secretive husband out of jail by settling his debts for him on her own. Year 2001.

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people. Year 2005.

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply. Year 2010.

A teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious buried treasure and whose children are cursed to wander the desert. Year 1984.

Riva is an operator, a man with charm and ambition in equal measure. Kinshasa is an inviting place. With petrol in short supply in DRC’s capital, he and his sidekick pursue a plot to get hold of a secret cache – barrels of fuel they Year 2010.

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds – the loving world of Muslim women and the vastly different, harsher world of men – while Year 1990.