Archive for the ‘France’ Category
Little Buddha (1993)Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 |
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Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his dead teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad, Raju, a waif from Kathmandu, and an upper class Indian girl. Together, they journey to Bhutan where the three children must undergo a test to prove which is the true reincarnation. Interspersed with this, is the story of Siddharta, later known as the Buddha. It traces his spiritual journey from ignorance to true enlightenment. |
Solomon Kane (2009)Friday, February 26th, 2010 |
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A savage warrior in 16th Century England seeks redemption for a lifetime of sins by renouncing violence to live a life of purity, only to find himself compelled to pick up his sword once again to vanquish a growing evil. |
From Paris with Love (2010)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city. |
A Prophet (2009)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin. |
Taxi 3 (2003)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can’t keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, detective Emilien’s wife has just announced that she’s pregnant, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again with a reporter there to record it all, Daniel and his super-taxi pitch in. |
Taxi 2 (2000)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The Japanese ambassaor is visiting Marseilles to view the city police’s anti-gang tactics. During the visit, however, he is kidnapped by a group working for the Japanese yakuza. Young officer Emilien is determined to rescue the ambassador and officer Petra (his girlfriend), who was also kidnapped, and restore the honor of his department. Once again, speed demon taxi-driver Daniel (from the first Taxi movie) is called upon to save the day with his high-speed driving skills. |
Taxi (1998)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can’t drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn’t lose his license and his dream job. |
Les enfants de la pluie (2003)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Che: Part Two (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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In 1967, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara resigns from his Cuban government posts to secretly make his latest attempt to spread the revolution in Bolivia. However, Che must face grim realities about few troops and supplies, his failing health and a local population who largely does not share his idealistic aspirations. As the US supported Bolivian army prepares to defeat him, Che and his beleaguered force struggle against the increasingly hopeless odds. |
Che: Part One (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista. |
Fear(s) of the Dark (2007)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Different black-and-white animation techniques tell several scary stories. There’s a story of a teenage boy who meets the wrong girl. Another tale deals with a small community where people disappear and are never seen again. Then there’s the narrative of a little Japanese girl who suffers from horrible nightmares followed by a tale where a man doesn’t get the rest he hoped for in an old not-so-abandoned house. These stories are connected by the story about a man with a devilish smile and four enormous dogs from hell and by a woman’s monologue about her fears. |
Paris 36 (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the “revolutionary” period of the Popular Front (who introduced the first paid holidays and a shorter working week). Three unemployed performers decide to take over by force the music hall where they worked a few months earlier and stage a show there. |
Ça se soigne? (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Camping (2006)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse brings his daughter Vanessa on holidays to Marbella in his Aston Martin, which breaks down on the way, forcing the two to go to a camping site. There, Michel will make an unexpected encounter with Patrick Chirac, a Dijon playboy who has been unlucky in love. |
I Stand Alone (1998)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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France, 1980. A retired horsemeat butcher fights to survive. After abandoning his teenage daughter, and hoping to rebuild a new life, he moves to Lille with his pregnant lover. He doesn’t love her. He likes even less living at his mother-in-law’s apartment. Quickly his hopes turn into bitterness, and this bitterness into obsessions. Violence explodes. The man returns to Paris and tries to restart his life again. He counts on his luck to find work and new friends. But both are hard to find. In this city, like elsewhere, living is a selfish act. Alone against everyone the ex-butcher stays in the hotel room where many years ago his daughter was conceived. Without a penny and with the sole company of a gun charged with three bullets, he doesn’t see clearly what the purpose of his life is. His stomach cries for food. His brain orders him to take revenge. And his heart… |
The Straight Story (1999)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Alvin Straight is a very old man with a quiet life in a small country town. When his brother gets seriously sick, he decides to put away their differences and visit him after many, many years. So, alone, he begins a long journey through hundreds of miles, just to see again his brother, even if it’s the last thing he will ever do… Based on a real story. |
Ex (2009)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The Anarchist’s Wife (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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“The Anarchist’s Wife” is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again. |
Kirschblüten – Hanami (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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When Trudi learns that her husband Rudi is dangerously ill, she suggests visiting their children in Berlin without telling him the truth. As Franzi and Karl don’t care much about their parents, Trudi and Rudi go to the Baltic Sea, where Trudi suddenly dies. Rudi is thrown out of gear, even more when he learns that his wife wanted to live a totally different life in Japan… |
Khamsa (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Placed for his own protection in a foster family, 13 year-old Khamsa runs away and goes back to the Gypsy camp where he was born. It’s early summer, the season for diving parties in the Estaque naval shipyard and nightly card games. Along with his cousin, the dwarf Boyard, Khamsa buys a fighting cock. They dream of riches and freedom. In the meantime, he gets up to mischief with his childhood friend Coyote. They meet Rachitique, a young Arab from a nearby housing estate. Very quickly, the reckless trio goes from stealing scooters to burgling houses. |



















