Under the Milky Way (Firm)
62) Wrath of Silence
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A young boy tends sheep on a hillside in Northern China goes missing. His mute father looks for him with a special way of solving problems: Fisticuffs. Official Selection at the **BFI London Film Festival**. *"A powerful and fatalistic illustration of the Chinese rural underclass and its futile fight against oppressive social forces." - Clarence Tsui, **Hollywood Reporter***
63) Made in France
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Fascinated and horrified by the rise of 'home grown' radicals in Paris, ambitious journalist Sam goes undercover in an extremist jihadist cell in Paris, determined to uncover the roots of the phenomenon. Events quickly spiral out of control and Sam risks his life as the wildly unpredictable leader of the cell plans an attack in the heart of Paris. Tragically prescient, this acclaimed thriller was pulled from release in France after the 2016 attacks...
64) The Dinner Game
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When Pierre decided to play a game to see who could bring the biggest idiot to a dinner party he never imagined he'd be the one playing the fool. But when Pierre's selfish ways come to light before the main course he gets his just dessert.
66) Eden is West
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Young Elias (Ricardo Scamarcio) is traveling aboard a boat overfilled with illegal immigrants and has his heart set on reaching Europe. **Academy Award** winning director Costa-Gavras draws inspiration from "The Odyssey," in relating Elias' epic quest across Europe to find the city of his dreams. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"The brightest, most-entertaining film of [Costas-Gavras'] illustrious career."* - Jim...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Bravely managing her late husband’s shipping business, Louise also takes care of her disabled daughter Julia. After covering up Julia’s accidental murder of her drug-dealing boyfriend, Louise is blackmailed by his best friend Ben. Initially hostile, Louise gets to know Ben and is startled to find that they have more in common than either would expect. As their connection deepens and danger gets closer, the line between fear and protection starts...
68) Germinal
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
During the Second Napoleonic Empire, Etienne Lantier finds employment as a coal miner in the northern French town of Montsou. He immediately encounters misery and degradation in the appalling conditions of the mine. There he meets men as unscrupulous as Chaval and, conversely, as generous as Maheu. In fact, a whole range of suffering humanity, laboring under the curse of capitalism.
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Camille (Audrey Tautou. Amelie, The Da Vinci Code) works evenings as an office cleaning woman and makes graceful drawings in her free time while living in the attic of a Parisian apartment block. Philibert (Laurent Stocker) is a young, aristocratic history buff living - temporarily - in an apartment lower down, part of the estate of his late grandmother. He has let out part of it to up-and-coming cook, Franck (Guillaume Canet), a gruff young loner...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Mary is a hardworking nurse who dreams of only one thing: changing her life. She resents her husband for being an irresponsible, overgrown adolescent, incapable of holding down a job. Leeward is an atypical, idealistic musician who fancies himself a misunderstood artist and a New Age visionary. Enter Lilas, a 19 year old French artist and the daughter of a world famous painter, who is trying to make it in New York and get away from an overbearing...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Much lauded Oscar-winner Mathieu Kassovitz stars as a kind of twisted Walter Mitty; a man so bored with his own life he begins assuming other people’s identities. Eventually this behavior takes on a sinister tone and begins to spiral out of control… Sebastien Nicolas, is a reclusive loner leading a double life: by day he works as a respectable realtor, by night he creates complex latex disguises in the workshop beneath his seemingly ordinary suburban...
72) Maya
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
December 2012. Two French reporters are released after months of captivity in Syria. Gabriel, just shy of 30, heads to his childhood home in Goa, India, to recover. There, he meets Maya.
73) Burgundy
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
This documentary explores the vitality and joie de vivre lifestyle of the local people against the backdrop of the region’s oldest, traditional wine celebratory events of the annual Trois Glorieuses. Through a colorful mosaic of stories, this BURGANDY aims to demystify the world-famous French winemaking region and offers a rare insider glimpse into the lives of the passionate people working in Burgundy’s wine industry. Winner of Best Documentary...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Indochina, 1945. Robert Tassen, a young French soldier is the only survivor of a massacre where his brother perished before his eyes. Blinded by vengeance, Robert engages in a solitary and secret quest to find the assassins. But his meeting with Maï, a young Indochinese woman, will change his beliefs. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
75) Django
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
This riveting biopic retells the story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.
76) Kabullywood
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A group of young Afghan artists decide to open a cultural center in the heart of Kabul.
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
Nominated for Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards and Best Foreign Film at the Cesar Awards THE LOVER is an acclaimed period romantic drama. In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
78) The Visitors
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
In 1122, a brave solider and his right hand man are sent to the future by a sinister witch and an absent-minded wizard. Hilarity ensues as they try to find their way back to their own time while dealing with confusion and chaos of 21st century France.
Pub. Date
1971.
Description
Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Wanting revenge, he tries to compromize the Queen with his valet Blaze, introduced as his cousin. But poor Blaze gets stuck with a rather repulsive duenna, who is madly in love with him and very keen on getting her way. This wild comedy takes off at a dashing pace set by the De Funès, Montand and Sapritch trio.
80) Kung Fu Zohra
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Convinced that a divorce would separate her from her little girl, Zohra cannot bring herself to leave her husband despite his violent behavior. She suffers his blows in silence. But all that changes when she meets Chang Sue.