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61) Alice
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ALICE (Emilie Piponnier) is the perfect wife and mother, living happily with her husband Francois and their son in an apartment in Paris. When her credit cards are declined one day while shopping, ALICE discovers that Francois has been living a secret life, spending all of their money at a high-end escort service and leaving them completely bankrupt. Even worse is that Francois has suddenly abandoned them, leaving ALICE and their son to fend for themselves....
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The Ambassador of the small South American country of Miranda is trafficking in drugs with some French bourgeois friends of his. But every time they want to have dinner together, their plans are put off due to unexpected events. In their quest of a lavish feast, the dividing-line between reality and dreams becomes unclear for each guest, leading to complete and utter ridicule.
63) The Midwife
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Two of French cinema’s biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a hardworking midwife, and the lively mistress (Catherine Deneuve) of Claire’s deceased father. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
64) Paulette
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Brash and opinionated retiree, Paulette lives alone in a housing project on the outskirts of Paris. One evening, upon observing some mysterious dealings outside her building, Paulette discovers a surprising way to supplement her meager pension - an unlikely, but successful career selling cannabis. "*Paulette offers a heap of laughs and ultimately delights like a shelf of colorful fresh pastries.*" - Doris Toumarkine, ***Film Journal International***...
65) Hélas Pour Moi
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Directed by legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, HELAS POUR MOI is based on the great Italian poet Leopardi and his description of mankind's slow, difficult path, with the anxiety and constant worry dogging the creator. The film is also inspired by the legend of Alkmena and Amphitryon, trying to show a god's wish to experience human desire. The goal is to learn where love begins, where it takes place, and how creation comes into being. Nominated for...
66) Keep An Eye Out
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The latest deranged delight by French absurdist Quentin Dupieux, KEEP AN EYE OUT is a breakneck-paced cop comedy that packs more laughs into its 73 breezy minutes than some filmmakers manage in their entire careers. Belgian funnyman Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) is Commissaire Buran, a good, bad cop interrogating Fugain, (Grégoire Ludig), an average Joe who discovered a dead body outside his apartment building. As the film begins, Fugain must,...
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Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**, UNDER THE SUN OF SATAN tells the story of Donissan, a mediocre seminarist haunted by Evil and the failure of his divine mission. He mortifies his body and is unable to establish any rapport with his parishioners, until the day the abbot meets young Mouchette who has just committed a mortal sin. Based on Georges Bernanos's novel of the same name and starring Academy Award-nominated actor Gérard...
68) My Rembrandt
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Rembrandt, the grandmaster of intimacy, rocks the art world; 350 years after his death many people, even entire nations are obsessed with his paintings. Aristocrats cherish, experts rule, art dealers investigate, collectors hunt, and museums battle. The epic documentary MY REMBRANDT dives deep into the art world of Old Masters exploring the motives of its elite.
69) Ismael's Ghosts
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Twenty-one years ago, she ran away. And twenty-one years later, Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) is back from the void. But Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) has been busy rebuilding his life with Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and working on his next feature film.
70) Bluebeard
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Set at the beginning of this century, this true story is about Landru, a small clerk who puts matrimonial ads in the paper for moneyed, single women without families. He meets them, seduces them, asks them to come to his home in the town of Gambais, there he kills them after they have signed over all their wealth to him. Suspicious neighbors alert the police and Landru is finally arrested and guillotined.
71) Serie Noire
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Sacked from his job as a salesman and dumped by his wife for his involvement with an underage sex worker, Franck Poupart signs up for a robbery scheme, only to discover how much worse his luck can get. Newly restored. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. Nominated for 5 **César Awards**.
73) Heat Wave
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On a sweltering day in the south of France, four characters find themselves on a collision course that ends in tragedy. Nominated for the Golden Camera and the C.I.C.A.E. Awards at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Winner of the Cinema Nouveau Award at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival.**
74) Baby Blood
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A cruel circus owner beats and abuses his pregnant wife, Yanka. One day the circus receives a leopard newly captured in Africa, but the animal soon dies. However, an evil creature that was inside the leopard bursts out of the animal's body, burrows into the wife's body and takes over her fetus. Yanka begins suffering from an overpowering appetite...for blood. Her unborn baby is craving for it. She kills again and again, until her little "Baby Blood"...
76) Le Navire Night
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Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other. These people, shipwrecked lovers, are dying to love, to escape the abyss of solitude.
77) Bastards
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In this gripping thriller about money, sex and power, a ship captain returns to Paris to seek vengeance on the man suspected of causing his brother-in-law's suicide.
78) District B13
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Damien, an elite policeman is tasked to retrieve a nuke stolen by the gang of DISTRICT B13. Leïto, a vigilante whose goal is to save his sister from DISTRICT B13 knows them very well. Damien must convince Leïto to join his cause.
79) The Other Son
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A moving and provocative tale of two young men, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions on themselves and their respective families. Winner of the Tokyo Grand Prix Award and the Award for Best Director at the **Tokyo International Film Festival.** "*Levy handles with aplomb what could easily have been a messy mix of emotions and politics.*"- John Anderson, ***Newsday***...
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