Films des Tournelles
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Arabic
Description
Capernaum tells the story of Zain (Zain al-Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the "crime" of giving him life. The film follows Zain as he journeys from gutsy, streetwise child to hardened 12-year-old "adult" fleeing his negligent parents, surviving through his wits on the streets, where he meets Ethiopian migrant worker Rahil, who provides him with shelter and food, as Zain takes care of her baby son Yonas in return. Zain later gets...
4) The innocent
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his schemes. Complicating matters is Clemence,...
5) Capernaum
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Arabic
Description
After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Gauthier is a handsome and famous soap opera star; Serge is a serious stage actor who has renounced his profession to live on an idyllic island off the French coast. When Gauthier visits Serge to convince him to join him in a production of Moliere's The Misanthrope, a battle of wits ensues over who will play the lead role of Alceste. Between rehearsals, the two bike along the windswept beaches and rival for the affections of a beautiful Italian divorcee....
7) Gespenster
Publisher
Project X Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Nina is a vulnerable 17-year-old, alone in a world of social workers who run her life. She finds an ally in reckless Toni, a tough young woman who grabs what she wants to survive. Together they experience a fleeting moment of intimacy, an instant of happiness. Meanwhile, Francoise has returned to Berlin where her baby daughter was kidnapped many years previously. In the street she spots Nina and becomes convinced that she has found her long-lost...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
After a Jewish couple sells their basement to a former history teacher, they discover his secret life as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to rescind the sale, the buyer befriends their naive teenage daughter.
9) Caramel
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Arabic
Description
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut, all with their own quirks and comedic problems they must deal with.
10) Respiro
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
Grazia is a carefree mother of three, who soon becomes the focus of her neighbors' gossip. While her fellow Lampedusians work and live hard - oblivious to their native paradise - Grazia alone is courageous enough to blissfully embrace life's treasures. Her wild, sensual and free-spirited behavior reflects the unrivaled beauty of her heavenly seaside village. She is not understood or accepted by the social conventions of the town, nor its strict tribal...
11) Honey =: Miele
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she's a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate. Working under the name of Miele (Honey), her clandestine job is to help terminally-ill people to die with dignity by giving them the drug. One day she supplies a new client with a fatal dose, only to find out he's perfectly healthy but tired of life. Irene is...