Emmanuèle Riva
1) Amour
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
Français
Description
A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, 'Lost in Paris' stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 587
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
Français
Formats
Description
"In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But Blue is more than just a blistering study of grief; it's also a tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. Shot in sapphire tones by Sławomir Idziak and set...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she...
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
8) Kapò
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of a Jewish girl from Paris sent to a concentration camp during World War II and her struggle to survive by stealing another's identity and becoming a warden.
Series
Criterion collection volume 572
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
In Nazi-occupied France, a devoted priest is desired by all the women of his village, but finds himself most drawn to a religious skeptic who turns their relationship into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire.
Series
Criterion collection volume 587
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
"A bold trio of stories about love and loss ... [that] was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 90s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity--but that hardly explains their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White, and Red ... examine a group of ambiguously interconnected...
Series
Criterion collection volume 196
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Set in 1959, a French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering.
Publisher
Distributed by Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
Français
Description
The saint of Lourdes enters the convent and endures various trials. Through it all, Bernadette trusts in God and remembers the Virgin Mary's words to her: "I cannot promise you happiness in this life, only the next." Based on actual testimony taken from the canonization investigation.
Series
Criterion collection volume 196
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Set in 1959, a French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering.
Series
Criterion collection volume 588
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel. The first of a trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski, followed by 'White' and 'Red.'
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Français
Description
Screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo dons clerical robes and delivers a subtly sensual performance as the hot-under-the-collar Lǒn Morin, a devoted man of the cloth who is the crush object of all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow, a borderline heretic whose relationship with her confessor is a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire.