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1) Mr. Topaze
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Honest French teacher Albert Topaze (Peter Sellers) is fired after refusing to alter the bad grades of a baroness' grandson. Sensing an opportunity, actress Suzy (Nadia Gray) convinces her lover, corrupt city council member Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his businesses to mitigate any suspicion. When Topaze learns he is being used, he decides to swindle his manipulators. Based on a Marcel Pagnol play,...
2) Marquise
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Born into poverty, MARQUISE (Sophie Marceau) is a promiscuous young woman who uses her exquisite beauty and seductive dancing to earn a living. When the distinguished Molière (Bernard Giraudeau) and his theatre troupe come to town, MARQUISE mesmerises the men, especially the lead actor, nicknamed Gros René, (Patrick Timsit), who falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage. She agrees on condition that she joins the group to become an...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
For kids around the world, music is often the only salvation when the pain and anxiety of teenage life becomes too much to bear. Yuichi is in the 8th grade and he worships Lily Chou-Chou, a Bjork-like chanteuse whose epic music is lush and transcendent. Yuichi only lives for Lily Chou-Chou's big Tokyo concert, where the lies and violence can be washed away by the presence of his goddess and her powerful music. But fate has yet another obstacle in...
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 5
Description
Antonio, a lonely man working as a driver of luxury cars, reads science fiction novels until he meets Maria. Though he secretly pays her debts, she remains indifferent to his love. Until... .
5) Morlang
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2003
Description
When Morlang, a successful artist, learns that Ellen, his wife and muse of 15 years, has had an affair, he reacts by having an affair with a young admirer. The results are unexpected and devastating and strains the married couples relationship even more. The film is loosely based on a true story.
6) OT: our town
Series
Film Movement volume August 2003
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2003
Description
"Against all odds, the students at Dominguez High School set out to put on the school's first theatrical production in more than 20 years. But what does Thornton Wilder's famous play about life in rural Grover's Corners have to do with Compton, California? [This film] follows the students on their discovery of the power of art and the human spirit" -- Container.
7) Buddy
Series
Film Movement series. Volume II volume film 9
Publisher
RB Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"Kristoffer's love life is on the rocks. But what can you expect from a guy who likes to videotape himself and his friends pulling outrageous stunts? When Kristoffer's video diary winds up at a popular TV show, it's not just his love life that turns upside down. A vibrant young cast explores the true meaning of friendship and love in a heart-warming story about high jinks, crazy roommates and reality television"--Container.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Maiquel lost a bet and had to dye his hair blonde. This triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw-- all in 24 hours.
9) Raja
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with local youth. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income,...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village...
12) Witnesses
Series
Film Movement series. Volume II volume film 11
Publisher
RB Media [distributor
Pub. Date
2004], c2003
Description
The stories of the people in a small town in the Balkans confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities, focusing on the various character's viewpoints and the complexities of war and humanity.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom is suddenly wooed by a man almost half her age, her electricity hits high-voltage. Yet it is Agata's joy and magnetism in the face of life in all its irony that eventually offers the eye of the storm.
14) Anytown USA
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 12
Publisher
distributed by RB Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"A funny and eye-opening look into a hard-fought mayoral race between a legally blind, blunt-speaking, conservative Republican incumbent, a retired Democrat brought back into the fray and a legally blind write-in candidate, in the small town of Bogota, New Jersey."--Container.
15) Campfire
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join the founding group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about their struggles with the acceptance committee and their living as an outcast in the settlement.
16) Le grand voyage
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Description
"A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Réda, a young man who lives in the south of France, finds himself obligated to drive his father to Mecca. The wide cultural and generational gap between the two is worsened by their lack of communication. Réda finds it hard to accommodate his father, who demands respect for himself and his pilgrimage. From France, through Italy, Serbia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan to Saudi Arabia, the two embark on a road...
17) Spare parts
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Hard-drinking, chain-smoking Ludvik spends his nights smuggling illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. Together they cope with life in a rundown town, home to the only nuclear power plant in former Yugoslavia.
18) Aaltra
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in a farm tractor, leaving them both paralyzed, wheelchair-bound, and simmering with spite. But rather than feel sorry for themselves, the embittered paraplegics decide to seek revenge against the tractor's manufacturer. They take to the road, redirecting their frustrations with their plights towards the people they meet on the way to Helsinki.
19) Be with me
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 9
Publisher
Zhao Wei Films
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Description
"Be with me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope, tragedy and redemption. The protagonists in the movie are fictitious bar one -- Theresa Chan, a courageous deaf and blind woman whose life story inspired the film."--Container.
20) Familia
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
Mimi, a divorced aerobics instructor who is up to her ears in debt, leaves Montreal with her restless 14-year-old daughter and moves in with her childhood friend.
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