Gérard Depardieu
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
In a small French town, a man considered to be the village idiot by his friends at the local bistro, takes a walk to the park one day and happens to sit beside Margueritte, a little old lady who is reading excerpts from her novel aloud. Germain is lured by Marguerite’s passion for life and the magic of literature from which he has always felt excluded. As Margueritte broadens his mind via reading excerpts from her novel, Germain realizes that he...
3) Nathalie…
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
**WARNING**: This film contains graphic sexual content and may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. Cohen Film Collection presents Anne Fontaine's drama of intrigue and infidelity. A rich woman (Fanny Ardant) hires an elite prostitute (Emmanuelle Béart) in order to verify the faithfulness of her husband (Gérard Depardieu). Before long, the experiment gets out of control.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
Français
Description
During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre? Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Best Foreign Language Film. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
Français
Description
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...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
Français
Description
A worried husband (Gérard Depardieu) finds a lover for his depressed wife (Carole Laure), but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby. Winner of Best Foreign Film at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes, USA**. "*...it remains the purest expression of Blier's comic métier, treating naughty ideas with the straightest of faces.*"- Robert Abele, ***The...
8) Going Places
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
Français
Description
Two thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor.
9) Germinal
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
Français
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.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
4K Restoration. Cult icon Serge Gainsbourg wrote, directed, and scored this tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress (Jane Birkin) and a gay, hunky garbage truck driver (Joe Dallesandro), whose boyfriend (Hugues Quester) becomes increasingly jealous of the two. Sharing the title with Gainsbourg and Birkin’s sexually-explicit 1969 hit pop song, JE T'AIME MOI NON PLUS is an equally provocative depiction of sexual gratification told...
11) The ComDads
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Français
Description
Christine (Anny Duperey) is distraught when her adolescent son runs away. When the cops are no help, she contacts two former lovers -- François (Pierre Richard), a suicidal teacher, and Jean Lucas (Gérard Depardieu), a burly journalist working on a story about the Mafia. She then convinces them to help find her boy by claiming that she believes one of the men is her son's father. Although they make a poor team, the two set off on a quest to find...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
This epic adventure and visionary film chronicles more than 20 years in the life of Christopher Columbus, one of the most celebrated, influential and mysterious men in history. Nominated for a **Golden Globe** for Best Original Score - Motion Picture.
14) La Chèvre
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
A French tycoon sends his accident-prone accountant (Pierre Richard) and a private eye (Gérard Depardieu) to Mexico to find his missing daughter.
16) Fort Saganne
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
Français
Description
Charles Saganne, the son of peasants, has made his way up through the ranks to become an officer. In 1911, as a young lieutenant, tired of garrison life, he leaves France for a life of adventure in the Sahara. He falls in love with the young and pretty Madeleine de Saint-Ilette. Then, under orders from Colonel Dubreuilh, he is gloriously honored for his service in the Southern part of the Sahara. Sent on a mission to Paris, he has a brief affair with...
17) Stavisky
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
Français
Description
STAVISKY was a man haunted by his father's desire to be accepted by French society. STAVISKY pushed his Russian Jewish father's dream to its extreme. A charmer, a gambler and a crook, he became the darling of French High Society. But when his father found out that his son was wanted by the police he killed himself. The STAVISKY affair was a scandal that rocked 1930s France. The scandal spread far and wide. STAVISKY had seduced the rich and famous...
18) Paris Je T'aime
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set against a romantic Parisian backdrop, this delightful anthology explores the many faces of love. Featuring Natalie Portman, Elijah Wood and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
20) A Pure Formality
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
Français
Description
Onoff (Gérard Depardieu) is a famed author who has become a recluse in recent years, publishing nothing. One night, he is picked up by police officers, who find him running across the French countryside in the rain, breathless and apparently suffering from short-term memory loss. A murder has been committed in the nearby woods, and suspecting Onoff's involvement, the authorities detain him at a leaky, dark command post to await the arrival of an...
