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When an international team of former Cold War intelligence adversaries meet in a warehouse, their adventure of friendship, intrigue and betrayal has just begun. Like the masterless Samurai of ages past, these modern day Ronin are embarking on their final covert mission -- to recover a mysterious briefcase for an unknown employer and to stay alive. (MGM)

Woody Allen plays a Russian {Woody Allen Character} who is caught up in the Napoleonic invasion of his country... (imdb)

A mute dancer teaches movement to adoring kids and wins the dance contest every Saturday night at a cavernous Brooklyn disco... (imdb)

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested. (imdb)

Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday. Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and drops her soon. Pauline's little romance with a young man (Sylvain) is also spoiled by Henri. (imdb)

Dr Sánchez Blanch owns and operates a psychiatric hospital where he specializes in hypnotizing his severely emotionally disturbed patients. When Beatriz Vargas accepts a position as a nurse in the institution, she quickly befriends a young girl who has been unable to communicate for years due to severe shock. Although she feels a strong bond with the young girl, Beatriz soon becomes very unhappy with the way the patients are being treated.

"The Silence Before Bach" is a melange of genres including narrative vignettes and documentary sequences on the theme of the transformational power of great music. At one moment his camera records a subway car packed with passionate cello-playing musicians; at another he is following a guide who gives tours of Leipzig dressed in full Bach regalia; and in a third he stages Felix Mendelssohn's discovery of sheet music for the 'St. Matthew Passion' used by a butcher to wrap meat. (Film Forum)

Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Duclos. (imdb)

1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Duclos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour. (imdb)

Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever. (imdb)

Take a walk into the weird world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisted ride. A man which shares four names and four personalities (which is the real one?) is the link between four different, yet similar, stories involving love, lust, crime, and time. (imdb)

This film deals with the uncomfortable topic of incest, yet it is a credit to the director that he conveys the story with grace and subtlety. (imdb)

In a future world ruled by good-looking people, a terrorist group of mutants leaded by Ramon Yarritu kidnap the daughter of Orujo, a rich businessman, to claim for the rights of the ugly people. Escaping from the police in their spaceship, Ramon try to kill his gang in order to get all the ransom. The trip ends abruptly when they crash in Axturiax, the planet of the crazy miners where no woman lives. (imdb)

Students use every stratagem possible to cheat at exams and obtain their diplomas. (TonyS.)

International news giant WNC wants to get the U.S. president re-elected for the third term by creating fake "Crazy Guru" story, about the fictional Japanese wacko who plans to drop nuclear weapons on half the planet in days. That fictional Guru is set to make his announcement in the African town of Katango, and WNC sends their naive Paris correspondent Michael Kael there to cover the story. (imdb)

A group of Basque separatists is determined to kidnap Spain dictatorship's number two, Admiral Carrero Blanco. Long and dangerous preparations are carried out, but when everything seems to be ready, the political situation changes abruptly, and so do the Basques' plans. (poictesme)

Martin Terrier has a problem. He wants to quit his job, but unlike everyone else, he cannot do it because he is a hired hitman and his employers would hate to see him turned out to pasture -- he knows too much, and he is still useful. When he escapes to the countryside for awhile, he meets Claire and love blossoms. Back in Paris to confront his employers once again, Terrier gets an ultimatum -- do one last job for them and he can go free. (allmovie.com)

A French Army column in 1899 marches to find Sultan Rabah, killing everything in their path. The French authorities try to stop them, as does Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas.

Set in 1846, the story of the day in Normandy, when Frederic Chopin and George Sand split up.

A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty cinema-ticket girl takes to the streets at night and a young anarchist dedicates himself to telling tall stories. Far away, in Shanghai, a hero of the Republic meets a beautiful femme fatal with oriental eyes. Reality and fiction become fused in an embrace. (imdb)

Made in the genre of American road films, Docteur Chance does homage to one of the creators of punk ideology, Joe Strummer, who plays the pilot Vince Taylor. Planes, cars and rock'n'roll as creations of the 20th century, are frequent images in Ossang's films. (KG)

Charles and Lucie, old couple without much money, are land a notary who tells them they have just inherited a luxurious house in the South France, a car and rent money placed in Switzerland by a distant relative recently passed away and unknown.To receive the inheritance they must first pay the notary advanced. To do this they are required to sell all their belongings before leaving to the south and to realize, at a house that does not exist, that have just been scammed. (Wikipedia)

It's Semana Santa (aka Holy Week) in an otherwise peaceful European town, but not everyone is being pious. A serial killer is on the loose and terrorizing the residents at a time when religion is front and center in everyone's minds. But it's hard to keep the faith when lives are in danger, especially for Maria Delgado (Mira Sorvino), the Spanish detective assigned to the case. Will she be able to stop the bloodshed before week's end? (netflix.com)

Conrad Lang is the handyman of a wealthy family, and accidentally sets fire to the large holiday home of which he was the guardian. He then returns to his childhood home on the wedding day of Phillipe and Simone...

After landing her first job as a secretary in the city, small-town girl Rose has a chance to enter the regional speed typewriting competition. First stop, Normandy. Next... the world!

Paul lives by expedients. He was introduced to Alexander, a musician, and dragged him into his combinations.

I won't tell you whose voice over leads us through three extreme situations that are actually the same. Will you survive? (imdb)

Starring the always astonishing Catherine Deneuve and Gustave Kelvern (director of Le grand soir and co-director of Mammuth), In the Courtyard premiered at the Berlin Film Festival at a special gala screening in February. Touching and at moments funny, the film follows Mathilde and Antoine, two lonely inhabitants of a Parisian apartment building. Suddenly deciding to end his career, 40-year-old musician Antoine is hired as the caretaker of an old residential building in Paris. (film.iksv.org)

Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) stars as French police magistrate Pierre Michel, who waged an obsessive six-year battle to bring down Marseilles' infamous "French Connection" drug ring. (TIFF)

1892, Saint Petersburg. Sasha, a young Russian aristocrat, has always been fascinated by her grandfather's life as an adventurer. A renowned explorer, he designed a magnificent arctic ship, but he hasn't returned from his last expedition to the North Pole. To save her family's honor, Sasha runs away. Headed towards the Great North, she follows her grandfather's trail in search of his famous ship. (imdb)

Serge Buren is a legendary cop, surrounded by a band of young cops with unconventional methods. Whether they use baseball bats or "forget" the rules during spectacular arrests, the results are there! Then a group of murderous robbers enters the scene, robbing banks and jewelry stores in the capital with disconcerting ease, using weapons of war and unstoppable scenarios. Faced with so much ingenuity and brutality, Buren and his unit are faced with a delicate situation: will their expedient methods be enough to stop these more Machiavellian criminals?

The sun drenched days of summer turn dark and ominous for hitchhiking duo Jack and Véronique when they become inexplicably entangled with a mysterious married couple and a local road kill collector in rural France. (imdb)

In an Imaginary world, the guardians of the sun and moon restore challenged equilibrium to a Planet dependent on day and night.

An anonymous hacker has hacked all of Paris' cameras and observes the city unbeknownst to its inhabitants. Petty crimes and moments of stolen intimacy, he sees everything. Until the day that an explosion lays wasted to the Gare d'Austerlitz. The police starts tracking down an Al Queda satellite group. The hacker succeeds in finding images of the explosion and discovers that it was a young couple who planted the bomb. Using the city's cameras, he decides to hunt down the criminals. (themoviedb.org)

In a city of the north coast of Spain, a young teacher teaches Greek lessons at an elite private school. He is a romantic and melancholy man, who lives alone in the old house of his sailor ancestors on the other side of the bay.

Angelino is just one of thousands of deadbeats living in Dark Meat City. But an otherwise unremarkable scooter accident caused by a beautiful, mysterious stranger is about to transform his life... into a waking nightmare! He starts seeing monstrous forms prowling around all over the city... Is Angelino losing his mind, or could an alien invasion really be happening this quietly...? (imdb)

A French young woman unexpectedly dies in Berlin, where she lives with her boyfriend. Her sudden passing ruins the lives of her famliy and partner. They struggle to find new meaning in Paris, Annecy and New York. (imdb)

1809, France. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up. But it all goes south when Neuville reappears. (imdb)

Lola leaves her abusive boyfriend Mario and moves to Barcelona, where she meets wealthy French businessman Robert, with whom she begins a relationship. Four years later, Mario returns on the scene and Lola is caught in a conundrum: should she leave the security of Robert, or return with Mario, for whom she still has considerable affection? (imdb).

Acerbic comedy set in a small French town, where Edmond Zweck's funeral business is ailing. One morning, a body finally turns up, and Zweck and his employees Georges and Eddy have some work on their hands. As they set for the graveyard though, this glimmer of hope turns to disaster.

A defrocked priest, Adolphe Eloi, and his mistress, Berthe Granjeux, who will call themselves Holy Father and Holy Mother set themselves up as the leaders of a religious sect. (imdb)

Young Juliette is obsessed with dying in tragedy, just as her namesake. Desperate to find her Romeo before her 15th birthday, Juliette goes to great lengths to make her classmates fall deeply in love with her. (imdb)

Ivan is a writer who can not tear himself away from the city of Manila. He likes to hang out melancholy and flirt with pretty women. One day, he meets Mari. (imdb)

An empress commissions a painting of herself from a Fresh outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint. (imdb)

Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she has no memory, no recollection of what happened to it. It becomes her goal to discover and clarify the mystery behind this painting, at the same time she notices that a strange man is following all of her moves.

35 years ago, on the island of La Réunion, Toman witnessed the murder of his parents when he was just 5 years old. Traumatized, he grew up alone in the mountains like a wild child, and became a murderer in his own right. Over a period of 15 years, he killed six people he considered guilty of “hurting children”. Daphne, a journalist from France, arrives on the scene to investigate the disappearance of a young man, who turns out to be Toman's latest victim. (imdb)

A private banker goes into a coma. His sister becomes the director and finds out his coma might not be accidental as she finds obscure transactions her brother was involved in. (imdb)

Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Paris to start a new life. His only possession is a painting which his father left him, along with the advice: "If you ever need to sell the painting, do so in France, where it's worth a fortune." (imdb)

Clémence, a lawyer, leaves her marriage to embrace her true self. Her ex-husband fights for custody of their son Paul, manipulating him. As their relationship deteriorates, Clémence struggles to maintain her maternal bond. (imdb)

On the island of Crete, under the reign of King Minos, Humans worship and fear the Gods of Olympus. Only a fool would dare to offend them. (imdb)

In the near future - On an island cut off from the world, 30-year-old Gayle takes care of a small group of people. (imdb)

Billy and Liz are international war correspondents covering the dark and dirty side of television news reporting, often at high-risk missions. (imdb)