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Alain Le Henry

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Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante

Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante

Nathan Miller, Claude Miller 2009 1h 30m

This finely acted, delicate and provocative new film by one of France’s most impressive filmmakers—working here with his son, Nathan—depicts the troubled life of an adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.

Un héros très discret

Un héros très discret

Jacques Audiard 1996 1h 47m 7.0

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.

Une femme française

Une femme française

Régis Wargnier 1995 1h 40m

Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms.

Regarde les hommes tomber

Regarde les hommes tomber

Jacques Audiard 1994 1h 30m 6.5

A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.

La Baule-les-Pins

La Baule-les-Pins

Diane Kurys 1990 1h 50m 8.0

A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a close relationship with the imaginary addressee of her daily diary and her parents' disintegrating marriage - all this in a rented house in a summer resort.

Je suis le seigneur du château

Je suis le seigneur du château

Régis Wargnier 1989 1h 25m

Thomas, the son of a millionaire lives a fairly isolated existence, in a mansion in rural France. His father hires a widowed woman to take care of things while he is away. The maid's son, Charles moves in as well, and the two parents hope that the two can become friends but they become enemies immediately after meeting each other.

Poussière d'ange

Poussière d'ange

Édouard Niermans 1987 1h 35m 6.0

A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.

La femme de ma vie

La femme de ma vie

Régis Wargnier 1986 1h 42m

Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the manager of the orchestra in which he plays. But is she really helping him or is she exploiting his dependence on her? A man who has been through the same experience as Simon, offers to help him...

Subway

Subway

Luc Besson 1985 1h 44m 6.8

Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.

Coup de foudre

Coup de foudre

Diane Kurys 1983 1h 51m 7.0

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him.

Le grand pardon

Le grand pardon

Alexandre Arcady 1982 2h 10m 3.7

The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime.

Cocktail Molotov

Cocktail Molotov

Diane Kurys 1980 1h 40m

"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening somewhere where they are not.

Diabolo menthe

Diabolo menthe

Diane Kurys 1977 1h 41m 6.3

In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.

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