Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Using James Baldwin's unfinished final manuscript, Remember This House, this documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of the author's friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., delving into the legacy of these iconic figures and narrating historic events using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. An up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, this film is a journey into...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down. So much so, that the usual teasing at the hands of Bellamy provokes Fogg into undertaking a wager--to travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg is accompanied...
3) Eldorado
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Français
Description
When Yvan, a quick-tempered 40-year-old vintage car dealer, catches young burglar and ex-junkie Elie trying to rob him, Yvan becomes strangely attached to Elie and agrees to drive him home to his parents in his old Chevrolet, leading to a bizarre journey through Belgium for the two loners.
4) L'iceberg
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Français
Description
The manager of a fast food restaurant is locked inside the work freezer. When she is rescued the next day, she returns home to find her family didn't even know she was missing. Now obsessed with all things cold, she drops everything to see an iceberg.
5) Illegal
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan. One day, they are stopped on the street for a routine check by the police; Tania is arrested and placed in an immigration detention center for women, while Ivan manages to escape. Threatened with imminent deportation and fearful for Ivan's fate, Tania embarks on a harrowing journey, determined to preserve her dignity and find her son.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Secretary takes her boss's car for getaway holiday in the Mediterranean, on the trip, she is recognized by people she has not met before. When a body turns up in her trunk, things get serious as she implicated in a crime she knows nothing about. She must now figure out about to prove she is innocent.
Series
Drafthouse Films volume 31
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and children, has just been transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He decides to take on French Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin the world over. Paying heed to no one's warnings, he leads a one-man campaign against Mafia kingpin Gaetan Zampa, the most untouchable godfather of them all. But Pierre Michel will soon understand that to get results, he...
Series
Criterion collection volume 771
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Sandra, who lives in Belgium, has just been released from a psychiatric hospital only to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
10) Séraphine
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
12) La promesse
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1996
Language
Français
Description
The life of a fifteen-year old changes forever when he makes a promise to a dying man.
13) Little vampire
Publisher
Shout! Factory, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A friendship forms between an ageless ten-year-old vampire and an orphan student, but a moon headed monster throws hurdles in their paths.
Series
Publisher
Infinity Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Français
Description
Shortly before the Great War, celebrated singer Joachim Dallayrac suddenly announces his retirement from the stage, leaving the opera world stunned. Dallayrac retreats to the country, devoting himself to training two young singers, the beautiful Sophie, who falls in love with him, and Jean, a singing thief who falls in love with Sophie. An international singing competition will lead either to fame and riches--or to the jealous Prince Scotti's revenge...
15) Tori et Lokita
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
16) Io capitano
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Multiple
Description
A teenage boy and his cousin decide to leave Senegal for the promise of Europe despite facing the harsh realities of the desert to the harrowing experiences in Libyan detention centers and the risks of the open sea.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism and reprisal. The Six Day War forever changed the politics...
18) Tokyo fiancée
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Based on Amélie Nothomb's bestselling novel, Tokyo Fiancée is a dark romantic comedy that will appeal to fans of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation. The young, pixie-like Amélie is in love with all things Japanese, which prompts her to buy a one-way ticket to Tokyo in order to completely immerse herself in Japanese culture. She offers to work as a French tutor, and soon finds herself enjoying a passionate relationship...
19) Été 85
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
When Alexis capsizes off the coast of Normandy, David comes to the rescue and soon opens the younger boy's eyes to a new horizon of friendship, art, and sexual bliss. David's worldly demeanor and Jewish heritage deliver an ardent jolt to Alexis's traditional, working-class upbringing. After Alexis begins working at the seaside shop owned by David's mother, the two lovers steal every possible moment for a fugitive kiss, a motorcycle ride, or a trip...
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
The mystery begins when chateau owner Simon Le Tescou is found dead in his home - and all of his grown children have motives for murder! Each have come under the lash of Le Tescous cruelty, and each have something to gain from his demise.