Tag: southern france

  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions — that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy’s lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman ‘The Jackal’, Lawrence…

  • My Father’s Glory

    Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of his rationalist dad. When the family takes a summer vacation in the countryside, Marcel becomes friends with Lili, who teaches him about rural life.

  • French Twist

    After learning of her husband’s infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.

  • A Tale of Autumn

    Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.

  • The Ninth Gate

    A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

  • Fat Girl

    Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such,…

  • The Easy Way

    Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge’s office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist who is investigating the event.

  • Welcome to the Sticks

    Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he…

  • Ultimate Heist

    The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own choices. But the gang’s inner circle is engraved in blood. To escape, not…

  • Leaving

    A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.

  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

  • The Swimming Pool

    Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion – until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first…

  • The House by the Sea

    By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at…

  • The Apparition

    Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village.

  • Downton Abbey: A New Era

    The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess’s newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.