FRENCH DVDS

LES CHEVALIERS BLANCS/THE WHITE KNIGHTS (12A) 2015 FRANCE  LAFOSSE, JOACHIM £19.99  

  Inspired by the 2007 Zoe’s Ark scandal in which humanitarian workers abducted  more than 100 African children, this intricately woven story recreates the failed operation, from the moment they arrive in an war torn African country to their attempt to flee to France. 

CHIC! (12) 2014 FRANCE CORNUAU, JÉRÔME £19.99

Upbeat comedy about a fashion designer Alicia who has a creative block after her recent breakup.  A solution has to be found to help Alicia regain her creative mojo!

LA CHIGNON D’OLGA (15) 2002 FRANCE BONNELL, JEROME £19.99

    Tender romantic comedy-drama set in a provincial French Town.

CHILD/L'ENFANT (15) 2005 BELGIUM    DARDENNE JP & L    IN FRENCH      £19.99

     Award winning drama about a young man on benefits who decides to sell his girlfriend’s baby.

THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER (12A)    CORBET, BRADY IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH £17.99

   Loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre's short story about a young American boy living a dysfunctional and unhappy childhood with his diplomat father in France just after the end of the First World War.  Here he becomes seduced by fascism.

LES CHOSES DE LA VIE (15) 1969 FRANCE SAUTET, CLAUDE

    Man fighting for his life, fills his mind with images of his past and everything that gives meaning to his life.

LES CHOSES SECRETES (18) 2002 FRANCE BRISSEAU, JEAN CLAUDE £19.99

    Immoral tale of two women who use their sexuality and beauty to climb the dizzy heights of office politics.

LA CHINOISE (PG) 1967 FRANCE GODARD, JEAN LUC £19.99

    A group of Parisian students philosophize on how the activities of revolutionary China and the theories of Maoism could be applied to fracture Western society.

CHOCOLAT (12) 2016 FRANCE   ZEM,  ROSCHDY  £19.99

   Former slave Rafael Padilla becomes one of the most famous circus stars of the Belle Époque era in France. However, as the pressures of fame begin to take their toll, Padilla struggles with racial discrimination and a growing gambling addiction which threaten to ruin his career.

LES CHORISTES (12) 2004 FRANCE BARRATIER, CHRISTOPHE £19.99

    Set in 1949, a music teacher is hired as supervisor in a strict boarding school for troubled children and changes their lives through music.

CHRIS MARKER COLLECTION (15) FRANCE  1956- 2004  BLU-RAY/DVD  £24.99

    The collection of Chris Marker films consists of three works that pre-date La Jetée,  as well as a series of seven shorter films that look at the modern world from an artistic point-of-view.    

CHRONIQUE D'UN ÉTÉ /CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER (12) FRANCE 1961    ROUCH, JEAN/MORIN, EDGER    £19.99

    Groundbreaking documentary that is a sociopolitical diagnosis of the early sixties in France.

CHRYSALIS/AVATAR (12) 2006  FRENCH  LECLERCQ,  JULIEN           £19.99

     Sci-fi thriller set in the year 2020.

CITY OF LOST CHILDREN/LA CITÉ DES ENFANTS PERDUS (15) 1995 FRANCE JEUNET, M C & J P £15.99

    On a mist-shrouded rig in the sea, Krank ages prematurely because he lacks one vital function: the ability to dream.

LE CLAN (15) 2004 FRANCE MOREL, GAËL £19.99

    An epic portrait of simmering masculinity and its impact on a struggling family living in the shadow of the Alps.

LE CLAN DES SICILIENS/THE SICILIAN CLAN (15) 1969 FRANCE    VERNEUIL,  HENRI     £9.99

    A Sicilian family, headed by Vittorio Manalese (Jean Gabin), plan to steal a cache of diamonds. Roger Senet (Alain Delon), in prison for murder, is hired for the occasion and sprung with the help of the family. However, once the caper is successfully carried out, Senet finds himself on the wrong side of the clan when they discover that he has been having an affair with Manalese's daughter-in-law.

CLASS/ENTRE LES MURS (15) 2008 FRANCE  CANTET, LAURENT   £17.99

 Absorbing Palme d'Or winning journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year.

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CLASSE TOUS RISQUES (12A) 1960 FRANCE   SAUTET, CLAUDE    £19.99

    Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo star in this early 1960s French Italian crime drama adapted from the novel by José Giovanni.

CLAUDE CHABROL COLLECTION  (15) 1968-91  FRANCE    8 DISC SET      £44.99

 Features Les Biches, La Femme Infidele, Que La Bete Meure, Le Boucher, Juste Avant La Nuit, Les Noces Rouge, Nada and Madame Bovary.

CLAUDE BERRI COLLECTION (15) 1986-97 FRANCE BERRI, CLAUDE FOUR DISC SET £29.99

    Features Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Germinal and Lucie Aubrac.

CLEAN (15) 2004 CANADA ASSAYAS, OLIVIER IN FRENCH/ENGLISH/CANTONESE £19.99

    Woman with a past riddled with drugs, crime and the death of her partner, desires a loving relationship with her son Jay.

LES CLEFS DE BAGNOL (18) 2003 FRANCE BAFFIE, LAURENT £19.99

    Comedy about a man who’s desperately trying to find the car keys he’s lost. During his series of misadventures, he encounters a whole host of characters and situations, featuring cameos from Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil among others.

CLEO 5 TO 7 (15) 1962  FRANCE   VARDA, AGNÈS    £15.99

    While waiting for the result of a medical test, French singer Cleo (Corinne Marchand) spends a couple of hours - shown in real time - wandering through the streets of Paris. Along the way she meets up with her lover and with  her composers, visits her model friend Dorothee (Dorothee Blank), has a brief affair with a passing soldier, drinks coffee and buys a new hat with her maid before finally meeting up with her doctor to receive the diagnosis.

CLIMAX (18) 2018 FRANCE  NOÉ, GASPAR  DVD - £15.99    BLU RAY - £24.99

 Described as a French musical horror and shot in 15 days.  A French dance troupe spends three days rehearsal in  abandoned boarding school while touring the US in the 1990s.  When the dancers find their drink is spiked with LSD, some dancers begin to reveal their darkest secrets, some experience heaven, while others descend into hell. 

CLOSE TO LEO/TOUT CONTRE LÉO (12) 2002 FRANCE HONORE, CHRISTOPHE £19.99

    A the family attempt to protect Marcel aged 12 from the fact that his brother has AIDs, but Marcel senses that something is wrong

CLOSET/LE PLACARD(15) 2001 FRANCE VEBER, FRANCIS £19.99

    Hilarious comedy of errors.

COCKLES AND MUSCLES/CRUSTACÉS & COQUILLAGES  (15) 2005 FRANCEDUCASTEL, O/MARTINEAU, J£17.99

    Hit comedy that looks at  love and sexual identity over a balmy summer holiday.

COCO (12) 2008 FRANCE     ELMALEH, GAD        £15.99

    Comedy about an immigrant businessman who decides that his son's forthcoming bar mitzvah will be the social event of the year. But over the coming months as he lavishes ever more expense on his grandiose plans, he fails to notice that his new-found obsession is alienating his entire family.

COCO & IGOR (15) 2010 FRANCE        KOUNEN, JAN    DVD - £15.99   BLU RAY - £19.99

    French drama based on the love affair between fashion designer Coco Chanel and Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. 

COCO BEFORE CHANEL/COCO AVANT CHANEL (12A) 2009 FRANCE FONTAINE, ANNE 

 DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £24.99

Lavish biopic recounting the life and work of legendary French fashion designer Coco Chanel.

CODE INCONNU: RÉCIT INCOMPLET DE DIVERS VOYAGES/CODE UNKNOWN (15) 2000 FRANCE 

 HANEKE, MICHAEL £19.99

    A Beggar catches a crumpled paper bag. The contents connects the character in the film,making a fascinating study of the subtle connections and barriers in society.

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COEUR FIDÈLE (PG) 1923     FRANCE    EPSTEIN, JEAN SILENT    £22.99

    Jean Epstein directs this impressionistic French romance filmed in 1920s Marseille. Gina Manès stars as Marie, an orphaned barmaid who is  exploited by her employers and mistreated by her thuggish alcoholic fiancé Paul (Edmond van Daële). Marie, however is secretly in love with  dockworker Jean (Léon Mathot) - but Jean's valiant attempts to free her from her predicament end in disaster for them both.

COLETTE (15) 2018  WESTMORELAND,  WASH IN ENGLISH  £19.99

  Keira Knightley stars as Colette, whose first novel, 'Claudine', is published under her husband's pen name and becomes an instant bestseller. Colette has to fight the strict gender norms and constraints of early 20th-century France to finally  achieve recognition.

LE COMBAT DANS LILE(15) FRANCE 1962 CAVALIER, ALAIN £19.99

    A rich young man becomes involved with a right wing extremist group.

LES COMBATTANTS (15) 2014 FRANCE CAILLEY, THOMAS £15.99

   Coming-of-age comedy.

COMEDIE DE L’INNOCENCE (15) 2000 FRANCE RUIZ, RAOUL £19.99

    Subtly crafted psychological thriller.

A COMEDY OF POWER/L'IVRESSE DU POUVOIR (12) FRANCE 2007 CHABROL, CLAUDE £19.99

    Thriller about a Judge (Isabelle Huppert) who delves into corruption in a giant state supported company.

COMME UN AVION/SWEET ESCAPE (15) 2015   PODALYDÈS, BRUNO £19.99

  50-year-old Michel (Podalydès) goes on a  kayaking journey to find himself, in this hit French comedy

COMING OUT (15) 2013 CANADA     BLANCHARD, MATHIEU     £15.99

    The explosive lives, loves and losses of an intermingled group of Montrealers are explored as they confront the subject of difference.

COMING OUT: SEASON 2 (15) 2014 CANADA IN FRENCH £15.99

 Second season of the  French-Canadian series about the gay community in Montreal .

COMMENT J’AI TUE MON PERE (15) 2001 FRANCE  FONTAINE, ANNE   £19.99 

     Successful doctor, is re-united with his father who in turn  charms, disgusts and rejects him.     

COMME UN FRERE  (15)   2005  FRANCE  LEGANN, C. /ALAPETITE, B.     £18.99

     Sebastien, a small town boy  moves to Paris and begins to explore the gay night life there.

COMME UNE IMAGE/LOOK AT ME (12) 2004 FRANCE    JAOUI, AGNES     £19.99

   Sophisticated family drama.

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A COMMON THREAD/BRODEUSES (12) 2004  FRANCE   FAUCHER,  ÉLÉONORE   £19.99

     Exquisite debut film by Faucher,  about two women’s friendship across the generations and the overcoming of sorrow and adversity through a common bond.

CONFIDENCES TROP INTIMES/INTIMATE STRANGERS/ (15) 2004 FRANCE LECONTE,  PATRICE       £19.99

 Woman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist, and soon they form an unusual relationship.

LA CONFUSION (15) 2000 FRANCE  COHEN, ILAN DURAN   £19.99

     French comedy in which a bisexual attorney ends up sleeping with his female boss.

CONTE D'AUTOMNE/AN AUTUMN TALE (U) 1998 FRANCE ROHMER, ERICH £19.99

    Light hearted romantic comedy set in the vineyards of the Rhone Valley.

CONTE D'ÉTÉ/A SUMMER’S TALE (U) 1996  FRANCE   ROHMER, ERIC          £19.99

 Carefully observed look at love.

CONTE D'HIVE/WINTER’S TALE (15) 1992 FRANCE  ROHMER, ERIC     £19.99

 Well-observed and sensitive story of lost love. Second in his cycle of the Four Season’s films.

CONTE DE PRINTEMPS/A TALE OF SPRINGTIME (U) 1996 FRANCE ROHMER, ERIC £19.99

    Gentle and warm comedy.

CONTES IMMORAUX/IMMORAL TALES  (18) 1974  FRANCE BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN    £19.99

 Four bawdy tales

CONTRE TOI/IN YOUR HAND (15) 2010 FRANCE      DOILLON, LOLA    £15.99  

    French thriller depicting the relationship between a middle-aged woman and her kidnapper. Anna Cooper (Kristen Scott Thomas)  is abducted from a Paris street by Yann (Pio Marmaï), who holds her captive in a small room and provides her with only the barest essentials for her survival. As time goes by, the reason behind Yann's desperate bid for revenge comes to light, but meanwhile a relationship has developed between the two that leads to unexpected outcomes.

CONVERSATIONS WITH MY GARDENER/DIALOGUE AVEC MON JARDINIER (15) 2007 FRANCE BECKER, JEAN £15.99

    Daniel Auteuil stars as a successful Parisian artist in the throes of a mid-life crisis and a messy divorce who decides to return to his childhood home in the country.

LE CORBEAU (PG) 1943 FRANCE   HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT DVD -  £19.99  BLU RAY - £22.99

  First  French film noir made in German occupied France which ensured a storm of controversy and it was attacked by the right-wing Vichy regime, the left-wing Resistance press and the Catholic Church.

The film is set in the small provincial St Robin,  where a series of poison-pen letters signed 'Le Corbeau' appear to denounce several prominent members of the town.  The dark side of St Robin is revealed,  with the townspeople afraid to accuse each other for fear of being accused themselves, as suspicion and hatred becomes the norm.

LE CORRESPONDANT /EXCHANGE (15) 2016   FRANCE   SOUSSAN, JEAN-MICHEL BEN £18.99

 Encouraged by his German teacher to invite a German pen pal to stay in order to improve his language skills, school boy Malo hopes for a beautiful girl.  However, when his guest turns out to be headstrong punk Sasha, the pair struggle to get along as their friendship gets off on the wrong foot, in this French comedy.

COSMOS (15) 2015   FRANCE  ZULAWSKI,  ANDRZEJ   DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 

  Based on a novel by Witold Gombrowicz, a struggling law student arrives at a secluded French guest house to meet up with his friends.  However disturbing omens make him worry about his safety. 

COUP DE TORCHON (15) 1981   FRANCE  TAVERNIER, BERTRAND     £17.99

     Lucien Cordier is an ineffectual local constable. The townsfolk and his adulterous wife alike, view him with contempt - however he realises that he can use his position to gain revenge and vengeance on those who don’t respect him.

COUERS/PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES  (15) 2006 FRANCE   RESNAIS, ALAIN      £19.99

 Comedy of manners based on an  Alan Ayckbourn play.

CRUSTACÉS & COQUILLAGES/COCKLES AND MUSCLES  (15) 2005 FRANCEDUCASTEL, O/MARTINEAU, J£17.99

    Hit comedy that looks at  love and sexual identity over a balmy summer holiday.  

CYRANO DE BERGERAC  (U) 1990 FRANCE   RAPPENEAU, J.P.   BLU RAY ONLY - £17.99

     Gerard Depardieu stars in this Oscar nominated film, based on the  Edmond Rostand play. 

LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (PG) 1945   FRANCE BRESSON,  ROBERT £19.99

    Made during the last days of the Occupation, this  love story, based on a novelette by Denis Diderot and with dialogue written by Jean Cocteau, follows a society lady as she plots  to initiate a scandalous affair.

DANS LA BRUME/HOLD YOUR BREATH (12) 2018  FRANCE ROBY, DANIEL £12.99 

 Paris set environmental disaster thriller. Estranged couple have a young daughter who suffers from a rare disease and has to live in a capsule. When a  toxic fog engulfs Paris and their daughter's life support system begins to fail, the parents have to find a way to save her.

DANS LA COUR (15) 2014 FRANCE   SALVADORI, PIERRE   £19.99

   French comedy drama starring Catherine Deneuve and Gustave Kervern. Depressed eccentric Antoine (Kervern) gets a job as a janitor in an old apartment building in Paris where he takes pleasure in the simplicity of his work and strikes up a friendship with retired resident Mathilde (Deneuve), whose husband worries about her declining mental state.

DANS LA MAISON/IN THE HOUSE (15) 2012   FRANCE  OZON, FRANÇOIS    DVD - £15.99 BLU-RAY - £17.99

    Offbeat French drama from director that explores the relationship between a literature student and the talented pupil whose gift for description he attempts to nurture.

DANS MA PEAU (18) 2002  FRANCE   VAN, DE MARINA   £19.99

     After suffering deep gashes to her leg from an accidental fall, a young research analyst, Esther, becomes obsessed with her body and skin, especially her wounds.

DANS PARIS   (15)   2006   FRANCE    HONORE, CHRISTOPHE     £19.99

     The film deftly alternates mood and tone in this entertaining, witty and sensitive family drama  which pays ebullient homage to Truffaut, the nouvelle vague.

DANS TON SOMMEIL/IN THEIR SLEEP    (18) 2010 FRANCE     CAROLINE AND ERIC DU POTET    £15.99

    A tense horror thriller. Travelling home at night along country roads, Sarah (Anne Parillaud) nearly runs over a frantic young man, Arthur (Arthur Dupont), standing in the middle of the road. Bloody and exhausted, Arthur claims to be on the run from a burglar who he surprised mid-robbery, and who now wants to kill him to protect his identity.

DANTON (PG) 1983 FRANCE  WAIDA, ANDRZEI       £19.99

      Depardieu plays Danton in this  French Revolution  drama.

DARDENNE BROTHERS COLLECTION (15)   BELGIUM  6 DISCS     £59.99

Collection of six features from acclaimed  Dardenne brothers.  Contains LE GAMIN AU VELO/THE KID WITH A BIKE , SILENCE OF LORNA LE SILENCE DE LORNA/SILENCE OF LORNA , L'ENFANT/CHILD  (2005), LE FILS/THE SON , 

ROSETTA  &  LA PROMESSE

DAYS OF GLORY/INDIGÈNES(12) 2006  FRANCE     BOUCHAREB, RACHID      £19.99

     This award-winning film  shows WWII through the eyes of four North African soldiers fighting for the French army during the German occupation.

DE BRUIT ET DE FUREUR/SOUND AND THE FURY (18) 2013 FRANCE    

    BRISSEAU, JEAN-CLAUDE

    Teenager Bruno moves to a high-rise building along with his hard-working mum. At school he falls under the bad influence of streetwise boy who starts to lead Bruno stray. When their teacher sees what is happening she tries to intervene and get the boys back on the right path.

THE DEAD LIST/LE PREMIER CERCLE (15) 2010 FRANCE        TUEL, LAURENT        £15.99

    Gangster drama starring Jean Reno as the godfather of a powerful criminal family.

DEATH IN A FRENCH GARDEN/PÉRIL EN LA DEMEURE (18) 1985 FRANCE  DEVILLE, MICHEL       £19.99

 An enormously popular, sophisticated thriller.

DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE/LE DÉCLIN DE L'EMPIRE AMÉRICAIN (18) 1986 CANADA ARCAND, D.   £19.99

          This French Canadian film is a satirical  comedy which takes a provocative look  at the  battle of the sexes. 

DEEP IN THE WOODS/PROMENONS-NOUS DANS LES BOIS (18)   2000  FRANCE    DELPLANAQUE, LIONEL   £19.99

     Horror film set in a mansion. 

LA DÉLICATESSE/DELICACY (12) 2011 FRANCE  FOENKINOS, D & S   DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £24.99

Audrey Tautou stars in this whimsical romantic drama adapted by David Foenkinos from his own best-selling novel.

DELICATESSEN (15) 1990   FRANCE JEUNET, JEAN-PIERE/CARO, M.    £19.99

     Hilarious fantasy set in a bizarre postwar slum in which lentils  are currency. 

DEMI-SOEUR/HALF-SISTER (12) FRANCE 2013BALASKO, JOSIANE £19.99

    Offbeat film following the fortunes of a woman who sets out in search of her extended family

LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT (U) 1967 FRANCE  DEMY, JACQUES    £22.99

     Musical comedy with Catherine Deneuve and Gene Kelly.

DEMONIACS/LES DÉMONIAQUES (18) 1973 FRANCE  ROLLN, JEAN    £12.99

     Shipwreckers  murder two girls only to find them returning as  spectres.

LA DEMOISELLE D'HONNEUR/BRIDESMAID (15) 2002 FRANCE CHABROL, CLAUDE £17.99

    Thriller, adapted from a Ruth Rendell novel.

LA DENTELLIÈRE/THE LACEMAKER (15) 1977 FRANCE        GORETTA, CLAUDE    £15.99

    Young working class Parisian girl Beatrice (Isabelle Huppert) goes on holiday to Normandy and falls in love with middle class literature student. Although they move in together, the social divide between them soon threatens to destroy the relationship.

LE DERNIER CARAVANSÉRAIL (ODYSSÉES) (E)  2006 FRANCE MNOUCHKINE, ARIANE £23.99

    Film of Théâtre du Soleil play about at the difficulties faced by political refugees in France.

LE DERNIER COMBAT/LAST BATTLE (15) 1983 FRANCE BESSON, LUC £12.99

    Post-apocalyptic wasteland movie BLU RAY VERSION £24.99

LE DERNIER MÉTRO/LAST METRO (PG) FRANCE 1980 TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS £19.99

  Depardieu and Deneuve in a wartime story of a theatre troupe whose Jewish director must stay hidden from the Gestapo.

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LE DERNIER DES FOUS/LAST OF THE CRAZY PEOPLE (15) 2006 FRANCE ACHARD, LAURENT  £14.99

    Psycho-drama, based on the 1967 novel by Timothy Findley, about a quiet and introverted 11-year-old boy who watches from a distance as events unfold in his dysfunctional family home.

LE DERNIER DIAMANT/LAST DIAMOND (15) 2014 FRANCE  BARBIER,  ERIC £15.99

  Professional safecracker played by Yvan Attal and Bérénice Bejo, are persuaded to do one more job, stealing the  137-carat Florentine diamond. 

LE DERNIER VOL/THE LAST FLIGHT (12) 2009 FRANCE DRIDI, KARIM £15.99

When her husband disappears in the middle of the Sahara desert while trying to break a flight record, Marie Vallières de Beaumont (Marion Cotillard) set out to find and rescue him.

DERRIDA (15) 2002   KOFMAN, A.Z/DICK K IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH   £19.99

     This award-winning film offers an intimate portrait of the controversial philosopher  and intellectual French icon Jacques Derrida..

DÉTECTIVE/DETECTIVE (15) 1985 FRANCE  GODARD, JEAN LUC     £19.99

     Set in a run-down hotel in Paris, a house detective is investigating a murder which took place two years ago.

DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT/TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT 2014 FRANCE  DARDENNE L & JP   DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £23.99

   When Sandra returns to work after a leave of absence she is horrified to discover that her colleagues have opted to take a bonus at the expense of her job. As she tries to process the information she has just two days and one night to convince them they have made a mistake.

DEUX OU TROIS CHOSES QUE SAIS D’ELLE (15) 1966 FRANCE GODARD,  JEAN-LUC     £19.99

     Paris and prostitution seen through 24 hours in the life of a housewife-prostitute.

LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE/THE SECOND WIND (18) FRANCE 2007 RENAUD, FRANCIS  £19.99

    French crime drama based on the novel 'Un Reglement de Comptes' by Jose Giovanni.

DHEEPAN (15) 2015 FRANCE  AUDIARD, JACQUES   £19.99

  Winner of the 2015 Palme d'Or, a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka. They settle in a tough housing estate outside Paris, where, barely knowing each another,  they must try and build a new life together.

LE DIABLE PROBABLEMNT/THE DEVIL, PROBABLYE (18)  1977  FRANCE   BRESSON, ROBERT      £19.99 

     Robert Bresson’s film is about a man looking for spiritual fulfilment.

LES DIABOLIQUES (18) 1954 B/W  FRANCE  CLOUZOT, H.G.     DVD -  £12.99  BLU RAY - £19.99

      A man’s mistress and his wife join forces in this classic Noir thriller.

DIABOLO MENTHE/PEPPERMINT SODA (12) 1977 FRANCE KURYS, DIANE DUAL FORMAT DVD & BLU RAY £19.99

  Coming of age debut film by Diane Kurys which offers an intricate view of adolescence in 1960s France.

DIALOGUE AVEC MON JARDINIER/CONVERSATIONS WITH MY GARDENER (15) 2007 FRANCE BECKER, JEAN £15.99

    Daniel Auteuil stars as a successful Parisian artist in the throes of a mid-life crisis and a messy divorce who decides to return to his childhood home in the country.

DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST/JOURNAL D'UN CURÉ DE CAMPAGNE (PG) 1950  FRANCE  BRESSON, R.       £17.99

      A new priest arrives a country village but the apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him.

DIEU EST GRAND, JE SUIS TOUTE PETITE/GOD IS GREAT, I'M NOT (12) FRANCE 2001    BAILLY, PASCALE       £17.99

 A fashion model with a zest for life so great that she has to channel it - firstly through Buddhism, then when she meets  Francois, a Jewish veterinarian and converts to Judaism.

LE DINER DE CONS (15)    1998 FRANCE  FRANCIS VEBER     £19.99

     Well received comedy. 

DIPLOMATIE/DIPLOMACY (12) 2014 FRANCE  SCHLÖNDORFF,  VOLKER   £19.99

    World War Two in occupied Paris and  Adolf Hitler's has ordered the destruction of many of the city's famous landmarks.  Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling tries to  stall the German action while waiting for the Allied forces to save the city.

DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE/LE CHARME DISCRET DE LA BOURGEOISIE (15) 1972 BUNUEL, LUIS  IN FRENCH DVD - £15.99  BLU RAY £24.99

    Surrealist satire takes on targets as diverse as South American politics, the upper class and religion. 

DISPARUE/DISAPPEARANCE (15) 2015 FRANCE £28.99

   All eight episodes from the French drama series starring Francois-Xavier Demaison as Bertrand Molina, a detective sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young teenager at a music festival in Lyon.

DISTRICT 13/BANLIEUE 13  (15)   2004 FRANCE  MOREL,  PIERRE     £17.99

     In the year 2010 a wall is built around a Paris suburb that contains the city’s most criminal elements.

DISTRICT 13: ULTIMATUM/BANLIEUE 13 - ULTIMATUM (15) 2009 FRANCE ALESSANDRIN, PATRICK £15.99

 French action  sequel set in the near future written and produced by Luc Besson. BLU RAY - £24.99

DISTRICT 13/DISTRICT 13: ULTIMATUM/BANLIEUE 13/BANLIEUE 13 - ULTIMATUM (15)  MOREL, P/ALESSANDRIN, P  DVD - £24.99  BLU RAY £29.99

 Double bill of futuristic French action films produced by Luc Besson. 'District 13' (2004) is set in the year 2010. The violent ghettoes of Paris have been walled off from the main city, the worst of these being District 13. 

DIVA  (15)    1991  FRANCE  BEINEIX, JEAN-JACQUES      £9.99

     Gripping thriller.

DIVINE BB - BRIDGITTE BARDOT (e)  FRANCE     £16.99

     Collection of 34 songs from 1961 to 1973.

DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY/LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON (12) 2007 FRANCE   SCHNABEL, J.     £19.99

     Based on the best-selling novel, the film tells the story of Bauby, a  42 year old paralysed man. Trapped in what he saw as a ‘Diving Bell’, a prison from which he was unable to escape, Bauby’s only lifeline became the temporary release, or  ‘Butterfly’, of his  memories and imagination.

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DOBERMANN (18) 1997 FRANCE    KOUNEN, JAN        £15.99

    Stylish and violent French thriller starring Vincent Cassel and Monica Belluci.

DONKEY SKIN/PEAU D'ÂNE (PG) 1970 FRANCE      DEMY, JACQUES        £19.99

    Fairytale about a  King (Jean Marais) who is distraught at the death of his wife (Catherine Deneuve), and promises never to marry anyone less beautiful than her. But when he is compelled to marry his own daughter (also Deneuve), her fairy godmother manages to save her from this incestuous fate by making her demand impossible gifts, including a suit of clothes made from the skin of a magical donkey that ensures the land's prosperity.

DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE/ LA DOUBLE VIE DE VÉRONIQUE (15) 1991 FRANCE  KIESLOWSKI, K.      £22.99 

     Two women, one French,  the other  Polish,  living parallel lives without ever meeting. 

A DOUBLE TOUR (PG) 1959 FRANCE    CHABROL, CLAUDE    £15.99

    Murder mystery based on a novel by Stanley Ellin.

DOUBLES VIES/NON-FICTION (15)  FRANCE 2018  ASSAYAS,  OLIVIER  £17.99

 Staring Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet, the film is described by the Hollywood Reporter as ‘ comedy of art, adultery and midlife crises set in the Parisian publishing world’.  Leonard, a technophobe author, believes social media has vulgarized the art of the written word, while publisher Alain is 

willing to embrace the new digital age.

LA DOULEUR /MEMOIR OF WAR (12) FRANCE 2017   FINKIEL, EMMANUEL    £15.99

  Based on Marguerite Duras’ ‘La douleur’, the film tells the wartime story of Duras’ husband Robert Antelme, a communist resistance fighter who was arrested by the Germans in 1944 and sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Duras begins an affair with  French Gestapo agent, Pierre Rabier,  in an effort to find her husband.  

LE DOULOS  (12) 1963 FRANCE  MELVILLE, JEAN-PIERRE    £19.99

     Tribute to the 1940s gangster film. 

DREAM LIFE OF ANGELS/LA VIE RÊVÉE DES ANGES (18)  1998  FRANCE  ZONCA , ERICK       £15.99

     Cannes award winning film about two outsiders, one an optimist the other sullen and introverted.   

DREAMERS/INNOCENTS (18) 2003  FRANCE  BERTOLUCCI, B.  IN ENGLISH    £19.99

     Set in Paris in 1968,  three passionate cinephiles stay in an apartment, where they indulgence in art, cinema and sex.

DROLE DE FELIX (15)   FRANCE  MARTINEAU/OLIVIER     £19.99

     Felix is on a five day journey to Marseille to meet his gay lover.  The journey hitchhiking across France gives him time to reflect on the reasons he wants to meet someone who clearly does not love him.  

THE EARLY FILMS OF OLIVIER ASSAYAS (15) 1986  FRANCE   BLU RAY ONLY £23.99

   Features -  DÉSORDRE/DISORDE  (1986) about a group of friends who carry out a robbery of a music store which results in one man being killed and  L'ENFANT DE L'HIVER/WINTER'S CHILD (1989) in which Stéphane leaves his pregnant wife Natalia in a bid to avoid the responsibility of fatherhood.

L'ÉCOLE/INNOCENCE (15) 2004 BELGIUM  HADZIHALILOVIC, L. IN FRENCH  £19.99

 Surreal  look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls. 

L'ÉCONOMIE DU COUPLE/AFTER LOVE (12A) 2016 FRANCE  LAFOSSE, JOACHIM £15.99

After 15 years of being marriage  with two children,  Marie and Boris decide to divorce.  However Boris won’t leave their shared home as he tries to  hold on to what he has  already lost.

ECOUTE LE TEMPS (12) 2007   FRANCE  KAVAITE, ALANTE      £14.99

   Supernatural thriller  in which a sound engineer attempts to record paranormal sounds that may hold the key to her mother’s murder.

L'ÉCUME DES JOURS/MOOD INDIGO (15) 2013 FRANCE GONDRY, MICHEL  DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £24.99

   French romantic tragedy starring Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou. 

EDEN (15) 2014 FRANCE  HANSEN-LØVE, MIA   £19.99

   Paul, a troubled young man, finds his true calling in life is to be a DJ.  However, as Paul ages his music ages too and he struggles to keep up with the changing pace of the beats he once knew.

ÉDOUARD ET CAROLINE/EDWARD AND CAROLINE (TBA) 1951 FRANCE  BECKER, JACQUES DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £22.99

  Comedy about  husband and wife as they prepare to head to a party which results in an evening  of rows, fights and threats of divorce. 

LES ÉGARÉS/STRAYED (15) 2003 FRANCE    TECHINE, ANDRE       £19.99

 June 1940,  widowed teacher and, with her two children flee Paris and a teenaged boy comes to their  rescue by leading them into the forest.

LES EGOUTS DU PARADIS (PG) FRANCE  1979 GIOVANNI, J.      £19.99         

    Exciting heist movie as a crack group of villains try to rob a bank in Nice.

ELISA (15)  1995 FRANCE  BECKER, JEAN     £15.99

     Vanessa Paradis and Gerard Departdieu star in the story of Elisa,  a young rebel out for revenge.

ELLE (18)    2016 FRANCE   VERHOEVEN, PAUL   £19.99

   Adapted from Philippe Djian's novel. After a sexually assaulted in her own home, Michèle Leblanc (Isabelle Huppert) decides not to report the incident to the police but to hunt down the assailant on her own and so becoming  embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse which soon threatens to get out of hand.

ELLE L'ADORE (15) 2014 FRANCE  HERRY, JEANNE  £19.99

    Sandrine Kiberlain and Laurent Lafitte star in this French comedy about a woman obsessed with a pop star.

ELLE S'APPELAIT SARAH/SARAH’S KEY (12) 2010  FRANCE  PAQUET-BRENNER, GILLES    £17.99

    A Jewish girl's story opens wounds from France's wartime past.  Living in Paris while her architect husband Bertrand (Frederic Pierrot) restores his family's apartment block, writer Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas) stumbles across the wartime history of the block's  original Jewish owners, who were arrested by the Vichy government as part of the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942 and forced to sell their property. As the story unfolds, Julia becomes increasingly haunted by the fate of ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Melusine Mayance), who, after being detained, escapes in a desperate attempt to return to the block where she has secretly hidden her younger brother.

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ELLE S'APPELLE SABINE/HER NAME IS SABINE (12) 2007  FRANCE  BONNAIRE, SANDRINE £15.99

 Directed by French actress Sandrine Bonnaire, this powerful documentary portrays the struggles encountered by her autistic sister from misdiagnosis and institutionalisation at age 28, to her renewed sense of hope after moving to a specialised centre.

ELLES N'OUBLIENT JAMAIS/LOVE IN THE STRANGEST WAY (15) 1994 FRANCE  FRANK, CHRISTOPHER      £14.99

 A debt-collector trades on other peoples misery in this thriller  

ELOGE DE L’AMOUR (PG)  2001 FRANCE GODARD, JEAN LUC    £19.99

     Writer is convinced he has met a woman many years before.     

EMBRASSE-MOI!/KISSING YOU (15) 2017 FRANCE MICHEL, O/VIAL,C   £15.99 

  Romance in which carefree  Océane  meets the beautiful photographer Cécile. If their relationship is going to last Océane, will have to grow up, but is she actually be capable of growing up?

EMBRASSEZ QUI VOUS VOUDREZ/SUMMER THINGS (15) 2002  FRANCE   BLANC, MICHEL   £15.99

 Comedy farce involving bed-swapping, mistaken identity, suicide bids, passionate affairs and rampant testostorone.    

EMOTIFS ANONYMES/ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS (12) 2010 FRANCE  AMÉRIS, JEAN-PIERRE   £15.99

    Love and chocolate are the predominant themes of this romantic comedy. A deeply shy chocolate factory owner meets the equally sensitive Angélique, who also happens to be one of the world's finest chocolatiers, the two inevitably fall in love.  But how do two chronically shy people reach out to one another and negotiate the emotional minefield of a new love affair?

L'EMPEREUR DE PARIS/EMPEROR OF PARIS (15) 2018  FRANCE RICHET, JEAN-FRANCOIS  £12.99 

  Historical drama in which notorious criminal, François Vidocq, escapes from 

a penal colony and attempts to lead his life on the streets of Paris.  However his criminal past continues to catch up with him and he finds himself struggling to move on with his life. Finally he decides to work for the state to capture his former allies from the underworld.

EMPIRE OF WOLVES/ L'EMPIRE DES LOUPS (15) 2005 FRANCE    NAHON, CHRIS      £19.99

      Retired detective is called in to investigate the murder of three female Turkish illegal immigrants .

L'EMPLOI DU TEMPS/TIME OUT (15) 2001 FRANCE   LAURENT CANTET          £19.99

 Businessman shamed by losing his job invents a fictitious high-flying career. This  eventually leads to desperate measures.

L'EMPREINTE DE L'ANGE/ ANGEL OF MINE(12) 2008 FRANCE    NEBBOU, SAFY£15.99

    Psychological thriller about a divorcee in her late 30s who is still grieving the tragic loss of her infant daughter seven years previously. When she meets seven-year-old Lola she is overcome with the feelings that Lola is her long-lost child. In an attempt to get close to Lola, she  befriends the girl's mother, Claire. As events unfold it becomes apparent that Claire has some dark secrets of her own.

EN ATTENDANT LE DELUGE (12) 2004  FRANCE   ODOUL, DAMIEN    £19.99

     A dying man allows himself one final luxury.

EN SOLITAIRE/TURNING TIDE (12) 2013    FRANCE   OFFENSTEIN, CHRISTOPHE   £19.99

    Adventure drama starring François Cluzet as a sailor taking part in a round-the-world single-handed yacht race.  

However the discovery of a young stowaway onboard  calls into question the whole race.

L'ENFANT/CHILD (15) 2005 BELGIUM    DARDENNE JP & L    IN FRENCH      £19.99

     Award winning drama about a young man on benefits who decides to sell his girlfriend’s baby.

L'ENFANT D'EN HAUT/SISTER (15) 2012 FRANCE     MEIER, URSULA     £15.99 

    Every day, twelve-year-old Simon steals food, money and equipment from the wealthy guests in a Swiss ski resort order to support himself and hisolder sister.

L'ENFANT SAUVAGE/WILD CHILD (U) FRANCE  1970  FRANCE  TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS   £15.99   

 Based on the true story of the ‘wild child’ found in a forest in the  1700s  France.

ENFANTS DU PARADIS (PG) 1945 FRANCE  B/W   CARNE, MARCEL     £19.99

     Marcel Carne’s greatest work was made in  German-occupied  France  during the 2nd  World   War. The story  intertwines the fates of four  men who love one woman.

LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (12) FRANCE 1949 B/W   COCTEAU, JEAN    £19.99

     Compelling tale of incestuous obsession based on  the Jean Cocteau.

L'ENFANCE-NUE (15) 1968   FRANCE   PIALAT, MAURICE   £22.99

     Fostered boy never feels like he belongs and ends up turning against the people who want to help him.

L’ENFER ( 15) 1993  FRANCE  CHABROL, CLAUDE        £19.99

     Thriller about a husband who thinks his wife is having an affair.

L'ENFER/HELL/ (15) FRANCE 2005          TANOVIC, DANIS       £19.99

 Three sisters reunite after years apart in order to come to terms with a disturbing incident from their past.

ENGRENAGES/SPIRAL - SERIES 1  (18) 2007  FRANCE TRIBOIT, PHILIPPE    £32.99

   French political crime drama. The discovery of a young woman's badly beaten body on a rubbish tip in Paris sets in motion a police investigation that unravels a trail of corruption from the dark worlds of prostitution and drugs, to the halls of government, business, and the judiciary itself.

ENGRENAGES 2/SPIRAL: SERIES 2 (18) 2008 FRANCE        £19.99

      Public prosecutor Pierre Clement joins forces with Police Captain Laure Bathaud and crusading judge Francois Roban to infiltrate Paris's underworld of organised crime.

ENGRENAGES 3/SPIRAL: SERIES 3 (18) 2010 FRANCE        £25.99

     The emergence of a serial killer offers police captain Laure Berthaud the chance to restore her damaged reputation.

ENGRENAGES 4 /SPIRAL: SERIES 3 (18) 2010 FRANCE        £23.99

    Lawyer Joséphine Karlsson risks all by attempting to defend the rights of a group of immigrants,

ENGRENAGES 5 /SPIRAL: SERIES 5 (18) 2014 FRANCE        £24.99

     Chief Inspector Laure Berthaud and her team are tasked with solving the double murder of a mother and daughter whose bodies are discovered in a canal. 

ENGRENAGES 6/SPIRAL: SERIES SIX (15) 2017 FRANCE £23.99

  Chief Inspector Laure Berthaud returns to work early from maternity leave and begins work on  a murder case after a  dismembered body is discovered.

ENGRENAGES 7 /SPIRAL: SERIES 7  (15) FRANCE £24.99

 Gilou and Laure reunite to investigate the murder of their former commissioner, Herville. Joined by Gilou's new partner Ali, the team find themselves on the trail of a teenage gang member which leads them to uncover an expansive money laundering operation.

ENGRENAGES/SPIRAL: SERIES ONE-SIX (18) FRANCE £64.99

 All six series of the acclaimed French police drama.

L'ENLÈVEMENT DE MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ/THE KIDNAPPING OF MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ (15) 2014 FRANCE  NICLOUX, GUILLAUME £19.99

French author Michel Houellebecq plays himself in this comedy drama partly based on his real-life disappearance in 2011.

L'ENNEMI INTIME/INTIMATE ENEMIES (15) 2007  FRANCE  SIRI, FLORENT  EMILIO   £19.99

 Set in the Algerian war in 1959, an idealistic lieutenant and a cynical sergeant soon find that their differences come to breaking point and they discover that their worst enemy is themselves.

ENNEMI PUBLIC 1/PUBLIC ENEMY: SEASON 1(15) 2016  BELGIUM IN FRENCH  £23.99 

  After spending 20 years in prison, convicted child killer Guy Béranger (Bison) is released on parole and sent to stay with monks at Vielsart Abbey in the remote Ardennes region. When a young girl then disappears from the nearby village, the locals are outraged and quickly blame Béranger for the crime.

ENTRE LES MURS/CLASS (15) 2008 FRANCE  CANTET, LAURENT   £17.99

 Absorbing Palme d'Or winning journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year.

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L'ÉPINE DANS LE COEUR/THE THORN IN THE HEART (E) 2010 FRANCE     GONDRY,  MICHEL £17.99

    Michel Gondry takes a personal look into the life and career of his aunt, Suzette, in this French documentary. A former schoolteacher, Suzette taught in rural areas of France between 1952 and 1986. The film reveals the effect she had on her students and also explores  her relationship with her son, Jean-Yves.

EN ÉQUILIBRE (PG) 2015 FRANCE  DERCOURT, DENIS   £19.99

   Paralysed man is fighting for compensation the insurance company when one of the company's advisors  is sent to deal with his case the two find they have a connection and begin to have an impact on each other's lives.

ENRAGÉS/RABID DOGS (15) 2015 FRANCE  HANNEZO,   ÉRIC £14.99

 A  carefully planned robbery goes horribly wrong and the three  robbers highjack a car whose passenger is a sick girl to the way to hospital.

ÉPERDUMENT/DOWN BY LOVE (15) 2016 FRANCE    GODEAU, PIERRE £15.99

  Based on a true story about a  married prison director Jean embark on a passionate love affair with one of the prisons inmates, the much younger Anna.

ERIC ROHMER COLLECTION (15) 1972-87  FRANCE  ROHMER,E. £39.99

          Features La Femme de L'aviateur, Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune, Le Rayon Vert, Pauline à la Plage, 

L'amour l'après-midi, The Marquis of O, L'ami de mon amie and Le beau Mariage

ERIC ROHMER: THE EARLY WORKS (15)    FRANCE £24.99

 Box set features ‘Le Signe Du Lion’ (1962), ‘Le Boulangerie De Monceau’ (1962) and . ‘La Carriere de Suzanne’ (1963).

ERIC ROHMER: THE ESSENTIAL ERIC ROHMER (15) FRANCE £29.99

     Features - Les Amours D'astrée et de Céladon / Triple Agent / Le signe du lion / Les Rendez-vous de Paris.

ERIC ROHMER: MORAL TALES (15) FRANCE    £39.99

    Rohmer's reputation was established with his ambitious 'Moral Tales' series of films five of which are presented in this box set - each based around the theme of a man's sexual temptation. Includes La carrière de Suzanne, La boulangère de Monceau, La Collectioneuse, Ma nuit chez Maud & Le genou de Claire

ERIC ROHMER: TALES OF THE FOUR SEASONS  (15)  1990-98   FRANCE ROHMER, ERIC    £39.99

 Features Conte De Printemps, Conte D'Hive, Conte D'été and Conte D'automne.

ERNEST ET CÉLESTINE (U) 2012   FRANCE £12.99

  Academy Award-nominated animation adapted from the children's books by Gabrielle Vincent about a young orphan mouse named Célestine and a bear named Ernest.

ERRANCE(18) 2003  FRANCE  ODOUL, DAMIEN      £19.99

     Chamber piece set around the marriage between a gorgeous French woman ant a gruff, philandering veteran of the Algerian conflict.

LES ESPIONS (15) 1957  FRANCE CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES        £19.99   

     Hard up doctor is offers  one million francs, if he puts “them” up. But who are “them”? 

THE ESSENTIAL CLAUDE CHABROL VOL. 1 (3 DISC BOX SET) (15)     £29.99

     Features  Merci Pour Le Chocolat / Betty / Inspector Lavardin   

THE ESSENTIAL CLAUDE CHABROL VOL. 2 (3 DISC BOX SET) (15)    £29.99

     Features Au coeur du mensonge/Masques/Une affaire de femmes

THE ESSENTIAL JACQUES DEMY COLLECTION (TBA) DEMY, JACQUES  BLU RA Y ONLY £105

 Features the following six films -  'Lola' (1961), 'Bay of Angels' (1963), 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' (1964), 'The Young Girls of Rochefort' (1967), 'Donkey Skin' (1970) and 'Une Chambre En Ville' (1982).

ESSENTIAL MICHAEL HANEKE COLLECTION (18) £74.99

    Collection are 10 acclaimed works from director Miichael Haneke. Featuring Hidden, Time of the Wolf, The Piano Teacher, Funny Games (Original) Funny Games (US Remake) Code Unknown, The Seventh Continent, Benny's Video, 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance & for the first time on DVD in the UK is his most sought after adaptation of Franz Kafka's ‘The Castle'

ET DIEU... CRÉA LA FEMME/AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (15) 1956 FRANCE VADIM, ROGER £19.99

    Flm that made Brigitte Bardot an international star.

IL ÉTAIT UNE FORÊT/ONCE UPON A FOREST (E) 2013 FRANCE  JACQUET, LUC   £19.99

    Documentary from Oscar-winning director Luc Jacquet. With footage showing what really happens above and below the forest canopy.

L'ÉTÉ MEURTRIER/ONE DEADLY SUMMER (18) 1983  FRANCE  BECKER, JEAN     £14.99

 Isabelle Adjani is Elle, who lives in a small provincial village and seeks  revenge for the  wrongs done to her mother.

ETRE ET AVOIR (E)    2002  FRANCE PHILIBERT,  NICOLAS   £19.99

     Documentary that follows a year in the life of a French village school.

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L'ÉTUDIANTE ET MONSIEUR HENRI /STUDENT AND MISTER HENRI (12) 2015 FRANCE  CALBÉRAC, IVAN  £19.99

  Ivan Calbérac adapts this comedy drama from his own play. Grumpy old Henri makes a deal with young student Constance that she can stay in his house for free for three months if she tries to break up his son Paul's marriage.

EUROPE'S SECRET ARMIES - FRENCH RESISTANCE (E)  IN ENGLISH     £10.99

     Part of the documentary series looking at the history of the resistance movements in Occupied Europe during the Second World War.

EVEN LOVERS GET THE BLUES (18) 2017  BELGIUM MICHELI , MICHELI IN FRENCH £15.99

 Drama about a group of 30-something friends living in Brussels,  who fall in and out of relationships until a tragedy upsets their hedonistic lifestyle. 

L'ÉVÉNEMENT LE PLUS IMPORTANT DEPUIS QUE L'HOMME A MARCHÉ/A SLIGHTLY PREGNANT MAN  (PG)   1973   FRANCE     DEMY, JACQUES     £17.99

 Marcello Mastrioanni  plays Marco, who goes to see his doctor and complains of feeling run down, and much to his surprise is pronounced four months pregnant.

EVERY LITTLE THING/LA MOINDRE DES CHOSES (E) FRANCE 1997  PHILIBERT, NICOLAS    £12.99

     The protagonists in this documentary are the patients and staff at the La Borde psychiatric clinic in France.

EXILES/EXILS (15) 2004 FRANCE   GATLIT, TONY    £19.99

     French road trip movie surrounding Algerian immigrants retracing their parents’ steps back to the old country.

EXTERMINATING ANGELS/LES ANGES EXTERMINATEURS (18) 2006 FRANCE    BRISSEAU , JEAN-CLAUDE  £15.99

    Jean-Claude Brisseau's controversial erotic fantasy about a director who seeks to explore sexual taboos with a film about female pleasure.

THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADELE BLANC-SEC/LES AVENTURES EXTRAORDINAIRES D'ADÈLE BLANC-SEC (12) 2010 FRANCE     BESSON, LUC   DVD - £17.99  BLU RAY £22.99

    Luc Besson writes and directs this comic fantasy adventure adapted from Jacques Tardi's graphic novels of the 1970s. Set in the early 20th century, the film tells the colourful tale of popular novelist and adventuress Adele Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin), who deals in her own inimitable style with would-be suitors, the police, monsters and various other diversions as she attempts to save a mad scientist who has brought a pterodactyl to life so that he can re-animate an Egyptian mummy and use its ancient magic to revive Adele's sister, who has been in a coma for four years following a bizarre tennis accident. 

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LE FABULEUX DESTIN D'AMÉLIE POULAIN/AMELIE (15) 2001 FRANCE JEUNET, JEAN-PIERRE £19.99

    Oscar nominated film about a young French girl whose sole purpose of life is to help others.

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FAHRENHEIT 451 (12) UK 1966 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, F.  IN ENGLISH  £19.99

     Based on the Ray Bradbury book.

THE FAIRY/LA FÉE (PG) 2011 BELGIUM  ABEL/GORDON/ROMY    £15.99   

    A slice of Tati-esque magical-realist whimsy from Belgium-based filmmakers and former clowns Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy. In the coastal town of Le Havre, an offbeat romance blossoms between hotel clerk and hopeless romantic Dom (Abel) and barefoot redhead Fiona (Fiona Gordon), who is possibly an escaped mental patient, but claims that she is a fairy godmother and offers the enraptured Dom three wishes. She makes two of his wishes come true before disappearing, prompting Dom to jump onto his bicycle and take to the streets of Le Havre in search of his lost love.

LA FAMILLE BÉLIER (12A) 2013 FRANCE LARTIGAU, ERIC £15.99

  Comedy about a married couple and their two children. Living in a remote farm both parents and the youngest child are all deaf and relying heavilyon the sixteen-year-old child, Paula, as their interpreter. However Paula would like to move away and pursue a singing career.

FANNY (PG) 2013 FRANCE AUTEUIL, DANIEL £15.99

Romantic drama set in the 1920s France which is adapted from the second play in Marcel Pagnol's 'Marseilles Trilogy'.

FANTASTIC PLANET/LA PLANÉTE SAUVAGE  (PG)  1973 FRANCE   LALOUX, RENÉ   £19.99

     Based on Stefan Wul’s novel and containing almost Freudian landscapes and imagery.

FANTÔMAS (PG) 1913-14  FRANCE   FEUILLADE, LOUIS     £29.99

     One of cinema’s  first crime dramas.

LES FANTÔMES D'ISMAËL/ISMAEL'S GHOSTS  (15)  2017  FRANCE DESPLECHIN, ARNAUD   £15.99

 Film director Ismael now lives with his partner Sylvia after his wife disappeared without a trace 20 years previously.  Then one day Ismael’s wife Carlotta returns and wants back into Ismael's life. 

FAREWELL/L'AFFAIRE FAREWELL (15) 2009 FRANCE  CARION, CHRISTIAN £17.99

    French espionage thriller based on real events during the Cold War in the 1980s. Sergei Gregoriev (Emir Kusturica), codenamed 'Farewell', is a high-ranking KGB official who starts passing confidential Soviet documents to the French  secret services in the hope of undermining the Soviet regime.

FARINELLI:  IL CASTRATO (15) 1994 FRANCE CORBIAU, GERARD     £12.99

     Based on the life of Farnelli, the most famous castrato opera singer of the 18th Century.  

FATHER OF MY CHILDREN/LE PERE DE MES ENFANTS (15) 2009 FRANCE   HANSEN-LØVE, MIA    £15.99   

    Superbly acted, insightful and emotional portrait of a family in crisis.

FAUSTO (15)  1992  FRANCE  DUCHEMIN, REMY  £15.99

     Two orphans befriend each other in mid 60s Paris.

LA FAUTE À FIDEL!/BLAME IT ON FIDEL (12) 2006 FRENCH GAVRAS, JULIE £19.99

    A young girls life is turned upside down when her parents suddenly discover radical socialism.

FAUTEUILS D'ORCHESTRE/ORCHESTRA SEATS(12) 2006 FRANCE    THOMPSON, DANIÈLE      £17.99

    Drama about the residents of the theatre district and their dreams of fortune and fame as seen through the eyes of an impressionable countrygirl waitress in a local café.

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FEAR(S) OF THE DARK/PEUR(S) DU NOIR (15) 2007                £19.99

    Madness, haunted houses, disappearing people and dogs from hell are among the nightmares portrayed in this experimental animation, in which five graphic novelists reveal the things that most scare them at night.

LA FÉE/THE FAIRY (PG) 2011 BELGIUM  ABEL/GORDON/ROMY    £15.99   

    A slice of Tati-esque magical-realist whimsy from Belgium-based filmmakers and former clowns Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy. In the coastal town of Le Havre, an offbeat romance blossoms between hotel clerk and hopeless romantic Dom (Abel) and barefoot redhead Fiona (Fiona Gordon), who is possibly an escaped mental patient, but claims that she is a fairy godmother and offers the enraptured Dom three wishes. She makes two of his wishes come true before disappearing, prompting Dom to jump onto his bicycle and take to the streets of Le Havre in search of his lost love.

LA FEMME DE L'AVIATEUR/AVIATORS WIFE (PG) 1981 FRANCE ROHMER, ERIC £15.99

    Comedy of errors.

LA FEMME INFIDELE (15)  FRANCE  1968    CHABROL, CLAUDE      £19.99

    One of Claude Chabrol’s masterpieces, about bourgeois , marriage and murder.

LA FEMME NIKITA / SUBWAY  (18)  1985-90  FRANCE   BESSON, LUC    £19.99

     Two popular action movies.

LES FEMMES DU 6ÈME ÉTAGE/WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR(15) 2010 FRANCE    GUAY, PHILIPPE LE £17.99

    Comedy tracing the effects of an unusual friendship that develops between a wealthy Parisian stockbroker and his Spanish maid. Jean-Louis Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) is so rich he owns the block of flats in which he lives. His wife, Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain), is only too aware of their wealth and status and is snobbish in the extreme.

FEUX ROUGES/RED LIGHT (12) 2003 FRANCE    KAHN, CEDRIC       £19.99

 Tense sophisticated thriller based on the Georges Simenon novel.

FIDELIO, L'ODYSSÉE D'ALICE/FIDELIO, ALICE'S JOURNEY (15) 2014 FRANCE     BORLETEAU, LUCIE   £15.99

   Thirty-year-old Alice's is happy in her job as an engineer on a male dominated freighter. However her loyallyto her boyfriend is tested when Alice’s first love becomes the captain of the ship.

FIESTA  (15) 1995 FRANCE   BOUTRON, PIERRE    £15.99

     Powerful condemnation of excessive militarism set in the Spanish Civil War.

THE FIFTH ELEMENT (PG) 1997 FRANCE  IN ENGLISH  BESSON,  LUC      £19.99

      Luc Besson’s fantasy set in 23rd century. 

LA FILLE COUPEE EN DEUX/GIRL CUT IN TWO (15) 2007 FRANCE CHABROL, CLAUDE £19.99

    A woman finds herself the at the centre of a tug of love, in this blackly comic drama from director Claude Chabrol.

LA FILLE INCONNUE/UNKNOWN GIRL (15) 2016 FRANCE   DARDENNE, LUC & JEAN-PIERRE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

Dr. Jenny Davin  refuses a patient treatment, however when the patient is found dead the next day, the   Police turn to the doctor  for clues but without any useful information and feeling guilty about ignoring the woman's pleas the night before, Devan takes it upon herself to find out more about the woman in question.

LA FILLE DE KELTOUM/KELTOUMS DAUGHTER (12) 2002  ALGIERA  CHAREF, MEHDI     ARABIC/FRENCH    £12.99

     Woman returns to her place of birth in rural Algeria in an attempt to discover why her mother abandoned her.

LA FILLE DE NULLE PART/GIRL FROM NOWHERE (15) 2012     FRANCE   BRISSEAU,  JEAN-CLAUDE £15.99

    Writer and director Jean-Claude Brisseau stars alongside Virginie Legeay in this French philosophical horror.

LA FILLE DU PUISATIER/THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER (PG) 2011 FRANCE AUTEUIL, DANIEL £19.99

    Based on the Marcel Pagnol novel set in  Provence during the First World War

LA FILLE DU RER/GIRL ON THE TRAIN (15) 2009 FRANCE    ANDRE TECHINE    £15.99

    A  young woman living with her mother Louise in a lower-middle-class suburb of Paris and working as a babysitter. After a series of let-downs and disappointments in her life, Jeanne makes the striking claim that she has been brutally attacked by an anti-Semitic gang on the suburban train she often takes.Not believing her daughter, Louise enlists the help of family friend Samuel Bleistein (Michel Blanc), a prominent lawyer and Jewish activist, who attempts to restore order as a media frenzy engulfs the family.

LA FILLE SUR LE PONT/GIRL ON THE BRIDGE (15) 1998 FRANCE  PATRICE LECONTE     £19.99

 A woman is about to take her life when a stranger offers her a job in the  circus.   

LES FILLES NE SAVENT PAS NAGER/GIRLS CAN'T SWIM (15) FRANCE  1999  BIROT, ANNE-SOPHIE   £19.99

 Film about two teenager girls who meet each summer and realise one is  growing up faster than the other.

FILM SOCIALISME (PG) 2010 FRANCE     GODARD, JEAN-LUC    £15.99

    Allegorical cine-essay meditating on the history, culture, philosophy and economics of modern Europe.

LE FILS/SON (12) BELGIUM  2002 DARDENNE JP & L  IN FRENCH    £22.99

     Study of a man whose life has been devastated by tragedy.

LE FILS DE L'EPICIER/THE GROCER'S SON (12) 2007 FRANCE GUIRADO, ERIC £19.99

    Antoine ,a directionless drifter, reluctantly returns home to take over his father's grocery round, persuading his friend, Claire (Clotilde Hesme), on whom he has an unrequited crush, to accompany him.

THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE/LE PREMIER JOUR DU RESTE DE TA VIE (15) FRANCE 2008       BEZANCON,  REMI £15.99

    The pleasure and pain of familial relationships come under the microsope in this cross-generational film.

FIVE (15) 2015   FRANCE  GOTESMAN, IGOR £19.99

 Comedy about  five childhood friends who rent an expensive apartment in Paris. After Samuel cannot afford the rent he becomes a drug dealer in a desperate attempt to make some quick cash. However, after running into trouble with rival dealers, Samuel is forced to turn to his friends for help.

FLANDERS  (18)   2006   FRANCE     DUMONT, BRUNO    £19.99

 Film tells the story of a group of young men who go to fight in an unnamed war with brutal consequences.

FLIC STORY (15) 1975 FRANCE      DERAY, JACQUES - ONLY AVAILABLE IN - ALAIN DELON BOX SET 5 DISCS (15)  1960-75 FRANCE £34.99

     Detective Roger Borniche (Alain Delon), plays cat and mouse with murderer Emile Buisson (Jean-Louis Trintignant) through the streets of 1947 Paris.

LA FOLIE D'AMOUR: THE XAVIER DOLAN COLLECTION (15)     £28.99

    Contains - Heartbeats/I Killed My Mother/Laurence Anyways

A LA FOLIE PAS DU TOUT/HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT (12) 2001 FRANCE  COLOMBANI, L.      £19.99

 Taut tale of passion and obsession.

LA FOLLE HISTOIRE D'AMOUR DE SIMON ESKENAZY/HE IS MY GIRL (15) 2009  FRANCE    ZILBERMANN,   JEAN-JACQUES     £15.99

    French comedy sequel to the 1997 film 'Man Is a Woman'. Antoine de Caunes reprises his role as gay jazz musician Simon Eskenazy.

LA FOLLE HISTOIRE DE MAX ET LÉON (12)  2016  FRANCE BARRÉ, JONATHAN    £19.99

 Buddy movie and comedy set in 1939.  Inseparable, utterly immature friends,  Max and Léon,  are in the army but decide to desert to return home to their old simple wine-drinking ways. But their desire to desert leads them to have many adventures,  joining the Free French Force, becoming secret agents and working for Vichy Ministry of Propaganda. 

FONZY (15) 2013 FRANCE      DOVAL, ISABELLE   £19.99

    José Garcia co-writes and stars in this French remake of the 2011 comedy 'Starbuck'.about a man in his forties who still acts like a teenager.However his teenage behaviour is about  to come to an end, when he becomes a father to 534 children.

FRANKIE (15)  2006  FRANCE     KRUGER, DIANE          £19.99

 Film tells the story of Frankie, a fashion model,  her emotional crisis  and mental breakdown.

FRANCOFONIA (12A) 2015 FRANCE  SOKUROV. ALEKSANDR DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

 The film looks at the  history of the Louvre,  from its  construction, to the Renaissance and the Nazi's occupation of Paris in World War Two.  In Russian, French, German, English with English subtitles

FRANCOIS OZON COLLECTION   (15)   20002-4   FRANCE      £24.99

 Contains, 8 Women, Swimming Pool and 5X2.

FRANTZ (12A) 2016 FRANCE  OZON,  FRANÇOIS   £15.99

   German woman Anna has lost her fiancé Frantz in the First World War. On one of her daily visits to his grave, a year after his death, she is startled by a young Frenchman named Adrien  who claims to know her late partner from their shared time studying in Paris together before the war.  

FREE MEN/LES HOMMES LIBRES (12) 2011 FRANCE FERROUKHI, ISMAEL £15.99

    World War Two drama set in German-occupied Paris in 1942. Tahar Rahim stars as Younes, a young, unemployed, Algerian immigrant who is inspired to become a freedom fighter after forming an unexpected friendship with Jewish singer Salim Halali (Mahmud Shalaby)

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FREE ZONE  (15) 2005 FRANCE    GITAI, AMOS  IN HEBREW/ARABIC    £14.99

 Three women travel to the Free Zone, an ungoverned economic area in Jordan,  to pick up a debt.

LA FRENCH/THE CONNECTION (15) 2014  JIMENEZ, CÉDRIC   £15.99

 1970s set crime drama about a former Marseille judge who attempts to take down the notorious drug smuggling operation known as the French Connection.

FRENCH CANCAN (PG) 1955    FRANCE    RENOIR, JEAN    £19.99

    Musical comedy drama set amidst the glittering nightlife of late 19th-century Paris.

FRENCH COLLECTION VOLUME 1: JULIETTE BINOCHE  (15)   FRANCE      £22.99

 Contains - Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993),  Code Inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (2000) and  Mauvais sang (1986).

FRENCH COLLECTION VOLUME 2: THRILLERS  (15)   FRANCE     £22.99

 Contains - Caché (2005),  De Battre mon coeur s'est Arrêté (2005) and  Lemming(2005).

FRENCH COLLECTION: VOL. 3 - ISABELLE HUPPERT (18) FRANCE £22.99

    Features three films: Gabrielle (Chereau, 2005), Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Chabrol, 2000) and La Pianiste (Haneke, 2001).

FRENCH COLLECTION: VOL. 4 - EMMANUEL BEART (15) FRANCE £19.99

    Features - Belle Noiseuse - Divertimento (Rivette, 1992), Histoire de Marie et Julien (Rivette, 2003) and 

Témoins (Téchiné, 2007). Belle Noiseuse - Divertiment.

FRENCH FOR KIDS: NUMBERS AND COLOURS (E)  £12.99

    Educational children's programme that teaches French in a fun and interactive way. The colourful animations of friendly jungle characters, as well as songs, stories and games encourage and motivate children to learn numbers and colours in French.

FRENCH FOR KIDS: SIMPLE WORDS (E) £12.99

FRENCH FOR KIDS: SIMPLE WORDS/NUMBERS AND COLOURS (E)     £23.99

    Two installments of the educational children's  programme that teaches French in a fun and interactive way.

FRENCH KISSES (18) 2016 FRANCE  £15.99

Collection of shorts LGBT films containing -   'Apollo' (2016), 'Herculanum' (2016), 'Body of Angels' (2016), 'En Retour' (2013), 'Ruptures' (2008) and '5 (2014).

FULL MOON IN PARIS/LES NUITS DE LA PLEINE LUNE (15) 1984  FRANCE ERICH ROHMER       £15.99

 Story about a girl who feels stifled by her live in love affair.

THE FRENCH WAY (E) 1972 IN ENGLISH  £14.99

  A 1972 look at the daily lives of people who live in rural France.

GABRIELLE (15)  2003  FRANCE   CHEREAU, PATRICE     £19.99

 Adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novella The Return .

GAINSBOURG (15) 2010 FRENCH        SFAR, JOANN      DVD - £17.99  BLU RAY £22.99

    Biopic of notorious French singer-songwriter and provocateur Serge Gainsbourg, adapted by Joann Sfar from his graphic novel. 

LE GAMIN AU VELO/THE KID WITH A BIKE (12A) 2011 BELGIUM DARDENNE, J P/DARDENNE, L £15.99

    The Dardenne brothers write and direct this Belgian drama about an eleven-year-old boy in search of a family.

GANG OF FOUR/LA BANDE A QUATRE (15) 1988 FRANCE   RIVETTE, JACQUES     £14.99

 Story of four women studying under a demanding acting teacher.

GANGSTERDAM (15)  2017 FRANCE  LÉVY, ROMAIN  £19.99

  Comedy about two students male  who accompany fellow student Nora to Amsterdam.   However on arriving in the city they discover Nora is a drugs smuggler and the three of them come to the attention of the ruthless mafia boss, played by Rutger Hauer.

A GANG STORY/LES LYONNAIS (15 ) 2011 FRANCE    MARCHAL, OLIVIER    £15.99

    Gangster movie based on the autobiography of the gangster Edmond Vidal. 

LES GARÇONS ET GUILLAUME, À TABLE!/ME, MYSELF AND MUM (15) 2013       GALLIENNE, GUILLAUME   £17.99

 Camp comedy in which  Gallienne shows how his mother treated him as the daughter she never had and how this led to him becoming seriously confused about his sexuality while growing up.

GARDENS IN AUTUMN/JARDINS EN AUTOMNE (15) 2006 FRANCE 2006  IOSSELIANI, OTAR  £19.99

 Languidly paced, comic tale of a French government minister who relinquishes his post and the pampered existence he has become accustomed so that he can live a quiet, anonymous life in a slum.

LES GARDIENNES /THE GUARDIANS (15)  2017 FRANCE BEAUVOIS,  XAVIE  £15.99

    Set during the First World War,  Hortense takes over the running of the farm, while the men have  gone to fight.  Struggling to cope,  Hortense takes on the hard working 20-year-old orphan  Francine Riant.  However when Hortense’s son  Georges  comes home on leave he falls for Francine, much to his mothers disapproval .

GAUGUIN (15) 2017 FRANCE DELUC,EDOUARD   £19.99

 Film about French artist Paul Gaugin, who in 1891 leaves his family behind and heads for Tahiti, where he wants to rediscover painting free from the moral, political, and aesthetic codes of civilized Europe.

GAZON MAUDIT (18) 1995  FRANCE   BALASKO, JOSIANE       £15.99

 Hit French comedy.

LES GÉANTS/GIANTS (15) 2011 BELGIUM   LANNERS, BOULI   IN FRENCH  £15.99

    Belgian coming-of-age drama. Teenage brothers have been more or less abandoned by their parents for the 

summer at their dead grandfather's house in rural Belgium. When they run out of money, they team up with another youngster, who introduces them to a local drug dealer. The boys soon find themselves in over their heads.

GEMMA BOVERY (15) 2014   FRANCE  FONTAINE, ANNE      DVD - £17.99   BLU RAY - £21.99

  Based on  Posy Simmonds novel about a village baker who is so obsessed  with  Gustave Flaubert novel 'Madame Bovary'.   When  a young English couple move into the village, the baker  is delighted to learn their names are Gemma and Charles Bovery

GERARD DEPARDIEU BOX SET (18) 1982-98  FRANCE      £34.99

 Contains - Le Comte de Monte Cristo, Trop Belle Pour Toi, Le Retour de Martin Guerre and Les Miserables

GERMINAL (15) 1983 FRANCE BERRI, CLAUDE £17.99

 Based on the Emile Zola novel and set in a 19th Century coal mining town in northern France.  Her a bitter industrial dispute has broken out between the exploitative  mine owner and the striking miners.

GIGOLA (15) FRANCE     CHARPENTIER, LAURE            £15.99

    Based on the long censored novel of the same name, Gigola captures a little known chapter in Parisian history in  which eroticism defied conventional morals.

GIRL (15) 2018    BELGIUM  DHONT. LUKAS   IN FRENCH, FLEMISH & ENGLISH   £15.99

   Victor Polster stars as Lara, a 15-year-old transgender girl who dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer while training at a prestigious academy. Preparing for gender reassignment surgery, Lara experiencing harassment and humiliation from those around her.

LA GLACE ET LE CIEL/ICE AND THE SKY(U) 2015    FRANCE   JACQUET, LUC   £15.99

    French documentary about global warming.

GLISSEMENTS PROGRESSIFS DU PLAISIR/SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE (18) 1974

FRANCE ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

Thriller written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet. 

GIRLS CAN'T SWIM/LES FILLES NE SAVENT PAS NAGER (15) FRANCE  1999  BIROT, ANNE-SOPHIE   £19.99

 Film about two teenager girls who meet each summer and realise one is  growing up faster than the other.

GIRL CUT IN TWO/LA FILLE COUPEE EN DEUX (15) 2007 FRANCE CHABROL, CLAUDE £19.99

    A woman finds herself the at the centre of a tug of love, in this blackly comic drama from director Claude Chabrol.

GIRL FROM NOWHERE/LA FILLE DE NULLE PART (15) 2012     FRANCE   BRISSEAU,  JEAN-CLAUDE £15.99

    Writer and director Jean-Claude Brisseau stars alongside Virginie Legeay in this French philosophical horror.

GIRL FROM PARIS/UNE HIRONDELLE A FAIT LE PRINTEMPS (15) 2001  FRANCE  CHRISTIAN CARION   £19.99  

 Woman teacher gives up her job to run a farm.         

GIRL ON THE BRIDGE/LA FILLE SUR LE PONT (15) 1998 FRANCE  PATRICE LECONTE     £19.99

 A woman is about to take her life when a stranger offers her a job in the  circus.   

GIRL ON THE TRAIN/LA FILLE DU RER (15) 2009 FRANCE    ANDRE TECHINE    £15.99

    A  young woman living with her mother Louise in a lower-middle-class suburb of Paris and working as a babysitter. After a series of let-downs and disappointments in her life, Jeanne makes the striking claim that she has been brutally attacked by an anti-Semitic gang on the suburban train she often takes.Not believing her daughter, Louise enlists the help of family friend Samuel Bleistein (Michel Blanc), a prominent lawyer and Jewish activist, who attempts to restore order as a media frenzy engulfs the family.

LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE/GLEANERS AND I (15) 2000 FRANCE      VARDA, AGNÈS     £15.99

    Documentary the lives of those who live 'off the grid' in France. Gleaning is the act of gathering the leftovers from a harvest after the main, profitable crop has been taken away by the farmer. As well as examining the lives of actual gleaners, who subsist from the remnants of modern agriculture, Varda extends the metaphor to enquire about those who live by more modern forms of gleaning.

GLISSEMENTS PROGRESSIFS DU PLAISIR/SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE (18) 1974

FRANCE ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

Thriller written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet. 

GLOIRE DE MON PERE (U) 1990  FRANCE  YVES, ROBERT     £19.99

 One of  the most successful French films based on a Pagnol novel, tell the story of  growing   up in  Provence .

GOAL OF THE DEAD (15) 2014 FRANCE ROCHER, B/POIRAUD,T    £12.99

Zombie horror football movie!  

GOD IS GREAT, I'M NOT/DIEU EST GRAND, JE SUIS TOUTE PETITE (12) FRANCE 2001    BAILLY, PASCALE       £17.99

 A fashion model with a zest for life so great that she has to channel it - firstly through

Buddhism, then when she meets  Francois, a Jewish veterinarian and converts to Judaism.

GOODBYE, FIRST LOVE/UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE (15) 2011 FRANCE    HANSEN-LØVE, MIA    £15.99

    Coming-of-age drama about  a Paris teenager who is broken-hearted when her childhood sweetheart announces that he is leaving her behind to spend a year travelling in South America. Camille is at first inconsolable, but gradually discovers more constructive ways to channel her energy.

GOTO L'ILE D'AMOUR (15) 1969 FRANCE BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN £19.99

Set on the fictitious island of Goto, where an isolated community live to serve their despotic ruler, Goto111.

LE GOUT DES AUTRES (15)  2000 FRANCE  JAOUI, AGNES    £19.99

 Touching Oscar nominated comedy about a successful businessman and his relationship with a teacher.

GOUTTES D'EAU SUR PIERRES BRÛLANTE/WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCK (18) 2000   FRANCE  OZON, FRANCOIS   £19.99

 Comic look at the shifting of power in sexual relationships.

GRÂCE À DIEU/BY THE GRACE OF GOD (15)  2018  FRANCE OZON, FRANÇOIS  £15.99    

 After the return to of a child abusing priest to Lyon, four of his victims speak out and demand  justice. As they continue their campaign for justice they find an extensive cover-up of the abuse by the Catholic Church 

LE GRAND BAIN /SINK OR SWIM (15) 2018 FRANCE  LELLOUCHE , GILLES £19.99

 Feelgood comedy drama about a group of five middle-aged men on the  verge of a mid-life crisis who form a  synchronised swimming team training for a World Championships.  

LE GRAND BLEU/BIG BLUE (15) 1988 FRANCE BESSON, LUC IN ENGLISH £15.99

    Luc Besson's film about the dangers of obsession and rivalry.  BLU - RAY £24.99

LE GRAND BLOND AVEC UNE CHAUSSURE NOIRE/LE RETOUR DU GRAND BLOND/TALL BLOND MAN WITH  ONE BLACK SHOE/RETURN OF THE TALL BLOND MAN/  (15) 1972-74 FRANCE YVES ROBERT £19.99

 Slapstick spy spoof

GRANDE BOUFFE (18) 1972 FRANCE  FERRERI, MARCO     £19.99

 Bored with the mundanity of life,  four men have an orgy of self indulgence in this satire of the  bourgeoisie.

GRAND CENTRAL (15) 2013 FRANCE  ZLOTOWSKI, REBECCA   DVD - £17.99    BLU RAY - £22.99

      Out-of-work Gary lands a job decontamination a nuclear plant.  The job offers him everything he is looking for, money, a team and love. However Gary begins to realise that the workers are being exposure to dangerous levels of radiation.

GRAND DÉPART (15) 2012 FRANCE   MERCIER, NICOLAS        £19.99

    Pio Marmaï, Jérémie Elkaïm and Eddy Mitchell star in this French drama that follows the efforts of a man determined to find his own identity.

GRANDE ÉCOLE (15) 2004  FRANCE    SALIS, ROBERT       £19.99

 Adapted from the stage play by Jean-Marie Besset.

LE GRAND JEU  (PG)   1934 FRANCE  FEYDER,JACQUES £19.99

    A marvelous rediscovery from the golden age of French cinema, Jacques Feyder’s Le Grand jeu is a tragic doppelgänger romance, steered by the fate of the tarot card, and set against the dizzying exoticism of 1930s Morocco.

LE GRANDE VOYAGE (PG) 2004 FRANCE   FERROUKHI,  ISMAËL  ARABIC/FRENCH       £19.99

 Moroccan immigrant in France feels that his time to undertake the Hajj to Mecca  has finally arrived.

LA GRANDE ILLUISION (PG) 1937  FRANCE   RENOIR,  JEAN      £19.99

 Renoir’s profound examination of war, with Jean Gabin and Erich von Stroheim.

LES GRANDES MANOEVRES (PG)  1955  FRANCE  CLAIR, RENE         £9.99 

 A womanizing soldier meets his match when he falls for the feisty Marie-louise.

LA GRANDE VADROUILLE (PG) 1966  FRANCE  OURY,  GERARD £15.99

 French wartime comedy farce.

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GRAPES OF DEATH/LES RAISINS DE LA MORT (18) 1978  France   ROLLIN, JEAN      £12.99

 Cult horror film.

THE GREEN RAY/LE RAYON VERT (PG)   1986  FRANCE ROHMER, ERICH      £15.99

 Charming, romantic comedy of young Parisienne on holiday.

THE GROCER'S SON/LE FILS DE L'EPICIER (12) 2007 FRANCE GUIRADO, ERIC £19.99

    Antoine ,a directionless drifter, reluctantly returns home to take over his father's grocery round, persuading his friend, Claire (Clotilde Hesme), on whom he has an unrequited crush, to accompany him.

GUILLAUME, LA JEUNESSE DU CONQUÉRANT/ WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR (15) 2015 FRANCE  DRUGEON,FABIEN    £19.99

 The story of  William of Normandy’s childhood and his rise to becoming William the Conqueror.

HADEWIJCH (12A) 2009 FRANCE  DUMONT,  BRUNO    £15.99

    A young Christian fanatic identifies with the 13th-century mystic Hadewijch so strongly that she even takes on her name, and is eventually sent away from her Paris convent for being too extreme in her devotion. Outside the convent, she begins naively to explore the real world, and struggles to find a way to reconcile her longing for Christ with her need for physical love.

LA HAINE (15) 1995 FRANCE  KASSOVITZ, MATHIEU    DVD -   £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99 

   Award winning film about a day on a tough Paris housing estate for three teenagers.

The film takes place over 24 hours following the police shooting of a young man from a deprived housing estate, and shows the world through the eyes of three friends –one North African, one Jewish and one black –who are frustrated with politicians, the media and police brutality.

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THE HAIRDRESSER’S HUSBAND/LE MARI DE LA COIFFEUSE (18) 1990  FRANCE  LECONTE, P.     £34.99

 Fascinating tale, full of unbelievable characters, that has little to do with logic or real life.    

HALF-SISTER/DEMI-SOEUR (12) FRANCE 2013BALASKO, JOSIANE £19.99

    Offbeat film following the fortunes of a woman who sets out in search of her extended family.

HAPPY END (15) 2016  FRANCE  HANEKE, MICHAEL DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £15.99  Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Mathieu Kassovitz star in a movie about the affluent upper-bourgeois Laurent family, a family with many  skeletons in their closet.

HARD SEASON 1(15) 2008 FRANCE    VERNEY, CATHY     £15.99

    Respectable middle-class housewife and mother suddenly loses her husband in a freak accident. On the day of his funeral the true nature of the family business is finally disclosed to her: the production of porno movies! To save her home and feed her children she has to immediately resume management of the company, a business. Can she revitalise the fortunes of the company and  bring some much-needed new ideas to the business.

HARRY, HE’S HERE TO HELP/HARRY, UN AMI QUI VOUS VEUT DU BIEN (15)  2000 FRANCE  MOLL, DOMINIK     £19.99

 Nail biting dark comedy thriller

LE HAVRE (PG) 2011 FRANCE KAURISMÄKI, AKI £15.99

    Comedy drama depicting the friendship between an illegal child immigrant and an elderly Frenchman.

HAUTE TENSION/SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE (18) 2003 FRANCE   AJA, ALEXANDRE    £19.99

  Horror movie about two women students kidnapped by a psychopath.

HE IS MY GIRL/LA FOLLE HISTOIRE D'AMOUR DE SIMON ESKENAZY (15) 2009  FRANCE    ZILBERMANN,  JEAN-JACQUES     £15.99

    French comedy sequel to the 1997 film 'Man Is a Woman'. Antoine de Caunes reprises his role as gay jazz musician Simon Eskenazy.

HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT/A LA FOLIE PAS DU TOUT (12) 2001 FRANCE  COLOMBANI, L.      £19.99

 Taut tale of passion and obsession.

HEADING SOUTH/VERS LE SUD (15) FRANCE/CANADA  2005   CANTET, LAURENT    FRENCH/ENGLISH      £19.99

 Three tourist  stay from the tourist locations to see the poverty and dangers of living in Haiti in the midst of the ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier dictatorial regime.

HEARTBEATS/LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES  (15) 2010 CANADA DOLAN, XAVIER IN FRENCH    £15.99

    Drama chronicling a love triangle between three 20-something metrosexual friends in Montreal: Marie (Monia Chokri), Frankie (Xavier Dolan) and Nicolas (Niels Schneider).

HEARTBEAT DETECTOR/LA QUESTION HUMAINE (12A) FRANCE 2007  KLOTZ, NICOLAS   £19.99

 Corporate thriller in which an in house company psychologist investigates the erratic behaviour of the CEO.

HEARTBREAKER/L'ARNACOEUR (15) 2010 FRANCE    CHAUMEIL,  PASCAL     DVD -   £19.99   BLU-RAY £19.99

    French romantic comedy about a  handsome, charming, funny man who offers a  service to break up any unwanted relationship. 

THE HEDGEHOG/LE HÉRISSON (12) 2009 FRANCE    ACHACHE, MONA    £17.99

    Light-hearted drama following the bond that develops between three social outcasts who share the same residential house.

HELL/L'ENFER (15) FRANCE 2005          TANOVIC, DANIS       £19.99

 Three sisters reunite after years apart in order to come to terms with a disturbing incident from their past.

HÉLAS POUR MOI   (15) 1993    FRANCE     GODARD, JEAN-LUC        £19.99

 Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.

HENRI GEORGE CLOUZOT'S INFERNO (E) 2009 FRANCE BROMBERG,S/MEDREA, R    DVD - £15.99   BLU RAY - £23.99 

  Documentary in which film archivist Serge Bromberg tells the story of an unfinished film by French auteur Henri-Georges Clouzot: 'L'Enfer' starring Romy Schneider

HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT COLLECTION  (PG)  1943-52 FRANCE        £24.99

 Features - Le Corbeau, Quai des Orfevres  and Le Salaire de la Peurr.

HENRI 4 /HENRY OF NAVARRE(15) 2010 FRANCE    BAIER, JO    DVD - £17.99   BLU-RAY £24.99

    Historical action drama set in late 16th century France starring Julien Boisselier as the eponymous French nobleman and soldier who becomes one of the country's most popular kings.

HER NAME IS SABINE/ELLE S'APPELLE SABINE (12) 2007  FRANCE  BONNAIRE, SANDRINE £15.99

 Directed by French actress Sandrine Bonnaire, this powerful documentary portrays the struggles encountered by her autistic sister from misdiagnosis and institutionalization at age 28, to her renewed sense of hope after moving to a specialized centre.

LES HERBES FOLLES/WILD GRASS (12) 2009 FRANCE   RESNAIS, ALAIN £15.99

    Alain Resnais directs this adaptation of a novel by Christian Gailly. After dentist Marguerite Muir (Sabine Azema) has  her handbag stolen, her wallet is found by the troubled Georges (Andre Dussollier), whose mid-life crisis is causing him to behave erratically and rendering him unable to perform even the most straightforward tasks. As Georges deliberates at length over what to do with the wallet, and Marguerite becomes increasingly curious about the identity of its finder, the two become drawn into an elaborate series of encounters which may or may not blossom into a romance.

LE HÉRISSON/THE HEDGEHOG (12) 2009 FRANCE    ACHACHE, MONA    £17.99

    Light-hearted drama following the bond that develops between three social outcasts who share the same residential house.

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L'HÉRITAGE/LEGACY  (15) 2006  FRANCE   BABLUANI,   GELA       £19.99

 Tense psychological thriller.

L'HERMINE/COURTED   2015 FRANCE  VINCENT, CHRISTIAN   £19.99

 Recently divorced judge Michel Racine, a man famed for his ruthless reputation, as he presides over the complex case of a man accused of killing his young child. However, Michel's sullen outlook on life suddenly changes when he is reunited with long-lost love Ditte after she is selected to sit as a juror in the trial.

L'HEURE D'ÉTÉ/SUMMER HOURS (12) 2008   FRANCE   ASSAYAS, OLIVIER  £19.99

 The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother dies suddenly.

HIDDEN/CACHÉ (15)   2005   FRANCE   HANEKE, MICHAEL     £19.99

 Compelling psychological thriller.

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HIGH LANE/VERTIGE (15) FRANCE 2009     ABEL, FERRY    £15.99

    French horror. While holidaying in Croatia, five young friends set out hiking along a mountain trail that has been closed for repairs.

HIGHLY STRUNG/JE TE MANGERAIS    (15) FRANCE 2009        LALOY,  SOPHIE    £14.99

    Drama tracking the destructive relationship between two young women.

HIPPOCRATES (15) 2015 FRANCE   LILTI, THOMAS    £15.99

   French comedy drama about a young doctor. 

HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (PG) 1959 FRANCE B/W  RESNAIS,  ALAIN DVD -  £17.99 BLU RAY - £22.99

 Maguerite Duras wrote the screenplay set in Hiroshima, which is a love story between a French actress and a Japanese architect over shadowed by atomic bomb dropped on the city.

HISTOIRE DE MARIE ET JULIEN (15) 2003 FRANCE RIVETTE, JACQUES   £19.99

 Spellbinding combination of love story and supernatural thriller.

HOME (15) 2008 FRANCE     MEIER,  URSULA        £15.99

    Comedy satire in which a new motorway brings chaos to a family living in the tranquility of the French countryside.

LES HOMMES DE L'OMBRE/SPIN: SERIES 1 AND 2 (15) FRANCE 2016  £29.99

  French political drama about a former spin doctor helping a candidate beating Prime Minister in the upcoming presidential election. 

LES HOMMES DE L'OMBRE/SPIN: SERIES 3  (15) FRANCE 2016  £19.99  

  Third and final series in which the race for the presidency enters its final stretch, Simon witnesses an assassination which threatens to throw the contest into chaos.

L’HOMME DE MA VIE (15) 1992 FRANCE   TACCHELLA, JEAN-CHARLES     £14.99

 Gentle romantic comedy

L’HOMME DU TRAIN (12)  FRANCE 2002    LECONTE, PATRICE     £19.99

 A mysterious stranger, Milan (Johnny Hallyday), steps off a train in a place he  has never been to before and  comes across a school teacher.  Both men, although  opposites, realises that what they really always wanted is the life of the other man.

L'HOMME EST UNE FEMME COMME LES AUTRES/MAN IS A WOMAN (15) 1998 FRANCE ZILBERMANN, 

JEAN - JACQUES £19.99

  A gay man living in Paris is offered 10 million francs by his uncle to get married and continue the family name.

L'HOMME QUI AIMAIT LES FEMMES/MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (15)  FRANCE  1977 TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS      £15.99

 Whimsical story about an eccentric Casanova.

L'HOMME QUI VOULAIT VIVRE SA VIE/THE BIG PICTURE15) 2010  FRANCE  LARTIGAU,  ERIC   DVD -  £15.99  BLU RAY - £19.99

    Romain Duris stars in this drama based on the novel by Douglas Kennedy.  

LES HOMMES DU FEU (15) 2017 FRANCE   JOLIVET, PIERRE £19.99

 Female firefighter Bénédicte  joins an all male fires station located in southern France, but has to prove hers competence after she make a mistake on her first missions.

DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX/OF GODS AND MEN (15) 2010    FRANCE     BEAUVOIS,  XAVIER   

DVD - £15.99  BLU RAY - £22.99

    French drama set in the remote Algerian monastery of Tibhirine. For years, the monks have coexisted in harmony with the Muslim locals. But as the political situation in Algeria becomes increasingly unstable and terrorism takes hold in the 1990s, the monks face the agonising decision of whether to stay or go back to France. 

LES HOMMES LIBRES/FREE MEN (12) 2011 FRANCE FERROUKHI, ISMAEL £15.99

    World War Two drama set in German-occupied Paris in 1942. Tahar Rahim stars as Younes, a young, unemployed, Algerian immigrant who is inspired to become a freedom fighter after forming an unexpected friendship with Jewish singer Salim Halali (Mahmud Shalaby.)

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L'HORLOGER DE SAINT-PAUL/WATCHMAKER OF SAINT PAUL (PG) 1973 FRANCE  TAVERNIER, BERTRAND      £17.99

 This highly acclaimed debut film is a well crafted thriller based on a  George Simenon story.

HORS DE PRIX/PRICELESS  (12) 2007  FRANCE SALVADORI, PIERRE   £19.99

 Charming romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the French Riviera . Jean, a shy young bartender is mistaken for a millionaire by beautiful scheming opportunist woman.

HORS LA LOI/OUTSIDE THE LAW (15) 2010 FRANCE    BOUCHAREB, RACHID     DVD - £17.99  BLU RAY - £22.99

    Sequel to his 2007 political drama 'Days of Glory'. Set against the backdrop of the Algerian struggle for independence from France the drama follows three brothers who become separated during the massacre at Setif.  

HORS SATAN (15) 2011 FRANCE        DUMONT, BRUNO        £15.99

    Avant-garde drama about an outsider who develops a close bond with a nameless young woman. He acts as a guardian to the girl as the film progresses, killing the people she claims are tormenting her and making her life unbearable.

HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF/LE HUSSARD SUR LE TOIT (15) 1995  FRANCE RAPPENEAU, J.P.       £19.99   

 Historical drama by the director of ‘Cryano de Bergerac’. Stars Juliette  Binoche.

HOTEL DU NORD (PG) 1938  FRANCE  CARNÉ, MARCEL BLU RAY ONLY  £23.99

 Based on the Eugène Dabit novel, a young couple check into the Hotel du Nord planning a double suicide. 

HOTEL HARABATI (15) FRANCE 2006   CAUVIN, BRICE        £19.99

 After ten years of marriage a couple finally take a honeymoon. On  arrival at the train station in Paris they find a bag filled with money.

HÔTEL NORMANDY (12A) 2012 NEMES, CHARLES £19.99

    Romantic comedy starring Héléna Noguerra.

HOUSE OF TOLERANCE/L'APOLLONIDE : SOUVENIRS DE LA MAISON CLOSE (18) 2011 FRANCE  

BONELLO, BERTRAND  £12.99

    Opulent drama portraying life in an upmarket Paris brothel at the beginning of the 20th century.

HUMAN RESOURCES/RESSOURCES HUMAINES  (15)    FRANCE  1999  CANTET, LAURENT         £19.99

 Business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown totake a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years.

L'HUMANITE (18) FRANCE 1998  DUMONT, BRUNO      £19.99

 On the hunt for the brutal rape and murder of an 11 year old girl, Police detective Pharaon de Winter is appalled not only by the crime, but the monstrous of human behaviour.

HURLEVENT/WUTHERING HEIGHTS (15) 1985   FRANCE   RIVETTE, JACQUES       £14.99

     French take on this classic of English literature.

LE HUSSARD SUR LE TOIT/HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF (15) 1995  FRANCE RAPPENEAU, J.P.       £19.99   

 Historical drama by the director of ‘Cryano de Bergerac’. Stars Juliette  Binoche.

I DO/PRÊTE-MOI TA MAIN  (15) 2006  FRANCE   LARTIGAU, ERIC       £17.99

 Luis a happy single man, enjoys his job and is pampered by his mother and five sisters. But, one day, the family decide it’s time for him to marry. Luis hurriedly hatches a plan to fend off their unwelcome intrusion in his  life. 

I DREAMT UNDER WATER/J'AI REVE SOUS L'EAU (18) 2008  FRANCE  BORBOR,  HORMOZ   £14.99

 In this savage, sexual drama, a man’s search for love, leads him into the dark underbelly of the Parisian night.

I KILLED MY MOTHER (15) 2009 CANADA  CANADA DOLAN,   IN FRENCH      £15.99

    Directorial  debut of young French-Canadian actor Xavier Dolan is a cathartic, fiercely compelling evocation of turbulent late adolescence. Visually stunning, with exquisite performances from Dolan himself – as the volatile, verbally savage Hubert – and a highly acclaimed cast including Anne Dorval and Suzanne Clément, I Killed My Mother was the winner of 22 international film awards in 2009, including three categories at Cannes.

I PIERRE REVIERE  (15) 1976 FRANCE   ALLIO, RENE      £17.99

 A tragic tale of a vengeful farmer’s son who murdered his family, claiming it was God’s judgement, only to write his confessional memoirs whilst in jail.

I SAW BEN BARKA GET KILLED/J'AI VU TUER BEN BARKA  (15)  2005 FRANCE SMIHI/PÉRON  ARABIC/FRENCH  £19.99 

  Notorious French political scandal about the murder of Moroccan dissident Mehdi  Ben Barka in Paris in 1966.

IL ÉTAIT UNE FORÊT/ONCE UPON A FOREST (E) 2013 FRANCE  JACQUET, LUC   £19.99

    Documentary from Oscar-winning director Luc Jacquet. With footage showing what really happens above and below the forest canopy.

IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T'AIME/I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG/ (12) 2008  FRANCE  CLAUDEL, PHILIPPE  DVD -   £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99

 Kristin Scott Thomas stars in this searing French drama about a woman who reunites with her young sister after a 15-year separation.   

L'ILLUSIONISTE/THE ILLUSIONIST (PG) 2010 FRANCE    CHOMET,  SYLVAIN IN ENGLISH    £19.99

    Hand-drawn animated feature based on an unproduced script that the French comic Jacques Tati wrote in 1956 for his daughter. Set in the late 1950s, the film tells the story of an ageing Paris illusionist whose career has come under threat from the increasing popularity of cinema and pop music.

ILS/THEM (15)  2006  FRANCE  PALAUD, XAVIER /MOREAU, DAVID   £17.99

 French horror about a couple who have to fight for their lives when an assault on their  home turns deadly.

I’M GOING HOME/JE RENTRE À LA MAISON (PG) 2001 FRANCE  OLIVEIRA, MANOEL DE     £19.99

 Oliveira’s dry and witty look at art and ageing.

L'IMAGE MANQUANTE/MISSING PICTURE (12) 2013  RITHY PANH IN FRENCH  DVD - £15.99  BLU RAY - £19.99

    Academy Award-nominated documentary detailing the horrors of the Cambodian genocide which occurred under the Pol Pot dictatorship of the late-1970s. 

IMMORAL TALES/CONTES IMMORAUX  (18) 1974  FRANCE BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN    £19.99

 Four bawdy tales.

L'IMMORTEL/22 BULLETS (18)     2010 FRANCE        BERRY, RICHARD        £15.99

    Jean Reno stars in this taut French gangster thriller set in Marseille.  BLU RAY £19.99

IN ALL INNOCENCE/EN PLEIN COEUR  (15) 1998 FRANCE   JOLIVET, PIERRE          £15.99

 A relationship develops between a rich lawyer and one of  his clients.

IN GREAT SILENCE/DIE GROßE STILLE   (E)    GERMANY  GRONING, PHILIP IN FRENCH AND LATIN   £22.99

 Award-winning  and box office hit documentary about  the lives of the inhabitants of a remote monastery in the French Alps

L’INCONNU DU LAC/STRANGER BY THE LAKE (18) FRANCE GUIRAUDIE, ALAIN DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99

   Franck is an attractive young male who falls in love with Michel, a lethally dangerous man

in this  tense thriller.

INTÉRIEUR D'UN COUVENT/BEHIND THE CONVENT WALLS (18) 1977 FRANCE BOROWCZYK, W. £19.99

    Based on Stendhal’s Roman Walks.

IN THE LAND OF THE DEAF/LE PAYS DES SOURDS (12) 1992 FRANCE  PHILIBERT, NICOLAS      £12.99

 Award winning documentary which offers an insight into the day-to-day activities of the French deaf community.

IN THE HOUSE/DANS LA MAISON (15) 2012   FRANCE  OZON, FRANÇOIS    DVD - £15.99 BLU-RAY - £17.99

    Offbeat French drama from director that explores the relationship between a literature student and the talented pupil whose gift for description he attempts to nurture.

IN THEIR SLEEP/DANS TON SOMMEIL    (18) 2010 FRANCE     CAROLINE AND ERIC DU POTET    £15.99

    A tense horror thriller. Travelling home at night along country roads, Sarah (Anne Parillaud) nearly runs over a frantic young man, Arthur (Arthur Dupont), standing in the middle of the road. Bloody and exhausted, Arthur claims to be on the run from a burglar who he surprised mid-robbery, and who now wants to kill him to protect his identity.

IN YOUR HAND/CONTRE TOI (15) 2010 FRANCE      DOILLON, LOLA    £15.99   

  French thriller depicting the relationship between a middle-aged woman and her kidnapper. Anna Cooper (Kristen Scott Thomas)  is abducted from a Paris street by Yann (Pio Marmaï), who holds her captive in a small room and provides her with only the barest essentials for her survival. As time goes by, the reason behind Yann's desperate bid for revenge comes to light, but meanwhile a relationship has developed between the two that leads to unexpected outcomes. 

INCENDIES (15) 2010 CANADA    VILLENEUVE, DENIS FRENCH & ARABIC £17.99

    Powerful drama based on the play by Wajdi Mouawad. When their Lebanese-Canadian mother dies, twins Jeanne and Simon Marwan are left two sealed letters: one to be delivered to a brother the twins did not know they had, and the other to their father, whom they had presumed dead. To deliver the letters the twins travel to Lebanon, where the traumatic and tumultuous past experiences of their mother are gradually revealed.

INDIGÈNES/DAYS OF GLORY/ (12) 2006  FRANCE     BOUCHAREB, RACHID      £19.99

     This award-winning film  shows WWII through the eyes of four North African soldiers fighting for the French army  during the German occupation.

INDOCHINE (15) 1992 FRANCE  WARGNIER, REGIS      £19.99

 Catherine Deneuve stars in this award winning movie set in  1930’s Indochina.

LES INFIDÈLES/THE PLAYERS (18) 2012 FRANCE   £12.99

  A collection of six outrageous comedy shorts exploring male infidelity.   , Co-written by and starring Jean Dujardin, the shorts are directed by Michel Hazanavicius, Gilles Lellouche ,Eric Lartigau, Emmanuelle Bercot, Fred Cavaye and Alexandre Courtès.

INNOCENCE/L'ÉCOLE (15) 2004 BELGIUM  HADZIHALILOVIC, L. IN FRENCH  £19.99

 Surreal  look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.

INNOCENTS/DREAMERS (18) 2003  FRANCE  BERTOLUCCI, B.  IN ENGLISH    £19.99

     Set in Paris in 1968,  three passionate cinephiles stay in an apartment, where

they indulgence in art, cinema and sex.

INTIMACY (18) FRANCE 2000  FRANCE CHEREAU, P. IN ENGLISH       £19.99

 Controversial and explicit film set in  London and based on  a Hanif Kureishi script.

INTIMATE ENEMIES/L'ENNEMI INTIME (15) 2007  FRANCE  SIRI, FLORENT  EMILIO   £19.99

 Set in the Algerian war in 1959, an idealistic lieutenant and a cynical sergeant soon find that their differences come to breaking point and they discover that their worst enemy is themselves.

INTIMATE STRANGERS/CONFIDENCES TROP INTIMES (15) 2004 FRANCE LECONTE,  PATRICE       £19.99

 Woman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist, and soon they form an unusual relationship.

INTOUCHABLES/UNTOUCHABLE (15) 2011 FRANCE OLIVIER NAKACHE, O/TOLEDANO.E    £19.99

  Quadriplegic rich aristocrat is cared for by young Senegalese émigré. Despite their very different backgrounds and outlooks on life, the two men quickly form a strong bond, teaching each other important life lessons about acceptance, respect and the true meaning of friendship in the process.

INTRUDER/L'INTRUS (15) 2004 FRANCE  DENIS, CLAIRE      £19.99

 Dreamlike study of memory and alienation       

LES INVASIONS BARBARES/BARBARIAN INVASIONS (18) CANADA/FRANCE 2003 ARCAND, DENNYS £19.99

    Oscar winning comedy drama.

LES INVISIBLES (E) 2012    FRANCE     LIFSHITZ, SÉBASTIEN     £12.99   

    Award winning documentary about elderly homosexuals living in France. Director Sébastien Lifshitz speaks to  male and female homosexuals who were born between the World Wars and who embraced their sexuality at a time when societyexcluded them.

IRON ROSE/LA ROSE DE FER (15) 1972  FRANCE   ROLLIN, JEAN        £12.99

 Horror film about a couple trapped in a cemetery. 

IRRÉVERSIBLE/IRREVERSIBLE (18) FRANCE 2002 NOE, GASPAR £7.99

 Marcus and his girlfriend Alex's world is torn apart in the most unimaginably brutal way possible in this shocking and violent film that divided opinion. It was seen as by some as a masterpiece and others as an exploitation movie.

IS PARIS BURNING?/PARIS BRÛLE-T-IL? (PG) 1966  FRANCE CLEMENT, RENE IN ENGLISH                £19.99

 Star studded war movie  about the French resistance and its fight to  regain control of Paris  near the end of World War II.

IT ALL STARTS TODAY/ÇA COMMENCE AUJOURD'HUI  (12) 1999  FRANCE  BRESSON, ROBERT    £17.99

  Daniel  is the embattled headteacher, fighting to do the best by his kids in a former mining community.

I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG/IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T'AIME (12) 2008  FRANCE  CLAUDEL, PHILIPPE   DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99

 Kristin Scott Thomas stars in this searing French drama about a woman who reunites with her young sister after a 15-year separation.  

L'IVRESSE DU POUVOIR/A COMEDY OF POWER (12) FRANCE 2007 CHABROL, CLAUDE £19.99

    Thriller about a Judge (Isabelle Huppert) who delves into corruption in a giant state supported company.

J'ACCUSE (12)  1938  FRANCE GANCE, ABEL  DUAL FORMAT DVD & BLU RAY £19.99 

  Acclaimed as one of cinema’s finest anti-war films.  Having experienced the horrors of the First World War, idealistic poet Jean Diaz turns to technology in a bid to prevent further barbarity. But a meddling and unscrupulous bureaucracy allows Jean’s plans to be hijacked as Europe slides towards another great conflict.

J'AI REVE SOUS L'EAU/I DREAMT UNDER WATER (18) 2008  FRANCE  BORBOR,  HORMOZ   £14.99

 In this savage, sexual drama, a man’s search for love, leads him into the dark underbelly of the Parisian night.

J'AI VU TUER BEN BARKA/I SAW BEN BARKA GET KILLED  (15)  2005 FRANCE SMIHI/PÉRON  ARABIC/FRENCH         £19.99 

  Notorious French political scandal about the murder of Moroccan dissident Mehdi  Ben Barka in Paris in 1966.

JACQUES LACAN: LA PSYCHANALYSE REINVENTEE/LACAN PARLE (E)  £24.99

    Two films about French psychoanalyst and philosopher Jacques Lacan. Elisabeth Kapnist directs the documentary 'Jacques Lacan: La Psychanalyse Reinvente' (2001), which sheds light on Lacan's ideas about the decline of patriarchy, the contradictions of love, the illusions of the French Revolution and the logic of madness. 'Lacan Parle' (1972) is a recording of a typically controversial speech by Lacan at the Catholic University of Louvain in September 1972, taking on topics such as psychoanalysis, death, language, love, alienation and paranoia.When his speech is disrupted by a sceptical student, Lacan refuses to allow security to remove him, instead asking him to speak and incorporating his criticisms into his presentation. The talk is followed by a probing interview by Belgian documentarian Francoise Wolff, who also directed the film.

JACQUES RIVETTE COLLECTION (15)  DUAL FORMAT 16 DISCS BLU-RAY AND DVD £149.99

     The collection brings together some of the director’s hardest to see works, each restored, newly translated and debuting on home video for the first time in UK.  Features - Out 1:  noli me tangere  (1971) ,  Out 1: Spectre (1974), Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976), Noroît (une vengeance) (1976) and Merry-Go-Round (1981).

JACQUES TATI COLLECTION (U) 1949-1974 FRANCE BLU RAY ONLY - £69.99

    Contains - Jour de fête (1949), Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953), Oncle (1958) Playtime (1967), 'Trafic' (1971)  and Parade (1974). 

JACQUOT DE NANTES (PG) 1992 FRANCE VARDA, AGNÈS   £15.99

    The childhood of director Jacques Demy is recreated by his widow, the filmmaker Agnes Varda.

LA JALOUSIE/JEALOUSY (12) 2013 FRANCE GARREL, PHILIPPE £19.99

  Can the love for the theatre help an actor get over heartbreak.

JARDINS EN AUTOMNE/GARDENS IN AUTUMN (15) 2006 FRANCE 2006  IOSSELIANI, OTAR  £19.99

 Languidly paced, comic tale of a French government minister who relinquishes his post and the pampered existence he has become accustomed so that he can live a quiet, anonymous life in a slum.

JE M'APPELLE HMMM/MY NAME IS HMMM..(15) 2013 F 2013 B, AGNÈS £22.99

  Fashion designer Agnès B. makes her directorial debut with this drama about a runaway eleven-year-old girl.

JE NE SUIS PAS LÀ POUR ÊTRE AIMÉ/NOT HERE TO BE LOVED (15)   2005   FRANCE    BRIZE, STEPHANE   £19.99

 World weary Jean-Claude who, tired of his job decides on a whim to shake himself out of his rut by enroling for Tango lessons.

JE RENTRE À LA MAISON/I’M GOING HOME (PG) 2001 FRANCE  OLIVEIRA, MANOEL DE     £19.99

 Oliveira’s dry and witty look at art and ageing.

JE TAIME MOI NON PLUS   (18)  1976  FRANCE  GAINSBOURG,  SERGE    £19.99

 Jane Birkin stars as petite waitress Johnny who  falls for gay garbage-truck driver.

JE TE MANGERAIS/HIGHLY STRUNG    (15) FRANCE 2009        LALOY,  SOPHIE    £14.99

    Drama tracking the destructive relationship between two young women.

JE VEUX VOIR (15)   FRANCE 2008  HADJITHOMAS, J | JOREIGE, K    £15.99

 Deneuve and Rabih Mroue star in this political docu-drama set against the backdrop of the aftermath of the 2006 Israel/Lebanon war.

JEAN COCTEAU COLLECTION   (PG)  FRANCE       £24.99

 Features - Le Sang d’un Poete  and Testament d’Orphee .

JEAN DE FLORETTE (PG) FRANCE 1988   BERRI, CLAUDE       £19.99

 Gerard Depardieu is a hunchback tax collector who  moves to the  country, in this award winning film based on the Pagnol novel.  

JEAN-LUC GODARD & JEAN-PIERRE GORIN: FIVE FILMS 1968-1971 (15) FRANCE   DUAL FORMAT DVD AND BLU RAY - £59.99

  Collection of five films by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin.  Featrures - Un Film Comme Les Autres  (1968), British Sounds (1970),  Le Vent D'est (1970),  Lotte in Italia (1971) and Vladimir et Rosa (1971).  

    UN FILM COMME LES AUTRES  (1968) - Workers at a car factory argue with revolutionary students about the  social upheaval caused by the 1968 French workers' and students' protests.

BRITISH SOUNDS (1970) - Hour-long  experimental documentary made for London Weekend TV with a ten minute long tracking shot along a Ford factory floor, as a  narrator reads from The Communist Manifesto. 

LE VENT D'EST (1970) - The film analyzes the different components of the strike: the workers, the radical students, the union delegates who preach moderation and compromise, the employers who demand the immediate resumption of work, the police state that suppresses the strike on behalf of capitalism. 

LOTTE IN ITALIA (1971) - focuses on a young women Italian activist who has fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.

VLADIMIR ET ROSA (1971) - The directors re-interpretation the Chicago Eight US anti-Vietnam War protests as defendants in the French revolutionary society, with Godard and Gorin play Lenin and Karl Rosa, respectively

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JEUNE FEMME (AKA MONTPARNASSE BIENVENÜE) (15) 2017   FRANCE SERRAILLE, LÉONOR £12.99

 After breaking up from her long term boyfriend,  31-year-old Paula Simonian returns to Paris to rebuild her chaotic life as an independent woman. Looking for a job, a place to live and new friends.  However Paula finds that this is not a easy task.

JEANNE LA PUCELLE: THE BATTLES/LES BATAILLES (15) 1994 FRANCE RIVETTE, JACQUES £19.99

    Part one of the lavish and highly detailed retelling of the story of Joan of Arc.

JEANNE LA PUCELLE: THE PRISONS/LES PRISONS (15) 1994 FRANCE RIVETTE, JACQUES £19.99

    Second part of the Joan of Arc story.

JEAN-LUC GODARD: THE 60S COLLECTION  (PG) FRANCE 1962-67 GODDARD, JEAN LUC       £39.99

    Features Vivre sa Vie , Masculin Féminin and 2 Ou Choses que je sais D'Elle.

JEAN-LUC GODARD  COLLECTION VOLUME 1  (PG)     FRANCE   GODDARD, JEAN LUC        £39.99 

 Features Alphaville, Passion, A Bout de Souffle, Made In The USA, plusa bonus disc, ‘Godard Encore’.

JEAN-LUC GODARD  COLLECTION VOLUME 2  (PG)     FRANCE    GODDARD, JEAN LUC     £39.99 

 Features Pierrot Le Fou, Une Femme Est Une Femme, La Chinoise, Le Petit Soldat (b/w), and Détective.

JEAN-LUC GODARD: FOUR SHORT FILMS(E) 1993 - 2002 £28.99

    Four short films by seminal French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard- De l'origine du XXIe siècle, The Old Place, 

Liberté et patrie & Je vous salue, Sarajevo .  Also included is a 120-page hardback book incorporating complete texts, an essay & over 70 images from the films. 

JEAN-LUC GODARD  ULTIMATE COLLECTION   (PG)     FRANCE    GODDARD, JEAN LUC     £99.99 

 Features: Le Mepris, Alphaville, A Bout de Souffle, Passion, Made in U.S.A., Pierrot le Fou, Une Femme est une Femme, La Chinoise, Le Petit Soldat, Détective, Notre Musique, Hélas pour Moi, Eloge d’Amour, along with a bonus disc that features The Dinosaur & The Baby

JEAN-LUC GODARD HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA  (18) 1988/798  FRANCE     £34.99

 Five hour film essay which  is a magical mystery tour through the history of cinema.

JEAN PAUL BELMONDO COLLECTION BOX SET 5 DISCS  (15)   1959-81   FRANCE       £34.99

 Contains - Le Professionel, A Bout de Souffle, Pierrot le Fou, Stavisky, A Double Tour.

JEAN RENOIR COLLECTION (PG)    FRANCE            £39.99

    Contains - . 'La Grande Illusion' (1937),  'Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe' (1959), 'Le Caporal Epingle' (1952), 'La Bete Humaine' (1938), 'La Marseillaise' (1938) and 'Le Testament Du Docteur Cordelier' (1959)

JEAN RENOIR COLLECTION  (PG)     FRANCE 1930-60    RENOIR, JEAN      £39.99 

    Contains - . 'La Grande Illusion' (1937),  'Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe' (1959), 'Le Caporal Epingle' (1952),  'La Bete Humaine' (1938), 'La Marseillaise' (1938) and 'Le Testament Du Docteur Cordelier' (1959).

JEAN VIGO COLLECTION (PG) FRANCE 1930-34 VIGO, JEAN      £29.99

 Featuring L’Atalante, Zero de Conduite, A Propos de Nice and Taris.

JÉSUS DE MONTRÉAL/JESUS OF MONTREAL  (18) CANADA 1989    ARCAND, DENYS    £17.99

 Group of young actors are hired to update the tradition Passion play and find the play has an impact on their everyday lives.

LA JETEE/SANS SOLEIL(PG) 1962  FRANCE B/W   IN ENGLISH   MARKER, CHRIS    BLU RAY ONLY £26.99

'La Jetee' is a 29 minute ‘science fiction photo-roman’ which uses still pictures & sound to tell the story of a man from the future back and his childhood in pre-apocalypse Paris.  Avant-garde documentary 'Sans Soleil' compiles exotic footage from across the globe to provide a collage of 'the dreams of the human race'

JEUNE ET JOLIE (18) FRANCE 2013OZON, FRANÇOIS

    DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £23.99

    Ozon writes and directs this drama about a teenage girl discovering her sexuality.

JEUNET & CARO COLLECTION  (15) 1981-95   FRANCE JEUNET, JEAN-PIERE/CARO, MARC  £19.99

 Features - DELICATESSEN (1991), BUNKER OF THE LAST GUNSHOTS (1981) and CITY OF THE LOST CHILDREN (1995)

JEUX D'ENFANTS/LOVE ME IF YOU DARE (15) 2003 FRANCE YSAMUEL, ANN     £19.99

 Darkly comic, romantic fantasy where two childhood friends take their game of dare to the extreme.

JOANA D'ARC/JOAN OF ARC (15)  1999 FRANCE  IN ENGLISH BESSON, LUC       £19.99

 Big budget epic.

JOUR DE FETE (U) 1947 FRANCE B/W  TATI, JACQUES   DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £22.99

 Charming tale of a town fair in rural France.

LE JOUR SE LEVE (PG) FRANCE 1939 CARNÉ, MARCEL DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £22.99

Francois (Jean Gabin) kills Valentin before locking himself in his room. As the film unfolds, Francois’ motivations for murder are revealed.

JOURNAL DE FRANCE (E)   2012   FRANCE DEPARDON, R/NOUGARET, C £17.99

    Documentary following film-maker and photographer Raymond Depardon and his collaborator Claudine Nougaret as they journey around France over the course of six years capturing the country on camera. Travelling through the Gallic countryside, Depardon takes landscape photographs using a large-format camera, while Nougaret trails through some of the film-maker's previously unseen work which is shown here alongside the footage of their journey.

JOURNAL D'UN CURÉ DE CAMPAGNE/DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST(PG) 1950 FRANCE BRESSON, R. £17.99

A new priest arrives a country village but the apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him.

JOURS DE FRANCE/FOUR DAYS IN FRANCE 2016 FRANCE REYBAUD, JÉRÔME £15.99

Pierre suddenly decides to leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters. Close behind is Pierre’s lover Paul how sets off to find him.

JOYEUX NOEL (12) 2005  FRANCE  CARION, C. IN FRENCH/GERMAN & ENGLISH       £19.99     

      Set in World War One on  Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man’s Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood

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JUDEX/NUITS ROUGES  (18) 1963/73   FRANCE  Franju, GEORGES      £24.99

 Franju’s Judex and Nuits rouges both pay overt homage to the surreal, silent serial-works of Feuillade.

JULES ET JIM (PG) 1961 FRANCE  TRUFFAUT,  FRANCOIS     £19.99

 His most celebrated film about the free-spirited Catherine and the two men in her life.  

JUSQU'À LA GARDE/CUSTODY (15) 2017 FRANCE LEGRAND, XAVIER   £15.99

  Miriam and Antoine Besson are going through a divorce, with  Miriam seeking sole custody of their son, 12-year-old Julien,  to protect him from a father she claims is violent. However as the conflict between his parent intensifies, Julien starts to feel the strain which begins to affect his mental state

JUSTE AVANT LA NUIT (15) 1971 FRANCE   CHABROL, CLAUDE       £15.99

 Exploration into friendship and the darker sides of human nature.

JUSTE LA FIN DU MONDE/IT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD (15) CANADA   2016    DOLAN, XAVIER DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

   Based on the play by Jean-Luc Lagarce  a writer returns to his hometown, planning on announcing his impending death to his family.

JUSTE UNE QUESTION D'AMOUR  (15) 2000  BELGIUM    FAURE, CHRISTIAN   IN FRENCH   £19.99

     A story of love between two young men, one of whom is openly gay whilst the other tries to hide it from his parents by leading a double life.

KALINKA (15) 2016 FRANCE  GARENQ, VINCENT £19.99

   French accountant André (Daniel Auteuil) is struggling for justice following the death of his daughter Kalinka at the hands of her  stepfather. After battling for decades, André finally takes the law into his own hands in a desperate attempt to force a retrial in France.

KELTOUMS DAUGHTER/LA FILLE DE KELTOUM (12) 2002  ALGIERA  CHAREF, MEHDI     ARABIC/FRENCH    £12.99

 Woman returns to her place of birth in rural Algeria in an attempt to discover why her mother abandoned her.

LA KERMESSE HEROIQUE  (12) FRANCE  1935  FEYDER, JACQUES       £19.99 

 Early feminist comedy set in a Flemish town in 1600s.

THE KID WITH A BIKE/LE GAMIN AU VELO(12A) 2011 BELGIUM DARDENNE, J P/DARDENNE, L £15.99

    The Dardenne brothers write and direct this Belgian drama about an eleven-year-old boy in search of a family.

KINGS AND QUEEN/ROIS ET REINE (15) 2004  FRANCE  DESPLECHIN, ARNAUD      £19.99

 The film interweaves two stories, that of Nora , a single mother about to  marry for the third time, with the tale of her eccentric ex-husband Ismael

KIRIKOU ET LA SORCIÈRE/KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS (U) FRANCE 1998    OCELOT, MICHEL IN ENGLISH     £19.99

 Animated children’s film based on folk tales from Senegal. 

KIRIKOU AND THE MEN AND WOMEN (U) FRANCE  2012    OCELOT, MICHEL    £15.99

The third animated film in the series that follows the adventures of a small African boy named Kirikou.

L627  (15) 1992  FRANCE  TAVERNIER, BERTRAND     £17.99

 Gritty police drama shows us the underbelly of the Parisian drug trade

THE LACEMAKER/LA DENTELLIÈRE (15) 1977 FRANCE        GORETTA, CLAUDE    £15.99

    Young working class Parisian girl Beatrice (Isabelle Huppert) goes on holiday to Normandy and falls in love with middle class literature student. Although they move in together, the social divide between them soon threatens to destroy the relationship.

LADY AND THE DUKE/L'ANGLAISE ET LE DUC (PG)  2000 FRANCE ROHMER, ERIC      £19.99     

 During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her  former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides. 

LADY CHATTERLEY/L'AMANT DE LADY CHATTERLE  (18)   1952   FRANCE    FERRAN, PASCALE      £19.99

  Acclaimed  French adaptation of the second  version of the D.H. Lawrence’s erotic tale.

LAISSEZ PASSER (12)  2002 FRANCE BERTRAND TAVERNIER    £19.99

 Acclaimed true-life tale of French Resistance sympathisers working in the movies during World War Two.

LAST BATTLE/LE DERNIER COMBAT (15) 1983 FRANCE BESSON, LUC DVD - £12.99  BLU RAY - £24.99

    Post-apocalyptic wasteland movie

THE LAST FLIGHT/LE DERNIER VOL/ (12) 2009 FRANCE DRIDI, KARIM £15.99

When her husband disappears in the middle of the Sahara desert while trying to break a flight record, Marie Vallières de Beaumont (Marion Cotillard) set out to find and rescue him.

LAST METRO/LE DERNIER MÉTRO (PG) FRANCE 1980 TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS £19.99

  Depardieu and Deneuve in a wartime story of a theatre troupe whose Jewish director must stay hidden from the Gestapo.

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THE LAST MISTRESS/UNE VIEILLE MAÎTRESSE (15) 2008 FRANCE    BREILLAT, CATHERINE    £19.99

    Period love and lust in 19th century Paris.

LAST MITTERAND/LE PROMENEUR DU CHAMP DE MARS (PG) 2005 FRANCE  GUEDIGUIAN,  ROBERT      £19.99

 Based on the book by Georges-Marc Benamou, the film follows a  young journalist

as he helps  an ex-president of France to compile his memoirs. BLU - RAY £24.99

THE LAST OF THE CRAZY PEOPLE/LE DERNIER DES FOUS (15) 2006 FRANCE ACHARD, LAURENT£14.99

    Psycho-drama, based on the 1967 novel by Timothy Findley, about a quiet and introverted 11-year-old boy who watches from a distance as events unfold in his dysfunctional family home.

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD/L'ANNÉE DERNIÈRE À MARIENBAD (U) 1961 FRANCE  RESNAIS, ALAIN     £19.99

 Based on Alain Robbe-Grillet’s novel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him

LAURENCE ANYWAYS (12) 2012 CANADA DOLAN,         £15.99

    French-Canadian romantic drama about the effect of a sex change on a long-standing heterosexual relationship.

LA LECTRICE (18) FRANCE 1988    DEVILLE, MICHEL    £19.99

 Film based on Raymond Jean’s novel “La Lectrice”,  a woman who advertises her services

as a reader of literature, finds her clients become tangled with the stories she reads.

LEAVING/PARTIR (15) 2010 FRANCE   CORSINI, CATHERINE£19.99

    French drama about Suzanne (Kristin Scott Thomas)  who falls in love and  decides to give up everything - husband, children, money and home - to follow her passions.

LEGACY/L'HÉRITAGE  (15) 2006  FRANCE   BABLUANI,   GELA       £19.99

 Tense psychological thriller.

LEMMING  (15) FRANCE 2005          MOLL, DOMINIK     £19.99

 French thriller. Alain seems to have everything - a good job, a beautiful wife and a perfect home. Then is life takes an unnerving and strange turn for the worse that leave him questioning his sanity.

LEOLO (18) CANADA 1992 JEANE-CLAUDE LAUZON IN FRENCH £12.99

 Black comedy about a French Canadian boy who retreats into a world of fantasy to combat the squalor of the Montreal slums and his mad family.

LEON (18) USA 1994 FRANCE IN ENGLISH BESSON, LUC DVD - £19.99  BLU - RAY £24.99

    Explosive thriller. 

LEON MORIN, PRETRE (PG)  1961  FRANCE  MELVILLE, JEAN-PIERRE      £19.99

   This most commercially successful film from Jean-Pierre Melville,  depicts a love affair between an atheist (Emmanuele Riva)  and a priest (Jean-Paul Belmondo)  set against the backdrop of the French Occupation

LEOS CARAX COLLECTION  (18)  1984-99  FRANCE              £29.99

 Contains -  Boy Meets Girl, Mauvais Sang and Pola X.

LIFE IS A LONG QUIET RIVER/LA VIE EST UN LONG FLEUVE TRANQUILLE (15) 1988 FRANCE   CHATILIEZ, ETIENNE   £19.99

 Two families, one wealthy and conservative, the other poor, discover their babies were switched at birth 12 years ago.

LIFT TO THE SCAFFOLD/ASCENSEUR POUR L'ÉCHAFAUD (PG)   1958  FRANCE  MALLE, LOUIS    £19.99 

 Malle’s debut feature is a tense thriller starring Jeanne Moreau and Julian Tavernier

LILA DIT ÇA/LILA SAYS (18)  2004 FRANCE   DOUERI, ZIAD £19.99

 When Lita  moves into a poor Arabic community in Marseilles, she quickly takes up with one of the neighbourhood gang leaders.

LITTLE WHITE LIES/LES PETITS MOUCHOIRS (15)  2010 FRANCE    CANET, GUILLAUME DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £22.99

    Emotional drama in which a group of friends try to escape their problems by going on a trip to the seaside together. Despite their intentions to relax, however, they find themselves caught in a web of long-repressed lust and emotion.  

LIVE AND BECOME/VA, VIS ET DEVIENS (12) 2005     MIHAILEANU, RADU  IN FRENCH     £14.99

    Award winning film about a  young Ethiopian boy declares  himself Jewish to escape starvation and is  adopted by a French family in Israel  There he begins a new life constantly fearing the discovery of a double lie: that he is neither orphaned nor Jewish.

LA LOI DU MARCHÉ /MEASURE OF A MAN (PG) 2015 FRANCE   BRIZÉ, STÉPHANE   £15.99

 Struggling unemployed 51 year old manual worker  Thierry is finding it hard to get by.  However when he lands a job as  security guard monitoring a supermarkets CCTV system, he is not sure he likes the idea of arresting fellow desperate citizens who are trying to make ends meet.

LOLA (PG)    FRANCE   1961     DEMY,  JACQUES    £12.99

    Anouk Aimee plays Lola, a cabaret singer who occupies herself with a few affairs while awaiting the return of her one and only true love.

LOOK AT ME/COMME UNE IMAGE (12) 2004 FRANCE    JAOUI, AGNES     £19.99

 Sophisticated family drama.

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LOOKING FOR HORTENSE/CHERCHEZ HORTENSE (12) FRANCE 2013 BONITZER, PASCAL £19.99

    Comedy starring Jean-Pierre Bacri and Kristin Scott Thomas.

LOST IN NEW YORK/PERDUES DANS NEW YORK (15)  1969   FRANCE   ROLLIN, JEAN £12.99

 Two young girls discover a small wooden idol that possesses magical powers, enabling them to travel through time and space.

LOU!  (12A)   2014   FRANCE NEEL, JULIEN £19.99

   Comedy adapted from his comic book series. Lou (Lola Lasseron) is a 12-year-old girl who gets on well with her single mother (Ludivine Sagnier), despite the fact that she often acts more immature than her daughter.

LOUIS MALLE COLLECTION (15) FRANCE    DVD - £69.99 BLU RAY - £79.99

  Collection of ten films directed by French film-maker Louis Malle.  Features - Lift to the Scaffold (1958), The Lovers (1958), Zazie Dans Le Métro  (1960), Le Feu Follet (1963),  Le Souffle Au Coeur/murmur of the Heart (1971), Lacome, Lucien  (1974), Black Moon (1975),My Dinner with Andre (1981), Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987), and Milou En Mai/Milou in May.

LOUIS MALLE DOCUMENTARY COLLECTION (15) FRANCE   £69.99

  Features - Vive le tour (1962),  Phantom India  (1969), Calcutta (1969), A Human Condition (1974), Place de la République  (1974), God's Country (1985) and And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986).

LOUISE-MICHEL (12) 2008  FRANCE  DE KERVERN G/DELEPINE, B    £15.99   

    Absurdist black comedy about factory workers hiring a hitman to take out their uncaring boss.

LOULOU (18) 1980  FRANCE  PIALAT, MAURICE        £19.99

 Gerard Depardieu plays a lay-about who falls for middle class Isabelle Huppert.

LOVE (18) 2015 FRANCE   NOÉ GASPAR IN ENGLISH  DVD - £15.99   BLU RAY - £19.99

  Explicit romantic drama about an  American film student Murphy (Karl Glusman) who has split-up with his French girlfriend Elektra (Aomi Muyock) after cheating on her with another woman, named Omi (Klara Kristin).

LOVE CRIME/CRIME D'AMOUR (15) 2010   FRANCE     CORNEAU, ALAIN    £17.99

    Thriller starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier. Christine (Scott Thomas) is a tough business executive who will stop at nothing to get to the top of the corporation she works for; even going so far as to take the ideas of her ambitious assistant, Isabelle (Sagnier), and fob them off as her own. When Isabelle realises this, she concocts a plan to remove Christine from the picture for good in order to secure her progression in the company and make sure her ideas are recognised as her own.

LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON/L'AMOUR L'APRÈS-MIDI (15)  1972  FRANCE  ROHMER, ERIC        £17.99

 Last of Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales about the married bourgeois Frederic who daydreams about another women

LOVE IN THE STRANGEST WAY/ELLES N'OUBLIENT JAMAIS (15) 1994 FRANCE  FRANK, CHRISTOPHER      £14.99

 A debt-collector trades on other peoples misery in this thriller     

LOVE ON A PILLOW/REPOS DE GUERRIER (15) 1962 FRANCE    VADIM, ROGER        £15.99

    Twisted love starring Brigitte Bardot.

LOVE LIKE POISON/UN POISON VIOLENT (15) 2010 FRANCE    QUILLEVERE,  KATELL    £15.99

    French coming-of-age drama.

LOVE ME IF YOU DARE/JEUX D'ENFANTS (15) 2003 FRANCE YSAMUEL, ANN     £19.99

 Darkly comic, romantic fantasy where two childhood friends take their game of dare to the extreme.

LOVE ON THE GROUND/L'AMOUR PAR TERRE  (15) 1984  FRANCE   RIVETTE, JACQUES      £14.99

 A small troupe of actors are brought to a famous playwright’s  mansion to perform a work-in-progress that seems to mirror some unexplained recent events in the author’s own life.

LOVE RITES/CÉRÉMONIE D'AMOUR (18) 1988  FRANCE  BOROWCZVK, WALERIAN   £19.99

 A prostitute’s client becomes obsessed and begins to follow her around.  Suddenly he

finds the rules of the game have changed and the prostitute is in charge.  

LUC AND JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE: THE EARLY WORKS (TBA) 1992 BELGIUM IN FRENCH       £19.99

  Double bill features -  

Falsch (1987) Joe Falsch (Bruno Cremer), the sole Holocaust survivor of a Jewish family returns to Berlin 40 years after he left for New York in 1938.  In the arrival lounge he comes face to face with the Ghosts of the Falsch family.

Je Pense à Vous (1992) follows the life of proud steelworker Fabrice (Robin Renucci) who is unable to cope with the closure of the factory he worked in.

LUCKY STAR/MA BONNE ÉTOILE (12) 2012 FRANCE  FASSIO, ANNE    £15.99

    Christopher Lambert and Fleur Lise Heuet star in this equine tale about a girl fighting against the odds. While living happily at her father Pierre (Christopher Lamberto)'s stables in Normandy, Louise Barthélémy (Fleur Lise Heuet)'s life is turned upside down when fate deals the family a cruel blow. As her father struggles to keep the business afloat, Louise, who has always dreamed of being a jockey, enrols at an elite riding school in the hope of turning their fortunes around.

LUCRÈCE BORGIA (PG) 1954 FRANCE      JAQUE, CHRISTIAN   £12.99

    Drama about the corrupt Borgia family who ruled over Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries.

LUNDI MATIN/MONDAY MORNING (PG)  2002 FRANCE LOSSELIANI, OTAR    £19.99

 Whimsical voyage of self-discovery that amusingly observes  the  absurdities of life.

LES LYONNAIS/A GANG STORY (15 ) 2011 FRANCE    MARCHAL, OLIVIER    £15.99

    Gangster movie based on the autobiography of the gangster Edmond Vidal.

L'ORDRE ET LA MORALE/REBELLION (15) 2011 FRANCE KASSOVITZ, MATHIEU DVD £17.99 BLU RAY - £21.99

    Mathieu Kassovitz writes, directs and stars in this French hostage drama. The film traces the events surrounding the real-life abduction of 30 gendarmes by local Kanak separatist rebels in France's South Pacific territory of New Caledonia in 1988.

MA BONNE ÉTOILE/ LUCKY STAR (12) 2012 FRANCE  FASSIO, ANNE    £15.99

    Christopher Lambert and Fleur Lise Heuet star in this equine tale about a girl fighting against the odds. While living happily at her father Pierre (Christopher Lamberto)'s stables in Normandy, Louise Barthélémy (Fleur Lise Heuet)'s life is turned upside down when fate deals the family a cruel blow. As her father struggles to keep the business afloat, Louise, who has always dreamed of being a jockey, enrols at an elite riding school in the hope of turning their fortunes around.

MA FEMME EST UN ACTRICE (15)  2002  FRANCE  ATTAL, YVAN    £19.99

 Metropolitan comedy.

MA LOUTE/SLACK BAY (15) 2016 FRANCE DUMONT, BRUNO   £15.99

 Comedy drama set in 1910, belle époque France, where the wealth Van Peteghem family find their lavish seaside summer holiday interrupted by the mysterious disappearances of several tourists.

MA MERE (18) 2004 FRANCE  HONORE, CHRISTOPHE     £19.99

 When 17-year-old Pierre (Louis Garrel) falls in love with his mother Helene (Isabelle Huppert), he projects 

on to her emotions that she isn’t ready to handle.

MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD/MY NIGHT WITH MAUD (15) FRANCE 1969        ROHMER, ERIC    £15.99

    Film about the  chaste and conservative thirty-something (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the worldly and spirited divorcée Maud (Françoise Fabian), throwing the moral certainties of his life into question. 

MA VIE AVEC JAMES DEAN/MY LIFE WITH JAMES DEAN (15) 2017 FRANCE  CHOISY,  DOMINIQUE £15.99  

In this love letter to the power of cinema,  first time film director is on a Normandy film festival tour showing his film to very mixed views.

However while passing though Normandy, the director takes inspiration from the colourful characters he meets in the coastal towns.

MA VIE DE COURGETTE/MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE (PG) 2015 FRANCE  BARRAS, CLAUDE   £17.99

    Adapted from the novel by Gilles Paris, this animated adventure tells the story of traumatised nine-year-old Courgette who is placed in a tough foster home after the sudden death of her mother. At the home Courgette befriends the other orphans and listens to their tragic tales.

MA VIE EN ROSE (12) 1997 FRANCE  BERLINER, ALAIN        £19.99

     A big screen treatment for one of France's most revered singers, Edith Piaf. From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Piaf's life was a battle to sing and survive. Raised in poverty, Edith's unique voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the greatest names of the period - Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others - made her a star all around the world.

MA VIE EST UN ENFER (15)  1991  FRANCE  BALASKO, JOSIANE    £19.99

 Dark comedy starring Josiane Balasko and Daniel Auteuil

A MA SOEUR!(18) 2001  FRANCE BREILLAT, CATHERINE     £19.99

 Daring and provocative exploration of the complexities of sexual awakening. 

MA VIE SEXUELLE (15) 1996 FRANCE DESPLECHIN,  ARNAUD        £15.99

 Story of the lives and loves of a group of Parisian twenty-somethings.

MADAME DE .. (U)  1953 FRANCE  OPHULS, MAX   DUAL FORMAT EDITION   £19.99

 Based on the novel by Louise de Vilmorin about a doomed, obsessive romance set in 18th century France 

MADAME BOVARY (PG ) 1992  FRANCE  CHABROL, CLAUDE    £19.99

 Isabelle Huppert stars in this adaptation of Flaubert’s novel.

MADEMOISELLE (15) 1966 FRANCE RICHARDSON, TONY £15.99

    Mademoiselle (Jeanne Moreau:) is the local school teacher of a small French village which has recently been terrorized by clandestine acts of arson; several farms have been torched and the townspeople are quick to accuse the Italian , Manou.

MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (12A)  2009  FRANCE     BRIZÉ, STÉPHANE    £15.99

    French romantic drama.

LA MAGIE MÉLIÈS/MELIES THE MAGICIAN  (E) 1997  FRANCE MENY,  JACQUES         £19.99

 Film explores the career of silent film  pioneer George Melies, using rare archival footage.

EN MAI, FAIS CE QU'IL TE PLAÎT /THE EVACUATION (15) 2015 FRANCE  CARION,  CHRISTIAN   £15.99

 1940 and a  French village is about to be overrun by German troops.  The villagers decide to flee and the film tells multiple parallel storylines about those on the move, raging from a German resistance fighter, Hans and his 8 year old son,  schoolteacher Suzanne and  mayor Paul and Scottish officer  Percy.

MAIGRET: SERIES ONE (15) 1982 FRANCE   £19.99

 Six episodes in which  detective Jules Maigret (Bruno Cremer) solves a number of complex cases in his unique, unhurried style.

MAIDS (12)  USA 1974  MILES, CHRISTOPHER      IN ENGLISH    £19.99

 American Film Theatre adaptation of   Jean Genet’s The Maids.

MAISON CLOSE: SEASON 1(18) 2012 FRANCE     DVD -   £24.99   BLU RAY - £29.99   

    Taking an uncompromising look at the world of brothels and prostitution in, Maison Close is a sumptuously produced drama of servitude in the  Paris of  1871. 

MAISON CLOSE: SEASON 2 (18) 2013 FRANCE  DVD - £23.99 BLU RAY - £28.99

    The complete second series of the French drama following the women working in a Parisian brothel known as Paradise in the 1870s.

LA MAISON DE LA RADIO (PG) 2013 FRANCE PHILIBERT, NICOLAS   £15.99

   Documentary which goes behind the scenes of the French public radio broadcaster 'Radio France'. 

LE MAITRE DE MUSIQUE/MUSIC TEACHER (PG) 1989 BELGIUM  CORBIAU, GERARD IN FRENCH    £19.99

     Evocative film of a great baritone and his prodigy. 

LES MAITRES DU TEMPS (PG) 1982  FRANCE   LALOUX, RENÉ     £17.99

 Animated movie in which Jaffar is a hero for hire who must race to save Piel, a boy stranded on a remote planet after being attacked by giant hornets.

MAITRESSE (18) 1976 FRANCE  SCHROEDER, BARBET    £19.99

 A professional dominatrix has a conventional romance with Gerard  Depardieu. 

MAL DE PIERRES/FROM THE LAND OF THE MOON (15) 2016 FRANCE  GARCIA, NICOLE £18.99

   Romance set in 1950s France and based on the Milena Agus novel.   Free-spirited Gabrielle has to choose between her dependable Spanish farmer husband or  recovering war veteran André.

MALGRÉ LA NUIT/DESPITE THE NIGHT (18) 2015 FRANCE   GRANDRIEUX, PHILIPPE £15.99

  Visually experimental film in which  musician Lenz heads to Paris to searches for his lover.   However when he finally tracks her down he finds her devastated by a tragic loss and she has sought oblivion in the murky Parisian underworld.

MAMMUTH (PG) 2010 FRANCE     KERVERN, DE GUSTAVE/DELEPINE, BENOIT £15.99

    French drama starring Gerard Depardieu as a retiree who takes to the road in his old Munch 'Mammut' bike as he battles for his missing pension.

MAN BITES DOG/C'EST ARRIVÉ PRÈS DE CHEZ VOUS (18) 1992  BELGIUM  B/W    BELVAUX/ BONZEL/ POELVOORDE      £19.99

     One of the most  disturbing films ever  made, as three  film students  follow a murder at work.

A MAN ESCAPED/UN CONDAMNÉ À MORT S'EST ÉCHAPPÉ OU LE (U) 1966 FRANCE B/W  BRESSON,   ROBERT      DVD - £15.99  BLU RAY £17.99

 Taut and exciting story of a daring escape by a French resistance leader in World War II

MAN IS A WOMAN/L'HOMME EST UNE FEMME COMME LES AUTRES (15) 1998 FRANCE ZILBERMANN, JEAN - JACQUES £19.99

  A gay man living in Paris is offered 10 million francs by his uncle to get married and continue the family name.

MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN/L'HOMME QUI AIMAIT LES FEMMES (15)  FRANCE  1977 TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS      £15.99

 Whimsical story about an eccentric Casanova.

MANINA... LA FILLE SANS VOILE/MANINA, THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (PG) 1952 FRANCE  ROZIER ,  WILLY    BLU RAY ONLY  £11.99

  25-year-old student from Paris falls under the spell of Manina (Brigitte Bardot), the beautiful 18-year-old lighthouse keeper's daughter.

MANON (TBA) 1949  FRANCE  CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES BLU RAY ONLY  £23.99

   Loose adaptation of Abbé Prévost novel Manon Lescaut, which has been 

transposed to a World War II setting.  Village girl Manon, is accused of collaborating with the Nazis and is rescued from imminent execution by a former French Resistance fighter.

MANON DES SOURCES (PG) 1986  FRANCE  BERRI, CLAUDE    £19.99

 Sequel to Jean de Florette.

LE MARI DE LA COIFFEUSE/THE HAIRDRESSER’S HUSBAND (18) 1990  FRANCE  LECONTE, P.     £34.99

 Fascinating tale, full of unbelievable characters, that has little to do with logic or real life.    

MARIUS (12) 2013 FRANCE    AUTEUIL,   DANIEL   £15.99

    First part of Marcel Pagnol's 'Marseilles Trilogy'.

MARTYRS (18) 2008 FRANCE LAUGIER, PASCAL £15.99

         Two victims of brutal attacks bond as  patient in hospital. More than a decade later, the violence in their lives continues, but this time they may not be the victims.

MARVIN OU LA BELLE ÉDUCATION /REINVENTING MARVIN (15)  2017  FRANCE FONTAINE, ANNE  £13.99

  Based on true events in which a young boy Marvin struggles against his family's oppressive views of sexuality and personal identity. Leaves for Paris to reinvent himself and the films follows Marvin as a mid-twenties theatre student.

MARYLAND/DISORDER (15) 2015 FRANCE   WINOCOUR, ALICE £17.99   

 On his return home,  Afghanistan veteran Vincent suffers with post-traumatic stress disorder . Getting a job as bodyguard for a dubious businessman’s wife, he becomes convinced that the woman he is protecting is in danger from a strange outside threat.

MASCULIN-FEMININE (PG) 1966 FRANCE  B/W  GODARD,  JEAN-LUC     £19.99

 Study of the generation conflict. 

MEA CULPA (18) 2014 FRANCE   CAVAYÉ,  FRED £14.99

   A police officers  caused a car accident while driving drunk and his career and life spiralled out of control.

LA MÉCANIQUE DE L'OMBRE/SCRIBE (15) 2016 FRANCE   KRUITHOF, THOMAS £15.99  Alcoholic unemployed accountant Duval  receives an unexpected job offer from the mysterious businessman Clement.  The job, to transcribing telephone conversations.  However, this leads to him overhearing a conversation describing a recent murder, leaving 

Duval in the middle of a major political conspiracy with little hope of escape.

MÉDECIN DE CAMPAGNE /IRREPLACEABLE (12) 2016 FRANCE LILTI, THOMAS   £15.99

  Irreplaceable country doctor  Jean-Pierre Werner (François Cluzet) becomes ill and a young doctor, Natalie, comes from the city to help him.  But can she adapt to this new life and be able to replace such a respected doctor.

MELIES THE MAGICIAN/LA MAGIE MÉLIÈS  (E) 1997  FRANCE MENY,  JACQUES         £19.99

 Film explores the career of silent film  pioneer George Melies, using rare archival footage. 

MÊME PAS MORT/TOMBOY (U) 2007 FRANCE    SCIAMMA,  CÉLINE        £16.99

    10-year-old tomboy Laure (Zoé Héran) moves to a  different neighbourhood with her family, Laure is mistaken for a boy by Lisa (Jeanne Disson) and decides to accept this new identity under the name of Michaël. She spends a summer with Lisa, playing games and experiencing first kisses, but it is only a matter of time before the truth emerges.

LE MENTALE (15)  2002 FRANCE BOURSINHAC, MANUEL       £19.99  

 Gangster movie.

LE MEPRIS (15) 1963 FRANCE GODARD, JEAN-LUC £19.99

    Jean-Luc Godard directs a film about making a movie with lots of movie-in-jokes.

Stars Brigitte Bardot, Fritz Lang (plays a director) and Jack Palance. BLU RAY £24.99

MERCI LA VIE (18) 1991  FRANE BLIER, BERTRAND         £19.99

 Story of two friends, one innocent and one promiscuous, who set off on the road together.

MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT (15) 2000 FRANCE  CHABROL, CLAUDE  £19.99

 Taut thriller with Isabelle Huppert.   

MES CHÈRES ÉTUDES/STUDENT SERVICES (18) 2010 FRANCE   BERCOT, EMMANUELLE £15.99 

    French drama about a student who turns to prostitution as a means of getting by.

MESRINE (15) 1984 FRANCE    GENOVES,  ANDRE    £12.99

    French crime drama based on a year in the life of notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine.

MESRINE: L'ENNEMI PUBLIC N°1/L'INSTINCT DE MORT/MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT/PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 (15)   2008 FRANCE   RICHET, JEAN-FRANCOIS DVD  - £19.99   BLU-RAY - £24.99

    Both instalments of the acclaimed two-part biopic based on the autobiography of notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine.   

MICMACS (12) 2009 FRANCE    JEUNET, JEAN-PIERRE        £15.99

    Brazil, a video shop assistant who ends up with a bullet permanently lodged inside his brain after a gangland shootout  takes on two arms manufacturers, one of whom made the bullet that so nearly cost him his life.

MICHAEL H - PROFESSION: DIRECTOR (18) 2013    MONTMAYEUR, YVES  £15.99

    Documentary about award-winning film-maker Michael Haneke.

MICROBE ET GASOIL (15) 2015 FRANCE  GONDRY, MICHEL £19.99

   Coming-of-age comedy and road movie about two teenage friends. 

Bullied, androgynous loner Daniel 'Microbe' and his new cool friend and classmate Théo 'Gasoline' (Théophile Baquet). Together they go on a journey across the country.

MILLE MOIS/A THOUSAND MONTHS (12) 2003 BELGIUM  BENSAIDI, F.  IN ARABIC AND FRENCH   £19.99 

     After the arrest of her husband Amina and her young son Mehdi move to a mountain  village  maintaining the illusion that he is away working in France.

LES MISERABLES (12) 2019 (5051561043239) IN ENGLISH  £19.99

  Six-part BBC adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel starring Dominic West, David Oyelowo and Lily Collins.

LES MISÉRABLES (PG) 1935 FRANCE BERNARD, RAYMOND DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

The most thorough of all film adaptations of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. A triumph for one of the more overlooked filmmakers of the early French cinema director, Raymond Bernard.

MODERN MOLIÈRE: TARTUFFE(E) 2011        £29.99

    Modern adaptation of Molière's famous play. Aimed at mature learners, this contemporary update of the classic play is set in present day Los Angeles, but retains the key themes explored by Molière in the 17th century. The story of a religious imposter who endeavours to embezzle a wealthy man out of his wife, family and fortune is one of the most famous in the literary canon and offers a cutting critique of those who seek to profit through hypocrisy and the feigning of virtue.

MODERN MOLIÈRE: THE MISANTHROPE (E)             £29.99

    Modern adaptation of Molière's famous play. Aimed at mature learners, this contemporary update of the classic play is set in present day Los Angeles, but retains the key themes explored by Molière in the 17th century. The tale of a societal recluse who falls in love with a beautiful but shallow woman, the play offers a critique of the hypocrisy and injustice of the 17th century French aristocracy.

LA MOINDRE DES CHOSES/EVERY LITTLE THING (E) FRANCE 1997  PHILIBERT, NICOLAS    £12.99

     The protagonists in this documentary are the patients and staff at the La Borde psychiatric clinic in France.

MOLIÈRE  (E) 1978 FRANCE MNOUCHKINE, ARIANE £19.99

   Bio pic of  17th century playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière.

MOLIÈRE (PG) 2007  FRANCE   TIRARD, LAURENT       £19.99

 Period drama brings to life the youth of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who would later become known to the world as Moliere,  but at the age of 22 he was only a struggling actor.

JUSTE UNE QUESTION D'AMOUR  (15) 2000  BELGIUM    FAURE, CHRISTIAN   IN FRENCH   £19.99

     A story of love between two young men, one of whom is openly gay whilst the other tries to hide it from his parents by leading a double life.

THE KID WITH A BIKE/LE GAMIN AU VELO(12A) 2011 BELGIUM DARDENNE, J P/DARDENNE, L £15.99

    The Dardenne brothers write and direct this Belgian drama about an eleven-year-old boy in search of a family.

MAN BITES DOG/C'EST ARRIVÉ PRÈS DE CHEZ VOUS (18) 1992  BELGIUM  B/W    BELVAUX/ BONZEL/ POELVOORDE     IN FRENCH   £19.99

     One of the most  disturbing films ever  made, as three  film students  follow a murder at work.

MON ONCLE (U) 1958 FRANCE  TATI, JACQUES    DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £22.99

 Mans fight against the machine as seen through the lens of Jacques Tati.

MON ONCLE D'AMÉRIQUE/MY AMERICAN UNCLE (12) 1980 FRANCE    RESNAIS, ALAIN  £15.99

 The film uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety.

MON MEILLEUR AMI/MY BEST FRIEND   (12)   2006   FRANCE     LECONTE, PATRICE  £17.99

 Comedy about a middle-aged antique dealer Francois, who, is staggered to discover that

none of the people he considers his closest acquaintances actually likes him.

MON PERE CE HEROS (PG) FRANCE 1991 LAUZIER, GERARD   £14.99

 Charming comedy  staring Gerard Depardieu.

MON ROI (15) 20156  MAÏWENN   FRANCE  DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99   

  While recovering from a skiing accident in a rehabilitation clinic a woman recalls her tumultuous ten-year relationship with her husband in this romantic drama.

LE MONDE EST À TOI/THE WORLD IS YOURS (15)  2018   FRANCE GAVRAS, ROMAIN   £19.99

 Small time drug dealer finds himself out of his depth in a major drug deal, in this crime comedy

MOMMY (15) 2014 CANADA DOLAN, XAVIER IN FRENCH £19.99

     A widowed mother decides to homeschool her ADHD-suffering son.  Although she is struggling for money and patience, how far is she prepared to go to better her son's future?

MONDAY MORNING/LUNDI MATIN (PG)  2002 FRANCE LOSSELIANI, OTAR    £19.99

 Whimsical voyage of self-discovery that amusingly observes  the  absurdities of life.

MONSIEUR HIRE (15) FRANCE 1989  LECONTE, PATRICE  £19.99

 A young girl is found murdered and all the clues lead to the reclusive Monsieur Hire, a loner and not popular with his neighbours who think him strange.

MONSIEUR LAZHAR (12A) 2011  CANADA FALARDEAU,PHILIPPE        £15.99

    Set in a Quebec junior school and  adapted from a stage play by Évelyne de la Chenelière,. a class of Grade 6 pupils get a new teacher, an Algerian refugee Bachir Lazhar who claims he has been teaching for 19 years, when he has actually been running a restaurant.

Despite his unconventional methods, Bachir proves himself capable of dealing with the children's tender emotions sensitively and creatively, but as he becomes more deeply involved in the situation, he must face up to a devastating loss from his own past.

MONSIEUR N (15)   2003  FRANCE  DE CAUNES, ANTOINE  £19.99

 Using a combination of historical record and creative speculation, renowned funnyman and

director Antoine de Caunes has created a fascinating portrait of the Napoleon’s exile.

MONTPARNASSE 19 (PG) 1958 FRANCE BECKER, JACQUES DVD - £14.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

 Set during the  tragic final years in the life of Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani living in Paris. The film tells about his two muses and his  gradual descent into alcoholism and drug addiction. 

LA MORT DE LOUIS XIV/THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (12A)  2016  FRANCE  SERRA, ALBERT  £15.99

 Set in 1715, the film is an intimate portrait of the final days of King Louis XIV.

LA MORT EN CE JARDIN/ DEATH IN THE GARDEN (12) 1956 FRANCE  BUÑUEL,  LUIS DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY  £22.99

  Disparate group of adventurers, made up of two men and a woman, find themselves caught up in an uprising in a South American village were the government is trying to seize land. To flee they are forced to escape via the dangerous jungle in a desperate struggle for survival.

MOUCHETTE (15) 1966 FRANCE  B/W  BRESSON, ROBERT   £19.99

 Bresson’s film about an adolescent heroine estranged from her stark rural community.

MURDERER LIVES AT 21/L'ASSASSIN HABITE AU 21 (12) 1942 FRANCE       CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES     DVD -   £17.99    BLU RAY - £19.99

     A thief and killer stalks the streets of Paris, leaving a calling card from 'Monsieur Durand' at the scene of each crime.

MUSIC TEACHER/LE MAITRE DE MUSIQUE (PG) 1989 BELGIUM  CORBIAU, GERARD IN FRENCH    £19.99

     Evocative film of a great baritone and his prodigy. 

MR 73/RMR-73 (18) FRANCE 2008    MARCHAL, OLIVIER £19.99

    A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.

MY AMERICAN UNCLE/MON ONCLE D'AMÉRIQUE (12) 1980 FRANCE    RESNAIS, ALAIN  £15.99

 The film uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety.

MY BEST FRIEND/MON MEILLEUR AMI   (12)   2006   FRANCE     LECONTE, PATRICE  £17.99

 Comedy about a middle-aged antique dealer Francois, who, is staggered to discover that

none of the people he considers his closest acquaintances actually likes him.

MY BOYFRIEND’S GIRLFRIEND/L'AMI DE MON AMIE (PG) FRANCE 1987 ROHMER, ERIC    £17.99

  The film explores questions of fidelity and betrayal, delusion and deceit in modern youth with a light and compassionate touch.

MY NIGHT WITH MAUD/MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD (15) FRANCE 1969        ROHMER, ERIC    £15.99

    Film about the  chaste and conservative thirty-something (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the worldly and spirited divorcée Maud (Françoise Fabian), throwing the moral certainties of his life into question. 

LE MYSTÈRE PICASSO/MYSTERY OF PICASSO (E) 1956 FRANCE  CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGE DVD  £15.99  BLU RAY £19.99 

   A filmed record of Pablo Picasso painting using a transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view of Picasso at work.

NADA (18) 1974  FRANCE  CHABROL, CLAUDE     £19.99

 Terrorists and police use the same violent methods in this thriller.

NAME OF THE ROSE (18)  FRANCE 1986    ANNAUD,  JEAN-JACQUES      £19.99

 Chilling tale of dark deeds and murder based on Umberto Eco’s award-winning bestseller.

NAPOLEON (U) 1927 FRANCE GANCE, ABEL 4-DISC DVD SET - £24.99  3-DISC BLU-RAY SET - £29.99 

  Abel Gance’s film telling the story Napoleon’s youth and early military career, which has been   digitally restored by film historian Kevin Brownlow and the BFI National Archive.

NAPOLEON (15) 2002 FRANCE  SIMONEAU,  YVES    £39.99

     Epic with an all star cast.

NATHALIE (15) 2003 FRANCE   FONTAINE, ANNE     £19.99

 Tormented by the suspicion of her husband’s adultery, Catherine , a bourgeois Parisian

businesswoman, seeks the help of a  mysterious call-girl, Nathalie, to uncover the truth once and for all.

NE LE DIS À PERSONNE/TELL NO ONE (15)  2006   FRANCE     CANET, GUILLAUME    £19.99

 Conspiracy theory thriller from actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet.

LES NEIGES DU KILIMANDJARO/SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (15) 2010 FRANCE GUÉDIGUIAN, ROBERT    £10.99

    A trade unionist becomes involved with an investigation into the burglary but when he discovers that a fellow member of his union is responsible for the crime and the misfortune that drove him to commit the crime he comes to regret acting in haste. Will he be able to make things right?

NELLY & M. ARNAUD (15) 1995  FRANCE  SAUTET, CLAUDE  £15.99

 Character study of the relationship between a younger woman and an older man    

NÉS EN 68/BORN IN 68 (15) 2008 FRANCE DUCASTEL,OLIVIER £15.99

 The film is set 20 years after a group of revolutionary  students have grown up  and their children are now maturing into rebellious adults just like their parents before them.

NI LE CIEL NI LA TERRE /NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH (12) 2015 FRANCE  COGITORE , CLÉMENT £11.99

 Thriller set among French NATO troops in the mountains of Afghanistan.  While fighting the Taliban, as well as maintaining the fragile peace, Captain Antarès Bonassieu finds that fighters from both sides  begin mysteriously disappearing without a trace.

THE NICOLAS PHILIBERT COLLECTION (PG) FRANCE        £29.99

    Four documentaries -Nenette, Etre et Avoir, La Ville Louvre and  Un Animal, Des Animaux

NIGHT OF THE HUNTED/LA NUIT DES TRAQUÉES (18) 1980  FRANCE  ROLLIN, JEAN   £14.99

 Woman attempts to escape the confines of a cold, stark building whose inhabitants seem to be suffering from collective amnesia and insanity.

NIGHT SHIFT/TROIS HUIT (15)  2001 FRANCE LE GUAY, PHILIPPE  £19.99

 Tense psychological drama.

NIKITA (18) 1990 FRANCE BESSON, LUC £12.99

    Stylish high action thriller. BLU RAY VERSION £24.99

NO MANS LAND (15) FRANCE TANOVIC, DANIS     £19.99

 Dark satire about a  Bosnian and a Serb soldier stranded in a trench together. 

LES NOCES ROUGES (15) 1973  FRANCE  CHABROL, CLAUDE     £19.99

 Tale of adultery and political skulduggery.          

NOT HERE TO BE LOVED/JE NE SUIS PAS LÀ POUR ÊTRE AIMÉ  (15)   2005   FRANCE    BRIZE, STEPHANE   £19.99

 World weary Jean-Claude who, tired of his job decides on a whim to shake himself out of his rut by enroling for Tango lessons.

NOTRE JOUR VIENDRA/OUR DAY WILL COME (18) 2010 FRANCE    GAVRAS, ROMAIN    £17.99

    Violent road movie about two redheads, both harbouring an inner rage about the way society has treated them due to the colour of their hair, set off on a road trip to Ireland where they believe they'll be made more welcome.

NOTRE MUSIQUE (12) 2004  FRANCE   GODARD, JEAN LUC £19.99

 A dying man allows himself one final luxury.           

A NOUS A LA LIBERTE (PG) 1931 FRANCE CLAIR, RENE       £19.99   

 Satirical attack on the machine age

NOUS NE VIEILLIRONS PAS ENSEMBLE (12) 1972 FRANCE PIALAT, MAURICE £19.99

    Emotional drama from acclaimed director Maurice Pialat about the impending end to the tumultuous relationship between Jean (Jean Yanne) and Catherine (Marlene Jobert).

UNE NOUVELLE AMIE/NEW GIRLFRIEND (15)  2013 FRANCE  OZON, FRANÇOIS £15.99

    When her best friend Laura dies, Claire promises to take care of her baby daughter as well as her  husband David.  However Claire discovers an unsettling truth about David  

LA NOUVELLE EVE (18) 1999 FRANCE   CORSINI, CATHERINE     £14.99

 Madcap comedy.

NOVO (18) 2002 FRANCE    Limosin, Jean-Pierre     £19.99

 Comedy about young man, who suffers short-term memory loss which can be manipulated by others.

NUE PROPRIÉTÉ/PRIVATE PROPERTY (15) 2010 FRANCE        LAFOSSE,  JOACHIM     £19.99

    Psychological drama about the relationship between a divorced mother and her twin sons, Thierry and Francois

LA NUIT AMÉRICAINE/DAY FOR NIGHT - THE CRITERION COLLECTION (12) 1973 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS  BLU RAY  £27.99 Witty homage to the movie business with Francois Truffaut playing  a director making a melodrama, but encounters many obstacles.

LA NUIT DES TRAQUÉES/NIGHT OF THE HUNTED (18) 1980  FRANCE  ROLLIN, JEAN   £14.99

 Woman attempts to escape the confines of a cold, stark building whose inhabitants seem to be suffering from collective amnesia and insanity.

NUIT ET BROULLARD (15) 1955 FRANCE B/W (31 Mins.)  ALAIN RESNAIS   £12.99

 Devastating documentary about the horrors of  Auschwitz.

LES NUITS DE LA PLEINE LUNE/FULL MOON IN PARIS (15) 1984  FRANCE ERICH ROHMER       £15.99

 Story about a girl who feels stifled by her live in love affair.

THE NUN/LA RELIGIEUSE  (12) 2013 FRANCE NICLOUX, GUILLAUME   £15.99

     Set 18th century France and based on the novel by Denis Diderot , Suzanne Simonin  is forced to become a nun against her will.  Here the three mother superiors treat her in radically different ways. The film is a faithful adaptation of  Diderot’s  attack on religious abuse. Includes the documentary : 'La Scandaleuse'.

L'ODYSSÉE/ODYSSEY (PG)  2016  FRANCE   £13.99

 Film about adventurer Jacques Yves Cousteau.  Setting out to explore the oceans with his wife and eldest son, he leaves his younger son  Philippe at a boarding school.  However, Cousteau's life is turned upside down when Philippe is killed in a plane crash.

OF GODS AND MEN/DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX (15) 2010    FRANCE     BEAUVOIS,  XAVIER  DVD -   £15.99  BLU RAY - £19.99

    French drama set in the remote Algerian monastery of Tibhirine. For years, the monks have coexisted in harmony with the Muslim locals. But as the political situation in Algeria becomes increasingly unstable and terrorism takes hold in the 1990s, the monks face the agonising decision of whether to stay or go back to France. 

OFFICERS’ WARD/LA CHAMBRE DES OFFICIERS (15)  2001 FRANCE DUPEYRON, FRANCOIS  £19.99         

 Moving tale about an injured  First World War officer.      

OLIVER, OLIVER   (15)  1992 FRANCE    HOLLAND,  AGNIESZKA   £14.99

 Film about a family with a young son who gets all of the mother’s

attention, and whose jealous older sister plays tricks on him

ON CONNAIT LA CHANSON (15) 1997  FRANCE    RESNAIS, ALAIN   £15.99

 Romantic musical comedy and homage to  Dennis Potter. 

ON A VOLE LA JOCONDE (PG)  1966 FRANCE  DEVILLE, MICHEL   £19.99

 Comic thriller about a gentleman thief 

ON TOUR/TOURNÉE (15) 2010 FRANCE        AMALRIC, MATHIEU     £15.99

    Actor and filmmaker Mathieu Amalric directs this French comedy drama following an American burlesque troupe as they tour across France.

ONE DAY IN SUMMER/ UN JOUR D'ÉTÉ (15)    2006 FRANCE   GUÉRIN, FRANCK   £19.99

 The sudden death of a teenager during a soccer match puts a small community completely off-balance.

ONE DEADLY SUMMER/L'ÉTÉ MEURTRIER (18) 1983  FRANCE  BECKER, JEAN     £14.99

 Isabelle Adjani is Elle, who lives in a small provincial village and seeks  revenge for the  wrongs done to her mother. 

ONE TWO ANOTHER/CHACUN SA NUIT  (18) 2006  FRANCE BARR,   JEAN-MARC       £17.99

 The film winds through a devastating series of events surrounding the death of a member of a punk band.

ONE, TWO, THREE: TRILOGY/CAVALE/UN COUPLE ÉPATANT/APRÈS LA VIE  (15) 2003 FRANCE  BELVAUX, LUCAS       £49.99

 Three inter-related films presented in three different styles. One’s a thriller, Two’s a comedy and Three’s a melodrama.

ORCHESTRA SEATS/FAUTEUILS D'ORCHESTRE (12) 2006 FRANCE    THOMPSON, DANIÈLE      £17.99

    Drama about the residents of the theatre district and their dreams of fortune and fame as seen through the eyes of an impressionable country girl waitress in a local café.

ORDEAL/CALVAIRE  (18)  2004 BELGIUM    WELZ, DU FABRICE       £19.99 

     Thriller about a man who is taken prisoner when his car breaksdown in the woods.

ORPHEE (PG) FRANCE 1949 B/W COCTEAU,  JEAN      £19.99

 This fine film is a perfect marriage of Greek legend and his Cocyeau's mythology.

OSS 117: LE CAIRE NID D'ESPIONS/OSS 117-CAIRO NEST OF SPIES (12)  2006 FRANCE HAZANAVICIUS, M. £12.99

 Box-office hit spy comedy in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau.

OSS 117: RIO NE RÉPOND PLUS/OSS 117: LOST IN RIO (15) FRANCE 2009 HAZANAVICIUS , MICHEL    £12.99

    French spy spoof sequel.

OUR CHILDREN/À PERDRE LA RAISON (15) 2012 FRANCE   LAFOSSE, JOACHIM      

   DVD -   £15.99 BLU RAY- £19.99

    Based on true events this  intense, multi-layered dissection of an unorthodox family

OUR DAY WILL COME/NOTRE JOUR VIENDRA (18) 2010 FRANCE    GAVRAS, ROMAIN    £17.99

    Violent road movie about two redheads, both harbouring an inner rage about the way society has treated them due to the colour of their hair, set off on a road trip to Ireland where they believe they'll be made more welcome.

OUTSIDE THE LAW/HORS LA LOI (15) 2010 FRANCE    BOUCHAREB, RACHID    DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £22.99

    Sequel to his 2007 political drama 'Days of Glory'. Set against the backdrop of the Algerian struggle for independence from France the drama follows three brothers who become separated during the massacre at Setif. 

LE PACTE DES LOUPS/BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (15) 2001 FRANCE GANS, CHRISTOPHER £19.99

    1764 and the King sends out two men to slay a beast terrorising the countryside.

LE PACTE DU SILENCE (18) 2002 FRANCE  GUIT, GRAHAM    £19.99 

 Thriller with Gerard Depardieu.

PAGE TURNER/LA TOURNEUSE DE PAGES (15) 2006   FRANCE   DERCOURT, DENIS       £19.99           

 Embittered by an event from the past that thwarted her musical ambitions, Melanie prepares to exact revenge against the person she holds responsible.

PALTOQUET(18) 1986  FRANCE   DEVILLE, MICHEL     £19.99

 Detective drama

PARADE (U) 1974  FRANCE   TATI,   JACQUES   DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £22.99

 Offering gloriously funny visual gags that flow beautifully from one act to another – including several of his most famous pantomimes – Parade is the perfect stage for Tati's comic genius. 

LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG/UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (U) 1964 FRANCE  DEMY, JACQUES     £17.99

 A story of lost love, with all the dialogue sung rather than spoken.

PARIS(15) 2008  FRANCE KLAPISCH, CEDRIC    £19.99

 Juliette Binoche, and a host of France's finest actors create a film that celebrates the city with a number of interconnected narratives.

PARIS (E)  IN ENGLISH     £19.99

 Art historian Sandrine Voillet presents this celebration of France’s capital, taking us through 400 years of history and uncovering the extraordinary events and people that have shaped the City.

PARIS BRÛLE-T-IL/IS PARIS BURNING? (PG) 1966  FRANCE CLEMENT, RENE IN ENGLISH                £19.99

 Star studded war movie  about the French resistance and its fight to  regain control of Paris  near the end of World War II.

PARIS JE T AIME  (15)   2006   FRANCE        £15.99

 20 directors, 20 short films, 20 vignettes about life and love in Paris.

PARIS LOCKDOWN/TRUANDS (18) FRANCE 2007  SCHOENDOERFFER,  FREDERIC    £19.99

 Thriller about a Judge (Isabelle Huppert) who delves into corruption in giant state supported company.

PARIS-MANHATTAN (12A) 2012 FRANCE    LELLOUCHE, SOPHIE     £17.99

    French romantic comedy centred around a woman with an obsessive love of Woody Allen films.

PARIS NOUS APPARTIENT  (PG) 1961 FRANCE    RIVETTE, JACQUES   £19.99

 Twisting enigmatic tale  is  like a game to which no-one tells you the rules.

PARIS PIEDS NUS/LOST IN PARIS (12A) 2016  FRANCE  ABEL, D/ GORDON , F £15.99

  After being told she will have to move to a care home, 80-year-old Canadian Martha asks her niece Fiona  to come to Paris to help her. When Fiona finally arrives in the French capital she discovers Martha has disappeared and sets out on a journey across the city to try and find her.

PARIS VU PAR (PG) FRANCE £15.99

    Six vignettes set indifferent sections of Paris, by six directors, Claude Chabrol (segment "La Muette"), Jean Douchet (segment "Saint- Germain-des-Prés"), Jean-Luc Godard (segment "Montparnasse- Levallois"), Jean-Daniel Pollet (segment "Rue Saint-Denis"), Eric Rohmer (segment "Place de l'Étoile"), Jean Rouch (segment "Gare du Nord").

PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE (PG)  1936  FRANCE  RENOIR, JEAN  £19.99

 Renoirs adaptation of the Maupassant story.

PARTIR/LEAVING/ (15) 2010 FRANCE   CORSINI, CATHERINE£19.99

    French drama about Suzanne (Kristin Scott Thomas)  who falls in love and  decides to give up everything - husband, children, money and home - to follow her passions.

PATRICE LECONTE COLLECTION  (18)   FRANCE 1989-96   £49.99

 Features Le Mari de la Coiffeuse , Ridicule, Monsieur Hire, Le Parfum D’Yvonne and Tango 

PAULINE A LA PLAGE (15)  1983 FRANCE ROHMER, ERICH    £17.99

 Pauline, 15, holiday’s in  Normandy and learns about life  and love by  watching  the

grown-ups  around make a hash of  both.

LE PAYS DES SOURDS/IN THE LAND OF THE DEAF (12) 1992 FRANCE  PHILIBERT, NICOLAS      £12.99

 Award winning documentary which offers an insight into the day-to-day activities of the French deaf community.

PEAU D'ÂNE/DONKEY SKIN (PG) 1970 FRANCE      DEMY, JACQUES        £19.99

    Fairytale about a  King (Jean Marais) who is distraught at the death of his wife (Catherine Deneuve), and promises never to marry anyone less beautiful than her. But when he is compelled to marry his own daughter (also Deneuve), her fairy godmother manages to save her from this incestuous fate by making her demand impossible gifts, including a suit of clothes made from the skin of a magical donkey that ensures the land's prosperity.

PENSION COMPLÈTE/FRENCH CUISINE (12) 2015 FRANCE   SIRI, FLORENT EMILIO £19.99

 Comedy about a married couple who run a restaurant together but their relationship is on the rocks. He is obsessed with winning a Michelin star, she has hit forty and dreams of having her first child. 

PEPE LE MOKO (15) 1937  FRANCE  DUVIVIER, JULIEN     £19.99

 Classic gangster thriller with Jean Gabin.

LE PERE DE MES ENFANTS/FATHER OF MY CHILDREN (15) 2009 FRANCE   HANSEN-LØVE, MIA    £15.99   

    Superbly acted, insightful and emotional portrait of a family in crisis.

PERSEPOLIS (15)   FRANCE 2007  SATRAPI,M /PARONNAUD, V £17.99

 Based on the graphic novel about her own experiences writer and director Marjane Satrapi draws a poignant story about a  young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, when people¹s hopes were dashed as fundamentalists took power.   Contains both French and English version.   BLU RAY - £24.99

LA PEAU DOUCE (PG) 1964 B/W FRANCE  TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS       £19.99

 Triangular love story.

PERDUES DANS NEW YORK/LOST IN NEW YORK (15)  1969   FRANCE   ROLLIN, JEAN £12.99

 Two young girls discover a small wooden idol that possesses magical powers, enabling them to travel through time and space.

LE PERFUM  D’YVONNE  (18) 1994 FRANCE  LECONTE, PATRICE       £19.99

 Period piece about a young man’s memories of a summer love.

PÉRIL EN LA DEMEURE/DEATH IN A FRENCH GARDEN (18) 1985 FRANCE  DEVILLE, MICHEL       £19.99

 An enormously popular, sophisticated thriller.

PETIT NICOLAS (PG) 2009 FRANCE TIRARD, LAURENT    £15.99

  Comedy based on the 1950s comics by René Goscinny

PETITES COUPURES (15)  2002  FRANCE  BONITZER,  PASCAL     £19.99

 Communist newspaper journalist Bruno is suffering a mid-life crisis, losing faith in his

political beliefs and relationship with his wife.  

LES PETITS MOUCHOIRS/LITTLE WHITE LIES (15)  2010 FRANCE    CANET, GUILLAUME DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £22.99

    Emotional drama in which a group of friends try to escape their problems by going on a trip to the seaside together. Despite their intentions to relax, however, they find themselves caught in a web of long-repressed lust and emotion.  

LES PETITES VACANCES   (12) 2006  FRANCE   PEYON,  OLIVIER       £14.99

 What begins as a grand adventure for two children with their Grandmother becomes increasingly alarming as their grandmother’s  behaviour becomes more and more erratic.

LE PEUPLE MIGRATEUR/WINGED MIGRATION  (U) 2001 FRANCE PERRIN/DEBATS/JARRY/CLUZZARD IN ENGLISH £19.99  Documentary following the migration of birds using a crew of 450. 

PEUR(S) DU NOIR/FEAR(S) OF THE DARK (15) 2007                £19.99

    Madness, haunted houses, disappearing people and dogs from hell are among the nightmares portrayed in this experimental animation, in which five graphic novelists reveal the things that most scare them at night.

PHANTOM BOY (PG) 2016 FRANCE  ALAIN GAGNOL,A/FELICIOLI, J-L £19.99

   Animated film about young cancer patient who’s treatment  gives him the ability to leave his body and float around New York City as a spirit and use his new powers to defeat crime.

PICKPOCKET (PG) 1959 FRANCE   BRESSON,  ROBERT    £22.99

 Classic film Inspired by Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’.

LA PIANISTE/PIANO TEACHER (18)  2000  FRANCE  HANEKE, MICHAEL     £19.99

 Powerful and controversial drama with Isabelle Huppert as a repressed woman piano teacher and her relationship with a handsome student        

PIERROT LE FOU  (15) 19765  FRANCE   GODARD, JEAN-LUC       £17.99

 Jean-Paul Belmondo stars in a  tragic tale of a romantic couple who cannot escape fate no matter how far they flee.

LA PISCINE (12) 1969 FRANCE DERAY, JACQUES    £15.99

    French psychological thriller set in a luxurious holiday villa in St Tropez.

LE PLACARD/CLOSET(15) 2001 FRANCE VEBER, FRANCIS £19.99

    Hilarious comedy of errors.

PLACE VENDOME (15)    1998  FRANCE  NICOLE GARCIA    £19.99

 Catherine Deneuve stars as a woman attempting  to resurrect her life with  

seven diamonds she finds in this thriller.

LES PLAGES D'AGNÈS/BEACHES OF AGNÈS  (18) 2008 FRANCE        VARDA, AGNÈS    £15.99

    Intimate and inventive autobiographical portrait in which  Varda relates her own story by employing a range of filmic techniques, including the re-staging of dramatic events in her life, and the use of symbolic visual sets that combine to flesh out her thoughts and concepts, while at the same time giving an insight into her creative processes through the years.

LE PLAISIR (PG)  FRANCE  1951  OPHULS, MAX  2 DISC DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY  £22.99

 Adapted of three short stories by Guy de Maupassant revolving around the theme of pleasure. In 'Le Masque' an old man dons a magic mask and becomes young again. In 'La Maison Tellier' a prostitute enjoys a moment of true romance, while in 'Le Modèle' an artist's model marries the man who saves her from suicide.

PLANETARIUM/SUMMONING 2017 FRANCE  ZLOTOWSKI , REBECCA £12.99

 Set in the 1930s, this beautifully filmed movie is about two young American mediums who finish their world tour in Paris. Invited by a famous film director to star in his film, they are caught in a whirlwind of cinema, experiments, and emotions, while the shadow of the war looms.

LA PLANÉTE SAUVAGE/FANTASTIC PLANET  (PG)  1973 FRANCE   LALOUX, RENÉ   £19.99

     Based on Stefan Wul’s novel and containing almost Freudian landscapes and imagery.

PLAYTIME (U) 1967 FRANCE  IN ENGLISH   TATI, JACQUES       £19.99

 Mr Hulot comedy set in modern Paris.

EN PLEIN COEUR/IN ALL INNOCENCE  (15) 1998 FRANCE   JOLIVET, PIERRE          £15.99

 A relationship develops between a rich lawyer and one of  his clients.

PLEINS FEUX SUR L'ASSASSIN/SPOTLIGHT ON A MURDERER (15) 1961 FRANCE FRANJU, GEORGES DUAL FORMAT DVD - BLU RAY £24.99

  Count Hervé de Kerloguen has not long to live and,  to annoy his heirs, he decides to hide in a secret room in his castle to die. With no body the counts heirs cannot claim his fortune. However suddenly the heirs die one by one.  Is it murder or do they accidentally die? 

PLEIN SOLEIL (PG)   1959 FRANCE    CLÉMENT, RENÉ   DVD - £15.99     BLU-RAY - £19.99

    Pre-New Wave French film noir thriller directed by René Clément, based on the novel 'The Talented Mr Ripley' by Patricia Highsmith and shot on the warm and glowing Mediterranean coast .

DE PLUS BELLE/LADIES  (12) 2017 FRANCE   DAVAL, ANNE-GAËLLE  £19.99

  Romantic comedy about Lucie a single mother and breast cancer survivor. After joining  a dancing class she meets the charming but arrogant Clovis, as well as, the flamboyant dance teacher Dalila. Lucie starts to believe that her life has taken a turn for the better.

POCKET MONEY/L'ARGENT DE POCHE (PG)  1976 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS    £15.99 

 A film about the joys and wonders of childhood. 

LA POINTE COURTE (PG) 1955 FRANCE        VARDA, AGNÈS     £15.99

    This semi-documentary exploration of the complexities of a marital relationship marks the directorial debut of French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda.

POINT BLANK/À BOUT PORTANT (15) 2010 FRANCE        CAVAYE, FRED        £15.99

    French action thriller following a man as he races through the streets of Paris to save his pregnant wife after she is kidnapped.

UN POISON VIOLENT/LOVE LIKE POISON (15) 2010 FRANCE    QUILLEVERE,  KATELL    £15.99

    French coming-of-age drama.

LA POISON (PG) 1951 FRANCE    GUITRY, SACHA        £17.99

    Early 1950s French black comedy from writer-director Sacha Guitry. Married couple Paul and Blandine Braconnier (Michel Simon and Germaine Reuver) detest one another - so much so that they both consider killing the other. As Blandine plans to poison him, Paul fatally stabs her but with the help of brilliant lawyer Maître Aubanel (Jean Debucourt) he may just get away with murder..BLU RAY - £19.99.

POLISSE (15) 2011 FRANCE        MAÏWENN    £15.99

    Gritty and naturalistic French drama depicting a police child protection unit in Paris as it goes about its delicate and often disturbing work.

POLYTECHNIQUE  (15) 2009 CANADA VILLENEUVE, DENIS BLU RAY ONLY - £19.99

  A dramatisation of the 1989 Montréal massacre, Polytechniquedocuments events through the eyes of two students and the perpetrator, and explores how the horrors of a single day leave a legacy far beyond the shooting itself.

POPULAIRE (12)   2012 FRANCE     ROINSARD, RÉGIS    £17.99

    French drama set in the 1950s following a young woman who yearns for more than the humdrum existence she seems destined for. 

LE PORNOGRAPHE/THE PORNOGRAPHER (18)2001 FRANCE  BERTRAND BONELLO           £19.99 

 Well known adult filmmaker  of the 70’s returns to his trade  forcing him to re-assess  his life and relationships

POT LUCK/AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE (15) FRANCE 2002   KLAPISCH, CEDRIC     £19.99   

 Xavier moves into a Barcelona  flat with a  group of students on the  European Erasmus program  and soon finds  himself thrust into a cultural melting pot.

POT LUCK TWO - RUSSIAN DOLLS/LES POUPÉES RUSSES(15) 2005   FRANCE   KLAPISCH, CEDRIC   £17.99  

 Xavier is now thirty. No longer a student, but  not yet a well-balanced, fulfilled adult either.

POTICHE (15) 2010 FRANCE       OZON, FRANÇOIS    £17.99

    French comedy starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. Suzanne (Deneuve) is the trophy wife of ruthless umbrella tycoon Robert Pujol (Fabrice Luchini). When Robert's workers go on strike and take him hostage, Suzanne takes over the running of the factory and - with the help of her former lover, communist union leader Maurice Babin (Depardieu) - quickly proves herself to be a far more effective manager than her husband.

LES POUPÉES RUSSES/POT LUCK TWO - RUSSIAN DOLLS(15) 2005   FRANCE   KLAPISCH, CEDRIC   £17.99  

 Xavier is now thirty. No longer a student, but  not yet a well-balanced, fulfilled adult either.

POUR ELLE/ANYTHING FOR HER(15) 2008 FRANCE CAVAYE, FRED £19.99

  Romantic thriller about a married couple, Julien and Lisa, whose lives are suddenly thrown into disarray when Lisa is charged with murder.

PRIMAIRE/ELEMENTARY (12) 2016  FRANCE  ANGEL, HÉLÈNE   £19.99

   Primary school teacher and single mother, Florence, faces her biggest challenge yet when troubled student Sacha is transferred to her class.

Sacha's behavioural problems soon cause conflict in the class,  but Florence becomes determined to help him turn his troubled life around.  

LE PREMIER CERCLE/THE DEAD LIST (15) 2010 FRANCE        TUEL, LAURENT        £15.99

    Gangster drama starring Jean Reno as the godfather of a powerful criminal family.

LE PREMIER JOUR DU RESTE DE TA VIE/THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (15) FRANCE 2008       BEZANCON,  REMI £15.99

    The pleasure and pain of familial relationships come under the microsope in this cross-generational film.

PREPAREZ VOS MOUCHOIRS (15) 1978  FRANCE   BLIER, BERTRAND      £15.99

 Oscar-winning  Best Foreign Film is a black comedy about a man’s vain attempt to keep his frustrated wife happy.

PRÊT À TOUT (12) 2014 FRANCE CUCHE, NICOLAS £19.99

French romantic comedy about thirty-year-old Max who has become an Internet millionaire but is bored with the high life and can’t stop thinking about the socially committed Alice. To get closer to her he takes a job at the assembly line in the factory she works in. 

PRICELESS/HORS DE PRIX  (12) 2007  FRANCE SALVADORI, PIERRE   £19.99

 Charming romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the French Riviera . Jean, a shy young bartender is mistaken for a millionaire by beautiful scheming opportunist woman.

LA PRINCESSE DE MONTPENSIER/PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER (15) 2010 FRANCE  TAVERNIER, BERTRAND   £17.99

    Period romance based on a 1622 novella by Madame de Lafayette. Set against the backdrop of the Catholic/Protestant wars that tore France apart in the 16th century.

LA PRISONNIÈRE (15) 1968 FRANCE  CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES   DVD -  £19.99  BLU RAY - £22.99

   Stanislas is a voyeuristic Parisian art gallery owner who becomes involved with Josée, the wife of an avant-garde artist.  The film combines Josée’s sadomasochistic fantasies with elements of pop and psychedelic art and a striking dream sequence .

PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES/COUERS  (15) 2006 FRANCE   RESNAIS, ALAIN      £19.99

 Comedy of manners based on an  Alan Ayckbourn play.

PRIVATE PROPERTY/NUE PROPRIÉTÉ (15) 2010 FRANCE        LAFOSSE,  JOACHIM     £19.99

    Psychological drama about the relationship between a divorced mother and her twin sons, Thierry and Francois.

PROBLEMOS (12) 2017 FRANCE  JUDOR, ERIC   £18.99

 Comedy in which Jeanne and Victor stop off at their friends hippie community 

when a sudden pandemic strikes the world leaving them trapped there.

PROCÈS DE JEANNE D'ARC/TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (15) 1962 FRANCE BRESSON, ROBERT        £19.99  

 A powerful re-telling of the story of Joan of Arc. 

PROCESS (18) 2004  FRANCE  LEIGH, C.S.      £19.99

 Beatrice Dalle and Guillaume Depardieu star is this disturbing drama about a women’s attempting suicide.

LA PROCHAINE FOIS JE VISERAI LE COEUR /NEXT TIME I'LL AIM FOR THE HEART (15) 2014 FRANCE   ANGER, CÉDRIC     £19.99

   Set in the 1970s, the film follows the true story of a serial killer who works as a police officer.

LE PROFESSIONNEL (15) FRANCE 1981    LAUTNER, GEORGES    £15.99

    French action thriller starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.

LE PROMENEUR DU CHAMP DE MARS/LAST MITTERAND (PG) 2005 FRANCE  GUEDIGUIAN,  ROBERT      DVD  - £19.99  BLU - RAY £24.99

 Based on the book by Georges-Marc Benamou, the film follows a  young journalist  as he helps  an ex-president of France to compile his memoirs. 

PROMENONS-NOUS DANS LES BOIS/DEEP IN THE WOODS (18)   2000  FRANCE    DELPLANAQUE, LIONEL   £19.99

     Horror film set in a mansion. 

P'TIT QUINQUIN (15) 2014 FRANCE DUMONT, BRUNO  £15.99

 The Guardian called the film - ‘French forensic-thriller farce’.    Set during the school's summer holidays in a seaside town two rural policemen track a  serial killer who leaves body parts stuffed inside barnyard animals.

PUPILLE/IN SAFE HANDS (15) 2018  FRANCE HERRY,JEANNE   £19.99

 Clara, who decides to put her newborn baby up for adoption. In this ensemble piece, four social workers have the task of coping with the French social care system to find a suitable home for the child.   Over a three-month period, they work together to decide what is best for the baby's future and find the best possible adoptive parent

Q (18)  FRANCE 2011       BOUHNIK, LAURENT    £15.99

    Erotic drama in which the lives of a group of teenagers are profoundly affected by the sexual promiscuity of a young woman.

QUAI DES BRUMES (PG)  1938   FRANCE   CARNE, MARCEL    £15.99

 Jean Gabin plays an army deserter  looking for a new identity who falls in love with  an idealistic young woman.

QUAI DES ORFÈVRES  (PG)  1947  FRANCE    CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES      DVD -  £19.99  BLU RAY - £22.99

 Married music hall singer Jenny, leaps at the chance to perform some shows for ageing, wealthy businessman Brignon.  However when Brignon's  is found dead, Jenny’s husband becomes the prime suspect.

QUAND J'ÉTAIS CHANTEUR/SINGER (12) 2006  FRANCE  GIANNOLI,  XAVIER       £19.99

 Romantic comedy which stars Gerard Depardieu.

LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS/LES MISTONS (PG) 1959 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS £19.99

   Francois Truffaut's semi-autobiographical first feature stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, an unruly young Parisian whose unhappiness leads him into trouble. Frequently running away from school and home, Antoine spends much of his time playing with his friends on the streets of the city; but events take a more serious turn when the theft of a typewriter lands him in trouble with the police.

QUE LA BETE MEURE (15) 1969  FRANCE  CHABROL, CLAUDE     £19.99

 Astute, beautifully acted study of obsession.   

QUE TA JOIE DEMEURE/JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING (E) 2014  FRANCE CÔTÉ, DENIS £15.99

 The film examines workplace relationship by using actors as numbered factory workers, the film explores ideas surrounding the function of labour and the importance of work to society and individuals.

LA QUESTION HUMAINE/HEARTBEAT DETECTOR (12A) FRANCE 2007  KLOTZ, NICOLAS   £19.99

 Corporate thriller in which an in house company psychologist investigates the erratic behaviour of the CEO.

QUI A TUÉ BAMBI?/WHO KILLED BAMBI (18) 2003  FRANCE  MARCHAND, GILLES      £19.99

 Hitchcockian chiller.

LA RAFLE/ROUND UP (15) 2010 FRANCE BOSCJ, ROSE  DVD -   £17.99  BLU RAY - £16.99

   Fact based drama told from the perspective of 11-year Jo Weismann.  In July 1942, under directions of the Nazis,  the French police  rounding up thousands of Jewish men, women and children taking them to the now notorious Vel' d'Hiv stadium, awaiting transporting to extermination camps in Poland  

LES RAISINS DE LA MORT /GRAPES OF DEATH (18) 1978 FRANCE ROLLIN, JEAN  £12.99  

A young woman is stranded in a remote village, whose population has become infected by a deadly zombie virus.

LA RANÇON DE LA GLOIRE/THE PRICE OF FAME (12) 2014 FRANCE BEAUVOIS, XAVIER £19.99

Set in the Christmas period in 1977, small time crook Eddy comes up with a plan to steal Charlie Chaplin’s corpse and demanded a ransom for the poor family he is living with.

RAPT  (15)    2009 FRANCE        BELVAUX, LUCAS    £15.99

    French political thriller.

RAVISHING IDIOT/UNE RAVISSANTE IDIOTE  (PG) 1964 FRANCE  MOLINARO, EDOUARD        £13.99

     Cold war spy thriller with Brigitte  Bardot

LE RAYON VERT/THE GREEN RAY (PG)   1986  FRANCE ROHMER, ERICH      £15.99

 Charming, romantic comedy of young Parisienne on holiday.

RAW (18) 2016 FRANCE    DUCOURNAU, JULIA

 Horror and debut film from writer and director Julia Ducournau. 

READ MY LIPS/SUR MES LÈVRES (15)  2001 FRANCE   ANDIARD, JACQUES       £19.99

 The film switches from dark comedy to full throttle thriller.

REBELLION /L'ORDRE ET LA MORALE(15) 2011 FRANCE KASSOVITZ, MATHIEU DVD £17.99 BLU RAY - £21.99

    Mathieu Kassovitz writes, directs and stars in this French hostage drama. The film traces the events surrounding the real-life abduction of 30 gendarmes by local Kanak separatist rebels in France's South Pacific territory of New Caledonia in 1988.

RED BALLOON/WHITE MANE/LE BALLON ROUGE/CRIN BLANC: LE CHEVAL SAUVAGE (U) 1953/56 FRANCE LAMORISSE, A.  £14.99

    A young boy chases an escaped ballon through the streets of Paris.

RED LIGHT/FEUX ROUGES (12) 2003 FRANCE    KAHN, CEDRIC       £19.99

 Tense sophisticated thriller based on the Georges Simenon novel. 

LE REDOUTABLE/REDOUBTABLE (15)   2017 FRANCE   HAZANAVICIUS, MICHEL   £17.99

  Paris 1967. filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky,  20 years his junior. After they marry,  Godard gets more involved in political protests, but he also struggles to control his jealousy towards his  new young wife.

LE REFUGE  (15) 2010 FRANCE    OZON,  FRANCOIS    £15.99

    Grieving pregnant woman struggling with her addiction to the drugs leaves Paris for a remote house on the French coast in an attempt to straighten herself out.

REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER/SEE HOW THEY FALL(18) FRANCE 1993  AUDIARD,  JACQUES    £15.99

    Described as a French 'Reservoir Dogs', the film won three Césars in 1995.

LA REGLE DU JEU (PG) 1939 FRANCE B/W  JEAN RENOIR    £19.99

 Jean Renoir’s haunting film, touches on the love affair of a jaded aristocracy and a servant. 

REGULAR LOVERS/LES AMANTS RÉGULIERS (18)   FRANCE  2005  GARREL, PHILIPPE      £19.99

 After the 1968 student revolt a group of youngsters abandon themselves to a bohemian existence.

LA REINE MARGOT (18) 1993  FRANCE   CHEREAU, PATRICE        £19.99

 Isabelle Adjani stars in this film based on the Dumas novel. 

LA RELIGIEUSE /THE NUN (12)  1966  FRANCE RIVETTE , JACQUES £15.99

 Set 18th century France and based on the novel by Denis Diderot , Suzanne Simonin  is forced to become a nun against her will.  Here the three mother superiors treat her in radically different ways. The film is a faithful adaptation of  Diderot’s  attack on religious abuse. Includes the documentary : 'La Scandaleuse'.

RENDEZ-VOUS (18) 1985  FRANCE TECHINE, ANDRE      £19.99

 Provocative erotic drama staring Juliette Binoche

RENDEZ-VOUS IN PARIS (PG) FRANCE 1985  Rohmer ,Eric     £15.99   

    A trilogy of stories  that explore the misunderstandings and misconceptions that can dog twenty-something love affairs.

RÉPARER LES VIVANTS /HEAL THE LIVING (TBA) FRANCE 2015 QUILLÉVÉRÉ, KATELL DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

  Based on the acclaimed novel  Maylis de Kerangal. The death of a young surfers gives hope to a  50-year-old mother awaiting  a heart transplant in this remarkable ensemble drama.

REPOS DE GUERRIERLOVE ON A PILLOW (15) 1962 FRANCE    VADIM, ROGER        £15.99

    Twisted love starring Brigitte Bardot.

RESET (PG) 2015 FRANCE    DEMAIZIÈRE,T/TEURLAI, A £19.99

 Film follows Paris Opera Ballet  new choreographer Benjamin Millepied as he is tasked with reimagining some of the company's famed work for the modern era.

RÉSISTANCE : THE COMPLETE SERIES (12) 2015 FRANCE £24.99

   Six-part French drama series set in Paris in 1940. 17-year-old Lili Franchet and her young friends band together to oppose the Nazi occupation by  producing and distributing the underground 'Resistance' newspaper.

LA RÉSISTANCE DE L’AIR/THROUGH THE AIR (15)   2015 FRANCE    GRIVOIS, FRED £19.99

   Rifle champion Vincent escape everyday life at the firing range.  Here he meets  50-year-old Renaud who offers him a tempting and usual well-paid job. 

RESSOURCES HUMAINES/HUMAN RESOURCES  (15)    FRANCE  1999  CANTET, LAURENT         £19.99

 Business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown totake a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years.

LE RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE/RETURN  OF MARTIN GUERRE (15) 1982 FRANCE   VIGNE, DANIEL      £17.99

 Gerard Depardieu returns to his village after eight years.  Is he the same man or an impostor? 

LE RETOUR DU HÉROS/RETURN OF THE HERO  (12) 2018 FRANCE TIRARD, LAURENT   £19.99

 Old fashioned romantic comedy.  Captain Charles-Grégoire Neuville get engaged to Pauline, but then is called away to  war.  However when Pauline falls ill, her sister Elisabeth  writes letters to her,  posing as Captain  Neuville, in the hope of making her sister feel better.

Three years Neuville returns, but the Captain seems more interest in drink and the family money that Pauline.

RETOUR EN NORMANDIE/BACK TO NORMANDY(15) 2007 FRANCE PHILIBERT, NICOLAS £17.99

    A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local

murder and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

RETURN  OF MARTIN GUERRE/LE RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE (15) 1982 FRANCE   VIGNE, DANIEL      £17.99

 Gerard Depardieu returns to his village after eight years.  Is he the same man or an impostor?

LES REVENANTS/THE RETURNED   2004   FRANCE CAMPILLO, ROBIN £12.99

    Atmospheric supernatural thriller, with echos of ‘Twin Peaks’, in which the deceased residents of a small  Alpine town return from the dead after several years. At first  their loved ones are pleased to have them back and start to adjust their lives. However the returned soon find difficulties reintegrating into society.

LES REVENANTS/THE RETURNED: SERIES 1(18) 2012 FRANCE        £29.99

    All eight episodes from the first series of the French supernatural drama, where the inhabitants of a mountain village are confronted by the reappearance of a number of dead people.

LES REVENANTS 2/THE RETURNED: SERIES 2 (18) 2013 FRANCE        £24.99

All eight episodes from the second series of the French supernatural drama.

REVENGE (18) 2017 FRANCE    FARGEAT, CORALIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

  Thriller in which young American woman, Jen,  heads to desert retreat a for a romantic weekend with her wealthy and married boyfriend Richard.  However once there Jen is attacked by Richard and his friends.  Escaping from them she vows to to kill them one by one before they can find her. 

RICKY (12) 2009 FRANCE    OZON,  FRANCOIS    £15.99

     French fantasy in which an ordinary man and woman attempt to deal with the birth of an extraordinary child.

RIDICULE (15) 1996 FRANCE  LECONTE, PATRICE    £19.99

In the opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting noblemansoon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue.

RIEN NE VA PLUS (15) 1997 FRANCE CHABROL, CLAUDE       £19.99

 Comedy thriller in which a unconventional couple get caught up in a money laundering scam.

RIEN SUR ROBERT  (18)   1999  FRANCE   BONITZER, PASCAL   £19.99

  French comedy  in which the life of superficial, middle-class, paranoid critic  starts to fall apart after writing a damning review of a film he hasn’t seen.

RIFIFI (12) 1955 FRANCE   DASSIN, JULES   DVD - £12.99 BU RAY - £12.99

 Classic Noir about aging master thief who wants to retire after one last big robbery. 

RING FINGER/L'ANNULAIRE (15) 2005 FRANCE BERTRAND, DIANE £15.99

    Iris is 20 years old and looking for work is drawn into a dark world of sexual obsession.

LES RIVIÈRES POURPRES/CRIMSON RIVERS (15) 2000  KASSOVITZ , MATHIEU   £19.99 

     Blood-chilling suspense thriller.  DVD - two discs including making of Documentary and

12 featurettes.  Will also play in  English and Spanish. 

RMR-73/MR 7 (18) FRANCE 2008    MARCHAL, OLIVIER £19.99

    A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.

ROBERTO SUCCO (18) 2001 FRANCE    CEDRIC KAHN  £19.99

 Kahn’s gripping look at the mind of a serial killer.

LE ROI DE L'ÉVASION/KING OF ESCAPE (18)  FRANCE 2009 GUIRAUDIE,  ALAIN   £15.99

    Forty-three-year-old farm worker Armand Lacourtade is stuck in a loveless homosexual life. On encountering a fearless teenage girl, he totally changes tack.  They both become attracted to each other.  But is this really what Armand was dreaming of?

ROMANCE (18) 1999  FRANCE  BREILLAT,  CATHERINE £13.99

   Schoolteacher Marie is frustrated by her boyfriends complete lack of intimacy and embarks on a series of random sexual encounters with strangers. 

ROMANCE OF ASTREA AND CELADON/LES AMOURS D'ASTRÉE ET DE CÉLADON (12) 2007 FRANCE ROHMER, ERIC £19.99

 Adaptation of Honoré d’Urfé’s  novel, L’Astrée.

ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS/EMOTIFS ANONYMES (12) 2010 FRANCE  AMÉRIS, JEAN-PIERRE   £15.99

    Love and chocolate are the predominant themes of this romantic comedy. A deeply shy chocolate factory owner meets the equally sensitive Angélique, who also happens to be one of the world's finest chocolatiers, the two inevitably fall in love. But how do two chronically shy people reach out to one another and negotiate the emotional minefield of a new love affair?

ROMUALD ET JULIETTE (PG)   1990   FRANCE   SERREAU,  COLINE       £17.99

 Charming romantic comedy set against the background of boardroom intrigue.

LA RONDE  (PG) FRANCE 1950  OPHULS, MAX   DVD - £12.99   BLU RAY - £17.99

 A circular tale of love and seduction based on the Arthur Schnitzler work.

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LA RONDE DE L'AMOUR (18)   1985 FRANCE     KIKOINE, GERARD    £19.99

 The film follows a packet of cigarettes handed from person to person in a string of chance sexual encounters.

IRON ROSE/LA ROSE DE FER (15) 1972  FRANCE   ROLLIN, JEAN        £12.99

 Horror film about a couple trapped in a cemetery.

ROIS ET REINE/KINGS AND QUEEN (15) 2004  FRANCE  DESPLECHIN, ARNAUD      £19.99

 The film interweaves two stories, that of Nora , a single mother about to marry for the third time, with the tale of her eccentric ex-husband Ismael

ROSETTA (15) BELGIUM/FRANCE 1999  LUC & JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE      £19.99

 Extraordinary portrait of a resourceful  teenage girl finding her way in a tough World.

ROUND UP/LA RAFLE (15) 2010 FRANCE BOSCJ, ROSE   DVD -  £17.99  BLU RAY - £16.99

   Fact based drama told from the perspective of 11-year Jo Weismann.  In July 1942, under directions of the Nazis,  the French police  rounding up thousands of Jewish men, women and children taking them to the now notorious Vel' d'Hiv stadium, awaiting transporting to extermination camps in Poland .

RUMBA (PG)  FRANCE  2008      ABEL/GORDON/ROMY    £15.99

    French comedy with almost no music or dialogue, following events in the lives of primary school teachers and Latin dancing fanatics Dom (Dominique Abel) and Fiona (Fiona Gordon).

SACHA GUITRY: FOUR FILMS 1936-1938 (PG) FRANCE  FOUR DISC DUAL FORMAT BLU-RAY/DVD  LIMITED EDITION RELEASE £45.99  

  Features -  

LE NOUVEAU TESTAMENT/INDISCRETIONS (1936)

   Based on Guitry's own stage play about a overly confident doctor who eventually's destroyed by his own arrogance.

MON PÈRE AVAIT RAISON/MY FATHER WAS RIGHT (1936)

  Drama about an jilted father raises his son to be suspicious of women

FAISONS UN RÊVE../LET'S DREAM (1936)

 Boulevard comedy about a man and his wife who suspect each other of adultery.

REMONTONS LES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES/UP THE CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES(1938)

 A teacher tell the history of Champs Elysées.

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SAGE FEMME/MIDWIFE (12) 2017 FRANCE  PROVOST, MARTIN £15.99

  The stable life of midwife Claire Breton (Catherine Frot) is thrown into turmoil by the sudden reappearance of her late father's former lover Béatrice Sobolevski (Catherine Deneuve), who abandoned both of them three decades earlier. 

LE SALAIRE DE LA PEUR/THE WAGES OF FEAR (PG) 1953 FRANCE B/W  CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES  2 DISC DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY SET   £19.99

 Yves Montant stars in this compelling adventure thriller about two sets of rival truckers  moving nitroglycerine through the heat of the jungle and across the dangerous mountain roads of the Andes. 

LES SALAUDS/BASTARDS (18) 2013 FRANCE DENIS, CLAIRE £19.99

  Marco receives a call from his sister, urgently calling him back to Paris. Her husband has committed suicide, her daughter is missing and the family business has gone under and his sister suspects her husband’s business partner.

SAMBA (15) 2014 FRANCE NAKACHE,O/TOLEDANO, E £15.99

  Comedy drama about a Senegal immigrant held in a detention centre fighting his extradition.

LE SANG D'UN POÈTE (PG) FRANCE 1932 B/W   COCTEAU, JEAN    £15.99

Surrealist fantasy in which a young poet flees into a mirror and has a series of adventures in an alarming fantasy world.

SANS TOIT NI LOI/VAGABOND (15) 1985 FRANCE        VARDA, AGNÈS    £15.99

  'Vagabond' tells the story of the final few weeks of female drifter Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), who feels incapable of participating in ordinary French society.

SARAH’S KEY/ELLE S'APPELAIT SARAH (12) 2010  FRANCE  PAQUET-BRENNER, GILLES    £17.99

    A Jewish girl's story opens wounds from France's wartime past.  Living in Paris while her architect husband Bertrand (Frederic Pierrot) restores his family's apartment block, writer Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas) stumbles across the wartime history of the block's original Jewish owners, who were arrested by the Vichy government as part of the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942 and forced to sell their property. As the story unfolds, Julia becomes increasingly haunted by the fate of ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Melusine Mayance), who, after being detained, escapes in a desperate attempt to return to the block where she has secretly hidden her younger brother.

SAUVE QUI PEUT (LA VIE)/SLOW MOTION (18) 1967  FRANCE GODARD, JEAN-LUC    £19.99

 Bitterly cynical contemplation on man’s inhumanity to man.

LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON/DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (12) 2007 FRANCE   SCHNABEL, J.     £19.99

     Based on the best-selling novel, the film tells the story of Bauby, a  42 year old paralysed man. Trapped in what he saw as a ‘Diving Bell’, a prison from which he was unable to escape, Bauby’s only lifeline became the temporary release, or  ‘Butterfly’, of his  memories and imagination.

SCIENCE IS FICTION: THE FILMS OF JEAN PAINLEVE (15) 1927-48  FRANCE    PAINLEVE, JEAN    £24.99

    Before David Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau - there was Jean Painleve. Poetic pioneer of science films, Painleve explored a twilight realm of vampire bats, seahorses, octopi, and liquid crystals. In collaboration with his life-partner, Genevieve Hamon, Painleve made more than 200 science and nature films and was an early champion of the genre.

    This selection from 50 years of passionate scientific enquiry includes his most famous films - 'The Sea Horse', 'The Vampire', 'The Love Life of the Octopus' and 'Sea Urchins'.

SCREEN ICONS: CATHERINE DENEUVE (18)    FRANCE   £33.99

  Five films starring French screen goddess Catherine Denueve. Contains 

Les Parapluies De Cherbourg (Umbrellas of Cherbourg), Belle De Jour, Peau d'âne (Donkey Skin), Manon 70, Ma Saison Preferee.

SEA WALL/UN BARRAGE CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE  (12) FRANCE 2008 PANH, RITHY    £15.99

 Highly successful adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ acclaimed and semi-autobiographical novel “Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique”

THE SECOND WIND/LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE (18) FRANCE 2007 RENAUD, FRANCIS  £19.99

    French crime drama based on the novel 'Un Reglement de Comptes' by Jose Giovanni.

LE SECRET (18) 2000 FRANCE  WAGON, VIRGINNIE    £19.99

 Adult drama from the creators of ‘Dream Life of Angels’.  

SECRET DÉFENSE (PG) 1998 FRANCE RIVETTE, JACQUES £19.99

    Sister tries to stop her brother seeking revenge against a family friend who killed their father.

SEE HOW THEY FALL/REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER (18) FRANCE 1993  AUDIARD,  JACQUES    £15.99

    Described as a French 'Reservoir Dogs', the film won three Césars in 1995.

SELF MADE HERO/UN HÉROS TRÈS DISCRET (15)  1996  FRANCE AUDIARD, JACQUES     £19.99

 Comedy-drama set in the winter of  1944.  

LES SEINS DE GLACE (15) 1974   FRANCE     LAUTNER, GEORGES    £12.99

 Psychological thriller staring Alain Delon. 

LA SÉPARATION  (PG)  1994  FRANCE   VINCENT, CHRISTIAN    £15.99

 Film about the breakdown of a relationship.

SERAPHINE (12) FRANCE 2008  GALASSO,  MICHAEL    £15.99

    French drama based on the true story of French primitive painter Seraphine de Senlis.   

LE SERPENT (15) 2007  FRANCE  BARBIER, ERIC   £15.99

 A mans  troubled existence is blown apart by the appearance of a ghost from his past, Joseph Plender.

SEULS/ALONE (15) 2016 FRANCE  MOREAU , DAVID  £19.99

 Sci-fi drama where a group of teens find themselves the last people left on earth and must escape the mysterious threat that has made everyone else disappear.

SEX IS COMEDY (18) FRANCE 2002 BREILLAT, CATHERINE   £19.99

 Witty and frank exploration of sexual role play and power.    

SHOAH BOX SET (E) 1985 FRANCE LANZMANN, CLAUDE IN   GERMAN/POLISH/ENGLISH 4 DVDS £49.99   4 BLU RAYS  £59.99  

  Nine-hour  documentary about the Holocaust.  Featuring interviews with survivors from 

concentration camp inmates and guards

SHOAH: THE FOUR SISTERS - THE MASTERS OF CINEMA SERIES (E) 2018 LANZMANN, CLAUDE FRANCE  DVD -   £19.99 BLU TAY - £19.99

 The documentary interviews four Jewish women - Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton - about their  experiences during the Holocaust as they consider the improbability of their survival and how they managed to build lives for themselves after such trauma.

SHUT UP/TAIS-TOI!(12) 2003  FRANCE  VEBER, FRANCIS     £17.99

 Action packed  comedy  staring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno.

THE SICILIAN CLAN/LE CLAN DES SICILIENS (15) 1969 FRANCE    VERNEUIL,  HENRI     £9.99

    A Sicilian family, headed by Vittorio Manalese (Jean Gabin), plan to steal a cache of diamonds. Roger Senet (Alain Delon), in prison for murder, is hired for the occasion and sprung with the help of the family. However, once the caper is successfully carried out, Senet finds himself on the wrong side of the clan when they discover that he has been having an affair with Manalese's daughter-in-law.

SIDEWALKS OF BANGKOK (18) FRANCE 1984 JEAN ROLLIN £12.99

  Thriller about an exotic dancer hired to infiltrate a gang of terrorists .

SIGNS AND WONDERS (15) 2000 FRANCE  NOSSITER, JONATHAN IN ENGLISH      £19.99

 Man tries to  to reclaim his family after an affair.

LE SILENCE DE LORNA/SILENCE OF LORNA (15) 2008 BELGIUM    DARDENNE BROTHERS £19.99

Albanian woman living as  an immigrant  in Belgium who through her involvement with the Mafia leads her to marry  so she can get citizenship.

LE SILENCE DE LA MER (PG)   1949  FRANCE  MELVILLE, JEAN-PIERRE        £19.99

  Melville’s debut film is an adaptation of the novella by French resistance author Vercors, which was clandestinely written in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of France in WWII

SINGER/QUAND J'ÉTAIS CHANTEUR (12) 2006  FRANCE  GIANNOLI,  XAVIER       £19.99

 Romantic comedy which stars Gerard Depardieu.

SISTER/L'ENFANT D'EN HAUT (15) 2012 FRANCE     MEIER, URSULA     £15.99 

    Every day, twelve-year-old Simon steals food, money and equipment from the wealthy guests in a Swiss ski resort order to support himself and his older sister.

SITUATION AMOUREUSE - C'EST COMPLIQUÉ (15) 2014 FRANCE PAYET, M/DUQUESNE, P £19.99

  French romantic comedy in which 30-year-old Ben must decide between his bride to be or

the girl he fancied at school who is now back in his life

SKYLAB (15) FRANCE 2011 DELPY, JULIE £19.99

    Julie Delpy writes, directs and stars in this French comedy exploring a family gathering in the 1970s coloured by the somewhat unusual threat of a US space station falling onto Brittany.

A SLIGHTLY PREGNANT MAN/L'ÉVÉNEMENT LE PLUS IMPORTANT DEPUIS QUE L'HOMME A MARCHÉ  (PG)   1973   FRANCE     DEMY, JACQUES     £17.99

 Marcello Mastrioanni  plays Marco, who goes to see his doctor and

complains of feeling run down, and much to his surprise is pronounced four months pregnant.

SLOW MOTION/SAUVE QUI PEUT (LA VIE) (18) 1967  FRANCE GODARD, JEAN-LUC    £19.99

 Bitterly cynical contemplation on man’s inhumanity to man.

SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO/LES NEIGES DU KILIMANDJARO (15) 2010 FRANCE GUÉDIGUIAN, ROBERT    £10.99

    A trade unionist becomes involved with an investigation into the burglary but when he discovers that a fellow member of his union is responsible for the crime and the misfortune that drove him to commit the crime he comes to regret acting in haste. Will he be able to make things right?

SOMETHING IN THE AIR/APRÈS MAI (15) 2012 FRANCE ASSAYAS, OLIVIER DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

     French drama set three years after the Paris riots of 1968. With hopes of revolution still high in society, aspiring artist Gilles (Clément Métayer) is torn between his painting and his protesting.

SON/LE FILS (12) BELGIUM  2002 DARDENNE JP & L  IN FRENCH    £22.99

     Study of a man whose life has been devastated by tragedy.

SON FRERE (15)  2003  FRANCE CHEREAU, PATRICE      £19.99

 Two brothers attempt a reconciliation after one is diagnosed  with a fatal illness.  

SORROW AND THE PITY/LE CHAGRIN ET LA PITIÉ (E) FRANCE 1969  OPHULS, MARCEL      £24.99   

 Film combines interviews with archive footage to explore the reality of occupation of the   

industrial city Clermont-Ferrand by the Germans in World War Two.        

LE SOUFFLE (15)  2002 FRANCE ODOUL, DAMIEN                   £19.99              

 Powerful study of one boy’s journey into manhood.    

SOUS LE SABLE/UNDER THE SAND (15)  2000 FRANCE   OZON, FRANCOIS    £19.99

 Charlotte Rampling plays a woman who cannot accept the  death of her husband. 

SOUS LE SOLEIL DE SATAN (15) FRANCE 1987 PIALAT,  MAURICE    £19.99

    Gerard Depardieu plays a priest suffering a crisis of faith in this award-winning religious drama.

SOUVENIR (12) 2016 FRANCE   DEFURNE,  BAVO   £19.99

 Isabelle Huppert plays a long forgotten European Song Contest runner-up who now works in a factory.  However fellow factory worker Jean, a 21-year-old  aspiring boxer want to help her  relaunch her career, in this film of love, redemption and second chances.

SPIRAL - SERIES 1/ENGRENAGES  (18) 2007  FRANCE TRIBOIT, PHILIPPE    £32.99

     French political crime drama. The discovery of a young woman's badly beaten body on a rubbish tip in Paris sets in motion a police investigation that unravels a trail of corruption from the dark worlds of prostitution and drugs, to the halls of government, business, and the judiciary itself.

SPIRAL: SERIES 2/ENGRENAGES 2 (18) 2008 FRANCE        £19.99

     Public prosecutor Pierre Clement joins forces with Police Captain Laure Bathaud and crusading judge Francois Roban to infiltrate Paris's underworld of organised crime.

SPIRAL: SERIES 3/ENGRENAGES 3 (18) 2010 FRANCE        £25.99

      The emergence of a serial killer offers police captain Laure Berthaud the chance to restore her damaged reputation.

SPIRAL: SERIES 4/ENGRENAGES 4 (18) 2010 FRANCE        £23.99

     Lawyer Joséphine Karlsson risks all by attempting to defend the rights of a group of immigrants,

SPIRAL: SERIES 5/ENGRENAGES 5 (18) 2014 FRANCE £24.99

    Chief Inspector Laure Berthaud and her team are tasked with solving the double murder of a mother and daughter whose bodies are discovered in a canal. 

SPIRAL: SERIES 6/ENGRENAGES 6 ( (15) FRANCE £24.99

  Chief Inspector Laure Berthaud returns to work early from maternity leave and begins work on a murder case after a dismembered body is discovered.

SPIRAL: SERIES 7/ENGRENAGES 7 ( (15) FRANCE £24.99

 Gilou and Laure reunite to investigate the murder of their former commissioner, Herville. Joined by Gilou's new partner Ali, the team find themselves on the trail of a teenage gang member which leads them to uncover an expansive money laundering operation.

SPIRAL: SERIES ONE-SIX (18) FRANCE £64.99

 All six series of the acclaimed French police drama.

SPIRIT OF THE DEAD (18) 1968  FRANCE/ITALY  VADIM/MALLE/FELLINI ITALIAN/FRENCH/ENGLISH        £15.99

   Three tales written by  Edgar Allen Poe 

LES STANCES A SOPHIE (E) 1970  FRANCE  MIZRAHI, MOSHE   £12.99

 ‘Lost cult classic’ of the French new wave  about feminism, art, music and post-68 revolutionary ideals.

STARBUCK (15) 2011    CANADA     KEN SCOTT    IN FRENCH        £14.99

    French-Canadian comedy about a man in his  forties but still acts like a  teenager.

However his teenage behaviour is about  to come to an end, when he becomes a father to 534 children.

STATE AFFAIRS/UNE AFFAIRE D'ETAT (15) 2009 FRANCE   VALETTE, ERIC     £12.99

    French political thriller.

STAVISKY (PG) 1974 FRANCE        RESNAIS, ALAIN        £15.99

    Jean-Paul Belmondo stars in this depression-era corruption drama

LA STRATÉGIE DE LA POUSSETTE/STROLLER STRATEGY (12A) 2012 FRANCE MICHEL, CLÉMENT £19.99

    Romantic comedy a young Parisian goes to unusual lengths to try to win back his former girlfriend.

SUBWAY (15) 1985 FRANCE BESSON, LUC £12.99

    Stylish story of misfits and thieves living in the Paris subway. BLU - RAY £24.99

STUDENT SERVICES/MES CHÈRES ÉTUDES (18) 2010 FRANCE   BERCOT, EMMANUELLE £15.99 

    French drama about a student who turns to prostitution as a means of getting by.

SUMMER HOURS/L'HEURE D'ÉTÉ (12) 2008   FRANCE   ASSAYAS, OLIVIER  £19.99

 The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother dies suddenly.

A SUMMER’S TALE/CONTE D'ÉTÉ (U) 1996  FRANCE   ROHMER, ERIC          £19.99

 Carefully observed look at love.  

SUR MES LÈVRES/READ MY LIPS (15)  2001 FRANCE   ANDIARD, JACQUES       £19.99

 The film switches from dark comedy to full throttle thriller.

STRAYED/LES ÉGARÉS (15) 2003 FRANCE    TECHINE, ANDRE       £19.99

 June 1940,  widowed teacher and, with her two children flee Paris and a teenaged boy

comes to their  rescue by leading them into the forest.

SWIMMING POOL  (12)  UK/FRANCE  2003 OZON, FRANCOISE        £19.99

 Charlotte Rampling is a  jaded detective novelist regaining her inspiration in the

south  of France when her peace is interrupted and a mystery unfolds.

SWITCH (15) 2011 FRANCE        SCHOENDOERFFER, FRÉDÉRIC    £15.99

    Thriller about a woman who  swaps her  apartments for one overlooking the Eiffel Tower. She is awoken by the police  who have discovered a dead body in the flat.

SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE/HAUTE TENSION (18) 2003 FRANCE   AJA, ALEXANDRE    £19.99

  Horror movie about two women students kidnapped by a psychopath.

TAIS-TOI!/SHUT UP(12) 2003  FRANCE  VEBER, FRANCIS     £17.99

 Action packed  comedy  staring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno.

A TALE OF SPRINGTIME/CONTE DE PRINTEMPS (U) 1996 FRANCE   ROHMER, ERIC       £19.99

 Gentle and warm comedy.

LE TALENT DE MES AMIS (15) 2015 FRANCE LUTZ, ALEX   £19.99

   Comedy about two work collogues and friends who are satisfied with their simple lives. However, when a personal development specialist,  awakes ambition in one of them their friendship comes under strain.

TALL BLOND MAN WITH ONE BLACK SHOE/RETURN OF THE TALL BLOND MAN/LE GRAND BLOND AVEC UNE  CHAUSSURE NOIRE/LE RETOUR DU GRAND BLOND  (15) 1972-74 FRANCE YVES ROBERT £19.99

 Slapstick spy spoof

TANGO (15) 1993 FRANCE  LECONTE, PATRICE      £19.99

 Black comedy.

TANGUY (15) 2001  FRANCE  CHATILIEZ, ETIENNE         £19.99

 What do you do when your 28 year old son won’t leave home.

TATIE DANIELLE (15) 1995   FRANCE  CHATILIEZ,  ETENNE    £19.99

 Tatie Danielle is an apparently ailing respectable  widow with a malicious mind 

TAXI (15)  1998  FRANCE GERARD PIRES      £9.99

 Action thriller which was a French box office hit.       

TAXI 2 (12)  1999 FRANCE GERARD PIRES       £19.99

 Another dose of action.  

TAXI 3 (15)  2003 FRANCE  KRAWCZYK, GERARD    £15.99

 A Luc Besson-scripted action comedy.

TAXI 4 (15)  2007 FRANCE   KRAWCZYK, GERARD    £15.99

 Action comedy.

TELL NO ONE/ NE LE DIS À PERSONNE (15)  2006   FRANCE     CANET, GUILLAUME    £19.99

 Conspiracy theory thriller from actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet.

LES TÉMOINS/WITNESSES  (15) 2015 FRANCE     DVD -   £13.99   BLU RAY - £14.99

 Young detective Sandra Winckler (Marie Dompnier) takes charge of a case linked to retired police. 

LES TÉMOINS/WITNESSES SEASON 2  (15) 2017 FRANCE   DVD -   £19.99   BLU RAY - £19.99

 All eight episodes from the second season of the French crime drama. When 15 frozen dead bodies are found at a bus stop, Detective Sandra Winckler (Marie Dompnier) is assigned to lead the investigation.

LES TÉMOINS/WITNESSES SEASON 1 & 2  (15)  FRANCE   DVD -   £27.99   BLU RAY - £19.99

 All episodes from the French crime series

LES TÉMOINS/WITNESSES  (15) 2007 FRANCE   TECHINE, ANDRE    £19.99

 Moving and powerful drama set in 1984 about a  group of friends contending with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

LE TEMPS DU LOUP/TIME OF THE WOLF(15) 2003 FRANCE   HANEKE, MICHAEL      £19.99

 Nightmarish vision set in a post-apocalyptic world.  Starring Isabelle Huppert.

LE TEMPS QUI RESTETIME TO LEAVE (18) 2005  FRANCE  OZON,  FRANCOIS       £19.99

 With his perfect life thrown into chaos by the shock diagnosis of a seriousillness, fashion

photographer Romain finds himself unable to share the news with his boyfriend or family

LE TEMPS RETROUVÉ, D'APRÈS L'OEUVRE DE MARCEL PROUST/TIME REGAINED (18) 1999 FRANCE RAOUL RUIZ £19.99

    Acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz adaptation of Marcel Proust's last volume of ‘Remembrance of Things Past'.

LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHÉE (PG) FRANCE 1959 B/W   COCTEAU, JEAN    £15.99

  A poet wandering through a dream world populated with figures and motifs from his earlier works. The cast also includes Charles Aznavour, Yul Brynner and Pablo Picasso.

THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE/CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DÉSIR (15) 1972 FRANCE   BUNUEL, LUIS DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

    A tale of impossible in which  a widowed French businessman, becomes obsessed with a Spanish girl. She claims to feel the same for him but nevertheless continually frustrates the realisation of his desire. 

THEM/ILS (15)  2006  FRANCE  PALAUD, XAVIER /MOREAU, DAVID   £17.99

 French horror about a couple who have to fight for their lives when an assault on their  home turns deadly.

THEO AND HUGO (18) 2016  FRANCE DUCASTEL, O/MARTINEAU,J DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £17.99

  Intense tale shot in real time in which Theo and Hugo meet in a Paris clubs.   As the night wears on, they discover they need to know more about each other and a relationship begins.

THERESE RAQUIN (PG) 1953 FRANCE        CARNE, MARCEL      £17.99

    Marcel Carne transposes Zola's dark tale of ennui and treachery to the post-WWII era. Simone Signoret stars in the title role as Therese, a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin Camille (Jacques Duby ) and living with him in the home of his paralysed mother (Jean Sylvere). When she meets an acquaintance of Camille's,strapping truck driver Laurent (Raf Vallone), the two begin a secret affair - but jealousy and anger lead to tragic consequences for all three.

THE THORN IN THE HEART/L'ÉPINE DANS LE COEUR (E) 2010 FRANCE     GONDRY,  MICHEL £17.99

    Michel Gondry takes a personal look into the life and career of his aunt, Suzette, in this French documentary. A former schoolteacher, Suzette taught in rural areas of France between 1952 and 1986. The film reveals the effect she had on her students and also explores her relationship with her son, Jean-Yves.

THREE COLOURS BLUE/TROIS COULEURS: BLEU (15) 1993  FRANCE  KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF     £19.99 

 Juliette Binoche plays a woman who loses her husband, a great composer, in a car  crash.   She tries   to build a new life, but a journalist suspects she is the composer of her husbands  music.

THREE COLOURS RED/TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE (15) 1994 FRANCE   KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF     £19.99

 Third and final part of Kieslowski’s trilogy.

THREE COLOURS WHITE/TROIS COULEURS: BLANC (15) 1993  FRANCE  KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF      £19.99

 Black comedy of a penniless Pole returning to Poland from France. 

THREE COLOURS TRILOGY (15) 1993/4  FRANCE  KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF     £39.99 

 Box set of all three films

THREE FILMS BY JEAN-MARIE STRAUB AND DANIELE HUILLET (12)   FRANCE        £19.99

Contains  'Chronique d'Anna-Magdanela Bach' (1968) is a portrayal of Johann Sebastian Bach's musical life,  'Sicilia' (1999), a returning emigre learns about the Sicilian way of life from those he meets en route and  'Une Visite Au Louvre' (2004) is based on a chapter of Joachim Gasquet's book, 'Cezanne', that recounts the famous artist's visit to the Louvre.

THREE MEN AND A CRADLE/3 HOMMES ET UN COUFFIN (PG) 1985  FRANCE  SERREAU, COLINE     £19.99

 Three Macho Parisian bachelors suddenly have a baby thrust  upon them. This comedy was later re-made by Hollywood.

THERESE DESQUEYROUX (12A) 2012 FRANCE    MILLER, CLAUDE    DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

   Based on the François Mauriac’s novel, the film stars Audrey Tautou as the eponymous Thérèse, a cultured and intelligent woman who enters into an arranged marriage in rural 1920s France. Initially Therese looks forward to the future she  will share with her husband, but it isn't long before her happiness turns to restlessness when she learns of her husbands casual antisemitism and deeply ingrained chauvinism.

TIME OF THE WOLF/LE TEMPS DU LOUP  (15) 2003 FRANCE   HANEKE, MICHAEL      £19.99

 Nightmarish vision set in a post-apocalyptic world.  Starring Isabelle Huppert.  

TIME OUT/L'EMPLOI DU TEMPS (15) 2001 FRANCE   LAURENT CANTET          £19.99

 Businessman shamed by losing his job invents a fictitious high-flying career. This  eventually leads to desperate measures.

TIME REGAINED/LE TEMPS RETROUVÉ, D'APRÈS L'OEUVRE DE MARCEL PROUST (18) 1999 FRANCE RAOUL RUIZ £19.99

    Acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz adaptation of Marcel Proust's last volume of ‘Remembrance of Things Past'.

TIME TO LEAVE/LE TEMPS QUI RESTE (18) 2005  FRANCE  OZON,  FRANCOIS       £19.99

 With his perfect life thrown into chaos by the shock diagnosis of a seriousillness, fashion photographer Romain findshimself unable to share the news with his boyfriend or family

TINTIN ET LES ORANGES BLEUES/TINTIN AND THE BLUE ORANGES (U) 1964 FRANCE 

CONDROYER,  PHILIPPE    £17.99

    Live action adaptation of the classic comic book by Herge. Professor Calculus.

TINTIN ET LE MYSTÈRE DE LA TOISON D'OR/TINTIN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE (U)

1961 FRANCE VIERNE,  JEAN-JACQUES   £17.99

    Captain Haddock  make the journey to Turkey to take possession of a boat left to the Captain in a friend's will.

TINTIN ET MOI (E) 2003  FRANCE  OSTERGAARD, ANDERS      £16.99

 Documentary about the creator of Tintin, Herge.

TIRESIA(18) 2003  FRANCE  BONELLO, BERTRAND     £19.99

 Living illegally in Paris, with her brother, Tiresia is a beautiful Brazilian transsexual,

kidnapped by a poet obsessed with her beauty.

TOM À LA FERME/TOM AT THE FARM (15) 2013 CANADA DOLAN, XAVIER DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £14.99

Tom, played by Xavier Dolan, travels to the country from his home in the city to attend the funeral of his recently deceased boyfriend. When he arrives at the family home, he soon realises that his relationship has been kept secret from his lover's family.

TOMBOY/MÊME PAS MORT (U) 2007 FRANCE    SCIAMMA,  CÉLINE        £16.99

    10-year-old tomboy Laure (Zoé Héran) moves to a  different neighbourhood with her family, Laure is mistakenfor a boy by Lisa (Jeanne Disson) and decides to accept this new identity under the name of Michaël. She spendsa summer with Lisa, playing games and experiencing first kisses, but it is only a matter of time before the truth emerges.

TOTO LE HÉROS/TOTO THE HERO (12)   1960   FRANCE    BECKER,  JACQUES    £17.99

 Based on the novel by former convict Jose Giovanni, Le Trou tells the true story of a group of inmates’ escape from a prison in Paris.

TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI  (15) 1954  FRANCE BECKER, JACQUES DVD -   £17.99 BLU RAY - £22.99 

Classic film noir based on the novel by Albert Siminon.   Staring Jean Gabin as an ageing gangster.

TOURNÉE/ON TOUR (15) 2010 FRANCE        AMALRIC, MATHIEU     £15.99

    Actor and filmmaker Mathieu Amalric directs this French comedy drama following an American burlesque troupe as they tour across France.

TOUT CONTRE LÉO/CLOSE TO LEO (12) 2002 FRANCE HONORE, CHRISTOPHE £19.99

    A the family attempt to protect Marcel aged 12 from the fact that his brother has AIDs, but

Marcel senses that something is wrong.

TOUT EN HAUT DU MONDE /LONG WAY NORTH (PG) 2015 FRANCE  CHAYÉ, RÉMI   £17.99

   Animated film  set in 1892 in Russia, where 15-year-old Russian aristocrat Sasha  adores her explorer grandfather Oloukine. When he doesn't return from his latest trip to the North Pole, Sasha persuades a crew to head north in search of the great ship.

LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT/BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (15) 2016 BELGIUM   DORMAEL, JACO VAN £19.99 

  In this black comedy  God is alive and living in Brussels, mischievously tormenting humans from an outdated PC in a grim apartment. 

TRAFIC (PG) 1970 FRANCE TATI, JACQUES DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £22.99

  Mr Hulot transports his innovative motor home from Paris to Amsterdam, encountering from traffic jams and nose-picking drivers to car crashes on his journey

TRANSYLVANIA  (15) 2006 FRANCE   GATLIT, TONY     £9.99

      Impressionistic take on the road movie genre. When Zingarina (Asia Argento) arrives in the mysteriousbackwaters of Transylvania, she has but one thing on her mind: to find her long-lost lover Milan (Marco Castoldi),a musician who made her pregnant and then left without a word of explanation. After trawling the various clubsand bars with her sister Marie (Amira Casar), she eventually finds him, only for Milan to brutally reject her.

Totally distraught, Zingarina cuts herself loose from Marie, and everything she holds dear. Plunged into the thrumming festivities of a Romany carnival, she emerges in a daze only to be lured ever deeper into the rolling hills of Romania. It is here that she meets Tchangalo (Birol Unel), a travelling trader who takes her under his wing.

They embark on a roadtrip upon which they indulge in wild bouts of gypsy folk dance, and nights of heady passion.

TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC/PROCÈS DE JEANNE D'ARC (15) 1962 FRANCE BRESSON, ROBERT        £19.99  

 A powerful re-telling of the story of Joan of Arc.     

TRIPLE AGENT (U) 2004  FRANCE  ROHMER, ERIC      £19.99

 A compelling tale (based on True events) of intrigue set against the political turmoil of pre-World War II Europe. 

TRISTANA (PG) 1970 FRANCE  LUIS BUNUEL    £19.99

 Dazzling adaptation of the Benito Perez Galdos novel.

TROIS COULEURS: BLEU/THREE COLOURS BLUE (15) 1993  FRANCE  KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF     £19.99 

 Juliette Binoche plays a woman who loses her husband, a great composer, in a car  crash.  She tries   to build a new life, but a journalist suspects she is the composer of her husbands  music.

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TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE/THREE COLOURS RED (15) 1994 FRANCE   KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF     £19.99

 Third and final part of Kieslowski’s trilogy.

TROIS COULEURS: BLANC/THREE COLOURS WHITE (15) 1993  FRANCE  KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF      £19.99

 Black comedy of a penniless Pole returning to Poland from France. 

TROIS COULEURS TRILOGY (15) 1993/4  FRANCE  KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF     £39.99 

 Box set of all three films

TROIS HUIT/NIGHT SHIFT (15)  2001 FRANCE LE GUAY, PHILIPPE  £19.99

 Tense psychological drama.

TROIS SOUVENIRS DE MA JEUNESSE /MY GOLDEN DAYS (15)  2015  FRANCE DESPLECHIN , ARNAUD £15.99

  As anthropologist Paul Dedalus prepares to leave Tajikistan to return to Paris, he begins to reminisce about his childhood and relive some of his fondest and most vivid memories. 

TROP BELL POUR TOI (18) 1989 FRANCE BLIER, BERTRAND    £19.99 

 Depardieu stars in this intelligent bedroom farce.

LE TROU  (12)   1960   FRANCE    BECKER,  JACQUES  DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £22.99

 Based on the novel by former convict Jose Giovanni, Le Trou tells the true story of a group of inmates’escape from a prison in Paris.

TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI   (15)   1953   FRANCE   BECKER,  J/ TÉCHINÉ,  ANDRÉ         £17.99

 Max (Jean Gabin) and Riton (René Dary) are two ageing gangsters who manage to pull of their final heist, a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport.

LA TOURNEUSE DE PAGESPAGE TURNER (15) 2006   FRANCE   DERCOURT, DENIS       £19.99           

 Embittered by an event from the past that thwarted her musical ambitions, Melanie prepares to exact revenge against the person she holds responsible.

TROUBLE EVERY DAY (18)  2001 FRANCE    DENIS, CLAIRE    £19.99                      

    Cult movie about a woman who preys on men.

TRUANDS/PARIS LOCKDOWN (18) FRANCE 2007  SCHOENDOERFFER,  FREDERIC    £19.99

 Thriller about a Judge (Isabelle Huppert) who delves into corruption in giant state supported company.

TU SERAS MON FILS/YOU WILL BE MY SON    (15) 2011 FRANCE    LEGRAND, GILLES    £15.99

    Father is unhappy about the prospect of his son taking over the business, instead he wants his  foreman's son to take over,  causing more feud which results in some unexpected consequences.

TWENTY-NINE PALMS (18) 2003 FRANCE   DUMONT,  BRUNO     £19.99

 The director  defines the film as an experimental horror film which builds an atmosphere of unspeakable dread

TWO IN THE WAVE(E) 2010        LAURENT, EMMANUEL           £15.99

    Documentary charting the rise and fall of the friendship between Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut.

TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER/2 OU 3 CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE (15) 

1966 FRANCE  B/W  GODARD,  JEAN-LUC     £15.99

    Jean-Luc Godard's film is a sociological study of Paris and prostitution.

UN HOMME IDÉAL (12) 2015 FRANCE  GOZLAN, YANN £19.99

 Thriller starring Pierre Niney as a struggling writer who steals the manuscript of a deceased man and claims it as his own. The novel brings him great success but at a price.

ULTRANOVA (12)  2005  BELGIUM    LANNERS, BOULI   IN FRENCH          £19.99

     Debut from Belgian landscape painter/filmmaker Bouli Lanners in which an odd assortment of losers and loners look for connections in the colourless, flat Liege hinterland.

UN AMOUR à TAIRE/A LOVE TO HIDE (15) 2005 FRANCE FAURE,   CHRISTIAN   £14.99

 Stirring drama that takes place in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. The story revolves around a gay male couple who must keep their love a secret for fear of persecution. Their lives are further complicated by the appearance of a young Jewish woman seeking refuge.

UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE/GOODBYE, FIRST LOVE (15) 2011 FRANCE    HANSEN-LØVE, MIA    £15.99

    Coming-of-age drama about  a Paris teenager who is broken-hearted when her childhood sweetheart announces that he is leaving her behind to spend a year travelling in South America. Camille is at first inconsolable, but gradually  discovers more constructive ways to channel her energy.

UN BARRAGE CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE/SEA WALL  (12) FRANCE 2008 PANH, RITHY    £15.99

 Highly successful adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ acclaimed and semi-autobiographical novel “Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique” 

UN BEAU DIMANCHE/GOING AWAY (12) 2013 FRANCE GARCIA, NICOLE £19.99

A restless teacher find when he meets Sandra the mother of one of his pupils. However Sandra owes money and is in danger.

UN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR/LET THE SUNSHINE IN (15) 2017 FRANCE  DENIS, CLAIRE   £12.99

 Romantic comedy in which Juliette Binoche plays a divorced Parisian artist searching for true love. However after a number of failed affairs, will she ever find  what she wants most out of life?

UN CHANT D’AMOUR (18)  1950 FRANCE  GENET, JEAN    £19.99

 Playwright Jean Genet  vision of homosexual desire in a French Prison. 

UN CHIEN ANDALOU/L’AGE D’OR (15) 1928/30  FRANCE/SPAIN  BUNUEL, LUIS/DALI, SALVADOR   £29.99

 Two landmark surrealist films

UN COEUR EN HIVER (15) 1992 FRANCE  SAUTET, CLAUDE     £19.99

 Triangular romance set in the world of classic music. 

UN CONDAMNÉ À MORT S'EST ÉCHAPPÉ OU LE/A MAN ESCAPED (U) 1966 FRANCE B/W  BRESSON,   ROBERT      DVD - £15.99  BLU RAY £17.99

Taut and exciting story of a daring escape by a French resistance leader in World War II

Based on the memoirs of André Devigny, Lieutenant Fontaine is a member of the French Resistance who is imprisoned and condemned to death by the Nazis.

The film follows his attempts to escape from his cell at Montluc with the help of his teenage cellmate, François Jost.

UN CONTE DE NOËL/A CHRISTMAS TALE (15) 2008  FRANCE DESPLECHIN, ARNAUD £19.99

    In this dark comedy the Vuillard family Christmas is full  bile and venom.

UN  FLIC (12)  1972  FRANCE  JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE    £17.99

 Deft thriller with Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve.

UN HÉROS TRÈS DISCRET/SELF MADE HERO (15)  1996  FRANCE AUDIARD, JACQUES     £19.99

 Comedy-drama set in the winter of  1944.

UN HOMME À LA HAUTEUR /UP FOR LOVE (12A) 2016 FRANCE TIRARD, LAURENT   £19.99

   Romantic comedy in which beautiful divorced lawyer, Diane, connects with Alexandre,  a man she meets to retrieve her lost phone. They hit it off as soon as they meet and Diane is charmed by Alexandre, but he is not the man that Diane imagined for herself .

UN JEU BRUTAL/A BRUTAL GAME (18) 1983 FRANCE BRISSEAU, JEAN-CLAUDE £15.99

    Psychological thriller.

UN JEU BRUTAL / DE BRUIT ET DE FUREUR (2-DISC) (18) 1988 FRANCE £23.99

    Un Jeu Brutal (1983) is about a child killer scientist,. De Bruit Et De Fureur (1988) is a shocking but humanistic look at the tragic lives of impoverished children living in the Paris projects.

UN JOUR D'ÉTÉ/ONE DAY IN SUMMER/(15)    2006 FRANCE   GUÉRIN, FRANCK   £19.99

 The sudden death of a teenager during a soccer match puts a small community completely off-balance.

UN LONG DIMANCHE DE FIANÇAILLES/VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (15) 2004 FRANCE JEUNET, JEAN-PIERRE      £19.99

 As World War I draws to an end, Mathilde has received word that her fiancé Manech is wounded and lost in no-mans-land. She goes out to find him.

UN PLAN PARFAIT/A PERFECT PLAN (15) 2012 FRANCE CHAUMEIL, PASCAL £12.99

Romantic comedy starring Diane Kruger and Dany Boon.

UN PEUPLE ET SON ROI/ONE NATION, ONE KING (15) 2018   FRANCE  SCHOELLER , PIERRE  £19.99

  The 1789 revolution told largely from the point of view of the working men and women who fought for change.

UN SECRET/A SECRET (15) 2007 FRANCE MILLER,CLAUDE £19.99

   Adaptation of Philippe Grimbert’s bestselling novel, this film is a compelling account of a 15-year-old boy who unearths a shocking family secret.Spanning half a century, the film’s multi-layered narrative revolves around a Jewish family torn asunder during the impending German occupation of France during World War II.

UNE CHANCE DE TROP/ NO SECOND CHANCE: THE COMPLETE SERIES (15) 2016 FRANCE £19.99

Based on the novel by Harlan Coben, this six-part thriller is about a woman who must decide how far she will go for vengeance.

UNE VIE DE CHAT/A CAT IN PARIS/ (PG) 2010 FRANCE FELICIOLI, J.P/GAGNOL, A £12.99

    French animated crime thriller spoof.

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UNA PURA FORMALITÀ/A PURE FORMALITY/ (15) 1994 FRANCE TORNATORE, GIUSEPPE £9.99

  Famous writer is a prime suspect in a murder. Stars Gerard Depardieu

UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG/LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG (U) 1964 FRANCE  DEMY, JACQUES     £17.99

 A story of lost love, with all the dialogue sung rather than spoken.

UNDER THE SAND/SOUS LE SABLE (15)  2000 FRANCE   OZON, FRANCOIS    £19.99

 Charlotte Rampling plays a woman who cannot accept the  death of her husband.

UNE AFFAIRE D'ETAT/STATE AFFAIRS (15) 2009 FRANCE   VALETTE, ERIC     £12.99

    French political thriller.

UNE FAMILLE À LOUER (12A) 2015 FRANCE AMÉRIS, JEAN-PIERRE £19.99

 Romantic comedy about a rich, lonely introvert who takes in a single mother and her two children so he can have a family. But will having a family be all that he is hoping for?

UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME   (PG) 1961  FRANCE   GODARD, JEAN-LUC  £17.99

 Landmark film of the French New Wave that weaves a tale of desperation and deceit. 

L'UNE CHANTE, L'AUTRE PAS  (15) 1977 FRANCE    VARDA, AGNÈS     £15.99

    In the early 1960s in Paris, two women become friends but loose touch. Over a decade later, they meet and tell each other what has happened to them in the intervening years.

UNE HEURE DE TRANQUILLITÉ (15) 2014  LECONTE, PATRICE   £19.99

   Comedy adapted from Florian Zeller's stage play.  Michel (Christian Clavier) finally gets his hands on a rare record he has dreamed of listening to. He takes it home to play it but before he gets the chance a series of interruptions get in his way, causing him to get increasingly frustrated.

UNE PARISIENNE (PG)  FRANCE  BOISROND, MICHEL DVD ONLY    £19.99

 Cheeky comedy staring Brigitte Bardot.

UNE RAVISSANTE IDIOTE/RAVISHING IDIOT  (PG) 1964 FRANCE  MOLINARO, EDOUARD        £13.99

     Cold war spy thriller with Brigitte  Bardot 

UNE SAISON EN FRANCE /A SEASON IN FRANCE (12) FRANCE 2017   HAROUN, MAHAMAT-SALEH    £15.99

  Abbas, a teacher, has  fled war-torn Central African Republic for France. Here he strikes up a relationship with florist Carole, who welcomes Abbas and his two children into her home in Paris. However, despite her hospitality, Abbas's situation remains perilous as he awaits a response to his application for political asylum.

UNE VIE/A WOMAN'S LIFE (12) 2016  FRANCE   BRIZÉ, STÉPHANE  DVD  £15.99  BLU RAY £19.99 

A powerful adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's first novel 'Une vie'.  Convent educated young woman, Jeanne, returns home full of childish dreams and innocence.  However on her marriage to Viscount Julien de Lamare, her childish illusions are stripped away as she finds her husband to be a miserly and adulterous partner, in this timeless story of love, betrayal and anguish set in the repressive patriarchal world of early 19th century Normandy. 

UNE VIE DE CHAT/A CAT IN PARIS (PG) 2010 FRANCE    FELICIOLI, J.P/GAGNOL, A    £12.99

    French animated crime thriller spoof.

UNE VIEILLE MAÎTRESSE/THE LAST MISTRESS (15) 2008 FRANCE    BREILLAT, CATHERINE    £19.99

    Period love and lust in 19th century Paris.

UNTOUCHABLE/INTOUCHABLES  (15) 2011 FRANCE OLIVIER NAKACHE, O/TOLEDANO.E    £19.99

  Quadriplegic rich aristocrat is cared for by young Senegalese émigré. Despite their very different backgrounds and outlooks on life, the two men quickly form a strong bond, teaching each other important life lessons about acceptance,respect and the true meaning of friendship in the process.

VA SAVOIR (PG) FRANCE   2001 RIVETTE, JACQUES    £19.99

 Thoroughly delightful metropolitan comedy (The Guardian)

VA, VIS ET DEVIENS/LIVE AND BECOME (12) 2005     MIHAILEANU, RADU  IN FRENCH     £14.99

    Award winning film about a  young Ethiopian boy declares  himself Jewish to escape starvation and is  adopted by a French family in Israel  There he begins a new life constantly fearing the discovery of a double lie: that he is neither orphaned nor Jewish.

LES VACANCES DE M. HULOT (U) 1953   FRANCE    TATI, JACQUES   DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £22.99

 The film that brought Jacques Tati international acclaim also launched his on-screen alter

ego: the courteous, well-meaning, eternally accident-prone Monsieur Hulot

LES VACANCES DU PETIT NICOLAS/NICOLAS ON HOLIDAY (PG) 2014 FRANCE  TIRARD, LAURENT £17.99

  French family comedy based on the 1950s comics by René Goscinny. On a  summer seaside holiday  with his parents and grandmother Nicolas quickly makes friends and new adventures

VAGABOND/SANS TOIT NI LOI (15) 1985 FRANCE        VARDA, AGNÈS    £15.99

  'Vagabond' tells the story of the final few weeks of female drifter Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), who feels incapable of participating in ordinary French society.

LA VALLÉE/THE VALLEY (OBSCURED BY CLOUDS) (18) 1972 FRANCE  SCHROEDER,  BARBET DUAL FORMAT DVD - BLU RAY £19.99   

Set to a  Pink Floyd soundtrack, the film follow a group of travellers in New Guinea who encounter a civilisation cut off from society.

VALLEY OF LOVE (15) 2015 FRANCE  GUILLAUME NICLOUX   £15.99 

  Black comedy starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert as a long-estranged couple who are brought together in Death Valley, California, by the suicide of their adult son Michael. 

LES VAMPIRES  (PG) 1915 FRANCE  FEUILLADE, LOUIS THREE DISCS    £29.99

     Classic of early French cinema follows a gang of master criminals led by the femme fatale Irma Vep.

VAN GOGH (15) 1991 FRANCE  PIALAT, MAURICE        £19.99

 Beautiful filmed and acclaimed portrait of Van Gogh’s last few days.

VARDA BY AGNÈS (15)  2019 FRANCE VARDA, AGNÈS DOUBLE PLAY DVD & BLU RAY £22.99

  An autobiographical portrait from acclaimed experimental French-Belgian director Agnès Varda as she presents a retrospective on her body of work

VENDREDI SOIR (15) 2002  FRANCE  DENIS CLAIRE    £19.99

  Couple meet in a Paris traffic jam.

VÉNUS BEAUTÉ/VENUS BEAUTY (15)   1998  FRANCE  TONIE MARSHALL      £19.99

 Story of hope, heartache and hairspray set in a beauty parlour.

VENUS IN FUR (15) 2013 FRANCE POLANSKI, ROMAN DVD - £15.99 BLU-RAY - £19.99

Having trouble casting his theatrical production of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel 'Venus in Furs', Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) auditions, a dishevelled and weather-beaten woman, Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner).

As the audition begins and Thomas assumes the role of the submissive male in the play, it quickly becomes apparent that Vanda is perfect for the part and the line between real life and art becomes blurred.

LA VÉRITÉ  (15) 1960   FRANCE CLOUZOT,HENRI-GEORGES   BLU RAY ONLY  £23.99

 On trial for killing her lover, Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) claims the crime was one of passion but as the prosecuting lawyer pushes for a verdict of premeditated murder she faces the prospect of receiving the death penalty.

LA VÉRITÉ SI JE MENS?/WOULD I LIE TO YOU? / WOULD I LIE TO YOU, AGAIN (15) 1997/2001 FRANCE GILOU, T.   £15.99

 A double-bill of comedies set in the Jewish community of the Parisian quarter

VERS LE SUD/HEADING SOUTH (15) FRANCE/CANADA  2005   CANTET, LAURENT    FRENCH/ENGLISH      £19.99

 Three tourist  stay from the tourist locations to see the poverty and dangers of living in Haiti in the midst of the ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier dictatorial regime.

VERTIGE/HIGH LANE (15) FRANCE 2009     ABEL, FERRY    £15.99

    French horror. While holidaying in Croatia, five young friends set out hiking along a mountain trail that has been closed for repairs.

LA VEUVE DE SAINT-PIERRE/DREAM LIFE OF ANGELS (15)  1999 FRANCE  LECONTE,  PATRICE   £19.99

 Set on a Canadian island in 1850 a man awaits the shipment back to France to he executed. 

VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT/UN LONG DIMANCHE DE FIANÇAILLES (15) 2004 FRANCE JEUNET, JEAN-PIERRE      £19.99

 As World War I draws to an end, Mathilde has received word that her fiancé Manech

is wounded and lost in no-mans-land.  She goes out to  find him.

VICTOR YOUNG PEREZ/SURVIVING AUSCHWITZ (15) 2013 FRANCE  OUANICHE, JACQUES £15.99

   Biopic about the young  Jewish Tunisian boxer 'Young' Perez (Brahim Asloum) who went on to become a world flyweight champion but was arrested in Paris in 1943 and  sent to Auschwitz to serve as a slave labourer and box for the viewing pleasure of the SS.

LA VIE D'ADÈLE/BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR (18) 2013 FRANCE   KECHICHE, ABDEL. 

    DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

    Award-winning drama about a15-year-old Adèle  (played by Adèle Exarchopoulos) who lead a typical teenage life of school, parents and boys. 

However Adele’s  life is turned upside down after a chance encounter with a beguiling blue-haired Emma (Léa Seydoux), forcing her to question her desires and assert herself as a woman and as an adult Throughout their relationship the two young women learn a lot about the pains and joys of being in love and the importance of staying true to oneself.

LA VIE DE JESUS (18) 1997  FRANCE  DUMONT, BRUNO   £19.99

 Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They try to pass away the time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arabic immigrants.

LA VIE EN ROSE  (12) 2007  FRANCE  DAHAN, OLIVIER      £19.99

     A big screen treatment for one of France’s most revered singers, Edith Piaf.

LA VIE EST UN LONG FLEUVE TRANQUILLELIFE IS A LONG QUIET RIVER (15) 1988 FRANCE  CHATILIEZ, ETIENNE   £19.99

 Two families, one wealthy and conservative, the other poor, discover their babies were switched at birth 12 years ago.

LA VIE RÊVÉE DES ANGES (18)  1998  FRANCE  ZONCA , ERICK       £15.99

     Cannes award winning film about two outsiders, one an optimist the other sullen and introverted. 

VIGO - PASSION FOR LIFE (15) 1997 UK    TEMPLE, JULIEN    £15.99       

    Would-be filmmaker Jean Vigo (James Frain), blighted by tuberculosis, seeks a cure in a Pyrenees sanatorium.

There he meets fellow sufferer Lydu Lozinka (Romane Bohringer), with whom he begins a passionate relationship.

LA VILLA/THE HOUSE BY THE SEA FRANCE (12) 2017 FRANCE  GUÉDIGUIAN, ROBERT  £15.99

 Three grown children  return to their family home, where their father has suffers a debilitating stroke.  While in their childhood home the three siblings reflect on their lives, relationships, past tragedies and the future.  

VILLA AMALIA (15) 2009 FRANCE   JACQUOT,  BENOIT    £14.99

    Isabelle Huppert as a woman who makes a decision to leave her entire life behind and reinvent her existence on the tiny island of Ischia.

LA VILLE EST TRANQUILLE (18) 2000 FRANCE  GUEDIGUIAN, ROBERT        £19.99

 Follows the everyday lives in the teeming cultural melting pot of Marseilles.

LA VILLE LOUVRE (PG) 1990 FRANCE    PHILIBERT, NICOLAS        £15.99

    Behind the scenes documentary of the world's Louvre in Paris.

VIOLETTE (15) 2013 FRANCE PROVOST, MARTIN £17.99

The films follows the life of French author Violette Leduc from the Second World War to

her mainstream success with the publication of her memoir 'La Bâtarde' in 1964.

VISAGES VILLAGES/FACES PLACES (12A) 2017 FRANCE   VARDA, AGNÈS/JR  DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

 Documentary in which Agnès Varda and graffiti artist JR travel around rural France 

discussing their views on the world, while photographing people and communities.  The photos are later transformed into giant murals to be pasted on houses and walls.

LES VISITEURS (15) 1993 FRANCE  POIRE, JEAN-MARIE    £17.99

 Box office hit,  described as a blend of ‘Time Bandits, Tati and Benny Hill. 

VIVRE SA VIE (15)  1962  FRANCE         GODARD, JEAN-LUC    DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £19.99

 Award winning examination of a woman's decline as a Paris prostitute. The film uses documentary style interviews to tell the story.

VOUS N'AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU/ YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET  (PG) 2012 FRANCE   RESNAIS, ALAIN     £15.99

    Theatre, memory and the past combine as a group of actors reunite on the wishes of their former director.

VOYAGE À TRAVERS LE CINÉMA FRANÇAIS/A JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA (15) 2016 FRANCE  TAVERNIER,  BERTRAND £18.99

  Bertrand Tavernier  profiles a number of renowned directors, actors and writers as he discusses the influence they have had on his own career and also the role each has played in French cinema history. 

DE VRAIS MENSONGES/BEAUTIFUL LIES (12) 2010 FRANCE     SALVADORI, PIERRE        £17.99

    Audrey Tautou and Nathalie Baye star in this romantic French comedy.

THE WAGES OF FEAR/LE SALAIRE DE LA PEUR (PG) 1953 FRANCE B/W  CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES     £19.99

 Yves Montant in a compelling and exciting story of truckers  moving dangerous loads across the Andes.

WALERIAN BOROWCZYK: SHORT FILMS AND ANIMATION (18) 1967 FRANCE   £19.99

   Animated film about the  lives of Mr Kabal and his mechanical monster wife who get on each other's nerves but can't imagine being apart.

WASABI (15) 2002 FRANCE        KRAWCZYK, GERARD        £19.99

    Comedy adventure from writer/producer Luc Besson. Jean Reno stars as a burly French cop travelling to Japan tosettle an old debt.

WATCHMAKER OF SAINT PAUL/L'HORLOGER DE SAINT-PAUL (PG) 1973 FRANCE  TAVERNIER, BERTRAND      £17.99

 This highly acclaimed debut film is a well crafted thriller based on a  George Simenon story.

WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS/GOUTTES D'EAU SUR PIERRES BRÛLANTE (18) 2000   FRANCE 

OZON, FRANCOIS   £19.99

 Comic look at the shifting of power in sexual relationships.

WATER LILLIES/NAISSANCE DES PIEUVRES (15) FRANCE 2007  SCIAMMA, CÉLINE  £15.99

 Set in the world of synchronised swimming, three 15-year old girls experience love for the first time in very different ways.

THE WEDDING SONG/LE CHANT DES MARIÉES (15) 2008 FRANCE  ALBO, KARIN U    IN ARABIC & FRENCH£15.99

    Drama set during World War Two, following two women who try to maintain their friendship under difficult circumstances. Nour and Myriam, an Arab and a Jew who have been best pals since childhood, find their lives in turmoil as the Nazis gaincontrol over Tunis.

WEEKEND (18) 1967 FRANCE  GODARD,  GODARD, JEAN-LUC DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY -    £17.99

 Weekend trip to the countryside turns into a nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse.

WELCOME (15) FRANCE   2009  LIORET, PHILIPPE £17.99

 French drama chronicling the relationship between an illegal Kurdish immigrant from Iraq, who plans to  swim to Britain from Calais and a French swimming instructor.

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WELCOME ABOARD/BIENVENUE PARMI NOUS (15) 2012 FRANCE  BECKER, JEAN        £15.99

    A sixty-something painter and a teenage runaway make an unlikely partnership in this comedy drama.

THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER/LA FILLE DU PUISATIER (PG) 2011 FRANCE AUTEUIL, DANIEL £19.99

    Based on the Marcel Pagnol novel set in  Provence during the First World War

WHITE MATERIAL (15) 2009 FRANCE    DENIS, CLAIRE        £15.99

    Drama centred around a family of white French settlers in Africa.

WHO KILLED BAMBI/QUI A TUÉ BAMBI? (18) 2003  FRANCE  MARCHAND, GILLES      £19.99

 Hitchcockian chiller.

WILD CHILD/L'ENFANT SAUVAGE (U) FRANCE  1970  FRANCE  TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS   £15.99   

 Based on the true story of the ‘wild child’ found in a forest in the  1700s  France.

WILD GRASS/LES HERBES FOLLES (12) 2009 FRANCE   RESNAIS, ALAIN £15.99

    Alain Resnais directs this adaptation of a novel by Christian Gailly. After dentist Marguerite Muir (Sabine Azema)has her handbag stolen, her wallet is found by the troubled Georges (Andre Dussollier), whose mid-life crisis is causing him to behave erratically and rendering him unable to perform even the most straightforward tasks. As Georges deliberates at length over what to do with the wallet, and Marguerite becomes increasingly curious about the identity of its finder, the two become drawn into an elaborate series of encounters which may or may not blossom into a romance.

WILD SIDE (18) 2004 FRANCE   LIFSHITZ, SEBASTIEN    £19.99

 The story follows the lives of three social outcasts.        

WINGED MIGRATION/LE PEUPLE MIGRATEUR (U) 2001 FRANCE PERRIN/DEBATS/JARRY/CLUZZARD IN ENGLISH £19.99  

  Documentary following the migration of birds using a crew of 450.  

WINTER WAR (15) 2007 FRANCE ABOUCAYA, DAVID £15.99

 Wintry Alsace in January 1945, a weary force of American and French paratroopers are faced with the difficult task of clearing an entrenched German force in extreme conditions.

WINTER’S TALE/CONTE D'HIVE (15) 1992 FRANCE  ROHMER, ERIC     £19.99

 Well-observed and sensitive story of lost love. Second in his cycle of the Four Season’s films.

WITNESSES/LES TÉMOINS  (15) 2007 FRANCE   TECHINE, ANDRE    £19.99

 Moving and powerful drama set in 1984 about a  group of friends contending with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR/LES FEMMES DU 6ÈME ÉTAGE (15) 2010 FRANCE    GUAY, PHILIPPE LE   £17.99

    Comedy tracing the effects of an unusual friendship that develops between a wealthy Parisian stockbroker and his Spanish maid. Jean-Louis Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) is so rich he owns the block of flats in which he lives. His wife,Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain), is only too aware of their wealth and status and is snobbish in the extreme.

WOULD I LIE TO YOU? / WOULD I LIE TO YOU, AGAIN/LA VÉRITÉ SI JE MENS? (15) 1997/2001  FRANCE GILOU, T.   £15.99

 A double-bill of comedies set in the Jewish community of the Parisian quarter

WUTHERING HEIGHTS/HURLEVENT  (15) 1985   FRANCE   RIVETTE, JACQUES       £14.99

     French take on this classic of English literature.

Y'AURA T'IL DE LA NEIGE À NOËL?/WILL IT SNOW FOR CHRISTMAS? (12) 1997 FRANCE VEYSSET, SANDRINE    2 DISC DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY SET   £19.99

   Unsentimental film about a  poor woman who lives on a farm in Southern France with her seven children. However the tyrannical and egotistic father of the children owns the farm and uses them as child labour. It is only the love of the woman for her children that allows them to endure their situation; but even for her, disenchantment has set in.

LES YEUX SANS VISAGE/EYES WITHOUT A FACE (15) 1959 FRANCE FRANJU,.GEORGES 2 DISC DUAL DVD - BLU RAY EDITION £19.99

    A blend of pulp poetry and art cinema directed by Georges Franju. Cruel and tender, the story concerns a doctor who is driven mad with guilt because he has disfigured his daughter. As atonement the doctor kidnaps women and peels off their faces, trying to graft them on to his daughter's ruined features.

YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET/VOUS N'AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU  (PG) 2012 FRANCE   RESNAIS, ALAIN     £15.99

    Theatre, memory and the past combine as a group of actors reunite on the wishes of their former director.

YOU WILL BE MY SON/TU SERAS MON FILS    (15) 2011 FRANCE    LEGRAND, GILLES    £15.99

    Father is unhappy about the prospect of his son taking over the business, instead he wants his  foreman's son to take over,  causing more feud which results in some unexpected consequences.

YVES SAINT LAURENT (15) 2014 FRANCE       LESPERT, JALIL     £15.99

    Biopic following the life and work of the French fashion designer.

ZARAFA (PG) 2012 FRANCE  LIE,J/BEZANÇON, R   £17.99

   Animated feature following a young boy's adventure as he goes on a journey from Sudan to Paris.

ZIDANE (PG) 2006 FRANCE PARRENO, P. / GORDON, D. DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £19.99

     During an match between Real Madrid v Villareal, 17 movie cameras were set up around the playing field andfocussed solely on Zidane. The soundtrack is made up of the man’s observations.