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FRENCH DVDS
120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE /120 BEATS PER MINUTE 2017 FRANCE CAMPILLO, ROBIN £12.99
Set during the 1990s, the Paris activists group ACT UP, tries to get the government and the pharmaceutical industry’s to agree on a strategy to deal with the AIDS epidemic.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT 120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT 120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE
A BOUT DE SOUFFLE/BREATHLESS (PG) 1959 FRANCE GODARD, JEAN-LUC £19.99
Godard’s first film is now seen as the key film in the French new wave.
A LA FOLIE PAS DU TOUT/HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT (12) 2001 FRANCE COLOMBANI, L. £19.99 - TITLE UNAVAILABLE, DVD AWAITING RE-ISSUE.
Taut tale of passion and obsession.
A PERDRE LA RAISON/OUR CHILDREN (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
L’AGE DOR/ UN CHIEN ANDALOU (15) 1928/30 SPAIN/FRANCE DALI. S./BUNUEL, L. £29.99
Two Surrealist films that caused shock for there blasphemous content and unsettling imagery.
ADIEU DU LANGAGE/GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (15) 2014 FRANCE GODARD, JEAN-LUC DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Godard directs this abstract experimental piece which deliberately disrupts the viewers perceptions of film and narrative while following various characters as they go about their daily lives musing over love, life and philosophy.
ALCESTE À BICYCLETTE/CYCLING WITH MOLIÈRE (15) 2013 FRANCE LE GUAY, PHILIPPE £15.99
Comedy about a World-weary actor who is rehearsing Molière's 'The Misanthrope'
ALLELUIA(18) FRANCE 2014 DU WELZ, FABRICE £15.99
Thriller based on the real-life story of serial killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck.
L’AMANT DOUBLE (18) 2017 OZON, FRANÇOIS DVD – £12.99 BLU RAY – £17.99
Romantic thriller in which 25 year old model, Chloé, falls for her psychotherapist, Dr Paul Meyer. However, after the couple move in together, Chloé begins to feel like she doesn’t know much about Paul.
FRENCH NOTES TO L’AMANT DOUBLE
ENGLISH NOTES TO L’AMANT DOUBLE
AMELIE/LE FABULEUX DESTIN D'AMÉLIE POULAIN (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.
Level: AS, A2, Dip 3, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies, Modern Foreign Languages
JANE CRITCHLEY ONLINE LANGUAGE GUIDE TO AMELIE
(Contains among many files - Teacher Guide, Amelie and General Film Vocabulary,Lesson Starters, Synopsis, Adjectives, Adjectives Exercises, WJEC Mark Scheme plus much more.)
AMELIE FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE
AMELIE ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE
LES ÂMES DE PAPIER/PAPER SOULS (12) 2013 FRANCE LANNOO, VINCENT £15.99
Comedy drama about a widower and acclaimed novelist who now writes touching eulogies for people to read at the funerals.
AMOUR ET TURBULENCES/LOVE IS IN THE AIR (15) 2013 FRANCE CASTAGNETTI, ALEXANDRE £15.99
French romantic comedy.
ANGEL A (15) 2005 FRANCE BESSON, LUC DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Looking to escape his past Andre accepts the help of the mysterious Angela and sets in motion a chain of events that will change his life forever.
FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY SARAH LEAHY
APRÈS LE SUD/HEAT WAVE 2011 FRANCE JAUFFRET , JEAN-JACQUES £7.99
On a sweltering day in the south of France and based on real events, four lives intersect.
FRENCH FILMS NOTES TO APRÈS LE SUD
L'ARGENT DE POCHE/POCKET MONEY (PG) 1976 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS £15.99
A film about the joys and wonders of childhood.
L'ARMEE DU CRIME/ARMY OF CRIME (15) 2009 FRANCE GUEDIGUIAN, ROBERT £15.99
French World War II drama chronicling the famous 1944 'Red Poster' case, in which a group of foreign partisans defied French apathy to form their own resistance against the Nazi occupation.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING GUIDE
ASTÉRIX & OBÉLIX: MISSION CLÉOPÂTRE (PG) 2002 FRANCE CHABAT, A. £19.99
Second film in this popular French series staring Gerard Depardieu.
ATTILA MARCEL (12A) 2013 FRANCE CHOMET, SYLVAIN £10.99
Comedy drama about a 30-something musician who lives in Paris with his two aristocratic aunts.
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS (PG) 1987 FRANCE MALLE, LOUIS £19.99
Wartime drama set in a wintry catholic boarding school. The film probes the relationship between a young student and his reserved new Jewish classmate, who is hiding from the Germans.
JANE CRITCHLEY ONLINE LANGUAGE GUIDE TO AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS
Contains among many files - Teacher Guide, Amelie and General Film Vocabulary,Lesson Starters, Synopsis, Adjectives, Adjectives Exercises, WJEC Mark Scheme plus much more.
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS ACTIVITÉS DE VOCABULAIRE
VIEWING QUESTIONS FOR AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS VOCABULARY QUESTIONS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH TO HELP PREPARE FOR ASSESSMENTS
AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE/POT LUCK (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.
AUGUSTINE (15) 2012 FRANCE WINOCOUR, ALICE £19.99
Director Alice Winocour's debut drama explores the relationship between the 19th-century French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (Vincent Lindon) and his patient, Augustine (Soko), a 19-year-old illiterate housemaid.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
AURORE/I GOT LIFE! (15) 2017 FRANCE LENOIR, BLANDINE £15.99
Comedy drama in which a middle-aged woman struggles to comprehend that she is no longer youthful.
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO AURORE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO AURORE
AVANT L'HIVER/BEFORE THE WINTER CHILL (15) 2013 FRANCE £15.99
Psychological thriller staring Kristin Scott Thomas and Daniel Auteuil.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
LES AVENTURES EXTRAORDINAIRES D'ADÈLE BLANC-SEC/THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADELE BLANC-SEC (12) 2010 FRANCE BESSON, LUC £17.99
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
Level: AS, A2, Dip 3, GCSE, Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies
L'AVION 2005 FRANCE KAHN, CÉDRIC - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
AVRIL ET LE MONDE TRUQUÉ/APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD (PG) 2012 FRANCE DESMARES, C/EKINCI, F £19.99
Animated adventure set in 1941 in an alternative world . Napoleon V reigns over France while across the globe, scholars and scientist have mysteriously been disappearing for over 70 years depriving humanity of major inventions. Teenager April’s parents are also missing and she goes on a dangerous journey to find them.
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD
LA COUR DE BABEL/SCHOOL OF BABEL (PG) 2014 FRANCE BERTUCELLI, JULIE £15.99
Filmed over the course of one academic year, the documentary follows teachers and pupils of Granges-aux-Belles school as the non-French speaking immigrant children learn to read and write French fluently.
LE BALLON D’OR 1994 FRANCE DOUKOURÉ, CHEIK - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
BANDE A PART (PG) 1964 FRANCE GODARD, JEAN-LUC. £19.99
Godard’s playful tribute to the Hollywood pulp crime movies.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, KS4 Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies
BANG GANG (UNE HISTOIRE D’AMOUR MODERNE)/ BANG GANG (A MODERN LOVE STORY) (18) 2015 FRANCE HUSSON, EVA £19.99
Cautionary tale which unfolds over a hot summer, as a group of Biarritz teens created their own earthly paradise of total liberation.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILMS NOTES TO BANG BANG
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILMS NOTES TO BANG BANG
LA BATAILLE D'ALGER/BATTLE OF ALGIERS (15) 1965 FRANCE PONTECORVO, GILLO £19.99
Dramatic, pseudo-documentary reconstruction of the rise of the nationalist movement in Algiers between 1954 and 1957. A benchmarks of 1960s political radicalism.
BELLE ET SEBASTIAN (PG) 2013 FRANCE VANIER, NICOLAS £19.99
Adventure film set in the French Alps in 1943. Based on the Cécile Aubry's novel about a young boy who befriends a dog.
The film is an odyssey of the boy searching for his mother, of an old man searching for his past, a Resistance fighter searching for love and a German officer searching for forgiveness.
LA BELLE ET LA BETE (PG) 1945 FRANCE B/W JEAN COCTEAU £19.99
A lavish surrealistic film.
LA BETE HUMAINE (PG) FRANCE 1938 B/W RENOIR, JEAN £17.99
Based on the Zola novel and stars Jean Gabin.
LE BOSSU (15) 1998 FRANCE DE BROCA, PHILEPPEM £12.99
Rip-roaring romp based on the Feval novel.
A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (PG) 1959 FRANCE GODARD, JEAN-LUC £19.99
Godard’s first film is now seen as the key film in the French new wave.
Level: AS, A2, Scottish Highers Subjects: French, Media Studies
À BOUT DE SOUFFLE TEACHERS' NOTES
BRODEUSES/A COMMON THREAD(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.
CACHÉ/HIDDEN (15) 2005 FRANCE HANEKE, MICHAEL £19.99
Compelling psychological thriller.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subjects: French, English, Film Studies, Media Studies
CACHEMIRE/THE ULTIMATE ACCESSORY (15) 2014 FRANCE LEMERCIER, VALÉRIE £19.99
Comedy about a Hip Parisian couple who make a drastic life choice when they adopt a 7-year-old child without entirely thinking it through.
CAFÉ DE FLORE (15) 2011 FRANCE VALLÉE, JEAN-MAR £15.99
The film follows characters in present-day Montreal and 1969 Paris as their experiences of love and loss become intertwined.
CASSE-TÊTE CHINOIS/CHINESE PUZZLE (15) 2013 FRANCE KLAPISCH, CÉDRIC DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £23.99
French comedy drama sequel to 'Pot Luck' (2002) and 'Russian Dolls' (2005). Romain Duris reprises his role, now as a 40 year old writer on a downward spiral.
CE QUI NOUS LIE/BACK TO BURGUNDY (15) 2017 FRANCE KLAPISCH, CÉDRIC £19.99
After travelling the world for ten years, Jean returns to the family vineyard after the death of his father dies. Here he reconnects with his family as they rediscover their roots.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS NOTES TO CE QUI NOUS LIE
LA CEREMONIE (15) 1995 FRANCE CHABROL, CLAUDE £19.99
Adaptation of the Ruth Rendell best-seller.
CEZANNE ET MOI (15) 2016 FRANCE THOMPSON, DANIÈLE £19.99
The film focuses on the friendship between 19th century post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne and novelist Émile Zola.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS NOTES TO CEZANNE ET MOI
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS NOTES TO CEZANNE ET MOI
LE CHÂTEAU DES SINGES/A MONKEY'S TALE (U) 1999 FRANCE LAGUIONIE, JEAN-FRANCOIS £15.99
When teenage monkey Kom becomes separated from his family in the wake of a huge forest flood, he is discovered by the king of a neighbouring tribe and taken back to his castle.
CHERCHEZ HORTENSE/LOOKING FOR HORTENSE (12) FRANCE 2013 BONITZER, PASCAL £19.99
Comedy starring Jean-Pierre Bacri and Kristin Scott Thomas.
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!
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.
Level: AS, A2 Subjects: Drama, French, Music
JANE CRITCHLEY ONLINE LANGUAGE GUIDE TO LES CHORISTES
Contains among many files - Teacher Guide, Amelie and General Film Vocabulary,Lesson Starters, Synopsis, Adjectives, Adjectives Exercises, WJEC Mark Scheme plus much more.
FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY SARAH LEAHY
LINK TO SOME MORE TEACHING RESOURCES
CLEO DE 5 À 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.
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
COLONEL CHABERT 1994 FRANCE ANGELO, YVES - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM PRESS KIT
COMME UNE IMAGE/LOOK AT ME (12) 2004 FRANCE JAOUI, AGNES £19.99
Sophisticated family drama.
CONTE D'ÉTÉ/A SUMMER’S TALE (U) 1996 FRANCE ROHMER, ERIC £19.99
Carefully observed look at love.
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
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM PRESS KIT
LE CORBEAU (PG) 1943 FRANCE HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT £19.99
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO LE CORBEAU
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO LE CORBEAU
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO LE CORBEAU
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT FOR COSMOS
LE COU DE LA GIRAFE/THE GIRAFFE'S NECK 2004 FRANCE NEBBOU, SAFY - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
LA COUR DE BABEL/SCHOOL OF BABEL (PG) 2014 FRANCE BERTUCELLI, JULIE £15.99
Filmed over the course of one academic year, the documentary follows teachers and pupils of Granges-aux-Belles school as the non-French speaking immigrant children learn to read and write French fluently.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO LA COUR DE BABEL
LES COWBOYS (12) 2015 FRANCE BIDEGAIN, THOMAS £19.99
The Balland family attend a western gathering in eastern France. However when their sixteen-year-old daughter disappears, the father and his young son embark on dangerous search to find her in a journey that begins to feel like an endless quest.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO LES COWBOYS
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO LES COWBOYS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO LES COWBOYS
DE BATTRE MON COEUR S'EST ARRÊTÉ/BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED (15) 2005 FRANCE AUDIARD, JACQUES £19.99
Romain Duris gives an extraordinarily intense performance as a young man torn between a life of crime and music.
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 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.
DANTON (PG) 1983 FRANCE WAIDA, ANDRZEI £19.99
Depardieu plays Danton in this French Revolution drama.
DE PLUS BELLE/LADIES (12) 2017 FRANCE DAVAL, ANNE-GAËLLE £19.99
Romantic comedy about Lucie a single mother and breast cancer survivor.
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO DE PLUS BELLE
DEMI-SOEUR/HALF-SISTER (12) FRANCE 2013BALASKO, JOSIANE £19.99
A woman who sets out in search of her extended family
LE DERNIER MÉTRO/LAST METRO (PG) FRANCE 1980 TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
The year is 1942, and Paris is occupied by German forces. Jewish theatre owner Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) has handed over the control of his theatre to his actress wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) while he hides out in the cellar, hoping to avoid capture by the Nazis. During rehearsals for the next production, the presence of a womanising actor (Gerard Depardieu) and a Nazi-sympathising journalist cause many difficulties for Marion.
Eventually, she is forced to decide between her loyalty to her husband and her love for her countrymen, and acts out her solution in the production she has been rehearsing.
DEUX HOMMES DANS LA VILLE/TWO MEN IN TOWN FRANCE 1973 GIOVANNI, JOSÉ - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
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.
BILINGUAL FRENCH – ENGLISH PRESS KIT FOR DHEEPAN
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT FOR DHEEPAN
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.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO DIABOLO MENTHE
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.
A DOUBLE TOUR (PG) 1959 FRANCE CHABROL, CLAUDE £15.99
Murder mystery based on a novel by Stanley Ellin.
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.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO L’ÉCONOMIE DU COUPLE – AFTER LOVE
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO L’ÉCONOMIE DU COUPLE – AFTER LOVE
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.
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO ELLE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO ELLE
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO ELLE
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.
EMOTIFS ANONYMES/ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS (12) 2010 FRANCE AMÉRIS, JEAN-PIERRE £15.99 - AT PRESENT DELETED ON DVD AWAITING A RE-ISSUE
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?
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.
EN SOLITAIRE/TURNING TIDE (12) 2013 FRANCE OFFENSTEIN, CHRISTOPHE £19.99
Adventure drama starring François Cluzet. Yann Kermadec (Cluzet) is thrilled when he gets the opportunity to take part in the round-the-world single-handed yacht race and is determined to win.
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 his older sister.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO L’ENFANT D’EN-HAUT
L’ENFANT LION 1993 FRANCE GRANDPERRET, PATRICK - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
ENSEMBLE C’EST TOUT/HUNTING AND GATHERING 2007 FRANCE BERRI, CLAUDE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
Level: AS, A2, Dip 1, Dip 2, Dip 3, Subjects: GCSE Citizen
FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY SARAH LEAHY
INTERVIEW WITH LAURENT CANTET AND FRANÇOIS BÉGAUDEAU
ONLINE RESOURCE COVERING - CHARACTER & IDENTITY DEBATE & CONFLICT, EDUCATION & FILM STUDIES -
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO ÉPERDUMENT
ETRE ET AVOIR (E) 2002 FRANCE PHILIBERT, NICOLAS £19.99
Documentary that follows a year in the life of a French village school.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING GUIDE
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO L’ÉTUDIANTE ET MONSIEUR HENRI
LA FRACTURE DU MYOCARDE/CROSS MY HEART 1990 FRANCE FANSTEN, JACQUES - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
FAIS-MOI DES VACANCES/WE NEED A VACATION 2002 FRANCE BIVEL, DIDIER - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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 heavily on the sixteen-year-old child, Paula, as their interpreter. However Paula would like to move away and pursue a singing career.
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO LA FAMILLE BÉLIER
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO LA FAMILLE BÉLIER
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.
STUDY GUIDE WRITTEN BY HÉLÈNE BEAUGY
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
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO FIVE
FLIC STORY 1975 FRANCE DERAY, JACQUES - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
ENGLISH FILM NOTES TO LA FILLE INCONNUE
FRENCH FILM NOTES TO LA FILLE INCONNUE
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.
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
ENGLISH FILM NOTES TO FRANCOFONIA
FRENCH FILM NOTES TO FRANCOFONIA
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO FRANTZ
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO FRANTZ
GERMAN LANGUAGE NOTES TO FRANTZ
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO FRANTZ
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.
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.
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.
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO GAUGUIN
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.
GERVAISE (12) 1956 FRANCE CLÉMENT, RENÉ £15.99
René Clément directs this adaptation of Émile Zola's novel 'L'Assommoir', that follows the struggles of a young laundress trying to survive in 1850s Paris.
LA GLACE ET LE CIEL/ICE AND THE SKY(U) 2015 FRANCE JACQUET, LUC £15.99
French documentary about global warming.
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.
LE GÔNE DU CHAÂBA/KID FROM CHAABA 1998 FRANCE RUGGIA, CHRISTOPHE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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
A man in search of his own identity.
LA GRANDE ILLUISION (PG) 1937 FRANCE RENOIR, JEAN £19.99
Renoir’s profound examination of war, with Jean Gabin and Erich von Stroheim.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO LA GRANDE ILLUSION
LA GRANDE VADROUILLE (PG) 1966 FRANCE OURY, GERARD £15.99
French wartime comedy farce.
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.
LE GRAND VOYAGE STUDY PACK BY HÉLÈNE BEAUGY
LA HAINE (15) 1995 FRANCE KASSOVITZ, MATHIEU £19.99
Award winning film about a day on a tough Paris housing estate for three teenagers.
Level: AS, A2, KS4 , Subjects: Film Studies, French, History, Media Studies
STUDY GUIDE FOR STUDENTS OF AS/A2 FRENCH
HARRY, UN AMI QUI VOUS VEUT DU BIEN/HARRY, HE’S HERE TO HELP (15) 2000 FRANCE MOLL, DOMINIK £19.99
Nail biting dark comedy thriller. Michel (Laurent Lucas) and Claire (Mathilde Seigner) have just departed on their summer holiday when they stop off at a service station and bump into Michel's old schoolmate Harry (Sergi Lopez). The couple think it's just a chance meeting, but they begin to worry when Harry turns up at their holiday home and begins doing everything he can to ingratiate himself into their lives. Is Harry just keen to make new friends or does he possess more sinister motives?
LE HAVRE (PG) 2011 FRANCE KAURISMÄKI, AKI £15.99
Comedy drama depicting the friendship between an illegal child immigrant and an elderly Frenchman.
Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies, Citizenship,
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO LE HARVE
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.
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (PG) 1959 FRANCE B/W RESNAIS, ALAIN £15.99
Love story between a French actress and a Japanese architect.
L'HISTOIRE D'ADÈLE H/STORY OF ADELE H (12) 1975 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS £15.99
Francois Truffaut's film is based on a true story about desire, devotion and madness. Oscar-nominated Isabellel Adjani stars as Adele, the daughter of Victor Hugo, who follows her womanising lover across the Atlantic in order to resume their affair.
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.
FRENCH FILM NOTES TO LA FOLLE HISTOIRE DE MAX ET LÉON
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO LA FOLLE HISTOIRE DE MAX ET LÉON
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 .
FRENCH FILM NOTES TO UN HOMME À LA HAUTEUR
L'HOMME QUI AIMAIT LES FEMMES/MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (15) FRANCE 1977 TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS £15.99
Whimsical story about an eccentric Casanova.
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).
Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subjects: Film Studies, French, History, Media Studies
LE HUITIÈME JOUR/ EIGHTH DAY 1960 FRANCE DORMAEL, JACO VAN - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD.
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.
INDIGÈNES/DAYS OF GLORY (12) 2006 FRANCE BOUCHAREB, R. £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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
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.
IRISH FILM INSTITUTE FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT FOR INTOUCHABLES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO INTOUCHABLES
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 society excluded them.
LA JALOUSIE/JEALOUSY (12) 2013 FRANCE GARREL, PHILIPPE £19.99
Can the love for the theatre help an actor get over heartbreak.
FRENCH PRESS KIT TO LA JALOUSIE
ENGLISH PRESS KIT TO LA JALOUSIE
JE M’APELLE ELISABETH/CALL ME ELISABETH 2006 FRANCE AMÉRIS, JEAN-PIERRE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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 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.
JEAN DE FLORETTE/MANON DES SOURCES (PG) 1986 FRANCE BERRI, CLAUDE £19.99
Award winning film based on the Pagnol novel.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO JEAN DE FLORETTE – MANON DES SOURCES1
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO JEAN DE FLORETTE – MANON DES SOURCES
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO JEUNE FEMME
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO JEUNE FEMME
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.
JOYEUX NOÊL - THEMES & MOTIFS WORKSHEET
JULES ET JIM (PG) 1961 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
Celebrated film about the free-spirited Catherine and the two men in her life.
KÉRITY LA MAISON DES CONTES/ELEANOR'S SECRET 2009 FRANCE MONFÉRY, DOMINIQUE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDENT STUDY PACK BY STEPH REID
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.
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.
LUCIE AUBRAC (15) 1997 FRANCE BERRI, CLAUDE £29.99
A beautiful romance in the Second World War, based on a true story, about a woman trying to rescue her husband, a betrayed resistance member from prison. Only available in the Claude Berri DVD Collection (Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Germinal and Lucie Aubrac).
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO LUCIE AUBRAC
LUCIEN LACOME (15) 1974 FRANCE MALLE, LOUIS £39.99
One of the first French films to deal with the collaboration during the Nazi occupation. (Only available in Louis Malle Collection Volume Two (15) France 1971-90 - £39.99 (Features Black Moon, Milou En Mai, Lacombe Lucien, Le Souffle Au Coeur and Au Revoir Les Enfants
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILMS NOTES TO MA VIE DE COURGETTE
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO MA VIE DE COURGETTE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO MA VIE DE COURGETTE
MA VIE EN ROSE (12) 1997 FRANCE BERLINER, ALAIN £19.99 - AT PRESENT DELETED ON DVD AWAITING A RE-ISSUE
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.
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’.
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS NOTES TO MALGRÉ LA NUIT
MANON DES SOURCES (PG) 1986 FRANCE BERRI, CLAUDE £19.99
Sequel to Jean de Florette in this award winning film based on the Pagnol novel.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO JEAN DE FLORETTE – MANON DES SOURCES1
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO JEAN DE FLORETTE – MANON DES SOURCES
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO MARYLAND
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO MARYLAND
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT FOR MÉDECIN DE CAMPAGNE
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.
Level: S4-S6 Subjects: French, Health & Wellbeing
LA MER À L’AUBE/CALM AT SEA 2011 FRANCE SCHLÖNDORFF, VOLKER £32.99
A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
MICMACS (12) 2009 FRANCE JEUNET, JEAN-PIERRE £15.99
Bazil, 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.
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.
MOI CÉSAR, 10 ANS 12, 1M39/I, CESAR 2003 FRANCE BERRY, RICHARD - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
MON PERE CE HEROS (PG) FRANCE 1991 LAUZIER, GERARD £14.99
Charming comedy staring Gerard Depardieu.
MON PIRE CAUCHEMAR/MY WORST NIGHTMARE 2011 FRANCE FONTAINE, ANNE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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?
MON PERE CE HEROS (PG) FRANCE 1991 LAUZIER, GERARD £14.99
Charming comedy staring Gerard Depardieu.
MON PIRE CAUCHEMAR/MY WORST NIGHTMARE 2011 FRANCE FONTAINE, ANNE – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
MONSIEUR BATIGNOLE (15) 2002 FRANCE JUGNOT, GÉRARD – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Set in German occupied Paris in 1942 grocer Edmond Batignole lives in a Jewish confiscated apartment with his family. However when one of the original Jewish tenants turns up, Mr Batignole hides him from the Nazis.
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO MONSIEUR BATIGNOLE
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO MONSIEUR BATIGNOLE
ACTIVITIES BASED ON THE FILM MONSIEUR BATIGNOLE
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 IBRAHIM ET LES FLEURS DU CORAN/MONSIEUR IBRAHIM 2003 FRANCE DUPEYRON, FRANÇOIS - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
NE LE DIS À PERSONNE/TELL NO ONE (15) 2006 FRANCE CANET, GUILLAUME £19.99
Conspiracy theory thriller from actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, French, Media Studies
NO ET MOI 2010 FRANCE BREITMAN, ZABOU - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
LE NOM DES GENS/NAMES OF LOVE (15) 2010 FRANCE LECLERC, MICHEL £24.99
Mix of a romantic comedy and a satire of French politics.
LA NOUVELLE GUERRE DES BOUTONS/WAR OF THE BUTTONS 2011 FRANCE BARRATIER, CHRISTOPHE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
OSCAR ET LA DAME ROSE/OSCAR AND THE LADY IN PINK (15) 2009 FRANCE SCHMITT, ERIC-EMMANUEL £29.99
Based on Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s novel, 10-year-old Oscar is dying of cancer in hospital. Here he meets Rose who uses her imagination, wit and charm to allow Oscar to live life.
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.
LES PALMES DE M. SCHUTZ 1997 FRANCE PINOTEAU, CLAUDE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
LE PAPILLON/THE BUTTERFLY 2002 FRANCE MUYL, PHILIPPE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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 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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO PARIS PIEDS NUS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO PARIS PIEDS NUS
PERSEPOLIS (15) FRANCE 2007 SATRAPI,M /PARONNAUD, V DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
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.
Level:AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Art & Design, Citizenship, English, Film Studies, Media Studies, Politic
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.
PHANTOM BOY FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT
PICKPOCKET (PG) 1959 FRANCE BRESSON, ROBERT £22.99
Classic film Inspired by Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’.
PIEDS NUS SUR LES LIMACES/LILY SOMETIMES 2010 FRANCE BERTHAUD, FABIENNE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO PENSION COMPLÈTE
PETIT NICOLAS (PG) 2009 FRANCE TIRARD, LAURENT £15.99
Comedy based on the 1950s comics by René Goscinny.
PETIT POTAM 2001 FRANCE CHOQUET, C/DEYRIÈS, B - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
LE PETIT PRINCE A DIT 1992 FRANCE PASCAL, CHRISTINE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
LA PETITE JÉRUSALEM/LITTLE JERUSALEM 2005 FRANCE ALBOU, KARIN £26.99
Young Jewish woman living with her orthodox family in Paris, falls in love with a Muslim.
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.
LE PLUS BEAU MÉTIER DU MONDE/THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD 1992 FRANCE LAUZIER, GÉRARD - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
STUDY GUIDE WRITTEN BY HÉLÈNE BEAUGY
LA PREMIÈRE ÉTOILE 2009 FRANCE JEAN-BAPTISTE, LUCIEN - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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 microscope in this cross-generational film.
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.
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.
PROMESSE (15) 1996 BELGIUM DARDENNE JP & L IN FRENCH
15-year-old Igor (Renier) helps his father, Roger (Gourmet), employ illegal immigrants to work on building sites. When one of the workers is seriously injured after a fall from some scaffolding, Igor promises to look after the man's wife (Assita Ouedraogo) and child; an encounter which gradually shows him the gulf between his own values and those of the workers.
- film only available in the following collection - 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 , 'LE FILS/THE SON' 'ROSETTA' & 'LA PROMESSE'
LA PROPHÉTIE DES GRENOUILLES/RAINING CATS AND FROGS (15) 2003 FRANCE GIRERD, JACQUES-REMY £29.99
A modern day Noah saves a small group of people after the earth is flooded.
QUAND TU DESCENDRAS DU CIEL 2003 FRANCE GUIRADO, ERIC - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS/LES MISTONS (PG) 1959 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £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.
FILM GUIDE IN FRENCH WRITTEN BY ALICE MENNESSON
FRENCH CNC GUIDE TO LES 400 COUPS
LA RAFLE/ROUND UP (15) 2010 FRANCE BOSCJ, ROSE DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
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
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, KS3, KS4 Subjects: Film Studies, French, History, Media Studies
ANSWERS FOR S4-S5 (FOR TEACHERS)
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.
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 mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. This faithful adaptation, is Diderot’s attack on religious abuse. Includes the documentary : 'La Scandaleuse'.
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 RENARD ET L’ENFANT/THE FOX & THE CHILD 1992 FRANCE JACQUET, LUC ENGLISH AUDIO ONLY £12.99
film revolves around a little girl who encounters a fox on her way to school. The chance meeting marks the beginning of an incredible friendship as the barriers that separate humans and animals are broken down.
RIDICULE (15) 1996 FRANCE LECONTE, PATRICE £19.99
In the opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue.
LA RONDE (PG) FRANCE 1950 OPHULS, MAX £19.99
A circular tale of love and seduction based on the Arthur Schnitzler work.
RUE CASES-NÈGRES 1993 FRANCE PALCY, EUZHAN - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTE TO THE MIDWIFE
SAMBA (15) 2014 FRANCE NAKACHE,O/TOLEDANO, E £15.99
Comedy drama about a Senegal immigrant held in a detention centre fighting his extradition.
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES SANS TOIT NI LOI
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.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, French, Media Studies
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, J.P. £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
TEACHING NOTES TO LE SILENCE DE LA MER
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
French comedy exploring a family gathering in the 1970s coloured by the somewhat unusual threat of a US space station falling onto Brittany.
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.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO SOUVENIR
FLEMISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO SOUVENIR
TANGUY (15) 2001 FRANCE CHATILIEZ, ETIENNE £19.99
What do you do when your 28 year old son won’t leave home.
LA TÊTE EN FRICHE/MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE 2012 FRANCE BECKER, JEAN - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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 anti-semitism and deeply ingrained chauvinism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGES NOTES TO TOUT EN HAUT DU MONDE
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. However God’s
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT
TRAIN DE VIE/TRAIN OF LIFE 1998 FRANCE MIHAILEANU, RADU - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Film Studies, French, Media Studies
TVG 1998 FRANCE TOURÉ, MOUSSA - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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?
FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO UN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO UN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO UN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR
UN HÉROS TRÈS DISCRET/SELF MADE HERO (15) 1996 FRANCE AUDIARD, JACQUES £19.99
Comedy-drama set in the winter of 1944.
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.
UN INDIEN DANS LA VILLE/LITTLE INDIAN, BIG CITY 1994 FRANCE PALUD, HERVÉ - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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 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 AFFAIRE DE FEMMES/A STORY OF WOMEN 1988 FRANCE CHABROL, CLAUDE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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 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
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.
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO UNE VIE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO UNE VIE
UNE VIE DE CHAT/A CAT IN PARIS/ (PG) 2010 FRANCE FELICIOLI, J.P/GAGNOL, A £12.99
French animated crime thriller spoof.
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.
FRENCH FILM NOTES TO LES VACANCES DU PETIT NICOLAS-NICOLAS ON HOLIDAY
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.
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 a 15-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 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 D'ADÈLE/BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR (18) 2013 FRANCE KECHICHE, ABDEL. DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Award-winning drama about a 15-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 EST UN LONG FLEUVE TRANQUILLE/LIFE 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/DREAM LIFE OF ANGELS (18) 1998 FRANCE ZONCA , ERICK £15.99
Cannes award winning film about two outsiders, one an optimist the other sullen and introverted.
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.
VIVEMENT DIMANCHE! /FINALLY SUNDAY(PG) 1983 FRANCE TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS £19.99
Comedy thriller.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING GUIDE
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.
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.
ZAZIE DANS LE MÉTRO 1960 FRANCE MALLE, LOUIS - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
ZOU ZOU 1934 FRANCE ALLÉGRET, MARC - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
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AB HEUTE HEISST DU SARA/FROM NOW ON YOUR NAME IS SARA: GRIPS THEATRE BERLIN (E) GERMANY £19.99
The play, based on Inge Deutschkron’s book ‘Ich trug den gelben Stern’’ 1933 eleven years old Inge who refuses to understand why all of a sudden she is not allowed to play on the street. In the years after that for Inge, being a Jew means not only humiliation, attacks and restrictions, but also never going dancing or to the cinema. It means growing up without having been young.
GERMAN NOTES TO THE PLAY AB HEUTE HEISST DU SARA
GERMAN TEACHING MATERIAL TO AB HEUTE HEISST DU SARA
ABSCHIED – BRECHTS LETZTER SOMMER/THE FAREWELL. BRECHT’S LAST SUMMER (15) 2000 SCHUTTE, J. £19.99
Portrait of Brecht set in the summer of 1956 in East Germany.
AIMÉE & JAGUAR (15) GERMANY 1999 FARBERBOCK, MAX £19.99 - TITLE UNAVAILABLE, DVD AWAITING RE-ISSUE.
Set in 1943 Berlin the film follows two women experiences,one a mother with four children, the other a member of the Jewish underground.
ALLES AUF ZUCKER! 2004 GERMANY LEVY, DANI - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Heart-warming comedy of two families reunited after the collapse of the Berlin wall.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY PHILIPP BÜHLER
ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND 2011 GERMANY SAMDERELI, YASEMIN - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
German Turkish family decide to go back to live in Turkey
ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND -UNTERRICHTSMATERIALIEN FÜR DIE SEKUNDARSTUFE
KEY TO ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND -UNTERRICHTSMATERIALIEN FÜR DIE SEKUNDARSTUFE
ALMANYA – TEACHING RESOURCES – SOLUTIONS
ALPHABET 2013 AUSTRIA WAGENHOFER, ERWIN - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
A documentary about the modern education system stifling imagination, creativity, and independent of thought.
AMOUR FOU (12A) 2014 AUSTRIA HAUSNER, JESSICA £14.99
The film follows young German poet and dramatist Heinrich von Kleist while he tries to convince a friend’s wife to join him in a suicide pact as a means of escaping the inevitability of death.
ANGST ESSEN SEELE AUF/FEAR EATS THE SOUL (15 ) 1973 GERMANY FASSBINDER, R. W. £19.99
Film is about a German woman who strikes up a friendship with a Moroccan man and the racism they encounter.
ANONYMA – EINE FRAU IN BERLIN/ANONYMA – THE DOWNFALL OF BERLIN (15) GERMANY 2008 FARBERBOCK, MAX DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
Berlin in the final days of World War Two, a woman – known only as ‘Anonyma’ (Nina Foss) – endures repeated rape by Russian soldiers, and tries to wrestle a modicum of control over her destiny by using sex as a tool for survival, forging an uneasy sexual alliance with Russian leader Major Andrei Rybkin
AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE/EDGE OF HEAVEN (15) 2007 GERMANY AKIN, FATIH £19.99
Widower Ali seeks out companionship with the prostitute Yeter, setting in motion a chain of events that will link three families across different cultures, countries and generations.
AKIN’S AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE AND THE WIDENING PERIPHERY BY VIVIEN SILVEY & ROGER HILLMAN
AUS DEM NICHTS/IN THE FADE (18) 2017 GERMANY AKIN, FATIH £15.99
Thriller inspired by real-life events. Katja is a German woman whose life is shattered when her Kurdish husband and her son are killed in a terrorist attack. When the justice system fails, Katja takes the law in her own hands.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO AUS DEM NICHTS
FRENCH LANGUAGE NOTES TO AUS DEM NICHTS
BAADER-MEINHOF KOMPLEX (18) 2008 GERMANY EDEL, ULI £17.99
Berlin in 1967, a horrific riot inspires Ulrike Meinhof to join forces with Andreas Baader to fight the West German state.The pair moves from activism into terrorism, as form and lead the revolutionary terrorist organisation Red Army Faction.
BARBARA (12A) 2012 GERMANY PETZOLD, CHRISTIAN £17.99
Set in pre-Berlin Wall East Germany in 1980. Barbara, a young doctor aims to escape to the West to join her boyfriend .
USING THE FILM IN THE CLASS ROOM IN GERMAN
BARFUSS 2005 GERMANY 2005 Schweiger, TILL £17.99
Romantic comedy about bachelor Nick, who helps and falls in love with an escaped mental patient.
BELLA MARTHA/MOSTLY MARTHA (PG) 2002 GERMANY NETTLEBECK, SANDRA £19.99
A bittersweet comedy about acceptance and the pressures of modern-day life. Martha Klein is the uncompromising head chef in a Hamburg restaurant, whose work is her life until a handsome Italian sous-chef arrives to work with her.
BERLIN 36 (15) GERMANY 2009 HEIDELBACH, KASPAR £15.99
In the days leading up to the 1936 Olympics, the fate of high jumper Gretel Bergmann hangs in the balance as it is decided whether or not a Jewish athlete can be a part of the German Olympic team.
BERLIN – ECKE SCHÖNHAUSER/BERLIN SCHOENHAUSER CORNER/ (PG) 1957 GERMAN KLEIN, G. £14.99 - TITLE UNAVAILABLE DVD AWAITING RE-ISSUE.
Film about East German teenagers in 1950s .
BLACK BOX BRD 2001 GERMANY VEIEL, ANDRES - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Documentary about RAF terrorist Wolfgang Grams.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY STEFAN VOLK
BLUE EYED 1996 GERMANY VERHAAG, BERTRAM - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Documentary about Jane Elliott, a former teacher in the midwest USA, has committed herself to leading a fight against prejudice, ignorance and racism in society.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY HERBERT HEINZELMANN
DIE BRÜCKE/THE BRIDGE (15) 1959 GERMANY WICKI, BERNHARD £15.99
Poignant, anti-war drama about a group of German boys’ attempts to guard a bridge in the dying days of WWII. As the defeated ranks of the Wehrmacht try to escape the advancing American troops, seven boys from a local village are seconded to guard a strategically worthless bridge. Fired up by the patriotic ideology on offer, the boys’ resolve is put to the test when American tanks suddenly appear, intent on crossing the bridge.
BUDDENBROOKS 2008 GERMANY BRELOER, HEINRICH - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel.
CHIKO (18) 2008 GERMANY YILDIRIM, OZGUR £12.99
Turkish-German director Ozgur Yildirim directs this gritty drama set in the suburban ghettos of Hamburg. Chiko his best friend Tibet are two second-generation Turkish immigrant teenagers who dream of money, power and respect – all attributes local drug lord seems to them to possess.
COMING OUT (15) GERMANY 1989 CAROW, HEINER £19.99
As a boy, Philipp was strongly attracted to his best friend, but he’s put all that behind him in order to live a ‘normal’ life.
CROSSING THE BRIDGE (12) TURKEY 2005 AKIN, FAITH £19.99
German band Einstürzende Neubauten go on a search for the sound of Istanbul.
DEUTSCHLAND, STUNDE NULL/ ALLEMAGNE, ANNÉE ZÉRO/GERMANY, YEAR ZERO (PG) 1947 ITALY ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO IN ITALIAN £14.99
Set among the ruins of Berlin in post-war Germany, the film charts the attempts of a 13 year old boy to support his family.
EDEN (12) 2006 GERMANY HOFMANN, MICHAEL £19.99
Sensual and romantic film centred around food.
EFFI BRIEST (U) 1974 GERMANY FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER £15.99
Adaptation of Theodor Fontane’s novel set in the late 19th century. 17-year-old Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) is pushed into marrying aristocrat Baron Geert von Instetten (Wolfgang Schenck). Unhappy in her marriage, she is seduced by Major Crampas (Ulli Lommel), which causes scandal in her highly regulated society.
When von Instetten learns of their affair, Effi finds herself thrown out of the household with nowhere to go and no one to turn to.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMTIPP GUIDE
ELSER/13 MINUTES (15) 2015 GERMANY HIRSCHBIEGEL, OLIVER DVD – £17.99 BLU RAY – £22.99
Tense Second World War story about a determined Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1939. Captured and questioned by the authorities, Elser reveals through his confession how he was driven to perform such an act by the Nazification of his hometown.
DAS EXPERIMENT (18) 2001 GERMANY HIRSCHBIEGEL, OLIVER £19.99
Thriller based on the 70s Sanford University experiment in which a group of people play prisoners and prison gaurds. An investigative journalist incites a rebellion among the prisoners to juice up his story
DIE FÄLSCHER/COUNTERFEITERS (15) GERMANY 2007 RUZOWITZKY, STEFAN £5.99
True story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936 and using concentration camp labour to carry out the forgeries.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subject: Citizenship, Film Studies, German, History, Media Studies
FAUST (15) 2011 SOKUROV, ALEKSANDR £15.99
Aleksandr Sokurov directs this German-language adaptation of the classic tale about a man who sells his soul to the Devil.
DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI/EDUKATORS (15) 2004 GERMANY WEINGARTNER,H. £19.99
Edukadors presents three idealistic activists trying to get by in a corrupt world.
Level: AS, A2, Subject: Film Studies, German, Media Studies
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY INGRID ARNOLD
DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI: ACTIVITIES BEFORE THE FILM
DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI ACTIVITIES AFTER THE FILM
ANSWERS FOR DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI ACTIVITIES AFTER THE FILM
DAS FINSTERE TAL/DARK VALLEY (15) 2014 AUSTRIA PROCHASKA, ANDREAS £15.99
Based on Thomas Willmann Austrian western about a lone rider arriving in a small mountain village intent on taking on the Brenners, the tyrannical rulers of the village.
FREE RAINER – DEIN FERNSEHER LÜGT 2007 GERMANY WEINGARTNER, HANS - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
DIE FREMDE/WHEN WE LEASE (12) 2010 GERMANY ALADAG, FEO - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Set in Germany a young woman of Turkish descent, fights for he independent against the wishes of her family.
FREMDER FREUND 2010 GERMANY ALADAG, FEO - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Two young men from different cultures share a flat
GEGEN DIE WAND/HEAD-ON(18) 2004 GERMANY AKIN, FATIH £19.99
Award winning drama about two 2nd generation Turks living in Germany.
TEACHING MATERIALS FOR GEGEN DIE WAND
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY ANDREA WIENEN UND HOLGER TWELE
GENDER AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN GEGEN DIE WAND AND AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE
GHETTO 2005 GERMANY JUZENAS, AUDRIUS - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Set in Jew Getto of Vilnius 1942.
GOOD BYE LENIN! (15) 2002 GERMANY BECKER, WOLFGANG £19.99
One of the biggest German comedies of recent times.
Level: A2, GCSE Subject: General Studies, German, History, Media Studies, Politics
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY CRISTINA MOLES KAUPP
GERMAN LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY HANNA OSTERMANN AND STEFFI BOOTHROYD
GOOD BYE, LENIN!: OSTALGIE UND IDENTITÄT IM WIEDER VEREINIGTEN DEUTSCHLAND BY SEÁN ALLAN
HANNAH ARENDT (12A) 2013 GERMANY TROTTA, MARGARETHE VON £17.99
In this drama based on a true story, Barbara Sukowa stars as the German-American political theorist who caused a storm of controversy with her views on the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
HEIDI (U) 2015 GERMANY/SWITZLERAND GSPONER, ALAIN £15.99
Adapted from the Johanna Spyri's children's novel. Heidi is a five-year-old orphan living with her grandfather in the Swiss mountains.
IDEEN ZU FILM UND BUCH FÜR DEN UNTERRICHT IN DER GRUNDSCHULE
DER HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN/WINGS OF DESIRE (PG) GERMANY 1987 WENDERS, WIM £19.99
An Angel watches over Berlin and is entranced by human existence.
IM TOTEN WINKEL – HITLERS SEKRETÄRIN 2002 AUSTRIA HELLER,A/SCHMIDERER, O - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY GERD ALBRECHT
IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS/LABYRINTH OF LIES (12) 2014 GERMANY RICCIARELLI, GIULIO £19.99
Germany 1958: Young public prosecutor Johann Radmann finds himself on the case of Nazi war criminal Charles Schulz, but has no idea what really happened in Auschwitz. However he is shocked to find out that many of these death camp workers have returned to their normal lives and now populate the senior ranks of government.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS (IN GERMAN)
IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS GERMAN CLASSROOM IDEAS
IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS GERMAN LANGUAGE PRESS KITIM LABYRINTH
DES SCHWEIGENS GOETHE INSTITUT GERMAN TEACHING NOTES
IMPORT, EXPORT (18 ) 2008 AUSTRIA SEIDL, ULRICH £17.99
Import, Ukrainian nurse leaves her child behind with her mother, traveling to Austria to look for work and new opportunities, Export, Austrian Security guard makes the opposite journey into Eastern Europe, seeking to escape his debts and the increasing urban violence and alienation.
THE INTERROGATION (15) 2016 GERMANY PERY, EREZ £15.99
Warsaw in 1946 Nazi Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss awaits trial and a Polish judge is sent to interrogate him about his involvement in the Holocaust, the nature of those who were in charge of the extermination camps and their self-justification.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO INTERROGATION
JENSEITS DER STILLE/BEYOND SILENCE (15) 1996 GERMANY LINK, CAROLINE £15.99
German drama starring Sylvie Testud as Lara, the spirited daughter of two deaf-mute parents. Since early childhood, Lara has acted as a translator and mediator between her parents and the outside world. Now a young woman of 18, Lara is given a clarinet by her revered aunt, and learns to play with rapid success.
GERMAN LANGAUGE FILMBEGLEITHEFT FROM THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE
KIRSCHBLÜTEN – HANAMI/CHERRY BLOSSOMS (15) 2008 GERMANY DORRIE, SORIS £14.99
German filmmaker Doris Dorrie writes and directs this subtle drama exploring themes of love, death and quiet longing.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO KIRSCHBLÜTEN – HANAMI
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO KIRSCHBLÜTEN – HANAMI
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO KIRSCHBLÜTEN – HANAMI
KLASSENLEBEN (E) 2005 GERMANY SIEGERT, HUBERTUS £19.99
Documentary about class at the Fläming-Grundschule in Berlin. The class is unique in its diverse makeup of pupils which include children with physical and mental handicaps, ones who are highly intelligent, some who fit in well and others who have inter-social problems.
KNALLHART/TOUGH ENOUGH (15) 2006 GERMAN BUCK, DETLEV £14.99 - TITLE UNAVAILABLE, DVD AWAITING RE-ISSUE.
When Miriam splits up with her wealthy lover, she and her 15-year-old son Michael are forced to move to run-down Berlin-Neukolln from their previous home in well-to-do Zehlendorf.
KOMBAT SECHZEHN 2005 GERMANY BORSCHT, MIRKO - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
16 year old Georg moves from Frankfurt/Main to Frankfurt/Oder and falls in with a Neo Nazi group
KRABAT/KRABAT AND THE LEGEND OF THE SATANIC MILL (12) 2008 GERMANY KREUZPAINTNER, MARCO £19.99
Fantasy drama about a young man who becomes an apprentice in a mill where he learns the art of sorcery in this 18th Century version of Harry Potter.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, French, Media Studies
ENGLISH AND GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM NOTES
KREUZWEG/STATIONS OF THE CROSS (15) 2014 GERMANY BRÜGGEMANN, DIETRICH DVD – £14.99 BLU RAY – £15.99
A 14-year-old Catholic girl leaves behind her distraught family as she embarks on a voyage of discovery that takes her through the stations that Jesus travelled on his journey to his crucifixion.
DER KRIEGER UND DIE KAISERIN/THE PRINCESS & THE WARRIOR (15) 2000 GERMANY TYKWER, TOM £15.99
After Sissi is hit by a lorry but her life is saved by Bodo (Benno Fürmann), she determines to get to know him Bodo and look for a chance to repay his kindness.
KROKO 2003 GERMANY ENDERS, SYLKE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
16 years old Julia calls herself Kroko and plays the role of a tough and ruthless girly gang leader in Berlin-Wedding
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY HOLGER TWELE
LAGERFEUER/WEST (15) 2013 GERMANY SCHWOCHOW, C. £15.99
Based on Julia Franck novel ‘Lagerfeuer’. Nelly along with her son decide to escape East Germany after the mysterious death of her boyfriend. However once in the West the intelligence agencies want to know more about her boyfriend.
LEBEN DER ANDEREN/LIVES OF OTHERS (15) 2006 GERMANY H. VON DONNERSMARCK, F £19.99
Five years before the downfall of the DDR, party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subject: Film Studies, German, History, Media Studies
GERMAN LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY RENE KOGLBAUER & SIMONE SCHROT
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUPIL’S NOTES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER’S NOTES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER’S NOTES ANSWERS
LICHTER 2002 GERMANY SCHMID, HANS-CHRISTIAN - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Set among the inhabitants of the Poland Germany border.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY THOMAS MAN
LOLA RENNT/RUN LOLA RUN (15) 1999 GERMANY TYKWER, TOM DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £17.99
Heart-stopping suspense thriller of one woman ‘s desperate attempt to save her lover.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subject: German,English, Film Studies, Media Studies
GERMAN LANGUAGE WORK MATERIAL AUSTRIAN INST
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
ONLINE ‘BUILDING BLOCK’ WEB PAGE FOR TEACHING THE FILM
LINKS TO LITERATURE AND NOTES TO THE FILM
LORE (15) 2012 SHORTLAND, CATE DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
When her father, an officer in the SS, and her Nazi-supporting mother are taken into custody by allied troops at the end of the war, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) and her siblings must travel across Germany to their grandmother’s house in Hamburg. On their travels, the group encounter a number of fearful and suspicious people, but it is only when they meet a kind-hearted young Jewish man, Thomas (Kai-Peter Malina), that Lore begins to reassess the feelings of hatred so deeply instilled in her by her parents.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
LUTHER 2003 GERMANY TILL, ERIC - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Film about Martin Luther
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY HERBERT HEINZELMANN
MEER IS NICH 2007 GERMANY KELLER, HAGEN £19.99
17 year old Lena is about to finish school in East Germany and is not sure what the future holds
MEIN BESTER FEIND/MY BEST ENEMY (12) 2011 GERMANY MUMBERGER, WOLFGANG £15.99
Second World War thriller in which the Jewish son of a Viennese art gallery owner holds the key to an artifact which could change the course of the war.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
MEIN BLIND DATE MIT DEM LEBEN/MY BLIND DATE WITH LIFE (15) 2017 GERMANY ROTHEMUND , MARC £19.99
Saliya is a promising student determined to achieve his dream of working at a prestigious luxury hotel despite losing the majority of his sight as a teenager. Deciding to hide the fact he is visually impaired, Saliya manages to land an apprenticeship at one of Munich’s top hotels and quickly becomes a respected member of the team. However, after meeting and falling in love with Laura, Saliya’s elaborate scheme to hide his condition soon begins to fall apart.
METROPOLIS (U) GERMANY 1926 B/W. FRITZ LANG DVD - £22.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Early Science Fiction story of a dehumanized future society. This newly restored version now includes 25 minutes which had been discovered in Argentina in 2008
Level: A2, GCSE Subject: Art & Design, German, Film Studies, Media Studies, Politics
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES BY MICHAEL WALKER
ORIGINAL PROGRAMME FOR THE BRITISH PREMIÈRE OF FRITZ LANG’S METROPOLIS – 1927
DIE MITTE DER WELT/CENTRE OF MY WORLD (15) 2016 GERMANY ERWA , JAKOB M. £15.99
Based on Andreas Steinhöfel novel, this candid and complex film is about teenager Phil who discovers his sexuality and falls in love with new attractive classmate Nicholas.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO DIE MITTE DER WELT
MUXMÄUSCHENSTILL 2004 GERMANY MITTERMEIER, MARCUS - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Mux is on a Mission: He has appointed himself to to model his world according to his ideas.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY THOMAS WINKLER
NAPOLA – ELITE FÜR DEN FÜHRER/BEFORE THE FALL (15) 2004 GERMANY GANSEL, DENNIS £15.99
With the Second World War in full swing, two teenaged boys are enrolled in a National Political Academy (NaPolA), a youth facility for the training of future Nazi leaders. One is a working-class boy with a talent for boxing, and the other is the Governor’s sensitive, poetry-loving son. They must both lay aside their innocence and humanity as they prepare to join the Nazi elite.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS TO NAPOLA – BEFORE THE FALL
NEBEL IM AUGUST/FOG IN AUGUST (15) 2016 GERMANY WESSEL, KAI £19.99
Set in 1942 and based on Robert Domes’ 2008 historical novel, the film follows 13-year-old Roma boy, Ernst Lossa, is sent to the Sargau mental institution. Here he soon discovers that the Nazi’s are carrying out an enforced euthanasia programme. Along with fellow patient Nandl, Ernst decides to stage a daring escape attempt.
The film is one of the first to tackle the Nazis’ euthanasia program.
GERMAN LANGUAGE NOTES TO NEBEL IM AUGUST
DAS NETZ – 2003 GERMANY DAMMBECK, LUTZ - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
The film explores the ideas and histories of counter culture visionaries which let to the creation of the internet.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY STEFANIE ZOBL
DER NEUNTE TAG 2004 GERMANY/LUXEMBURG SCHLÖNDORFF VOLKER - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Loosely based on Jean Bernard’s Nazi-era prison diary, the film deals with the Catholics church and its relationship with the Nazi regime.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY HERBERT HEINZELMANN
NICHTS BEREUEN (15) 2001 GERMANY QUABECK, BENJAMIN £19.99
19-years-old Daniel (Daniel Brühl) is back after his summer holiday and wants to date the love of his life, Luca. Although he made the decision four years ago, Luca still knows nothing about it. Daniel decides to change his life dramatically and in the process he meets Anna, a social worker.
TEACHER NOTES – NICHTS BEREUEN
NIRGENDWO IN AFRIKA/NOWHERE IN AFRICA (15) 2002 GERMANY LINK, CAROLINE £25.99 – ONLY AVAILABLE IN A GERMAN EDITION WITHOUT ENGLISH SUBTITLES
1938 a German Jewish family moves to Kenya to start a new life.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM-HEFT VON KLAUS-DIETER FELSMANN
GERMAN LANGUAGE WORKSHEET
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT
DAS PFERD AUF DEM BALKON (U) 2012 GERMANY TABAK, HÜSEYIN £19.99
10 year old maths loving Mika has Asperger syndrome whose life changes one night when he spots a horse on the balcony of the apartment next door. Then former racehorse is owned by former maths teacher Sascha, who needs to sell the horse to repay a loan. Mika and his friend Dana figure out a plan to save the horse.
RESOURCES TO DAS PFERD AUF DEM BALKON
TEACHER NOTES – DAS PFERD AUF DEM BALKON
BEDEUTUNG DER SZENE FÜR DIE HANDLUNG
PHOENIX (12A) 2015 GERMANY PETZOLD, CHRISTIAN DVD – £17.99 BLU RAY – £21.99
On her liberation form a concentration disfigured Jewish singer Nelly (Nina Hoss) goes on a search for her husband who she thinks has betrayed her.
PREUßISCH GANGSTAR 2007 GERMANY IRMA-KINGA STELMACH I K/WERNER, B - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Story of three long people living in Brandenburg
REQUIEM (15) 2006 GERMANY SCHMID, HANS-CHRISTIAN £19.99
Based on the true story of a 23-year old student in Germany who died of starvation following an exorcism in 1976, the film provide a chilling insight into the nature of possession and blurs the lines between pious religiosity and the dark side
REVANCHE (15) 2009 GERMANY GÖTZ SPEILMANN £15.99
A stunning and gripping Oscar nominated thriller.
DER ROTE KAKADU 2006 GERMANY GRAF, DOMINIK - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s.
SAMURAI (15) 2014 GERMANY KLEINERT, TILL £14.99
German thriller in which a young police officer called Jakob tries to uncover the truth behind recent events plaguing his small, remote village.
SCHERBENPARK (12) 2013 GERMANY BLÜMNER, BETTINA £17.99
Based on Alina Bronsky novel about troubled teenager Sascha, a Russian immigrant living in a rough part of Stuttgart. Sascha cannot come to terms with her step-fathers murder of her mother.
After a sympathetic newspaper interview with her imprisoned step-father, Sascha confronts the papers editor , who in turn feels guilty and invites her into his family life. Gradually in this environment Sascha begins to mature into someone more open and accepting of the world’s flaws.
DAS SCHRECKLICHE MÄDCHEN/NASTY GIRL (PG) 1990 GERMANY VERHOEVEN, MICHAEL £19.99
Delicious black comedy about a modern German schoolgirl whose essay ‘My Town during the Third Reich’, stirs up memories of Nazi deeds long forgotten and ignored.
SOMMERSTURM/SUMMER STORM (15) 2004 GERMANY KREUZPAINTNER, MARCO £19.99 - TITLE UNAVAILABLE, DVD AWAITING RE-ISSUE.
Heartening story about the complexities of growing up.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY CRISTINA MOLES KAUP
SOPHIE SCHOLL (PG) 2005 GERMANY ROTHEMUND, MARC DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Account of the last days of the White Rose resistance group members, Sophie and Hans Scholl.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
SOUL KITCHEN 2009 GERMANY AKIN, FAITH - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Comedy about a young Greek man living in Germany who own restaurant and juggling dealing with his brother, girlfriend and eccentric chef
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
STATUS YO! 2003 GERMANY HASTREITER, TILL - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Energetic hip-hop film that tell the story of one eventful night in the Berlin.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY PETRA ANDERS UND MANFRED RÜSEL
DER STILLE BERG/1915 – BATTLE FOR THE ALPS (12) 2014 AUSTRIA GOSSNER, ERNST £15.99
Love story set in the Dolomite Mountains in 1915 at the outbreak of war between Italy and Austria.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS TO THE FILM
STRAJK – DIE HELDIN VON DANZIG 2006 GERMANY/ POLEN SCHLÖNDORFF, VOLKER - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
How a poorly educated woman becomes one of the founders of Poland’s Solidarity movement.
TONI ERDMANN (15) 2016 GERMANY ADE, MAREN DVD – £19.99 BLU RAY – £22.99
Award winning comedy, in which divorced music teacher Winfried tries to reconnect with his career-driven daughter Ines. To do this Winfried integrates himself into Ines work circle and takes on the alter ego of the practical joker ‘Toni Erdmann’ as a way of cheering her up.
TONI ERDMANN GERMAN FILM NOTES
TONI ERDMANN SCREENPLAY ENGLISH
TONI ERDMANN ENGLISH PRESS NOTES
TONI ERDMANN FRENCH PRESS NOTES
TSCHICK/GOODBYE BERLIN (15) 2016 GERMANY AKIN, FATIH £19.99
Comedy drama adaptation of Wolfgang Herrndorf’s best-selling cult novel. In this coming-of-age story of two friends steal a car and take the trip into the countryside in search of excitement and adventure.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT TO TSCHICK – GOODBYE BERLIN
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO TSCHICK – GOODBYE BERLIN
SPANISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO TSCHICK-GOODBYE BERLIN
DER TUNNEL (12) 2001 GERMANY RICHTER, ROLAND SUSO £15.99
Cold War thriller set in 1961. After fleeing the Communist regime in East Berlin, Harry Melchior is now determined to go back for his sister and her family.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
UNSERE MÜTTER, UNSERE VÄTER/GENERATION WAR (15) 2013 GERMANY KADELBACH, PHILIPP DVD – £19.99 BLU RAY – £29.99
Three-part German drama set during the Second World War.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
DIE UNSICHTBAREN– WIR WOLLEN LEBEN/THE RESISTANCE (12) 2017 GERMANY RÄFLE, CLAUS £12.99
1943 and the Nazi’s have declared Berlin free of Jews. However this is far from the truth, 7000 Jews have successfully gone underground. However four young Jews survive in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become “invisible.”
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM S NOTES TO UNSICHTBAREN
DER UNTERGANG/DOWNFALL(15) 2004 GERMANY HIRSCHBIEGEL, OLIVER £15.99
Film of Hitler’s final days in his Berlin bunker which caused controversy by humanising the Fuhrer.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Subject: German, History, Media Studies
DOWNFALL AND BEYOND HITLER FILMS FROM GERMANY MARTIN BRADY AND HELEN HUGHES
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS TO DER UNTERGANG
VIER MINUTEN/FOUR MINUTES (15) 12006 GERMANY KRAUS, CHIRS £17.99
Tough young piano prodigy-turned criminal Jenny is serving time in a women’s prison in Germany. She meets her match in the elderly Traude, who has been teaching piano to the inmates. An upcoming pianist’s competition is an opportunity not to be missed, so the pair plot a daring escape
VIER MINUTES ARBEITSMATERIAL ZUM FILM
DIE WAND/THE WALL (12) 2012 GERMANY JULIAN PÖLSLER £15.99
Martina Gedeck stars in this contemporary female Robinson Crusoe story. Based on Marlen Haushofer’s best-selling.
GERMAN LANGUAGE NOTES TO DIE WAND BY RENE KOGLBAUER
DAS WEIßE BAND/THE WHITE RIBBON (15) GERMANY 2009 HANEKE, MICHAEL DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £24.99
In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible for such bizarre transgressions?
SEQUENZPROTOKOLL UND DVD-ÜBERSICHT
GERMAN FILM GUIDE DAS WEIßE BAND
GERMAN LANGUAGE NOTES TO DAS WEIßE BAND
GERMAN TEACHING SUGGESTIONS FOR DAS WEIßE BAND
DIE WELLE/THE WAVE (15) 2008 GERMANY GANSEL, DENNIS £17.99
In an attempt to engage his students in politics, a high school teacher takes the controversial decision to turn the classroom into a Nazi-style dictatorship. But what starts out as an innocent social experiment ends in tragedy when the roots of fascism begin to take hold of the students.
GERMAN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM MATERIALS
SEQUENZPROTOKOLL UND DVD-OVERVIEW
TEACHING MATERIALS – QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FILM IN GERMAN
WER WENN NICHT WIR?/IF NOT US, WHO? (15) 2011 GERMANY VEIEL, ANDRES £15.99
Fictionalised portrait of the tumultuous relationship between two 1970s German left-wing political militants: Bernward Vesper (August Diehl) and Gudrun Ensslin (Lena Lauzemis). As Gudrun becomes more and more politically involved, the couple’s relationship comes under increasing strain and she eventually leaves Bernward and their baby son for the charismatic political rebel Andres Baader (Alexander Fehling); founder of the Red Army Faction terrorist group depicted in the 2008 film ‘The Baader-Meinhof Complex’.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Subject: German, History
GCSE-AS-LEVEL TEACHING NOTES BY RENE KOGLBAUER TO WER WENN NICHT WIR
WESTERN (12A) 2017 GERMANY GRISEBACH, VALESKA £15.99
A group of German construction workers are building a power plant in the Bulgarian countryside and treat the local with contempt.
However, older German worker, Meinhard, befriends some of the Bulgarians, which creates hostility from both the other workers and the native population.
WHO AM I – KEIN SYSTEM IST SICHER (15) 2014 GERMANY ODAR, BARAN BO £19.99
Benjamin is a socially inept young German computer geek, who is invited to join a hacker group by the charismatic Max. Benjamin finally feels he belongs and wants to gain recognition and status among the hackers community.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
WIE FEUER UND FLAMME/NEVER MIND THE WALL 2001 GERMANY WALTHER, CONNIE - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Story of two lover who can finally link up after the fall of the Berlin Wall
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY INGEBORG HAVRAN
WIR SIND DIE NACHT/WE ARE THE NIGHT (15) 2010 GERMANY GANSEL, DENNIS £12.99
German horror in which an oppressed young woman finds a sense of both liberty and terror in vampirism.
WOLKE 9/CLOUD 9 (15) 2008 GERMANY DRESEN,ANDREAS £12.99
The film explores fidelity, desire and love in the twilight years and subverts convention to present a brave account of young love in old age.
DAS WUNDER VON BERN/MIRACLE OF BERN (PG) 2003 GERMANY WORTMAN, SONKE £19.99
Set in the summer of 1954 when the West German team won the World World Cup and the country finally emerged from the shadow of the Second World War.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES BY TOBIAS HOCHSCHERF
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY PHILIPP BÜHLER
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUPIL’S NOTES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER’S NOTES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER’S NOTES ANSWERS
YELLA (12) 2007 GERMANY PETZOLD, CHRISTIAN £19.99
Yella leaves her home in the East Germany for a promising job and a new life, but as success is within reach, she finds herself haunted by truths from the past.
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO YELLA
ZWEI MÜTTER/TWO MOTHERS (18) GERMANY 2013 BERRACHED, ANNE ZOHRA £15.99
Two Mothers is an intense exploration of the trials and tribulations a same sex couple encounters in their desire to become loving parents.
SPANISH DVDS
LAS 13 ROSES 2007 SPAIN LÁZARO, EMILIO MARTÍNEZ - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
True story of a young women imprisoned charged with helping the rebellion against Franco in the 1940's.
14 KILÓMETROS/14 KILOMETERS 2007 SPAIN OLIVARES, GERARDO - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Three Africans set off on a journey to Spain looking for a better life but become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.
ABEL (15) 2010 MEXICO LUNA, DIEGO £14.99
Abel is an unstable child with mental problems who after his father leaves decides that he’s the man of the house, and begins acting like his absent father rather than the youngest child. To the surprise of everyone, adult responsibilities agree with Abel, and the family seems significantly happier with his new personality. But this proves to be short-lived when Abel’s real dad unexpectedly returns, and the two vie for the status of head of the household.
Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subject: Spanish, Film Studies
LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS/BROKEN EMBRACES/ (15) 2009 SPAIN ALMODÓVAR,PEDRO DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £27.99
Almodovar tells a twisting tale of how a blind writer came to loose his sight.
Level: GCSE, Scottish Highers Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
ARRUGAS/WRINKLES (15) 2011SPAIN FERRERAS, IGNACIO DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Animated film based on the comic book by Paco Roca set in a care home for the elderly.
ARRANCAME LA VIDA/TEAR THIS HEART OUT 2008 MEXICO SNEIDER, ROBERTO - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
A beautiful young girl marries a rich charming and powerful man. However the wealth and money don’t necessarily bring freedom and happiness and her generous and seductive husband is not the man she dreamt of.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
EL BANO DEL PAPA (15) 2007 URUGUAY CHARLONE C/FERNANDEZ E. £19.99
Comedy about a petty smuggler with an ingenious plan to provide toilet facilities to the masses when the Pope visits his local town.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
BLANCANIEVES (15) 2012 SPAIN BERGER, PABLO £19.99
Spanish black and white silent fantasy drama based on the Snow White fairy
EL BOLA (15) SPAIN 2001 MANAS, ACHERO £19.99
Goya awarding winning film about teenage friendship.
A BUSCA/FATHER’S CHAIR (15) BRAZIL 2012 LUCIANO MOURA IN PORTUGUESE £12.99
Theo (Wagner Moura) perfect live changes overnight when his 15-year-old son Pedro goes missing. Theo drops everything and embarks on a journey throughout Brazil to find him
LA CAJA 507/BOX 507 (15) 2004 SPAIN URBIZU, ENRIQUE £29.99
Thriller about robber who breaks open numerous safe deposit boxes and stumble across a which might solve a seven year old murder.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO LA CAJA 507
CARNE DE CAÑÓN/LIVE FLESH (18) SPAIN 1997 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
Sexy Almodovar thriller.
CENIZAS DEL CIELO/ASHES FROM THE SKY (12A) 2008 SPAIN QUIRÓS, JOSÉ ANTONIO - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Environmental drama
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
CIDADE DE DEUS/CITY OF GOD (18) BRAZIL 2000 LUND, KATIA £17.99
Violent look at the child gangs in the slums of Rio de Janeiro Level: AS, A2, Subject: Citizenship, English, Film Studies Study Guide Spanish language study guide Cinescola
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE SCREENPLAY
EL CIELO GIRA/SKY TURNS 2005 SPAIN ALVAREZ, MERCEDES - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Director Mercedes Alvarez was three years old when her parents left the village of La Aldea in the barren Northern Spanish Soria region. As the last child born in La Aldea the director return to the dying village to make this film.
LOS COLORES DE LA MONTANA 2010 COLUMBIA ARBELÁEZ, CÉSAR - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
This moving film tells the story of a football mad 9 year old boy living in a remote region of the Andes which is beset by fighting between the guerilla fighters and government troops.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
LA DANZA DE LA REALIDAD/DANCE OF REALITY (18) 2013 CHILE JODOROWSKY, ALEJANDRO £15.99
23 years since his last film Jodorowsky return with a film about is own life growing up a Ukrainian-Jew is the small Chilean costal town of Tocopilla in the early 1930s. The film blends the directors personal story with metaphor, mythology, and poetry.
DESPUÉS DE LUCÍA/AFTER LUCIA (15) 2012 MEXICO FRANCO, MICHEL £19.99
Tense drama about a teenage girl who becomes the object of increasingly violent bullying at her new school.
EL DIA DE LA BESTIA/DAY OF THE BEAST 1995 IGLESIA, ÁLEX DE LA. - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Darkest humoured horror film about a priest’s quest to prevent the birth of the Anti-Christ in Madrid on Christmas Day.
DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA /MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (15) 2004 ARGENTINA SALLES,W/THOMAS D DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Based on the journals of Ché Guevara, this coming-of-age road movie follows the adventures of the young medical student Ché (Gael García Bernal) and his friend Alberto Granada (Rodrigo de la Serna) as they cross South America on motorbikes in the early 1950s, on their way to take up their medical residency at a leper colony in Peru.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
ERES MI HÉROE/YOU'RE MY HERO (15) SPAIN 2003 CUADRI, ANTONIO £19.99
Mexican road movie about two teenagers and an older woman.
SPANISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO ERES MI HÉROE
EL ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO/DEVIL’S BACKBONE (15) SPAIN 2001 DEL TORO, GUILERMON £19.99
Set in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War which is haunted by a decomposing spirit.
Level: GCSE topic: Están en Peligro AS / A Level topic: crime Subject: Spanish
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
EL ESPÍRITU DE LA COLMENA/SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (PG) SPAIN 1973 ERICE, VICTOR £19.99 - AWAITING RE-ISSUE ON DVD
A remote Spanish village in the 1940’s a child becomes obsessed by the good-bad monster in the film Frankenstein. Victor Erice’s impressive film cloaks its political message in allegory.
LA JAULA DE ORO/THE GOLDEN DREAM (12A) 2013 GUATEMALA QUEMADA-DÍEZ, DIEGO £15.99
Three teenagers from the poorest part of Guatemala set off for a better life in the US.
On their way, they meet Chauk, an indigenous boy who can’t speak Spanish, but tags along. Continuing their journey they encounter kidnappers, drug traffickers and corrupt officials
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
KIKA (18) 1994 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £17.99
Kika, a make-up artist is involved in a web of intrigue.
EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO/PANS LABYRINTH (15) 2006 SPAIN TORO, GUILLERMO DEL £17.99
An adult fairy tale set in 1944 Spain, where both fantasy and reality are sinister and malevolent.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
LAND AND FREEDOM (15) UK 1995 PART IN ENGLISH PART IN SPANISH LOACH, KEN £19.99
Ken Loach's moving story of the Spanish Civil War and an unemployed Liverpool man, who heads for Spain as a volunteer to fight in the war. Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Film Studies, History
LA LENGUA DE LAS MARIPOSAS/BUTTERFLY’S TONGUE (15) 1999 SPAIN JOSE LUIS CUERDA £19.99
A school boys friendship with his teacher is tested with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
MATERIALES CURSOS ANTERIORES SPANISH LANGUAGE GUIDE
SPANISH LANGUAGE GUIDE WRITTEN BY PAULA PERERO CHAVARRÍA
LOBO (15) 2004 SPAIN COURTOIS, MIGUEL £17.99
Film about Mikel Lejarza, an undercover agent who became responsible for infiltrating Basque terrorist organisation, ETA.
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO EL LOBO
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO EL LOBO
MACHUCA (15) 2004 CHILE WOOD, ANDRES £19.99
Andres Woods semi-autobiographical film is set in Chile in 1973.
SPANISH FILM NOTES BY ANA VALBUENA
LA MÁQUINA DE PINTAR NUBES/THE CLOUD PAINTING MACHINE (15) 2009 SPAIN MAZO, A/TELLERÍA, P - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Coming-of-age tale set in Bilbao in 1974.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
MAR ADENTRO/SEA INSIDE (PG) 2004 SPAIN AMENABAR, ALEJANDRO £19.99
The real-life story of the paralysed Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE WRITTEN BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
MARIA LLENA ERES DE GRACIA/MARIA FULL OF GRACE (15) 2004 COLOMBIA MARSTON, JOSHUA £17.99
Thriller about a Colombia 17 years old who becomes involved in smuggling drugs to the USA. Level: AS, A2, Subject: Spanish
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO MARIA LLENA ERES DE GRACIA
DUTCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO MARIA LLENA ERES DE GRACIA
MISS BALA (15) 2011 MEXICO NARANJO, GERARDO £19.99
Mexican thriller about a poor Tijuana salesgirl who dreams of winning the local beauty pageant. However, she becomes embroiled in a nightmare world of organised crime when she witnesses the massacre of American anti-narcotics agents at a nightclub.
Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subject: Spanish, Citizenship, Film Studies, Media Studies, PSHE & Citizenship
A MITAD DEL CIELO/HALF OF HEAVEN (12A) 1986 SPAIN ARAGÓN, MANUEL GUTIÉRREZ - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
A tale of female passion and determination in a male dominated world.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA.
LA MUJER DEL ANARQUISTA/THE ANARCHIST’S WIFE (15) 2008 SPAIN SEHR,P/ NOËLLE, M - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Love story set during the Spanish Civil War.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
LA NANA/MAID (15) CHILE 2009 SILVA, SEBASTIAN £15.99
Comedy drama and social commentary that explores the subtle and complex dynamics at work between a well-meaning upper class Chilean family and their Peruvian maid
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILMS NOTES OT LA NANA
EL NIÑO (15) 2014 MONZÓN, DANIEL £19.99
Spanish thriller about Niño (Jesús Castro), a young man living in La Línea de la Concepción, who agrees to smuggle drugs from Africa to Spain.
OCHO APELLIDOS VASCOS /SPANISH AFFAIR (15) 2014 SPAIN LAZARO, EMILIO MARTINEZ £19.99
A young man from Seville seeks to win the heart of a Basque girl in this hit Spanish comedy based on the culture clash between the north and south of Spain
SPANISH LANGUAGE ESSAY ON OCHO APELLIDOS VASCOS
LOS OLVIDADOS (15) MEXICO 1950 BUNUEL, LUIS £12.99
Mexican drama about a street gang in Mexico City
EL OLIVO/OLIVE TREE (15) 2016 SPAIN BOLLAÍN, ICÍAR DUAL FORMAT EDITION £14.99
To help her ailing and melancholic grandfather, Ramón, 20-year-old Alma embarks on a quest to recover a 2,000-year-old olive tree that the family sold against the grandfathers wishes.
Alma tracks the tree to the Lobby of an energy company in the German city of Düsseldorf and with the help of friends and grassroots activist she hatches a plans to return the tree to its rightful home.
TEACHER_S RESOURCES TO EL OLIVO
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO EL OLIVO
SPANISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO EL OLIVO
ENGLISH PRESS NOTES TO EL OLIVO
GERMAN LANGUAGE NOTES TO EL OLIVO
EL ORFANATO/ORPHANAGE (15) 2007 MEXICO BAYONA , JUAN ANTONIO £19.99
Chilling ghost story
LA PIEL QUE HABITO/THE SKIN I LIVE IN (18) SPAIN ALMODÓVAR, PEDRO DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £27.99
Antonio Banderas plays a plastic surgeon whose attempts to cultivate a new form of human skin have led to years of experimentation on a woman, Vera. But as the story of Vera's past emerges, it becomes clear that the surgeon has a questionable agenda of his own as he manipulates her face and body for his own purposes.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, KS4 Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
REACHING FOR THE MOON (15) 2013 BRAZIL BARRETO, BRUNO IN PORTUGUESE £15.99
Set at the height of 1950s glamour, this film recounts the extraordinary relationship between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Set at the height of 1950s glamour, this audience award winning drama recounts the extraordinary relationship between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRODUCTION NOTES
RELATOS SALVAJES/WILD TALES (15) 2014 ARGENTINA SZIFRON, DAMIÁN
DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
Academy Award-nominated film consisting of six stories about characters who cross the thin line that divides civilisation from barbarism.
SOLAS (15) 1998 SPAIN ZAMBRANO, BENITO £19.99
Award wining film about the relationship between a mother and her daughter.
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO SOLAS
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO SOLAS
SOMOS LO QUE HAY/WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (18) 2010 MEXICO GRAU, JORGE MICHEL DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Visceral and powerful portrait of a Mexican family bound by a monstrous secret.
TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA/EVEN THE RAIN (15) 2012 SPAIN BOLLAÍN, ICIAR £14.99
Spanish actress, writer and director Icíar Bollaín directs this political docu-drama about an international film crew that arrives in rural Bolivia to make a film about Christopher Columbus. However, director Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his crew find their project under threat when violent demonstrations break out locally against the corporate ownership of the area's water rights. The film uses a dual storyline to draw parallels between issues of wealth, ownership and political power both 500 years ago, when Spain first conquered the New World, and today, when corporate giants use their money and power to ride roughshod over the rights of indigenous people.
Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
¿TE ACUERDAS DE LAKE TAHOE?/LAKE TAHOE (12) 2008 MEXICO EIMBCKE, FERNANDO £15.99 - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Juan car crashes and as he is stranded in a small town he makes tentative connections with the people he has met and is finally able to find the strength to face up to a recent family tragedy.
TE DOY MIS OJOS/TAKE MY EYES (15) 2004 SPAIN BOLLAIN, ICAIR £19.99
Realist drama about a woman and her child escaping her abusive husband.
TESIS (18) 1986 SPAIN AMENÁBAR, ALEJANDRO - AWAITING RE-ISSUE ON DVD
Tense thriller
TODO SOBRE MI MADRE/ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (15) 1999 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
On the death of her son a single mother goes to find the boys father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he had a child Level: AS, A2 Subject: Spanish, Women, Gender, Film Studies, Media Studies, PSHE & Citizenship
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
UN FRANCO, 14 PESETAS/CROSSING BORDERS (15) 2006 SPAIN IGLESIAS, CARLOS - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Gentle comedy about Spanish immigrants living in 1960s Switzerland
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
UN LUGAR EN EL MUNDO 1992 ARGENTINA ARISTARÁIN, ADOLFO - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
South American western
UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA/A FANTASTIC WOMAN (15) 2017 CHILE LELIO , SEBASTIÁN DVD – £12.99 BLU RAY – £17.99
After Orlando dies his transgender partner, Marina, finds herself and her lifestyle coming under scrutiny by Orlando’s family and the police. Marina is banned from Orlando’s funeral and questioned and harassed relentlessly, while at the same time trying to grieve the loss of her partner.
Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA
GERMAN LANGUAGE PRESS KIT UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCREENPLAY TO UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA
EL VIAJE DE TEO TEO’S JOURNEY (12A) 2009 MEXICO DOEHNER, WALTER - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Eight-year-old Teo goes on a journey in search of his father, from whom he has been separated at the Mexican-US border.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
LA VIDA PRECOZ Y BREVE DE SABINA RIVAS/ PRECOCIOUS & BRIEF LIFE OF SABINA RIVAS (15) 2012 MEXICO MANDOKI, LUIS £12.99
Honduran teenager Sabina Rivas (Greisy Mena) leaves her small town dreaming of becoming a famous singer in the USA. However first she must navigate through Mexico’s seedy underworld to reach her goal.
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILMS NOTES TO LA VIDA PRECOZ Y BREVE DE SABINA RIVAS
EL VIOLIN (15) 2005 MEXICO VARGAS, FRANCISCO £19.99
An old farmer and violinist, smuggles ammunition to the guerilla movement beneath the noses of government troops.
VIRIDIANA (15) MEXICO 1961 B/W BUNUEL, LUIS £15.99
Bunuel’s masterwork packed with black humour, anticlericism and scathing satire.
VOCES INOCENTES/INNOCENT VOICES (12) 2004 MEXICO MANDOKI, LUIS £19.99
Set in El Salvador in the 1980s, an eleven-year-old boy who suddenly becomes the’man of the house’ after his father abandons the family in the middle of a civil war
Level: GCSE topic: relationships, first love AS / A Level topic: war, third world
SPANISH LANGUAGE PRE FILM STUDENT GUIDE
SPANISH LANGUAGE POST FILM STUDENT GUIDE
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
LINK TO SOME MORE TEACHING RESOURCES
VOLVER (15) 2006 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
After her death, a mother returns as a ghost, to fix a family situations she couldn’t resolve during her life.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE WRITTEN BY CARMEN HERRERO
WAKOLDA/GERMAN DOCTOR (12A) 2013 ARGENTINA PUENZO, LUCIA £15.99
The true story of an Argentinean family who lived alongside ex-Nazi SS Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity.
WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? (12A) 2013 SILVER, MARC £15.99
Actor Gael García Bernal produces and presents this documentary exploring the issue of illegal immigration from Mexico into the USA.
ZIPI Y ZAPE Y EL CLUB DE LA CANICA/ZIP & ZAP AND THE MARBLE GANG (PG) 2013 SPAIN SANTOS, OSKAR £19.99
Adventure comedy adapted from the comic by José Escobar Saliente. Twins Zipi and Zape are punished for their bad behaviour and sent to a summer boarding school.
Fed up of their new surroundings, the twins join forces with friends Filo and Micro to form a resistance group called the Marble Gang and vow to fight back against their ruthless headmaster.
SPANISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO ZIPI Y ZAPE Y EL CLUB DE LA CANICA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO ZIPI Y ZAPE Y EL CLUB DE LA CANICA
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO ZIPI Y ZAPE Y EL CLUB DE LA CANICA
ITALIAN DVDS
I CENTO PASSI (15) 2000 ITALY GIORDANA, MARCO TULLIO £19.99
Set in the 1970s, in a small Sicilian town, a young left-wing activist denounces the activities of a local Mafia family. 30 year later the activist is killed and the Mafia is implicated.
ITALIAN NOTES TO I CENTO PASSI 1
ITALIAN NOTES TO I CENTO PASSI
CESARA DEVE MORIRE/CAESAR MUST DIE (12) 2012 ITALY TAVIANI PAOLO & VITTORIO £15.99
Award-winning documentary from renowned Italian filmmakers the Taviani brothers following a production of Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' by a group of incarcerated criminals.
ENGLISH NOTES TO CESARA DEVE MORIRE
LA GRANDE BELLEZZA/THE GREAT BEAUTY (15) 2013 ITALY SORRENTINO PAOLO £15.99
Accomplished journalist learns of the death of a former lover and is confronted with the fragility of life.
ITALIAN NOTES TO LA GRANDE BELLEZZA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT TO LA GRANDE BELLEZZA
NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO/CINEMA PARADISO (PG) 1988 ITALY TORNATORE, GUISEPPE £19.99
The story of a wise old cinema projectionist’s influence on the life of small town Sicilian boy.
ITALIAN NOTES TO NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO
ENGLISH FILM SCRIPT TO CINEMA PARADISO
FRENCH FILM NOTES CINEMA PARADISO
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO
IL POSTINO (U) 1995 ITALY RADFORD, MICHAEL £19.99
Oscar winning film, set on a remote Mediterranean island, where a young postman delivers letters to exiled poet Pablo Neruda and the two become friends.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE TO IL POSTINO
LA VITA È BELLA/LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (PG) 1998 ITALY ROBERTO BENIGNI £19.99
Oscar winning film about a charming but bumbling Jewish waiter who must rely on his strengths to protect his family during the Second World War.
ITALIAN LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE TO LA VITA È BELLA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE TO LA VITA È BELLA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FACT SHEET TO LA VITA È BELLA
VA’ DOVE TI PORTA IL CUORE, 1996 ITALY COMENCINI, CRISTINA £19.99 - ONLY AVAILABLE IN ITALIAN WITHOUT ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Based on the bestseller of Susanna Tamaro about an series of letters written by an elderly woman to her granddaughter, describing her turbulent life and her thoughts.
RUSSIAN/EASTERN EUROPEAN DVDS
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (PG) 1925 RUSSIA EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £19.99
A landmark film in technical achievement and emotionally stirring recreation of history.
Level: AS, A2, Dip 3, Scottish Highers Subjects: English, Film Studies, History, Media Studies
CHILDREN OF GLORY (15) HUNGARY 2006 GODA, KRISZTINA £17.99
Set during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Hungarian water polo team was winning over the Soviets in the Olympic pool in Melbourne, in what has been described as the bloodiest water polo match in history.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subjects: Citizenship, History, Media Studies
SCANDINAVIAN DVDS
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (15) 2008 SWEDEN ALFREDSON, TOMAS £17.99
Swedish horror film based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist about a sensitive, fragile, 12-year-old boy, living in the suburbs of Stockholm, who is bullied at school and spends his nights dreaming of revenge and rehearsing knife attacks in the courtyard behind his apartment building. There he meets his new next-door neighbour Eli, a mysterious girl of his own age who turns out to be a vampire. With Eli on his side, Oskar is finally able to face up to the bullies who have made his life such a misery, but Eli's unquenchable thirst for blood brings problems of its own. BLU RAY £24.99
Level: A2, GCSE Subjects: Film Studies, Media Studies
AFRICAN DVDS
TSOTSI (15) 2005 SOUTH AFRICA HOOD, GAVIN IN AFRIKAANS & ZULU £19.99
Oscar winning film about a young gang member whose life is changed when he steals a car and accidentally kidnaps a baby.
Level: GCSE, KS4 Subjects: Citizenship, Media Studies
CHINESE DVDS
CAVE OF THE YELLOW DOG (U) 2005 MONGOLIA DAVAA, BYAMBASUREN £16.99
Six-year-old Girl set off to find her missing dog goes and encounters an old nomad woman who tells her the legend of the cave of the yellow dog.
Level: KS2 Subjects: Literacy, PSHE & Citizenship
Cave of the Yellow Dog online resource - CLICK HERE
Film Synopsis & Press Notes - CLICK HERE
CHUNGKING EXPRESS (12) 1994 HONG KONG KAR WAI, WONG IN CANTONESE £19.99
Wong Kar-Wai's celebrated portrait of neon-lit city populated by love-lorn cops, dangerous drug smugglers and California dreamers. The film comprises of two separate stories, the first of which features a cop (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who falls for a mysterious woman (Brigitte Lin) in a late night bar, little knowing that she is a big-time heroin smuggler. The second story features another cop (Tony Leung) who regularly visits a late night diner where he is served by a girl who has a huge crush on him; the girl then begins breaking into the cop's apartment, cleaning it for him, and adding little touches to help him get over the departure of his air-stewardess girlfriend.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Film Studies, Media Studies
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (15) 2004 HONG KONG YIMOU, ZHANG IN MANDARIN £19.99
A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful member of a rebel army out of prison to
help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Film Studies, Media Studies
IRANIAN DVDS
A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (16) 2014 IRAN AMIRPOUR, ANA LILY DVD – £17.99 BLU RAY – £22.99
Persian vampire horror, set in the fictional Iranian underworld, where discontented youngster Arash deals with life in the lawless town.
A GIRL WALK HOME ALONE AT NIGHT PRESS KIT
PARDÉ/CLOSED CURTAIN (12) 2013 IRAN PARTOVI, K/PANAHI, J. £15.99
A screenwriter, his dog and a young woman have barricade themselves in a secluded villa with drawn curtains and eye each other suspiciously, prisoners in a house midst of a hostile environment. Maybe the film is a reflection on director Jafar Panahi 20-year Iranian ban on filmmaking.
LE PASSÉ/THE PAST (12) 2013 IRAN FARHADI, ASGHAR FRENCH/FARSI
DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from his homeland of Iran at the request of his wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo) who wants to divorce him. When he arrives he finds that his soon-to-be ex-wife has begun a relationship with Samir (Tahar Rahim), a younger man with a child of his own and a spouse.
While they begin proceedings for their separation, all involved are forced to deal with unresolved issues from their past.
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
Level:AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Art & Design, Citizenship, English, Film Studies, Media Studies, Politic
Persepolis online resource - CLICK HERE
Study Guide in French - CLICK HERE
THE SALESMAN (12A) 2016 IRAN FARHADI, ASGHAR DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Asghar Farhadi returns with an Oscar-winning exploration of the potent power of pride, guilt and shame.
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO SALESMAN
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO SALESMAN
TAXI TEHRAN (12) 2015 IRAN PANAHI, JAFAR £15.99
After being banned by the Iranian government from making films and placed under house arrest, Panahi poses as a taxi driver and drives around the busy streets of Tehran picking up passengers and recording their conversations. The passengers discusses the social challenges that Iranian citizens face on a daily basis.
UNDER THE SHADOW (15) 2016 IRAN ANVARI, BABAK £14.99
Iranian horror set in 1980s Tehran where a mother and daughter come to realise that their house has a demonic presence.
ENGLISH FILM NOTES TO UNDER THE SHADOW
JAPANESE DVDS
RAN (15) 1985 JAPAN KUROSAWA, AKIRA DVD £19.99 BLU RAY £24.99
This complex, newly restored, Oscar-winning epic is Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear.
PONYO (U) JAPAN 2008 MIYAZAKI, HAYAO £17.99
Animated adventure by the Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's story.
Level: KS1, KS2 Subjects: Literacy, PSHE & Citizenship
SPIRITED AWAY PG) 2001 JAPAN MIYAZAKI. HAYAO £19.99
Oscar-winning animated film which follows the adventures of young girl trapped in a
fantastical world populated by spirits
Level: KS2 Subjects: Art & Design, Literacy, PSHE & Citizenship
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