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Fr. 2025. Dramatic comedy by Amélie Bonnin with Juliette Armanet, Bastien Bouillon, François Rollin.
Runtime: 96 min.

The Second Act

V.O.: Le Deuxième acte
Fr. 2024. Comedy by Quentin Dupieux with Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon. In a roadside restaurant, a meeting between a woman, her father, her lover and the latter's best friend takes an unexpected turn.
Runtime: 80 min.

The Favorite

V.O.: Jeanne du Barry
Fr. 2023. Biography by Maïwenn with Maïwenn, Johnny Depp, Benjamin Lavernhe. Coming from the working class, the courtesan Jeanne du Barry nevertheless became the favorite of King Louis XV.
Runtime: 117 min.
Runtime: 110 min
Fr. 2021. Musical by Léos Carax with Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg. An American comedian and a French singer go through a marital crisis caused by the prodigious vocal talent of their baby.
Runtime: 139 min.
U.S. 2019. Horror comedy by Jim Jarmusch with Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton. In a small rural community, the dead are emerging from the ground to attack the living, a phenomenon that happens to be occurring worldwide.
Runtime: 103 min.

Everybody Knows

V.O.: Todos lo saben
Esp. 2018. Drama by Asghar Farhadi with Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darin. The kidnapping of a teenage girl during a wedding in a Spanish village awakens resentments and causes the revelation of disturbing family secrets.
Runtime: 132 min.

Ismael's Ghosts

V.O.: Les Fantômes d'Ismaël
Fr. 2017. Drama by Arnaud Desplechin with Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard. A filmmaker who has been in a relationship with an astrophysicist for two years sees his wife, who disappeared without a trace 21 years earlier, reappear.
Runtime: 154 min.
U.S. 2016. Dramatic comedy by Woody Allen with Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell. In Hollywood in the 1930s, the son of a New York jeweller falls in love with the secretary and mistress of his uncle, a wealthy artist’s agent.
Runtime: 97 min.

Standing Tall

V.O.: La Tête haute
Fr. 2015. Social drama by Emmanuelle Bercot with Rod Paradot, Benoît Magimel, Catherine Deneuve. A violent teenager with learning difficulties tries to find his place in society with the help of an educator and a juvenile judge.
Runtime: 119 min.
Fr. 2013. History by Olivier Dahan with Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Frank Langella. In 1961, Grace of Monaco was called upon to intervene in the diplomatic conflict between her husband, Prince Rainier, and the French government run by Charles de Gaulle.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 2012. Sentimental drama by Baz Luhrmann with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan. Thanks to his neighbour, a billionaire with a mysterious past hopes to win back a lost love who is now married to a rich heir.
Runtime: 142 min.
U.S. 2012. Dramatic comedy by Wes Anderson with Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Edward Norton. In the summer of 1965 on a New England island, a twelve-year-old Boy Scout escapes from his summer camp to find the young resident with whom he is in love.
Runtime: 94 min.
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U.S. 2011. Fantasy comedy by Woody Allen with Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard. During a stay in the French capital with his fianc
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 2009. Animation by Pete Docter. A widower in his seventies, en route to South America in his balloon-topped house, is unaware that a Boy Scout was on the porch at the time of takeoff.
Runtime: 96 min.
Parental Guidance
Can. 2008. Fantasy by Fernando Meirelles with Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga. The wife of an ophthalmologist is mysteriously spared from an epidemic of blindness that strikes the entire population of a large city.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 2006. Thriller by Ron Howard with Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen. An American suspected of murdering the curator of the Louvre embarks on an investigation with the curator
Runtime: 148 min.

Bad Education

V.O.: La Mala Educacion
Esp. 2004. Mores drama by Pedro Almodovar with Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Daniel Giménez Cacho. A tormented actor proposes to a childhood friend turned filmmaker to make a film inspired by their own lives.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 2002. Comedy by Woody Allen with Woody Allen, Téa Leoni, Mark Rydell. A director wishing to revive his career suffers from psychosomatic blindness the day before the shooting of a film produced by his ex-wife.
Runtime: 112 min.
U.S. 2001. Musical by Baz Luhrmann with Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Richard Roxburgh. In Paris, in 1900, a poet and a singer from the Moulin Rouge experience a great love that is destined to end in tragedy.
Runtime: 126 min.
Parental Guidance
U.S. 1998. Dramatic comedy by Mike Nichols with Adrian Lester, John Travolta, Emma Thompson. The tribulations of the campaign manager of an adulterous politician running for the Democratic Party leadership.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1997. Science-fiction by Luc Besson with Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich. In the twenty-third century, a New York cab driver protects a mysterious young woman who can save the world from certain destruction.
Runtime: 125 min.
U.S. 1992. Crime drama by Paul Verhoeven with Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza. While investigating the murder of a rock singer, a police officer falls for the main suspect.
Runtime: 128 min.
U.S. 1991. Crime drama by David Mamet with Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, Natalija Nogulich. A Jewish police inspector investigating the murder of an old woman discovers the existence of an organization fighting a neo-Nazi group.
Runtime: 100 min.
Jap. 1990. Sketches by Akira Kurosawa with Akira Terao, Toshihiko Nakano, Mitsunori Isaki. Eight stories inspired by the author's dreams.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1989. Sketches by Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese with Nick Nolte, Heather McComb, Mia Farrow. New York City serves as the setting and the common thread for three stories.
Runtime: 124 min.
U.S. 1985. Crime drama by Peter Weir with Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer. A police officer must protect a young Amish man who witnessed a murder while visiting Philadelphia with his widowed mother.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1983. Adventures by Alain Corneau with Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Sophie Marceau. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the heroic and romantic adventures of a lieutenant assigned to the Sahara to train a battalion of spahis.
Runtime: 185 min.
U.S. 1982. Satire by Martin Scorsese with Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard. A man kidnaps the host of a talk show in order to be able to present a comical monologue on television.
Runtime: 108 min.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 1976. Montage by Gene Kelly. Excerpts from musical or comedy films produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, from the late 1920s to the early 1960s.
Runtime: 116 min.
It. 1973. Chronicle by Federico Fellini with Bruno Zanin, Magali Noël, Armando Brancia. Various incidents marking the life of a small Italian town in the mid-1930s.
Runtime: 123 min.
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