Romance

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HEARTBREAKER
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Rated: M
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Actors: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, François Damiens
Distributor: Hopscotch
Release Year: 2011
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles
Do you have a friend going out with a schmuck? What you need is an expert heartbreaker - an irresistible man that can break up a bad relationship and save loved ones from a miserable life ahead.

Alex (Romain Duris: The Spanish Apartment, Paris) is a professional home-wrecker and his sister and brother-in-law are partners in this lucrative activity. But there is one golden rule: Alex only agrees to get involved with women who are unhappy in their relationship.

But when a father who hates his future son-in-law hires Alex one week before the marriage he wants to prevent, Alex agrees to abandon his "code of ethics" and seduce the seemingly happy Juliette (Vanessa Paradis: Girl on the Bridge).

His charms have never failed him before, but Juliette proves to be his biggest challenge yet and when he suddenly feels like the one falling in love, things start to go awry with very amusing results.

Heartbreaker is at once hilarious fun and a gooey summer romp, which reminds us of the beauty of a free spirit versus predictability. It also features one of the best dance scenes in recent memory that quite simply makes you want to get out of your seat and cheer. Stunningly located in the South of France, Heartbreaker is a modern romantic comedy and a winning story of love.

MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON
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* Presented at the 2010 Alliance Française French Film festival! *
Rated: M
Director: Stephane Brize
Actors: Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon
Distributor: Madman
Release Year: 2011
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles
After the international success of Not Here To Be Loved, Stéphane Brizé returns with his usual elegance and subtle scriptwriting, in a story that echoes in each and everyone of us.

Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: he spends his days happily between his construction sites and his house, with his loving wife and son. He feels comfortable in his routine. One day, as he’s picking up Kevin from school, he stumbles upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet, elegant, mesmerizing, unlike any woman he has ever met before.

This chance encounter will be a turning point in his well-organized life. An opportunity to change or a folly to regret?

THE PERFECT DATE
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* Presented at the 2011 Alliance Française French Film festival! *
Rated: M
Director: Dominique Farrugia, Arnaud Lemort
Actors: Clovis Cornillac, Manu Payet
Distributor: Madman
Release Year: 2011
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles

What would you do for the woman of your dreams?

Globetrotting aid-worker Michel (Clovis Cornillac from the Asterix films) dreams of that great romantic moment when fate brings two soulmates together. On the other hand, his best friend since childhood, Vincent ( Coco ’s Manu Payet) is a hotshot divorce lawyer who prefers an all-sex, no-commitment approach to relationships. But when Vincent's latest squeeze, Nathalie, dumps him and Michel finds out that Vincent had engineered his "chance encounter" with beautiful blonde Angèle, the two childhood friends realize they'll have to help each other out if they want to find lasting happiness with the women of their dreams. Will it all end in marriage, or in tears?

HAPPENSTANCE
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Rated: PG
Director: Laurent Firode
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Faudel
Distributor: Aztec
Release Year: 2007
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles
French director Laurent Firode presents this filmic oddity, which explores the idea--and the effects--of chaos theory over the course of one day in Paris. The concept, as treated in the film, is best explained by an aging drifter who walks through a Parisian park saying that sometimes the most random, stupid act can alter the course of the world. He goes on to say that something as minor as the batting of a butterfly's wings over the Atlantic can cause a hurricane over the Pacific. (This is an explanation of the French title, which translates to "The Batting of the Wings of a Butterfly").

In short, all things are intrinsically connected. And in this film, the tiniest action performed by one character triggers a series of events that eventually impact another character. There is a broad cross-section of over 20 extremely quirky characters in the film, all of whom are deeply superstitious and believe strongly in fate, which enhances the comedy, surprise, and strangeness of each new scenario.

TRICHEUSE
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Actors: Hélène de Fougerolles, Zinedine Soualem
Director: Jean-François Davy
Release Year: 2008
Region 2 DVD from France (multiregion DVD player required) - In French, with English subtitles
Jeune avocate brillante, Clémence ne veut penser qu’à son travail. Or, Cédric, son amant, convaincu qu’elle est la femme de sa vie, ne cesse de la harceler, et Monsieur Dulac, le propriétaire du superbe appartement qu’elle vient de louer, ne supporte pas les célibataires. Aussi, Clémence s’invente-t-elle un mari. Désormais, elle est censée être l’épouse de Farid, sympathique accordeur de piano. Mais très vite, la jeune femme est dépassée par son imposture.

MARRIAGES!
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Rated: M
Actors: Lio, Miou-Miou, Jean Dujardin, Didier Bezace
Director: /
Distributor: Madman
Format: PAL
Release Year: 2009
Running Time: 100 minutes
Johanna and Benjamin are 25 and are getting married today. The witnesses at their wedding are 35, have been together ten years and are splitting up today. Their parents are 45, broke up ten years ago and are trying to get back together today. Three weddings in a wedding, three couples during 24 hours of a wedding celebration that is perturbed just a little bit by everyone's doubts and crisis while tolerant, but stunned, relatives bear witness. 'How wonderful it is to love', the minister sings courageously at a moment in time when one marriage out of three ends in divorce. One out of three, okay, but which one?

MY FRIENDS MY LOVES
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Rated: M15+
Actors: Pascal Elbe, Florence Foresti, Virginie Ledoyen, Vincent Lindon
Director: Lorraine Levy
Distributor: Roadshow Home Entertainment
Format: PAL
Release Year: 2008
Running Time: 95 minutes
Both poignant and mirthful, My Friends, My Loves is a French delight about friendship, sex and life balance. The story of two divorced French men in London who decide to move in together with their two kids, My Friends, My Loves goes to wacky, unexpected places while also maintaining plenty of heart.

HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT
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Rated: M
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan
Director: Laetitia Colombani
Distributor: Umbrella Entertainment
Format: PAL
Release Year: 2002
Running Time: 96 minutes
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles
Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. We see her attempts to make him leave his pregnant wife, but he does not appear for meetings or finally the booked journey to Florence. Then the movie is turned back to the beginning, and the view changes: We are now following the view of the doctor instead of Angelique's. And things look quite different now.

TONIGHT, I'LL SLEEP AT YOURS
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Rated: M
Actors: Melanie Doutey, Jean-Paul Rouve, Kad Merad
Director: Olivier Baroux
Format: PAL
Release Year: 2007
Running Time: 84 minutes
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles

Alex loves Laetitia. She is beautiful, funny, sparkling, radiant and she loves Alex. She even adores Jacques, Alex's best friend and publisher. In essence, she's the light and love of Alex's life, the future mother of his children, his reason for living, but...Alex prefers her to keep her own place. His official line is that they can live together, sure, "but not in the same apartment!" As Alex desperately attempts to dissuade his gorgeous girlfriend from getting too close, he cooks up a series of situations preventing Laetitia from raising the idea of co-habitation, but which of the two stubborn lovers is going to give in first?

A lighthearted examination of modern relationships, Tonight I'll Sleep at Yours shines a bright line on the absurdities of commitment-phobia.

I DO
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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SPECIAL TODAY !
Format: DVD Video (PAL)
Genre: Movie-Drama
Label: HOPSCOTCH
Release Date: 21/11/2007
Zone 4 - In French with English subtitles
Starring French ‘It’ Girl Charlotte Gainsbourg, I Do is a whimsical and infectious french romantic comedy about a confirmed bachelor who schemes to stay that way. The film had the highest grossing opening weekend box office in France.

PRICELESS
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Rated: M15+
Actors: Gad Elmaleh, Audrey Tautou
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Feature: Making of, Deleted Scenes, Behind the Scenes, Original Theatrical Trailer
Release Year: 2006
Running Time: 104 minutes
Region 4 - In French with English subtitles
Irène (Audrey Tautou) is an old-fashioned gold-digger, seducing rich older men in return for dresses, trinkets and baubles. When she mistakes shy barman Jean (Gad Elmaleh) for one of her usual prey, she is abhorred to discover his lowly status and flees to the Riviera. Jean tags along hopefully but Irène proceeds to viciously bleed him dry before unceremoniously dumping him. But when a rich older woman adopts Jean as her plaything, Irène becomes intrigued and starts to instruct him in her dark arts...

THE SINGER (QUAND J'ETAIS CHANTEUR)
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Rated: M15+
Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Cecile De France, Gerard Depardieu
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Release Year: 2006
Region 4 - In French with English subtitles

Bringing together one of the most distinguished and profilic actor in French cinema with one of its most luminous and vibrant young female talents, THE SINGER tells the story of a faded, middle-aged dance hall vocalist who falls for a beautiful but troubled woman half his age.

Gérard Depardieu - in the role acclaimed as his best since CYRANO DE BERGERAC - and Cécile de France (from RUSSIAN DOLLS) star with great chemistry in this tender and poignant love story that's wonderfully acted, beautifully told and never hits a false note.

PARIS JE T'AIME
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Rated: M15+
Actors: Fanny Ardent, Leila Bekhti, Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe, Gerard Depardieu, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Emily Mortimer, Natalie Portman, Miranda Richardson, Elijah Wood
Directors: Olivier Assayas, Wes Craven, Gerard Depardieu, Tom Tykwer...
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Discs: 2
Release Year: 2006
Running Time: 120 minutes
Region 4 DVD - in French with English subtitles

Feature: Making of, Deleted scenes, "Quartier de la Madeleine" - animated sequence directed by Vincenzo Natali, "Tour Eiffel" - storyboard directed by Sylvain Chomet, Australian exclusive interview with Chris Doyle and Ran Li, ABC's AT THE MOVIES interviews with cast and directors, Original theatrical trailers and teasers.

Through the neighbourhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened.

A stunning line-up of internationally renowned directors and actors rediscover the city of Paris in a collective work about love.

Au fil des quartiers, des histoires d'amour passager, voilé, mimé, vampirisé, malmené ou révélé...Un Pari(s) moderne émouvant et drôle, un film plein de vie(s) sur le thème de l'Amour. Montmartre - écrit et réalisé par Bruno Podalydès, Quais de Seine - écrit et réalisé par Gurinder Chadha, Le Marais - écrit et réalisé par Gus Van, SantTuileries - écrit et réalisé par Joel et Ethan Coen, Loin du 16e - écrit et réalisé par Walter Salles et Daniela Thomas, Porte de Choisy - écrit et réalisé par Christopher Doyle, Bastille - écrit et réalisé par Isabel Coixet, Place des Victoires - écrit et réalisé par Nobuhiro Suwa, Tour Eiffel - écrit et réalisé par Sylvain Chomet, Parc Monceau - écrit et réalisé par Alfonso Cuaron, Quartier des Enfants Rouges - écrit et réalisé par Olivier Assayas, Place des fêtes - écrit et réalisé par Oliver Schmitz, Pigalle - écrit et réalisé par Richard LaGravenese, Quartier de la Madeleine - écrit et réalisé par Vincenzo Natali, Père-Lachaise - écrit et réalisé par Wes Craven, Faubourg Saint-Denis - écrit et réalisé par Tom Tykwer, Quartier Latin - écrit par Gena Rowlands, réalisé par Gérard Depardieu et Frédéric Auburtin, 14e arrondissement - écrit et réalisé par Alexander Payne.

COEURS
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Director: ALAIN RESNAIS
Actors : SABINE AZEMA  ISABELLE CARRE, LAURA MORANTE
Release Year : 2006
Genre : COMEDIE / VIDEO
Distributor : UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE S.A.S.
Label : STUDIO CANAL
Region 2 DVD - In French with French or English subtitles
Thierry, agent immobilier, se donne beaucoup de mal pour trouver un appartement à Nicole et Dan, un couple de clients difficiles.A l'agence, Charlotte, sa collaboratrice, lui prête la cassette d'une émission qu'elle adore, un programme de variétés religieuses dont la vision troublera fortement Thierry.La soeur cadette de Thierry, Gaëlle, recherche secrètement l'amour, allant même jusqu'à recourir aux petites annonces.Dan, militaire de carrière expulsé de l'armée, passe ses journées dans le bar d'un hôtel où il confie ses mésaventures à Lionel, le barman.Pour assurer son service du soir, Lionel fait appel à une assistante à domicile bénévole pour s'occuper de son père, Arthur, un vieil homme malade et colérique. C'est Charlotte qui se présente.Et ainsi, le mouvement d'un personnage peut bouleverser le destin d'un autre sans pour autant le connaître voire même le rencontrer.

MAUVAISE FOI
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Réalisateur : ROSCHDY ZEM
Interprète : ROSCHDY ZEM CECILE DE FRANCE
Année : 2006
Genre : COMEDIE / VIDEO
Editeur : UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE S.A.S.
Label : STUDIO CANAL
Region 2 DVD - in French with no subtitles
Clara est juive, Ismaël est arabe. Ils forment un couple heureux et épanoui. Lorsque Clara tombe enceinte, c'est le plus beau jour de leur vie. Tout va bien...

PRETE-MOI TA MAIN
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Réalisateur : ERIC LARTIGAU 
Interprète : CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, BERNADETTE LAFONT, ALAIN CHABAT
Année : 2006
Genre : COMEDIE / VIDEO
Editeur : UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE S.A.S.
Label : STUDIO CANAL Film en zone 2 -Langue: Francais, Sous-titres: Français Sourds et malentendants 
La vie est facile pour Luis, 43 ans, célibataire heureux... Cela aurait pu durer mais... Lassées de le materner et de l'assister, sa mère et ses soeurs décident qu'il est temps pour lui de se marier, et le plus vite possible ! Cerné, harcelé par sa famille, il élabore un plan imparable : trouver la femme parfaite qui se fera passer pour sa fiancée auprès de sa famille et qui, le jour du mariage, va lâchement l'abandonner.

LA FEMME DE GILLES
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Director : FREDERIC FONTEYNE
Actors : EMMANUELLE DEVOS
Release Date : 2004
Genre : COMEDIE DRAMATIQUE / VIDEO
Distributor : FRANCE 2 FRANCE 3 DISTRIBUTION
Region 2 DVD - in French with subtitles in English or Dutch
Années 30, dans un milieu ouvrier. C'est l'histoire d'Elisa, la femme de Gilles. Gilles travaille dans les hauts-fourneaux, parfois le jour, parfois la nuit. Elisa s'occupe des enfants, de la maison et vit chaque jour dans l'attente du retour de Gilles. Victorine est la soeur d'Elisa, elle vient souvent rendre visite à sa soeur pour jouer avec les enfants et donner un coup de main. Elisa attend un enfant. De drôles d'idées lui traversent la tête. Gilles et Victorine, Victorine et Gilles... Mais non, ce sont de drôles d'idées. C'est bizarre l'humeur d'une femme enceinte...

LOVE ME IF YOU DARE
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LOVE ME IF YOU DARE
Actors: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard
Director: Yann Samuell
Rated: M15+
Release Year: 2004
Running Time: 90 minutes
Region 4 DVD - In French with English subtitles
Eight-year-old Sophie is the girl on the bus that everyone teases. Julien is the little boy that comes to her rescue. He, too, is an outcast of sorts, struggling to cope with the loss of his dying mother. Together, they invent an outrageous game of "Dare" to keep their spirits alive.

Their game becomes a glorious mutual addiction. It binds them together as it tears them apart. As their feelings for each other grow through childhood into adulthood, each must decide if they are willing to finally acknowledge their love for each other. But can they ever stop playing the game?

HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE ME? (Combien tu m'aimes?)
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How much do you love me
Actors: Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan, Gerard Depardieu
Director: Bernard Blier  
Rated: MA 15+
Format: PAL
Release Year: 2005
Running Time: 95 minutes
Region 4 - In French with English subtitles

Balding, elfin-eared Francois (Bernard Campan) enters a hookers-in-the-window joint in Paris' Pigalle district to meet the woman who has become his obsession - the voluptuous Daniela (Monica Bellucci). Her attention can be had for 150 Euros and an extravagant bottle of champagne. Francois doesn't balk at the cost. Instead, he revels that he has just won the lottery and offers Daniela 100,000 Euros a month to live with him until the money runs out. Daniela becomes the domestic goddess of everyman's dream and life couldn't be better, that is until Daniela's gangster boyfriend turns up....

VA SAVOIR
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Director: JACQUES RIVETTE  
With : SERGIO CASTELLITTO   JEANNE BALIBAR   HELENE DE FOUGEROLLES
Release Year : 2001
Genre : COMEDIE / VIDEO
Distributor : ARTE VIDEO
Region 4 DVD - in French with English subtitles

Venue présenter une pièce de Pirandello avec sa troupe de théâtre italienne, la comédienne Camille (Jeanne Balibar) retrouve avec émotion Paris qu’elle a quitté trois ans auparavant, après sa rupture avec Pierre (Jacques Bonaffé). Troublée au point de ne pouvoir travailler en toute sérénité, elle décide d’aller rendre visite à son ancien amour. De son côté, son mari Ugo (Sergio Castellitto), à la recherche d’un manuscrit inédit de Goldoni, rencontre une jolie et troublante bibliophile (Hélène de Fougerolles)…