François Cluzet
1) Turning Tide
Author
Language
Français
Description
The film tells the story of Yann Kermadec whose dreams suddenly come true when he has to replace the DCNS star skipper at the last minute before the start of the Vendée Globe (a round-the-world non-stop single-handed yacht race).
2) The Torment
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Paul has just bought a charming waterfront hotel in the heart of France. In debt for the next ten years, he sets to work with his beautiful new wife, Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart). The life of the young couple is a dream come true. Paul, however, becomes increasingly irritated and high strung. He starts taking sleeping pills and is aware of a voice in his head expressing doubts. As the tension rises, Paul becomes more and more suspicious and violent.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of an orphanage in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a soverign and wild region. In the heart of a fairytale Sologne, Paul will learn about life, and also about...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker, and an unlikely friendship forms.
5) Tell No One
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 132 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Tell No One is based on Harlan Coben’s international best selling thriller about pediatrician Alexandre Beck who still grieves the murder of his beloved wife Margot Beck eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and...
6) Quantum Love
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A family man's encounter with a beautiful woman develops into a mutual fascination.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Cathy, a determined 40-year-old sous-chef, dreams of opening her own gourmet restaurant. As she faces financial difficulties, Cathy takes a job in the cafeteria of a shelter for the youth. While she struggles with her new position, Cathy’s skills and passion for cuisine start to change the kids’ lives.
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
After a Jewish couple (Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo) sells their basement to a former history teacher (François Cluzet), they discover his secret life as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to rescind the sale, the buyer befriends their naive teenage daughter.
9) The Swindle
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
10) The intouchables
Language
Français
Description
An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust, and human possibility. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker, The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.
"After a paragliding accident, Philippe, a rich aristocrat, is confined to his home. He employs Driss...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
All the people in this countryside area can count on Jean-Pierre, the doctor who heals and reassures them day and night, seven days a week. Now Jean-Pierre is sick, so he sees Natalie, a young doctor, coming from the hospital to assist him. Will she adapt to this new life and be able to replace the man believed to be irreplaceable?
12) Paris
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross...
13) Tell no one
Publisher
MPI Home Video [distributor
Pub. Date
2009]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, pediatrician Alex Beck still grieves for his beloved Margot. When two bodies are uncovered near where Margot's body was found, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In a world ravaged by revolution and violence, two strangers--a handsome renegade and a beautiful countess--find their only chance for survival in each other! Together they undertake a perilous cross-country journey where they will also discover unmatched danger, excitement ... and passion!
15) 'Round midnight
Series
Criterion collection volume 1122
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
2-DVD version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Language
English
Description
It is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and to the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a miraculous, sui generis fusion of performer and character that was nominated for an Oscar, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Following a motorcycle accident that leaves a charismatic member of their group in an intensive care unit, a close-knit circle of friends embark on their annual summer getaway to Cape Ferrat in the southwest of France. Staying at wealthy family man Max's spacious vacation home, the sunny beachside idyll quickly becomes the backdrop of heated tensions and outbursts among the old acquaintances as the little white lies just beneath the surface of their...
17) Chocolat
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
℗1988, ©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the sights, sounds and smells sweep her back to her childhood and memories of the people who populated her youth.
18) School of life
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Trapped behind the high walls of an austere orphanage in suburban Paris, Paul has only ever known one home. His chance to discover the great wide world comes when a bohemian couple, Celestine and Borel, take him back to their countryside home. Borel is the gamekeeper for a vast estate in the untamed French countryside of Sologne. Under the poacher's tutelage, Paul will learn about life and growing up, and also about the forest and its secrets.
19) 'Round midnight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the friendship between an aging alcoholic jazz musician and a young French jazz fan. Inspired by the real-life friendship between jazz pianist Bud Powell and Francis Paudras.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
After a Jewish couple sells their basement to a former history teacher, they discover his secret life as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to rescind the sale, the buyer befriends their naive teenage daughter.