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Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"It's the end of the school year, and the long-awaited holidays have finally arrived. Little Nicholas, his parents and Granny hit the road heading for the sea, and move into the Beau-Rivage Hotel. Adapted from Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny's 'Little Nicholas' children's book series, Nicholas on Holiday follows the adventures of Nicholas and his new friends. There's Ben, who isn't on holiday because he lives here, Freddy, who eats anything,...
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Boris and Marie have decided to separate after fifteen years together. However, cash-strapped Boris is still living in the family home. When all is said and done, neither of the two is willing to give up. Now this apartment is a war zone and their situation a nightmare.
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The story of growing up and falling in love in the Mafia-ridden city of Palerma. Seen through the eyes of Arturo, a child brought up in a fascinating yet terrifying city, the story spans twenty years of life filled with passion and laughter.
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Pierre and Manon are a married couple working in fragile harmony on Pierre's documentary film projects, the latest of which is a portrait of a resistance fighter. When Pierre takes a lover, he feels entitled to do so, and he treats both wife and mistress with disengagement bordering on disdain. When Manon catches Pierre in the act, her immediate response is to find common ground with her husband.
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix, played by the stunning Emmanuelle Devos makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train, she meets a mysterious English stranger. Drawn toward him, she follows him, loves him, for a few hours, before facing what could be a new life.
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asuncion, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. But recently their financial situation has worsened, and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality.
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Aryan, a young Syrian refugee, is shot while trying to cross the Hungarian border. While treating his wounds, a doctor at the refugee camp discovers that Aryan has gained the extraordinary talent of levitating at will. The corrupt doctor sees an opportunity and offers to smuggle Aryan out of the camp if, in return, he helps him make some money by using his new miraculous gift.
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
France, 1809: The charming Captain Neuville is set to marry the naive Pauline when the war breaks out, forcing Neuville to depart for the battlefield. After not hearing from the captain for months, Pauline grows sick with worry, and her sister Elizabeth decides to write letters on Neuville's behalf to cheer her up. Unexpectedly, Neuville returns home in glory and is welcomed as a hero, but unbeknownst to everyone, he is a coward and a war deserter....
10) Balloon
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In the summer of 1979, two East German families attempt the impossible. In a makeshift hot-air balloon, they risk their lives and fly towards West Germany with hopes of freedom and a better life. Unfortunately, the balloon crash-lands just before they reach the West German border and the Stasi soon discover evidence of the attempted escape. In a nerve-wracking race against the clock, the two families must now rush to build a new escape balloon before...
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Antoine is about to start his first year of medical school (for the third time). Fresh out of high school, Benjamin quickly realizes medical school won't be a walk in the park. With nights dedicated to hard studying instead of hard partying, the two freshmen will have to adapt and find a middle ground between despair for the present and hope for the future.
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Three retirees decide to move away from Rome to find a better standard of living in a country where their meager pensions will go that much further. Planning for the trip sees the trio trawl the pubs and restaurants of the sun saturated Rome and discover that even at old age they can still learn one or two lessons about themselves and life. Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy's laconic answer to Larry David, returns to the humanist comic territory of arthouse...
13) Night shift
Series
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In this moody Police drama set in Paris, Virginie, Erik, and Aristide work as police officers in a local brigade, trying to hold their personal and emotional lives together while dealing with daily occurrences of violence in homes and on the streets. One night, they are assigned an unusual mission and must drive a migrant back to the border for unspecified reasons. On their way to the airport, Virginie discovers the prisoner will be sentenced to death...
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Anne Walberg is a master of perfumes. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible gift to many companies. She is a perfectionist and temperamental. Guillaume is her new chauffeur and the only one who dares face her. This is probably why she doesn't fire him. Guillaume also desperately needs this job to maintain shared custody of his daughter, so he can only push back so hard. Perfumes is a nuanced and delightful dramedy.
Series
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra, and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonized Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatizing events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria...
16) Three summers
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Madâ, is a fifty-something caretaker for a cluster of luxury beachside condos owned by a wealthy Rio de Janeiro family. Unfolding over the course of three consecutive summers, 2015 to 2017, the film follows Madâ as she invests in a roadside snack kiosk while tending to the very need of her condescending employers, becomes a bystander in a major money-laundering scandal, and eventually launches a whole new career. With every dizzying new turn of...
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor and a nurse fighting to do their job and bring them to acceptance. They have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.
18) Gallant indies
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
In 2019, eight opera singers and 30 dancers from a wide variety of artistic and demographic backgrounds convened at Paris's Opera Bastille to begin work on an ambitious new production of Les Indes galantes, a cornerstone of French musical history. From the director of Becoming Traviata, Philippe Beziat's documentary captures the work of this multifaceted troupe under the direction of artist and filmmaker Clement Cogitore; together, they shepherd Rameau's...
19) Josep
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
During the Spanish civil war, Republican fighters fleeing Franco's dictatorship are imprisoned in concentration camps once they arrive in France. Forced to live in appalling conditions, these refugees barely have access to hygiene, water, and food. Josep tells the story of how Josep Bartoli, an artist born in Barcelona, and Serge, a sympathetic French camp guard, become friends after Serge slips him some paper to use for his art. It is the first film...
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France. When criminal car sabotage related to threatening letters wreaks havoc in the villa, Tranchant goes in search of the best agent for the investigation. In the middle of this hot summer, only the arrogant and incompetent agent Boullin is available...To catch the suspect and solve the mystery, he will...
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