6.4

Faubourg 36

2008, France, Germany, Czech Republic

• Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder, Pierre Richard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maxence Perrin, François Morel, Élisabeth Vitali, Christophe Kourotchkine, Eric Naggar, Eric Prat, Julien Courbey, Philippe du Janerand, Marc Citti, Christian Bouillette, Thierry Nenez, Frédéric Papalia, Stéphane Debac, Jean Lescot, Daniel Benoin, Wilfred Benaïche, Reinhardt Wagner, Manuela Gourary, Violette Barratier, Gregoire Clamart, Thibaut Clamart, Gérard Robert Gratadour, Sophie Knittl, Eric Laugérias
• Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Christophe Barratier
• Available languages:
  • French French.

A man is charged with murder. He is Pigoil, the aging stage manager at Chansonia, a music hall in a Paris faubourg. His confession is a long flashback to New Year's Eve, 1935, when he discovers his wife is unfaithful and Galapiat, the local mobster, closes the music hall. Over the next few months, Pigoil loses custody of his beloved son, Jo-Jo, and must find work. Pigoil and his pals take over the Chansonia as a co-op; Galapiat is momentarily benign. Their star is the young Douce, a girl from near Lille for whom Galapiat lusts. She in turn falls in love with Milou, a local Red. There are ups and downs, but mostly ups - but what about Jo-Jo and what about the murder?

  7.5

L'instinct de mort

2008, France, Canada, Italy

• Actors: Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche, Roy Dupuis, Elena Anaya, Florence Thomassin, Michel Duchaussoy, Myriam Boyer, Abdelhafid Metalsi, Gilbert Sicotte, Deano Clavet, Ludivine Sagnier, Mustapha Abourachid, Sofiane Benrazzak, Farid Fedjer, Gilles Geisweiller, Leïla Bekhti, Dorothée Brière, Michelle Brûlé, Yves Marc Gilbert, Maria Ibars Valverde, Mercè Llorens, Sabri Lahmer, Manuela Gourary, Affif Ben Badra, Frankie Pain, Emmanuelle Carlier, François Hauteserre, Jean-Claude Leguay
• Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Jean-François Richet
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Mesrine: Killer Instinct -- the first of two parts -- charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit. Thirty years after his death, his infamy lives on. Mesrine was helped along the way by beautiful and equally reckless Jeanne Schneider (Cécile de France), a Bonnie to match his Clyde. Mesrine made up his own epic, between romanticism and cruelty, flamboyance and tragedy.

  5.6

Le pacte du silence

2003, France

• Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Élodie Bouchez, Carmen Maura, Isaac Sharry, Tsilla Chelton, Estelle Larrivaz, Anne Le Ny, Wojciech Pszoniak, Isabelle Candelier, Hervé Pierre, Manuela Gourary, Philippe du Janerand, Marie-Sohna Conde, Lucie Le Bras, Charlotte Bonnet, Christian Chauvaud, Vincent Jouan, Emmanuel Avena, Nicky Marbot, Marie Vincent, Patrice Bornand, Fabien Billet, Numa Faubert, Lenny Guit, Harpo Guit, Lulma Guit, Numa Goldman, Thaddée Goldman, Daniel Isoppo, Teresa Madruga
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Graham Guit
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?