Isabelle Huppert
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Agathe (Isabelle Huppert) is an uptight, impatient art dealer who lives in an expensive Parisian apartment with her wealthy publisher husband, Andre Dussollier ("Unforgivable"). Patrick is a skirt-chasing, unemployed single father who lives in his van with his son. Their lives would never intersect except that their two sons are best of friends and her husband has hired Patrick to remodel their apartment. Hilarity ensues as this odd couple relationship...
2) Home
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A family's peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only meters away from their isolated house in the middle of nowhere. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel, and their three children find innovative ways to adapt to their new environment. Includes interview, theatrical trailer, stills gallery, and more.
3) Hidden Love
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Acclaimed actress Isabelle Huppert stars in this downbeat tale of a suicidal mental patient trapped in an endless maze of despair following the death of her only child.
4) Mrs. Hyde
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A late night laboratory accident transforms an unpopular science teacher (Isabelle Huppert) into the dangerously unpredictable Mrs. Hyde.
5) Frankie
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Unfolding over the course of a late summer's day in the fabled resort town of Sintra, Portugal, this film follows three generations who have gathered for a vacation organized by the family matriarch. In this fairy tale setting, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, stirred by their romantic impulses, discover the cracks between them, as well as the unexpected depth of feeling.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
8) The nun
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1760s France, Suzanne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music, enjoying a quietly privileged life. Inexplicably sent off to a convent, she resists structure at every turn until she discovers that she is an illegitimate child. Left with no other option, she pronounces her vows and suffers the consequences of her mother's sin. Still uncertain of her path and oppressed by aggressive and inappropriate Mother Superiors, Suzanne continues...
9) Amour
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
10) White material
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A three-tiered story of three French women (a filmmaker, an adulterer and a divorcée) who travel to a small seaside resort in Korea, where they come in contact with a flirtatious director, a love struck lifeguard, and an abundance of alcohol.
12) Greta
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing is what it seems...
13) Dormant Beauty
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A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
15) Tip Top
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An Algerian policeman turned informant for the French police is murdered in a small French town. Much to the disappointment of the police, internal affairs has sent two odd, and apparently unethical female officers (Isabelle Huppert & Sandrine Kimberlain) to investigate. What...
16) The Nun
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1760s France. Suzanne is shocked when her bourgeois family sends her to a convent. There she faces oppression and torment, leading her to fight back and expose the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.
17) I Huckabees
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Kindhearted (but confused) poet & activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life as he deals with the Huckabees corporation. He soon becomes involved with the detectives' other clients, all the while the detectives' French nemesis is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
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Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (216 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages ; color illustrations ; 18 cm).
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A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
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"Richly textured and visually compelling" (The Hollywood Reporter), "Heaven's Gate" is a lavish, epic western that retells the true story of Wyoming's infamous Johnson County War - a brutal, late 19th century conflict during which wealthy cattlemen, backed by the U.S. government, hired mercenaries to murder 125 immigrant settlers. Written and directed by Michael Cimino and starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges,...