Alliance Française French Film Fest Favourites
Séraphine
$19.95 – Digital video disc / Dv1
This is the moving true story of a simple housemaid who painted to appease the voice of heaven.
In 1913, German art collector Wilhelm Uhde, the first Picasso buyer and discoverer of acclaimed naïve primitive painter Le D... Buy or find out more →
Mesrine: Public Enemy # 1
$34.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
A gripping thrill-ride of a film, Public Enemy Number 1 tells the incredible and brutal true story of France's most wanted man, Jacques Mesrine. Arch-fiend to some and folk hero to others, his criminal career spanned nea... Buy or find out more →
Coco And Igor
$34.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Paris 1913, Coco Chanel is devoted to her work and madly in love with the handsome and very wealthy Arthur "Boy" Capel. At the Theatre des Champs-lyses, Igor Stravinsky premieres his Rite of Spring. Coco attends the prem... Buy or find out more →
Lagerfeld Confidential: Special Edition
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Hopscotch Entertainment
Lagerfeld Confidential takes you behind the sunglass-clad façade and into the everyday world of fashion’s most iconic designer, Karl Lagerfeld. Features appearances by Karl Lagerfeld, Nicole Kidman, Baz Lurhmann and Prin... Buy or find out more →
Summer Hours
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Palace Films
For Every Family, There is a Season
How much or how little are we obliged to honour the wishes of our parents after they're gone? This is the question posed by Olivier Assayas in his rueful and wise new film, the most in... Buy or find out more →
A Pain In The Ass
$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Another uproarious comedy from the director of The Closet and The Dinner Game.
When his wife Louise (Virginie Ledoyen, The Beach, 8 Femmes, Shall We Kiss) has leaves him for a shrink, Franois Pignon (Patrick Timsit) chec... Buy or find out more →
Change Of Plans
$29.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
A group of forty-something friends, lovers, husbands and wives gather for dinner during the annual 'Fte de la musique' in Paris, and the atmosphere couldn't be friendlier, with great food, wine, and conversation.
...But ... Buy or find out more →
The Child (Directors Suite)
$34.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno (Jérémie Renier) lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia (Déborah François) in Seraing, an eastern Belgian steel town. They live off Sonia's unemployment benefits and the panh... Buy or find out more →
Priceless
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
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 di... Buy or find out more →
Father Of My Children
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Palace Films
Grgoire Canvel (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) has it all a wife and three delightful daughters he adores and a stimulating job that he's devoted to; he's a film producer. Discovering new talent and developing projects is wha... Buy or find out more →
The Hedgehog
$29.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Based freely on the best-selling novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, The Hedgehog is a heart-warming story about love, life and the beauty of unexpected friendships.
Rene (Josiane Balasko) is the concie... Buy or find out more →
The Page Turner
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Schoolgirl Mélanie aspires to a musical career, but during her Conservatory audition, one of the judges, celebrated concert pianist Ariane Fouchécourt, unwittingly distracts her, ruining her chances of a place. Asa resul... Buy or find out more →
How Much Do You Love Me?
$29.95$24.95 – Digital video disc / Palace Films
Balding, elfin-eared Francois (Bernard Campan) enters a hooker-in-the-window joint in Paris' Pigalle district to meet the woman who has become his sexual obsession: the voluptuous, fur coat wearing Daniela (Monica Belluc... Buy or find out more →
The Flight Of The Red Balloon
$34.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
From master Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao hsien comes this beautiful homage to Albert Lamorisse's Oscar® winning children's short film, The Red Balloon and to Paris itself.
Seven year old Simon is affectionately followed... Buy or find out more →
Army Of Crime
$29.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Paris, 1941. The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and migrs in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their dar... Buy or find out more →
I Do
$19.95$12.95 – Digital video disc / Hopscotch Entertainment
Starring French 'It' Girl Charlotte Gainsbourg, I Do is a whimsical, stylish and infectious French romantic comedy about a confirmed bachelor who schemes to stay that way. Buy or find out more →
My Best Friend
$24.95 – Digital video disc / Hopscotch Entertainment
François is a middle-aged antique dealer. He has a stylish apartment and a fabulous life, but at a dinner with a group he considers his dearest acquaintances, he is blindsided by the revelation that none of them actually... Buy or find out more →
Orchestra Seats
$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
This enchanting, contemporary comedy about characters caught between their private dreams and public images, a favourite amongst audiences and critics, was chosen above all other films as France's official entry for the ... Buy or find out more →
After Him
$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Camille (Catherine Deneuve), a divorced owner of a bookshop, is the loving mother of 20 year old Mathieu. Vivacious and independent, Camille's life is shaken to the very core after Mathieu is killed in a car crash, a hor... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Of The Grain
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Palace Films
It takes will, courage and determination to realise a dream. But most of all, it takes family.
Lauded at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, and winner of multiple awards at the 2008 Csars (the French Oscars) including Best F... Buy or find out more →
OSS117: Cairo Nest Of Spies
$29.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Introducing Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, French special agent OSS117.
After the mysterious death of his colleague Jack Jefferson while on assignment in Egypt, OSS117 is sent in to find the killers. And monitor the Suez C... Buy or find out more →
OSS117: Lost In Rio
$29.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
The best - if not the brightest - French intelligence officer, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, returns! He may be older, but Hubert, aka OSS117, is none the wiser...
The year is now 1967 and OSS117 has been sent on a missio... Buy or find out more →
Asterix at the Olympic Games
$29.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Everyone's favourite Gallic hero in an athletic adventure!
Join Asterix—France's favourite winged-helmet-wearing hero—and his oversized pal Obelix on Mount Olympus in this riotous comedy adventure!
When the starry-ey... Buy or find out more →
Dogora
$29.95$19.99 – Digital video disc / Madman
Directed by Patrice Leconte (The Girl On The Bridge) and set to a beautiful score by Etienne Perruchon, Dogora takes us on a musical journey through life in Cambodia. Focussing on everyday Cambodians and their everyday p... Buy or find out more →
Please Please Me!
$29.99 – Digital video disc / Madman
Jean-Jacques is a gawky inventor living with his all-too-perfect girlfriend, Ariane, in a hip Parisian apartment. One afternoon, at a cafe, Jean-Jacques listens in on the boastings of a nearby diner, who claims that he c... Buy or find out more →
Me Too
$29.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
80s pop icon Gilles Gabriel is shivering with anticipation: with his one big hit getting fresh airplay, his plans to once again dominate the French music industry are well underway. However while out driving one day, Gil... Buy or find out more →