(Comedy drama) Liberty Heights [DVDrip] 1999 BivX
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USA 17 nov 2021
Director Barry LEVINSON

Cast/Avec Adrien BRODY, Ben FOSTER, Orlando JONES, Bebe NEUWIRTH ...

In the fall of 1954, the Kurtzmans, a Jewish family, live in Forest Park, a suburban neighborhood in the northwest section of Baltimore. At the beginning of the film, Nate, the father, runs a burlesque theatre, and engages in a community numbers racket. His wife Ada stays home and takes care of the household. Van, the older son, attends the University of Baltimore, while Ben is finishing his final year in high school. Ben meets Sylvia, an African-American girl, who begins attending his school after the district has been integrated. Ben immediately start to develop feelings towards Sylvia, and introduces himself. The two become close based on a mutual love for Little Richard, James Brown, jazz musicians, and black comedians. Sylvia's father, an affluent doctor, disapproves of their relationship and forbids them to see one another. On Halloween, Ben dresses up as Adolf Hitler. This offends his parents greatly. Van and his friends head over to a party in a predominantly bourgeois, gentile section of Baltimore. Van is attracted to a mysterious blonde woman. A fight between one of Van's buddies and a gentile erupts and Trey, one of the party-goers, drunkenly crashes his car into the house. Van must leave the mystery woman.

Baltimore, 1954. L'Amérique entre dans une nouvelle ère et la famille Kurtzman va connaître, elle aussi, de nombreux hangements. Ben, le fils cadet, qui a toujours vécu dans un milieu et un quartier exclusivement juifs, voit s'ouvrir de nouveaux horizons en fréquentant Sylvia, la seule élève noire de son lycée. Mais le père de celle-ci, un médecin bourgeois et soupçonneux, met rapidement le hola à cette relation. De son côté, Van, le frère de Ben, tombe amoureux de la belle et aristocratique Dubbie. Quant à leur père, il s'efforce de sauver son petit music-hall.

(Drame, Romance) Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre [DVDrip] 1988
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France 05 Oct 2021
Realisation François DUPEYRON

Avec Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, André Wilms, Jean-Pierre Sentier

Une aire de repos sur l'autoroute du Sud en hiver. Un homme démonte le moteur de sa voiture. Un peu plus loin une femme reste là, abandonnée par son mari. L'homme qui répare son auto a tout vu. Il veut tout comprendre, son moteur qu'il étale pièce par pièce sur le bitume, cette femme qui refuse de partir, malgré le froid, malgré la nuit, attendant l'improbable retour de son mari perdu...

(One evening, an attractive middle-class woman, France, is pushed out of her car by her irate husband. When her husband drives off, she insists on waiting by the side of the road, certain that he will return once he has cooled off. Whilst waiting, she meets Charles, a man of her own age, who has been struggling for the past two days to repair his car. Although initially frosty towards her, Charles finds himself drawn to France and tries to convince her that her husband has abandoned her for good. France cannot accept this and clings to the faint hope that her husband still loves her...)

(Drama) Down in the Valley [DVDrip] 2005
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USA 2005
Directed by David JACOBSON

Cast Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, Bruce Dern, Rory Culkin ...

Tobe is a teenage girl in a dysfunctional American family, but one that appears both realistically normal and deeply embedded in suburbia. This is the landscape of Spielberg, but the family, inadequate father, rebellious daughter and quasi-autistic stepson, seems alienated and distant from the world around it. Into this milieu drifts Harlan, a young man whose roots are at least partially fantasised, part cowboy part movie cliche, and whose reality remains unclear. The pair embark on a romance that threatens her father, captivates her little brother and is destructive to them all. The sparse writing avoids cliche in this subtle, ethereal, independent film that is thought provoking in its mock simplicity.

Tobe (Evan Rachel Wood, superbe), ravissante branchée qui ne vit que pour les plages, les fringues et les flirts. Après s'être vaguement fichue de lui, Tobe tombe vraiment amoureuse de Harlan, au point de défier l'autorité de son beau-père. Lonnie (Rory Culkin), le frère de la jeune fille, est lui aussi fasciné par cet homme qui le traite en adulte, manie le flingue comme un vrai cow-boy et lui apprend à tirer. Mais dès lors qu'on s'attaque à ses rêves, l'adolescent est capable du pire... David Jacobson filme comme un western presque paisible le roman de cette famille américaine du Sud, qui se lézarde. La nature joue un rôle essentiel, comme chez le Terrence Malick de Badlands. Et Edward Norton rappelle ces figures à mi-chemin entre le bien et le mal qu'affectionnait tant John Huston, notamment dans Le Vent de la plaine.

(Drame) Les Herbes Folles (2009)
XviD-840 | [email protected] | thx to o.u. | 640x272 | French (no sub found) | Dossier (english) pdf in file | 1h40 | 700 Mb
France 04 Nov 2021
Realisateur Alain RESNAIS

Avec André Dussollier (Georges Palet), Sabine Azéma (Marguerite Muir), Emmanuelle Devos (Josepha), Mathieu Amalric (Bernard de Bordeaux), Michel Vuillermoz (Lucien d’Orange), Anne Consigny (Suzanne)

Marguerite Muir, pétillante quadragénaire célibataire, se fait voler son sac après s'être offert une nouvelle paire de chaussures. Quelques heures plus tard, Georges Palet tombe par hasard sur le portefeuille de celle-ci, gisant aux pieds de sa voiture, dans le parking d'un centre commercial. Ce mystérieux homme marié décide alors de faire la connaissance de Marguerite. Le génial doyen du cinéma français Alain Resnais adapte le roman de Christian Gailly, "L'incident", auquel il appose son style unique, poétique et délicieusement pince-sans-rire. Narrée par Edouard Baer et interprétée par ses comédiens fétiches, André Dussollier et son épouse Sabine Azéma, avec lesquels il a déjà tourné plusieurs films parmi lesquels les récents "Coeurs" et "On connaît la chanson", cette merveilleuse fable comique et décalée a reçu le Prix Exceptionnel du Jury du Festival de Cannes 2009.

(Drama) This is England [DVDrip] 2006 BivX
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UK 2006
Director Shane MEADOWS

Cast/Avec Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Joseph Gilgun ...

Set in the early 1980s, This Is England initially focuses on 12-year old Shaun (played by Thomas Turgoose, a real find), as he befriends a group of skinheads. Shaun bears the scars of the 80s, with his dad lost in the Falklands War, and his relationship with his new friends develops carefully across the first half of the film. But it’s in the second half where This Is England soars. It’s not easy watching, as is the usual drill with Meadows’ best films, From a stunning tirade about the state of Britain, to moments of real unease and tension, it’s a terrific piece of cinema.

1983. Shaun, 12 ans, habite avec sa mère dans une ville côtière du nord de l'Angleterre. Garçon solitaire, c'est pour lui le début des vacances d'été, lorsqu'il rencontre un groupe de skinheads locaux. Avec eux, Shaun découvre le monde des fêtes, du premier amour et des bottes Dr Martens. Le ton change quand Combo, un skinhead raciste et plus âgé, sort de prison. Alors que sa bande harcèle les communautés étrangères locales, Shaun va subir un rite de passage qui le sortira violemment de l'enfance.

Antoine DE CAUNES (Historique Drame) Monsieur N. [DVDrip] 2003
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France-UK 12 Feb 2022
Realisation Antoine de CAUNES
Musique Stephan EICHER

Avec/Cast Philippe Torreton (Napoléon Bonaparte), Richard E. Grant (Hudson Lowe), Jay Rodan (Basil Heathcote), Elsa Zylberstein (Albine de Montholon), Roschdy Zem (Marshal Bertrand), Bruno Putzulu (Cipriani), Stéphane Freiss (Gen. Montholon), Frédéric Pierrot (Gen. Gourgaud), Siobhan Hewlett (Betsy Balcombe) ...

En 1840, alors que le corps de Napoléon est rapatrié à Paris, un colonel anglais qui a connu l'empereur se remémore les dernières années passées à Sainte-Hélène. Au fil des souvenirs du jeune anglais, "Monsieur N." questionne les doutes et les mystères de l'histoire. Arrivé en effet en 1815, à l'âge de 46 ans, à Sainte-Hélène où le lieu dégage " comme une vapeur malsaine ; le ciel bas, couleur d'étain, oppresse l'île forteresse ", Napoléon n'est désormais plus l'empereur mais le général Bonaparte qui doit s'acclimater à une atmosphère oppressante. Bonaparte ne peut en effet rien faire librement. Il est prisonnier des Anglais et en particulier du gouverneur Hudson Lowe, qualifié par le souverain déchu d' "ignoble et funeste figure". Dès lors, comment Napoléon, l'homme de toutes les batailles, le fin stratège politique et militaire, peut-il accepter de se soumettre à cet emprisonnement ? Quel dispositif va-t-il tenter de mettre en œuvre pour desserrer l'emprise de ses geôliers ? C'est à Sainte-Hélène qu'il va livrer son ultime bataille qui façonnera l'image qu'il va laisser à la postérité.

From 1815, soon after his defeat at Waterloo, to his death in 1821, Napoleon lives out his exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic. Fearing that Bonaparte’s supporters may attempt a rescue, the island’s governor Hudson Lowe insists on having a large contingent of British soldiers. His aide-de-camp Basil Heathcote is instructed to keep a daily watch on the esteemed prisoner. What Heathcote glimpses are snatches of Napoleon’s romantic liaisons and hints of political intrigue. Years later, he is convinced that things were not quite what they seemed. Napoleon didn’t die on Saint Helena…

Monsieur N. par Antoine DE CAUNES [DVDrip] 2003
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France, UK 12 Février 2003
Réalisé par Antoine de CAUNES

Avec Philippe TORRETON, Richard E. GRANT, Jay RODAN ...

Comment l'empereur Napoléon a-t-il accepté de se soumettre à cet emprisonnement sur l'île de Sainte-Hélène ? Et comment imagine-t-il desserrer l'emprise de ses géôliers ? C'est ce que Monsieur N. va tenter de révéler...

(Monsieur N (2003) Flashing back from the translation of Napoleon’s corpse to Les Invalides, the film condenses Bonaparte’s stay on St Helena into a few key confrontations and evasions. But rather than simply focusing on the battle of wills between Philippe Torreton and island governor, Richard E. Grant, the screenplay also examines the motives of those who shared the deposed Emperor’s exile – thus allowing De Caunes to fit incitingly between mystery, romance and intrigue.)

(Comedy Sci-Fi) Men in Black II [DVDrip] 2002 BivX
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USA 2002
Directed By Barry SONNENFELD

Cast/Avec Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub, Patrick Warburton, Jack Kehler, David Cross, Colombe Jacobsen, Peter Spellos, Lenny Venito; CAMEO(S): Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart, Peter Graves

Kay (Jones) had returned to civilian life at the end of the first film (with no memory of his past life), while Jay (Smith) went on with the men in black. When evil alien Serleena (Boyle) takes the entire MiB hostage, lone escapee Jay must convince Kay to help him save the galaxy. So-so effort suffers from lackluster script and doesn't have the spark of the original, but is helped along by solid performances all around. There are plenty of amusing scenes, mostly provided by the supporting players. Warburton is funny as an early MiB washout, Shalhoub provides some instant energy, and the talking dog does yoeman's work. Should hold up better on the small screen.

Après cinq années dans les « Men in Black », l'agent J, qui n'a toujours pas de partenaire, est confronté à un crime impliquant des extra-terrestres, qui n'est qu'une pièce d'un complot menaçant la Terre. Serleena, une extra-terrestre ayant l'apparence d'un top-model, est l'âme du complot. J décide de reprendre son ancien partenaire qui n'a plus de souvenir du MIB et qui a pris sa retraite comme employé des postes.

(Drame) Les Chemins de l'Oued [DVDrip] 2003
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France 16 Avril 2003
Realisation Gaël MOREL

Avec Nicolas Cazalé, Amira Casar, Mohamed Majd, Kheireddine Defdaf, Hamza Bennani ..

Samy, jeune franco-algérien, trouve refuge chez son grand-père dans les montagnes de Kabylie, pour échapper à la justice française. Là, étranger parmi les siens et dans son pays, il subit le climat ambiant oppressant, qui ravive rapidement le chaos qui est en lui. A quel prix Samy parviendra-t-il à s'acquitter de sa faute ?

(Gael Morel's drama Les Chemin de l'Oued (Under Another Sky) is about life in Algeria. When Sami (Nicolas Cazale) causes the death of a police officer, his family sends him to help his grandfather (Kheireddine Defdaf) work his farm. Sami is a fish out of water, but soon connects with two very different cousins. Mohammed Majd portrays a drug-dealing hedonist, while Amira Casar plays a widow whose guilt about her dead husband's terrorist activities causes her to do charity work. She touches Sami, but that may not be enough to help everyone out of their difficult lives. Under Another Sky was screened at the Vancouver Film Festival.)

(Drama) Family Portraits_A Trilogy of America [DVDrip] 2003
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USA 2003
Director Douglas BUCK
Music William Demartino, Ed Dzubak, David Kristian & Greg Russel

Contents: Cutting Moments (1997), Home (1998) & Prologue (2003)

Cast/Avec:
Gary Betsworth : the father (Home) & (Cutting moments)
Sally Conway : Billy, the disabled girl (Prologue)
William Stone Mahoney : Benjamin, the old man (Prologue)
Nicca Ray : Sarah, the wife (Cutting moments)
David Thornton : Walter (Prologue)
Larry Fessenden : Jimmy Doyle (Prologue)

Independent filmmaker Douglas Buck wrote and directed this anthology of three short subjects, each of which takes an unflinching look at disturbing secrets lurking beneath the surfaces of several "ordinary" families. In Cutting Moments, a housewife (Nicca Ray) who has come to the end of her rope as she tries to reach out to her emotionally vacant husband (Gary Betsworth) reacts with a shocking act of self-inflicted violence, which soon spirals out of control. In Home, Betsworth stars as an emotionally abusive husband and father (himself the victim of a vindictive and unfeeling parent) whose random and persistent cruelty finally manifests itself in a shocking act of revenge when his wife (Christine Caleo) and daughter (Jayne Deely) take a stand and refuse to obey his commands. And Prologue concerns Billie Anders (Sally Conway), a 17-year-old girl who returns home after a year in a rehabilitation facility following an incident which cost her both hands and put her in a wheelchair. As Billie deals with the many ways in which her friends, her family, and her hometown have changed, she decides to confront the man whose actions caused her pain. The three films featured in Family Portraits were created over a span of seven years and were screened individually at a number of film festivals before being compiled for feature release both theatrically and on video.

Une épouse délaissée par son mari s'automutile. Un père de famille effraye son épouse et sa fille à l'heure du petit-déjeuner. Une adolescente, défigurée et infirme, revient chez celui qui est responsable de son état. Trois portraits d'une Amérique qui risque à tout instant de basculer dans la violence et le désespoir, et qui recherche, obstinément, le salut...

(Drame) PARTIR [DVDrip] 2009
XviD-1047 | [email protected] | 640x352 | French (english, spanish & dutch srt) | 1h22 | 700 Mb
France 12 Aug 2021
Realisateur Catherine CORSINI

Avec Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan, Anne Marlange, Alexandre Vidal, Daisy Broom...

Suzanne a la quarantaine. Femme de médecin et mère de famille, elle habite dans le sud de la France, mais l'oisiveté bourgeoise de cette vie lui pèse. Elle décide de reprendre son travail de kinésithérapeute qu'elle avait abandonné pour élever ses enfants et convainc son mari de l'aider à installer un cabinet. A l'occasion des travaux, elle fait la rencontre d'Ivan, un ouvrier en charge du chantier qui a toujours vécu de petits boulots et qui a fait de la prison. Leur attraction mutuelle est immédiate et violente et Suzanne décide de tout quitter pour vivre cette passion dévorante.

Tired of her comfortable middleclass existence, 40-something housewife Suzanne makes the decision to resume her career as a physiotherapist. With the support of her sympathetic husband, she goes ahead and makes preparations to open a new clinic. During the building work, she is strangely attracted to the site foreman, a man who has enjoyed none of her privileges and appears to inhabit a completely different world. In a moment of madness, Suzanne decides to give up everything so that she can pursue an intense affair with her new lover...

(Comedie) Petites misères [DVDrip] 2002
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France 06 Feb 2022
Realisation Philippe BOON, Laurent BRANDENBURGER

Avec Albert Dupontel, Marie Trintignant, Serge Larivière, Bouli Lanners, Sjarel Branckaerts, Raymond Avenière, Nicole Valberg, Stéphane Excoffier...

Jean est huissier de justice. Il exerce son métier avec rigueur tout en faisant parfois quelques entorses à la déontologie de cette profession sous-estimée. Jean est aussi le mari de Nicole, belle brune neurasthénique compulsive sujette à des crises de fièvre acheteuse qu'elle assouvit en compagnie de Georges, son amant. Georges lui-même est un endetté chronique, addict au télé-achat et occasionnellement complice des magouilles de Jean...

(When a bailiff and his wife (going through a crisis) cross paths with a (frenzied) shopaholic , a cop who is (a little bit) too humanistic and a tiger (wearing glasses), things could get very (very) dicey… A fable about confusion, consumption and culpability.)

(Thriller) Ransom [DVDrip] 1996
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USA 1996
Director Ron HOWARD

Ransom is a 1996 thriller film, starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, and Gary Sinise and directed by Ron Howard. The movie was nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for Mel Gibson, and was the 5th highest grossing movie of 1996 in the United States. The original idea for the story was from an episode of The United States Steel Hour named "Fearful Decision" that aired in 1954. It was then a remake of the 1956 feature-length film of the same name written by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume starring Glenn Ford, Donna Reed and Leslie Nielsen. The film also was influenced by King's Ransom, a police procedural novel by Ed McBain which was, in turn, the basis for Akira Kurosawa's 1963 film High and Low.

La vie de Tom Mullen, homme d'affaires puissant et sur de lui, père heureux et époux comble, va être bouleversée quand son fils est enlève. Après une piètre tentative du FBI pour le libérer, Tom Mullen annonce qu'il accepte de payer la rançon et décide de sauver son fils a sa manière.

(Drame) La Captive [DVDrip] 2000
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France Belgique 27 sept 2021
Realisation Chantal AKERMAN

Avec Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovère ...

Jeune homme aisé et oisif, Simon nourrit un amour obsessionnel pour Ariane, une jeune femme rencontrée en vacances et demeurant chez lui. Etranger malgré lui à la part d'intimité cultivée par Ariane, il met Andrée, une de leurs amies communes, dans la confidence de son désarroi. Il réalise alors que le penchant d'Ariane pour les relations féminines dépasse le simple cadre de l'amitié.

Simon, a well-to-do young man, lives in an elegant Parisian apartment with his grandmother and girlfriend, Ariane. Simon’s intense love for Ariane causes him to have suspicions about her fidelity and he follows her around at a distance, believing that she is having a lesbian affair. In the end, convinced that Ariane is leading a sordid double life, Simon insists that they break off their relationship, an act which results in tragic consequences…

(Drama romance) ENTROPY [DVDrip] 1999 BivX
RIP+UP | XviD-1197 | [email protected] | 672x288 | 2 Audio Tracks English_1 French_2 | DVD Cover | 1h46 | 1.2 Gb
USA 15 April 2022
Director Phil JOANOU

Cast/Avec Stephen DORFF, Judith GODRECHE, Kelly MacDONALD, Lauren HOLLY, Jon TENNEY ... & BONO

A filmmaker tries to sort out the scattered emotional baggage of his love life in Entropy. Jake Walsh (Stephen Dorff) is a film director who attends a fashion show with some friends and meets a French model named Stella (Judith Godreche). The attraction between the two is immediate, and after a brief courtship they're living together. However, between his career in film and her career as a model, they don't spend as much time together as they'd like, and they begin to drift apart; when Stella one day announces she's pregnant, Jake displays no particular enthusiasm for the idea of raising a child, and Stella ends up having an abortion. Eventually, the two break up and Jake finds himself married to a woman he barely knows, not quite sure what happened. As he muddles through his romantic problems, Jake also has to deal with the often puzzling hierarchy and the bizarre office politics of Hollywood. A rare independent effort from Phil Joanou, who previously directed State of Grace, Final Analysis and a wealth of popular music videos, Entropy was the opening night attraction at the 1999 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.

Jake Walsch semble promis à un magnifique avenir. Cinéaste de talent, il a fait ses classes dans le clip en signant des films consacrés au groupe U2. Aujourd'hui, il se demande comment il en est arrivé là. Il y a un an, il rencontrait Stella, une charmante jeune mannequin française. Leur coup de foudre immédiat les conduit à s'installer ensemble, Stella renonçant à sa carrière.