Catalog Search Results
Series
Language
Portuguese
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
Language
Español
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
Language
Français
Description
All the people in this countryside area can count on Jean-Pierre, the doctor who heals and reassures them day and night, seven days a week. Now Jean-Pierre is sick, so he sees Natalie, a young doctor, coming from the hospital to assist him. Will she adapt to this new life and be able to replace the man believed to be irreplaceable?
Series
Language
Français
Description
"Trapped behind the high walls of an austere orphanage in suburban Paris, Paul has only ever known one home. His chance to discover the great wide world comes when a bohemian couple, Celestine and Borel, take him back to their countryside home. Borel is the gamekeeper for a vast estate in the untamed French countryside of Sologne. Under the poacher's tutelage, Paul will learn about life and growing up...and also about the forest and its secrets."--Container....
Series
Language
Français
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. Eventually, Neuville returns home in glory and is welcomed as a hero, but unbeknownst to everyone, he is a penniless war deserter. A...
Series
Language
Français
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
Language
Italiano
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...
Series
Language
Français
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
Language
Français
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
Language
Portuguese
Description
Clara is a lonely nurse from the outskirts of Sao Paulo who is hired by the mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon-to-be-born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans.
12) Adieu Paris
Series
Language
Français
Description
It tells the story of eight friends, mostly in their seventies, who meet up for an annual lunch that has become a ritual over the decades. They are the so-called self-appointed 'kings of Paris': national treasures, masterpieces in peril, whose humor and self-mockery have never changed. Tender and cruel, they love and hate each other. But their long-established relationships take on new meanings when an intruder steps in.
Series
Language
Français
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...
14) The outsider
Series
Language
Français
Description
Tells the true story of France's greatest financial scandal and Jerome Kerviel, the low-profile young trader who was held responsible. When all was said and done, the bank suffered a huge loss. Kerviel was fired, sued, arrested and imprisoned, making him the most famous Frenchman to ever sit in front of a Bloomberg Terminal and pay the price.
Series
Language
Français
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...
Search More Libraries
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by SWAN libraries can be requested from other WorldCat libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request