Top Results for “Frances Flaherty”
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Attack of the Robots

Comedy · Cult · Sci-Fi

Attack of the Robots (Cartes sur table) stars Eddie Constantine as a wise-cracking superspy investigating a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed glasses. The trail of these mindless automata leads him to the lair of a seductive villainess (Fra…

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans

Comedy · Science Fiction

In Bruno Dumont’s farcical follow-up, Li’l Quinquin is all grown up and still living in the Côte D'Opale. When the townsfolk start behaving strangely, our beloved heroes Captain Van Der Weyden and Carpentier begin to suspect an alien attack.

Diamantino

Comedy · RT Certified Fresh · Cannes Film Festival

When big-hearted but dimwitted Portuguese soccer hunk Diamantino (Carloto Cotta, Tabu) blows it in the World Cup finals, he goes from superstar to laughing stock overnight. Searching for a new purpose, he sets out on a cosmic odyssey involving cigarette-smoking evil twins, Secret Service skulldugge…

The Empire

Comedy · Science Fiction · Sci-Fi

Featuring wonderfully bizarre performances from French stars like Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, and Anamaria Vartolomei, this slapstick sci-fi spectacle about warring extraterrestrial forces whose fight happens to hinge on a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France is part&n…

The Fairy

Comedy · Romance · Slapstick

Filled with a colorful cast of supporting characters and a number of gracefully executed dance sequences, THE FAIRY is a whimsical tale about the happiness that can be squeezed out of even the most mundane of lives.

The Falling Star

Comedy · Thriller · Mystery

A former activist who’s been a fugitive for 35 years, and works as a bartender. Boris’ past finally catches up with him when a mysterious stranger appears at the bar, armed and wanting revenge.

Ferdinando & Carolina

Comedy · Historic Drama

NEW DCP COMING SOON! In the dazzling court of 18th century Naples, against their wishes, young King Ferdinando will wed Carolina, the sweet 16 year-old daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. As the monarchies of Europe hold their breath, something unexpected happens. King Ferdinando and Carol…

Final Cut

Horror · Comedy

Oscar® winner Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) remakes the Japanese cult hit One Cut of the Dead, a hilarious and blood-soaked horror comedy about a director making a live, single-take, low-budget zombie flick in which the cast and crew, one by one, actually turn into zombies.

I'm Going Home

Comedy · Drama · World Cinema

Michel Piccoli is a Parisian theater actor struggling to deal with grief, age, and a demanding American film director played by John Malkovich in this powerful masterpiece by Manoel de Oliveira.

In Another Country

Comedy · Drama · World Cinema

Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert stars in a film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo. In a triptych of overlapping stories, three different French women (a filmmaker, an adulterer and a divorce- Huppert, Huppert and...Huppert) visit a small Korean resort town and encounter a flirtatious …

Li'l Quinquin

Cannes Film Festival · Comedy · World Cinema

French auteur Bruno Dumont, best known for uncompromising and austere dramas, proves with the comedy Li'l Quinquin that he is capable of shifting gears without conceding his signature style. This absurdist, metaphysical murder mystery opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow…

Princess Tam Tam

Comedy · African-American · Music & Dance

An ingenious shepherdess is transformed into a bogus Indian princess of a capricious French aristocrat. This charming Continental comedy follows both the myth of Pygmalion and La Baker's own rise as an expatriate celebrity.

Return of the Hero

Comedy

France 1809. The charming Captain Neuville is set to marry the nai?ve Pauline when the war breaks out, forcing Neuville to depart for the battlefield. After not hearing from the captain for months, Pauline soon starts to become ill with worry, pushing her sister Elizabeth to write fake letters on be…

Slack Bay

Cannes Film Festival · Comedy · Slapstick

The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family—among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi—have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitut…

The Son of Joseph

Comedy · Drama · Fine Art

The American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugène Green exists in his own special artistic orbit. His latest movie, The Son of Joseph, is perhaps his most buoyant. A nativity story reboot that gently skewers French cultural pretensions, it features newcomer Victor Ezenfis as a discontented Parisi…

Synonyms

Comedy · Drama · Comedy Drama

Based on the real life experiences of writer-director Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher, Policeman), Synonyms tells the story of a young Israeli who moves to Paris with little more than a dictionary and an obsession with erasing his origins.

Tip Top

Cannes Film Festival · Comedy · Romantic Comedy

Serge Bozon's TIP TOP is a sharp and witty absurdist political commentary that will leave audiences with more questions about modern day France than answers. Farid, an Algerian turned informant for the French police, is found murdered in a small French town. Two offbeat and unethical female investig…

The Trouble With You

Cannes Film Festival · Comedy · Romantic Comedy

When a widowed police detective (Adèle Haenel) learns her dead husband was a crooked cop, she tries to help the man scapegoated for his crimes get back to his life and his wife (Audrey Tautou), setting off a spectacular sequence of events in this slapstick comedy set in the French Riviera.

Zizou and the Arab Spring

Comedy · Drama

Férid Boughedir charmingly pulls off a lighthearted comedic fable about, of all things, the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Tunisia. This year we’re treating the Friends of the Film Festival to the sweet story of Zizou, a naive and sincere optimist whose crush on a beautiful girl leads him…