Movies: Patrice Martineau

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few colu...

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and...

Two shipwrecked castaways discover the island they have landed upon is shared by three beautiful women living alone… who are rather hungry!...

In the 15th century, the ship carrying twins Viola and Sebastian is shipwrecked. Viola washes ashore in Illyria, believing herself to be the sole survivor. To better defend herself against the pitfalls of life, she disguises herself as a man and ente...

In 1962, two teenage friends discover love in the form of a beautiful gypsy....

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Juliette is a wheelchair-bound nine-year-old who sees life as one big card game. She thinks it is her fault that her father abandoned her mother, Sandrine, when she was diagnosed with myopathy as a child. So when Juliette and her mom move into a new ...

Four years after "Valentine, the Pygmalion of the Vineyard", will Valentine finally marry the man of her heart?...

For eight weeks, Esther becomes a foster parent, taking in an 8-year-old boy who has come to France, exhausted, to undergo open-heart surgery. This experience will turn her life upside down and affect her relationships with those around her, includin...

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