Movies: Simon Abkarian

Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. Variet...

"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is able to recognise it -- that is the risk I take. I think that this is good enough reason to make a fil...

Camille is a composer going back to his homeland Lebanon to write a song about his country. Raya is looking for her lost son. They meet, fall in love, and discover the despair of the people of war-torn Lebanon....

The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and deprived the Crown Prince Shiva of the throne. The insidious Malaw had the prince locked up in a dungeon in t...

After a long journey through the circuit of international Islamism that took him from France to London via Bosnia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Hamid returns to his hometown in northern France. Everyone thinks he died in Bosnia and he doesn't want that ...

The young years of Michel Drucker....

Stan Mirkine would have everything to be happy. Now, he is sure of it: his wife is cheating on him. Too much in love, possessive to the extreme, he is haunted every day by the only fear of discovering that Mathilde is unfaithful. Day after day, week ...

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Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with another woman. Annoyed, Anne sets out to find potential lovers....

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The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working....

Max and Minou are having a relationship crisis: she's crying, he's getting annoyed. Their car has been vandalised but this is not why she's crying. While looking for a car repairer on a small industrial estate, they come across some people who are ev...

Take a Bollywood film--a good Bolllywood film--with action, emotion, suspense, and laughter. With Indian actors who act, dance, sing and smother themselves with tomato sauce when feigning a bloody head wound. Now, watch the image with the sound turne...

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Paris, the Sentier district. Christmas is approaching and Vahé Krikorian's life is falling apart. The shop he runs with his father is about to close. Too many debts and unpaid bills. Lu Ann, the woman he loves, is leaving him, and he knows that the s...

The final part of a family trilogy by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz. It follows Viviane Amsalem's grueling legal marathon to obtain a divorce....

On the night of November 13, 2015, a woman who lives behind the Bataclan and a man who happens to pass by help the injured as they flee the terrorists and the hell of the attack. A few days later, they are contacted by the people they rescued, who wa...

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On 15 March 1921, Talat Pasha, a high-ranking Turkish dignitary, was shot dead in a Berlin street by a young Armenian. A few months later, Soghomon Tehlirian, his assassin, appeared before a German court. He faced the death penalty. Yet, during the t...

American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-Greek cabaret, and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn-born Max suspects his girlfriend Sophia has been ...