Movies: Hélène Lapiower

Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by the five-year old son of a friend who he believes to be still living in Paris. On arrival he struggle...

Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife....

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriag...

A short film based on Henry James' short story "Longstaff's Marriage"....

Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgon orders his daughter to reject her fiancé and marry Tartuffe. First Dorine, the family servant, tri...

Leaud portrays a Parisian publisher of romance novels who hits on the gimmick of having his live-in girlfriend (carrot-top cutie Helene Lapiower) pose as author Rosine de Beaumont for book jacket and autograph signings. She's an immediate hit but reb...

A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week....

Suzanne and Albertine, her daughter, return to Omaha Beach, one of the D-Day beaches where their family has spent holidays for a Long time. The place is the scene of major family events. This time, Albertine has something to tell her mother....

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lo...

Emma has been happily married to Charles, a hardworking journalist, for over ten years. They have a son, and are considering having another child when she learns that she is both pregnant and HIV-positive at a time when Charles is away. As Emma has n...

The questioning of Jewish heritage and identity via the portrait of a diversed family, across Belgium and the United States....

A man escapes from prison, and leads in his run the woman of his life....

The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart....

The painter Honoré Fragonard lives in a sort of beehive surrounded by attractive female models, of which Marianne, his mistress and muse, is the queen. Around her, these young ladies are constantly arguing about which of them will be the next to pose...

In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeyi...

"Miéville captures a moment of disquieting intimacy amid the bustle of a parade." - BAM...

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Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II ...