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- During one year, Joseph Paris filmed from the inside the Femen movement; its acts, its shocks and confrontations, its smokes and noises, but also its circumstances, its doubts, and sometimes its contradictions. One year at the heart of a overexposed activism in mass-media, where its deep reasons remained under silence or sometimes misconceived.
- This is the story of two worlds that appear to have little in common with one another. A closer look, however, reveals that they both share a similar taste for luxury, risk, and money. In what ways are mafias and banks inextricably linked?
- Jean-Claude Van Damme has enjoyed a dizzying career as a high-octane action movie star. The highs and lows of his eventful life are told with archive footage and contributions from those close to the much-loved Belgian actor.
- Brad Pitt is a singular actor in Hollywood's glamorous world, breaking through his "playboy image" and embodying American cinema's renewal. At the beginning there was a humble Midwestern aware of being a smokescreen for the illusions of his time, who has managed to keep control of his image to better serve the most talented directors of our time. To name but a few: David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Terrence Malick, James Gray and soon Damien Chazelle. This documentary dives into the brain of a complex, brilliant and endearing personality, far from the cliché of a world-famous movie icon to discover the hidden side of the most handsome man in the world.
- In 30 years of a deeply committed career and 50 roles, Denzel Washington, double-Oscar winner, placed the figure of the Black man in all its complexity at the heart of the American paradoxes: from Black activist, rebel soldier to gangster torn between violence and charity. Voted best actor of the 21st century by the New York Times a few months ago, Denzel Washington, 65, has risen to the top of American cinema. As an Actor, director and producer, he has shaken up a "color line" as immutable as it is subtle. Often identified with his characters, he reveals himself to be disconcerting and paradoxical. As if he were holding up a mirror to America in which all of its contradictions and failings were reflected. A documentary that chronicles the extraordinary career of the world-renowned African-American actor.
- The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Gran Torino all the way to Cry Macho in 2021. It is no small task to cover more than 60 years of cinema history, especially when it is trying to surveyed with such breadth and diversity: TV star, international star, controversial icon, contested director, filmmaker with a capital F, Eastwood has been through it all, experienced it all, and it is first of all this romantic trajectory, this true American pastoral that the documentary wants to tell with all the passion it possibly can.
- Before Charles Bronson was typecast-ed in Hollywood as the image of a lone killer, he was a major figure in popular cinema during the 1960s and 70s. His enigmatic stone face persona and career in Hollywood are worthy of a second look.
- Our film presents the theories of a man who, yesterday, saw what science is bringing to us today.
- This is the story of a man who climbed the Hollywood ladder, one rung at a time, until he reached the top and became the most prominent American actor of his era.
- A film about music, war and hope. It follows 9 unique individuals, including Ukrainian musicians, a deaf composer, a Polish rock star, a best-selling author, a legendary cartoonist and the director himself, as they grab the Ninth's legacy.
- Kim Novak will forever be remembered for her dual role in Hitchcock's "Vertigo", in which she plays a woman forced to transform into someone else to fulfill a man's obsession. Novak was a rebel inside a star system that broke women's spirits in order to manufacture screen goddesses, a toxic system she never ceased to speak out against. In the 1950s at the age of 20, Novak finds herself thrown into the limelight. With no acting experience, the young woman who dreamed of becoming a painter undergoes a makeover which will transform her into a glamorous bombshell. Her anxiety on set is compounded by an intimidating studio head, demanding directors, and a misogynist press. This first documentary about Kim Novak, her career and her emancipation from the Hollywood system, tells the story of how this box office sensation who worked with some of the greatest directors of the era takes on the Hollywood studio system and reclaims her life - with the exclusive participation of the actress herself.
- After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system of labor camps for systematic repression, known as Laogai, an abbreviation for "reform through labor". In such camps, forced labor and physical and mental torture were used to bring about a so-called mental reform, re-education in the spirit of the Chinese Communist Party. Millions of Chinese were affected. Many were executed. In hundreds of camps, the Party took advantage of the prisoners' free labor to build the economy. Self-criticism and denunciation were often the only way to escape martyrdom. Successive waves of purges culminated in the Cultural Revolution, which saw massive human rights abuses, political assassinations, massacres, and exiles in remote parts of the country. Using unreleased archive footage, the documentary tells the story of the invention, development and improvement of China's totalitarian system of surveillance and repression up to the present day, never told before.
- A colorful portrait of Jane Fonda, actress and activist, resonating with recent American history, its dreams and its disillusions.
- It is by selling pens by telephone at the turn of the eighties that Johnny Depp, young punk rocker in galley in the City of the Angels, affirms to have begun his "training" of actor, inventing at the end of the wire of the different characters to deceive the boredom. But it is through Alison, his first wife, a make-up artist in Hollywood, that he enters as an anonymous mercenary in the bunkers of the dream factory, passing without being seen in a few second-rate films. The dazzling success of a series for teenagers, "21 Jump Street," catapults him to the top. "Cry-Baby" by John Waters, then "Edward Scissorhands" will make him a movie star.
- Alfred Hitchcock is known as a giant of movie making, a facetious master of suspense, obsessed with blond heroines in peril, with the reputation of being tyrannical towards his actors. But who knows the real Hitchcock? During his last public appearance, "Hitch" paid tribute to the wife, mother, co-writer, editor and partner of a lifetime that was Alma Reville Hitchcock. The two Hitchcock were inseparable, engineering the unquestionable masterpieces together. Their genuine collaboration never stopped from the day they met until the end of their lives. It's in light of this fusional relationship that this film will revisit and shed fresh light on the legend.
- A new global phenomenon: over-equipped police facing furious, defenseless crowds brandishing their cell phones to record everything. The war of images on social media further polarizes police and demonstrators.
- At a time when the United States was reeling from the shockwaves of the sexual revolution, the lifting of censorship and the liberation of morals brought pornographic cinema out of the shadows: the industry sought to reach a wider audience and gain respectability. In 1972, "Deep Throat" (Gorge profonde), a film cobbled together at breakneck speed by Gerard Damiano, a ladies' hairdresser with a passion for cinema, was released nationwide and immediately became a resounding social phenomenon, making its debutante lead actress, Linda Lovelace, the first X-rated superstar. But while this explicit and kitschy film helped to lift many taboos about sexuality, its behind-the-scenes story is far from glamorous.
- In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately about the attribution of the painting's authorship to Caravaggio. The documentary follows a famed art expert in charge of organizing the sale of the painting on behalf of the owners, while specialists debate on its authenticity.
- This documentary takes us back to this incredible life and career with numerous excerpts from films, songs, rare archives in which Perkins speaks in impeccable French, and the testimonies and memories of friends, colleagues and journalists who have worked with him.
- In November 1922, Howard Carter uncovered the tomb of Tutankhamen, an obscure pharaoh of the 18th Egyptian dynasty. The extreme wealth of the tomb reveals the munificence of this young king, who died before his 20th birthday. A century later, specialists are once again looking at the treasure. Combining 3D reconstructions, access to objects and expert insights, this document provides an overview of the discoveries being made.
- On the 60th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's passing, this documentary provides a unique portrait of the screen icon from her own perspective. In contrast to the many films made and books written about her, this one offers to give her back her voice, through the interviews she gave, the books she wrote and the fragments she left behind. For the first time, it will be a matter of understanding how Norma Jeane Baker created the iconic Marilyn Monroe. Because Marilyn was not born Marilyn, she became her.
- A story how Jack Nicholson became Jack, one of the most famous film stars.
- In February 2007, at the Munich Conference for World Security, Vladimir Putin denounced the unilateralism of the United States and announced the end of a unipolar world. Although virulent, his speech was not really listened to. Seven years after the surprise seizure of power by the obscure KGB officer, the West still underestimates his obsession with putting Russia back at the center of the world stage. However, when Putin sees NATO gradually moving closer to Russia's borders thanks to the accession of former Eastern Bloc countries, feeling threatened and betrayed, he strikes quickly and hard. It intervenes in Georgia, Ukraine and Crimea, defends its interests in Syria and Libya, and extends its influence on the African continent, notably in the Central African Republic. How far will it go?