Movies: Paradise Films
- 2000
The Captive (2000)
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Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her into his place, with her own room at the end of the hall and her own bathroom next to his. He has taken ...
- 1976
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)
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A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart....
- 1977
News from Home (1977)
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Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradual...
- 1996
A Couch in New York (1996)
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Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply involve...
- 1974
Je Tu Il Elle (1974)
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A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup....
- 1978
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
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On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents....
- 1975
Recommendation for Mercy (1975)
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Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl...
- 1972
La chambre (1972)
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Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This breakthrough formal experiment is Akerman's first film made in New York....
- 1982
Short Memory (1982)
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In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspirac...
- 2024
Jeanne Dielman, 6 quai aux Barques, 1000 Bruxelles (2024)
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A short documentary on the creation of the fresco by Alba Fabre Sacristán paying homage to Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Made by Akerman's childhood friend and longtime collaborator Marilyn Watelet and also c...
- 1993
From the East (1993)
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Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc....
- 2003
Vodka Lemon (2003)
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In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two a...
- 1989
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989)
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Belgian director Chantal Akerman avoids her usual "real time" technique in Histoires d'Amérique. The anecdotal nature of the subject matter compels Akerman to fragment her narrative, rather than offer it in one, uninterrupted continuum. Still, anothe...
- 1984
Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman (1984)
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A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic proh...
- 1991
Night and Day (1991)
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Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with Josep...
- 2004
Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage) (2004)
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- 1986
Golden Eighties (1986)
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Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's appealing to Lili, the salon's manager, who's trendy and also the salon-owner's moll; to Mado, who's inn...
- 1982
Toute une nuit (1982)
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Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance....
- 2022
Hridpindo (2022)
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A married biology professor goes back to her ex boyfriend who is still in love with her. When a secret is revealed, she cannot decide between listening to her heart and her mind....
- 1995
Celestial Clockwork (1995)
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Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star....