Movies: Les Batelieres Productions

For more than 40 years Kathryn Bigelow has been making films that explore male violence. With movies like Blue Steel, Point Break, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar winning American filmmaker has impressed with hard-hitting moviemaking ...

This film is a tribute to a humiliated and destroyed nation. "As Long as the Grass Grows" is an alternative, ancient and humble creation story, where man is not the crown of the creation, but the weakest of all creatures. The film takes us back to th...

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt...

Just outside of Paris, there is a community of Benedictine nuns. They come from diverse backgrounds and do not all speak the same language. In between prayers, they work to sustain their religious community. They sell handmade rosaries and operate gu...

This film tells the story of the economic war between the four main companies of the large retailers. This war symbolizes the transformation of the economy of the consumption over the last 50 years. It also questions the present and future stakes: ho...

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Alice, 15, has a date with Mathieu. Her friend Julie lends her a pretty red dress, which does not fit her old sneakers. They set out together in search of the perfect pair of shoes, but nothing turns out as expected....

This film tells the competition in the telecommunication sector over the last years, in order to make us understand its stakes and the industrial and commercial logics. The story is told by its four main characters : Martin Bouygues, Stéphane Richard...

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Every four years, the calm and peacefull Camocim de São Félix, a small town in Pernambuco (Brazil), is shaken, revealing an outpouring of joy, anger, hope and disappointment. During the municipal political campaign, the city splits into two, and ever...

When she accepts this job as a receptionist, she has no idea she will be requested to wear 4-inch high heels. There is no way she can accept the tyranny of capitalism on her body!...

Two men dressed up as the Dardenne's brothers go to a very select film buff club to be admitted. But they understand quickly that their references are not the good ones....

A director from the French New Wave has a meeting with a young, fashionable female actor with a background in television. Nothing goes the way it should....