What are the VOD releases from May 15 to 21? The answer in our weekly recap.
Studio 666
Available on VOD May 16, 2022
Legendary rock band Foo Fighters relocate to an Encino mansion to record their highly anticipated 10th album. Once inside the house, Dave Grohl finds himself struggling with supernatural forces that threaten both the album’s completion and the band’s life.
Golda Maria
Available on VOD May 17, 2022
In 1994, Patrick Sobelman filmed his grandmother Golda Maria Tondovska at her home. Facing the camera, her memories come back, from her childhood in Poland to her life as a woman in France, giving us the living testimony of a Jewish woman born in 1910, her crossing of the century and its horrors. In 2020, Patrick and his son Hugo made this intimate testimony a film, universal and essential.
Lebanon 1982
Available on VOD May 17, 2022
During the Israeli army’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, at a private school on the outskirts of Beirut, eleven-year-old Wissam tries to confess his love to one of his classmates. At the same time, his teachers, who share a political dispute, try to mask their fears.
I was home, but…
Available on VOD May 18, 2022
While he had completely disappeared, Phillip returns home after a week, injured in the foot, without any explanation or a word for his mother, Astrid. Deeply affected and with the help of a teacher from Philip, she seeks to answer seemingly insoluble questions: where had he gone? What could he have wanted to confront?
Farewell Mr. Haffmann
Available on VOD May 18, 2022
Paris 1941. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no choice but to conclude an agreement whose consequences, over the months, will upset the destiny of our three characters.
Great Freedom
Available on VOD May 18, 2022
The story of Hans Hoffmann. He is gay, and homosexuality in post-war Germany is illegal under paragraph 175 of the Penal Code. But he persists in seeking freedom and love even in prison…
The Shark
Available on VOD May 18, 2022
A couple on a romantic getaway in Vietnam find themselves stranded at sea after a massive tropical storm swept through their beachfront villa. With the husband crippled and dying, the wife must battle the elements alone, while great white sharks revolve around them…
Scream
Available on VOD May 18, 2022
Twenty-five years after the sleepy town of Woodsboro was hit by a series of brutal murders, a new killer dons the mask of Ghostface and targets a group of teenagers. He is determined to bring back the dark secrets of the past.
355
Available for digital purchase on May 18, 2022
A technological weapon capable of taking control of computer networks falls into the wrong hands. Intelligence agencies around the world are sending their most formidable agents to where the destructive weapon has been located: to Paris. Their mission: to prevent terrorist or governmental organizations from seizing it to trigger a world conflict. The spies will have to choose between fighting each other or joining forces…
The Chief
Available on VOD May 19, 2022
“Magic Friday”: the Friday before Christmas, the busiest evening of the year. In a gourmet restaurant in London, on the kitchen side, a few minutes from the gunshot, the entire staff is in turmoil. But problems are piling up around star chef Andy Jones and his team. Added to this is the constant pressure of an ever more demanding clientele that threatens to lead the restaurant to its downfall…
Disappearance ?
Available on VOD May 19, 2022
While Mathieu Sapin is writing a few pages of comics on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the election of François Mitterrand, he turns – to know the little story in the big story – to the shadow figures of the Socialist Party, in the first rank of which Julien Dray, the “Black Baron”. Through anecdotes and unpublished testimonies of evening visitors who rub shoulders with the highest spheres of the State since May 10, 1981, Mathieu Sapin then embarks on an investigation which will answer the major political question of the PS: “How has the left come to this? “.
Tender and Rare
Available on VOD May 19, 2022
Editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, Charly inherits the family butcher’s shop. As she prepares to sell it, she meets Martial, her father’s artisan butcher, who is determined to fight to save the business. Seduced in spite of herself by the charisma of Martial, Charly could be led to change her mind…
Lynx
Available on VOD May 19, 2022
In the heart of the Jura massif, a strange call resounds at the end of winter. The superb silhouette of an Eurasian lynx weaves its way among the beeches and firs. He calls his female. By following the life of this couple and their kittens, we discover a universe that is close to us and yet unknown… An authentic story in which chamois, eagles, foxes and ermines are the witnesses of the secret life of the biggest feline in Europe which remains threatened… A film to discover the essential role that this discreet predator plays in our forests, the balance that it has restored in a fragile environment but also the difficulties that it encounters in a landscape largely occupied by humans.
Tropical Monsoon
Available on VOD May 19, 2022
Kit, a Briton of Vietnamese descent, is returning to Saigon for the first time since leaving the country with his parents when he was just six years old at the end of the US-Vietnamese War. Unable to speak his native language, he feels out of touch with the local culture, but he reconnects with his childhood friend Lee and falls in love with Lewis, an American whose father served in the war. Through this trip, Kit will try to reconcile with his roots.