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2) The Moderns
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A struggling American painter living in Paris in the 1920s becomes involved in a plot to forge three paintings-- this leads to run-ins with a cold-blooded businessman who happens to be married to his ex-wife.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
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Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in America, the meaning of taste, and the limits of snobbery. Without quite realizing it, they were shaping todays...
Pub. Date
c2006
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When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a chase...
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Normandy, 1944. To cover the fighting in France, Jane, a reporter for the Nashville Banner, and Liv, an Associated Press photographer, have already had to endure enormous danger and frustrating obstacles - including strict military regulations limiting what woman correspondents can do. Even so, Liv wants more. Encouraged by her husband, the editor of a New York newspaper, she's determined to be the first photographer to reach Paris with the Allies,...
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In this biography the author draws upon archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished transcripts of Jefferson presidential papers to give readers a view of Jefferson the politician and the President, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better"--IMDB.com.
"While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s everyday at midnight."-- IMDb.com.
Pub. Date
[2009]
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During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French -Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
Pub. Date
2015
Description
GRACE HAS A REAL TALENT FOR BAKING AND A PASSION FOR MAKING DELICIOUS DREAMS COME TRUE. WHEN HER MOM ANNOUNCES A TRIP TO VISIT RELATIVES IN PARIS, GRACE ISN'T SO SURE ABOUT LEAVING HER FRIENDS AND THEIR CUPCAKE BUSINESS. THAT IS UNTIL SHE DISCOVERS SHE'LL GET TO WORK WITH HER UNCLE AND COUSIN IN A REAL FRENCH PASTRY SHOP!
11) Hereafter
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazi leadership, including Adolph Hitler, at a movie premiere....
14) Paris can wait
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates.
15) Charade
Description
Charade (1963) is comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs.
Charade (1953) is a trilogy of tales about love and death performed, penned and produced by James and Pamela Mason. A lady artist falls for her mysterious subject; an Austrian officer is trapped in an unwinnable duel for a lady; and a maid...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A former American O.S.S. agent living in London is caught in a web of intrigue, murder and deceit when a beautiful woman visits him one New Year's Eve, claiming to be a friend of his old boss, Jules Lemoine. He is convinced to smuggle a tape recording, containing defense information, to Paris on Lemoine's behalf. But all is not as it seems, and when Lemoine is murdered, he realizes that a deadly enemy has staged a terrible ruse...one in which he has...
17) 2 days in Paris
Pub. Date
2007
Description
French photographer Marion and American interior designer Jack are attempting to rekindle their relationship with romance by taking a vacation in Europe. Their trip to Venice did not really work out. They have higher hopes for Paris. But the combination of Marion's overbearing non-English speaking parents, Marion's flirtatious ex-boyfriends, and Jack's obsession with photographing every famous Parisian tombstone and his conviction that French condoms...
18) Le divorce
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When Isabel Walker receives word that her pregnant stepsister Rosy has been left by her philandering French husband, artist Charles-Henri de Persand, Isabel travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support.
19) Paris Holiday
Pub. Date
2003
Description
An American travels to Paris to buy a new play, which is actually an expose of a French counterfitting ring. Together with a beautiful spy & a Frenchman he leads a chase through Paris.
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Three Americans discover a terrorist plot aboard a train while in France.
"...his workmanlike absorption in the task at hand is precisely what makes this movie fascinating as well as moving."--New York Times.
"The very averageness of these conscientious, gutsy guys is precisely the point."--Time Magazine.