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Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) for Secondary Schools & Colleges

We have curated a selection of foreign language films to support and enhance your KS3-5 students'  learning in French, Spanish and German, including Edexcel/AQA set text films for A-Level. You can book a screening for weekedays, 10am at your local Picturehouse Cinema, and you can also request extra time in the screen to lead a discussion with your classes (please ask at the time of booking). If you have other films titles in mind though, do ask!

Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1 Staff:10 Students ratio).

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Key Stage 3 

French
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  • Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec  (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec) [PG]. Director:  Luc Besson. 2011. 89mins.

       Big-screen adaptation of the graphic novel about Adèle Blanc-Sec, a writer who becomes
       embroiled in a mystery involving mummies, bad guys, and dinosaurs in pre World War I Paris. .

  • Avril et Le Monde Truqué [April And The Extraordinary World ) [PG]. Director: Louis Malle. 1987. 103mins.
    Set  in a French boarding school run by priests, in World War II.

  • Les Choristes (The Chorus ) [15]. Director: Mathieu Kassovitz. 1995. 97mins.
    Award winning film following three teenagers from a Paris housing estate.

  • Persepolis  [15]. Director: Laurent Cantet. 2008. 128mins.
    Set in a contemporary France classroom, a teacher navigates racial conflict in this award winning film.

  • Un long dimanche de fiançailles (The Long Engagement) [15]. Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 2004. 134mins.
    A young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War I.

German
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      Set in 1990 Germany a son goes to ludicrously immense lengths to keep his communist
       mother,who suffered a coma, convinced that communism in East Berlin is still alive.

  • Das Leben der Anderen [15]. Director: Henckel von Donnersmarck. 2006. 138mins.
    1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

  • Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei [15]. (The Edukators). Dir: Hans Weingartner. 2004.129mins.
    Three activists break into wealthy houses, teaching lessons of morality and social politics.

  • Lola rennt (Run Lola Run) [15]. Director: Tom Tykwer. 1998. 81mins.
    Every minute and every action counts, in this swish and stylish film. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Spanish
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  • El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) [15]. Director: Guillermo del Toro. 2006. 119mins.
    Fascist regime and fairytales, this magical film, shows a little girl's escape into a another world during Franco's Spain, 1944.

  • Volver [15]. Director: Pedro Almodóvar. 2006. 121mins.
    Rich in culture, from Spain's most internationally acclaimed filmmaker (Almodóvar) and lead Actress (Penélope Cruz). After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

Key Stage 4 

Please note that some of these films have been classified 15 so only students ages 15+ may attend

French
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  • Les Untouchables [15]. Director: Olivier Nakache. 2012. 110mins.

       Based on the true story of a relationship between a wealthy Parisienne quadriplegic and his
       carer. Curriculum links: family and friends, relationships, contrasts in French society,
       prejudices.

Aemelis [PG]. Director: Louis Malle. 1987. 103mins.
Set  in a French boarding school run by priests, in World War II.

  • La Haine [15]. Director: Mathieu Kassovitz. 1995. 97mins.
    Award winning film following three teenagers from a Paris housing estate.

  • Entre les murs  [15]. Director: Laurent Cantet. 2008. 128mins.
    Set in a contemporary France classroom, a teacher navigates racial conflict in this award winning film.

  • Un long dimanche de fiançailles (The Long Engagement) [15]. Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 2004. 134mins.
    A young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War I.

German
good-bye.jpg

      Set in 1990 Germany a son goes to ludicrously immense lengths to keep his communist
       mother,who suffered a coma, convinced that communism in East Berlin is still alive.

  • Das Leben der Anderen [15]. Director: Henckel von Donnersmarck. 2006. 138mins.
    1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

  • Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei [15]. (The Edukators). Dir: Hans Weingartner. 2004.129mins.
    Three activists break into wealthy houses, teaching lessons of morality and social politics.

  • Lola rennt (Run Lola Run) [15]. Director: Tom Tykwer. 1998. 81mins.
    Every minute and every action counts, in this swish and stylish film. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Spanish
Volver_2_cropped_crop.jpg

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  • El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) [15]. Director: Guillermo del Toro. 2006. 119mins.
    Fascist regime and fairytales, this magical film, shows a little girl's escape into a another world during Franco's Spain, 1944.

  • Volver [15]. Director: Pedro Almodóvar. 2006. 121mins.
    Rich in culture, from Spain's most internationally acclaimed filmmaker (Almodóvar) and lead Actress (Penélope Cruz). After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

A level

Edexcel/AQA set text films 

French
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       Set in post-War World II France, a moving story of a young boy who, left without attention,       
        delves into a life of petty crime.

  • Au revoir les enfants [PG]. Director: Louis Malle. 1987. 103mins.
    Set  in a French boarding school run by priests, in World War II.

  • La Haine [15]. Director: Mathieu Kassovitz. 1995. 97mins.
    Award winning film following three teenagers from a Paris housing estate.

  • Entre les murs  [15]. Director: Laurent Cantet. 2008. 128mins.
    Set in a contemporary France classroom, a teacher navigates racial conflict in this award winning film.

  • Un long dimanche de fiançailles (The Long Engagement) [15]. Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 2004. 134mins.
    A young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War I.

German
good-bye.jpg

      Set in 1990 Germany a son goes to ludicrously immense lengths to keep his communist
       mother,who suffered a coma, convinced that communism in East Berlin is still alive.

  • Das Leben der Anderen [15]. Director: Henckel von Donnersmarck. 2006. 138mins.
    1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

  • Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei [15]. (The Edukators). Dir: Hans Weingartner. 2004.129mins.
    Three activists break into wealthy houses, teaching lessons of morality and social politics.

  • Lola rennt (Run Lola Run) [15]. Director: Tom Tykwer. 1998. 81mins.
    Every minute and every action counts, in this swish and stylish film. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Spanish
Volver_2_cropped_crop.jpg

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  • El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) [15]. Director: Guillermo del Toro. 2006. 119mins.
    Fascist regime and fairytales, this magical film, shows a little girl's escape into a another world during Franco's Spain, 1944.

  • Volver [15]. Director: Pedro Almodóvar. 2006. 121mins.
    Rich in culture, from Spain's most internationally acclaimed filmmaker (Almodóvar) and lead Actress (Penélope Cruz). After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

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