Jean-Pierre Cassel
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed.
5) Congorama
Publisher
Facets Multi-Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
"When Michel, an uninspired inventor from Belgium who trades on the success of his father, discovers he is adopted, he sets off to find his birth parents in Canada under the guise of selling one of his pointless inventions"
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
The most personal film by Jean-Pierre Melville, who had participated in the French Resistance himself, this tragic masterpiece based on a novel by Joseph Kessel recounts the struggles and sacrifices of those who fought in the Resistance.
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
On the fateful day of August 24, 1939, in a Paris restaurant, six friends heard the radio broadcast that would plunge the world into war. Vowing to reunite every year on that day, the close-knit friends parted ways and prepared to join the conflict. Follow each of their lives through the explosive World War II action of the London Blitz, the Normandy invasion and aerial dogfights in their desperate fight against the Nazis. Each of them faces the hell...
Publisher
Studio Canal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Three musketeers: The young ambitious Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris aspiring to join the Musketeers. He meets Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and faces villains, romance, adventure, and intrigue. To save the honor of the Queen, he and the others set off on a perilous journey. In the end, he proves he is worthy, and joins the Musketeers like his friends.
The Four musketeers: Villainous Cardinal Richelieu continues his machinations to eliminate...
11) La cérémonie
Series
Criterion collection volume 1199
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
The crowning achievement of Claude Chabrol's career is a riveting study of class dynamics and the psychology of crime, starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire as a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious alliance that gradually goes haywire.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The Three musketeers: The young ambitious Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris aspiring to join the Musketeers. He meets Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and faces villains, romance, adventure, and intrigue. To save the honor of the Queen, he and the others set off on a perilous journey. In the end, he proves he is worthy, and joins the Musketeers like his friends.
The Four musketeers: Villainous Cardinal Richelieu continues his machinations to eliminate...
14) Vincent & Theo
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.
15) Wooden camera
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"From South Africa comes a compelling story of fate and friendship as two boys make a simple choice that alters their lives forever....this richly multilayered story offers an insightful look into the challenges facing post-Apartheid South Africa while telling an enchanting tale of a sweet artistic soul finding his true self."--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Follows a group of French resistance fighters during World War II as they face capture, escape, and a traitor.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Français
Description
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 102, 143, 290
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
More than four decades after he took a razor blade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel capped his career with three final provocations in which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its endgame. -- adapted from back of container.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: An upper-middle class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1203
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
"In the revolutionary first decade of her filmmaking career, Chantal Akerman devoted herself to nothing less than the total resculpting of cinematic time and space. Journeying between Europe and New York City, Akerman forged a highly personal style that fuses avant-garde influences with deeply human expressions of alienation, desire, and displacement---themes that she would explore in a series of increasingly ambitious shorts, documentaries, and features...