Raymond Hakim
1) Purple noon
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
Français
Description
A handsome, wealthy bachelor has a sexy girlfriend, the finest things money can buy, and an envious friend who schemes to murder him and assume his identity.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
Français
Description
Tom Ripley has been sent to Italy by the father of one Philippe Greenleaf with the objective of bringing Greenleaf back into the family fold in the United States. Ripley, an accomplished forger, takes his job half-seriously until he falls in love with the same woman Greenleaf is in love with, Marge.
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Publisher
distributed by The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
Tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the couple's doomed affair, the director reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style, returning to his favorite themes: alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.
4) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A vintner brazenly carries on an affair with his beautiful neighbor right under the nose of his bitter wife. His daughter has herself caught the eye of a Hungarian ne'er do well, while his voyeur son begins to take liberties with his father's mistress. As family passions ripen, the stage is set for tragedy.
6) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
The concluding chapter of Michalangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L'Avventura and La Notte) tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover and drifts into a relationship with another.
7) Eva
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Welsh writer Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker) seems to have it all, style, an international best-seller, an apartment in Rome, a gorgeous fiancée, but he remains bitter. He meets his existential match in ennui in the mod seductress Eve.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
Four Parisian shop girls, Ginette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane seek fulfillment and love. Rita has a fiance whose family is obsessed with social status. Jane has a boyfriend in the army, but she still enjoys herself with chance encounters. Ginette has a secret passion that keeps her away from her colleagues at nights. Jacqueline is lonely, but a mysterious motorcyclist constantly follows her.
9) Isadora
Publisher
Maru Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Isadora Duncan was the most iconic free-style dancer of the twentieth century who courted both admiration and scandal in equal measure. Her unique style of dancing made her the guests of King's, Queen's, nobility and Russian revolutionaries, ultimately making her the 'peoples' dancer'. But her Bohemian lifestyle and unorthodox morality led to a personal life that was marred by misunderstanding, tragedy and ultimately her own untimely death.
10) Belle de jour
Series
Criterion collection volume 593
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
Séverine, a Paris housewife, begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
11) Pepe le Moko
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
The notoious Pépé le Moko is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Casbah of Algiers, Pépé is safe from the police--until a Parisian playgirl compels him to risk his life and leave its confines once and for all.
12) Isadora
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow Isadora through years of triumph and tragedy including her taboo-breaking performances, shocking love affairs, and scandalous public behavior.
13) The long night
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Joe Adams, a factory worker trapped inside his third-floor apartment after gunning down a mysterious gentleman, reconstructs the events leading up to the shooting through an intricate series of flashbacks.