Studio Canal
21) Love actually
Formats
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
22) Grand illusion
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A French World War I POW is held by Erich von Stroheim's German captain. A rousing prison-escape adventure and an exemplar of the 1930's poetic realist movement.
23) Diva
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jules, a young mail courier, is an impassioned fan of Cynthia Hawkins, a legendary, and determinedly unrecorded opera star. He smuggles a tape recorder into a performance and tapes her singing. At the same time, a prostitute hides a tape recording that details the career of a French mobster in Jules' delivery bag. Dizzying chases and bizaare plot twists follow, as Jules is pursued through Paris, aided by his two eccentric friends, Gorodish and his...
24) Pirate radio
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray Disc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rogue band of DJs captivate Britain in the 1960s. The music they play defines a generation and the DJs stand up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz. The Count is a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock. Radio rock is a pirate radio station situated in the middle of the North Atlantic that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs that include: Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who...
25) Nanny McPhee
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Description
Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower, Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly; but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right, especially...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Xavier is a straight-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh and party.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventures as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
28) Paddington 2
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy's hundredth birthday, Paddington sees a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber's antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it's up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief.
29) The milky way
Series
Criterion collection volume 402
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two French beggars on their way to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage.
30) Water lilies
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anne, Floriane, and Marie learn about love, friendship, and what they want from one another, during one summer in Paris.
31) Chloe
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Catherine is suspicious that her husband David is having an affair, and hires Chloe, an alluring young escort to test his fidelity. Their arranged weekly meeting allows Catherine to hear the explicit details of the encounters Chloe has with David. As Catherine becomes caught up in a web of sexual desire herself, she begins a journey that will put her family in grave danger. Is it too late to stop Chloe?
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a remote university town hidden in the coldness of the French Alps, a killer is sending a message. When the police commissaire, who is France's leading serial killer investigator, is called to investigate a grisly murder, he enters a world of secrets, lies and unthinkable horrors. Each murder to follow means something more, each victim a guilty conspirator in a grand immoral experiment.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2017, c2016
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a dead body is discovered in the English Channel tunnel, exactly midway between England and France, a detective from each country is appointed to work the investigation. The two officers must work on their own partnership as well as track down the criminal.
Description
In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love.
35) Vodka lemon
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small Armenian village faces tough times after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hamo is a widower with a small military pension and three useless sons. While making one of his daily visits to his wife's grave he meets Nina and the two begin to date.
Series
Criterion collection volume 317
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Film version of the opera uses a combination of dramatization and stage performances to tell the story of a poet who dreams up three women who each break his heart. This lavish screen adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's phantasmal opera includes performances from some of the greatest ballet dancers and opera singers ever to grace the stage or screen.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marie de Mezieres is deeply in love with her dashing cousin Henri de Guise. However, due to her father's political ambitions, she is forced into a marriage with the well-connected Philippe de Montpensier, who she has never met. When Philippe is called away to fight, she is left in the care of Count Chabannes, an aging nobleman. It isn't long before she is exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of court.
39) Green zone
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
40) Paris
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross...