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Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and anticipation, but as they get closer to their goal they...
4) The valet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of Franc?ois Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A shell-shocked Juliette is released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. As life has moved on, she must relearn certain basics. After being banished from her family, she is now reunited with her younger sister, Lea. Hopefully, Juliette will learn to forgive herself in the process.
Publisher
Distributed by Winstar TV & Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Romantic comedy which follows the life of Ange?le, a forty-something woman who makes her living at a Parisian spa and whose life has been a series of hedonistic and reckless one-night stands.
7) Mouchette
Series
Criterion collection volume 363
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil.
8) Profile
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Inspired by true events, Profile follows an undercover British journalist on her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured in to becoming a militant extremist herself."--container.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1991
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An artist near the end of his career finds new inspiration in a young model. A famous and well-respected artist who lives in a comfortable estate in the French countryside, at the age of 60, considers his career as a painter to be over. He no longer feels inspired to create, and his last attempt at a major work, a nude study of his wife Liza, has sat unfinished for ten years. His prote?ge? suggests a more inspiring subject, who exchanges ideas and...
10) La vie en rose
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raised in a brothel, then wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith Piaf spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start and, ultimately, by her international success and final illness. Always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental, she was often on drugs or alcohol and was always in search of true love. Middleweight boxer, Marcel...
11) Gabrielle
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.
12) Ronin
Formats
Description
The Cold War may be over, but a new world order keeps a group of covert mercenaries employed by the highest bidder. Known as Ronin, these operatives are assembled in France for a seemingly routing mission to steal a top-secret briefcase. The simple task soon proves explosive as the underworld organizations vie for the same prize
13) Tout va b!en
Series
Criterion collection volume 275
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a wildcat strike at a sausage factory, as witnessed by an American reporter and her has-been New Wave film director husband. Culminates in a free-range assault on consumer capitalism and ineffective leftists. A caustic critique of society, marriage, and revolution in post-1968 France.
14) Marie's story
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the turn of the nineteenth century, a family sends their blind and deaf daughter to the Larnay Institute in France where Catholic nuns run a school for deaf girls.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sandrine is a successful Parisienne who tires of her job in the rat race and decides to buy Adrien's isolated farm with the caveat that he remain onsite for a period of time. A touching story of growth and change and of the glorious ability of nature to stir the depths of one's heart.
16) Mammuth
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After turning 60, working-class man Serge decides to retire and is ready to reap his pensioner's rewards. He runs into the implacable wall of bureaucracy after finding out that his former employers have neglected to declare his earnings. To receive full benefits he needs to go back to them and gather the missing affidavits. Encouraged by his wife, our hero climbs his old 1970s Mammoth motorcycle and sets off on a trip to recover lost wages and buried...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rose is a pampered and prissy makeup artist who is hoping to get out of a bad relationship with her boyfriend, Sergio, by leaving him in Paris and heading off to Mexico for a holiday. After losing her cell phone, Rose borrows one from Felix, a somewhat stiff salesman with an interest in gourmet cooking, who is en route to Munich to attend a funeral. When both Rose and Felix find themselves stranded at the airport due to a transportation strike, they...
19) Resistance
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows aspiring mime artist Marcel Marceau as he joins the French Resistance during World War II to help save thousands of orphaned Jewish children.
20) Les misérables
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min. & 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Valert.
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