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1) Synonyms
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young Israeli man moves to France and begins his new life with the help of his French dictionary.
2) A good year
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
Max Skinner is a highly successful investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his estranged uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in France where he grew up. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but after spending unexpected time at the vineyar, he discovers a part of himself that he thought he had lost and experiences romance and a blossoming new love affir with a beautiful French woman...
Series
Criterion collection volume 448
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A French criminal, recently escaped from prison and trying to pull off a robbery, finds himself being chased by an inspector.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1010
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forestier becomes infatuated.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (6 hrs. 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1947. A fashion empire rises from the ashes of war-torn Paris, run by the breathtakingly charming and thoroughly ruthless Paul Sabine. But behind the glamour and elegance lies a devastating secret that threatens to destroy the company's delicately built success. Sophisticated and contemporary in tone, this is a story about the price of success, set during a pivotal moment in France's history.
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...
7) Free men
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.
8) 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
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
François' mother, Mme Lepic, hates him and she nicknames him "Poil de Carotte" (Carrot hair). His father is more interested in politics and hunting that he is in him. In spite of the affection of his godfather and his friend Mathilde, whom he calls his "fiancé", young Poil de Carotte contemplates suicide. On a particularly difficult day, he attempts to hang himself. Mr. Lepic saves his life just in time and understands he is partly to blame.
10) The two of us
Series
Criterion collection volume 388
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France's liberation. Forced to hide his identity, eight-year-old Claude bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa, who improbably becomes his friend and confidant.
11) Plenty
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sandra has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
13) Korkoro
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the Second World War, a Gypsy family travels the roads of France before learning that the Vichy regime no longer gives them the right to travel freely.
14) La vérité
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominated La vérité delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
15) The two of us
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a young Jewish boy is sent by his parents to the rural home of an elderly couple and forms an unlikely bond with the anti-Semitic old man.
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Antoinette, a schoolteacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holiday with her married lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When she learns that Vladimir has to cancel because his wife organized a surprise hiking vacation, Antoinette decides to follow their tracks, accompanied by a protective donkey named Patrick.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (520 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Malotru has been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Moved from camp to camp, tortured and weakened, he's close to despair. In Paris, the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) faces a dilemma: should they use all their resource to save Malotru, who betrayed the service, his country and friends when he became a double agent working for the CIA?
Series
Mesrine saga volume pt. 2
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (2 hr., 14 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the climactic second part of the Mesrine saga, Jacques Mesrine is back in France after his brazen assault on the maximum-security prison from which he daringly escaped. Once again in police custody and facing stern justice for his crime, 'the man of a thousand faces' escapes directly from the courtroom after kidnapping the judge at gunpoint. The life of Jacques comes once and for all to a full bloody circle.
20) La France
Publisher
Distributed by Lorber HT Digital
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
French farm girl Camille is awaiting news of her husband, who is fighting at the front. After she receives an enigmatic letter ending their relationship, she dresses up as a boy and joins a wandering regiment in search of her estranged love. Skirting the edges of battlefields, the platoon haunts the screen like shell-shocked specters, awakening for four uncannily beautiful musical numbers played on homemade string instruments.
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