Gérard Depardieu
1) Green card
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience. She gets the apartment of her dreams and he gets a green card to live in the U.S. The two encounter difficulties, and even worse, they just might be falling in love.
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion and the imminent departure of the chief sets the scene for them to compete for the vacant throne. The competition between them becomes increasingly ruthless and blurs the usual lines of morality until there seems no difference between the police and the criminals they...
4) Vatel
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Duc de Conde?'s employee, Franc?ois Vatel, is in charge of cooking, and preparing shows for the French King Louis XIV when he visits the castle of Chantilly, owned by de Conde?. If Vatel can impress the King, de Conde? will gain his favors, and the destiny of France will change. While the King is visiting and three days of banquets ensue, Vatel falls in love with the King's mistress.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a reclusive author is picked up by the police after a murder is committed nearby, an inspector skilled in interrogation arrives to get the truth despite the author's short-term memory loss.
Publisher
Distributed by Winstar TV & Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bio-pic about the passionate life of the great French novelist, Honore de Balzac, who was ignored by critics and harassed by debt-collectors and sustained by the Russian countess whom he loved his entire life.
7) 1900
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (315 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers.
8) Vidocq
Series
Publisher
Se?ville
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1830, Vidocq, a famous Parisian detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for several months. Thirty-four years later, as troubling events are stirring in Paris, E?tienne Boisset is determined to get to the heart of Vidocq's disappearance. His search takes him from the brothel to the opium den, through dark alleys and secret chambers, with the help of Pre?ah, the seductive mistress of the missing...
9) 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...
11) The closet
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Franc?ois Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a condom factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing from happening: he creates photos and then spreads the rumor that Franc?ois is gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in Franc?ois Pignon's life--and other people's...
12) Life of Pi
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
13) City of ghosts
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jimmy is a New York con man fleeing the United States for Bangkok in order to avoid an insurance scam investigation. He goes to Cambodia to meet up with his former business partner and mentor, Marvin, to collect his half of the money. Along the way, he makes friends with local man, Sok, and romances Sophie, but is drawn into a lethal web of deceit and murder.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (233 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a man inherits a farm from his mother, he soon learns that a neighbor is trying to steal it from him; Jean de Florette's daughter Manon looks to get revenge on those who were responsible for ruining her father a decade earlier.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (235 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret, who inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, Ce?sar Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring:...
Publisher
KOCH Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2005, 1998
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (414 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the dramatic story of Edmond Dantes, a young French sailor who is falsely denounced as a political traitor and unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years without trial. After a daring escape, Dantes flees to the island of Monte Cristo, where he finds a colossal treasure bequeathed to him by a dying fellow inmate. Using these riches, he assumes a new identity and devises a plan of vengeance upon all those who betrayed him.
17) Bon voyage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the premiere of her latest picture Viviane finds herself with a dead man in her apartment. Fre?de?ric is a writer who's been falsely accused of murder, thanks to Viviane. Viviane has fled Paris for Bordeaux with a cabinet minister, and once Fre?de?ric escapes from prison, he is not far behind. Once they reach the city, which is in chaos, they become entangled in a plot involving a rickety physicist, his endlessly resourceful assistant, an...
18) Camille Claudel
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy Camille Claudel.