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Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Not realizing the implications of her actions, a young woman creates a story about being attacked by anti-Semitic thugs at a train station. Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer she knew in her youth....
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
44) Cesar & Rosalie
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2002, c1972
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A divorcee living with a rich merchant becomes attracted to a young artist--a bittersweet romantic triangle where all the sides are never equal. Unexpectedly, the two men become friends.
Series
Publisher
First Run Features Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Beth is a young Parisian girl whose boyfriend, in the middle of a petty argument, dares her to bed the ugliest man she can find, to test her love for him. What follows is a test of love, courage and will.
46) Fresh
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael (or Fresh as he's known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a half-way house for children without their parents. His father has become a street bum, but is still there if Fresh requires his 'street' knowledge. Fresh aspires to live the good life but his sister's prostitution for the drug heavies along with the senseless murder of friends push him to re-evaluate his life. He then decides that dealing isn't what he wants and revenge is....
47) She's one of us
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold leaf
Description
A stylish, sardonic glimpse at a woman perpetually hovering on the edge of life, so socially inept that she steals bits of conversation and hobbies from others in an attempt to form some social connections.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspector Bellamy tries to go on vacation but murder travels with him, not to mention his black sheep of a brother, his bored wife, and enough suspects to fill a cruise ship. A suspenseful mystery in which even the inspector has a motive no one would suspect.
49) The 400 blows
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Description
The semi-autobiographical story of fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel, portraying his aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. Also includes the short film, Antoine and Colette, which originally appeared as part of the film L'amour à vingt ans, picking up Antoine's story a few years later, when he is living on his own and pursuing his first love affair, initiating a lifelong career of quixotic dreams...
Publisher
KOCH Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Camille, a concert violinist, becomes intrigued by her lover's business partner, Stephane. She interprets his distance as a sign of intellectual seduction. The love triangle that develops reveals the complexity and imperfection of the three characters.
51) Heading south
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three middle-aged women, disillusioned and unsatisfied by the men at home converge at a Haitian resort to soak up the sun and sample the sexual talents of the natives.
52) Love crime
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Within the sterile offices of a powerful multinational corporation, two women come to a face-off. Isabelle is a young executive under the orders of Christine, a powerful woman she absolutely idolizes. Confident of her control over Isabelle, Christine leads her into a confusing, perverse game of seduction and domination. A dangerous game that goes too far, to the point of no return.
53) Welcome
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 17-year-old Kurdish refugee has struggled his way in Europe and tried to emigrated to England.
The Berlin Wall: 75-year-old Werner re-built the Berlin Wall.
54) Afterwards
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high-powered attorney finds his life turned upside down when he is visited by an ominous doctor who predicts people's deaths. Unable to stop the fatal predictions, the lawyer races against time to put his life in order before he becomes death's next victim.
55) Raja
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in comtemporary Marrakech, Raja explores the relationship between a wealthy middle aged Frenchman and a nineteen year old orphaned Moroccan girl. Disparities in race, economic status and language complicate the older man's pursuit of the younger girl.
56) Golden door
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Sicilian farmer falls in love with a worldly British woman while both are attempting to immigrate to America.
57) 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.
59) 'Round midnight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatizes the friendship between an aging alcoholic jazz musician and a young French jazz fan. Inspired by the real-life friendship between jazz pianist Bud Powell and Francis Paudras.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A true story of a spectacularly charismatic con man's journey from small-town businessman to flamboyant white-collar criminal, who repeatedly finds himself in trouble with the law and on the lam, all in the name of love.
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