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Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
We find Xavier back after L'Auberge Espagnole and he is 30 years old now. Xavier's life is one disappointment after another. A chance meeting could be the answer for both his career and love life, but will it end up in heartbreak?
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Louis lives an isolated existence on the French-Swiss border. When an ailing heart leads him to visit Geneva to pay for a replacement on the black market, he travels to his former home where he searches for his lost son.
3) Fat girl
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, Eléna, is a beauty. Eléna meets an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the ever-watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence.
4) Rendez-vous
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Nina moves to Paris to become an actress where she has a profound impact on three men.
5) Rapt
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Stanislas Graff, a powerful industrialist, is kidnapped one morning from in front of his building by a group of gangsters. So begins a nightmare where he's humiliated, abused, and treated inhumanely. Although he resists, allowing his kidnappers no hold over him, he accepts everything without rebelling or any kind of cry or complaint; he responds with dignity to barbarity. Outside, his world slowly collapses when his true nature is revealed.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Digitally transferred version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A poetic comedy about a group of children in a French village as they grow from children to adolescents to adulthood. Truffaut interweaves vignettes of puppy love, school days, bragging rights, trips to the movie house, loving parents and one boy's escape from child abuse, as he explores the range of young emotions from humour to fantasy to the serious side of life.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Baya is a young, extroverted liberal who lives by the old hippie slogan 'Make love, not war'. She seduces right-wing men to convert them to her political causes - and so far she's gotten exceptional results. That is, until she meets Arthur, a middle-aged, middle-of-the road scientist, and the sparks fly.
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Claude and Pierrot are two crude drifters who travel the French countryside in pursuit of petty crimes and wanton sex. But when their abduction of a frigid young beautician becomes an exercise in frustration, they find sordid solace in a sex-starved ex-convict. Can two lovable but amoral brutes survive an increasingly strange spree of love, pain, responsibility, car theft, and nymphomania?
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.
12) On my way
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When her mother tells her that her married lover has ditched her for a 25-year-old beautician's assistant, Bettie, a former Breton beauty queen turned bistro owner, takes to the road and winds up at a dive bar named Le Ranch, for an evening of drunken revelry sets. Bettie's resentful daughter, Muriel, then asks her mother to chauffeur her son, Charly, to his grandfather's, and the pair sets out on a trip that will ultimately lead Bettie to revisit...
13) L'enfance nue
Series
Criterion collection volume 534
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
François is a foster child on the cusp of his teens. Shuttled from one home to another, his behavior grows increasingly erratic, and his bonds with his surrogate parents perennially fraught.
14) Rosetta
Series
Criterion collection volume 621
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on her shoulder throughout.
15) Delicatessen
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In a futuristic society where meat is a rare commodity, a delicatessen serves up its customers as a nutritious replacement!
17) Lacombe Lucien
Series
Criterion collection volume 329
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy's horrific coming of age, the disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt.
Publisher
Cohen Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
30th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The intertwining storylines of an art dealer, a thief, a police chief inspector, a gun dealer, an inventor, a beautician, several bums, and a crazy old man play out as an 18th century chinaware set and a 19th century portrait pass in and out of their hands. A surreal cinematic Rubik's cube that examines the bizarre twists of fate that draw people and possessions together and apart.
Publisher
KOCH Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
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.
20) The red balloon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (34 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Pascal is a young French boy who discovers a stray balloon on the streets of Paris that seems to have a mind of its own and begins to follow Pascal everywhere. The two beome inseparable, yet the world's harsh realities finally interfere. A touching allegory of the magic powers of love and friendship.
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