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In this bittersweet, often funny, semi-autobiographical period drama, director Diane Kurys reimagines the post-War years of her parents and the passionate friendship between two women. We first meet Lňa in 1942, a young Jewish woman in an internment camp run by the Vichy authorities. She accepts a proposal of marriage by one of the camp workers in the hopes of escaping deportation to Nazi Germany. They escape on foot, crossing the Alps to Italy,...
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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 protégé suggests a more inspiring subject, who exchanges ideas and...
3) The damned
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Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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In 1945, during the last days of the war, a submarine flees Oslo for South America with a group of Nazis and sympathizers onboard. A young French doctor is also taken aboard to care for a wounded passenger. Soon intrigues develop, hatreds spring up, and then mutiny erupts on the submarine.
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Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 Blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
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Français
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Michel Simon and Gerard Philipe star in this imaginative retelling of the Faust legend. Approaching the end of his life, a prominent professor makes a bargain with the Devil that will gain him youth, fame and riches in exchange for his soul.
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Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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In a remote English village, three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, live a simple life with their brother, Branwell, and their father, the pastor Patrick Bronte. Although compelled to take posts as governesses or private tutors, the four siblings nurture their artistic aspirations. Branwell's poems begin to interest other writers and each of the sisters publishes a successful novel. The family's good fortune, however, is short lived, and soon...
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Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + insert ([9] pages : ill. ; 19 cm).
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Français
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The dark shadows of New York come to life in this rarely-seen, moody, jazz-soaked noir classic. A film by the great Jean-Pierre Melville, who cast himself as a journalist on an ethically fraught mission to track down a missing French diplomat.
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Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
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DVD edition.
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2 DVDs (209 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Chicken with vinegar": Police inspector Jean Lavardin is tasked with solving a series of grisly murders. "Inspector Lavardin": Lavardin travels to a small coastal town to investigate the puzzling death of a wealthy writer murdered on a beach.
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Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Blu-ray.
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1 Blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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The lives of Mika and her husband, celebrated pianist Andre Polonski, are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned that she almost had been switched at birth with Polonski's son in the hospital. Also a pianist, Jeanne speculates that she may be Andre's daughter. Her suspicions further aroused by Mika's behavior, Jeanne begins the dangerous task of unraveling a dark web of family secrets and lies.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
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1 DVD (159 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between French Catholics and Protestants. Six days after her wedding, La Mole, a young man wounded by several sword injuries, frantically knocks on Margot's door. He is Protestant and must die like all the others, but Margot hides him, nurses him back to help and grows to love him.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 226 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([unpaged] : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
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Français
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That man from Rio: Thieves steal a figurine created by the ancient Maltecs from the Museum of Man in Paris and kidnap both a curator who is an authority on Maltec civilization and Agnes, a young woman whose father accompanied the curator on an expedition to the Amazon. Agnes's boyfriend Adrien pursues them to Rio de Janeiro to rescue Agnes and solve the mystery.
Up to his ears: A bored and bankrupted billionaire is convinced to allow someone to murder...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
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3 DVDs (approximately 5 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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A married woman leaves her middle-class husband for a leather-jacketed stud she meets in a disco; a family copes with life's changes as the matriarch lies dying from cancer; follows a group of working-class teenagers in northern France in their final year of school.
Loulou (1980) Portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2016.
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2 DVDs (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
Description
After leaving the asylum, Vincent Van Gogh settles in Auvers-sur-Oise, in the home of Doctor Gachet, an art lover and patron. Vincent keeps painting amidst the conflicts with his brother Theo and the torments of his failing mental health. He has an affair with Marguerite, his host's daughter. However, she soon realizes that he doesn't love her and that his heart beats only for his art.
13) The gang of four
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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Four young women share a house on the outskirts of Paris and study acting under a demanding teacher. Outside class, each is questioned by a mysterious investigator on the trail of a former roommate who may be involved in a criminal enterprise.
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Publisher
Cohen
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 DVD (192 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
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Français
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Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 Blu-ray (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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Two amoral drifters who travel the French countryside committing petty crimes and harassing the women they encounter, including Miou -Miou, Jeanne Moreau, and, in an early role, Isabelle Huppert. Perpetually on the run from the police and the women they encounter, the two are always just one step ahead of death or imprisonment as a result of their crime spree.
Publisher
Cohen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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In this stylish heist noir from director Jacques Deray, master director of the French crime film, five men tied to businesses with varying degrees of legality pool their money to go in on one huge narcotics deal that can set them up for life, and test their loyalties.
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