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1) In her name
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A gripping and emotional legal drama based on a true story that moved France for three decades. In 1982, Andre Bamberski learns about the death of his fourteen year-old daughter, Kalinka. Convinced that Kalinka's death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka's stepfather of the murder.
2) À la vie
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Inspired by a true story. Helene, Lili and Rose met in Auschwitz, where the three twenty-year-old Jewish girls were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili, who was working in the camp kitchen, the two French girls survived. However, after the liberation of the camp, they lost touch. Lili went back to the Netherlands. Rose married a former deportee and settled down in Canada. Helene returned home to France, where she met an old childhood sweetheart,...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version ; Special edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD)(123 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafes. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in. ; 32 min.)
Language
Français
Description
A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe.
8) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (113 min.) : sound, black & white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (18 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
9) Renoir
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son. Renoir locates a fascinating moment of change, with one century's way of thinking giving way to the next.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([22] pages ; 18 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.
13) Night and fog
Series
Criterion collection volume 197
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (32 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and fog (Nuit et brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage"-- Container.
14) Outside the law
Publisher
Palisades Tartan Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing Air Force pilot.
16) Danton
Series
Criterion collection volume 464
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution.
Series
Criterion collection volume 462
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (.131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
In Nazi-occupied Paris, a Jewish director is forced to hide in the basement of his theater while his wife stars in its latest production.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
With the age of feudalism in decline, Europe rests at a tense crossroads between the old world and the new. Respected, well-to-do horse merchant Michael Kohlhaas is a loving husband and family man leading a peaceful existence, until a ruthless nobleman steals his horses, setting off a chain of irreversible events. Kohlhaas resorts to extremes after these crimes destroy his livelihood and trust in the law, igniting a rampage through the countryside...
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Sidonie, who serves as reader to Marie Antoinette and displays a singular devotion to the queen, witnesses the final days of the French Revolution from inside the walls of the Palace of Versailles. The film is seen from Sidonie's point of view, and the story takes place over the course of four days.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Set in the 16th century, Marie de Mezieres is deeply in love with her dashing cousin Henri de Guise. However, due to her father's political ambitions, she is forced into a marriage with the well-connected Philippe de Montpensier, who she has never met. When Philippe is called away to fight, she is left in the care of Count Chabannes, an aging nobleman. It isn't long before she is exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of court.
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