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1) La France
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 102 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
An intoxicating blend of wartime romance and brightly colored musical, the film depicts an original world "where Bresson meets the Beatles" (Variety).
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Assassinating high-profile targets is old hat for French Secret Service agent Josselin Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo). But when his assignment to take down African warlord N'Jala (Pierre Saintons) is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Jordan enjoys living on the edge - that fine margin between glory and disaster where only the bravest dare tread. "LE MARGINAL" is the admired chief of the Marseilles narcotic squad. His sworn enemy is Mecacci - a crook with friends in high places. Mecacci sees Jordan as an irritating nuisance. After Jordan busts an important drug shipment, Mecacci organizes his transfer to a remote police station in Paris. When Jordan learns of Alfred, a potential...
4) Dog Day
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
An American gangster (Lee Marvin) hopes to find refuge in France, but meets with violence and hatred in a farm lost in the Beauce, inhabited by sinister characters.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (139 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
This **Oscar-nominated** drama tells the story of a family fighting for Algeria's independence from France after World War II. After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement; Said moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
After stealing a truckload of gold bars, a gang of thieves absconds to the ruins of a remote village perched on the cliffs of the Mediterranean. Home to a reclusive yet hypersexual artist and her motley crew of family and admirers, it seems like a perfect hideout. But when two cops roll up on motorcycles to investigate, the hamlet erupts into a hallucinatory battlefield as both sides engage in an all-day, all-night firefight rife with double-crosses...
7) A secret
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A young boy who has a vivid imagination dreams up a brother for himself and a better past for his family. On his 15th birthday he finds his dreams shattered when he uncovers a shocking secret that ties his family to the Holocaust.
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A French World War I POW is held by Erich von Stroheim's German captain. A rousing prison-escape adventure and an exemplar of the 1930's poetic realist movement.
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
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Tells the story of four Algerian men who enlist in the French army during World War II to fight Nazi oppression only to encounter prejudice from the native French-born soldiers.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiancé to return from the war. When bad news arrives she refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into his infantry, hiring a private detective and piecing together his war stories.
14) Joan the maid
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the life of Joan of Arc.
16) 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.
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
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version; [English/Spanish subtitled version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Set in occupied WWII France, War of the Buttons tells the tale of pre-teen rebel Lebrac and the "war" he leads between two rival kid gangs from neighboring villages. Once Lebrac falls for Violette, a young Jewish girl who is new in town and in danger of being exposed by the Nazis, the children are faced with putting their own conflicts aside to protect her and confront the very real war happening around them.
19) 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.
20) 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
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