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 | A professional assassin befriends a girl whose family has been murdered, showing her how to revenge their deaths. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: R Release Date: 7-DEC-2004 Media Type:... [More information about The Professional...] |
 | Three experiences make an indelible impression on a young girl's childhood: her father's tender calligraphy on her face and neck, the text of a noblewoman's sensual diary, and the discovery that her... [More information about The Pillow Book...] |
 | Breathtaking and practically nondiscursive, Sally Potter's audacious Orlando overcomes some dodgy performances and a narrative structure that could most generously be described as "loose" to emerge... [More information about Orlando...] |
 | Story of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.Genre:... [More information about The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc...] |
 | An acknowledged influence on Psycho, Henri-Georges Clouzot's horror classic is the story of a sadistic headmaster who brutalizes his fragile wife and his headstrong mistress. The two women murder him... [More information about Diabolique (Criterion Collection Spine #35)...] |
 | In Fellini's quirky, imaginative fable, a motley crew of European aristocrats (and a lovesick rhinoceros!) board a luxurious ocean liner on the eve of World War I to scatter the ashes of a beloved... [More information about And the Ship sails On - Criterion Collection...] |
 | An impoverished artist discovers he has purchased a winning lottery ticket at the very moment his creditors come to collect. The only problem is, the ticket is in the pocket of his coat. . . which he... [More information about Le Million - Criterion Collection...] |
 | The astounding success of Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman revolutionized the foreign film market and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year-old... [More information about ...And God Created Woman - Criterion Collection...] |
 | Decadent, subversive, and bristling with artistic invention, the myth-born cinema of Jean Cocteau disturbs as much as it charms. Cocteau was the most versatile of artists in prewar Paris. Poet,... [More information about Orphic Trilogy - Criterion Collection...] |
 | AN ASSASSIN TARGETS THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE IN THIS TENSE FREDERICK FORSYTH THRILLER. FEATURES PRODUCTION NOTES, TALENT BIOS, FILM HIGHLIGHTS, AND TRAILERS.
UPC: 025192026126
Manufacturer: Universal... [More information about The Day of the Jackal...] |
 | Paris, August 1944. With the Allied army closing in, German commander and art fanatic Colonel von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a... [More information about The Train...] |
 | Celebrated director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, and Gabriel Byrne together in an electrifying suspense-thriller that is an "audacious and seductive" (Los... [More information about The End of Violence...] |
 | FIFTH ELEMENT (DVD/ENG-SUB/SP-BOTH/P&S/WS 2.35/DD5
UPC: 043396824096
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Director: Luc Besson
Brand: Sony Pictures Home ENT
Feature: A Jaw Dropping Mind Blowing Pop... [More information about The Fifth Element...] |
 | Despite a typically haphazard plot, Highlander: Endgame is a marked improvement over previous sequels. This is the "torch-passing" chapter, in which the Immortal Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert)... [More information about Highlander: The Final Dimension...] |
 | While many ugly Americans best remember Gerard Depardieu from late-'80s Hollywood fluff (and the less said about Green Card the better), his art-house reputation as a legitimate, conscientious actor... [More information about The Return of Martin Guerre...] |
 | This resonant, engrossing 1994 film by André Téchiné (Thieves) is an unusual coming-of-age story set at a French boarding school in 1962, when news of France's war in Algeria is still plentiful.... [More information about Wild Reeds...] |
 | Hong Kong action superstar Maggie Cheung (Police Story) plays herself in Olivier Assayas' brilliant satire of the movie industry.
UPC: 720917501529
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Director: Olivier... [More information about Irma Vep...] |
| Customer Review: It is amazing that over a quarter of a century since its original release that Emmanuelle remains in the top three best selling French films on video. But is it so remarkable? Here... [More information about Emmanuelle...] |
| Live-action films about the very young are rare, and even more rare are such films that work as well as Ponette does, without cloying or pandering. The film stars 4-year old actress Victoire... [More information about Ponette...] |
| One of the landmark early films of the French New Wave, director Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) weaves a tale of desperation and deceit. Anna Karina (Vivre Sa Vie) plays a stripper determined to have a... [More information about A Woman Is a Woman...] |
 | One of the most ferociously iconoclastic and experimental films of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais's 1961 feature, winner of the grand prize at that year's Venice Film Festival, is based on a... [More information about Last Year at Marienbad...] |
 | After leaving his filmmaking base and home in France in 1978 for Switzerland, Jean-Luc Godard's films became more overtly introspective but less revolutionary in his middle age. The 1983 First Name:... [More information about First Name - Carmen...] |
| Modern noir meets high opera in the French suspense flick Diva. Delivery boy Jules has an opera obsession. He spends his small disposable income on sophisticated sound equipment and manages to... [More information about Diva...] |
 | The title of Eric Rohmer's sixth and final film in his Comedies and Proverbs series, Boyfriends and Girlfriends, makes much more sense in its original French form: L'ami de mon amie (The Friend of... [More information about Boyfriends and Girlfriends...] |
 | The third of Eric Rohmer's films in his celebrated "Six Moral Tales" cycle, La Collectionneuse was also the first of his works to achieve widespread recognition. Typical of the series' satiric, witty... [More information about La Collectionneuse...] |
| Made for a fraction of the cost of Oliver Stone's similarly themed Natural Born Killers, Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation is more persuasively outragous in its cultural satire, scarier in its... [More information about The Doom Generation...] |
| Customer Review: Poignant, suspenseful and perfectly acted, The Climb is as rare as its unlikely central friendship -- and as full of humanity. - Sheila Benson, film critic A solidly crafted film... [More information about The Climb...] |
 | Nana (Anna Karina) is a Parisian salesgirl who drifts into prostitution. The story is told in the form of a documentary, separated into 12 tableaux. Godard has said that the division into tableaux... [More information about My Life to Live...] |
 | This dark and highly stylized French import directed by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, The Professional) concerns an enigmatic safecracker played by Christopher Lambert (Highlander) hiding out in the... [More information about Subway...] |
| French director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) broke the commercial taboo against female-driven action movies with this seminal, seductively slick film about a violent street punk (Anne Parillaud)... [More information about La Femme Nikita...] |
 | Modern noir meets high opera in the French suspense flick Diva. Delivery boy Jules has an opera obsession. He spends his small disposable income on sophisticated sound equipment and manages to... [More information about Diva...] |
 | Customer Review: This is a weird little, low-budget, foreign film that oddly enough is the best movie I've ever seen Goldie Hawn in. My wife is a big fan of Goldie, so--by osmosis--I've ended up... [More information about Lovers and Liars...] |
 | Playing murder as farce is nothing new for French filmmakers, but Bertrand Blier brings the concept to a new level in Buffet Froid, a bleak, ironic black comedy. An unemployed man is enmeshed in a... [More information about Buffet Froid...] |
 | As critic Roger Ebert observed in his original review of Ran, this epic tragedy might have been attempted by a younger director, but only the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, who made the film at age... [More information about Ran...] |
 | Lina Wertmuller and her favorite actor, Giancarlo Giannini, took large steps toward establishing their international reputations with this 1973 tragi-comedy about an oaf who gets it into his head... [More information about Love and Anarchy...] |
 | Carl Theodor Dreyer's eerie horror classic stars Julian West as a visitor to a remote inn under the spell of an aged, bloodthristy female vampire. Extremely atmospheric, this rare gem delivers a... [More information about Vampyr...] |
| Customer Review: I knew I was in trouble last night shortly after the credits began rolling for the film Parasite (1982) as the name Charles Band came up, not only as producer, but also as the... [More information about Parasite...] |
 | Pier Paolo Pasolini's (Decameron) startling candor and ribald humor illuminate these classic tales of romance, deception, murder and lust. A host of passionate lovers unite for a glorious, sometimes... [More information about The Canterbury Tales...] |
 | Boccaccio's eight tales from 14th century Naples inlcude the seducing nuns, the three jealous borthers who murder their sister's lover, the wizard who could change his wife into a burro and the story... [More information about The Decameron...] |
 | Filmmaker Diane Kurys examines the bittersweet friendship of two women (Isabelle Huppert and Miou Miou) during post-World War II France in this semi-autobiographical account of her mother and father.... [More information about Entre Nous...] |
 | Penetrate the moody, sensual world of Last Tango in Paris, and prepare yourself for "the most controversial film of its era" (Leonard Maltin). Nominated* for two Academy Awards(r)Director (Bernardo... [More information about Last Tango in Paris...] |
| A cop is given a week to find his partner's killer, and the killer is given a week to repay his debt to a gangster.Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: RRelease Date: 1-JUN-2004Media Type:... [More information about Boiling Point...] |
 | Max Ophüls explores the scandalous life of dancer and courtesan Lola Montes with a bittersweet empathy that turns melodrama into a tragic melancholy masterpiece. Using the theatrical re-creation of... [More information about Lola Montes...] |
 | Cheered by critics and audiences everywhere, IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN) is the record-breaking Academy Award(R)-winning (Best Dramatic Score, 1995) romantic comedy that delivers heartfelt laughs! Mario... [More information about Il Postino...] |
| Keanu Reeves (SPEED) and Bridget Fonda (IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU) star in this motion picture spectacular from Academy Award(R)-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci (THE LAST EMPEROR). In a big... [More information about Little Buddha...] |
 | Unique special effects combine with taut suspense in this gripping tale of a city caught up in a nightmare! A baffling alien object falls from the sky, a few miles outside London. The city becomes... [More information about Night Caller from Outer Space...] |
 | A love triangle set in the days just before the communist uprising in Indochina. A plantation owner finds that her adopted daughter has fallen in love with the owner's secret lover.Genre: Foreign... [More information about Indochine...] |
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