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 | One of the most nerve-wracking and exciting films ever made, Henri-Georges Clouzot's masterpiece won the Grand Prize at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. An American oil company enlists four tough... [More information about The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection...] |
 | 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)...] |
 | 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...] |
 | 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...] |
 | 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...] |
 | A man runs through deserted night streets, stalked by the lights of a car. It's a definitive film noir situation, promptly sidetracked--yet curiously not undercut--by real-life slapstick: watching... [More information about Shoot the Piano Player...] |
 | 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...] |
 | Customer Review: It's very apparent that this film was made in the '60's, based upon the attitude of the main character that sex = love, and his selfish attitude toward relationships with women.... [More information about Les Femmes...] |
 | Customer Review: "La bride sur le cou" ("Please Not Now!") is a pure joy to watch. Brigitte is sexy beyond compare, the plot is amusing (and sometimes very funny), and the story has some unexpected... [More information about Please Not Now!...] |
 | François Truffaut's cool, creamy-smooth melodrama of a doomed affair sets the lush romanticism of exciting indiscretion in a world where sudden stabs of ominous music hint at a tragedy in the... [More information about The Soft Skin...] |
 | Slapstick prevails when Jacques Tati's eccentric hero Monsieur Hulot is let loose in the ultramodern house of his brother-in-law, and in an antiseptic factory that manufactures plastic hose. Tati... [More information about Mon Oncle - Criterion Collection...] |
 | Pipe-smoking Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati's endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati's wildly funny satire of vacationers... [More information about M. Hulot's Holiday - Criterion Collection...] |
 | Childhood, Adolescence, Virginity, Marriage, Adultery, Divorce and A Woman Alone - The seven stages of love in a woman's life are individually explored by France's preeminent directors in this... [More information about Love and the Frenchwoman...] |
 | From the acclaimed political film maker Costa-Gavras (Amen, Missing, Music Box) comes Z, winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar® in 1969. Z's edge of your seat action closely parallels the real... [More information about Z...] |
 | Jean-Luc Godard's subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic. Contempt (Le M pris) stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud... [More information about Contempt - Criterion Collection...] |
 | Filled with suspense, PURPLE NOON is the critically acclaimed thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat! A handsome, wealthy bachelor has a sexy girlfriend and all the finest things money... [More information about Purple Noon...] |
 | Jean Renoir's 1939 classic is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, and Criterion is very proud to present the film in a special two-disc edition. Cloaked in a comedy of manners,... [More information about The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection...] |
 | Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis), the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature,... [More information about Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection...] |
 | Suffused with wry humor, Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur melds the toughness of American gangster films with Gallic sophistication to lay the roadmap for the French New Wave. As the neon is... [More information about Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection...] |
 | Recently recovered and restored, here is one of the best films you've never heard of. This lavish, action-filled, poignant, and extremely cinematic adventure/romance follows the episodic adventures... [More information about Captain Fracasse...] |
 | Like a matador confronting a bull, the artist approaches his easel. As he wields his brush, the painting dances into being before our eyes. Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the 20th... [More information about The Mystery of Picasso...] |
 | Another suspense classic from French director Claude Chabrol this taut psychological thriller tells the tale of a contented middle-class husband (Michel Bouquet) who suspects his seemingly faithful... [More information about The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle)...] |
 | From director CLAUDE LELOUCH (And Now...Ladies and Gentlemen) comes this 1966 classic, a tender, visually exciting film of revitalizing love: a race-car driver (JEAN-LOUIS TRINIGNANT) and a movie... [More information about A Man and a Woman...] |
 | Customer Review: 1. Video seems to be hardware transcoded from PAL.
2. Subtitles are hardcoded.
3. The disc is single layer. Yes, that's true - they have used single layer disc for a movie of about... [More information about The Charterhouse of Parme...] |
 | Customer Review: La Bandera is an earlier pairing of actor Jean Gabin and director Julien Duvivier prior to their much-imitated classic, Pepe le Moko. In La Bandera, both Duvivier and Gabin show... [More information about La Bandera...] |
 | This spy adventure drama is an early film in the career of French director Claude Chabrol. Legendary screen icon Jean Seberg (BREATHLESS) stars as the widow of a murdered undercover NATO security man... [More information about Who's Got the Black Box?...] |
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