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Les 400 Coups /
The 400 Blows
Director: François Truffaut
1998 (1965)
Antoine Doinel is a 14 year old
Parisian. His parents do not show much interest in him. He skips school to
go to the movies and play with his friends. He discovers his mother has a
lover. Antoine steals a typewriter, which leads to his suspension from
school. 96 min.
Call
number: DVD 400b |
Alphaville / Une Etrange Aventure de
Lemmy Caution
Director: Jean Luc Goddard
2005 (1959)
Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels
to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is
dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion. 99 min.
Call
number: DVD alph |
Amélie from
Montmartre / Le Fabuleux
Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2001
Amélie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood;
misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amélie didn't attend school
with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she
developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this,
Amélie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a
cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the
lives of others around her to help them out. 2 discs, 122 min
Call number: DVD amel |
Anthology of Surreal Cinema
Director: René
Clair, Germain Dulac, Fernand Léger,
Marcel Duchamp
2005
Includes four early art films from the 1920's: Entr'acte, La
Coquille et le Clergyman, Ballet Mechanique, and Anemic Cinema. 65 min.
Call number: DVD PN 1995.9 .S85 A58 2005 |
Army of Shadows / L'armée des Ombres
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
2007 (1969)
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance’s chiefs is
given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. 145 min.
Call number: DVD army |
L'Atalante
Director: Jean Vigo
2001 (1934)
When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him aboard the
barge L'Atalante, where they travel along the Seine River. The bride,
becomes bored and leaves the ship for Paris where she starts flirting with
other men.
Call number: DVD lata |
The Barbarian Invasions / Les Invasions Barbares
Director: Denys Arcand
2003
It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor to reconcile with his
equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering
with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confrom their
differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life.
Call number: DVD barb
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The Beat that my Heart Skipped / De
Battre mon Couer s'est Arrete
Director: Romain Duris
2005
In this remake of Fingers, Tom, a
ne’er-do-well, works with two scheming real estate men who have little or no
morals. He decides to return to the piano, practicing Bachs’ Toccata in E
Minor for an important audition that could be a life-changing event. 107
min.
Call number: DVD beat
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Bob the Gambler
/ Bob le Flambeur
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
2002 (1955)
Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino
expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays
the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of
the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die. 102 min.
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Les Bonnes
Director: Michel Demoulins
2003 (1985)
Two trecherous maidservants simultaneously
love and hate their mistress. When they fail in their attempt to murder her,
they manage to achieve the fate they have earned.. 110 min.
Call Number: DVD bonn
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Breathless /
A Bout de Souffle
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
2001 (1960)
"Tells the story of Michael, a handsome young criminal, who is on the
run from the law after stealing a car and killing a policeman."
Call number: DVD brea
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The Bride Wore Black /
La Mariée Était en Noir
Director: François Truffaut
2001 (1967)
After a bridegroom is shot on the steps of the church on his wedding
day, his widow traces the group of men responsible and eliminates them one
by one.
Call number: DVD brid |
La
Bûche
Director:
Danièle Thompson
2002 (1999)
Released as "Season's Beatings"
in Britain. When Yvette's second husband
suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from
her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their
father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner,
forcing their parents to speak to each other for the first time in 25 years.
As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test
their love and their loyalties. 104 min.
Call number: DVD buch
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Buffet Froid
Director: Bertrand Blier
1997 (1979)
Also called "Cold Cuts." Farcical thriller starring Gérard Depardieu as Alphonse, an
unemployed drifter obsessed with murder and death.
Call number: DVD buff
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Caché
/ Hidden
Director: Michael Haneke
2006 (2005)
A talk show host and his wife and son
seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of
their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes
reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict,
obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the
husband’s childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
Call number: DVD cach
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Un Chien Andalou / The Andalusian Dog
Director: Luis Buñuel
2004 (1929)
The first film produced purely from within the Surrealist Movement,
and a land mark in the history of cinema. 17 min.
Call number: DVD chie
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Chocolat
Director: Claire Denis
2001 (1988)
A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the sights,
sounds and smells sweep her back to her childhood and memories of the people
who populated her youth. 106 min.
Call number: DVD choc
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Children of Paradise / Les
Enfants du Paradis
Director: Marcel Carné
2002 (1945)
Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their
life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman. 190 min.
Call number: DVD chil
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Cléo from 5 to 7 / Cléo de 5 à 7
Director: Agnès Varda
2000 (1962)
A girl waiting for the result of a
medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film
focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers. 90 min.
Call number: DVD cléo
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Coup de Torchon
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
2001 (1981)
After Lucien Cordier, the only
police officer in a small African village, is ridiculed by the local pimp,
cheated on by his wife, and suffers his mistresses being beaten, he begins
to get rid of the evil ones in his life.
128 min.
Call number: DVD coup
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Days of Glory /
Indigènes
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
2007 (2006)
The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing
discrimination by its European counterparts due to
prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are
preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their
homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot
accomplish their task without recruiting men from their
African colonies. The Africans themselves start their
long journey full of hope and anticipation, but as they
get closer to their goal they realize that their enemy
is not necessarily the Germans. 125 min.
Call number:
DVD days |
The Decline of the American
Empire
Director: Denys Arcand
2004 (1986)
Four university teachers gather to prepare a dinner. Remy is a
married man, Claude a homosexual, Pierre has a girlfriend and Alain is a
bachelor. Amongst them, they discuss sex, the female body and their affairs
with them. Their dinner guests Louis, Dominique, Diane and Danielle are
waiting at a health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and,
naturally, men. Later in the evening they meet and have dinner where candid
conversations are brought out at the dinner table, where more revelations,
confrontation - and sex - begin. 102min.
Call number: DVD decl
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Diary of a Chambermaid / Journal d'une
Femme de Chambre
Director: Luis Buñuel
2001 (1964)
A chambermaid with Paris flair
gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff
members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and
neighbor revialry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to
have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
98min.
Call number: DVD diar
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Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / Le
Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie
Director: Luis Buñuel
2000 (1972)
An upper-class sextet sits down to
dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian
mixture of events both actual and imagined.
101min.
Call number: DVD disc
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Diva
Director: Jean Jacques Beinex
2000 (1981)
Cynthia Hawkins is the operatic superstar whose refusal to make a
recording frustrates her adoring public. A young fan named Jules makes a
secret tape and is stalked by thugs who plan to blackmail the diva. Jules
also accidentally acquires a tape which tells of a top mobster's role in an
international sex and drug ring. Two hired killers are out to get the tape.
Call number: DVD diva
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Le
Scaphandre et le Papillon
Director: Julian Schnabel
2008 (2007)
The French editor of Elle
magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a
stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye
to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his
interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his
body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind. 112
min.
Call number: DVD divi
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L'enfant / The Child
Director: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
2006 (2005)
When a small-time crook and his
young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When
his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the
hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself. 96 min.
Call number: DVD enfa
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Grand Illusion /
La Grande
Illusion
Director: Jean Renoir
1999 (1937)
In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a
German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes
friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring
escape. New and improved English subtitle translation. Includes a rare
theatrical trailer (ca. 5 min.) in which Jean Renoir discusses this film and
his personal war experiences. 114min., b&w.
Call number: DVD gran
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He
Loves Me, He
Loves Me Not /
À la Folie
—
Pas du Tout
Director: Laetitia Colombani
2002
Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. She
tries to convince him to leave his pregnant wife. Is the love affair the
one-sided obsession of a desperate woman clinging to a hopeless dream, and
turning it into a nightmare when she realizes it may not come true?
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD helo
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Hiroshima Mon
Amour
Director: Alain Resnais
2003 (1959)
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense
affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World
War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster,
she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
Call number: DVD hiro
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Inch' Allah Dimanche
Director: Yamina Benguigui
2001
Film about the "family reunion," the French government’s euphemism
for a 1974 law allowing Algerian wives to rejoin their husbands working in
France. Strong-willed Zouina parts tearfully from her mother in the port of
Algiers; once in France, she and her three small children are at the mercy
of her mother-in-law and confused by the strange customs of their local
grocer and garden-obsessed neighbor. The radio is her only window on life
and on the women of this new country. Based on the novel by Yamina
Benguigui. 98 min. In French and Arabic, with French
subtitles in some sequences.
Call number: DVD inch
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Jesus of Montreal
Director: Claude Berri
2004 (1989)
The story of Jean Cadoret, an accountant who inherits a farm from his
mother and hopes to become a gentleman farmer. Before he even arrives,
though, a powerful neighbor is plotting to steal his land. The result is
heartbreak and tragedy for Jean, who is no match for his wily neighbor.
Call number:
DVD jesu |
Kings and Queen / Roi et Reine
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
2004
This exhilarating film from Amaud Desplechin expertly mixes comedy,
tragedy, and melodrama to tell the emotionally gripping story of the
interesting lives of two former lovers. In French. 150 min.
Call number: DVD king
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Kirikou and the Sorceress
Director: Michel Ocelot
1998
Based on West African folklore, this is
the story of a remarkable baby boy who is born with the ability to speak,
amazing intelligence, and physical abilities. Features a musical score by
music icon Youssou N’Dour and South Africa’s finest vocal talents. In
French. 70 min.
Call number: DVD kiri
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The Last Metro /
Le Dernier
Metro
Director: François Truffaut
1999 (1980)
In Nazi-occupied Paris, Jewish director
Lucas Steiner is forced to hide in the basement of his theatre while his
wife stars in its latest production. Romantic tensions mount as she and her
leading man begin to fall in love. At the same time, a pro-Nazi theatre
critic esconces himself in the theatre causing stress to the entire cast.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD last
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Lumumba
Director: Jacques Bidou
2000
Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who
lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served, for less
than a year, as the first elected prime minister until he was brutally
assassinated.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD lumb
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M. Hulot's Holiday / Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Director: Jacques Tati
2001 (1953)
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside
Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual
humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual
caricatures. 87 min.
Call number: DVD mhul
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A Man Escaped / Un
Condamne a Mort s'est Echappe
Director: Robert Bresson
2004 (1956)
A French Resistance fighter is sent to an infamous prison in Lyon in
1943, where 7,000 of the 12,000 prisoners housed there died either by
natural means or by execution. Lt. Fontaine is certain that execution awaits
him, and begins planning his escape. For a period of time he goes it alone,
but reluctantly takes on a partner. He gets some help from a couple of
prisoners allowed to stroll in the exercise yard, but for the most part he
is a figure of isolation. 100 min.
Call number: DVD mane
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Man on the Train / L'homme du
Train
Director: Patrice Leconte
2002
A mysterious stranger is the lone passenger disembarking from a
train in a sleepy French village. His name is Milan, a criminal intent
on knocking over the local bank. Upon his arrival, he is befriended by Manesquier, a retired poetry teacher. Through their unexpected
friendship, both men come to realize they have been given the opportunity to
look back on their lives- complete with dashed hopes and unfulfilled
dreams. At the same time, both are given the momentary chance to
explore the road not taken.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD mano
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Mon Oncle
Director: Jacques Tatis
2001 (1958)
A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M.
Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is
constantly at odds with the modern world. 116 min.
Call number: DVD mono
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Mon Oncle D'Amérique
Director: Alain Resnais
2000 (1980)
Jean, Rena, Janine:Two men and a woman from different generations and
different backgrounds, whose paths meet at a crisis point in mid-life, faced
with disappointment and frustration, all three muse about a legendary "uncle
in America", a guardian angel who gives them their hearts' desires and tells
them exactly what they want to hear. 123 min.
Call number: DVD mono
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Monsieur Ibrahim
Director: François Dupeyron
2003
An elderly Turkish Muslim grocer befriends a lonely teenage Jewish
boy in a working class section of Paris.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD mons
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My Life in Pink / Ma Vie en Rose
Director: Alain Berliner
1997
Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, he
believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be
corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection,
isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and
neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD myli
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My Night at Maud's / Ma Nuit chez Maud
Director: Eric Rohmer
1997 (1968)
Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an engineer seeking the perfect mate.
Just when he thinks he has found her, he finds himself accidentally spending
the night sharing the bed of a seductive divorcee, Maud. 110 min.
Call number: DVD myni |
Persepolis
Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane
Satrapi
2008 (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches
events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is
realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand
how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji
dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send
her abroad to Vienna to study. This change proves an equally difficult trial
for Marji as she finds herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive
characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when
she returns home, Marji finds that both she and her homeland have changed
too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she
truly belongs. 95 min.
French or dubbed English dialogue, English or
Spanish subtitles.
Call number: DVD pers
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Ponette
Director: Jacques Doillon
1998
Sent to live with her relatives, Ponette experiences the hopes,
dreams and fears of a child following the loss of a parent. Ultimately, it
is her faith, love and strength of character that enables Ponette to
triumphantly overcome her tragedy. Also available in VHS.
Call Number: DVD pone |
Red Balloon / Le Ballon Rouge
Director: Albert Lamorisse
2008 (1956)
Pascal is a young French boy who
discovers a stray balloon on the streets of Paris that seems to have a mind
of its own and begins to follow Pascal everywhere. The two beome
inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere. A touching
allegory of the magic powers of love and friendship.
34 mins.
Call Number: DVD redb
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Rififi / Du Rififi Chez les Hommes
Director: Jules Dassin
2001 (1955)
A story of a successful jewel robbery in
which the four thieves betray each other.
118 mins.
Call Number: DVD rifi
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The Rules of the Game /
La Regle du Jeu
Director: Jean Renoir
2004 (1939)
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. 106 min.
Call number: DVD rule
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Russian Dolls /
Les Poupées Russes
Director: Cédric Klapisch
2006
In this sequel to L’Auberge espagnole,
Xavier, now thirty, reunites again with his old friends from his time in
Barcelona when William marries a Russian dancer in Saint Petersburg.
Although he is working as a writer, Xavier has been unable to publish his
serious novel. Will Xavier overcome his indecisiveness about his
career and love life or will he keep moving on, searching for the next,
perfect thing? 129 min.
Call number: DVD russ
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A Single Girl / La Fille Seule
Director: Benoît Jacquot
1996
Drama showing a day in the life of a young Parisian woman named
Valerie who is beginning a new job and who reveals to her boyfriend that she
is four weeks pregnant.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD sing
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The Son / Le Fils
Director: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
2002
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new
teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the
hallways and streets. 100 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD son
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Taste of Others / Le Goût des Autres
Director: Agnès Jaoui
2000
"The lives and loves of several
completely opposite men and women artfully intersect in what becomes a
delightfully funny web of romantic
entanglements! While negotiating differences in wealth and status, style,
and taste, this vivid collection
of characters mix and match in outrageously volatile
combinations! Internationally acclaimed for its sexy comic sophistication --
expect the unexpected from this uncommonly entertaining motion picture!"
Call number: DVD tast
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Three Men and a Cradle / Trois Hommes et
un Couffin
Director: Coline Serreau
2005 (1985)
Three clueless and hedonistic bachelors are forced to trade dames for
diapers when an infant is left on their doorstep. 106 min.
Call number: DVD thre
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Time Out /
L'emploi du Temps
Director:
Laurent Cantet
2002 (2001)
Businessman Vincent is leading a
double life. He was fired from his job and constructed an elaborate fantasy
of employment that has become his full-time occupation. Vincent must decide
which of his lives is more important. 128 min.
Call number: DVD time
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Time To
Leave / Le Temps Qui Reste
Director:
François
Ozon
2005
A handsome, successful fashion
photographer learns that he has a malignant brain tumor. Hiding his
diagnosis, he alienates his family and his young boyfriend, but during a
short stay with his grandmother, his vulnerability is met with a big heart
and sound advice. A chance encounter with a roadside cafe waitress results
in an unusual bargain that provides a happy, playful dimension to the
proceedings. 85 min.
Call number: DVD time
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Triplets of Belleville
/
Belleville
Rendez-Vous
Director:
Sylvain Chomet
2004 (2003)
Chiefly told without dialogue;
French or Spanish with English subtitles.
Call number: DVD trip
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
/ Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Director:
Jacques Demy
2004 (1964)
A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
English subtitles. 92 min
Call number: DVD umbr
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A Very Long Engagement / Un
Long Dimanche de Fiançailles
Director:
Jean Pierre Jeunet
2004
"A Very Long Engagement" tells the story of a a young woman,
Mathilde's relentless search for her fiancée, who has disappeared from the
trenches of the Somme during World War One. 113 min
Plot
summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD very
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La Vie en Rose
Director:
Olivier Dahan
2007
Raised in a brothel, then wrested
from the only life she knew by her father, so they could join the circus,
Edith Piaf spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by
a crime figure who gives her career a start and, ultimately, by her
international success and final illness. Always frail, sickly, malnourished,
and wildly temperamental, she was often on drugs or alcohol and was always
in search of true love. Middleweight boxer, Marcel Cerdan, captures her
heart and gives her something to live for, besides her music--at least for a
while. 141 min
Call number: DVD viee
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Africa, I will Pluck You / Afrique, Je Te Plumerai
Director: Jean-Marie Teno
1992
Examines how Cameroon’s French colonizers have been
replaced by a dictatorial indigenous regime which still
plunders the land and silences the authentic expression
of its people. A case study of the devastation of
traditional African societies by imposed colonial
cultures. in French with English subtitles.
88 mins.
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .A37 1992 |
Babette’s Feast
Director:
Gabriel Axel
1987
On the desolate coast of Denmark, two elderly, religious women take in a
young woman to be their housekeeper and cook, not knowing she is a superb
French chef. When the chef, (who is never called upon to cook anything more
complicated or mouth-watering than boiled codfish or soup), wins a large sum
of money, she decides to spend it all creating a magnificent meal. In French and Danish, based on the story by Isak
Dinesen.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .B215 |
Battle of Algiers
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
1993 (1966)
Dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French
colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962.
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .B28 P65 1993 |
Beauty and the Beast /
La Belle et La Bête
1991
Animated Disney feature.
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .B44 |
Camille Claudel
Director:
Bruno Nuytten
1989
A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important
collaborations in the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and
the creative prodigy Camille Claudel. 2 VHS.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .C26 |
Carmen
Director: Francesco Rosi
1987
A film version of the famous Bizet's opera, where a soldier (Don
Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory's worker (Carmen), but she does
not correspond him. Based on the novella by Prosper Merimee.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS M 1500 .B625 C38 1987 |
Danton
Director: Andrzej Wajda
1989 (1982)
Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time
when the new French republic is in disarray. He is pitched into conflict
against the dictator Robespierre and his infamous "Reign of Terror".
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .D28 |
Delicatessen
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1992
This crazy-quilt story takes place in a rickety apartment building.
There, a sweet-natured clown takes a room and becomes a catalyst in the
lives of a cleaver-wielding butcher, his myopic daughter, a woman with a
flair for suicide, toymakers who create little boxes that go "moo", and
other unusual tenants.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .D455 |
The Dinner Game /
Le Dîner des Cons
Director: F. Veber
2000
Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner.
Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the
party.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .D32 |
The Discreet Charm of the
Bourgeoisie /
Le Charme discret de la
bourgeoisie
Director: Luis Bunuel
2000 (1972)
An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their
attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both
actual and imagined.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number:
VHS PN 1997
.D57 2000 |
Four Seasons
Series:
A Tale of Winter /
Conte d'hiver
Director: Eric Rohmer
1991
"A delightful romantic comedy about the triumph of love over the
longest odds, A Tale of Winter begins with
Félicié and Charles sharing a whirlwind love
affair at the beach one summer. As they part,
Félicié gives him her address, but due to a
crucial, inexplicably stupid mistake, she makes
it impossible for him to find her. Five years
later, Félicié is still in love with Charles,
though she has seemingly lost him forever. Along
with her five-year-old daughter (by Charles),
she maintains her hope that someday she will
again find her Prince Charming."
Plot
summary from IMDB.com
Call number: PN 1995.9 .L6 C66 |
A Summer’s Tale /
Conte d'été
Director: Eric Rohmer
1996
Gaspard is a young man who claims nothing ever happens in life. While
waiting in a seaside resort for Lena, the
classmate with whom he believes he is in love,
he meets and is attracted to Margot, then Solène.
When Lena shows up, Gaspard finds himself
confused and faced with a difficult choice.
Plot summary from IMDB.com
Call number: PN 1997 .C668 |
Autumn Tale /
Conte d'automne
Director: Eric Rohmer
1999
In the fourth tale of "Tales of the four seasons" by director Eric
Rohmer, Magali is a 45-year old winegrower whose
children have just left home and whose friends
are trying to find her a man.
Plot
summary from IMDB.com
Call number: PN 1997 .C668 |
A Tale of Springtime /
Conte de printemps
Director: Eric Rohmer
1998
This romantic comedy focuses on Jeanne, an attractive philosophy teacher
and her relationships. All characters experience
a moving journey to self awareness.
Plot summary from IMDB.com
Call number: PN 1997 .T353 |
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Germinal
Director: Claude Berri
1993
The story of a miner's strike that destroys one family, yet plants the
seeds of change for future generations. 2 VHS, 166 min. Based on the novel by Émile Zola.
Plot
summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .G47 |
Gervaise
Director: René Clément
1995 (1957)
Based on Emile Zola's L'Assommoir. A story of mid-19th-century
Parisian slums in which a young girl's dreams of a happy home and a
successful laundry are cruelly destroyed by a drunken husband.
Plot
summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .G4782 1995 |
Le Golem: the Legend of Prague
Director: Julien Duvivier
1990 (1935)
This film illustrates the legend that originated in the ghetto of
medieval Prague. In 1560, Rabbi Loew created a being in human form to which
he imparted life.
Plot
summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .G58 1990 |
Goodbye, Children / Au Revoir Les Enfants
Director: Louis Malle
1987
Chronicles a child's experience in German occupied France
during World War II.
Plot
summary from IMDb.com
Call number: PN 1997 .A85 |
The Horse of Pride / Le Cheval D’Orgueil
Director: Claude Chabrol
2000 (1980)
A lyrical tale of Brittany from 1908 to 1918. The film shows the hardships
and joys of French peasant life focusing on the story of a young couple who
meet, marry, and soon have a son. Too poor to own a horse, they are content
to ride the horse of pride. Based on the novel by Pierre-Jakez Hélias.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .H67 |
I Sent a Letter to My Love /
Chère inconnue
Director: Moshe Mizrahi
1981
The lives of Louise, her crippled brother and their friend, a gentle
spinster, move toward a beautiful resolution when Louise puts an ad in the
personal column and her brother answers it. 102 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .I15 |
ID / Pieces D'Identites
Director: Mweze Ngangura
1998
A Congolese king searches for his daughter in
Brussels where for a time he loses his royal fetishes,
his identity, but finds a friend, a local cabdriver with
a secret identity. With his help and a chain of odd
coincidences, Mani Kongo is reunited with his daughter
and his regalia and returns to Africa with a circle of
friends. In French with English subtitles. 93
mins.
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .P54 1998 |
Jean de Florette
Director: Claude Berri
1987
The story of Jean Cadoret, an accountant who inherits a farm from his
mother and hopes to become a gentleman farmer. Before he even arrives,
though, a powerful neighbor is plotting to steal his land. The result is
heartbreak and tragedy for Jean, who is no match for his wily neighbor.
Plot
summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PQ 2631 .A26 J42 1987 |
Jesus de Montreal
Director: Denys Arcand
1991 (1989)
A troupe of underemployed actors joins a charismatic young man to help a
church update its annual Passion play, which attracts a city full of hope,
praise, temptation and condemnation.
Plot
summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .J47 1991 |
Le Jour se Leve
Director: Michael Carne
1994 (1939)
A worker who has killed a man waits in his apartment recalling a
meeting with a young girl and an affair with another woman. The police have
waited until dawn to lay seige, but the worker kills himself at daybreak.
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .J686 1994 |
The Joy of Learning / Le Gai Savoir
Director: Jean Luc Godard
1990 (1968)
Emile and Patricia stumble across each other in an abandoned TV
studio. They meet for 7 nights to plan for a new cinema.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .G34 |
Last Year at Marienbad / L'annee Derniere a Marienbad
Director: Pierre Courau
1990 (1961)
Among an assembly of guests in a vast baroque mansion, the narrator/hero
tries to persuade a woman that they have met before, and that she has agreed
to go away with him, leaving the man who had accompanied her to the mansion.
Plot
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Call number: VHS PN 1997 .L37 |
Madame Bovary
Director: Claude Chabrol
1991
Dramatization of Flaubert's novel about Emma Bovary, a woman who rebels
at the provincial life forced upon her and engages in a series of illicit
affairs.
Plot
summary from IMDb.com
Call number: PN 1997 .A85 |
Manon des Sources
Director: Claude Berri
1988
A woman seeks revenge against her father's killers.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN
1997 .M366 |
Maria Chapdelaine
Director: Gilles Carle
1988
A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in
harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and
unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has
sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile
logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the
village priest (IMDb.com)
Plot
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Call number: VHS PN 1997 .M37 |
Mondo
Director: Tony Gatliff
1998
A homeless gypsy boy of about 10 appears on the streets of Nice, France
and makes many friends, bringing beauty to all he meets, until one day he
disappears again.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .M653 G28 |
My Father's Glory / La
Gloire de Mon Père
Director: Yves Robert
1998
The enchanting story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood in the south of
France, and a very special summer when he was 11 years old. In the
countryside of Provence he fell under the spell of the rugged hills, made
new friends and strengthened the unique bond with his father.
Call number: VHS PQ 2631 .A26 G561998 |
My Mother's Castle / Le Château de Ma Mere
Director: Yves Robert
1991
The story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood holidays in Provence continues in
My Mother's Castle. During a Christmas in the region Marcel's affection for
the area deepens and he also learns to love and appreciate his Mother's true
nature.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PQ 2631 .A26 M85 |
Orpheus /
Orphée
Director: J. Cocteau
1949
The myth of Orpheus set in contemporary France.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .O76 |
Phedre
Director: Pierre Jourdan
1983 (1968)
Racine's adaptation of the legend of Thesus, king of Athens, his wife,
Phedre, and his son, Hippolyte, written in 1677.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .P52 1983 |
Ponette
Director: Jacques Doillon
1996
Sent to live with her relatives, Ponette experiences the hopes,
dreams and fears of a child following the loss of a parent. Ultimately, it
is her faith, love and strength of character that enables Ponette to
triumphantly overcome her tragedy. Also available in DVD.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .P664 |
Quatorze Juillet
Director: Rene Clair
199? (1932)
Love story between a young girl and a crook. Originally released as a
motion picture in 1932.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PC 2112.7 .Q37 |
The Return of Martin Guerre / Le Retour de Martin
Guerre
Director: Paul Maigret
1996 (1982)
The plot revolves around the unraveling of the identity of a 16th century
peasant who disappeared as a young husband, and the man who returns to
resume his marriage nine years later.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS DC 112 .R7 1996 |
Ridicule
Director: Patrice Leconte
1997
In a desperate quest to save his hometown, a young man quickly learns
that a sharp wit is the key to open any door in the Versailles court of
Louis XVI.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .R53 1997 |
The Rise of Louis XIV / La Prise de Pouvoir par Louis
XIV
Director: Roberto Rossellini
1990 (1966)
Presents, in a more realistic rather than grandiose fashion, a
dramatization of the rise to power of King Louis XIV of France along with
its attendant pomp and etiquette, and the intrigues and internal power
struggles that complicated his rise to power.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS DC 125 .P75 1990 |
Rocking Porcupine /
Ça Twiste à Poponguine
Director: Moussa Sene Absa
1993
A coming of age story set in a remote Senegalese beachside village
during the week before Christmas, 1964, where the local teenage boys are
divided into rival cultural camps. The "Ins" ("Inseparables") style
themselves after French pop stars, attend school, have all the girls--but no
record player. Their rivals, the "Kings," style themselves after
African-American blues legends, they work as fishermen, don’t have any
girls--but they do have a record player. In French with English subtitles.
90 mins.
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .C13 1993 |
Sango Malo
Director: Bassek ba Kobhio
1991
A new high school teacher brings turmoil to a rural Cameroonian village
when he introduces sex education and vocational training into the
curriculum. He also starts agricultural and marketing cooperatives for
villagers that the students work on as part of their education. The local
authorities however, including the store owner and school’s headmaster, are
alarmed by the teacher’s radical actions and have him imprisoned.
In French with English subtitles. 94 mins.
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .S27 1991 |
The Silence of the Sea / Le Silence de la Mer
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
1997 (1947)
Set in occupied France during World War II, an old man and his beutiful
niece are forced to endure the presence of a Nazi officer. Vowing never to
speak to the invader, the couple listen in silence as the officer pours out
his ideas and feelings about music, war and his love of France.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PQ 2603 .R924 S59 1997 |
Small Change / L'argent de Poche
Director: François Truffaut
1991 (1976)
Life from early childhood to adolescence is illustrated in episodes
involving 10 children.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PQ 2680 .R8 A7 |
The Story of Adele H
/
L'histoire d'Adele
Director: Francois Truffaut
1991
In 1863, the beautiful younger daughter of world-famous author Victor
Hugo crosses the Atlantic in desperate pursuit of the man she believed to be
her fiance, her lover, her destiny, the mirror of her soul.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .S85 T78 |
Sugar Cane Alley / Rue Cases-Nègres
Director: Euzhan Palcy
1995 (1983)
A poor, hard-working sugar-cane-plantation worker makes many
sacrifices to improve her 11-year-old orphaned grandson's chances in life by
giving him a good education. Based on the play La Rue Cases-Nègres by
Joseph Zobel.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .R84 1995 |
A Sunday in the Country / Un Dimanche à la Campagne
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
1987
Monsieur Ladmiral, an aging
impressionist painter, spends his usual Sunday afternoon visit with his
family ruminating over life's small pleasures and inevitable disappointments
until his daughter Irene arrives. Irene, a whirlwind of activity for whom
life itself is an art, has a magical reviving effect on her father and the
world suddenly takes on the beautiful hues and feelings of an Impressionist
masterpiece. Based on the novel: Monsieur Ladmiral Va Bientot
Mourir by Pierre Bost. 94 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .D55 |
Time Regained / Le temps retrouvé
Director:
Raoul Ruiz
2001 (1999)
Set in 1922, this film opens with Marcel Proust on his deathbed,
looking through old photos and remembering his past. His own experiences
gradually give way to the characters in his novel.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN1997 .T46 2001 |
Time Regained / Le temps retrouvé
Director:
Raoul Ruiz
2001 (1999)
Set in 1922, this film opens with Marcel Proust on his deathbed,
looking through old photos and remembering his past. His own experiences
gradually give way to the characters in his novel.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN1997 .T46 2001 |
Vagabond / Sans Toit Ni Loi
Director: Agnes Varda
1987 (1985)
Mona, an aimless drifter in the French countryside, deeply touches the
lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of
freedom.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .V25 V27 |
The Would-be Gentleman / Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Director: Jean Meyer
1982 (1958)
A screen adaptation of Moliere's comedy, this is a lively satire on the
pretensions of a rich but silly man to the snobberies of the aristocracy.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: VHS PQ 1829 .A37 1982 |
Zero in Conduct / Zero de Conduite
Director: Jean Vigo
1994 (1933)
Two boys return from their holidays to a repressive school environment.
They lead a student revolt against the school authorities. A wonderful study
of adolescence and the strength of human spirit.
Call number: VHS PN 1997 .Z47 |
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DVDs in
English with French Cultural Content
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Chocolat
Director: Lasse Hallström
2000
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open
a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local
church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community.
But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their
attitudes begin to change. In English.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD choc |
VHS Tapes in
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