Gaumont (Firm)
Publisher
Koch Lorber
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Emile and Patricia stumble across each other in an abandoned TV studio. They meet for 7 nights to carry out a 3-year plan to create a new cinema. The plan results in a parade of sounds and images, while Emile, Patricia, and Godard (as the narrator) comment on the film which is being created, taken apart, and assembled in front of the viewer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1002
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Featuring a magnetic breakout performance by Beátrice Dalle, Jean-Jacques Beineix's art-house smash, presented here in its extended director's cut, is a sexy, crazy, careening joyride of a romance that burns with the passion and beyond-all-reason fervor of all-consuming love.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Zorg was living a quiet and peaceful life until Betty, a beautiful, wild and unpredictable young woman, walks in. When Betty's wild manners start to get out of control, Zorg sees the woman he loves slowly going insane. Can his love prevail?
4) Querelle
Series
Criterion collection volume 1221
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a French seaport town, a strapping sailor who is also an unrepentant criminal comes ashore to arouse passion, rivalry, and violence among the libidinal denizens drawn into his orbit.
6) Désiré
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
A valet begins a flirtation with his employer, who is in turn involved with a class-obsessed politician.
7) Leon
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Calling himself a cleaner, the mysterious Leon is New York's top hit man. When his next door neighbors are murdered, Leon becomes the unwilling guardian of the family's sole survivor, 12 year old Mathilda. But Mathilda doesn't want protection--she wants revenge. Training her in the deadly tricks of his trade, Leon helps her track the psychotic agent who murdered her family.
8) Quadrille
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
A Parisian magazine editor plans on proposing to his actress girlfriend, but she becomes intrigued with an American movie star. Meanwhile a woman reporter watches from the side.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Français
Description
"The Idiot" (also known as "The Prince") has been guaranteed financing for a film, but only if he can deliver it within 24 hours. He encounters all sorts of hilarious problems as he attempts to do so. Meanwhile, a pop group works on a new album.
Series
Criterion collection volume 580
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Follows a successful yet sickly young man who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend - now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic, and the provincial life he represents.
14) The professional
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After her parents are brutally murdered, Mathilda vows vengeance and becomes the protégé of professional assassin Léon.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
"Samuel is a nurse working at a hospital when his pregnant wife is kidnapped before his very eyes. Knocked unconscious, he comes to and discovers that a dangerous criminal named Sartet is responsible, and if he's ever to see his wife again, he must do Sartet's bidding. Samuel quickly finds himself pitted against rival gangsters and trigger-happy police in a deadly race to save the lives of his wife and unborn child"--Container.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Français
Description
François Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a condom factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing from happening: he creates photos and then spreads the rumor that François is gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in François Pignon's life--and other people's...
17) Leap!
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
18) The visitors
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Français
Description
A wacky medieval knight and his faithful servant are suddenly transported into the present day. They begin an all-out comic assault on their former castle--now a luxury hotel--in their quest to return to the past.
Publisher
Limelight Film Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"The Mystery of Henri Pick revolves around the film's enigmatic title character who, two years after his death, has his name sprawled across the covers of a celebrated novel, The Last Hours of a Love Story. However, not everyone is convinced of the author's authenticity of this overnight sensation. Amongst the cynics is influential literary critic Jean-Michel Rouche who sets out to discover the truth behind Pick and the book that bears his name"--Container....
Series
Criterion collection volume 174
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Two restless young men enlist the object of both of their fancies to help them commit a robbery, in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard's most memorable set pieces, including the headlong race through the Louvre and the unshakably cool Madison dance sequence.