Jeanne Moreau
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002].
Language
English
Description
A 'modern' young woman of the 16th century, Danielle is as independent and wise as she is beautiful and kind. Against remarkable odds, she stands up to her scheming stepmother and works miracles on the lives around her, including the prince of France.
3) Carmel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
From Israel's most important filmaker, Carmel is Amos Gitai's (Kadosh, Kippur) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques, Gitai links his family history to ancient history. Through exquisitely composed long takes, he re-enacts the Jewish-Roman wars that began in 66 A.D. , and contrasts them to the young soldiers enlisting in Israel's army today, including his own son, making...
Language
English
Formats
Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood is breathtakingly adapted to the big screen by Elia Kazan and scriptwriter Harold Pinter. Robert De Niro heads a powerhouse cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past. Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell, Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson contribute...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, starring Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim) and Gérard Philipe (La Ronde), is a provocative adaptation of the classic novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Updated to present-day France by director Roger Vadim (Barbarella), the film follows Valmont (Philipe) and Juliette (Moreau) as they manipulate each other into having extra-marital affairs. Juliette points Valmont towards the 16-year-old Cécile (Jeanne Valérie), since she...
Series
Criterion collection volume 831
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wealthy merchant in nineteenth century Macao becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Français
Description
Anne Desbardès, the wife of a rich Bordeaux businessman, is deeply affected by a crime of passion she witnesses in a café. Neglected by her husband, she is having an affair with Chauvin, one of his employees. She tells him that she is ready to give up everything for him...
Series
Criterion collection volume 271
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton, Max's hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy, Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. Riton gets kidnapped by a mob boss in the hopes that there will be an exchange for the money, but nothing turns out as anyone has it planned.
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a loveless political marriage to the dissolute nephew of the ailing Russian Empress Elizabeth, young German princess Sophia Fredericka bides her time, chooses her lovers carefully and plots her path to the throne. Skillfully manipulating the Russian triumvirate of church, amry and aristocracy, she adroitly rides the shifting currents of social change and unrest to become one of Russia's most unforgettable and beloved rulers, Catherine the...
13) The train
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Members of the French Resistance vow to stop a train, laden with stolen French art treasures, before it reaches Berlin.
14) Viva Maria!
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
Français
Description
The daughter of an Irish anarchist is on the lam in Mexico circa 1910, hiding with a touring carnival troupe, where she meets singer Jeanne Moreau only to find themselves at the head of an armed peasant revolt.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1954.
Language
Français
Description
Max and Riton pull off a job together, a burglary of fifty million gold bars at Orly. The milieu, unaware of who committed the crime, finally discovers the truth from Riton's mistress… Winner of the Best Actor Award at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"It's Gabin's show all the way, anticipating the melancholy, atmospheric gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville that started to appear a couple years later." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, **Chicago...
16) Nikita
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Français
Description
A cop-killer junkie is forced by the government to become an undercover assassin or face a life in prison.
17) Querelle
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Conjured from the unholy meeting of two iconoclastic queer artists, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final film audaciously raises Jean Genet's controversial novel to the level of myth. In an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French seaport town bathed in fiery reds and complete with phallic spires a strapping sailor and unrepentant criminal comes ashore to arouse passion, rivalry, and violence among the libidinal denizens drawn into his orbit. Enacted...
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
Français
Description
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.
20) Nikita
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
A street junkie is picked up and recruited against her will for training as a killer. She is transformed into a beautiful and sophisticated woman, and soon falls in love with a soft-spoken romantic. When she receives a call and is ordered to kill someone, she has to fight against the trap of her double life.