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This story begins with a beautiful young woman leaping from a fifth story window to her death. Her distraught husband tries to understand what could have led to such a desperate act. Her story unfolds in flashbacks. (Robert Bresson) (89
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Based on Zola's novel, a simple but charismatic miner takes on an heroic quest for justice that leads him and the entire community to a hateful end. (Claude Beri) (VHS, 1993)
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Based on Zola's novel. (Réné Clément) (VHS)
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Raoul is a doting husband who thinks the best way to pick his wife's spirit is with an affair. But a ménage-à-trois with a bewildered stranger doesn't work, and finally hope arrives with a precocious 13-year-old Christian who achieves the
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A musical adaption of Collette's work. (Vincente Minnelli) (VHS, 1958)
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After a series of failed romances, a 22-year-old woman aimed to end it all with a quick, cold plunge from a Parisian bridge. But there she meets Gabor, a struggling performance artist who needs a new assistant for his act.
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Jewish legend of about a Rabbi making a man of clay to save his people. (Français, VHS)
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This movie rewrites the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonialized. The result, however, is not a facile exercise in iconoclasm but rather a deeply felt lament over a missed opportunity for a cross-cultural encounter between
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The story of a young boy from the city who has to spend the summer in the country with a friend of his pregnant mother. (Jean-Loup Hubert) (VHS, 1988)
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Reconstructed by Renoir; a metaphor about the end of an elegant past and the emergence of a more democratic future. Set in a WWI German prison camp. (Jean Renoir) (2 copies) (VHS, 1938)
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A film about a man who has inherited a sawmill, and has to use convicts as his laborers. After a fatal brawl the man is left with no workers and must decide how to make his sawmill flourish. (Robert Enrico)
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In the waning days of WWII, a crusty Parisian zoo director weaves a fantastic tale to protect his granddaughter from the horrors of war. A visually stunning fairy tale that tugs at the heart as well as the mind. (Philippe
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Based of Henry James' "Altar of the Dead": a man's obsession with the memory of his dead wife spreads to encompass all those he knew who are now gone, a process heightened by his guilt of surviving the first World
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A film where he shifts between reality and the main character's mental states in an incisive portrait of an aging revolutionary exile who is imprisoned by his past as he confronts the failure of his ideas. (Alan Renais) (VHS, 1966)
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