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Emma Bovary is a young woman who seeks fulfillment of life through marriage. When she is disappointed she then turns to an overwhelming social life, religion, and finally adultery. Never being fulfilled, she eventually turns to suicide. A 1934 adaption
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A film about an aging Jewish prostitute who has survived the Holocaust. She now raises other prostitutes' children to survive, and finds a special love for an abandoned Arab boy who mends her soul. (Moshe Mizrahi) (VHS, 1993)
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No description available. (Français, VHS)
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A film about a malicious schoolteacher who suppresses her sexual desires until an Italian woodsman unleashes them. (Tony Richardson) (VHS, B&W, 1966)
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Stars Brigitte Bardot. (95 min., VHS, B&W, 1956)
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No description available. (Français, VHS)
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No description available. (Français, VHS)
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Four generations of Oppenheims get together to celebrate their great-grandfather's birthday. It is here that the family's uniqueness and eccentricities come out. (Peter Kassovitz) (VHS, 1981)
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No description available. (Colline Serreau) (VHS, 1990)
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A film crew records the acts of a poetic homicidal maniac. The men find themselves repulsed as well as intrigued with the man's murderous activities until they can no longer tell the difference between reality and the movies. (Remy Belvaux)
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An account of a Resistance fighter's daring escape from a Nazi prison camp just hours before he was to be executed. Based on a true story, it became an inspiration for the New Wave. (Robert Bresson) (VHS, subtitled, 1956)
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A racy film about an unfaithful, money-hungry woman who is living a life of sin. She is the toast of France! (VHS)
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Revenge seeking daughter of a the hunchback who was destroyed by the greed of his neighbors. (Claude Berri) (VHS, 1987)
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No description available. (DVD)
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No description available. (Français, VHS)
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First of the Pagnol trilogy introduces Marius to Fanny and his love of the sea. (Marcel Pagnol) VHS, 1931)
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In a small port outside Marseilles, an animated circle of friends and neighbors join to share in the funny colorful and off-beat love story of Marius and Jeannette. A lyrical and mature chronicle about listening to the music of the
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Based on the writings of the Marquis de Sade and conceived by satirist caricaturist Roland Topor. An elegantly raunchy, slyly amusing, intellectual romp cleverly spiced with socio-sexual political musings. Bizarre tale of sex, lust and the French Revolution. Masochism, sadism,
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A classic tribute to the French Revolution. The film captures the human values of the struggle as well as the historic perspective. (Jean Renoir) (VHS, 1938)
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The differing attitudes of the sexes towards love is portrayed in one of Godard's most popular and romantic films of the French New Wave Era. (VHS, B&W, 1966)
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No description available. (Jean-Louis Richard) (VHS)
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(My life in pink) Adaptation of Stendhal's novel. An archbishop falls in love and wants to break his vows. His aunt, however, will stop at nothing to keep him part of the church. (Alain Berliner) (VHS, 1997)
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A film about two lovers whose affair is doomed from the beginning. It is often compared to "Wuthering Heights" and "Catherine the Great". (Anatole Litvak) (VHS, 1936)
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A well-to-do family gathers to divide the spoils of a country estate after the death of the ancient matriarch. (Louis Malle) (VHS, 1990)
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No description available. (Français, VHS)
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A charming and bittersweet fantasy based on a short story by H.G. Wells. An angel falls from the sky and is found unconscious by a priest and his assistant. (Marcel Carne) (102 min., VHS, color, 1974)
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Friendship of two young girls ostracized by children their age for being "ugly", grows over the years as they develop into attractive young women. They both fall in love with the same man. (Martine Dugowon) (VHS, 1993)
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Henri Fortin, a true and simple man whose life parallels that of Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's great novel. (Claude Lelouch) (VHS, 1993)
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A mystery story about a mail-order bride (Catherine Deneuve) who comes to marry a lonely businessman (Jean-Paul Belmondo). However, evidence begins to pile up showing that she is not who he thinks she is. (Francois Truffaut) (110 min., VHS, color,
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Stars Gérard Philippe, Anouk Aimée, Lili Palmer. This moving portrayal of the artist renowned for his sketches and paintings of sensual nudes captures Modigliani's last feverish months. (Jacques Becker) (120 min., VHS, color, 1957)
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The lovable character Mr. Hulot returns in a hilarious portrait of a man against modernization. A chain of brilliantly inventive sight and sound gags. Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. (Jacques Tati) (VHS, color, 1958)
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A Canadian film about a fifteen-year-old boy who comes of age in a small mining town. (VHS, 1971)
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A story of three lives and three ambitions whose paths meet at a cross point in mid-life. Starring Gerard Depardieu. (Alain Resnais) (2 copies) (VHS, 1980)
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A thriller about obsession and responsibility about a reclusive tailor who enjoys watching a woman undress across the courtyard. When a murder is committed, his peculiarities make him a suspect. (Patrice Leconte) (VHS, 1989)
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A film about a priest who lives his life to save the poor. Vincent struggles through prison, plagues, wars and other tragedies in this French drama. (Maurice Cloche) (VHS, 1947)
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A sensitive 14-year-old lives amidst the peasant squalor of an isolated rural community. Her alcoholic father and terminally ill mother all but abandon her to the streets. She is abducted and raped by a half-witted game poacher. (Robert Bresson) (VHS,
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No description available. (Français, VHS)
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A story of a French Catholic art dealer during the Nazi occupation. Mr. Klein is desperately searching for a Jewish man with the same name, who has stolen his identity. As his search continues he is led into a trap
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No description available. (Louis Malle) (VHS, dubbed, 1971)
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Rivalry of music teachers and their students. (Girard Corbiau) (VHS, 1990)
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An 11-year-old boy spends an enchanting summer in the countryside with his family. The experience becomes a turning point in his life and cements his relationship with his father. (Marcel Pagnol) (VHS, 1991)
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Starring Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil. Set in a beautiful southwest France and marked by the symbolic passage of seasons, this film explores the turbulent relationship between brother and sister during an emotional eruption of their long-time dysfunctional family. (André
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No description available. (VHS)
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A boy continues his love affair with the wild country of southern France. Through frequent visits to their summer home, he learns to love and understand his mother's true nature. (Marcel Pagnol) (VHS, 1991)
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A comedy about adult indiscretion. (Eric Rohmer) (VHS, 1995)
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A witty look at a group of twenty-something grad students trying to cope with life, love and everything in-between. (Arnaud Desplechin) (VHS)
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