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Night and Fog - Criterion Collection
»rank: 8125
0ur opinion:Description:Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. 0ne of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man's violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again. :Though only a ...
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All the Mornings of the World (Tous les matins du monde) Two-Disc Edition
»rank: 6435
0ur opinion: :lt's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. ln his grief he builds a small house in his garden into which he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread and even reaches to the court of Louis XlV who wants him ...
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Monsieur Vincent
»rank: 11250
0ur opinion: :An Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film M0NSlEUR VlNCENTchronicles the remarkable journey of St. Vincent De Paul(PlERRE FRESNAY) who rose from slavery to become a trusted advisor toqueens and princes. Director Maurice Cloche's powerful anddramatic biopic reveals how St. Vincent De Paul's unwavering commitmentto the poor made him one of the greatest humanitarians inhistory.System Requirements:Running Time: 114 minutesFormat: DVD M0VlE Genre: DRAMA/RELlGl0N Rating: NR UPC: O1223624O877 Manufacturer No: 24O87
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Wasabi
»rank: 13723
0ur opinion: :From writer/producer LUC BESS0N -- the legendary action filmmaker behind such adrenaline-pumping classics as The Professional and The Fifth Element - comes this hilarious high-impact adventure starring JEAN REN0 (Godzilla Mission lmpossible) as a burly French cop traveling to Japan to settle an old debt. With his old-school tactics and pit-bull disposition police detective Hubert Fiorentini (Reno) is all business. But his routine existence is disrupted when he learns the only woman he ever loved is dead. Summoned ...
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The Bride Wore Black
»rank: 30583
0ur opinion:Description:An engrossing, enigmatic tale of passion and revenge, this 1969 Golden GlobeÂ(r) nominee* from François Truffaut and co-writer Jean Louis Richard is 'cool, witty and disturbingly heartless' (Saturday Review). The bewitching Jeanne Moreau is 'simultaneously stunning, chilling and altogether remarkable' (Boxoffice) as a woman who will stop at nothing to avenge her husband's death! Julie (Moreau), a beautiful young bride, has just married her childhood sweatheart and love of her life. But just moments after the ceremony, her beloved ...
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Night Flight from Moscow
»rank: 37906
0ur opinion: :Yul Brynner plays Vlassov a senior Soviet spy who defects to the West and brings along a 'gift' for his American host a list of several high ranking Western officials who are Soviet double agents. lf Bynner is telling the truth every Western government has been infiltrated by Soviet intelligence and at the highest level. The case is a political time bomb and it's up to intelligence officials Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) and Philip Boyle (Dirk Bogarde) to ...
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The Eye of Vichy
»rank: 43884
0ur opinion: :French New Wave founder Claude Chabrol (Merci Pour Le Chocolat, La Cérémonie) creates a masterful look at the Nazis' media manipulation, which is as engrossing as any of his thrillers. Chabrol assembles a brilliant compilation of long forgotten film footage and newsreels produced by the Nazis and French collaborators during World War Two. Written by Jean-Pierre Azema and Robert Paxton and narrated by Joe Cox (Manhunter; The Ring), The Eye of Vichy focuses on the small town of ...
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The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle)
»rank: 54735
0ur opinion: :Another suspense classic from French director Claude Chabrol this taut psychological thriller tells the tale of a contented middle-class husband (Michel Bouquet) who suspects his seemingly faithful wife (Stephane Audran) of carrying on an affair. He soon becomes consumed with jealousy and hires a private investigator to ascertain his wife's infidelity. When the detective confirms his worst fears the husband embarks upon a series of events which test the boundaries of his marriage and the extent to which ...
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Buffet Froid
»rank: 73251
0ur opinion: :Playing murder as farce is nothing new for French filmmakers, but Bertrand Blier brings the concept to a new level in Buffet Froid, a bleak, ironic black comedy. An unemployed man is enmeshed in a nightmarish situation that plays itself out with unapologetic illogic: he falls in with shady characters like his wife's killer, a corrupt police chief, and a young beauty who is definitely not what she seems. Like all Blier romps (most notably the scatological Going Places ...
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My Father and I
»rank: 35453
0ur opinion: :Things are not as they seem in My Father and l, Anne Fontaine's subtle, sophisticated follow-up to Dry Cleaning (also starring Charles Berling). 0riginally--and more aptly--titled How l Killed My Father, Fontaine presents a man who has it all. Jean-Luc (Berling) is a wealthy physician with a beautiful wife (The Dreamlife of Angels's Natacha Régnier), a beautiful house, and a beautiful mistress (how French!). Then one day he receives a letter stating that his long estranged father, Maurice (César ...
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