Les Films.
Pub. Date
[c1994]
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.
Pub. Date
2014
Description
In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only 'Elder of the Jews' not to have been killed during the war. From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
London, 18th century. Casanova, famous for his taste of pleasure and gambling, arrives from Paris, forced into exile. In this city he knows nothing about, the libertine meets on several occasions a young prostitute, Marianne de Charpillon. She attracts him to the point he starts disregarding all other women. The legendary seducer is ready to do anything to get her, but La Charpillon always escapes under various excuses. She challenges Casanova: "You...
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.
14) Royal deceit
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"A young prince, after discovering that his father has been murdered, vows to avenge the death and regain the crown. Plotting his revenge, he cleverly bides his time ... waiting and watching -- and hoping -- for the precise moment to execute the deadly plan!"--Container.
15) Shoah
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
The Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews of survivors, witnesses and perpetrators and through footage of the sites of the death camps and environs as they appear today. Those interviewed include Jewish survivors of the death camps and the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Polish farmers and villagers who lived near the camps and Nazis who worked in the camps and the ghettos.
original film released 1985
16) La belle verte
Pub. Date
[s.d.]
Description
An alien comes to earth to improve the planet's health.
Une extra-errestre à moitié humaine atterrit à Paris. Elle a pour délicate mission d'user de ses pouvoirs spirituels pour combattre le stress et le surmenage de ses amis terriens... (jaquette).
17) The worst ones
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, this captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Ciť Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in the film to the surprise and consternation of the local community, who question the director's choice of "the worst ones." As...
18) Timbuktu
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
19) Cinema paradiso
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life.
20) Bitter Moon
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Story of two very different couples whose wild dreams, outrageous fantasies and sexy realities collide one fateful night on a vacation cruise.