Feature Films
A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) - Jean-Luc Godard	[DVD] 791.43 B8288 [VHS] 791.43 B8288
A small-time hood kills a policeman and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police and he gets killed trying to escape.
À la Folie Pas du Tout (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not) - Laeticia Colombani	[DVD] 791.43 H4325
Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. She tries to convince him to leave his pregnant wife. Is the love affair the one-sided obsession of a desperate woman clinging to a hopeless dream, and turning it into a nightmare when she realizes it may not come true?
A Nous la Liberté - René Clair	[DVD] 791.43 N9335 [VHS] 791.43 N9335
In this satire on mechanization of the modern world, a convict escapes from prison and becomes director of a large phonograph factory. Just as he is being proclaimed a leading citizen they come to arrest him.
Un Air de Famille (Family Resemblances) - Cedric Klapisch	[DVD] 791.43 F1984
A dysfunctional family eats together one night a week. On this Friday family politics and fights disrupt a birthday party.
Alphaville: Une Etrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution - Jean-Luc Godard	[DVD] 791.43 A4567
Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion.
Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) - Alain Resnais	[VHS] 791.43 L3497
Among an assembly of guests in a vast baroque mansion, the narrator/hero tries to persuade a woman that they have met before, and that she has agreed to go away with him, leaving the man (her husband, perhaps) who has accompanied her to this mansion. The film introduces Resnais' unconventional editing techniques. Cryptic symbols and ambiguities abound.
Au Revoir les Enfants - Louis Malle	[DVD] 791.43 A8876 [VHS] 791.43 A8876
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II. Julien (Malle) is 12 years old, and the smartest boy in his class at boarding school when a new student appears. The two form a friendship even though Julien senses that there is something different about his new friend.
Baisers Voles (Stolen Kisses) - François Truffaut	[DVD] 791.43 S8753
Stolen Kisses is a continuation of the story of Antoine Doinel, (first told in the film The 400 Blows) and in many respects the autobiography of François Truffaut -- his thoroughly dishonorable discharge from the army, his initially awkward but finally successful encounters with women. But the pain of encounter with the world of earlier work here becomes acceptance of life, with which comes an openness to its joy.
Le Bal - Ettore Scola	[VHS] 791.43 B1712
Le Bal takes place in a hypothetical Parisian dance hall and its plot is communicated entirely through mime, its pop music soundtrack and period ballroom dances. The prologue section, set in present time, introduces us to the cast and characters. The music begins and in a series of flashback sequences that use key moments in modern French history as their backdrop, we are presented with a clever yet poignant social commentary of prewar, postwar and modern times.
Le Ballon Rouge (The Red Balloon) - Albert Lamorisse	[DVD] 791.43 R3122
This film presents two magical views of balloons. A young boy in Paris makes friends with a red balloon that has a mind of its own. The dreaded pincushion man spreads terror throughout balloon land by throwing his needles. Both film and cartoon are without dialogue.
De Battre mon Coeur s'est Arrete (The Beat that my Heart Skipped) - Jacques Audiard	[DVD] 791.43 B3695
In this remake of Fingers, Tom, a ne'er-do-well, works with two scheming real estate men who have little or no morals. He decides to return to the piano, practicing Bach's Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that could be a life-changing event.
Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) - Jean Cocteau	[DVD] 791.43 B3849
This dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. It contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
Belleville Rendezvous (The Triplets of Belleville) - Sylvain Chomet	[DVD] 791.433 T8355
In this animated film, a bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Belle de Jour - Luis Bunuel	[VHS] 791.43 B4382
This subtle, erotic film is about a wealthy young surgeon's wife who indulges her masochistic fantasies by working as a part-time prostitute in a Paris brothel.
La Bête Humaine - Jean Renoir	[DVD] 791.43 B5623 [VHS] 791.43 B5623
Fate drives a man to murder and suicide. A jealous husband forces his wife to help him murder her elderly lover, starting a series of tragic consequences.
Black and White in Color - Jean-Jacques Annaud	[VHS] 791.43 B6272
This irrepressible and timely satire on racism, colonialism, and war is set in the Ivory Coast during the First World War where a group of French colonials learn that their country is at war with Germany. Spurred on by a capricious moment of patriotism, the Frenchmen decide to attack their German neighbors who reside in a colony up the river.
Blame it on Fidel - Julie Gavras	[DVD] 791.43 B6374
When Fernando and Marie decide to dedicate themselves full time to various political causes, their nine-year-old daughter, Anna, must learn to face the world on her own.
Blue - Krzysztof Kieslowski	[DVD] 791.43 B65802 [VHS] 791.43 B65802
A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel.
Bon Voyage - Jean-Paul Rappeneau	[DVD] 791.43 B6978
Following the premiere of her latest picture Viviane finds herself with a dead man in her apartment. Frédéric is a writer who's been falsely accused of murder, thanks to Viviane. Viviane has fled Paris for Bordeaux with a cabinet minister, and once Frédéric escapes from prison, he is not far behind. Once they reach the city, which is in chaos, they become entangled in a plot involving a rickety physicist, his endlessly resourceful assistant, an amiable ex-con, a shady reporter and several bottles of heavy water that absolutely, positively must not fall into the hands of the Germans.
La Cage aux Folles - Edouard Molinaro	[VHS] 791.43 C1313
This farce involves a flamboyant homosexual couple's attempt to appear to be conventional parents in front of the prospective in-laws of the son of one of the men.
Camp de Thiaroye	[DVD] 791.43 C1863
African soldiers, returning home after fighting in World War II, are massacred by French colonial authorities in a dispute over pay.
Cet Obscur Objet du Désir - Luis Bunuel	[DVD] 791.43 T3676 [VHS] 791.43 T3676
A middle-aged man falls in love with a much younger woman in this satire of sexual obsession.
Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie - Luis Bunuel	[DVD] 791.43 D6114
An all-star French cast assembles for an elegant dinner party, but whenever they try to eat, something happens to interrupt them. The director mixes biting social satire with bold surrealistic invention as the dinner party serves to lampoon such targets as diplomats, wealthy socialites and even radical terrorists.
Chocolat - Claire Denis	[DVD] 791.43 C5453
A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the sights, sounds and smells sweep her back to her childhood and memories of the people who populated her youth.
Les Choristes (The Chorus) - Christophe Barratier	[DVD] 791.43 C5514
Unemployed music teacher Clement Mathieu becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation of minors. Dismayed by the repressive administration, he works to positively transform the students' lives through music.
Comèdies et Proverbes: le Rayon Vert - Eric Rohmer	[VHS] 791.43 C7328
After a disastrous stay in the mountains, Delphine (Marie Rivière) ends up on the beaches of Biarritz where she meets Lena (Rosette Carita), a Swedish girl who smothers her with good advice. Delphine decides to go home after finding her efforts to have a good time were failing, only to meet the perfect stranger at the train station.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) - Josée Dayan	[DVD] 791.43 C8553
This is the dramatic story of Edmond Dantes, a young French sailor who is falsely denounced as a political traitor and unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years without trial. After a daring escape, Dantes flees to the island of Monte Cristo, where he finds a colossal treasure bequeathed to him by a dying fellow inmate. Using these riches, he assumes a new identity and devises a plan of vengeance upon all those who betrayed him.
Cyrano de Bergerac - Jean-Claude Petit	[DVD] 791.43 C9973
Cyrano is a brilliant but hideously ugly poet, trying to get his true love, Roxanne.
Danton - Andrezej Wajda	[VHS] 791.43 D1945
This is a film based on the life and death of the French revolutionary Georges Danton.
Dernier Métro - François Truffaut	[DVD] 791.43 L34963
Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Grange for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country; he is actually hiding in the basement.
Diabolique - Pierre Boileau	[DVD] 791.43 D5362 [VHS] 791.43 D5362
In this mystery drama about murder in a private school for boys, the wife and the mistress of a tyrannical headmaster dispose of him only to be mystified by the disappearance of his body and ghostly hints of his presence.
Diagonale du Fou (Dangerous Moves) - Richard Dembo	[DVD] 791.43 D1826
In this film a senior Soviet chessmaster and his former star pupil, now a dissident living in exile, square off in a highly publicized chess tournament. However, both become pawns in a much larger game.
Diary of a Chambermaid	[DVD] 791.43 D5395
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 rivalry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
Le Dîner de Cons - Francis Veber	[DVD] 791.43 D5853
Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.
Diva - Jean-Jacques Beineix	[DVD] 791.43 D6181 [VHS] 791.43 D6181
Cynthia Hawkins is the operatic superstar whose refusal to make a recording frustrates her adoring public. A young fan named Jules makes a secret tape and is stalked by thugs who plan to blackmail the singer.
La Double Vie de Veronique - Krzysztof Kieslowski	[DVD] 791.43 D72725 [VHS] 791.43 D72725
Born on the same day, a young Polish singer and a French music teacher and aspiring singer share the same talents and the same sense that somewhere there exists another person with whom her life is intertwined.
Earrings of Madame de Gaumont - Max Ophuls	[DVD] 791.43 E125
The wife of a 19th century General sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts, which sets off a chain reaction of deceit that includes her husband, his mistress, and her lover.
Égarés (Strayed) - Jean-Pierre Ramsay-Levi	[DVD] 791.43 S9135
After the German occupation of Paris during World War II, a young widow flees the war-torn city with her two children and must rely on a mysterious young stranger in order to survive.
Les Enfants du Paradis - Jacques Prevert	[DVD] 791.43 C53677 [VHS] 791.43 C53677
This romantic story is set against a backdrop of the popular theater and the underworld of mid-19th century Paris, with Arletty starring as a beautiful and sophisticated actress loved by four men.
Être et Avoir (To Have and To Be) - Nicolas Philibert	[DVD] 372.11 T6273
At the center of this intimate and touching story is Georges Lopez - a remarkably devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3 to 11 in all their school subjects and life's lessons. The film demonstrates how a teacher, if well trained, dedicated and sensitive to a child's educational and emotional needs, can hugely influence a generation of children at their most critical time of development.
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain - Claudie Ossard	[DVD] 791.43 A4988
Amélie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amélie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, Amélie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the lives of others around her to help them out.
Fat Girl (Ã ma soeur) - Catherine Breillat	[DVD] 791.43 F2523
This is a daring and provocative exploration of the complexities of sexual awakening involving 12-year-old Anais. With her family on holiday by the sea, she yearns for the experience of first love. However, she experiences it by proxy when her beautiful older sister, Elena, gets involved with an older boy. Soon Elena's naive hopes of romance will be shattered setting a chain of events in motion that will shatter her family forever.
Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within) - Louis Malle	[VHS] 791.43 F5233
Describing the last 48 hours in the life of a dissolute playboy headed towards suicide, the film evokes images of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, but presents a picture of dissolution and suicide devoid of self-pity.
Folie des Grandeurs (Delusions of Grandeur) - Gerard Oury	[DVD] 791.43 D3665
This is a period comedy-farce set in 17th century Spain and based on Victor Hugo's play Ruy Blas about an unscrupulous minister who when dismissed, plots to have the queen fall in love with his valet disguised as a visiting prince.
La Grande Illusion - Jean Renoir	[DVD] 791.43 G7514 [VHS] 791.43 G7514
Two French air corps officers, one of whom, an aristocrat, are shot down and captured during World War I. In spite of their different class backgrounds, they are drawn together in attempts to escape. The aristocrat sacrifices his own chances in order to aid his companion's escape.
La Haine (Hate) - Mathieu Kassovitz	[DVD] 791.43 H1523
Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.
La Vie en Rose - Olivier Dahan	[DVD] 791.43 V6563
This film is a dramatic retelling of the life of Edith Piaf, considered one of the great performers of France. Raised in a brothel, taken to work in a circus by her father, and eventually abandoned by her parents, she spent her teen years on the streets. Eventually "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, she made her way to international success, despite recurring frailty, illness, wild moods, drug and alcohol problems.
Hiroshima, Mon Amour - Alain Resnais	[DVD] 791.43 H6683 [VHS] 791.43 H6683
During the filming of an anti-war film in Japan, a French actress falls in love with a Japanese architect. While sharing an intimate relationship, they also begin sharing the memories of a war experienced at opposite sides of the world.
L'Histoire d'Adèle H - François Truffaut	[DVD] 791.43 S8874
The film is based on the true story of Adele Hugo's obsessive love affair which led her to run away from home to follow her womanizing lover across an ocean to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Homme du Train (Man on the Train) - Patrice Leconte	[DVD] 791.43 M26665
Two strangers, a criminal named Milan and a retired poetry teacher, Manesquier, meet in a sleepy French village and gradually become unlikely friends. As their friendship grows, each develops a desire to trade his life with that of the other.
Un Homme et une Femme (A Man and a Woman) - Claude Lelouch	[DVD] 791.43 M2661
A daredevil race-car driver and a movie script girl meet while visiting their children's boarding school. They soon share a love filled with warmth, humor and truth, and intertwined with the demands of career and parenthood.
Indochine - Regis Wargnier	[DVD] 791.43 I413 [VHS] 791.43 I413
Eliane, a rubber plantation owner in French Indochina, hides her torrid love affairs from upper-class society, but when her adopted Indochinese daughter innocently falls in love with Eliane's secret lover, the scandal may destroy their family.
Jean de Florette - Claude Berri	[DVD] 791.43 J435
This is the story of Jean Cadoret, a hunchback who inherits a farm from his mother and foolishly hopes to become a gentleman farmer. But even before he arrives, his powerful neighbor is plotting to steal his land. The ending is heartbreak and tragedy for Jean who is no match for his wily neighbor.
Jesus of Montreal - Denys Arcand	[DVD] 791.43 J585 [VHS] 791.43 J585
A troupe of underemployed actors joins a charismatic young man to help a church update its annual Passion play, which attracts a city full of hope, praise, temptation, and condemnation.
Jules et Jim - François Truffaut	[VHS] 791.43 J942
The friendship of Jules, who is German, and Jim, who is French, and their twenty year love for the same woman is examined in the film.
Kirikou et la Sorciere (Kirikou and the Sorceress) - Michel Ocelot	[DVD] 791.433 K587
Based on west African folklore, this is the story of a remarkable baby boy who is born with the ability to speak, amazing intelligence, and physical abilities. The film features a musical score by icon Youssou N'Dour and South Africa's finest vocal talents.
Laissez-Passer (Safe-Conduct) - Bernard Tavernier	[DVD] 791.43 S1283
During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate. Jean Devaivre is an assistant director for Continental Pictures, a studio which has recently been taken over by the Germans and is headed by Dr. Greven. With a wife and son to support, Devaivre feels he has little choice but to continue with his work. Screenwriter Jean Aurenche, a man who lives for wine, women and song, refuses to work for Greven, and struggles to find a way to make a living with his words.
La Lectrice (The Reader) - Michel Deville	[VHS] 791.43 L4716
Constance reads aloud to her boyfriend. One night she reads "The reader", a story of Marie who decides to advertise her services as a professional reader. An unlikely cast of characters respond to Marie's ad and soon she is sharing more than an appreciation for literature with her customers.
Léolo - Jean Claude Lauzon	[DVD] 791.43 L5788
Leolo Lozone, a twelve-year old dreamer, uses his imagination to escape the realities around him through writing.
Liaisons Dangereuses - Josée Dayan	[DVD] 791.43 D1823 [DVD] 791.43 D1824
This is the latest French adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic story of lust, deceit and revenge.
Un Long Dimanche de Fiançaille (A Very Long Engagement) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet	[DVD] 791.43 V5735
Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiancé to return from the war. When bad news arrives she refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into his infantry, hiring a private detective and piecing together his war stories.
The Lover	[DVD] 791.43 L9112
A poor French teenager embarks on a love affair with a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French colonial Vietnam, defying the boundaries of age, race and class.
Ma Nuit chez Maud - Eric Rohmer	[DVD] 791.43 M9957
Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an engineer seeking the perfect mate. Just when he thinks he has found her, he finds himself accidentally spending the night sharing the bed of a seductive divorcee, Maud.
Ma Vie en Rose	[DVD] 791.43 M1117
Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.
Manon of the Spring - Claude Berri	[VHS] 791.43 M2853
Ten years have passed since the tragic events of Jean De Florette. Jean's daughter, Manon, appears in town to accuse the Soubeyrans of killing her father. A tragedy results that nearly destroys Cesar, the neighbor who destroyed Jean.
Les Misérables - Claude Lelouch	[DVD] 791.43 M6783 [VHS] 791.43 M6784
During the Nazi occupation of France, Henri Fortin is a true and simple man whose life parallels that of Jean Valjean, the hero of the novel, Les Misérables.
Molière - Laurent Tirard	[DVD] 791.43 M7213
Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Moliere's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Moliere becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's wife, Elmire. But, soon after, the confrontation between Elmire and Moliere turns seductive. Jourdain enlists the aid of a well-connected and scheming acquaintance to help him pursue the widowed marquise.
Monsieur Hire - Patrice Leconte	[VHS] 791.43 M7543
When a beautiful woman discovers she's being spied on by a cold, repressed neighbor, she becomes the aggressor in an erotically charged relationship that leads to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Monsieur Ibrahim - Michèle et Laurent Pétin	[DVD] 791.43.M7544
An elderly Turkish Muslim grocer befriends a lonely teenage Jewish boy in a working class section of Paris.
Mon Oncle - Jacques Tati	[DVD] 791.43 M99587 [VHS] 791.43 M99587
A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
My Father's Glory - Marcel Pagnol	[DVD] 791.43 M9955 [VHS] 791.43 M9955
The enchanting story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood in the south of France focuses on a very special summer when he was 11 years old. In the countryside of Provence he fell under the spell of the rugged hills, made new friends and strengthened the unique bond with his father.
My Mother's Castle - Marcel Pagnol	[DVD] 791.43 M99567 [VHS] 791.43 M99567
The story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood holidays in Provence continues in My Mother's Castle. During a Christmas in the region Marcel's affection for the area deepens and he also learns to love and appreciate his Mother's true nature.
Night and Fog - Alain Resnais	[DVD] 791.43 N6872
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, the film contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night) - François Truffaut	[DVD] 791.43 D2733 [VHS] 791.43 D2733
Frictions and personality clashes beset the making of a romantic film in Nice.
Nuit de la verité (Night of Truth) - Fanta Régina Nacro	[DVD] 791.43 N6877
In an unspecified country in Africa, after ten years of bloody war, the Nayaks, the President's ethnic group, and the Bonandes, rebels supporting Colonel Theo, come together to celebrate the peace agreement. But the reconciliation festivities are overshadowed by the terrible barbarities that have been committed on both sides.
The Orphic Trilogy - Jean Cocteau	[DVD] 791.463 O746-8
This is a three DVD set containing the films: The Blood of a Poet. Orpheus. Testament of Orpheus In the first film, Jean Cocteau turns the Orpheus legend into a story of a poet and his encounter with death and the middle world. .In the second an artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works. In his last film Cocteau portrays an 18th century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. The film finished the circle of the journey begun in Blood of a Poet, exploring the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations.
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) - Jacques Demy	[DVD] 791.43 U493 [VHS] 791.43 U493
This classic film tells the story of a tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
Le Placard (The Closet) - Francis Verber	[VHS] 791.43 C6457
François Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a condom factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing from happening: he creates photos and then spreads the rumor that François is gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in François Pignon's life - and other people's too - are drastic!
Paris, I Love You - Olivier Assayas and others	[DVD] 791.43 P2323
The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
Persepolis	[DVD] 791.433 P4663
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dreams is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness firsthand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study. This change proves an equally difficult trial for Marji and finds herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and her homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs.
Police - Maurice Pialat	[VHS] 791.43 D7663
A tough, romantic cop falls in love with a sullen, voluptuous suspect and struggles to reconcile his personal ethics with his growing passion for her.
Préparez vos Mouchoirs - Bertrand Blier	[DVD] 791.43 G3943
In this comedy Freud's question "What is it that women want?" is elaborated until the answer -- she knows it when she finds it -- is discovered.
Quatre cents Coups (400 Blows) - François Truffaut	[DVD] 791.43.F7733 [VHS] 791.43 F7733
Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
Red - Krzysztof Kieslowski	[DVD] 791.43 R3121 [VHS] 791.43 R3121
The final installment in the director's trilogy named after the colors of the French flag, Red is the story of a beautiful young woman and her meeting with an unusual stranger- a meeting that leads her down a path of intrigue and secrecy.
La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) - Jean Renoir	[DVD] 791.43 R9353 [VHS] 791.43 R9353
A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II, contrasting the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party.
La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) - Claude Berri	[DVD] 791.43 Q34
Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
Le Retour de Martin Guerre - Daniel Vigne	[DVD] 791.43 R4395 [VHS] 791.43 R4395
The plot revolves around the unraveling of the identity of a 16th century peasant who disappeared as a young husband, and the man who returns to resume his marriage nine years later.
Ridicule - Patrice Leconte	[DVD] 791.43 R5448
This fish out-of-water drama describes what occurs when a minor country aristocrat enters the depraved world of the 18th century court at Versailles.
Le Roi de Coeur (King of Hearts) - Jacques Juranville	[DVD] 791.43 K534
A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.
Salaire de la Peur (Wages of Fear) - H.G. Clouzot	[DVD] 791.43 W1314
The manager of a Central American oilfield offers big money to drivers who will take trucks loaded with nitroglycerine into the jungle to put out an oil fire. Four men accept knowing their chances of survival are slim.
Sundays and Cybele - Serge Bourguignon	[VHS] 791.43 S9575
A former pilot has just returned home from the French-Indonesian war. Suffering from amnesia, he leads a pointless life until he meets a 12 year old girl who has been left at a local convent school.
Sur mes Lèvres (Read My Lips) - Jacques Audiard	[DVD] 791.43 R2845
Carla works in a real estate office and has a hearing problem. Carla makes the acquaintance of Paul, a small-time criminal who has just been released from prison on parole. Before long, it becomes obvious that Paul is having an influence on Carla's normally stable nature. Carla and Paul's actions go from malicious to seriously criminal when Paul hatches a scheme to rob a nightclub owner to whom he owes money -- a scheme that involves Carla's keen skill as a lip reader.
La Symphonie Pastorale - Jean Delannoy	[VHS] 791.43 S9893
A well-meaning Swiss pastor takes a blind orphan into his home in a mountain village. As she grows into a beautiful woman, his passion for her destroys the happiness of his wife and son.
Tell No One - Guillaume Canet	[DVD] 791.43 T2735
Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, pediatrician Alex Beck still grieves for his beloved wife, Margot. When two bodies are uncovered near where Margot's body was found, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepends when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive.
Therese Raquin	[DVD] 791.43 T3985
Therese and Laurent think they have gotten away with murder after Therese's husband "falls" from a speeding train. But a blackmailer's demands along with accusations from Therese's mother-in-law could trip the couple up.
Too Beautiful for You - Bertrand Blier	[DVD] 791.43 T6682 [VHS] 791.43 T6682
A man who has the perfect wife falls in love with a coarse, unattractive woman.
Tous les Matins du Monde (All the Mornings of the World) - Alain Corneau	[DVD] 791.43 A41677
This film tells the story of a provocative tale of romance, lust, desire, and intrigue based on the lives of 17th century French composer Sainte Colombe and his protégée, Marin Marais.
Toto le Heros - Philip Dussart	[VHS] 791.43 T7176
Since childhood, Thomas Van Hasebroeck (Michel Bouquet) has been consumed by a nagging belief: that he was switched at birth with the rich neighbor's boy who enjoyed the life Thomas should have led. Now, after sixty years, Thomas wants revenge.
The Two of Us (Vieil homme et l'enfant)	[DVD] 791.43 T9743
A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France's liberation. Forced to hide his identity, eight-year-old Claude bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grandpa, who improbably becomes his friend and confidant.
Vagabond sans Toit ni Loi - Agnes Varda	[DVD] 791.43 V1262 [VHS] 791.43 V1262
The film tells the story of an aimless drifter who deeply touches the lives of the people she meets on the road, confronting them with her own ideas of freedom.
Vie et Rien d’Autre (Life and Nothing But) - Bernard Tavernier	[DVD] 791.43 L7222
Two years after World War I, Major Dellaplane helps two women search for the men they have lost in the war.
Visages de Femmes	[VHS] 791.43 F1383
This politically and stylistically adventurous film explores the links between feminism, economics and tradition in modern-day Africa.
Les Visiteurs - Jean Reno	[VHS] 791.43 V8316
A wacky medieval knight and his faithful servant are suddenly transported into the present day. They begin an all-out comic assault on their former castle --now a luxury hotel--in their quest to return to the past.
White - Krzysztof Kieslowski	[DVD] 791.43 W5821 [VHS] 791.43 W5821
Part of a trilogy of films (Three colors) by director Krzysztof Kieslowski, White presents the mysterious tale of a man whose life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him. Forced to begin anew, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her.
Z - Costa-Garvas	[DVD] 791.43.Z111 [VHS] 791.43 Z111
A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
Music CDs
Jacques Brel	[CD] 780.89.B8357.ja
The Voice of the Sparrow: The Very Best of Edith Piaf	[CD] 780.89.P5794vo
60 Minutes with the King of Zydeco: Clifton Chenier	[CD] 780.89.C5183.si
Cajun Soul: Eddie LeJeune	[CD] 780.89.L5345ca

Andrea Kempf, updated July 20, 2009

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