THE TASTE OF THINGS (2023, PG-13, 2H 15M):Director: Anh Hung Tran |Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benot Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger |Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a... more
Two-disc set includes: Bim (1951)The first family-friendly offering from "The Red Balloon" filmmaker Albert Lamorisse concerns the impoverished Tunisian boy Abdullah and his love for his donkey Bim.... more
An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and politics, La Syndicaliste follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher), the influential head union... more
Twelve-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret), all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father (SUMMER HOURS' Jeremie Renier).... more
Jeanne Moreau, Umberto Orsini, Ettore Manni. A shocking and unforgettable story of one woman's passion, repression and fury set loose among her fellow villagers in a remote rustic French town.... more
A haunting exploration of love, loss and grief, director François Ozon's acclaimed drama features Charlotte Rampling as English-born teacher Marie Drillon, whose French husband vanishes while... more
One of the most influential political films in history, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the... more
Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse. Uniquely told with music and no dialogue, this renowned children's film tells the story of a lonely French boy who befriends a wondrous red balloon which seems to... more
Senegalese teenage cousins Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall) left Dakar on an ambitious odyssey to reach Italy and make a better life. The grueling cross-desert trek through Libya... more
Senegalese-French academic Mara (Kayije Kagame) journeyed to Saint Omer for the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda), an immigrant student accused of leaving her 15-month-old child in the Berck... more
Two films are included. Wooden Crosses: In France's answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, a World War I regiment trudges from patriotism to disillusionment.
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles (Dany... more
A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow... more
This unique and distinctive filmmaker transformed cinema with prolific results in this 8-part documentary series which examines the art form over the course of 10 years revealing its magic beginning... more
For 18 years, Sister Benedetta Carlini (Virginie Efira) lived a penitent and exemplary existence in a 17th century Tuscan convent. Given charge of the abused and recalcitrant novitiate Bartolomea... more
Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant. Nobody can halt the insatiable pleasure-seeking of the gorgeous Bardot—least of all her husband—in this sexy classic set in the French Riviera. Includes HD... more
The deceptively simple story of a donkey named Balthazar and his treatment (and, often, mistreatment) at the hands of various owners over the years, writer/director Robert Bresson's touching... more
Emmanuelle Beart, Michael Piccoli. His talent unused for years, a once-famous painter is inspired by a young woman to return to his craft. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Jacques... more
Jean-Louis Barrault, Arletty, Pierre Brasseur. Possibly the most revered and beloved of all French films, exploring the loves and ambitions of a group of actors. Directed by Marcel Carn. In French... more
Albert Prejean, Pola Illery, Edmond T. Greville. Legendary director Rene Clair's famed classic about two Parisian street performers and the powerful love they share. In French with English subtitles.... more
From her debut in 1956, filmmaker Agnhs Varda made films that foreshadowed the coming of the French New Wave, eventually crafting one of the movement's most indelible films, CLEO FROM 5 TO 7.... more
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth.... more
Emmanuele Riva, Eiji Okada. A French movie actress and a Japanese architect engage in a steamy affair shortly after the end of WWII. While together and in an effort to bury the past, they manage to... more
Jean Marais, Josette Day. Jean Cocteau's hauntingly beautiful, visually dazzling masterpiece returns from the 1940s to reincarnate the surrealistic and magical spin he so eloquently placed on the... more