Summary: 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 revialry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIASummary: Catherine Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac play twins living in the picturesque seaside village of Rochefort-- Delphine teaches dance while Solange composes and gives piano lessons. As the girls dream of success and romance in the far-off big city, they don't realize that true love may be just around the corner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 1996
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YOUSummary: Disc 1. The son of a murdered criminal is enlisted to steal a valuable serum for an AIDS-like disease.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A smalltime, aging Mafia hood falls in love with a clam bar waitress, and they share the spoils of the big score against the backdrop of a changing Atlantic City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ATLSummary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Asked to write a screenplay for an American producer, a young French dramatist and his wife visit the producer's villa in Capri. There the wife and producer engage in an affair, and she decides to leave her husband. However, something quite unexpected happens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CONSummary: Monsieur Oscar, a mysterious, shadowy character, spends a day traveling through Paris in a limousine driven by his loyal chauffeur, Celine. During his travel, he journeys from one life to the next, taking on the appearances of a wide variety of characters, including a captain of industry, an assassin, a beggar, a monster, a reptilian sex god, a melancholy father, and a dying old man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOLSummary: An intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard's fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: "The most famous film by Italian provocateur Marco Ferreri, La Grande bouffe was reviled on release for its perversity, decadence and attack on the bourgeoisie, yet won the prestigious FIPRESCI prize after its controversial screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Four friends retreat to a country mansion where they determine to eat themselves to death whilst engaging in group sex with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN GRASummary: Gilbert Valance is a successful theater actor who learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident. Over time, Valence's life regains a semblance of normalcy - he takes care of his orphaned grandson, strolls the streets of Pairs, frequents his favorite cafe and returns to the stage. But when an American film director casts him against type in an English-language...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2003