Summary: Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVESummary: When a newly commissioned SS Lieutenant witnesses the chemical disinfectant he's helped perfect being used to systematically murder interred Jews, he knows he must act. The only symphatic ear he finds is a young priest with ties to the Vatican. As the two unlikely allies fight to reveal the truth to the Church and world, they discover that a man of conscience can commit treason and a man of God...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMESummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by World Cinema Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DOUSummary: William Faber became a tax accountant like his father and resolved himself to a life where nothing much ever changed. At least until the beautiful Anna walked in one day and mistook his office for the therapist's down the hall. Unsolicited, Anna begins to reveal intimate details of her life which include how she is seeking security by attempting to save her tumultuous marriage. William and Anna...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INTSummary: The story of a troubled relationship festering between two couples: young Alain Getty, a home automation engineer, and his wife, sweet Bénédicte ; and middle-aged André, Alain's boss, who is married to the mysterious Alice. Their encounter does not leave the young couple's harmony unscathed. The discovery of a mysterious rodent's corpse blocking the waste pipe of their kitchen sink does...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEMSummary: 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 Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Molière 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUASummary: Two French beggars on their way to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MILSummary: Xavier, now thirty, reunites again with his old friends from his time in Barcelona when William marries a Russian dancer in Saint Petersburg. Although he is working as a writer, Xavier has been unable to publish his serious novel. He is ghostwriting celebrity memoirs and writing scripts for corny TV soap operas. His love life is a series of short-term encounters. When he loses his apartment,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RUSSummary: A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his country diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIASummary: Interweaves multiple stories and is set inside a magically snowbound Paris. Six lonely souls converge and commingle in their search for lasting connections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRISummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REASummary: Edith Piaf was raised in a brothel, wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, and, ultimately, her international success and final illness. She was always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental. She was often on drugs or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VIE RATED PG-13Summary: Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAISummary: A shell-shocked Juliette is released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. As life has moved on, she must relearn certain basics. After being banished from her family, she is now reunited with her younger sister, Lea. Hopefully, Juliette will learn to forgive herself in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN I'VESummary: Antoine and Helene drive to South France to return their kids from a holiday camp. The traffic is dense and the atmosphere increasingly tense. Antoine becomes increasingly drunk during stops. After a fierce discussion they split and both have to face great danger during the night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005