Director: Jean Cocteau. Cast: Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Odette Talazac. Description: Jean Cocteau's first film is a surrealistic depiction of four stories as the poet/filmaker attempts to "picture the poet's inner self". As fascinating today as it was in 1930. Written and Directed by Jean Cocteau. English subtitles. Running Time: 55 mins. Item #3303 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers. Description: Original version of this horrifying study of human nature follows the decline and fall of a repressed professor who tries to keep his students from visiting a sultry nightclub entertainer only to find himself succumbing to, and being destroyed by, her charms. Produced by Erich Pommer. From the novel "Professor Unrat" by Heinrich Mann. ORIGINAL GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 106 mins. Item #3120 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Leni Riefenstahl and Bela Balazs. Cast: Leni Riefenstahl, Mathias Wieman, Beni Führer, Max Holzboer, Martha Maire, Franz Maldacea. Description: Riefenstahl's first film tells about a young woman, hated by the villagers where she lives, especially the women, who suspect her of being a witch. She alone can climb the nearby mountains to a cave where a mysterious blue light glows during a full moon. Many men of the village have died following her. She is driven out of town, and takes to the mountains. Finally she shares the secret of the blue light with one man who betrays the secret and her. Produced by Leni Riefenstahl and Harry R. Sokal. Written by Leni Riefenstahl and Bela Balazs. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 77 mins. Item #2388 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Erich Engel. Cast: Hans Christian Blech, Ernst Waldow, Paul Bildt, Karin Evans, Gisela Trowe. Description: This revealing and frightening film is based on a actual 1926 murder trial. Dr. Blum, a German-Jewish man is falsely accused of murder. When the real killer's identity becomes known, the state prosecutor refuses to acknowledge Blum's innocence. Film explores German reaction to the trial and looks at the relationship between the law, anti-semitism and fascism, providing insight into the historical context that allowed the Nazis to flourish. Written by Robert A. Stemmle. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 109 mins. Item #2387 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jean Renoir. Cast: Michel Simon, Charles Grandval, Marcelle Hainia, Severine Lerczinska, Jean Gehret. Description: A down and out tramp is saved from suicide and, after much disaster causing (including seducing his rescuer's wife), strikes it rich in the lottery and has to decide whether to remain a proto-hippie or a responsible adult. Remade in 1986 as DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS. Produced by Jean Gehret and Michel Simon. Written by Jean Renoir and Albert Valentin. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 84 mins. Item #3653 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Claude Mansard, Jean-Luc Godard. Description: A carefree Parisian crook falls in love with an American girl, with tragic results. This is the one! Many times better than the Eighties remake. Godard's first film. Produced by Georges de Beauregard. Written by Jean-Luc Godard form an idea by François Truffaut. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 90 mins. Item #2191 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Helmut Kautner. Cast: Heinz Ruhmann, Hannelore Schroth, Erich Schellow, Martin Held. Description: Rebellious Berlin cobbler becomes a folk hero when he impersonates a Prussian officer and disrupts the system. Based on a real life incident. Produced by Gyula Trebitsch. English subtitles. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 93 mins. Item #1296 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jacques Feyder. Cast: Francoise Rosay, Jean Murat, Andre Alerme, Louis Jouvet. Description: After the village of Boom, in Flanders, learns a Spanish Duke and his troops plan to camp overnight, the small (four-man) army deserts and the townsmen play dead, leaving it to the Mayor's wife to organize the townswomen to greet the invaders and save to town with womanly wiles. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 90 mins. Item #1792 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Vojtech Jasny. Cast: Václav Babka, Jirina Bohdalová, Pavel Brodsky, Vlastimil Brodský, Vlasta Chramostová. Description: Small town is disrupted by a cat wearing sunglasses, who shows the townspeople's true natures by turning them into different colors. Needless to say he is not welcomed and it's up to the children to save the cat from a taxidermy-obsessed school principal. Written by Jirí Brdecka and Vojtech Jasny. English dubbed. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 90 mins. Item #4175 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Marcel Pagnol. Cast: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin. Description: Third in Pagnol's trilogy. Man returns from 20-year abscence to his wife and grown son. Written and produced by Marcel Pagnol. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 117 mins. Item #1534 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Geza Von Bolvary. Cast: Mártha Eggerth, Alfred Gerasch, Lizzi Holzschuh, Paul Kemp, Jan Kiepura. Description: Musical based on the Puccini opera of the lives and loves of four 19th Century Parisians. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 90 mins. Item #2167 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Marcel Carné. Cast: Garance Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares, Gaston Modot. Description: In the 1800s theatre district of Paris, an actor falls in love with an unattainable woman. Circumstances keep them apart but their love never dies. A Classic that has been compared to "Gone With The Wind". Produced under extreme hardship during the final days of WWII during the Nazi occupation of France, numerous actors were also French Resistance fighters sought by the Gestapo. Produced by Raymond Borderie and Fred Orain. Written by Jacques Prévert. Academy Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 195 mins. Item #4263 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Federico Fellini. Cast: Federico Fellini, Riccardo Billi, Tino Scotti, Fanfulla, Dante Maggio, Galliano Sbarra, Nino Terzo, Giacomo Furia, Carlo Rizzo, Gigi Reder, Alvaro Vitali, Anita Ekberg, Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Charlie Rivel. Description: Excellent, underrated Fellini documentary about circus clowns from his boyhood to the present day. Do Not Miss! Produced by Federico Fellini. Written by Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi. English subtitles. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 90 mins. Item #1166 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jacques Deval. Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Valentine Tessier, Carol Royce, Else Argel, Josette Day. Description: The lives of several residents of a 'Women Only' hotel are examined. 19 year-old Danielle Darrieux is charming as a dancer trying to sneak her boyfriend in "where no man can enter". Written by Jacques Deval. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 90 mins. Item #2040 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Erik Charell. Cast: Lillian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover. Description: In 1814 Vienna, the Prince schemes to keep the Czar away from the Congress by placing several beautiful women in his way. What he doesn't know is that the Czar has a double and can be in two places at once. Rare German musical. Produced by Erich Pommer. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 92 mins. Item #2441 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Edvin Adolphson and Sigurd Wallén. Cast: Valdemar Dalquist, Julia Cæsar, Sigurd Wallén, Ingrid Bergman, Tollie Zellman. Description: Group of pals drink their way from one bar to the next, keeping one step ahead of the police, who are trying to break up the party. Ingrid Bergman’s film debut. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 84 mins. Item #4262 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Claude Chabrol. Cast: Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Guy Decomble, Geneviève Cluny. Description: This grim film concerns a hayseed boy who moves in with his city bred cousin. Falling for the same girl leads to serious problems, until one cousin lies destroyed. Produced and written by Claude Chabrol. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 112 mins. Item #3655 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Mikheil Kalatozishvili (Kalatozov). Cast: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova. Description: Powerful, touching anti-war love story about a young Soviet man sent to serve in World War II, leaving behind the woman he loves, who eventually learns of his death and faces a loveless marriage and life. Produced by Mikhail Kalatozov. Written by Viktor Rozov. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 97 mins. Item #3656 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jean Renoir. Cast: René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Marcel Lévesque, Odette Talazac, Henri Guisol. Description: When the boss is believed dead, the formerly opressed publishing company employees turn the business into a prosperous cooperative, but what will they do when the boss suddenly comes back...? Produced by André Halley des Fontaines. Written by Jean Renoir. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 90 mins. Item #3657 Format: & vbcrlf VHS for $14.99 DVD for $19.99 also on DVD Unit
Director: Jean Renoir. Cast: Silvia Bataille, Georges St. Saens, Jane Marken, André Gabriello, Jean Renoir, Marguerite Renoir. Description: This short film is just a part of a movie that Renoir didn't finish. In the nineteen century, a city family on vacation on the countryside. A young peasant falls for the daughter of the family who was to marry an old man. Produced by Pierre Braunberger. Written by Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. Cinematography by Jean Bourgoin and Claude Renoir. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 36 mins. Item #2461 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
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