Director: Claude Chabrol. Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran, Lucile Saint Simon, Pierre Bertin, Jean-Louis Maury. Description: Interesting portrayal of four working girls and their efforts to find love, change their live and their fortunes. Director Chabrol hints at some of the gruesome shocks of his later films. Produced by Raymond and Robert Hakim. Written by Claude Chabrol and Paul Gégauff. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 100 mins. Item #3663 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Marcel Pagnol. Cast: Guy Alland, Henri Arius, Henri Crémieux, Roger Crouzet, Keller, Christian Lude. Description: Three 19th century short stories from Gallic writer Alphonse Daudet are presented; "The Three Low Masses", "The Elixir of Father Gaucher", and "The Secret of Master Cornille". Fine performances highlight this cinematic story of humor and pathos. Produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. English subtitles (written by director Preston Sturges!) Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 116 mins. Item #2845 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi. Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshiro Mifune, Toshiaki Konoe. Description: A fifty-year-old prostitute looks back on her life. Once a lady-in-waiting at the imperial court at Kyoto, shebecame the lover of a man below her station. When discovered, she and her family were exiled. For her there followed a life filled with one sorrow and humiliation after another. Produced by Hideo Koi, Kenji Mizoguchi and Isamu Yoshiji. English subtitled. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 100 mins. Item #3954 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Max Ophüls. Cast: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol, Lise Delamare, Oskar Werner. Description: Film biography of one of the most interesting, exciting women of the nineteenth century. Monteswas the famous mistress of Franz Liszt and the King of Bavaria with an art for seduction and self-promotion. Produced by Albert Caraco. Written by Annette Wademant, Max Ophüls and Jacques Natanson. Letterboxed. English subtitles. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 110 mins. Item #3664 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Luis Bunuel. Cast: Estela Inda, Alfonso Mejia, Roberto Cobo, Jesus Navarro, Miguel Inclan. Description: Powerful story of two youthful boys caught in the poverty and violence in the disease-ridden barrios of Mexico. Bunuel's stunning return to international film production after an 18 year absence. Produced by Oscars Dancigers. Written by Luis Bunuel and Luis Alcoriza. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 81 mins. Item #1421 Format: & vbcrlf VHS for $14.99 DVD for $19.99 also on DVD Unit
Director: Fritz Jang. Cast: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke. Description: Horror/crime Classic finds an elusive child killer who forces the police to crack down on all criminals, which makes the crime bosses want him out of commission also. When they finally capture him, they put him on trial, putting the police in the unenviable position of having to save him. Lorre's film debut. Produced by Seymour Nebenzal. Written by Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou. Sets designed by an uncredited Edgar G. Ulmer. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 95 mins. Item #2009 Format: & vbcrlf VHS for $14.99 DVD for $19.99 also on DVD Unit
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Cecile Aubry, Michel Auclair, Serge Reggiani, Henri Vilbert. Description: French woman, condemned for her involvement with a Resistance fighter, is eventually forced into prostitution by her brother. Produced by Paul-Edmond Decharme. Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jean Ferry. Based on the novel "Manon Lescaut" by Abbe Antoine Francois Prevost. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 91 mins. Item #2039 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Alexander Korda. Cast: Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin. Description: First in Marcel Pagnol's trilogy about the adventures of a young man who dreams of going to sea, but must leave his young lover to do so. Produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 125 mins. Item #1489 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Macha Meril, Bernard Noel, Phillippe Leroy. Narration by Jean-Luc Godard. Description: A story of a married French woman who is cheating on her husband. When she becomes pregnant she realizes either man could be the father and must make a decision on her own. One of Godard's most provocative dissections of modern life. Written by Jean-Luc Godard. English subtitles. Aka: A Married Woman. Running Time: 94 mins. Item #3305 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Suzy Prim, Jean Dax, Vladimir Sokoloff. Description: The tragic, bittersweet romance between Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and his adoring mistress, Marie Vetsera. Based on the real-life romance between the the Crown Prince and his lover and the resulting scandal following their apparant suicide in 1889. Produced by Seymour Nebenzal. Written by Joseph Kessel and Irma Von Cube. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 95 mins. Item #1378 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Maurice Cloche. Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Yvonne Gaudeau, Jean Carmet, Lisa Delamare, Aime Clariond. Description: Inspirational true story of 17th century French priest who convinces the aristocracy to finance his charities for the unfortunate. Cloche's Masterpiece, this film was begun before the Occupation and remained unfinished for years due to the Nazi invasion of France. Produced by Viscount George de la Grandiere. Cinematography by Claude Renoir. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 111 mins. Item #2240 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, Andre Labarthe. Narration by Jean-Luc Godard. Description: Godard's fourth film is a tableaux examination of the sexual and social life of a Frenchwoman who fails at becoming an actress and instead becomes a prostitute. This technically advanced film placed Godard at the forefront of filmaking. English subtitles. Produced by Pierre Braunberger. Written by Jean-Luc Godard. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 85 mins. Item #2953 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Richard Oswald. Cast: Joseph Schmidt, Viktor de Kowa, Charlotte Ander, Fritz Kampers. Description: Romantic shortcomings of a singing trio and the girl with whom two them fall in love with. Produced by Richard Oswald. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 68 mins. Item #2182 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Christian-Jaque. Cast: Martine Carol, Charles Boyer, Jacques Castelot, Paul Frankeur. Description: A luxury loving slum girl seduces a government official and the resulting tragic affair leads to the destruction of both. Produced by Jacques Roitfeld. Based on the novel by Emile Zola. English subtitles. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 118 mins. Item #3306 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Per Lindberg. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Marianne Löfgren, Lill-Tollie Zellman, Marianne Aminoff, Olof Widgren, Gunnar Sjoberg. Description: A romantic story about a woman tries to end her relationship with a sailor and is accidently shot by her suicidal lover, ledaing to near disaster for all. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 86 mins. Item #4261 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Federico Fellini. Cast: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Amedeo Nazzari, Aldo Silvani, Franca Marzi, Riccardo Fellini. Description: A naive prostitute, full of faith despite her lot in life, comes to believe she has found true love at last. Simple, fascinating Fellini drama. Produced by Dino de Laurentiis. Written by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 111 mins. Item #2865 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Rene Clair. Cast: Henri Marchand, Raymond Gordy, Rolla France, Paul Olivier, Jacques Shelly. Description: Clair's masterful satirical comedy about two escaped-convicts, one of whom becomes a phonograph record company tycoon who oversees a highly mechanized operation where workers are reduced to automatons, and his ex-con friend who goes to work for him. Filmed without a script this film is frequently acknowledged as the inspiration for Chaplin's "Modern Times", which it predated by five years. Produced by Frank Clifford. Written and edited by Rene Clair. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 87 mins. Item #1794 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Mario Soldati. Cast: Carlo Campanini, Walter Chiari, Silvana Pampanini, Jackie Frost. Description: Two American sailors are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero. They embark on a series of mis-adventures that include a pocket billiard contest with Nero, the establishment of an amusement park, a football game with a Grecian urn as the pigskin and a 1950's jam session with Roman musicians among many other laughs and troubles. Produced by Jacques Bar and Niccolò Theodoli. French Dubbed. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 89 mins. Item #3665 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Gustaf Molander. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Edvin Adolphson, Aino Taube, Olof Sandborg, Erik 'Bullen' Berglund. Description: A woman falls in love with a former circus worker and discovers he is the illegitimate heir to a wealthy aristocrat. One of Ingrid Bergman’s last films before coming to Hollywood. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 89 mins. Item #4258 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Cast: Henrik Malberg, Emil Haas Christiansen, Preben Lerdorff-Rye, Cay Kristiansen. Description: Man is jeered for thinking he is Jesus Christ, but the ridicule ceases when he begins performing miracles. Produced and written by Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Bsed on the play by Kaj Munk. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 126 mins. Item #1168 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
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