World Cinema (Classics) pre 1980
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Firemen's Ball - dvd
Released: 3 Mar 2007The fire department in a small town is having a big party when the ex-boss of the department celebrates his 86th birthday. (imdb)
First Name Carmen (Prénom Carmen) - dvd
Released 5 Sept 2007
Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. (imdb)
Flight of the Red Balloon - dvd
Released 10 Sept 2008
From master Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien comes this beautiful homage to Albert Lamorisse's Oscar-winning children's short film, The Red Balloon and to Paris itself. Seven-year-old Simon is affectionately followed by a mysterious red balloon....
Gertrud - dvd
Released: 20 Feb 2008
Based on the 1906 play by Swedish dramatist Hjalmar Söderberg, Danish auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer's final film, Gertrud, follows the vicissitudes of Gertrud Kanning, a former opera singer married to a prominent politician. But in Gertrud's rarefied...
Gospel According To St Matthew - dvd
released 3 Nov 2008
Hailed internationally by film critics, The Gospel According To St Matthew is a visually stunning, emotionally stirring interpretation of the greatest story ever told the life of Christ. A landmark in world cinema, the story of Jesus is based u...
High and Low - dvd
At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo has raised for a critical business deal. Gondo is prepared to pay the ransom - that is, until he ...
Hiroshima Mon Amour - dvd
Released: 29 Mar 2008
A young French woman has spent the night with a japanese man, in Hiroshima where she went for the shooting of a film about peace. He reminds her of the first man she loved. It was during World War II....
I Live in Fear (Record of a Living Being) - dvd
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear extermination that his family decides to have him ruled incompetent. Nakajima's fervent wish is for his family to join him in escaping from Japan to ...
I Vitelloni (The Young and the Passionate) - dvd
4x3 / DD2 italian with English subtitles
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