World Cinema (Classics) pre 1980
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Lacombe Lucien - dvd
Set in occupied France, the film opens in the summer of 1944 as Lucien, our troubled teen hero, expresses an interest in assisting the local resistance movement. He is turned down and, after a chance encounter, signs up as a collaborator for the G...
Last Metro, The (Le Dernier métro) - dvd
Winning an incredible ten French Academy Awards in 1981, The Last Metro is one of Truffaut's most highly acclaimed and popular films. Starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in magnetic performances, the story is set in Paris, 1942, during...
L'Avventura (2 disc) - dvd
Released: 2 July 2007
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. But during the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
Leopard, The (Il Gattopardo) (2disc) - dvd
W/S enh / DD5.1 Italian, DD2 English
- Audio Commentary By La Trobe University Lecturer Rolando Caputo
· New High-definition Digital Transfer, With Restored Image And Sound And Enhanced For Widescreen Televisions
· New Trans...
Les Amants - dvd
Jeanne Moreau plays Jeanne Tournier, the wife of a newspaper publisher. Constantly distracted and unsatisfied, she finds solace in a young archeologist, played by Jean Marc Bory. A sensation upon its release, this film contributed to the reputatio...
Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) - dvd
4x3 / DD2 French with English subtitle option
Voted The best French film ever made by the French Film Academy. The Children Of Paradise (Les Enfants Du Paradis) is a film of such dazzling proportions it has been labelled the French Gone W...
Lift to the Scaffold (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud ) - dvd
Whether the face of Jeanne Moreau, or the mournful trumpet of Miles Davis, this film is etched into the memory of all who have watched it forever. Narrative centres around a bungled crime of passion, but the lingering memories of the film stem fro...
L'Innocente - dvd
Luchino Visconti's final film, released two months after his death, is a stunning conclusion to an epic career, a sumptuous adaptation of Gabriele d'Annunzio’s 1892 novel portraying the decadence of the Italian aristocracy in the late 19th-cen...
Little Soldier (Le Petit soldat ) - dvd
Released: 5 Sept 2007
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the m...
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