France 3 cinéma (Firm)
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
There was a time when two-ton predatory fish came on land, along with 26-foot sea scorpions. State-of-the-art digital technology breathes life into these creatures that dominated earth for 250 million years. Final program in the Walking with...Series.
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
This program looks at the development of Barcelona, a city dating to pre-Christian times, which grew slowly until the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Shows how the results of research can be applied to improve the allocation of scarce resources in housing, transportation, fuel consumption, air quality control, and waste disposal.
Publisher
Synedoche Le Pacte Dor Film Les Films Aleph ; France 3 Cinema
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only 'Elder of the Jews' not to have been killed during the war. From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Français
Description
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 find a bond developing between them, one that only true...
5) Jack London
Series
Publisher
Gedeon
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Upon his return to the San Francisco area from the Alaska gold rush, Jack London began to write about his experiences. London's colorful life, during which he wrote more than 50 books, including his masterpiece, The Call of the wild, and which included experience as a war correspondent, and two stormy marriages, ended in his suicide at the age of 40. The program presents London's life story, examines the social and political events which influenced...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sacha, a young girl from the Russian aristocracy, dreams of the Great North and anguishes over the fate of her grandfather, Oloukine, a renowned scientist and Arctic explorer who has yet to return from his latest expedition to conquer the North Pole. Sacha has always been fascinated by the adventurous life of her grandfather and has the same calling to be an explorer. Sacha flees her home and launches an adventure-filled quest toward the Great North...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Edinburgh, late nineteenth century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. Madeleine the midwife replaces his heart with a cuckoo-clock. It will work, as long as Jack follows the rules, mainly not falling in love. But his encounter with a fiery-eyed girl singing on a street corner and his decision to chase after her will test the resistance of his makeshift heart to the breaking point.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
This fantastically-twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls...
Series
Criterion collection volume 513
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly.
11) For a woman
Series
Film Movement volume year 12
Publisher
Alexandre Films ; Rise Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
The unexpected arrival of a brother who supposedly perished during World War II upsets the lives of a Jewish tailor and his pretty bride.
12) Zarafa
Publisher
GKIDS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savanna, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe, and an orphan, just like him, as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.
13) Winged migration
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows bird migrations flying over the seven continents: from one pole to the other, from the seas to snowcapped mountains, from the canopy of heaven to mangroves and swamps.
14) Petite maman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1181
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Céline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual...
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A 10-year-old girl befriends a beautiful wild fox she names Lily. Bit by bit, in woods and fields blanketed by snow and carpeted by wildflowers, the girl and Lily build an extraordinary friendship as the fox leads her human companion on adventures bold, funny, and even sometimes scary. Narrated by Kate Winslet.
16) Raja
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with local youth. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income,...
17) The Queen
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
18) Bon voyage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Following the premiere of her latest picture Viviane finds herself with a dead man in her apartment. Frederic is a writer who's been falsely accused of murder, thanks to Viviane. Viviane has fled Paris for Bordeaux with a cabinet minister, and once Frederic escapes from prison, he is not far behind. Once they reach the city, which is in chaos, they become entangled in a plot involving a rickety physicist, his endlessly resourceful assistant, an amiable...
19) Carne tremula
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Español
Description
The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.