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100% Arabica
$21.95 | 85 minutes
Set in a predominantly North African housing project just outside of Paris, this prescient 1997 dramedy from director Mahmoud Zemmouri follows a group of friends who escape the poverty and prejudice of their daily lives by forming a band called Rap Oriental. Their rai music (an infectious fusion of rap and traditional North African tunes)&hellip…
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101 Reykjavik
$11.95 | 90 minutes
Baltasar Kormakur's 101 REYKJAVIK is a crowd-pleasing comedy that gleefully takes the concept of "family dysfunction" to an outrageous new level. Hlynur (Hilmer Snaer Gudnason), an unmotivated Icelander with no interests other than watching porn and getting drunk, still lives at home with his sympathetic mother. He has a brief fling with&hellip…
13 Tzameti
$20.95 | 90 minutes
A clean-faced 20-year-old, Sebastien, leads an impoverished life with his immigrant family, constantly struggling to find the money for their next meal. When hired to repair the roof of the morphine-addicted Godon (Philippe Passon), Sebastien eavesdrops in on a conversation which appears to offer a quick and easy solution to his money&hellip…
2000 Seen By... Collection
$85.95 | 570 minutes
Boxed set includes all eight parts of the "2000 Seen By..." collection. THE BOOK OF LIFE (1998, 63 min.) - Hal Hartley, THE FIRST NIGHT OF MY LIFE (1998, 84 min.) - Miguel Albaladejo, THE HOLE (1998, 95 min.) - Tsai Ming-Liang, LIFE ON EARTH (1998, 61 min.) - Abderrahmane Sissako, MIDNIGHT (1998, 72 min.) - Daniela Thomas and Walter Salles&hellip…
3 Films by Louis Malle
$68.95 | 363 minutes
Few directors have portrayed the agonies and epiphanies of growing up as poetically – and scandalously – as Louis Malle. Laced with autobiographical details, Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; and Au revoir les enfants tell stories of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. Controversial, tragic&hellip…
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36 Fillette
$10.95 | 88 minutes
While on a camping vacation with her family, 14-year-old Lili sets out to lose her virginity. She pursues for her first lover Maurice, a 40-year-old computer salesman, but "at the moment of truth," she's assailed by lingering doubts. Alternately aggressive and resistant, Lili confuses herself and frustrates Maurice as she tries to make…
5 x 2
$11.95 | 90 minutes
Focusing on the failed relationship of a thirtysomething couple, French director Francois Ozon (SWIMMING POOL, UNDER THE SAND) organizes this film into five chapters they shared together. In backwards chronology, the first chapter of Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and Gilles's (Stephane Freiss) story has them signing divorce papers&hellip…
8 1/2
$34.95 | 138 minutes
Federico Fellini's Oscar-nominated 8 1/2 is a masterpiece of storytelling and cinema. The most autobiographical of Fellini's films, the plot of which concerns a 43-year-old film director who is having a midlife crisis, it is a career benchmark for this magnificent Italian New Wave director. Beautifully choreographed&hellip…
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A Louvre Treasure: Awakening Apollo
$31.95 | 85 minutes
This documentary beautifully captures the amazing process of restoring the Louvre's gorgeous Apollo Gallery to its original glory, undoing years of water damage and accumulated grime. In 2002, 60 highly trained experts used their unusual skills and an impressive amount of sheer effort to carefully rehabilitate one of the world-famous&hellip…
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A Man and a Woman
$17.95 | 103 minutes
While visiting their children at boarding school, handsome race car driver Jean-Louis meets movie script-girl Anne, a slightly sullen but beautiful widow. A widower himself, Jean-Louis discovers he and Anne have quite a bit in common. Remembering for the first time what it's like to feel overwhelmed by passion, they begin a rapturous&hellip…


