Jean Rochefort
Author
Language
Français
Description
In this "elegantly polished film" (Richard Schickel, TIME magazine), a mysterious stranger is the lone passenger disembarking from a train in a sleepy French village. His name is Milan (French rock icon Johnny Hallyday), a criminal intent on knocking over the local bank. Upon his arrival, he is befriended by Manesquier (acclaimed French actor Jean Rochefort), a retired poetry teacher. Through their unexpected friendship, both men come to realize they...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Au-delà du pouvoir des mots sur soi et sur les autres, il y a aussi l'impact des mots « dits » et des mots « non dits ». C'est ce qu'on appelle la portée des mots. Chacun de nous interprète le propos de l'autre avec son propre système de référence qui s'est construit depuis l'enfance. Des expériences de vie positives et constructives ; d'autres, négatives, éprouvantes, bouleversantes et parfois traumatisantes se sont inscrites dans notre...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
In occupied France in 1943, a famous old sculptor finds the desire to work again on his last masterpiece when a beautiful young Spanish girl comes knocking after escaping a refugee camp in the South of France. Nominated for thirteen awards, including Best Film at the **Goya Awards.** "*...a contemplative ode to creativity and imagination.*" - Rene Rodriguez, ***The Miami Herald***
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
In this "elegantly polished film" (Richard Schickel, TIME magazine), a mysterious stranger is the lone passenger disembarking from a train in a sleepy French villiage. His name is Milan (French rock icon Johnny Hallyday), a criminal intent on knocking over the local bank. Upon his arrival, he is befriended by Manesquier (acclaimed French actor Jean Rochefort), a retired poetry teacher. Through their unexpected friendship, both men come to realize...
5) Tell No One
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 132 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Tell No One is based on Harlan Coben’s international best selling thriller about pediatrician Alexandre Beck who still grieves the murder of his beloved wife Margot Beck eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
In this stylish heist noir from director Jacques Deray, master director of the French crime film, five men pool their money to go in on one huge narcotics deal.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A newly restored masterpiece from famed director Patrice Leconte (The Girl on the Bridge, Yvonne’s Perfume), THE HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND is a wildly erotic ode to wedded bliss. Starring the legendary Jean Rochefort (Man on the Train) and the incandescent Anna Galiena (Jamón Jamón), it follows the life of young Antoine, who was obsessed with the bewitching beautician who cut his hair. Since then, his single ambition in life has been to marry a hairdresser....
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Ten years later, April (Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard) lives alone with her cat, Darwin, and carries on her family’s research in secret. But she soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy and far-reaching conspiracy, and on the run from government...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family of scientists is on the brink of a powerful discovery when a mysterious force suddenly abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Years later, April carries on her family's research in secret with her cat, Darwin, but soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered airships, and cyborg rat spies!
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Summer of 1943. In occupied France, not far from the Spanish border, a famous old sculptor, who is tired of life and wars, finds the desire to work again on his last masterpiece when a beautiful young Spanish girl comes knocking after escaping a refugee camp in the South of France.
Publisher
KOCH Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (414 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Tells the dramatic story of Edmond Dantes, a young French sailor who is falsely denounced as a political traitor and unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years without trial. After a daring escape, Dantes flees to the island of Monte Cristo, where he finds a colossal treasure bequeathed to him by a dying fellow inmate. Using these riches, he assumes a new identity and devises a plan of vengeance upon all those who betrayed him.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Two strangers, a criminal named Milan and a retired poetry teacher, Manesquier, meet in a sleepy French village and gradually become unlikely friends. As their friendship grows, each develops a desire to trade his life with that of the other.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
François Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a condom factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing from happening: he creates photos and then spreads the rumor that François is gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in François Pignon's life--and other people's...
14) Tell no one
Publisher
MPI Home Video [distributor
Pub. Date
2009]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, pediatrician Alex Beck still grieves for his beloved Margot. When two bodies are uncovered near where Margot's body was found, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive.
Publisher
Severin [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Ever since he was a boy, Antoine has wanted to be the hairdresser's husband, and when he marries a beautiful coiffeuse, the salon becomes their idyllic paradise. But how long can a perfect love last?
16) Ridicule
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In a desperate quest to save the people on his estate by draining the mosquito infested wetlands, a young man quickly learns that a sharp wit is the key to open any door in the Versailles court of Louis XVI.
Series
Publisher
Somewax
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min., 42 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Sequel to Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire, a comedy of mistaken identity in which a professional violinist's life is changed when he is mistaken for a secret agent. In this sequel, the musician travels to Rio de Janeiro where he manages to foil an attempt to murder him and he evens the score with a gang of killers--all by accident.
Series
Publisher
Somewax
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min., 52 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
The chief of the French secret service agency plays a trick on a subordinate hungry for his job by picking out François, a bumbling violinist, as a super secret agent. Followed by spies, François goes about his business, oblivious to what is going on, while all of his simple actions are being misinterpreted by his watchers.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1974
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago and Philippe d'Orleans is the new regent. This film is a description of the court in this famed period of transition where the French Revolution smolders.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.