- Exterminating Angels (Les Anges Exterminateurs), The (Full Frame) - Francois is a filmmaker who aims to study and document the sensuality of women. What he expected to be an objective exploration quickly becomes a difficult confrontation with emotion, temptation, jealousy and lust. As his female subjects reveal intense emotional and sensual sat...
- Adventures Of Antoine Doinel (French), The - Includes Five Films By Francois Truffaut, "The 400 Blows," "Antoine And Colette," "Stolen Kisses," "Bed And Board" and "Love On The Run" This five-disc boxed set covers four features by Francois Truffaut, detailing the multi-mov...
- Closet, The - The always popular Gerard Depardieu ("102 Dalmatians", "Vatel") stars in a warmly engaging comedy that shows how one little white lie can change everything! A dull and lonely accountant working at a condom factory, Francois (Daneil Auteuil) meekly endures of...
- Valet (French), The (Full Frame, Widescreen) - When paparazzi catch him with his supermodel mistress, billionaire CEO Pierre (Daniel Auteuil, "Cache") devises a plan to convince his wife that the beautiful mystery woman is actually dating lovelorn valet Francois. Now Francois is the envy of every regular guy - he'...
- Battle Of The Brave (Widescreen) - "Battle Of The Brave" is set against the sweeping backdrop of history and is the epic tale of great passion and sacrifice in a time of war. When Canada is besieged by British forces, two brave lovers risk everything to protect their freedom and the freedom of Quebec. ...
- Class (Blu-ray) (French) (Anamorphic Widescreen) - Francois and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often cla...
- Class (French) (Anamorphic Widescreen) - Francois and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often cla...
- Rules Of The Game (Le Regle Du Jeu) (Full Frame) - Jean Renoir's 1939 classic is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, and Criterion is very proud to present the film in a special two-disc edition. Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party...
- Complete Mr. Arkadin (A.K.A. Confidential Report), The (Full Frame) - With this release, The Criterion Collection unravels one of cinema's great mysteries. In Orson Welles' "Mr. Arkadin" (a.k.a "Confidential Report") an elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his own past, and what follows is a dizzying d...
- Sophia Loren 4 Film Collection (Italian): Carosello Napoletano / Attila / Madame Sans-Gene / I Girasoli, The - "The Sophia Loren 4-Film Collection" includes 4 films featuring the 1991 Honorary Academy Award winner for lifetime contribution to film. See Sophia Loren like never before in limited edition collectible vinyl packaging - plus a special bonus featurette, "Sophia ...
- Round Midnight (Widescreen) - Bertrand Tavernier's loving ode to jazz and its creators. Dexter Gordon captured an Academy Award (R) nomination as an expatriate musician in 1959 Paris. Herbie Hancock's superb music score won an Oscar(R). Year: 1986 Director: Bertrand Travernier Starring: Dexter Gordon, Fr...
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury?s best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important screen innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Julie Christie stars in the chall...
- Roberto Rossellini - Directors Series (Italian) (2-Disc) (Full Frame, Collector's Edition) - Roberto Rossellini shot his first film at the invitation of Vittorio Mussolini, son of the Italian dictator. Even his early films had a profound effect: Rossellini was credited with launching the Italian Neorealism movement that used non-actors and real locations to showcase th...
- 400 Blows (French), The (Widescreen) - Francois Truffaut's first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut's cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud), "The 400 Blows" ("Les quatre cents coups) sensitively re-creates the director's own difficult childhood, un...
- Day For Night (Widescreen) - The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, unions threaten to walk, shooting must finish before the insurance lapses and a cat can't hit its mark. Is this any way to make a film? Francois Truffaut's sly, humorous Oscar-win...
- Alfred Hitchcock's Young And Innocent (Full Frame) - "A Hitchcock Thriller with charm and humor" - Leonard Maltin. Alfred Hitchcock's brilliant touches "build impressive suspense" (The Film Daily) in this early gem, where the legendary director's "demonic knack of filling the commonplace with terror"...
- Page Turner (La Tourneuse De Pages), The (Widescreen) - Melanie (Deborah Francois, "L'Enfant") is a young woman whose ambitions as a concert pianist were dashed as a child by the thoughtless behavior of the jury chairwoman, a famous pianist Madame Fouchecourt, (Catherine Trot, "The Dinner Game") during her exam. ...
- Lady Vanishes, The - In Alfred Hitchcock's most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Margaret Lockwood, traveling across Europe by train, meets Dame May Whitty's charming old spinster, who seemingly disappears into thin air. Soon enough, the young woman turns investigator and fin...
- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: 30th Anniversary (Widescreen, Ultimate Edition) - In the night skies near his Muncie, Indiana home, power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) experiences something out of this world. His close encounter sets into action an amazing chain of events that leads to contact with the benevolent aliens and their Mothership. Spectac...
- Night, Cliffs Notes by Maryam Riess, ISBN 0822008939 - With the encouragement and support of French writer Francois Mauriac, Wiesel wrote this humanistic first-person account of his incarceration by the Nazi Secret Service in World War II. A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wiesel leads a trail for future freedom fighters, not with might,...
- All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - Fifteen years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo--a credo that became the phenomenal #1 "New York Times bestseller "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Now, seven million copies later, Fulghum returns to the book that was embraced around the...
- Game Design Methods by Francois Dominic Laramee, ISBN 1584500905 - Everyone has their own idea of what good game design is, and this unique collection of articles provides a variety of different perspectives and ideas to consider in game design. The articles are written by a diverse group of designers with varying levels of experience, coverin...
- Candide by Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, ISBN 0553211668 - "Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in " the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic ...
- Candide and Other Stories by Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, ISBN 067941746X - (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, ...
- Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog (Full Frame) - "The Director's first suspense thriller with a classic Hitchcockian theme!" - Leonard Maltin. Considered by many to be the first true Hitchcockian Film, this thrilling tale of suspicion, betrayal and murder "reveals in every sequence the matchless and untrammeled...
- God Is Great (And I'm Not) (Widescreen) - Twenty year-old model Michele's search for happiness gives new meaning to religious fervor as she enthusiastically jumps from Catholicism, Buddhism and finally attempts to convert to Judaism after meeting Francois, a handsome Jewish veterinarian. Photo Gallery, Production N...
- Assault On Precinct 13 (Widescreen) - On a stormy New Year's Eve, run-down Precinct 13 is closing its doors forever. But everything changes when a high-security prison transport bus arrives with some Detroit's most lethal prisoners. Soon, the only thing more dangerous than the criminals on the inside are the crooke...
- In Search Of History: Secrets Of The Rosetta Stone - For hundreds of years, the glorious history of Ancient Egypt remained a mystery to the world, its secrets locked away in the baffling language of the hieroglyphs. But in 1799, French troops near the Egyptian town of Rosetta discovered an ancient basalt slab that would prove to ...
- Shoot The Piano Player (French) (Widescreen) - Francois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful, anarchic film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, "Shoot the Piano Player" relates the adventures of the mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of h...
- Candide: Or Optimism by Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, ISBN 0140440046 - Social satire about a young man who believes, despite much evidence to the contrary, that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds".