Gérard Depardieu
1) Life of Pi
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the bestselling novel by Yann Martel. A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Includes special features.
3) Bogus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Albert has the most wonderful make-believe pal of all--a playful, gentle giant named Bogus. Harriet is an ambitious businesswoman with no time for family. But family is what she gets when newly orphaned Albert is placed in her care. Albert's imaginary friend must work a magic grander than anything he's ever done.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Description
Jean de Florette: A man inherits a farm from his mother, but his powerful neighbor plots to steal it from him. Manon of the Spring: 10 years after his death, Jean's daughter finds out about their neighbor's treachery, and determines to take revenge.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
Germain, a nearly illiterate fifty-something man who is considered the idiot of his small French town, meets elderly Margueritte, who is articulate and highly intelligent, and, through their afternoon visits and friendship, Germain begins to realize he is smarter than he thought.
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Alain is a successful doctor in his mid-fifties who has been married to Gisele most of his adult life. Looking for a change and eager to embrace their Jewish heritage, they decide to pull up stakes and move from Paris to Tel Aviv.
Series
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Edith Piaf was raised in a brothel, wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, and, ultimately, her international success and final illness. She was always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental. She was often on drugs or alcohol, and she was always in search of true love. Middleweight...
9) 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. Frédéric 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 Frédéric 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...
Series
Mesrine saga ; pt. 1
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
The first of two parts charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine, the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and the Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings, and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit.
11) City of ghosts
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Jimmy is a New York con man fleeing the United States for Bangkok in order to avoid an insurance scam investigation. He goes to Cambodia to meet up with his former business partner and mentor, Marvin, to collect his half of the money. Along the way, he makes friends with local man, Sok, and romances Sophie, but is drawn into a lethal web of deceit and murder.
12) 102 Dalmatians
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Oddball is the newest puppy. She is searching for her spots. Waddlesworth is a macaw who thinks he's a rottweiler. After a spot of therapy Cruella De Vil is released from prison and is a changed woman who is devoted to dogs and good causes. She is delighted that her parole officer, Chloe, has a dalmatian family and big connections with a dog charity. But the sound of Big Ben can reverse the treatment so it is only a matter of time before Cruella is...
13) Green card
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience. She gets the apartment of her dreams and he gets a green card to live in the U.S. The two encounter difficulties, and even worse, they just might be falling in love.
14) 1900
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
The son of a landowner and the son of a peasant become enemies in 20th century Italy.
15) Les Compères
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
When her teenage son runs away and her husband refuses to hunt for him, a frantic mother calls on two old lovers to help. This odd couple makes an hilarious search on the Riviera, bickering and competing as they defeat gangsters and motorcycle toughs to rescue the boy.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country,...
17) Barocco
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Français
Description
In this film-noir classic, a young woman convinces her boyfriend to accept a bribe to tell a lie that discredits a local politician. When the boyfriend is murdered, she is racked with guilt until she meet the killer, a dead-ringer for the murdered man. In order to hide from the police, he accepts the woman's need to "reinvent" him as her dead boyfriend, but can love transform his soul as well?
18) 36th precinct
Publisher
Palisades Tartan Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion and the imminent departure of the chief sets the scene for them to compete for the vacant throne. The competition between them becomes increasingly ruthless and blurs the usual lines of morality until there seems no difference between the police and the criminals they...