French Film
Une Partie de Campagne (Directors Suite)
$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Jean Renoir's heralded masterpiece Une Partie de Campagne almost never saw the light of day. Now, Renoir's adaptation of Guy Maupassant's short story is recognised as one of the filmmaker's finest creations.
On an idylli... Buy or find out more →
French Cancan (Directors Suite)
$34.99 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Jean Renoir takes a look back at the formation of Paris' iconic Moulin Rouge dance hall in this colourful and light-hearted romp. French superstar Jean Gabin plays Henri Danglard, a theatre producer burdened with a flail... Buy or find out more →
Elena and Her Men (Directors Suite)
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Renoir's classic comedy of spectacle and political hijinks stars the gorgeous Ingrid Bergman as Elena, a Polish princess who drives the men wild.
Elena believes she was born to be the guardian angel of great causes and g... Buy or find out more →
Mesrine: Public Enemy # 1
$39.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
A gripping thrill-ride of a film, Public Enemy Number 1 tells the incredible and brutal true story of France's most wanted man, Jacques Mesrine. Arch-fiend to some and folk hero to others, his criminal career spanned nea... Buy or find out more →
Séraphine
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Dv1
This is the moving true story of a simple housemaid who painted to appease the voice of heaven.
In 1913, German art collector Wilhelm Uhde, the first Picasso buyer and discoverer of acclaimed naïve primitive painter Le D... Buy or find out more →
I've Loved You So Long
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Palace Films
Academy Award®-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, Gosford Park) gives the performance of her career in the award-winning and critically-acclaimed I've Loved You So Long.
Scott Thomas stars as Juliette, a... Buy or find out more →
Paris, Je t'Aime
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Through the neighbourhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened. A stunning line-up of internationally renowned directors and actors rediscover the city of Paris in a collecti... Buy or find out more →
The Sissi Collection
$49.95 – Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme
The beautiful Romy Schneider stars in three captivating films (plus a prequel) based on the tumultuous life of the beloved Austrian Empress, Sissi. The glowing star of films by Visconti, Losey and Sautel, Schneider left ... Buy or find out more →
Coco Avant Chanel
$39.95 – Digital video disc / Warner Bros Home Vid
From rags to riches to Haute-Couture: the incredible story of Coco Chanel. In a remarkable tour de force portrayal, the lovely Audrey Tautou (Hunting and Gathering, Priceless, The Da Vinci Code) becomes the legendary sty... Buy or find out more →
Queen Margot (Collector's Edition)
$29.95$20.95 – Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme
1572, France is torn apart by the wars of religion between the Catholics and the protestants. To calm the hatred, the ruthless royal matriarch, Catherine De Medici, the mother of the king, Charles IX, plans an alliance f... Buy or find out more →
A Christmas Tale
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Aztec Film
For some, Christmas means the joy of spending time with loved ones. But not for the Vuillard family in Arnaud Desplechin's blackly comic A Christmas Tale. Instead of egg nog, bile and venom flow at the family get-togethe... Buy or find out more →
Paris
$39.99 – Digital video disc /
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the bal... Buy or find out more →
Les Cousins
$29.95 – Digital video disc /
Les Cousins is the second film from the acclaimed nouvelle vague innovator Claude Chabrol.
Charles and Paul, the cousins of the title, find themselves living together while they complete their studies in Paris. But while... Buy or find out more →
My Father's Glory
$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Based on the childhood memoirs of Marcel Pagnol, author of Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, La Gloire de Mon Pére and its companion Le Château de Ma Mére are two of the greatest and most successful French films... Buy or find out more →
Thief of Paris
$14.99 – Digital video disc / Shock Dvd
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is brought up by his wealthy uncle (Christian Lude) who squanders his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin. Charlotte (Genevieve Bujold) but his uncle a... Buy or find out more →
Vivre Sa Vie: Director's Suite
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Nana (Anna Karina) needs two thousand francs. After asking her ex-boyfriend, then her workmates, a friend introduces her to Raoul who offers her a way to work for the money. In pursuit of fame and fortune, she leaves her... Buy or find out more →
La Vie en Rose
$14.95 – Digital video disc / Icon Film Distribution
Critically-acclaimed biopic about the legendary international singing icon Edith Piaf, whose voice and talent captivated the world. Starring award-winner Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement, A Good Year) in an aston... Buy or find out more →
Lancelot du Lac (Directors Suite)
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Master filmmaker Robert Bresson turns his unique artistic style on the middle ages in this beautifully melancholy film.
When a group of King Arthur's knights are eluded in their search for the Holy Grail, they are reveal... Buy or find out more →
The Fox and the Child (Le Renard et L'enfant)
$19.95 – Digital video disc / Universal Pict Vid
What would it be like to have a fox for a friend? A 10-year-old girl who wants to know sets out to befriend a beautiful wild fox she names Lily. Bit by bit, in woods and fields blanketed by snow and carpeted by wildflowe... Buy or find out more →
Madame De... (Directors Suite)
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Max Ophuls’ Madame De... was, according to film critic Andrew Sarris, ‘the most perfect film ever made.’ Nominated for an Oscar® in 1955, Madame De... displays the romance, irony and tragedy prevalent in so may of... Buy or find out more →
Une Femme Mariee (Directors Suite)
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
InUne Femme Mariee Godard turns his socio-political lens on the dehumanising institution of marriage in his examination of an adulterous woman. The original title,The married Woman, caused outrage in France, where it was... Buy or find out more →
Le Gai Savoir (Directors Suite)
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student... Buy or find out more →
Le Plaisir (Directors Suite)
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
One of Max Ophuls most successful films - and a favourite of Jean-Luc Godard and Stanley Kubrick - Le Plaisir is a portmanteau film adapted from three short stories by the father of modern short-story writing, Guy de Mau... Buy or find out more →
Le Corbeau (Directors Suite)
$34.99 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
A whodunnit of the highest order from the 'French Hitchcock', Le Corbeau is a gripping film noir in which small-town society cowers under an unseen hand. In the fictional St Robin, a poison-pen letter-writer is terrorizi... Buy or find out more →
La Bete Humaine (Directors Suite)
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Based on a story by the great French writer Émile Zola, Jean Renoir's classic La Bête Humaine is the story of a murderous love triangle set on the Paris-Le Havre mainline.
When station master Roubaud discovers his brid... Buy or find out more →
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Directors Suite)
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Jacques Becker's tough-guy flick Touchez Pas au Grisbi or Hands Off the Loot is a thrilling, hard-boiled adventure starring some of France's biggest stars.
The great Jean Gabin resurrected his career with the role of Max... Buy or find out more →
The Films of Jean Vigo (Directors Suite)
$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
The life of masterful French auteur Jean Vigo was cut tragically short at the age of 29, leaving him with a filmography of only four films. All four of these films are collected here, and together they represent a unique... Buy or find out more →
The Young One (Director's Suite)
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Luis Buñuel's rarely-seen gem The Young One takes his oft-expressed themes of morality and sexual perversity and relocates them to the South of the United States. Evvie is a young girl on the brink of womanhood who live... Buy or find out more →
A Pornographic Affair
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme
It began as a purely sexual arrangement between anonymous strangers, a ‘pornographic’ affair. Now a woman (Nathalie Baye – Day for Night, The Return of Martin Guerre) and a man (Sergi López – Pan’s Labyrinth, ... Buy or find out more →
La Vie Promise
$39.95 – Digital video disc /
A prostitute named Sylvia reflects on the mistakes of her life when she and her estranged fourteen-year-old daughter Laurence must go on the run after Laurence stabs a pimp. Starring Isabelle Huppert Buy or find out more →
Hidden: Director's Suite
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche) live the perfect life of modern comfort and security in modern day Paris. They have a teenage son and Georges hosts a popular literary review television program while ... Buy or find out more →
Chocolat
$12.95 – Digital video disc / Village Roadshow Ent
Nominated for 5 2000 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actress - Juliette Binoche and Best Supporting Actress - Judi Dench
"A charming confection of a comic fable graced by an abundance of delectable performanc... Buy or find out more →
2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
What do you know about her? Indeed, who is she? In Jean-Luc Godard's seminal 1966 film, 'her' is Paris, 'her' is his lead actress Marina Vlady and 'her' is her character Juliette, her is physical love, the cruelty of neo... Buy or find out more →
The Last Metro
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme
The story is set in Paris, 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France. When Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennett), the Jewish owner of the Montparnasse Theatre, is forced into hiding, his wife and lead actress Marion (Deneuve) t... Buy or find out more →
Jean De Florette
$24.95 – Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme
City-dweller Jean de Florette (Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano De Bergerac, Green Card) moves his family to the Provence countryside in the 1920s to forge a new life as a farmer. But his proud, cocky neighbouring rival Le Pape... Buy or find out more →
La Belle Noiseuse (AKA Beautiful Troublemaker)
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Accent Film
LA BELLE NOISEUSE tells the story of an artist (Michel Piccoli) who ten years previously, abandons his greatest masterpiece, a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin) entitled "La Belle Noiseuse". His inspiration is rekindled... Buy or find out more →
Short Films Of Francois Ozon
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Accent Film
This collection of short films by Francois Ozon allows us insight into an artist and filmmaker constantly evolving, intent on showing us the sexual and the intimate, who can make the ordinary seem extraordinary, who is e... Buy or find out more →
La Regle De Jeu
$29.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme
A film by Jean Renoir. "Remarkable… a masterpeice" The New York Times. Hailed as one of the greatest films of all time, director Jean Renoir's infamous La Regle Du Jeu (The Rules Of The Game) is a scathing indictment of ... Buy or find out more →
The Science Of Sleep: Director's Suite
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
While slumbering, he is the charismatic host of "Stéphane TV," expounding on "The Science of Sleep" in front of cardboard cameras. In real life, he has a boring job at a Parisian calendar publisher and pines for Stephani... Buy or find out more →