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The Red Balloon (Released by Janus Films, in association with the Criterion Collection)

Starring: Red Balloon
Directed By: Albert Lamorisse
Newly restored and available for the first time on DVD, Albert Lamorisse s exquisite The Red Balloon remains one of the most beloved children s films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon, which se... [ read more ]

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The African Queen [IMPORT]

Starring: Theodore Bikel, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Gotell, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Marner
Directed By: John Huston

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La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)

Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël
Directed By: Federico Fellini
Studio: Koch International Release Date: 09/21/2004 Run time: 167 minutes Rating: Nr

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Le Deuxième Souffle

Starring: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, Christine Fabréga, Marcel Bozzufi
Directed By: Jean-Pierre Melville
With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave inspecto... [ read more ]

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Le Doulos - Criterion Collection

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, Fabienne Dali, Michel Piccoli
Directed By: Jean-Pierre Melville
The backstabbing criminals in the shadowy underworld of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le doulos have only one guiding principle: Lie or die. A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel... [ read more ]

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M - 2 Disc Special Edition - Criterion Collection

Starring: Peter Lorre, Friedrich Gnaß, Gustaf Gründgens, Georg John, Paul Kemp
Directed By: Fritz Lang
On moratorium since the end of March, Fritz Lang's serial killer thriller starring Peter Lorre returns to DVD in a fully restored, special edition double-disc set. A simple, haunting musical phrase whistled off-screen tells us that a young girl will be killed.... [ read more ]

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The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection

Starring: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti
Directed By: Gillo Pontecorvo
One of the most influential films in the history of political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers focuses on the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria’s struggle for independence from France. Shot in the streets of Algiers in ... [ read more ]

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Earrings of Madame de...

Starring: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Paul Azäis, Madeleine Barbulee, Jean Debucourt
Directed By: Max Ophuls
French master Max Ophuls's most cherished work, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is an emotionally profound, cinematographically adventurous tale of false opulence and tragic romance. When the aristocratic woman known only as Madame de . . . (the extraordinary ... [ read more ]

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Vampyr - Criterion Collection

Starring: N. Babanini, Albert Bras, Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg, Henriette Gerard, Jan Hieronimko
Directed By: Carl Theodor Dreyer
With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (as in The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result-concernin... [ read more ]

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8 1/2 - Criterion Collection

Starring: Bruno Agostini, Anouk Aimée, Guido Alberti, Caterina Boratto, Claudia Cardinale
Directed By: Federico Fellini
One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e Mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a director whose film-and life-is collapsing around him. An ... [ read more ]