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1) Rush hour 3
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a Chinese criminal mastermind flees to Paris, there's only one culture-clashed, crime fighting duo for the job. Ready to raise cane in the city of lights, Chief Inspector Lee and Detective Carter get themselves caught in an explosive battle between French police, the Triad gang, an angry cabbie and two gorgeous femmes fatales. But, Lee and Carter manage to uncover the secret at the heart of the Triad syndicate.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the secret of what this city of the dead was meant to contain. A journey into madness and terror, it reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt everyone.
3) Breathless
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 anything-goes crime narrative about a young thief on the run and his American girlfriend.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Twenty six year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working-class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx's new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police's repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A romantic getaway gets way less romantic for a high-strung New York couple in 2 DAYS IN PARIS, Julie Delpy's smart, sexy comedy about how opposites attract-and then slowly drive each other crazy. Marion (Delpy) is a French photographer and Jack (Adam Goldberg) is a American interior designer. After a vacation in Italy that was far from idyllic, they stop off in Paris for two days. Jack, a world-class worrier who fears everything from sinus infections...
6) Madame Curie
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of being something more than being just a wife and mother. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, goes on to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mild-mannered bookkeeper Kees Popinga lives a mundane life and dreams about the places he can go on the trains that travel through his hometown of Groningen, Holland. But when a French police detective shows up at his firm to inspect the books, Popinga₂s unremarkable existence is instantly altered, and he soon finds himself on the way to Paris with a suitcase of cash, on the run from the law and entranced by a strange and beautiful woman.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the 'boys' law' in the neighborhood, Marieme ... starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the group. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection"--Container.
11) Amelie
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Amelie Poulain has led a sheltered life, educated at home by her parents, she lives in a fantasy world of her own. When she finally leaves home and finds work as a waitress in a Parisian café, life is uneventful until a chain of extraordinary events leads her to the discovery of a box containing a schoolboy's long forgotten mementos. It is then that Amelie discovers her vocation in life - helping others find love and happiness - which she sets about...
Series
Criterion collection volume 193
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A jealous husband is accused of murder after a man his wife was flirting with turns up dead.
13) Planetarium
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of World War II, two sisters, who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts, tour through Europe. They cross paths with a visionary French producer while performing in Paris.
14) Henry & June
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explore the relationships between the writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, and his wife June in Paris 1931.
Series
Criterion collection volume 944
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
Français
Description
The acclaimed early film by Olivier Assayas about teenage lovers in the outskirts of Paris in the early '70s, whose rebellions against family and society threaten to tear them apart. With memorable party sequences and a rock soundtrack evoking the period, it is a heartbreaking tale of the emotional tumult of being young.
16) Leap!
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
17) Francofonia
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color, with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Explore the Louvre Museum and the relevant meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and history.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Chan heads to Paris for a reunion with his WWI buddies, he finds the City of Light plunged into darkness, as Europe teeters on the brink of war. But when Chan stumbles on an evil spy ring that's selling arms to Germany, the intrepid detective is determined to shed the light of justice onto evil's darkest and most dangerous enterprise.
20) La traviata
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
A revival of Richard Eyre's 1994 production of Verdi's opera tells the tragic tale of Violetta, who is dying of consumption and leaves her beloved Alfredo at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.
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