Summary: A hired killer in a state of virtual living death goes about his business in a muted Paris, a city of shadows, only to fatally admit emotion (the love of a woman) into his life. His actions are analogous to hara-kiri committed by the solitary samurai. Melville takes the mythology of the gangster and removes all overt social comment in favour of romantic stylisation. Melville commented that his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Filmel 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAMSummary: Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SAMSummary: A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ECLSummary: An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, this film stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf back to the United States; what initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PURSummary: A widowed woman and her five sons move from the depressed south of Italy to Milan and become immersed in personal conflict and political injustice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROCSummary: THE GANG (1977): In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small-time crooks unite to form a gang lead by the charismatic Alain Delon. After several bold robberies, they become notorious as 'the front-wheel drive gang.' The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last? THREE MEN TO KILL (1980): In this Gritty, violent, and suspenseful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GANSummary: A bored newlywed leaves her husband for her ex-lover, taking off on her Harley for a long ride through the countryside and cities of Europe. While riding, she experiences explicit erotic fantasies about her ex-lover and their affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2012
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GIRSummary: Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN PISSummary: Tom Ripley has been sent to Italy by the father of one Philippe Greenleaf with the objective of bringing Greenleaf back into the family fold in the United States. Ripley, an accomplished forger, takes his job half-seriously until he falls in love with the same woman Greenleaf is in love with, Marge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002