Summary: "A French village ... chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: This French drama chronicles the impact of World War II German occupation on a small village in central France. As the residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tetra Media Fiction 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists. Beginning with the Germans' arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: In this enchanting feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village. Tati shot this film simultaneously in black and white and in an untested color process that proved impossible to print copies of. In 1964 he re-edited it with added hand-colored footage, and in 1995 the full-color film was able to be released from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This French drama chronicles the impact of World War Ii German occupation on a small village in central France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: Beginning with the Germans arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact. The war shatters all their lives, but a few of them, even in the shadow of destruction, reach out to find fleeting moments of connection and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: Realizing that her lover Jean is losing interest in her, a society lady Helene gets revenge by tricking him into marrying a former prostitute Agnes. After the wedding Helene tells a stunned Jean about his wife's secret past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMSummary: Until a miracle changes their minds, church and state officials persecute a simple, ingenuous peasant girl who claims to have seen a vision of "a beautiful lady."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SONSummary: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INGSummary: The lady, Grace Elliot, was once the mistress of the Prince of Wales. She left him for Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, a cousin of Louis XVI. The film opens a year after the fall of the Bastille, and while their affair is over, Grace and the Duc have stayed close friends. But just because they're friends doesn't mean they can't (and don't) have powerful political arguments. Organized around five...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADSummary: Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DINSummary: Krzysztof Kieślowski's trilogy of the human condition in contemporary French society, with each film drawing its theme from a color in the French flag: liberty (Bleu), equality (Blanc) and fraternity (Rouge).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THRSummary: In 1667, the powerful king of France, Louis XIV, is but 28 years old when he decides to build Versailles, the greatest palace in the world. After draining the budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VERSummary: Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement, and becomes infatuated with a mysterious woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETSummary: Jean, a 40-year old unemployed actor, has hit rock bottom. Insufferably clueless and egotistical, his over-the-top acting and high-maintenance personality have gotten him fired from countless jobs. At the unemployment office, his counselor sets him up with a rather odd job: helping the police reconstruct crime scenes by standing in for the dead victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PLASummary: In war-torn France, a sinister new battle awaits the Musketeers, as the swashbuckling hit series returns for a thrilling third installment. The royal bodyguards for Louis XllI, Athos, Aramis, Porthos and d'Artagnan are back to combat a dangerous new enemy lurking in the shadows of the city. It's a task that will challenge their allegiances to the crown, throw their personal lives into turmoil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MUSSummary: When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. The case takes a surreal turn when a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, forcing the French and British police into an uneasy partnership.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In season three Malotru has been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Moved from camp to camp, tortured and weakened, he's close to despair. In Paris, the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) faces a dilemma: should they use all of their resources to save Malotru, who betrayed the service, his country and friends when he became a double agent working for the CIA?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BURSummary: Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023