Summary: Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Javert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISHouellebecq, Michel.
Summary: "Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s'engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu motivé par l'enseignement, il s'attend à une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, protégée des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissuré le système politique jusqu'à provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie révolution, se développe comme un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 HOU FRENCHHouellebecq, Michel
Summary: "'Mes croyances sont limitées, mais elles sont violentes. Je crois à la possibilité du royaume restreint. Je crois à l'amour' écrivait récemment Michel Houellebecq. Le narrateur de Sérotonine approuverait sans réserve. Son récit traverse une France qui piétine ses traditions, banalise ses villes, détruit ses campagnes au bord de la révolte. Il raconte sa vie d'ingénieur agronome, son amitié...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 FIC HOUSummary: Geneviève, a shop assistant, falls in love with Guy, a gas station mechanic. But a life with him will not be in her future. A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBSummary: Malotru has been promoted to Deputy Director of the Bureau and is a newly recruited double-agent for the CIA. He delivers highly classified information to his CIA contact, Dr. Balmes, during fake psychoanalysis sessions. In exchange for Malotru's cooperation, the CIA has guaranteed that they will rescue the love of his life, Nadia, now imprisoned by Syrians in a secret location.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BUREwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: "Pamela Binnings Ewen's newest novel reveals the story of Émilienne, once the most beautiful, sought-after woman in Paris during the Belle Époque, the era of peaceful years just before World War I. As a girl, Émilienne fights her way through poverty in Montmartre, drawn to the lights of Paris below. Soon, she stars at the Folies Bergère, mistress of kings and princes, known as the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWESummary: 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
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INDSummary: Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, is home to one-eyed artist Michele and alcoholic street performer Alex. It is also their stage as they break up and get back together in increasingly explosive reunions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOVEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Coco Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich's High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, she wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWESummary: Napa Valley, 1976. For connoisseur Steven Spurrier, there is no finer art than French wine. But rumors bandy about of a new California wine country that holds the future of the vine. Positive the small Napa wineries are no match for established French vintages, Spurrier challenges the Americans to a blind taste test. He finds the valley full of ambitious, and talented, novice vintners like Jim...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOTGainsbourg, Serge
Contents: Lost song (4:51) -- Dépression au-dessus du jardin (2:47) -- Baby alone in Babylone (4:42) -- Physique et sans issue (3:10) -- Ces petits riens (2:16) -- L'aquoiboniste (3:17) -- Valse de melody (3:09) -- Fuir le bonheur de peur qu'il ne se sauve (3:32) -- Requiem pour un con (2:48) -- Une chose entre autres (5:33) -- Amour des feintes (4:44) -- Exercice en forme de Z (3:05) -- Manon (2:47) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN BIRFinkel, Michael
Summary: "For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This in-depth, multi-authored work originally published in France takes readers deep into traditional world of shepherds. Far from a nostalgic glimpse into a romanticized lifestyle, this book teaches how this sophisticated art and set of tangible skills has application in modern, North American range/livestock management. Through academic study and analysis and in-depth interviews with master...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acres U.S.A. 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The intertwining storylines of an art dealer, a thief, a police chief inspector, a gun dealer, an inventor, a beautician, several bums, and a crazy old man play out as an 18th century chinaware set and a 19th century portrait pass in and out of their hands. A surreal cinematic Rubik's cube that examines the bizarre twists of fate that draw people and possessions together and apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAVSummary: A young girl is brutally murdered. The prime suspect is a cold and reclusive man who is obsessed with his beautiful neighbor. He spends his nights watching her through his window, but when she discovers that she is being spied on, she becomes the aggressor in an erotically charged relationship that leads to a deadly game of cat -and -mouse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: Auguste Renoir experienced the loss of his wife, the pains of old age, and bad news from the front: his son Jean is injured. But a girl, Andree, appeared in his life as a miracle, the old man will infuse energy that only waited. Bursting with vitality and radiant beauty, Andree is the latest model of the painter, his fountain of youth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mongrel Media 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RENSummary: Monsieur Ladmiral is a widowed painter in his twilight years who welcomes his bourgeois son Gonzague and free-spirited daughter Irene and their families to his home for a lazy afternoon lunch. Over the course of the day buried resentments come to the surface. The passage of time has left no family member unscathed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SUNSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETSummary: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arrow Academy 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TOTSummary: In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard's fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELL RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ELL