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Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAM

Summary: 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 UMB

Summary: Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Hundred 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUN RATED PG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUN

Summary: 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).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THR

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Summary: A young American woman moves to Paris to work for a French marketing firm and struggles to adjust to her new environment.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Based on Peter Mayle's bestseller by the same name, it is the hilarious first year account of the Mayles' adjusting to both the idiosyncracies of the locals and the quaint traditions of this ancient and charming region.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2001

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YEA

Summary: 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 SUN

Summary: Frustrated with his daily commute and clients who don't pay their bills, accountant William Fields accepts a job in France. William and Hester dust off their phrase books, pluck up their courage and soon discover there's more than the Channel separating the English from the French.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media US 2011

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRE

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: It's Christmas Eve and an unidentified corpse is discovered in the Bois de Boulogne gardens and Inspector Antoine Jouin investigates the murder. Or was it suicide? It's a case that takes him deep into Paris' secret underbelly and into the heavily wooded park on the outskirts of Paris. In this place, people go to seek out and satisfy their darkest desires surreptitiously. This time, Jouin must...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAR

Summary: Against the backdrop of France at a time of civil unrest, this is the story of Jean Valjean, a former convict unable to escape his past life. His future is threatened by his nemesis, the chilling police officer and former prison guard Javert, who is determined to bring him to justice. As revolution ignites on the streets of Paris, Jean Valjean begins an epic journey towards self-acceptance,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIS

Summary: The house of mirth: The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but winds up disgraced and discarded.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOU

Summary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WEL

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2013

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Summary: The story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998

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Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIN

Summary: A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN Mon

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Summary: "One of the most accomplished American poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) was also a prolific translator of French and Russian literature. His verse translations of Molïre's plays are especially admired by readers and are still performed today in theaters around the world. Wilbur, the critic John Simon once wrote, makes Molïre into as great an English verse playwright as he was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOL

Summary: A spinster gets revenge on her cousin's family by enlisting the help of a beautiful woman, after they take away the only man that mattered to her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COU

Summary: A spinster gets revenge on her cousin's family by enlisting the help of a beautiful woman, after they take away the only man that mattered to her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COU

Summary: Dramatizes a weekend at a marquis's countryside château, where the rich and their servants gather, and which exposes some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances in the early days of World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN RUL

Summary: A French regiment confronts the horrors of World War I as they journey from patriotism to disillusionment about the glory of battle; ex-convict Jean Valjean tries to rebuild his life to be a respectable citizen but police inspector Javert relentlessly hounds him and won't let him escape his past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAY

Summary: An aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris. When he agrees to write rave reviews for bribes, achieving material success at the expense of his conscience, and soon discovers that the written word can be an instrument of both beauty and deceit in this sumptuous adaptation of Honore de Balzac's epic novel, Lost Illusions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOS

Summary: After marrying 'Willy', a successful Parisian writer, Colette is transplanted to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation, inspiring additional Claudine novels. Colette's fight over creative ownership and gender roles...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD COL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COL

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COL

Molière

Summary: "One of the most accomplished American poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) was also a prolific translator of French and Russian literature. His verse translations of Molïre's plays are especially admired by readers and are still performed today in theaters around the world. Wilbur, the critic John Simon once wrote, makes Molïre into as great an English verse playwright as he was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOL

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