Summary: Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DAYSummary: Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990's. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OFSummary: 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,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INDWilson, Lambert
Summary: Based on a true story, eight French Christian monks choose to stay in their Muslim community in Algeria despite the growing threat of terrorism by an Islamic fundamentalist group.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN OFSummary: Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOYSummary: "The little known [fictionalized] story of a handful of Muslim agents who fought for the French Resistance, and who used the Mosque of Paris as the base for operations that included rescuing Jewish fugitives and assassinating Vichy informants." --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: France télévisions distribution 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRESummary: A young slave in ancient Egypt must choose between joining the Christianity movement, which will give him freedom, and the woman he loves, who is his master and an atheist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AGOSummary: James Bond joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying human life on Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007