Arte Vidéo | 1960 | 88 min | Not rated | Region B (A, C untested) | Nov 28, 2011
A brash and precocious eleven-year-old (Catherine Demongeot) comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle (Philippe Noiret); he and the viewer get more than they bargained for in this anarchic comedy from Louis...
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he...
A graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire, this film, set in 1936 and based on a true incident, depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever escalating imperialism...
A graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire, this film, set in 1936 and based on a true incident, depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever escalating imperialism...
Arte Vidéo | 1984 | 145 min | Not rated | Region B (locked) | Sep 22, 2010
Paris, Texas follows the efforts of the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis to reconnect
with his young son, living with his brother in Los Angeles, and his missing wife.
Damiel is an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears,
hopes, and dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful
trapeze artist, he is willing to give up...
Fantastic Planet
Arte Vidéo | 1973 | 72 min | Not rated | Region B (locked) | Nov 04, 2009
On planet Ygam, the Draags (an alien race of blue giants) keep the human-like Oms as domesticated. An Om called Terr manages to escape enslavement from a Draag learning device used to educate the savage Oms — and begins to...
In the East Prussia of Danzig before the war, three-year-old Oskar Matzerath decides to stop
growing--and succeeds--then finds playing his favorite toy, a tin drum, useful for tuning out
things that annoy him, like his...
Arte Vidéo | 1987 | 104 min | Not rated | Region B (A, C untested) | Nov 28, 2011
An autobiographical account of the filmmaker's childhood friendship, at a Catholic boarding school in 1944, with a Jewish boy the headmaster is trying to save by hiding him under a false name.
Adapted from the Andersen tale and played out in musical comedy mode, The Ugly Duckling is set in a farmyard where roosters, hens, ducks and geese live and lay eggs together. One fine day, a rooster discovers a giant egg behind...
Pierre et le Loup
Arte Vidéo | 2006 | 33 min | Region B (A, C untested) | Sep 09, 2009
It's a wolf-eats-duck world. But it's a world in which little boys can find extraordinary courage and – with a little help from a crazy bird and a dreamy duck (and none whatsoever from a fat, lethargic cat and two hooligan...
