René Clair
Series
Criterion collection volume 160
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Français
Description
A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A bridegroom is riding to his marriage when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a branch while its owner, a married lady, enjoys a tryst behind the bush with her lover, a fierce hussar. She cannot go home without her hat, so the groom interlaces his wedding with an attempt to find madam a twin chapeau, launching a series of misunderstandings and embarrassments.
Series
Criterion collection volume 72
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
Français
Description
A musical comedy about a pair of young lovers who lose a lottery ticket worth a million francs and chase it frantically across Paris. Considered one of the very first musical films.
Series
Criterion collection volume 161
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Français
Description
A street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
While André indeed loves Lucienne, a Parisian typist, he has conventional expectations for their life together. When the Miss Europe beauty contest comes to town, he warns her to "not even dream" of entering it but she ignores his advice and tries out for the contest.
Series
Criterion collection volume 676
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
What would happen if someone could get tomorrow's newspaper headlines today? A newspaper reporter wishes he could scoop his colleagues by knowing about events before they occur. But then a mysterious man gives him the day early news, it turns his life upside-down. Racing to prevent a headline predicting his own death, he gets mixed up with a beautiful fortune teller and her overprotective uncle.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1944
Language
English
Description
What would happen if someone could get tomorrow's newspaper headlines today? A newspaper reporter wishes he could scoop his colleagues by knowing about events before they occur. But then a mysterious man gives him the day early news, it turns his life upside-down. Racing to prevent a headline predicting his own death, he gets mixed up with a beautiful fortune teller and her overprotective uncle.
