Foreign Language Films

 

French Fiction

8 Women /  Focus Features: Fidelite Productions, 2002.  DVD (111 minutes)

All the Mornings of the World  = Tous les matins du monde / BAC Films; directed by Alain Corneau ; screenplay by Pascal Quignard. Koch Lorber Films, 2004. (DVD) (115 min.)

Amelie /  Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2002.  DVD (122 minutes)

Artemisia / directed by Agnes Merlet; written by Patric Amos, Anges Merlet & Christine Miller. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2001. DVD (96 min.)

Au revoir les enfants / directed by Louis Malle. Orion, 1987. (DVD) (103 min.)

l'auberge espagnole. / Fox Searchlight Pictures and Ce Qui Me Meut present A Franco-Spanish co-production by Ce Qui Me Meut/Studiocanal/France Twentieth Century Fox, 2003. DVD (122 min.)

Band of outsiders / written and directed by Jean Luc Goddard. Hen's Tooth Video, c1992. VHS 95 min.)

The Barbarian Invasions / From Miramax Films; written and directed by Denys Arcand; co-producer, Frbienne Vonier. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., 2003. (DVD) (99 min.)

The Battle of Algiers / directed by Gillo Pontecorvo; written by Gillo Pontecorvo, Franco Solinas. Criterion Collection, 2004. DVD (125 min.)

Beauties of the Night / Water Bearer Films, 1995.  VHS (89 minutes)

Bleu / Touchstone Home Video, 1993.  VHS (98 minutes)

La Cage aux Folles / MGM-UA, 1979.  VHS (99 minutes)

Cesar / Interama Video Classics, 1991.  VHS (134 minutes)

Chocolat / La Sept Cinéma; directed by Claire Denis ; written by Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau. MGM Home Entertainment, c2001. DVD (106 min.)

The chorus.  / Miramax Films and Jacques Perrin; directed by Christophe Barratier. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2005. DVD (97 min.)

The Closet / Miramax Zoë; written and directed by Francis Veber. Dist. by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2001] DVD (85 min.)

Cyrano de Bergerac / Orien, 1990.  VHS (138 minutes)

Diva /  Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2000.  DVD (118 minutes)

Entre nous / directed by Diane Kurys. MGM/UA, c1983.VHSVHS (110 min.)

L’Eternel retour / Nelson Entertainment, 1943.  VHS (125 minutes)

Fanny / Interama Video Classics, 1990.  VHS (1990)

The Four Hundred Blows = Les quatre cents coups / Les Films du Carrosse, S.E.D.I.F.; directed and written by Francois Truffaut; adaptation, Francois Truffaut & Marcel Moussy. Key, 1959. VHS (97 min.)

Hiroshima, mon amour / Embassy Home Entertainment, 1987.  VHS (91 minutes)

Indochine / Colombia Tristar, 1992.  VHS (156 minutes)

Jean de Florette / Orien Home Video, 1987.  VHS (122 minutes)

Jesus of Montreal = Jésus de Montréal / Max Films; Gerard Mital Productions in association with the National Film Board of Canada; written and directed by Denys Arcand. Koch Vision Entertainment, 2004. DVD (120 min.)

Jules and Jim = Jules et Jim / Janus Films; Films du Carrosse and S.E.D.I.F.; produced by Marcel Berbert; adaptation and dialogue by François Truffaut and Jean Gruault; directed by François Truffaut.  Critierion Collection, 2005. DVD (105 min.)

Les liaisons dangereuses / Interama, 1989.  VHS (111 minutes)

Life is a Long Quiet River / directed by Etienne Chatiliez. New York Video, 1987.  VHS (89 min.)

Manon of the Spring / Orion Video, 1988.  VHS (113 minutes)

Marius / Interama Video Classics, 1991.  VHS (122 minutes)

Moderato Cantabile / Video France, 1959.  VHS (90 minutes)

Mon Oncle / Embassy, 1958.  VHS (110 minutes)

Monsieur Ibrahim  / written and directed by François Dupeyron.  Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004. DVD (95 min.)

Mr. Hulot's holiday = Les vacances de M. Hulot / directed by Jacques Tati. Criterion Collection, 2004. DVD (86 min.)

Muriel / Hen’s Tooth Video, 1965.  VHS (116 minutes)

The Nun / Kino Video, 1966. VHS (140  minutes)

Place Vendome /  Wellspring Media, 2002.  DVD (117 minutes)

Red / Buena Vista Home Video, 1994.  VHS (99 minutes)

La Reine Margot / Buena Vista Home Video, 1995.  VHS (144 minutes)

The Return of Martin Guerre / Orion Home Video, 1996.  VHS (123 minutes)

Ridicule / Buena Vista Home Video, 1997.  VHS (103 minutes)

The Rules of the Game / Home Vision, 1990.  VHS (110 minutes)

Small Change / Artistes Associes, 1976.  VHS (105 minutes)

Sugar cane alley / written & directed by Euzhan Palcy. New Yorker Video 2004. DVD (107 min.)

Summer  = Le rayon vert / Les Films du Losange; written and directed by Eric Rohmer. Fox Lorber Home Video, c1999. DVD (98 min.)

The Triplets of Bellville /  Colombia Tristar Home Entertainment 2004.  DVD (81 minutes)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg / Fox Lorber, 1968.  DVD (91 minutes)

Vagabond / directed by Agnes Varda. The Criterion Collection, 2000, 1985. (DVD) (105 min.)

The Visitors / directed by Jean-Marie Poire. France 3 Cinema ; Alpilles Productions ; Amigo Productions. VHS (107 min)

White / Touchstone Home Video, 1993.  VHS (98 minutes)

Wild Reeds / Ima Films, 1994.  VHS (110 minutes)

With a Friend like Harry / Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2001.  DVD (117 minutes)

The young girls of Rochefort /  screenplay and lyrics by Jacques Demy ; directed by Jacques Demy. Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment, 2003. DVD (125 min.)

Zazie dans le Metro / New Yorker Films Artwork, 1991.  VHS (92 minutes)

 

French Non- Fiction

France with PBS Rick Steeves / Questar Video, 2001 DVD (210 minutes)

The French Revolution / Stanford University, 1998.  VHS (60 minutes)

The Impressionists / A+E Home Video, 2001 DVD (100 minutes)
Napoleon / PBS Home Video, 2000.  VHS (240 minutes)

The Rise of Louis the XIV / Hen’s Tooth Video, 1990 (100 minutes)
To Be and to Have / directed by Nicolas Philibert. New Yorker Video, c2004. DVD (104 min.)

 

Spanish Fiction

All About My Mother/  Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2000.  DVD (102 minutes)

Babel / directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu ; written by Guillermo Arriaga.  Paramount, 2007. DVD  (143 min)

Bad Education  / produced by Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar ; directed and written by Pedro Almodóvar. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2005. DVD (105 min.)

Blood Wedding / Media Home Entertainment, 1981.  VHS (71 minutes)

Children of Men / a film by Alfonso Cuaron. Universal Studios, 2007.  (DVD) (110 min.)

Desperado/  Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2000.  DVD (103 minutes)

Fresa y Chocolat / Miramax Home Entertainment, 1994.  VHS (104 minutes)

Guantanamera/  New Yorker Video, 1998.  VHS (104 minutes)

Like Water For Chocolate /  Touchstone Home Video, 1994.  VHS (105 minutes)

Maria Full of Grace / presents a Journeyman Pictures production in association with Tucan Producciones Cinematograficas and Altercine; written and directed by Joshua Marston.  Home Box Office, Inc., 2004. DVD (101 min)

The Motorcycle Diaries. / Film Four presents a South Fork Pictures production in association with Tu Vas Voir Productions. Universal Studios, 2004. DVD (127 min.)

Nine Queens/  Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2002.  DVD (115 minutes)

El Norte/ CBS/Fox, 1984.  VHS (141minutes)

Official Story  = Historia oficial /  directed by Luis Puenzo; screenplay by Luis Puenzo and Aìda Bortnik. KOCH Vision, 2004. DVD (110 min.)

Pan's Labyrinth /  written and directed by Guillermo del Toro.  New Line Home Entertainment, 2007. DVD (119 min.)

Quinceanera / A Sony Pictures Classics release, Kitchen Sink Entertainment presents a Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland film. Sony Pictures Classics, 2006. (DVD) (91 min.)

Real Women Have Curves/  Warner Home Video, 2003.  DVD (93 minutes)

Romero/ Vidmark,   VHS (105 minutes)

The Science of Sleep  / produced by Georges Bermann ; written and directed by Michel Gondry.  Warner Home Video, 2007. DVD(106 min.)

The Sea Inside / directed by Alejandro Amenábar ; screenplay by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil. New Line Home Entertainment, 2005. DVD  (125 min.)

Son of the Bride/  Sony Pictures Classics, 2002.  DVD (125 minutes)

Talk to Her/  Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2003.  DVD (114 minutes)

Volver  / A Sony Pictures Classics release, presents an Almodovar film.  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc., 2007. DVD (121 min.)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown/ MGM Home Entertainment, 1999.  VHS (89 minutes)

 

Spanish Non- Fiction

Adelante Mujeres!/ N.W.H.P. , 1995.  VHS (30 minutes)

Buena Vista Social Club/ Artisan Home Entertainment, 1999 DVD (105 minutes)

Calle 54/  Miramax Home Entertainment, 2001 DVD (106 minutes)

Mexico:  The Frozen Revolution/ 1971 (60 minutes

A Place Called Chiapas/ New Yorker Video, 2000.  DVD (92 minutes)

Spain and Portugal with PBS Rick Steeves / Questar Video, 2001 DVD (210 minutes)

 

Chinese Fiction- DVD

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress / directed by Sijie Dai. Empire Pictures, 2005. DVD (111 min.)

The Blue Kite/  Kino on Video, 2003.  DVD (138 minutes)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/ Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2001.  VHS (143 minutes)

The Emperor and the Assassin  / Shin Corporation and Le Studio Canal; directed by Chen Kaige; written by Wang Peigong, Chen Kaige. Columbia Tristar Home Video, c2000. DVD (161 min.)

Farewell my Concubine/  Miramax Home Entertainment, 2000.  DVD (172 minutes)

House of Flying Daggers / directed by Zhang Yimou; written by and screenplay by Zhang Yimou, Li Feng, Wang Bin.  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2005. DVD (119 min.)

Ju Dou/ Tokuma Communications Co., 1990 (98 minutes)

Kung Fu Hustle / directed by Stephen Chow ; written by Stephen Chow ... [et al.]. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2005. DVD(99 min.)

The Last Emperor/Artisan Entertainment, 1998.  VHS (164 minutes)

To Live / directed by Zhang Yimou ; producer, Chiu Fusheng ; screenplay by Yu Hua and Lu Wei.  MGM Home Entertainment, 2003. DVD  (133 min.)

Not One Less/  Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2000.  DVD (106 minutes)

Raise the Red Langern / Orion Video,  1990 (125 minutes).

Shower/  Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2001.  DVD (91 minutes)

Yi Yi/  WinStar Home Video, 1999.  DVD (173 minutes)

 

 

 

Chinese Non- Fiction – VHS


A.M. Chi for Beginners/ P.M. Chi for Beginners /LivingArts , 1998.  VHS (30 minutes each)

Across the Taklamakan Desert/ , 2000.  VHS (92 minutes)

Blending With Nature: Classical Chinese Gardens/ 2003 (53 minutes)

China: Born Under a Red Flag/ Ambrica , 1997.  VHS (120 minutes)

China Bridge/ WGBH Boston Video, 2000.  VHS (60 minutes)

China Rising: Change in Heaven/ A&E Home Video, 1996 (50 minutes)

China Rising: Paradise of Adventurers/ A&E Home Video, 1996 (50 minutes)

China Rising: Roads to Freedom/ A&E Home Video, 1996 (50 minutes)

China: The Mao Years/ Ambrica, 1997 (120 minutes)

Confucianism and Taoism/ Schlessinger Media, 1998 (50 minutes)

The Dark Castle/ Central Park Media, 1990 (55 minutes)

Glories of Ancient Chang-An/ Central Park Media, 1990 (55 minutes)

Great Wall Across the Yangtze/ PBS Home Video, 2000 (60 minutes)

Legacy 3: China- The Mandate of Heaven/ Ambrose Video, 1991 (57 minutes)

The Long Search: Taoism/ Ambrose Video, 1987 (52 minutes)

A Magnificent Tour of Contemporary Shanghai/

Tai Chi for Fitness and Health/ Video Treasures, 1993 (49 minutes)

The tank man / WGBH Educational Foundation.  PBS Video, 2006. DVD (90 min.)

A Thousand Kilometers Beyond the Yellow River/ Central Park Media, 1990 (55 minutes)

 

Classics Non- Fiction – DVD

In Search of the Trojan War/ BBC Video, 2004 DVD (345 minutes)

The Real Olympics/ Paramount Home Entertainment, 2004 DVD (110 minutes)

The Spartans/ PBS Home Video, 2003 DVD (3 hours)

 

Classics Fiction – VHS/DVD

I Claudius/ 20th Century Films, 1976- 6 videos (@ 103 minute each)

Julius Caesar / directed and screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz; produced by John Houseman. Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1953. VHS  (ca. 121 min

 Lysistrata/ New York Film Annex, 1987 (88 minutes)

The odyssey / Discovery Channel School.  Discovery Communications, Inc., 2003.  DVD (60 min.)

Spartacus / Universal Pictures ; directed by Stanley Kubrick. Universal Home Video, Inc., c1988.  (DVD) (196 min.)

Troy/ Warner Bros. Pictures; directed by Wolfgang Petersen ; screenplay by David Benioff. Warner Home Video, Inc., 2004.(DVD) (162 min.)

 

Classics Non- Fiction – VHS

 

Ancient civilizations / Questar Video. Questar Video, c2002. DVD  (570 min.)

Ancient Greece: the traditions of Greek culture / directed by Zinon Ramos ; produced by Supervision. Kultur International Films, Ltd., 2005. DVD (120 min.)

Athens and the Greek Spirit/  International Video Network, 1992.  VHS (30 minutes)

Crete + Mycene/ KVC Home Video, 1992.  VHS (155 minutes)

Greece:  The Invention of Politics/  Stanford University, 1988 (60 minutes)

The Greek spirit / Rand McNally; International Video Network; Calcon Production;co-produced, written, and narrated by Frank Gorin.  IVN, c1992. VHS (30 min.)

Hail Caesar / produced & written by Phil Grabsky; directed by Phil Grabsky & Peter Nicholson.  A & E Home Video, c2002. DVD  (total 300 min. each)

The Legacy of Rome/  Stanford University, 1988 (60 minutes)

Roman Bath/  WGBH Boston Video, 2000 (60 minutes)

 

 

Other Languages

 

The death of Mr. Lazarescu: a black comedy with serious side effects / The Coproduction Office presents a Mandragora production. Tartan Video USA, 2006. (DVD) (153 min.)  - Romanian