Director: Sergei Eisenstein and D. I. Vassilev. Cast: Nikolai Cherkassov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, A. L. Abrikossov, D. N. Orlov, V. Novikov. Description: Fantastic battle scenes highlight Eisenstein's magnificent tale of the Russian resistance to Germany's 1241 invasion, ending with the decisive battle at frozen Lake Peipus. Written by Sergei Eisenstein and Pyotr Pavlenko. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 107 mins. Item #1233 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Karin Kavli, Gertrud Fridh. Description: Pompous critic writing a biography on a famous cellist goes to stay in his house for a few days to research . He never gets to interview the man, but by talking to all the women who live there, he learns a lot about the musician's private life anyway. Produced by Allan Ekelund. Written by Ingmar Bergman and Erland Josephson. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. English subtitles. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 80 mins. Item #3919 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. Cast: Anatoll Solonitzin, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolay Sergeyev. Description: Brilliant historical drama centers on the Russian painter Roubelev who is torn between participating in the social upheavals of his era or standing back to merely record them. Produced by Tamara Ogorodnikova. Written by Andron Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky. Second part in COLOR. English subtitles. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 185 mins. Item #1232 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Bernard Borderie. Cast: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Toja, Fred Williams. Description: Romance and political intrigue highlight this tale of a promiscuous French courtesan. One of a series. Produced by Francis Cosne. Based on the novel by Anne Golon and Serge Golon. FRENCH LANGUAGE ONLY. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 100 mins. Item #3651 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Bernard Borderie. Cast: Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean-Claude Pascal, Jacques Santi, Helmuth Schneider. Description: In the final film in the "Angelique" series, the beautiful and vivacious courtesan is sold to a greedy Sultan. Wha can save her? Produced by François Chavane and Francis Cosne. FRENCH LANGUAGE only. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 105 mins. Item #3652 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Frank Wisbar Cast: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Mathias Wieman, Maria Wanck, Carl Balhaus, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Roma Bahn. Description: A peasant girl known only as Anna (Hertha Thiele) discovers her strange ability to heal the sick. Much to Anna's dismay her humble cottage has become a haven and shrine to all those who are crippled and lame. Anna soon withdraws her powers from the sick and goes into wanderlust. Upon meeting her new friend Elizabeth, Anna's powers are needed once more. But it maybe too late cause her powers are vanishing leaving her distraught and empty in a lonely world. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 74 mins. Item #5296 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Helmut Kautner Cast: Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Friedl Czepa, Rolf Wanka, Ellen Hille, Anton Pointner, Elise Aulinger. Description: A young man is hired as domestic help by a well known surgeon. Accused of stealing a gold lighter, the young man must prove his innocence and re-gain the trust of all those who took him in. An investigation into the young mans past reveals a startling secret. German Language version. No English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 98 mins. Item #5276 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Satyajit Ray Cast: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Santi Gupta, Ramani Sengupta. Description: A young boy must find the courage to grow into a young man even if it means breaking the heart of his own mother. Born and raised in Benares, Apu and his mother must leave home to survive an ever changing world. With this Apu is given greater oppurtunities of educational prominence. But in doing so Apu inadvertantly breaks apart the family life that his lonely mother enjoys so much. Also released as The Unvanquished. In Bengali language with English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 108 mins. Item #5278 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Helmet Kutner Cast: Marianne Hoppe, Hans Söhnker, Hermann Speelmans, Rudolf Fernau, Margot Hielscher, Fritz Odemar. Description: Franziska and Michael were destined to fall in love. But the ever changing social climate of Germany will tear them apart time and time again. It was love at first sight upon there first meeting in 1932 and through out the years Franziska has always waited for Michael. But time and loneliness has taken it's toll on Franziska and with Michael's duties exposing him to ever growing dangers, will there love survive the world at war? German language version. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 100 mins. Item #5251 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Alekos Sakellarios Cast: Orestis Makris, Georgia Vasileiadou, Jenny Karezi, Gelly Mavropoulou, Niki Papadatou, Margarita Papageorgiou. Description: After many years in Chicago a Greek born lady returns to her homeland to meet her more conservative family. At first her presence causes many problems and misunderstandings (of hilarious comedic proportions). But soon her more American ways will help her and her family in new and exctiting ways. In Greek Language with English Subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 75 mins. Item #5252 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Yilmaz Guney Cast: Yilmaz Guney, Muserref Tezcan, Kuzey Vargin, Aytac Arman, Mehmet Buyukgungor, Feridun Colgecen. Description: A father must choose between his own freedom and the survival of his family in this bittersweet melodrama set in Instanbul, Turkey. Directed by and starring Yilmaz Guney, as a desperate father waiting to emigrate to Germany. A strange twist of fate may offer a chance for his family to survive. But the cost maybe his own freedom when he decides to take the rap for his son's wealthy landlord who is wanted for murder. In Turkish language with English subtitles. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 95 mins. Item #5292 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Edouard Molinaro Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Oury, Philippe Nicaud, Claire Maurier, Gerard Buhr, George Cusin, Jean Degrave. Description: Psychotic revenge and unholy matrimony collide when a Jacques Decret (Gerard Oury) discovers his lovely wife Gloria (Jeanne Moreau) has a secret to hide. That secret is infidelity and the only remedy is vengeance. An escalating vengeance of threatening messages, incriminating photographs and sordid blackmail. When the adulterous couple attempts to fight fire with fire things get even more interesting. But the twisted Jacques still has a few tricks up his sleeve and he's not gonna let these two get away so easily. In French language with English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 90 mins. Item #5298 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Marcel Pagnol Cast: Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin, Robert Vattier, Charles Blavette, Robert Bassac, Marcel Maupi. Description: In the quiet village of Provencal a talented baker by the name of Aimable arrives in town with his beautiful young wife Aurelie. Because of his wifes infidelities Aimable is mocked and ridiculed by the village inhabitants who very much enjoy the bread he bakes. With a broken heart Aimable is no longer able to bake bread. The village decides to bring the two back together so that they can can taste the wonderful bread once more. French language with english subtitled version. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 125 mins. Item #5312 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Grigori Chukhraj. Cast: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolai Kryuchkov. Description: For his courageous exploits, a soldier is given a six-day pass to visit his mother, but meets a woman instead, and arrives with only time enough to greet her then return to war and death. Produced by M. Chernova. Academy Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 88 mins. Item #2256 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Louisa Colpeyn. Narration by Jean-Luc Godard. Description: Godard's return to the crime genre. Two men and a woman, under the influence of countless Hollywood films and trash novels, decide to burglarize a house where they believe a large amount of cash is hidden. Written and Produced by Jean-Luc Godard. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 95 mins. Item #2352 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht Cast: Lida Baarova, Willy Birgel, Gustav Frohlich, Elsa Wagner, Will Dohm, Hubert von Meyerinck, Emilia Unda. Description: Adapted from The Tales of Hoffman. Colloredo (Gustav Frohlich) lives the life of a hedonistic, womanizing male who boasts of his own sexual conquests. A wager between him and his group of friends may be in fact his last attempt at female when conquest when the husband of his next target hears of this wager. Thus opening a nightmarish pandora's box of double crossings and sexual misfortunes that Colloredo may never wake up from. In German Language with no English Subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 81 mins. Item #5325 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jean Cocteau, Rene Clement. Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parely, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair, Raoul Marco, Marcel Andre, Janice Felty. Description: Belle (the only good daughter of three) willingly sacrfices her freedom to save the life of her father. A broken man and former merchant who has trespassed onto the land of a mythical and dangerous beast. But is this mysterious being as cruel and inhuman as it seems? Or will Belle find out there may in fact be more to this lonely creature. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 90 mins. Item #5352 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Rene Clair. Cast: Michel Simon, Gerard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valère. Description: "Second-rate devil" tempts Professor Faust with eternal youth, women, power, and universal knowledge, in exchange for his soul in this clever re-telling of the Faust legend. Produced by Salvo D'Angelo. Written by Rene Clair and Armand Salacrou. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 80 mins. Item #3991 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Giuseppe De Santis Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Checco Rissone, Nico Pepe, Adriana Sivieri. Description: Two criminal lovers (Francesca and Walter) on the run hideout at a country rice farm in Northern Italy. Francesca joins the female camp of rice workers and soon befriends the beautiful Silvana along with the soldier Marco. The two couples soon to conspire to create a new life of crime. But this newfound freedom has it's price, a price that the spirit of youth is willing to pay. Italian Language version with English Subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 104 mins. Item #5432 Format: & vbcrlf VHS for $14.99 DVD for $19.99 also on DVD Unit
Director: Marcel Carne. Cast: Louis Jouvet, Francoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean-Pierre Aumont. Description: Mystery writer is mistakenly accused of murdering his wife. A visitor tells his suspicions and soon the police arrive in force to catch the killer. Written by Jacques Prevert. Produced by Corniglion Molinier. English subtitles. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 84 mins. Item #1603 $14.99Format: VHS Unit