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A pair of tightly wound French crime dramas chart schemes of adultery, revenge and murder with cool precision and noir atmosphere.

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A newly widowed woman methodically hunts down the men she believes are responsible for her husband’s death.

Release: August 30, 2016

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The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career, Chimes at Midnight was the culmination of the filmmaker s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare s ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV s wayward son Prince Hal here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Welles created a gritty and unorthodox Shakespeare film, one that he intended, he said, as a lament . . . for the death of Merrie England. Poetic, philosophical, and visceral with a kinetic centerpiece battle sequence that rivals anything else in the director s body of work Chimes at Midnight is as monumental as the figure at its heart. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles - New interview with actor Keith Baxter - New interview with director Orson Welles s daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age seven - New interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow - New interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? - Interview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin Show - Trailer

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A chambermaid enters a provincial household where class tensions, repression and corruption simmer beneath the surface.

Release: February 6, 2018

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For his feature debut, twenty-four-year-old Louis Malle brought together a mesmerizing performance by Jeanne Moreau, evocative cinematography by Henri Decaë, and a now legendary jazz score by Miles Davis. Taking place over the course of one restless Paris night, Malle s richly atmospheric crime thriller stars Moreau and Maurice Ronet as star-crossed lovers whose plan to murder her husband (his boss) goes awry, setting off a chain of events that seals their fate. A career touchstone for its director and female star, Elevator to the Gallows was an astonishing beginning to Malle's eclectic body of work, and it established Moreau as one of the most captivating actors to ever grace the screen. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - Interview from 2005 with actor Jeanne Moreau - Archival interviews with Moreau, director Louis Malle, actor Maurice Ronet, and original soundtrack session pianist Rene Urtreger - Footage of Miles Davis and Malle from the soundtrack recording session - Program from 2005 about the score featuring jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins - Malle's student film Crazeologie, featuring Charlie Parker's song 'Crazeology' - Trailers - PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Terrence Rafferty, an interview with Malle, and a tribute by film producer Vincent Malle

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A bank clerk becomes addicted to gambling after meeting a glamorous woman on the Riviera.

Release: March 25, 2025

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Dark roads, a stormy night and Jean Gabin are the primary ingredients in Hi-Jack Highway, aka Gas-Oil, a French noir gem. Gabin (Razzia Sur La Chnouf) cements his status as one of the pillars of French cinema with a moody and moving performance. And it gives Jeanne Moreau (Touchez Pas Au Grisbi), one of France's greatest actresses, one of her first great roles. After spending the night with his girlfriend Alice (Moreau), trucker Jean (Gabin) encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police but they suspect that Jean is responsible for the death. And then there's that nasty gang of crooks who also are harassing him. Jean is a victim of circumstance and forces beyond his control are closing in on him. But with Alice as his emotional base, he aims to rouse his trucker friends and turn the tables on the forces against him, in this dark and gripping drama co-written by Michel Audiard (Deadly Circuit) and directed by Gilles Grangier (Speaking of Murder).

Release: August 30, 2016

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Orson Welles s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen (Babette s Feast). Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife. Also starring an ethereal Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim), this jewel-like film, dreamily shot by Willy Kurant (Masculin féminin) and suffused with the music of Erik Satie, is a brooding, evocative distillation of Welles s artistic interests a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine line between illusion and reality. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New, restored 4K digital transfer of the English-language version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - Alternate French-language version of the film - Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin - Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif - New interview with actor Norman Eshley - Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant - New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas - PLUS: An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Two close friends and the free-spirited woman they both love form a passionate triangle that spans decades.

Release: December 2, 2008

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From celebrated French director Luc Besson comes this "slick, stylish and tremendously entertaining" ( The New York Times ) thriller about a cop-killing junkie (Anne Parillaud) turned lethally dangerous assassin.

Release: June 11, 2024

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From celebrated French director Luc Besson comes this "slick, stylish and tremendously entertaining" ( The New York Times ) thriller about a cop-killing junkie (Anne Parillaud) turned lethally dangerous assassin.

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Over the course of one emotionally charged day and night, a disillusioned couple drifts through Milan confronting the emptiness of their marriage.

Release: January 25, 2022

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Blu-ray release of Lover.

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An aging cowboy struggles to adapt as the open range and the way of life he knows disappear into a more modern West.

Release: May 10, 2022

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One of the crowning achievements of blacklisted Hollywood director Joseph Losey’s European exile, the spellbinding modernist mystery Mr. Klein puts a chilling twist on the wrong-man thriller. Alain Delon delivers a standout performance as Robert Klein, a decadent art dealer in Paris during World War II who makes a tidy profit buying up paintings from his desperate Jewish clients. As Klein searches for a Jewish man with the same name for whom he has been mistaken, he finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare in which his identity seems to dissolve and the forces of history to close in on him. Met with considerable controversy on its release for its portrayal of the real-life wrongdoings of the Vichy government, this haunting, disturbingly beautiful film shivers with existential dread as it traces a society’s descent into fascistic fear and inhumanity. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Interviews with critic Michel Ciment and editor Henri Lanoë Interviews from 1976 with director Joseph Losey and actor Alain Delon Story of a Day, a 1986 documentary on the real-life Vél d’Hiv Roundup, a central historical element of Mr. Klein Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau

Release: November 29, 2022

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This French noir feature in the French Noir Collection follows gangland violence, betrayal, and moral rot in the underworld.

Release: August 13, 2019

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Jacques Becker’s (Le Trout) Touches Pas Au Grimsby occupies a significant part in French cinema history; it exerted a huge influence on subsequent directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Doulas), Henri Vermeil (The Sicilian Clan) and Claude Sautee (Classed Toups Risqué). Max (Jean Gabon, Port of Shadows) is an aging gangster who manages to pull off his final heist, a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Olly airport. All is well until Max’s former girlfriend Joys (Jeanne Moreau, Viva Maria! ) tips off a rival gangster, Angelo (Lion Ventura, Rizzio Sur La Chou). Angelo kidnaps Max’s partner and best friend and threatens to kill him unless Max hands over the loot from his robbery. Touches Pas Au Grimsby was the birth the French policer, a European transposition of the fantastic American gangster films and film noirs of the 1940s. Based on a book by Albert Simon in (Cold Sweat) and beautifully shot in striking black-and-white by Pierre Montage (Hi-Jack Highway). Special Features: -Audio Commentary by Film Critic Nick Pinkerton -Interview with filmmaker Jean Becker -Interview with actress Jeanne Moreau -Interview with Professor/Film Critic Guenette Vincentia -Theatrical Trailer

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A French Resistance fighter tries to stop a Nazi officer from stealing priceless art by rail.

Release: September 26, 2023

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From John Frankenheimer, the acclaimed director of The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, Seconds, Grand Prix and Black Sunday, comes this action-packed WWII masterpiece starring screen legend Burt Lancaster (Run Silent Run Deep, Elmer Gantry, The Professionals). Paris, August 1944… with the Allied army closing in on German commander and art fanatic Colonel Franz Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons), he decides to steal a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. But when a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim’s scheme, Labiche (Lancaster), a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost. Calling upon his vast arsenal of skills, Labiche unleashes a torrent of devastation and destruction—loosened rails, shattered tracks and head-on collisions—in an impassioned, suspense-filled quest for justice, retribution and revenge. Featuring a top-notch score by Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago) and a wonderful supporting performance by screen icon Jeanne Moreau (Viva Maria!), The Train was the fourth of five collaborations between filmmaker Frankenheimer and star Lancaster. Special Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): • Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative • Audio Commentary by Director John Frankenheimer • Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin • Isolated Score by Maurice Jarre | 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Lossless Audio • Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc • Optional English Subtitles DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): • Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative • Audio Commentary by Director John Frankenheimer • Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin • 1964 Making-of The Train: Newly Mastered in 2K (6:37) • Isolated Score by Maurice Jarre • TRAILERS FROM HELL with Brian Trenchard-Smith • TV Spot (1:01) • Theatrical Teaser: Newly Mastered in 2K (1:12) • Theatrical Trailer: Newly Mastered in 2K (4:25) • 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Lossless Audio • Dual-Layered BD50 Disc • Optional English Subtitles

Release: September 19, 2023

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A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s The Trial casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, the blacklist, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement—a bold, personal film that he himself considered one of his greatest. Dizzying camera angles, expressionistic lighting, increasingly surreal locations—Welles unleashed the full force of his visual brilliance to convey the nightmarish disorientation of a world gone mad. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New audio commentary featuring film historian Joseph McBride Filming “The Trial,” a 1981 documentary about the film’s production Archival interviews with Welles, actor Jeanne Moreau, and director of photography Edmond Richard Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem

Release: September 19, 2023

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A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s The Trial casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, the blacklist, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement—a bold, personal film that he himself considered one of his greatest. Dizzying camera angles, expressionistic lighting, increasingly surreal locations—Welles unleashed the full force of his visual brilliance to convey the nightmarish disorientation of a world gone mad. 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features New audio commentary featuring film historian Joseph McBride Filming “The Trial,” a 1981 documentary about the film’s production Archival interviews with Welles, actor Jeanne Moreau, and director of photography Edmond Richard Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem

Release: December 10, 2019

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Conceived as the ultimate road movie, this decades in the making science fiction epic from Wim Wenders follows the restless Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger (William Hurt) in possession of a device that can make the blind see and bring dream images to waking life. With an eclectic soundtrack that gathers a host of the director’s favorite musicians, along with gorgeous cinematography by Robby Müller, this breathless adventure in the shadow of Armageddon takes its heroes to the ends of the earth and into the oneiric depths of their own souls. Presented here in its triumphant 287 minute director’s cut, Until the End of the World assumes its rightful place as Wenders' magnum opus, a cosmic ode to the pleasures and perils of the image and a prescient meditation on cinema’s digital future. DIRECTOR APPROVED TWO BLU RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders, with 5.1 surround DTS HD Master Audio soundtrack • New introduction by Wenders • New interview with Wenders about the film’s soundtrack • New conversation between Wenders and musician David Byrne • Behind the scenes program detailing the creation of the film’s high definition sequences • Interview with Wenders from 2001 • Up Down Under Roma, a 1993 interview with Wenders on his experiences in Australia • The Song, a short film by Uli M Schueppel detailing the recording of “(I’ll Love You) Till the End of the World” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds • Deleted scenes • Trailer • PLUS: Essays by critics Bilge Ebiri and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on the film and its soundtrack

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Two flamboyant performers become accidental revolutionaries while traveling through a fictional Latin American country.