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The Tin Drum (2 Disc Set)
(1979) [M]

This powerful adaptation of the Gunter Grass epic novel won the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1979 as well as Best Film at the Cannes festival the same year. The narrator of the film is little Oscar, a precocious child of a permissive petty bourgeois couple. He decides to stop growing on...  More

The Marriage Of Maria Braun (The BRD Trilogy)
(1978) [M]

A portrait of a sensuous beauty who sells herself for wealth, and the husband who sacrifices his freedom for her. War-time drama. German dialogue with English subtitles.  More

Joan Of Arc - The Messenger (1999)
(1999) [MA]

Starring Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway and John Malkovich, director Luc Besson brings us Joan Of Arc - The Messenger, the epic story fo a woman who followed her own path and changed the course of history. In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King...  More

The Last Metro
(1981) [PG]

Winning an incredible ten French Academy Awards in 1981, The Last Metro is one of Truffaut's most highly acclaimed and popular films. Starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in magnetic performances, the story is set in Paris, 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France. When Lucas Steiner...  More

La Grande Illusion
(1937) [G]

The setting is World War I where three French Army prisoners of war from widely differing backgrounds, share a common interest in an escape. An internationally acclaimed production which highlights the senselessness of war. French dialogue.  More

Hiroshima Mon Amour
(1959) [PG]

One of the most influential films of all time, Alain Resnais’ first feature sees a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exercise their own scarred memories of...  More

Breaker Morant
(1980) [PG]

Hero or villian? His exploits shook an empire... and made him a legend. South Africa, 1901: The British war against the Boers has deteriorated into bitter guerilla warfare. A unit of the Bushveldt Carbineers made up mainly of Australians is ordered by the British High Command to fight the Boer on...  More

The Desert Fox
(1951) [PG]

James Mason delivers a strong performance in this fascinating portrait of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the early 1940's, Rommel's juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa. But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realization that his Fuhrer, to whom he hd sworn allegiance, was...  More

Cross Of Iron
(1977) [R]

James Mason and James Coburn star in this gripping account of a doomed German platoon facing annihilation at Russian hands during 1943, who discover that their instinct for war is greater than their instinct for survival. While the enemy attack, two officers fuel the conflict with their hell-bent...  More

A Matter Of Life And Death
(1946) [PG]

It's night over Europe, the night of the 2nd of May 1945. A crippled Lancaster Bomber struggles home across the English Channel, all crew dead save for the young pilot (David Niven) desperately scanning the radio for signs of life. His prayers are answered, June (Kim Hunter), a young radio...  More