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"La Fille de l'eau / Sur un air de Charleston / La petite marchande d'allumettes" - 3 silent fantasy classics from Jean Renoir


At last! Louis Feuillade's silent epic crime serial "Les Vampires" on DVD in its entirety, magnificiently restored. Irma Vep is about to be unleashed on a whole new generation!


"Visages d'enfants" - Jacques Feyder's silent masterpiece captures the vulnerability of childhood to devastating effect.


Documentary about the early filmmaker Georges Méliès, including a selection of his short films.


"Nuit et brouillard" - Alain Resnais' poignant and strangely poetic documentary about the Holocaust.



DVD box set: Louis Feuillade's silent masterpiece Fantômas (A l'ombre de la guillotine / Juve contre Fantomas / Le Mort qui tue / Fantomas contre Fantômas / Le Faux Magistrat)



"Nana" - Jean Renoir's masterful adaptation of a Zola masterpiece.



"L'Atlantide" (1921) and "L'Atlantide" (1932) - two very different adaptations of the novel by Pierre Benoit - a silent version from Jacques Feyder and an early sound version from G.W.Pabst starring Brigitte Helm.


3 DVD box set of four of Jean Renoir's earliest films (La Chienne / Catherine / Tire-au-flanc / On purge bébé)



Jean Renoir's classic anti-war masterpiece, "La Grande illusion" (1937)



Jean Renoir's masterpiece of poetic realism, "La Bête humaine" (1938), with Jean Gabin and Simone Simon



"Lucrèce Borgia" - Edwige Feuillère stars in this memorable historical drama, directed by Abel Gance.


2 DVD box set of all four of Jean Vigo's classic films (A propos de Nice / Zéro de conduite / Taris / L'Atalante)



Marcel Carne's classic of poetic realism "Hôtel du Nord" (1938) - Collectors' Edition (with book)



Jean Gabin and Michele Morgan star in Marcel Carne's poetic realist masterpiece, "Le Quai des brumes" (1938)



"Le Jour se lève" (1939), a poetic realist masterpiece from Marcel Carne, starring Jean Gabin



"Les Inconnus dans la maison" - Raimu stars in this exemplary adaptation of a Georges Simenon novel.



"Entre onze Heures et minuit" - Louis Jouvet stars in this superlative noir thriller from Henri Decoin.



"Manèges" - Simone Signoret is the definitive femme fatale in this haunting drama from Yves Allégret.



"Macao, l'enfer du jeu" - Jean Delannoy's atmospheric film noir, starring Mireille Balin and Erich Von Stroheim.



"Monsieur Vincent" - Pierre Fresnay stars in this intense Oscar winning drama.



Jean Gabin 4 DVD box set: "Le Jour se lève", "L'Air de paris", "Quai des brumes", "Pépé le moko"



Jean Gabin 4 DVD box set: "Touchez pas au grisbi", "La Vierge du Rhin", "La Bête humaine" and "La Grande illusion"



French film noir set: "Quai des Orfèvres" / "Pépé le Moko" (2 DVDs)



Marcel Carne 2 DVD box set: "Les Tricheurs" / "L'Air de Paris"



2 DVD box set: Two classic films from Jean Gabin - "Le Testament du docteur cordelier / Déjeuner sur l'herbe"



2 DVD box set: Two classic films from Jean Gabin - "Le Caporal épinglé / La Marseillaise"



Rene Clement's timeless classic "Jeux interdits" (1952)



Simone Signoret and Serge Reggiani star in Jacques Becker's masterpiece "Casque d'or" (1951)



2 DVD box set of Jean Cocteau's films: "Le Testament d'Orphée" / "Le Sang d'un poète"



Jean Cocteau's "Les Enfants terribles" - 2 DVD collectors' edition (with booklet)



6 DVD box set of films by Carl Theodor Dreyer: "Le Maître du logis / Vampyr / Jour de colère / Ordet / Gertrud"
Marcel Carné Jean Gabin Luis Buñuel Jean Renoir

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