Director: Raphaël Delpard

What is the price of peace? During World War II, the French were forced to ask themselves that very question, when the Nazi war machine marched through their streets. Forced to collaborate with Hitler in exchange for their safety, the French were torn.

The controversial armistice treaty between the occupier and occupied is laid bare in Convoys of Shame, an unprecedented documentary that shows the true cost of compromise. This tell-all film explores the grim logistics of the Holocaust. Even genocide requires hard work, and the French company SNCF was responsible for the organization, care, and shipment of over 76,000 Jews, 20,000 gypsies, and 38,000 rebels to concentration camps from 1940 to 1944.

The film illustrates this calculated, methodical collaboration through archived footage, dramatic re-enactments, testimonials, and interviews with historical experts. This rich tapestry blends seamlessly into a chilling narrative about the depths of human desperation, and the effects of war on every facet of a country's economy.

UPC# 825307-927290
CAT# PH-92729 - $24.98

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Dcumentary / 104 min
NR / 2010 / France
Language: French with English,
Spanish, Portuguese Subtitles

Director: Hélène de Crécy

Within the walls of family doctor Luc Perino, patients lay bare their pains and joys; a cold, a birth, a stiff neck, alcoholism, general depression.

Does Dr.Perino have the answers? These consultations confront us not only with the necessity of healing or curing clinical cases but also with a diagnosis of humanity that is anguished and hard to please in its relationship with society and the healthcare system.

In this face-off between physician and patients, the film explores the evolution and excesses of the family doctor's profession and reaches the complex conclusion that, in order to remain the go-to guy in the health care field, he must be as much "life counselor" as doctor, a role he feels unprepared for.

The doctor must also reconcile a personalized approach to his patients with state of the art techniques for growing numbers of "users" while keeping down costs to a level acceptable to society.

Between laughter and tears, birth and death, the film is a reflection of Dr.Perino's working days, filled with humans.

UPC# 825307-925791
CAT# PH-92579 - $24.98

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Documentary / 91 min
NR / 2006 / France
Language: French with English Subtitles

Director: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Claude Brasseur, Lio, Nils Tavernier, Roland Amstutz

Georges Deblache is a middle aged cop who falls for his partner's wife. Didier, his partner, is only recently married, but beds women he encounters while doing his job. When George seduces his partner's wife, he finds that she is not unwilling. In fact, the heated romance becomes a debate of whether she did the seducing. Still, her unpredictability turns him on even more and he finds himself sucked in deeper. who is past middle age and who is so despondent about his life that he refuses to have a medical check-up, even though he suspects he has cancer.

His partner is Didier Theron (Nils Tavernier), who has recently married a woman whom he has worshipful feelings for -- feelings which don't stop him from routinely bedding the many women of color he encounters while doing his job. Georges takes a keen interest in his partner's unrealistically appreciated wife and pushes his way into her not entirely unwilling arms.

UPC# 825307-926699
CAT# PH-92669 - $24.98

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Drama / 103 min
NR / 1999 / France
Language: French with English Subtitles

Director: Chan-wook Park
Cast: Su-jeong Lim, Rain, Hie-jin Choi

Young-goon, a young woman who believes herself to be a cyborg, and is institutionalized after a gruesome and nearly fatal attempt to recharge her batteries. Among the characters she meets in the mental hospital is Il-soon, a kleptomaniac who steals not only small items, but entire character traits from the other patients. Young-goon enlists Il-soon’s aid to help her discover and complete her purpose as a cyborg, while he finds himself coming to care about her—and seeks to find a solution to her troubles that will remain true to her delusion.

‎From the director of "OLD BOY" and
"SYMPATHY FOR MR.VENGEANCE"

Berlin International Film Festival 2007
• Won, Alfred Bauer Award
Chan-wook Park
• Nominated, Golden Berlin Bear
Chan-wook Park

UPC# 825307-927191
CAT# PH-92719 - $24.98

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Comedy / 105 min
NR / 2006 / South Korea
Language: Korean with English Subtitles

Director: Kim Dae-woo
Cast: Kim Joo-hyeok, Ryoo Seung-beom, Jo Yeo-jeong, Ryoo Hyeon-kyeong

Bang-ja is a handsome, well-mannered servant who falls in love at first sight with Chun-hyang. They meet at a geisha house called Cheongpunggak, and Bang-ja is well aware that his master, Mong-lyong, also fancies Chun-hyang. Not wanting to lose her to Mong-lyong, he decides to win her heart first and seeks out the help of old man Ma, renowned for his skills with women. Mong-lyong approaches Chun-hyang with a complex strategy based on Confucian Analects and Mencius. But Chun-hyang has plans of her own, among them advancing her social status through Mong-lyong, a nobleman. She puts her plan into practice, manipulating both men to achieve her own ends…

UPC# 825307-927092
CAT# PH-92709 - $24.98

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Drama / 124 min
NR / 2010 / South Korea
Language: Korean with English Subtitles

Director: Lee Seo-Goon
Cast: Ryoo Seung-Ryong, Lee Yo-Won, Lee Dong-Wook

A man on deathrow wants to taste "doenjang jjigae" (a spicy Korean bean paste stew) before he dies. Television producer Choi Yu-Jin (Ryoo Seung-Ryong) hears of the inmate and researches his story for an upcoming news report. Choi Yu-Jin then comes across a mysterious woman named Jang Hye-Jin (Lee Yo-Won) who makes doenjang jjigae that brings tears of joy to those who tastes her recipe. As Choi Yu-Jin delves further, he learns of Jang Hye-Jin's heart breaking relationship with Kim Hyun-Soo (Lee Dong-Wook).

‎Official Selection:
2010 (15th) Pusan International Film Festival
2011 (61st) Berlin International Film Festival
2011 (10th) New York Asian Film Festival

UPC# 825307-926897
CAT# PH-92689 - $24.98

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Drama / 107 min
NR / 2010 / South Korea
Language: Korean with English Subtitles

Director: Koo Hye-seon
Cast: Lim Ji-gyoo, Seo Hyeon-jin, Kim Jeong-wook, Choi Il-hwa

Myeong-jin and Jeong-wu are studying cello at the same conservatory. Myeong-jin is in awe of Jeong-wu’s talent. Ji-eun, a piano student, is creating her own composition, “Magic.” Jeong-wu offers to play it for her, but on the day of the performance, he collapses on stage, leaving Myeong-jin to complete the concert herself. While Ji-eun nurses Jeong-wu back to health, Myeong-jin offers to step in for Jeong-wu, but she refuses. After Jeong-wu passes away, Ji-eun seeks out Myeong-jin. She plays “Magic” one final time…

“A blend of music with an art house cinema feel.”
-The Korea Times

UPC# 825307-926996
CAT# PH-92699 - $24.98

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Drama / 95 min
NR / 2010 / South Korea
Language: Korean with English Subtitles

Director: Lee Jun-Ik
Cast: Lee Jun-Ki, Kam Woo-Seong, Jeong Jin-Yeong, Kang Seong-Yeon, Jang Hang-Seon

At the height of the 16th-century Chosun Dynasty, a pair of rural male actors—boisterous, macho Jang-seng and quiet, feminine Gong-gil—travel to Seoul and team up with a struggling acting troupe. When their irreverent show—complete with enough bawdy humor and gender-bending to make a contemporary audience blush—mocks the famously hedonistic king, they get more than they bargained for. After being promptly arrested, they’re given a chance to spare themselves if they can make the king laugh. To everyone’s surprise, the ecstatic monarch loves the show and names the actors official court jesters, giving them more extravagant food and shelter than they’d ever imagined. But the king’s attentiveness to Gong-gil makes it quickly apparent that humor isn’t the only thing motivating his generosity. The king’s mistress, the country’s ministers and Jang-seng soon grow suspicious, and jealousy and anger spring from all sides.

‎Official Selection:
Toronto International Film Festival
Chicago International Film Festival
London Film Festival
Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Grenoble Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

UPC# 825307-926798
CAT# PH-92679 - $24.98

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Drama / 119 min
NR / 2005 / South Korea
Language: Korean with English Subtitles

Director: Kanji Nakajima
Cast: Koichi Hayashi, Chie Masaki, Tomoyuki Miura, Shigenori Yamazaki, Fumiko Kawahara, Eiji Maruyama, Reina Oshibe

The BOX (68min)
A withering craftsman caters to the requests of iron ore. He breathes life into them as he listens to their wishes. His most prominent creation, a traveling box, wanders the landscape, following railroad tracks, collecting the memories of people. In this harsh world, life is dwindling and the craftsman designs machines to assist life, even that of a tree. The craftsman is more than a creator as he helps maintain the machines. As his life dwindles, so do the lives of these machines.

FE (67min)
Near the remains of an iron factory, an old painter faces the challenges of creation, as his longtime muse has not appeared in some time. A young girl lends her curiosity to discover what it is that holds the old painter back. Her mother tells her a bedtime story to which brings understanding of the relationship between the abandoned factory and the lonely artist nearby.

‎Official Selection:
Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival, Flanders International Film Festival, Torino Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival

UPC# 825307-926392
CAT# PH-92639 - $24.98

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Drama / 68 + 67 min
NR / 2003 / Japan
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles

Director: Bahman Maghsoudlou
Cast: Iran Darroudi

This documentary is a look at the life and art of Ms. Iran Darroudi, one of the most important contemporary Iranian painters, who has divided her time between Tehran and Paris for the past fifty years. The film describes the various influences in her life and how she came to cultivate a style that merges the western surrealism with eastern mysticism.

An extra short documentary on Ardeshir Mohasses and his caricatures.

‎Official Selection:
Leipzig Film Festival, IBAFF Film Festival

UPC# 825307-925890
CAT# PH-92589 - $24.98

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Documentary / 57 + 20 min
NR / 2009 / Iran - USA
Language: Farsi with English Subtitles

Director: Nino Kirtadze
Cast: Mikhail Fyodorovich

Durakovo. The ironically named Village of Fools. A secluded town 90 miles outside Moscow brews old ideals in hopes of a revitalized regime. Mikhail Fyodorovich, (aka Mikhail Morozov) rules this small community with concepts of God, Tsar and Fatherland. That happiness is only around God, the Tsar does God’s bidding and the people work hard in life to achieve the will of the Tsar.

Prayer, labor and the political notion in contrast of Western Democracy is of frequent discussion. Mikhail makes known his stance in politics frequently, with those in his charge or with politicians from the capitol: to rebuild Russia to its former glory, criticize their leaders of the last thirty years and denounce Western ideals. He preaches the hand of God, the foundation he is laying, the old ways he is restoring, will one day win out over the US and it’s politics.

A mix of hard religion, firm politics and strict labor play out before the camera with little intervention or direction from the filmmaker.

‎Winner: Director Award 2008 Sundance Film Festival

"Plays with the country's worst
fears, that individuals don't
want freedom at all". -Shortendmagazine.com

UPC# 825307-926491
CAT# PH-92649 - $24.98

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Documentary / 90 min
NR / 2008 / Russia
Language: Russian with English Subtitles

Director: Agnieszka Lukasiak
Cast: Agnieszka Lukasiak

Agnieszka Lukasiak travels to Algeria to capture it's conflict on camera. When she arrives, she's immediately sidetracked by romance with her host, Habib.

She turns the camera on herself as she falls in love with him. The atmosphere quickly diminishes when Habib's family steps in and kicks her out. Not to be deterred, on her second visit to Algeria to seek Habib's love, she begins her real journey to expose the underside of the country.

A conflicted place that is as dangerous as it is mysterious. Agnieszka manages to record the civil unrest and it's effects on the people of Algeria while attempting to unravel her own love story with Habib.

‎"A travel to the boundaries
of our cultural limits"
- IMDB

"Lukasiak' diary becomes a
photo album of her love affair...
plus a documentary forum for
disenfranchised youth."
- VARIETY

UPC# 825307-924299
CAT# PH-92429 - $24.98

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Documentary / 94 min
NR / 2006 / Sweden
Language: English | French | Arabic | Swedish with English Subtitles

Director: S. Wyeth Clarkson
Cast: Kris Foley, Chad Dickson, Dustin Montie, Alison Matasi, Silas Borsos, Mark Bajcar, Kathy Miller, Jarvis Ngelsky, Chris “Big Black” Boykin

As a blend of cinema verite reality and sly fiction, documentary and digital animation, this hybrid film captures the street sensibilities of the skateboard scene in Vancouver. Canada’s answer to “Lords of Dogtown”.

An aging skater is losing his edge, but he can still manage amazing feats. He and his group are about to lose their house, the infamous Crashpad where skateboarders have come for years to live, learn and develop as skaters.

This Sundance Film Festival hit is an energetic and appealing look at the skateboarding subculture.

"Fresh from the Sundance Film Festival,
SK8 Life shreds the screen by just showing
the scene without any b.s. moralizing"
-Jam Showbiz Movies

UPC# 825307-925999
CAT# PH-92599 - $24.98

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Documentary / 87 min
NR / 2003 / Canada
Language: English

Director: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Dominique Laffin, Marie-Helene Breillat, Bertrand Bonvoisin, Joe Dallesandro

FROM THE CONTROVERSIAL DIRECTOR OF
"FAT GIRL" AND "ROMANCE X"

Solange is the female version of a womanizing film director who is confident about her conquests and her ability to figure out men. Along comes Bruno, a man she can’t stand. Solange's faith is put to a test. In spite of her better judgment, she is undeniably attracted to Bruno and sleeps with him over and over again, against her better judgement. From the director of “Fat Girl” and “Romance X”, comes yet another confrontational tale of sexual conquest.

‎"My work is no more pornographic than a piece of fine art you would find in any museum... I approach my work without barriers."
--Catherine Breillat

UPC# 825307-925692
CAT# PH-92569 - $24.98

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Erotic Drama
NR / 1979 / 91 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
with ON/Off English subtitles

Director: Olivier Bourbeillon
Cast: Claude Chabrol

Claude Charbrol (June 24, 1930 - September 12, 2010. With Truffaut, Godard, Rhomer and Rivette, The French New Wave revolutionized the way we see movies today. In this engrossing documentary, shot in the final years of life, we go deep into the mind of Charbol, the legendary director many call the French Hitchcock and The Balzac of Cinema. The director of classics such as  "Le Boucher", "This Man Must Die" and "La Rupture".

Like in his films, Charbol discusses his work amongst delicioius meals with friends, ex-wives, actors. Chabrol also speaks to us from the darkness of an isolated room. We see and hear and hear it all from the mouth of the master -- his choices, his mistakes, what he has learned in his illustrious career. Since 1958, he made almost a film a year. His works have been constantly remade in Hollywood ("Unfaithful"). This film is the last words from Charbol, his last stamp in his unmatched cinematic ouvre.

UPC# 825307-925593
CAT# PH-92559 - $24.98

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DOCUMENTARY
NR / 2002 / 70 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
with English subtitles

Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Bruce Dern, Stéphane Audran, Sydne Rome, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Ann-Margret

"The Twist" is the Charbol film  that stars the loveliest actresses of its era. Stephane Audran is delightful as ever in her last leading role for her director husband. Sydne Rome is her impetuous niece. The legendary Ann-Margret plays Audran's romantic rival, involved with both her husband and lover! Sybil Danning is Audran's lesbian lover and secretary. And Maria Schell is the wacky maid. She throws herself out of a window, simply to be treated by a doctor she has
a crush on.  

"The Twist" is the story of a high class couple who live in Paris involved in hot love affairs, paranoia and domestic catastrophes. This is the late Claude Chabrol at his craziest, most unpredictable, a cinematic highwire act that must be seen to be believed. When a woman's room is destroyed by rain, someone famously reacts with: "You don't need a maid but an exorcist!"

UPC# 825307-925395
CAT# PH-92539 - $24.98

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COMEDY
NR / 1976 / 107 minutes
Country: France
Language: English | French

Director: René Gainville
Cast: Michel Serrault, Claudine Auger, Catherine Alric, Judith Magre

An unemployed investor creates a fictitious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.

UPC# 825307-925494
CAT# PH-92549 - $24.98

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COMEDAY
NR / 1979 / 94 minutes
Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles

Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, François Périer, Henri Attal

Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police on the advice of François. Even though the police do not seem to have any clues to the crime, Charles has a difficult time coping with the situation, and trying to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hélène.

Lurid, witty and elegant…
-TimeOut.com

One of Chabrol’s best films…
-Roger Ebert

another meticulously crafted psychological drama from Claude Chabro
-James Travers

UPC# 825307-925296
CAT# PH-92529 - $24.98

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DRAMA
NR / 1971 / 100 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
with English subtitles

Director: Claude Sautet
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Charles Denner

Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon's trap, Simon decides to resolve the crisis himself. A prostitute, Mado, provides him with the solution to his problems...

Mado is an absorbing work which engages the spectator by solidly locking onto the personal traumas of its well-drawn characters.
-James Travers, Films de France

UPC# 825307-925197
CAT# PH-92519 - $24.98

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DRAMA
NR / 1976 / 135 minutes
16x9 Anamorphic video
Country: France
Language: French
with English subtitles