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1) L'argent
Series
Criterion collection volume 886
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
A counterfeit 500-franc note sets off a chain of greed, corruption, and betrayal that leads to an innocent man's arrest and his eventual destruction.
2) Pickpocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 314
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Français
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
A French Resistance fighter is sent to an infamous prison in Lyon in 1943, where 7,000 of the 12,000 prisoners housed there died either by natural means or by execution. Lt. Fontaine is certain that execution awaits him, and begins planning his escape. For a period of time he goes it alone, but reluctantly takes on a partner. He gets some help from a couple of prisoners allowed to stroll in the exercise yard, but for the most part he is a figure of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 297
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
"Follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of man. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly."--Container.
5) Mouchette
Series
Criterion collection volume 363
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
One of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film, as Mouchette a teenage girl must deal with tragic events and a broken family.
