Web Site: French Language Resources: DVDs and online video

Films on Demand

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Basic French & Italian by DVD
Call Number: PC2121 .B37 2005 Video disc
Speak, read, and write 1,000 words and phrases common in everyday situations by listening and emulating native speakers while seeing their words on screen in the original language and English.

Try this search to find more French films: foreign films french

Après vous
Call Number: PN1997 .A6617 2005 Video disc
A romantic comedy about a Good Samaritan, a hopeless romantic, and the beautiful woman that comes between them

Practice your listening skills with these feature films available in the Parkland Library (this is just a sampling of the French films we own).

Brève traversée
Call Number: PN1997 .B74126 2004 Video disc
"What starts as a chance meeting between a 30-something English woman Alice (Sarah Pratt) and a 16-year-old French boy (Gilles Guillain) quickly develops into much more on an overnight ferry ride. As the conversation progresses, it is clear that although the two have virtually nothing in common, the sexual tension is evident. When they finally act on their growing attraction, a surprise twist is thrown in that will leave you wondering who really seduced who
Diabolique
Call Number: PN1997 .D51 1998 Video disc
Horror classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
Faubourg 36
Call Number: PN1997 .P352 2009 Video disc
When Pigoil's adulterous wife leaves with his beloved son, he gambles everything to get him back. As the previous manager of the now closed Chansonia Theatre, he makes a deal with the new owner to give him one month to turn the theater around and make a profit.