All are in French with English subtitles and in color unless marked otherwise.
Students must watch films in the library; faculty may check them out and/or make available to students on library streaming server.
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Video cassette# |
Film Title
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Director
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Year
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Details
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Length
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| Africa to America to Paris. (see Un Sang d'encre) | |||||
| 448 | Afrique dominée, Afrique libérée? | (PICS) | 1983 | No subtitles | 30 min. |
| 245 | L'Afrique en français | Séverine Arlabosse | 1984 | Documentary. No subtitles | 60 min. |
| 1139 | Afrique, je te plumerai (Africa, I will Fleece You) | Jean-Marie Téno | 1992 | "Anti-documentary" on 100 years of cultural genocide in Africa. | 88 min. |
| 1136, parts 1, 2, 3 | Aimé Césaire: une voix pour l'histoire | Euzhan Palcy | 1994 | 3-part documentary on the poet. 1: L'île veilleuse; 2: Au rendez-vous de la conquête; 3: La force de regarder demain. | about 55 minutes each |
| 623 | Angano... Angano... Nouvelles de Madagascar | Cesar Paes | 1989 | Documentary on oral tradition in Madagascar. In Malagasy with English subtitles | 64 min. |
| 532 | L'Année dernière à Marienbad | Alain Renais | 1961 | Drama. Scenario by Alain Robbe-Grillet. With Delphine Seyrig. B&W | 92 min. |
| 1074 | L'Argent de poche | François Truffaut | 1975 | Dramatic comedy. | 104 min. |
| 243 | L'Atalante (Le Chaland qui passe) | Jean Vido | 1934 | Dramatic comedy. B&W | 82 min. |
| Auntie Danielle (see Tatie Danielle) | |||||
| The Baker's Wife (see La Femme du Boulanger) | |||||
| 220 | La Bataille d'Alger (The Battle of Algiers / La Battaglio di Algeri) | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 | Historical film on decisive moment of the Algerian war. In French and Arabic with English subtitles. B&W | 125 min. |
| 219 | La Belle et la bête. (Beauty and the Beast) | Jean Cocteau | 1946 | Fantasy. With Josette Day and Jean Marais. B&W | 90 min. |
| The Big Grab. (See Mélodie en sous-sol) | |||||
| 244 | Boudu sauvé des eaux. (Boudu Saved from Drowning) | Jean Renoir | 1932 | Comedy. With Michel Simon. B&W | 87 min. |
| 373 | À Bout de souffle. (Breathless) | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 | Detective drama. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg. B&W | 90 min. |
| Brightness (see Yeelen) | |||||
| 632 | Camille Claudel | Bruno Nuytten | 1988 | Dramatic biography. With Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu | 149 min. |
| 188 | Carmen | Bizet's opera | 151 min. | ||
| DVD 141 | La Cathédrale (The Cathedral) | Harrikrisna Anenden | 2006 | Based on short story by Ananda Devi. | 78 min. |
| 353 | Cet Obscur objet du désir (That Obscure Object of Desire) | Luis Buñuel | 1977 | Dramatic comedy. With Fernando Rey and Carole Bouquet. Dubbed in English. | 100 min. |
| 229 | Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie | René Clair | 1927 | Dramatic comedy. Based on Eugène Labiche's play. B&W and silent | 75 min. |
| 236 | Un Chien andalou | Luis Buñuel | 1928 | Surrealist classic. B&W and silent | 17 min. |
| Children of Paradise (see Les Enfants du Paradis) | |||||
| 533 | Chocolat | Claire Denis | 1989 | Dramatic comedy. With Isaach de Bankolé. | 105 min. |
| 159 | Coup de grâce. (Der Fangschuß) | Volker Schlöndorff | 1977 | Drama. In German with English subtitles. Based on Marguerite Yourcenar's text. B&W | 98 min. |
| 193 | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Royal Opera, Convent Garden | 1981 | Offenbach's opera. Libretto available | 149 min. |
| 222 | Cousin, Cousine | Jean-Charles Tacchella | 1975 | Dramatic comedy. | 96 min. |
| 1140 | Dakan. (Destiny) | Mohamed Camara | 1997 | Drama. Considered the first African feature film with a gay theme | 87 min. |
| A Dance for the Hero (see Finzan) | |||||
| 1270 | Danton | Andrzej Wajda | 1982 | Historical drama. Revolutionary rivalry between Danton & Robespierre. Period costumes. Gérard Depardieu as Danton | 135 min. |
| 338 | A Day in the Country, Impressionism and the French landscape | Kirk Douglas | In English | ||
| DVD 409 | La Dérive douce d'un enfant de Petit-Goâve | Pedro Ruiz | 2011 | Biography of writer Dany Laferrière | 84 min. |
| Diary of a Country Priest. (see Journal d'un curé de campagne) | |||||
| 1295 | Divine Horsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti | Maya Deren | 1985 | B&W. Documentary on vodou, filmed in Haiti 1947-1951 | 52 min. |
| 784 | Les Enfants du paradis | Marcel Carné | 1946 | Drama. With Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Maria Cesarès, Pierre Brasseur. B&W | 195 min. |
| 118 | L'État de siège | Constantin Costa-Gavras | 1973 | With Yves Montand. | 119 min. |
| 1015 | L'État sauvage | Francis Girod | 1978 | Drama. With Marie-Christine Barrault, Claude Brasseur, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Dutronc. | 111 min. |
| 368 | Le Fantôme de la Liberté | Luis Buñuel | 1974 | Dramatic comedy. | 104 min. |
| 247 | La Femme d'à côté | François Truffaut | 1981 | Drama. With Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant. | 106 min. |
| 1014 | La Femme du Boulanger | Marcel Pagnol | 1938 | Dramatic comedy. With Ginette Leclerc, Charles Blavette and Raimu. B&W | 124 min. |
| 1142 | Femmes aux yeux ouverts | Anne-Laure Folly | 1995 | Documentary on West African women (excision, forced marriage, AIDS). | 52 min. |
| 626 | Finzan | Cheick Oumar Sissoku | 1990 | Drama. In Bambara with English subtitles | 107 min. |
| Four Hundred Blows (see Les Quatre Cents Coups) | |||||
| 445 | "Fraternité Matin": La Côte d'Ivoire au quotidien | 1985 | Documentary on the daily newspaper. No subtitles | 30 min. | |
| 472 | La Grande Illusion | Jean Renoir | 1938 | Drama. With Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay, and Erich Stroheim. B&W | 111 min. |
| Hail Mary (see Je vous salue Marie) | |||||
| 447 | Haïti; un peuple créateur | 1984 | Documentary. No subtitles | 30 min. | |
| Heading South (see Vers le Sud) | |||||
| 235 | Hiroshima, mon amour | Alain Renais | 1959 | Drama. With Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada. Scenario by Marguerite Duras. B&W | 91 min. |
| 630 | L'Histoire d'Adèle H. | François Truffaut | 1975 | Drama. With Isabelle Adjani as Victor Hugo's daughter, Adèle | 97 min. |
| An Italian Straw Hat (see Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie) | |||||
| 364 | Je vous salue Marie | Jean-Luc Godard | 1984 | Drama. Godard's controversial film with theme of pregnant virgin | 107 min. |
| 628 | Jean de Florette | Claude Berri | 1987 | Drama. With Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil. Based on Marcel Pagnol's novel | 122 min. |
| 221 | Journal d'un curé de campagne | Robert Bresson | 1950 | Drama. B&W | 120 min. |
| Journey of the Hyena. (see Touki Bouki) | |||||
| 249 | Jules et Jim | François Truffaut | 1961 | Dramatic comedy. With Jeanne Moreau. B&W | 105 min. |
| King of Hearts (see Le Roi de coeur) | |||||
| 643 | Krik? Krak! Tales of a Nightmare | Vanyöska Gee and Jac Avila | 1990 | In Creole and English | 78 min. |
| Last Year in Marienbad. (see L'Année dernière à Marienbad) | |||||
| 1010 | Les Liaisons dangereuses | Roger Vadim | 1959 | Dramatic comedy. With Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philippe and Jean-Louis Trintignant. B&W | 111 min. |
| Life is Rosy (see La Vie est belle) | |||||
| 231 | Lola Montes | Max Ophüls | 1955 | Drama. | 140 min. |
| 1143 | Lumumba, la mort du prophète. (Lumumba, Death of a Prophet) | Raoul Peck | 1992 | Peck's first film on Lumumba (second released in 2000) | 69 min. |
| 629 missing | Manon des sources (Manon of the Spring) | Claude Berri | 1986 | Drama. With Yves Montand, Daniel Auteil, Emmanuelle Béart. Based on Marcel Pagnol's novel | 113 min. |
| 986 | La Marseillaise | Jean Renoir | 1938 | Dramatic comedy. With Louis Jouvet and Pierre Renoir. B&W | 128 min. |
| 484 VHS missing DVD* | Maryse Condé at Lehman College "The Metamorphosis of Africa in French Caribbean Writing" + "Ordre et Désordre dans la littérature francophone des Antilles" |
*VHS copy is missing, Library has new DVD copy | 1990 | 72 min lecture in English, 43 min. in French, no subtitles. Lectures at Lehman, November 9, 1990. | 115 min. |
| 375 | Mélodie en sous-sol | Henri Verneuil | 1963 | Detective. With Jean Gabin and Alain Delon. B&W | 118 min. |
| 1011 | Miziké Mama | Violaine de Villers | 1992 | Documentary on the women's a cappella group, Zap Mama | 51 min. |
| 218 | Mon Oncle. (My Uncle) | Jacques Tati | 1958 | Comedy. With Jacques Tati. | 110 min. |
| 228 | Napoléon | Abel Gance | 1927 | B&W silent film, reconstructed with music by Kevin Brownlow | 235 min. |
| 1269 | À Nous la liberté | René Clair | 1931 | B&W, satiric musical comedy said to have inspired Chaplin's Modern Times | 83 min |
| 369 | La Nuit américaine (Day for Night) | François Truffaut | 1973 | With Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont. Dubbed in English | 116 min. |
| 237 | La Nuit de Varennes | Ettore Scola | 1983 | Drama. Louis XVI's 1791 flight from Paris. With Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Louis Trintignant | 128 min. |
| 232 | Nuit et brouillard. (Night and Day) | Alain Renais | 1955 | Documentary on WWII death camps. | 32 min. |
| The Nun. (see La Religieuse) | |||||
| 238 | L'Orphée. (Orpheus) | Jean Cocteau | 1949 | Drama. With Jean Marais and Maria Casarès. B&W | 86 min. |
| 9 | Paris: Living Space (Understanding Cities Series) | 1983 | Documentary on the history of the urban design of Paris. In English | 30 min. | |
| 35 | Pauline à la Plage. (Pauline at the Beach) | Eric Rohmer | 1985 | Dramatic comedy. | 94 min. |
| 505 | Phèdre I & II | (PICS) | Racine's play. | 136 min. | |
| 423 | Playtime | Jacques Tati | 1968 | Comedy. With Jacques Tati. | 111 min. |
| 377 | Princesse Tam Tam | Edmond Gréville | 1935 | Dramatic comedy. With Joséphine Baker and Albert Préjean. B&W | 80 min. |
| 372 | Providence | Alain Renais | 1977 | Drama. With Dirk Bogarde, Sir John Gielgud, Ellen Burstyn. | 104 min. |
| 1141 | Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer | Raymond Rajaonarivelo | 1996 | Drama. In French and Malagasy with English subtitles | 77 min. |
| 622 | Quartier Mozart | Jean-Pierre Bekolo | 1992 | Exploring machismo in a poor neighborhood of Yaoundé. 80 min. | 88 min. |
| 421 | Les 400 Coups (Les Quatre Cents Coups) | François Truffaut | 1959 | Dramatic comedy. With Jean-Pierre Léaud. B&W | 97 min. |
| 131 | 97 Publicités télévisées pour découvrir la langue et la civilisation françaises | Simonne Lieutaud (Hachette) | 1983 | French television advertisements. No subtitles. Text and study guide available. | 60 min. |
| 250 | La Règle du jeu. (Rules of the Game) | Jean Renoir | 1939 | Dramatic comedy. B&W | 110 min. |
| 1013 | La Religieuse | Jacques Rivette | 1966 | Drama. With Anna Karina, Micheline Presle. Based on Diderot's text. (original, uncut version of film) | 155 min. |
| 234 missing | Le Retour de Martin Guerre. (The Return of Martin Guerre) | Daniel Vigne | 1982 | Historical drama. With Gérard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye. | 111 min. |
| 1268 | Le Roi de coeur (King of Hearts) | Philippe de Broca | 1966 | Dramatic comedy. WWI setting with only the insane asylum's inhabitants left in town. With Alan Bates, Pierre Brasseur, Geneviève Bujold | 64 min. |
| 1058 | Rue Case-nègres | Euzhan Palcy | 1983 | Dramatic comedy. Based on Joseph Zobel's novel. | 107 min. |
| 192 | Samson et Dalila | Opera by Saint-Saëns (copy lost) | 135 min. | ||
| 1112 | Un Sang d'encre | Jacques Goldstein and Blaise N'Djehoya | 1997 | Documentary on African-Americans in Paris after 1945. | 53 min. |
| The Savage State. (see L'État sauvage) | |||||
| 1244 | The Serpent and the Rainbow | Wes Craven | 1987 | Based on book by Wade Davis; explorations into Haitian Vodou. In English | 98 min. |
| Shoot the Piano Player. (see Tirez sur le Pianiste) | |||||
| Small Change. (see L'Argent de poche) | |||||
| State of Siege. (see L'État de siège) | |||||
| The Story of Adèle H. (see L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) | |||||
| Sugar Cane Alley. (see Rue Case-nègres) | |||||
| 966 | La Symphonie pastorale | Jean Delannoy | 1946 | Drama. Based on André Gide's novella. B&W | 105 min. |
| 548 | Tahar Ben Jelloun at Lehman College "Se (dé)voiler dans la langue de l'autre" |
Library has new DVD copy | 1993 | No subtitles. Lecture given at Lehman May 4, 1993. | 55 min. |
| Tales of Hoffmann (see Les Contes d'Hoffmann) | |||||
| 468 | Tartuffe | Molière's play, in English. (copy lost) | 110 min. | ||
| 631 | Tatie Danielle | Charles Gassot | 1990 | Comedy. | 114 min. |
| 337 | Le Testament d'Orphée ou, ne me demandez pas pourquoi. (The Testament of Orpheus, or Don't Ask me why). | Jean Cocteau | 1959 | Fantasy. With Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, Maria Casarès. B&W | 83 min. |
| 246 | Tirez sur le Pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) | François Truffaut | 1960 | Drama. With Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois. B&W | 84 min. |
| 1012 | Topaze | Louis Gasnier, avec Marcel Pagnol | 1951 | With Fernandel. B&W | 138 min. |
| 621 | Touki Bouki | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 1973 | Dramatic comedy. In Wolof and some French, with English subtitles | 86 min. |
| 446 | Le Transgabonais; un train pour le développement | (PICS) | 1984 | Documentary. No subtitles | 30 min. |
| 204 | Les Troyens | Metropolitan Opera | 1984 | Opera by Berlioz. Booklet available. | 253 min. |
| DVD 156 | Vers le Sud (Heading South) | Laurent Cantet | 2005 | Based on stories by Dany Laferrière | 107 min. |
| 625 | La Vie est belle | Ngangura Mweze and Benoît Lamy | 1987 | Comedy, featuring Congolese musician, Papa Wemba | 82 min. |
| When the Stars meet the Sea. (see Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer) | |||||
| Women with Open Eyes. (see Femmes aux yeux ouverts) | |||||
| 1170 | Woubi Chéri | Philip Brooks and Laurent Bocahut | 1998 | Documentary about transexual and homosexual community in Abidjan. | 60 min. |
| 620 | Yeelen (Brightness) | Soulymane Cissé | 1987 | Drama. In Bambara and Peul with English subtitles | 105 min. |
| 627 | Zazie dans le métro | Louis Malle | 1960 | Comedy. With Philippe Noiret. Based on Raymond Queneau's novel | 92 min. |
| 1271 | Zéro de conduite | Jean Vigo | 1933 | B&W, new copy of classic, dramatic comedy of subversive boarding school boys | 44 min. |
| 422 | Zouzou | Marc Allegret | 1934 | Dramatic comedy. With Joséphine Baker and Jean Gabin. B&W | 92 min. |
| Series and Collections: | |||||
| 1224 | The Andalusian Epic | Film series written by Mahmoud Hussein, directed by Philippe Calderon | 2001 | Produced for French television | 27 min. |
| 1233 | De l'arabe au latin (From Arabic to Latin) | 26 min. | |||
| 1226 | Les arpenteurs du monde (They Surveyed the World) | 26 min. | |||
| 1228 | Un art de vivre (An Art of Living) | 27 min. | |||
| 1230 | Le ciel à livres ouverts (Everything under the Sun) | 26 min. | |||
| 1231 | Les mille et une nuits (The Thousand and One Nights) | 27 min. | |||
| 1234 | Oublier l'arabe (Forgetting Arabic) | 27 min. | |||
| 1229 | Les secrets du corps humain (The Secrets of the Human Body) | 27 min. | |||
| 1232 | Les ulémas et les philosophes (Ulema and Philosophers) | 26 min. | |||
| 1227 | La ville musulmane. (The Muslim Town) | 26 min. | |||
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| Documentary films by Arnold Antonin (Haiti) | |||||
| DVD 443 | Les amours d'un zombi (The Loves of a Zombi) (fiction) | 2010 | Political farce (fiction, scénario by Gary Victor) | 93 min. | |
| DVD 445 | André Pierre ; celui qui peint le bon | Most of Arnold Antonin's documentary films have subtitles in several languages (French, Spanish, English, Kreyòl), and are usually filmed in Creole and/or French. | 2004 | Portrait of famed storyteller, hougan and artist. | 26 min. |
| DVD 105 | Cédor, ou l'esthétique de la modestie | 2002 | Portait of Cédor Dieudonné | 39 min. | |
| DVD 448 | Courage de femmes | 2007 | Daily lives of two women stone breakers (short) | 17 min. | |
| DVD 442 | Faiseur de fanaux | 2001 | The art of "fanaux", floating paper lantern-houses (short) | 14 min. | |
| DVD 106 | GNB kont Attila, ou, Une autre Haïti est possible | 2004 | Student revolt against Aristide in 2004 | 52 min. |
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| DVD 447 | Haïti ; le chemin de la liberté (Haiti, The Way to Freedom) | 1975 | First Haitian feature documentary; country's path to freedom, past to present (Jean-Claude Duvalier) | 120 min. | |
| DVD 104 | Marithou Dupoux, femme peintre | 2001 | 13 min. | ||
| DVD 446 | Préfète Duffaut ; piété et urbanisme imaginaire | 2008 | Portrait of Préfète Duffaut (1923-2012), Haiti's most well-known painter (short) | 34 min. | |
| DVD 103 | Tiga : Haïti ; rêve, création, possession, folie | 2001 | Portrait of Tiga (Jean-Claude Garoute, 1935-2006), founding artist of Saint-Soleil group. | 45 min. | |
| DVD 406 | Six femmes d'exception (Six Exceptional Women) | 2011 | Portraits of Micheline Laudun Denis, Vivianne Gauthier, Madeleine Desrosiers (Madan Tizo), Odette Roy Fombrun, Paulette Poujol Oriol, Emerante de Pradines (Emerante de Pradines-Morse) | 85 min. | |
| The Library also has a number of videos on French painters (e.g., David, Delacroix, Ingres) and, for example, a video on the Louvre museum (video number 301, "The Louvre: a Golden Prison") | |||||