Films with: Clouzot, H.-G

Corbeau The raven /

A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an ccupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt.

DVD 3371

Diabolique

The sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school brutalizes his fragil wife and his headstrong mistress. The two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, no body is found.

DVD 1769

Diaboliques The devils /

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.

DVD 760

Enfer

Paul seems to have it all, but is actually forced to work extremely hard to keep it all afloat. He begins to hear voices in his head questioning the choices he's made. What follows is Paul's downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy, where he realizes that hell is not a state of mind -- hell is himself.

DVD 727

Herbert von Karajan zeigt die Kunst des Dirigierens

"This important document is the only visual we have of Herbert von Karajan rehearsing an entire work -- Schumann's fourth symphony. Together with the recording of Beethoven rehearsal, it provides a rare insight into the way in which 'das wunder Karajan' fashioned his unique style"--Container.

DVD 9170

Quai des orfèvres

Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.

DVD 2068

Salaire de la peur Wages of fear /

A drama of courage, cowardice and failure set in South America. Four desperate men attempt to transport two truck-loads of nitro-glycerine 300 miles to the site of an oil well fire.

DVD 659

Vérité

Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominate film delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.

DVD 13012