Le dos au mur AKA Back to the wall (1958) - lesser known French crime movie directed by Édouard Molinaro, starring Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury and Philippe Nicaud

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Édouard Molinaro
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052753/

Cast

Jeanne Moreau ... Gloria Decrey
Gérard Oury ... Jacques Decrey
Philippe Nicaud ... Yves Normand
Claire Maurier ... Ghislaine
Gérard Buhr ... Mario
George Cusin ... Le commissaire de police
Robert Bazil ... Un inspecteur de police
Jean Degrave ... Le bijoutier
Richard Francoeur ... Un invité des Decrey

Description: Out of the blue, after years of marriage, the affluent industrialist, Jacques Decrey, finds out that his beloved wife, Gloria, is cheating on him with the unemployed young actor, Yves Normand. Under those circumstances, betrayed and humiliated, the wronged husband concocts an elaborate scheme, designed to punish the brazen clandestine lovers. Now, under the guise of an unknown blackmailer, Jacques demands increasingly large amounts of money to keep "his" mouth shut; however, his is a dangerous game with unforeseeable consequences. Will the truth set free those who have their backs to the wall?

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.57 GB, 3894 Kbps, 24 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 78 MB, 116 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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À bout de souffle AKA Breathless (1960) - classic French crime drama directed by Jean-Luc Godard in his debute, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg

Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: French/English
Country: France
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Michel Poiccard a.k.a. Laszlo Kovacs
Jean Seberg ... Patricia Franchini
Van Doude ... Self
Jean-Luc Godard ... The Snitch
Richard Balducci ... Tolmatchoff(uncredited)
Daniel Boulanger ... Police Inspector Vital (uncredited)
José Bénazéraf ... Man in a White Car (uncredited)
Jean Domarchi ... A Drunk (uncredited)

Description: Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.

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Also a set of extras included:

* "Breathless as Criticism" - Jonathan Rosenbaum's film esssay compiling clips and explaining the various cultural, literary, artistic and cinematic references Godard makes in Breathless (in English, 11:09 min)
* "Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede" - An early '90s French television program that seeks out the original locations from Breathless, as well as finding cast and crew, in order to get as close to the flashpoint that was the film as possible. Those interviewed include Belmondo, Claude Chabrol, Coutard, even Godard shows up, ever so briefly, as a voice on the phone. He hangs up on the interviewer almost immediately (in French, with English subtitles, 1:18:32 h)
* Contemporary interviews with Raoul Coutard and assistant director Pierre Rissient - Two separate interviews woven together of both gentlemen reminiscing about Godard and the making of Breahtless (in French, with English subtitles, 22:29 min)
* Interview with D.A. Pennebaker - The influential documentarian (Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back, Depeche Mode 101) relates his experience meeting Godard and explores his assertion that Breathless was "a documentary about Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg." (in English, 10:32 min)
* Interviews - Several period interviews with Godard, Belmondo, Seberg and director Jean-Pierre Melville, who has a cameo in Breathless as the pretentious author Parvulesco (in French, with English subtitles, 27:02 min)
* "Jean Seberg" - A new biographical study of the actress by Mark Rappaport, director of the documentary "From the Journals of Jean Seberg". He uses still photos and clips from promotional films and interviews to chronicle the various cresting waves of her tragic life and career (in English, with subtitles, 18:56 min)
* Trailer (2:01 min)


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.56 GB, 2482 Kbps, 24 fps, 658x480 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 115/67/127 MB (main/Studio Canal 2.0 alternative track/commentary), 179/104/196 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR/CBR


Subtitles (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese Mandarin closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, posters and screenshots included


Triple audio track information


This movie contains three audio tracks, one is original French and others are Studio Canal 2.0 alternative track and commentary by film critic David Sterritt. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track, main on Track 1, alternative track on Track 2 and commentary on Track 3)

L'armée des ombres AKA Army of shadows (1969) - classic French war drama directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann and Christian Barbier

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 144 min
Language: French/German/English
Country: France/Italy
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064040/

Cast

Lino Ventura ... Philippe Gerbier
Paul Meurisse ... Luc Jardie
Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Jean François Jardie
Simone Signoret ... Mathilde
Claude Mann ... Claude Ullmann dit 'Le Masque'
Paul Crauchet ... Felix Lepercq
Christian Barbier ... Guillaume Vermersch dit 'Le Bison'
Serge Reggiani ... The hairdresser
André Dewavrin ... Colonel Passy
Alain Dekok ... Legrain

Description: In 1942, French engineer and Resistant cell leader Philippe Gerbier is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. He manages to escape, and together with Felix Lepercq and Resistance hit-man Claude "The Mask" Ullmann, they kidnap the traitor that gave him away to the Germans and execute him. Gerbier travels to London to discuss Allied logistical support for the Resistance; meanwhile, Felix is captured by the Germans and tortured. Resistance members Mathilde, Guillaume "Bison" Vermersch, and the Mask try unsuccessfully to rescue him. But Jean François Jardie, brother of Resistance commandant Luc Jardie, sacrifices himself to deliver a cyanide pill to Felix in prison. As the months go by the organization continues its clandestine operations until the day a captured member, tortured by the Germans, becomes a threat to the mission...

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Video and audio information:

Video : 3.79 GB, 3776 Kbps, 24 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 90/82 MB (main/commentary), 88/83 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/q channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English, French (including hearing impaired), Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Turkish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Czech closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and the other is commentary by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track, main on Track 1 and commentary on Track 2)

Crossfire (1947) - classic film noir directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Paul Kelly and Sam Levene

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 86 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039286/

Cast

Robert Young ... Finlay
Robert Mitchum ... Keeley
Robert Ryan ... Montgomery
Gloria Grahame ... Ginny
Paul Kelly ... The Man
Sam Levene ... Samuels
Jacqueline White ... Mary Mitchell
Steve Brodie ... Floyd

Description: Homicide Capt. Finlay finds evidence that one or more of a group of demobilized soldiers is involved in the death of Joseph Samuels. In flashbacks, we see the night's events from different viewpoints as army Sgt. Keeley investigates on his own, trying to clear Mitchell, to whom circumstantial evidence points. Then the real, ugly motive for the killing begins to dawn on both Finlay and Keeley.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.19 GB, 3668 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 72/59 MB (main/commentary), 118/96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


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Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and the other is commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini, with interview excerpts of director Edward Dmytryk. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track, main on Track 1 and commentary on Track 2)

The Twilight Zone (1960-1961) - Season 2, episodes 1-9

Episode 1 - King Nine will not return

Description: The pilot of a downed B-25, Capt. James Embry, awakens in the desert, with no memory of how he got there. More worrisome, his crew is nowhere to be found. He begins to wonder if he's hallucinating, especially after he sees one of his men sitting in the cockpit. When he awakens in hospital, he thinks it might have all been a dream, but wonders: did any of this really happen?

Episode 2 - The man in the bottle

Description: Arthur and Edna Castle run a small antique shop but business is not good and they're having trouble paying their bills. Despite that, the good-hearted Arthur buys an old wine bottle from the desperate Mrs. Gumley for a dollar. When he knocks the bottle open, a genie appears offering them four wishes. They soon find that their wishes don't lead them to the outcomes they had hoped for and certainly don't lead to happiness.


Episode 3 - Nervous man in a four dollar room

Description: Jackie Rhoades's a 34-year-old, small-time hood who lives in a cheap $4-a-night hotel room. He's waiting to hear about his next job as 'muscle', but when George shows up telling him his next job's the murder of a bar owner who doesn't want to pay off his gangster bosses, Jackie begins to have a conversation with his alter ego who appears to him in the mirror. The alter ego takes him to task for the choices he made in his life - choices which led him to where he's been; crime, prison and broken relationships. He also offers Jackie an alternative.


Episode 4 - A thing about machines

Description: Bartlett Finchley is an odd man, a writer who contributes to food magazines and the like. He lives alone and is always it seems in need of a repairman for one piece of household equipment or another. As time has gone by, he seems to be in a constant battle with machines - his typewriter, his television - which all have the same message for him: get out of the house. He has no intention of doing so however and the battle begins.


Episode 5 - The howling man

Description: David Ellington recounts a story, one that began just after the end of World War I. He was hiking in Europe when he sought refuge in an abbey during a violent rain storm. The residence is isolated and its head, Brother Jerome, tells him he cannot stay. Ellington is ill however and during his short stay meets someone who is being kept prisoner and howls constantly through the night. Ellington believes the Howling Man is being kept there for no good reason but Brother Jerome tells him of the man's true nature. The decision Ellington makes will haunt him for the rest of his life.


Episode 6 - Eye of the beholder

Description: Janet Tyler is in hospital having undergone treatment to make her look normal. It's her 11th trip to the hospital for treatment and she is desperate to look like everyone else. Some of her earliest childhood memories are of people looking away, horrified by her appearance. Her bandages will soon come off and she can only hope that this, her last treatment, will have done the trick. If not, her doctor has told she will be segregated with a colony of similar looking people. All that to say that truth is truly in the eye of the beholder.


Episode 7 - Nick of time

Description: Don and Pat Carter are on their honeymoon when their car breaks down in the small town of Ridgeview, Ohio. They have a few hours to spare while their car is being repaired and spend time in the diner. There they find a fortune-telling machine, a game where you can ask a question and for a penny will spit out an innocuous answer. When the machine apparently begins to predict events - Don's promotion at work, a near accident on the street outside - a superstitious Don becomes infatuated with the device threatening his marriage and his future with Pat.


Episode 8 - The lateness of the hour

Description: Jana Loren is an attractive young woman who lives at home with her parents. She feels suffocated living there however, surrounded by their many servants - that are in fact human-looking robots created by her inventor father. Her parents are quite happy with the life they lead but realize that they're going to have to do something about the rebellious Jana, including revealing at least one secret they have kept from her.


Episode 9 - The trouble with Middleton

Description: Booth Templeton is a renowned stage actor who has reached a stage in his personal life where he has idealized his past. In particular he has fond memories of his first wife, Laura. After a stressful encounter at the theater, he walks out of the stage door and finds himself in 1927 where he joins his wife and best friend, Barney Fluegler, for dinner. It all reminds him that his past was not as rosy as he may have remembered it.

Video and audio information:

Video : 218-366 MB, 1172-1975 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 163
Audio : 36 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

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Black Tuesday (1954) - little known film noir directed by Hugo Fregonese, starring Edward G. Robinson, Peter Graves and Jean Parker

Rating 6.7/10
Runtime: 81 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Hugo Fregonese
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046790/

Cast

Edward G. Robinson ... Vincent Canelli
Peter Graves ... Peter Manning
Jean Parker ... Hatti Combest
Milburn Stone ... Father Slocum
Warren Stevens ... Joey Stewart
Sylvia Findley ... Ellen Norris
Jack Kelly ... Frank Carson

Description: Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning - a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning's robbery to finance their escape from the country.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.97 GB, 3495 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x552 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 152/111 MB (main/commentary), 265/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/1 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AC3, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing impaired) and French closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Greek), posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and the other is commentary by film historian and screenwriter Gary Gerani. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track, main on Track 1 and commentary on Track 2)

The crooked way (1949) - little known film noir directed by Robert Florey, starring John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew and Rhys Williams

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Robert Florey
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041269/

Cast

John Payne ... Eddie Rice aka Eddie Riccardi
Sonny Tufts ... Vince Alexander
Ellen Drew ... Nina Martin
Rhys Williams ... Police Lt. Joe Williams
Percy Helton ... Petey
Hal Baylor ... Coke

Description: After being released from hospital, a World War II veteran who's suffering from amnesia decides to return to Los Angeles to see if he can regain his identity. Retracing his former steps, he learns he was a gangster, and many wish he were dead....and some try to see to it.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.94 GB, 3100 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 768x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 143 MB, 224 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English and French closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Greek, Czech), posters and screenshots included

The burglar (1957) - lesser known film noir directed by Paul Wendkos, starring Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Peter Capell, Mickey Shaughnessy and Martha Vickers

Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Paul Wendkos
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049035/

Cast

Dan Duryea ... Nat Harbin
Jayne Mansfield ... Gladden
Martha Vickers ... Della
Peter Capell ... Baylock
Mickey Shaughnessy ... Dohmer
Wendell K. Phillips ... Police Captain

Description: Nat, Gladden, Baylock and Dohmer comprise a disparate band of Philadelphia-based thieves, who, despite their differences, are able to pull off their latest heist of a bejeweled necklace which Baylock, the jewelry specialist, appraises at $150,000 retail. The heist itself was not without its problems, they having a couple of close calls in the process. The heist only exacerbates the issues between the four. Baylock has always had problems with Gladden who he sees as adding nothing to their gang, while brutish Dohmer always seem solely to want to manhandle her. While Nat realizes that they have to hold on to the necklace until things cool down, Baylock, on parole, wants to get rid of it as soon as possible to reduce their risk. While most realize they will ultimately only be able to get a fraction of the retail amount, Dohmer wants to push for as close to retail as possible. Through it all, Nat, the leader, seems to have a protective nature toward Gladden - the reason he comes to her defense against Baylock and Dohmer - even though the others can see that he isn't interested in her in a romantic sense. Nat, in turn, is unaware that Gladden is indeed in love with him. While the four lay low together with Baylock and Dohmer in particular going stir crazy, Nat is able to convince Gladden to hide out in the open somewhere else - the choice being Atlantic City - to protect her against those stir crazy feelings of the other two. When Nat eventually discovers that Gladden is in danger from someone who believes she may be in possession of the necklace, the reason her pursuer believes she was sent away, Nat, who is still the holder of the jewels, feels obligated to protect her at all cost.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 2.15 GB, 3399 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 132 MB, 204 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


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