RETROSPECTIVE (154 titles)

Jour De Fete

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• Jour De Fete on DVD (1949)
  Starring: Jacques Tati,  Guy Decomble,  Paul Frankeur
  Director: Jacques Tati
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  The story of a village's Bastille Day celebrations and a postman's determined efforts to get the mail through. A delightful look at the modern obsession with speed and efficiency. French dialogue with subtitles.
  
  Rate this: 69% from 1,931 member

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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

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• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday on DVD (1953)
  Starring: Jacques Tati
  Director: Jacques Tati
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  Jacques Tati, master of his own idiosyncratic genre of cinematic slapstick, followed up his acclaimed debut JOUR DE F-TE with the equally ingenious MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY. Five years in the making, the film marks the debut of Tati's altar ego, Mr. Hulot, a gangly and awkward Frenchman, perpetually the ..read more »
  
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Mon Oncle

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• Mon Oncle on DVD (1958)
  Starring: Jacques Tati
  Director: Jacques Tati
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  Unemployed Monsieur Hulot spends his days waiting to pick up his adoring nephew from school and escort him to his ultra modern home. Concerned for Hulot's future, his sister tries to pair him with her neighbor while his brother-in-law tries to secure a job for him in his hose factory. Chaos ensues. ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 70% from 2,266 members

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Playtime

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• Playtime on DVD (1967)
  Starring: Jacques Tati,  Barbara Dennek,  Sharon Maiden
  Director: Jacques Tati
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  Jacques Tati's spectacular cinematic art reached its peak in the gargantuan achievement of this film, PLAYTIME. Marking the third appearance of Tati's Mr. Magoo-like character, Mr. Hulot, PLAYTIME takes as its subject modern technology and its sometimes disastrous and always hilarious effects on ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 64% from 1,621 member

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I Vitelloni

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• I Vitelloni on DVD (1953)
  Starring: Franco Interlenghi,  Alberto Sordi,  Franco Fabrizi
  Director: Federico Fellini
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  Five men in their mid-to-late 20s (overgrown calves) drink, womanize and idle in their Italian seaside hometown. While some of them dream of leaving, only one finally does.
  
  Rate this: 73% from 788 members

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Take The Money And Run

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• Take The Money And Run on DVD (1968)
  Starring: Woody Allen,  Janet Margolin,  Marcel Hillaire
  Director: Woody Allen
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  Woody Allen's directorial debut, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN, is a hilarious mock documentary about the life and crimes of one Virgil Starkwell--a man who always ends up getting his glasses crushed. Familiar newsreel voice Jackson Beck narrates the tale of the hapless criminal and his ridiculous plans ..read more »
  
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Belles of St. Trinian's

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• Belles of St. Trinian's on DVD (1954)
  Starring: Beryl Reid,  Alistair Sim,  George Cole
  Director: Frank Launder
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  The Headmistress of St. Trinian's, the renowned establishment for the education of young ladies, faces a few problems with her students. The unruly schoolgirls are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 69% from 2,552 members

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Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

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• Pure Hell of St. Trinian's on DVD (1957)
  Starring: George Cole,  Alice Krige,  Cecil Parker
  Director: Frank Launder
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  The fourth form monsters latest trick is their best ever - they've burned down St. Trinian's! As the school stands trials, the police breathe a sigh of relief. But miraculously the judges infatuation with Rosalie, the beautiful blonde of the sixth form, means the school is freed. And with them go ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 69% from 1,317 member

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Who's that Knocking at my Door

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• Who's that Knocking at my Door on DVD (1967)
  Starring: Harvey Keitel,  Zina Bethune,  Anne Collette
  Director: Martin Scorsese
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  J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it.
  
  Rate this: 57% from 385 members

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Blood Simple

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• Blood Simple on DVD (1983)
  Starring: M. Emmet Walsh,  Dan Hedaya,  John Getz
  Director: Joel Coen
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  When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of deceit and double crosses ensues in a small Texas town. The Coen brothers' first picture is an intricately plotted film noir filled with surprises at each turn. The cast, largely unknown at the ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 65% from 10,322 members

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