French

[original release date 2010] Godard's first film produced entirely in HD digital video format. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean, Godard embarks on a filmic essay on the state of contemporary Europe, international politics, and Western history.

[original release date 1995] Vincent Cassel, Saïd Taghmaoui, Hubert Koundé. In a suburban ghetto of Paris, three immigrants-a Jew, an African and an Arab-boil over with hostility during a racially-motivated riot with French police. The landmark film offers a gripping tale indicative of contemporary France's ethnic identity crisis. In French with English subtitles

[Extended version] A dramatic retelling of the life of Edith Piaf, considered one of the great performers of France. Raised in a brothel, taken to work in a circus by her father, and eventually abandoned by her parents, she spent her teen years on the streets. Eventually "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, she makes her way to international success, despite recurring frailty, illness, wild moods, drug and alcohol problems.

[original release date 1955] Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.

[original release date 1960] Breathless: A small-time hood kills a policeman and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police and he gets killed trying to escape.

Collection of 50 classic films includes La Belle et la Bête/ Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946) on disc 5;
Les Quatre Cents Coups/The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959) on disc 14;
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot/M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953) on disc 28