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8 mujeres es una película francesa dirigida por François Ozon, lanzada en 2002, basada en la obra de teatro Ocho mujeres, de Robert Thomas. Transcurren los años cincuenta. Mientras se hacen los preparativos para la Navidad, en una casa de campo francesa asesinan al dueño de la mansión. De entre ocho mujeres relacionadas entre sí —su esposa Gaby, sus hijas Suzon y Catherine, su histérica cuñada Augustine, su hermana Pierrette, su avara suegra Mamy, la criada Louise y el ama de llaves Madame Chanel— allí presentes, una de ellas es la culpable.   Desde ese momento se inicia una larga y dura jornada de investigación, salpicada de discusiones, peleas y revelaciones, en la que se demuestra que todas guardan ocultos secretos que las convierten en sospechosas. Finalmente la verdad emergerá para acabar con todas las mentiras.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00991 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Película francesa de 1959 basada libremente en la novela de 1782 escrita por Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, aunque se establece en la actual Francia. Fue dirigida por Roger Vadim y protagonizada por Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Phillipe y Annette Vadim. Una coproducción francesa / italiana. La historia se centra en contar cómo Valmont y Juliette de Merteuil, una pareja casada, decide ayudarse entre sí y consienten que en su relación haya experiencias extramatrimoniales. Siempre en busca de diversión y emoción. Ambos tienen aventuras sexuales con otros. Pero hay una regla: no caer en el amor. Sin emabrgo, esta vez Valmont se enamora locamente de una chica que conoce en una estación de esquí, Marianne, y las cosas comienzan a torcerse. Clasificación [ CM DVD 00990 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Trois 2: Pandora's Box (also known as Pandora's Box) is a 2002 erotic thriller written and directed by Rob Hardy. It stars Monica Calhoun, Michael Jai White, and Kristoff St. John.   When first released, the film was known as Pandora's Box. The studio believed that it was similar in some ways to director Rob Hardy's film Trois and branded it as a franchise. Chrystale Wilson made a brief appearance as her character Tammy from Trois.   A woman's infidelity leads her into a web of larceny and danger in this noir-flavored independent thriller. Mia DuBois (Monica Calhoun) is a psychologist who until recently worked with the police department, counseling the survivors of victims of violent crime. While Mia has entered into a successful private practice, she's persuaded by her former colleagues to take on new client, Tammy (Chrystale Wilson), who is still dealing with the recent murder of her husband. As Mia helps Tammy with her problems, Mia finds herself thinking about her own marriage to Victor (Kristoff St. John), which has hardly been happy lately. As Mia begins wondering if she has other options, she visits a mysterious nightclub, Pandora's Box, where she meets the sexy and mysterious Hampton Hines (Michael Jai White). Mia soon begins having an affair with Hampton, unaware that Hampton is actually working with Victor and Tammy; Mia is soon to inherit $20 million, and Victor is determined to get his hands on the money. Hampton soon shifts his alliances to stay with Mia, but Victor and Tammy are not giving up their shares of the fortune quite so easily.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00615] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)  

Tatie Danielle (Auntie Danielle) is a 1990 French black humor film directed by Étienne Chatiliez. It features Tsilla Chelton as Auntie Danielle Billard. "Vous ne la connaissez pas encore, mais elle vous déteste déjà." – "You may not know her yet, but she hates you already."   Danielle Billard, aged 82, is a childless widow of an army colonel. She lives in a small-town home in Auxerre with her faithful housekeeper, Odile. Quiet life? Things are not as they appear. Danielle is mean, cruel and malicious. When Odile "accidentally" dies, Danielle divides her estate between her grand-niece and grand-nephew, Jeanne and Jean-Pierre. She then goes to live in Paris with Jean-Pierre and his family. Although the family believes her to be an agreeable elderly lady, they soon discover her true colours!   The family goes on an extended vacation leaving their aunt in the care of a young woman, Sandrine. Little does Danielle know, she has finally met her match! Through many turbulent episodes these two women develop an ostensibly mutual love-hate "respect".   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00989 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Babette s'en va-t-en guerre est un film réalisé par Christian-Jaque en 1959 suivant un scénario de Raoul Lévy et Gérard Oury.   En 1941 une jeune provinciale française est à Londres où le lieutenant Gérard de Crécy la fait engager comme femme de ménage au Quartier Général de la France libre. Le major Fitzpatrick, officier de renseignement britannique, remarque son étrange ressemblance avec Hilda, l'ex-maîtresse du responsable allemand du débarquement en Angleterre, le général von Arenberg. Après un entraînement intensif, elle est parachutée en France avec Gérard afin d'enlever le général.   Après de multiples aventures, elle se fait engager par Schulz, chef de la Gestapo, pour surveiller Arenberg.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00988 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

  El loco del pelo rojo (Lust for Life) es una película estadounidense de 1956 con guion de Norman Corwin basado en la novela homónima de 1934 escrita por Irving Stone. La película fue dirigida por Vincente Minnelli, y contó con la actuación de Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Jill Bennett, Everett Sloane y Henry Daniell.   La película va narrando las tribulaciones de Vincent Van Gogh desde sus iniciales tanteos con la predicación religiosa en las pobres regiones mineras de Bélgica hasta su contacto con los innovadores pintores impresionistas ubicados en París, pasando por sus primerizos contactos con la pintura en su país natal (en la cual dibujaba a los campesinos realizando la tareas más cotidianas); sus inestables relaciones amorosas y amistosas, y el vínculo afectivo más importante que mantuvo en su azarosa existencia, su hermano Theo, familiar que le ayudó durante toda su vida tanto como apoyo emocional, y como sustento económico para que Vincent pudiera sobrevivir en el lugar donde estuviese, fuese Holanda, Arlés o París.   En tales lugares procuró desarrollar su genio pictórico en contacto con otros artistas (Seurat, Monet, Pissarro o su mejor amigo: Paul Gauguin, interpretado por Anthony Quinn, que sería premiado con el premio Óscar al mejor actor de reparto) y con su mejor influencia: los fenómenos naturales, la luz, el sol, el viento, las estrellas… Todo ello expresado con su vigorizante sentido del color y su trazo grueso y ondulante.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00987 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

La Traversée de Paris French: The Trip Across Paris, is a French comedy drama film from 1956, directed by Claude Autant-Lara, written by Marcel Aymé, starring Jean Gabin, Bourvil and Louis de Funès. The film is known under the titles: "Four Bags Full" (USA), "Pig Across Paris" (UK), "The Trip Across Paris" (International English title). Action takes place in Paris during WWII in 1942. Unemployed Taxi-Driver, Marcel Martin makes his living delivering parcels on the black market. One day, he must carry by foot, to the other side of the capital, four suitcases containing pork meat. He goes to the basement of a grocer named Jambier and plays the accordion while the animal is butchered.   Martin then goes with his wife Mariette to the restaurant where he must find his accomplice. He learns that he has been arrested by the police. A stranger then enters the restaurant and on a misunderstanding, Martin invited him to share his meal and to work with him replacing his former accomplice.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00985 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Peur sur la ville  is a 1975 French crime film directed by Henri Verneuil. Policeman Jean Letellier is under pressure because the infamous gangster Marcucci escaped him publicly. Moreover during the pursuit an innocent bystander was killed by a stray bullet. Letellier is investigated for having fired the deadly bullet. Before Letellier is cleared, a serial killer begins to murder young women, each time leaving a weird message at the site of crime. He calls himself "Minos", referring to the Divine Comedy. The murderer always declares he had punished his victims for what he considers their impure life style.     While Letellier still has no trace of "Minos", he comes across Marcucci's current whereabouts. Just as before, Marcucci tries to escape in a spectacular manner when Letellier confronts him. But this time Marcucci dies in the course of action. Marcucci's death is no relief for Letellier who is now publicly accused of having neglected the "Minos" case in favour of settling his personal feud with his late archenemy.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00986 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

El oso es una película franco-norteamericana del aclamado director francés Jean-Jacques Annaud de 1988. El guion fue creado por Gérard Brach basándose en la novela The Grizzly King del escritor conservacionista James Oliver Curwood. La película nos lleva al Canadá del siglo XIX. El personaje principal es un oso huérfano, quien perdió a su madre en una avalancha de rocas que le aplastó su cabeza mientras buscaba miel para alimentarse en una zona montañosa y que le provocó la muerte. El cachorro en su triste soledad encuentra a un oso más grande que termina haciéndose su amigo. Ambos tendrán que huir de dos cazadores quienes intentan matarlos. Al final los cazadores se rinden con su cacería y toman conciencia sobre el derecho que tienen los animales a la vida. El oso grande se convierte en su padre adoptivo, quedándose con la custodia del cachorro húerfano y que este termina con una vida feliz libre de tristeza y soledad… Clasificación [ CM DVD 00984 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Lilies of the Field is a 1963 film adapted by James Poe from the 1962 novel with the same name by William Edmund Barrett, and stars Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Stanley Adams, and Dan Frazer. It was produced and directed by Ralph Nelson. The title comes from Matthew 6:27-33 a portion of the Sermon on the Mount in the New Testament and its parallel scripture from Luke 12:27-30. It also features an early film score by prolific composer Jerry Goldsmith. Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) is an itinerant handyman/jack-of-all-trades who stops at a farm in the Arizona desert to obtain some water for his car. There he sees several women working on a fence, very ineptly. The women, who speak very little English, introduce themselves as German, Austrian and Hungarian nuns. The mother superior, the leader of the nuns, persuades him to do a small roofing repair. He stays overnight, assuming that he will be paid in the morning. Next day, Smith tries to persuade the mother superior to pay him by quoting Luke 10:7, "The laborer is worthy of his hire." Mother Maria Marthe (Lilia Skala, called "Mother Maria"), responds by asking him to read another Bible verse from the Sermon on the Mount: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”   Mother Maria likes things done her way. The nuns have essentially no money and subsist by living off the land, on what vegetables the arid climate provides, and some milk and eggs. Even after being stonewalled when asking for payment, and after being persuaded to stay for a meal, and against his better judgment, Smith agrees to stay another day to help them with other small jobs, always with the faint hope that Mother Maria will pay him for his work.   As Smith's  skills and strengths become apparent to the nuns, they come to believe that he has been sent by God to fulfill their dream of building a chapel for the townsfolk—who are Mexican and impoverished—as the nearest church is miles away.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00614] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)