Perros de paja es una película estadounidense-británica de suspense-drama de 1971 dirigida por Sam Peckinpah y protagonizada por Dustin Hoffman y Susan George. David Sumner, un profesor estadounidense, y su mujer, Amy, se trasladan a una villa en medio de la campiña inglesa buscando huir de la violencia inherente en su país de origen, que era Francia (donde se llegaron a masacrar a trescientas mil personas). Pero sus vecinos, aparentemente pacíficos, comienzan a tener comportamientos extremadamente violentos hacia ellos, desatando una impresionante venganza por parte de Sumner. Cuando a mediados de la década de 1960 empieza a cuestionarse si determinadas películas hacían alarde de una violencia gratuita, la figura de Peckinpah rompe los moldes con obras en las que la violencia aparece en primer plano y muestra su cara menos amable. Perros de paja es una de las películas más características de esta época.   Peckinpah presenta a la violencia de una manera muy cruda. No necesita de la sangre (aunque la utiliza mucho) para hacer sentir esa violencia extrema. En Perros de paja, el personaje de Dustin Hoffman siente esta desazón, se encuentra solo en un entorno hostil, en el que incluso su propia esposa representa una amenaza a su integridad.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00627 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble est un film franco-italien réalisé par Maurice Pialat, sorti en 1972. Si l'on met à part la série télévisée La Maison des bois, Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble est le second long-métrage de Maurice Pialat. Jean, qui est réalisateur, vit avec sa femme Françoise, mais depuis plusieurs années, il réside le plus souvent chez sa maîtresse Catherine (Colette, dans le livre). Pour des raisons professionnelles (tournage d’un film), Jean propose à Catherine de l’accompagner en Camargue, afin qu’elle assure la prise de son. La conduite de Jean est odieuse et après une scène inqualifiable, ils se réconcilient cependant, avant de rentrer à Paris. Ainsi commence un cycle invivable de disputes suivies de réconciliations. Elle s’enfuit en province, chez sa grand-mère, mais ne pouvant vivre sans elle, il la rejoint. Alors qu’il s’attache de plus en plus, elle prend un chemin opposé qui lui fait refuser tout ce qu’elle acceptait jusqu’à maintenant. La rupture intervient peu après qu’il lui propose de se marier. Catherine a décidé d’épouser un autre homme. Une dernière entrevue lui donne quelques explications. Clasificación [ CM DVD 00996] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

The Night of the Hunter (1955) is an American horror film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb, it was adapted for the screen by James Agee and Laughton. The plot focuses on a corrupt reverend-turned-serial killer who attempts to charm an unsuspecting widow and steal $10,000 hidden by her executed husband. In the 1930s West Virginia, along the Ohio River, Reverend Harry Powell, a serial killer, flees the scene of his latest victim. Powell is a self-anointed preacher with a penchant for switchblade knives; a misogynist who is both attracted to and repulsed by women. He travels rural roads, preaching in small towns, and seems to believe he is doing God's work. The letters "L-O-V-E" are tattooed on one hand and the letters "H-A-T-E" on the other, which Powell uses as symbols in impromptu sermons. In one small town, police arrest Powell for driving a stolen car and sentence him to jail, unaware that he is a murderer.   Meanwhile, a local family man named Ben Harper ends up killing two people in a bank robbery. Before his arrest, he arrives home to his two young children, John and Pearl. Ben convinces them to keep the secret of where he has hidden the money: inside Pearl's rag doll. Immediately afterwards the police arrive and arrest Ben, and John is shocked by the way the police roughly pin down and overpower his father.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00626] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Swing Time (En alas de la danza en España, Ritmo loco en Hispanoamérica) es una película de Estados Unidos dirigida por George Stevens y protagonizada por Fred Astaire y Ginger Rogers. Se estrenó en 1936. 'Lucky' Garnett (Fred Astaire) es un bailarín jugador que intenta ahorrar suficiente dinero para casarse con la chica a la que pretende (Betty Furness); sin embargo, al llegar tarde a la boda, la familia de la novia le  exige que consiga 25 000 dólares en Nueva York para volver a pretenderla. Pero para cuando ha conseguido ahorrar el dinero, él y Penny Carroll (Ginger Rogers), una profesora de danza, están locamente enamorados el uno del otro. Todo un delirio de música, coreografía, dirección artística y enredo amoroso a mayor gloria de la pareja formada por Fred Astaire y Ginger Rogers y del impetuoso sonido de swing que caracterizó la época de las big bands en plena depresión económica y social, dirigido con mano maestra por un cineasta como George Stevens, más acostumbrado a narraciones mesuradas y pese a todo grandilocuentes. Clasificación [ CM DVD 00625] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)  

Es una coproducción franco-italiana de 1956, escrita y dirigida por Roger Vadim y protagonizada por Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant y Christian Marquand en los papeles principales. Fue un éxito de taquilla en Estados Unidos en 1957, que lanzó al estrellato internacional a Brigitte Bardot, convirtiéndola en un símbolo sexual, causando polémica entre grupos religiosos, que la condenaron.   Juliette Hardy (Brigitte Bardot) es una bella y sensual muchacha que vive con sus tutores legales en Saint-Tropez (Francia) y que suele atraer a los hombres de ciudad por su actitud desinhibida. Un día conoce a Éric Carradine (Curt Jurgens), un empresario que quiere comprar un pequeño astillero donde vive la modesta familia Tardieu para construir un hotel, y éste se queda prendado de la joven. Pero ella está enamorada de Antoine Tardieu (Christian Marquand), el hermano mayor de la familia que vive en el astillero que quiere comprar el empresario.   Todo se complica cuando los tutores legales de la chica descubren qué provoca la belleza de la chica en el lugar y quieren devolverla al orfanato: entonces Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), hermano de Antoine, le propone matrimonio para evitar su marcha de Saint-Tropez. Tres hombres obsesionados por una misma mujer que harán todo lo posible por conseguirla…   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00994 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

L'Argent (French pronunciation: ​[laʁ.ʒɑ̃], meaning "Money") is a 1983 French drama film directed by Robert Bresson. It is loosely inspired by the first part of Leo Tolstoy's novella The Forged Coupon. It was Bresson's last film. It earned its maker the Director's Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. A young man enters his father's study to claim a monthly allowance. His father obliges, but the son presses for more, citing a debt at school he must pay. The father dismisses him and an appeal to his mother fails. This leads him to pawn off his watch to a friend who, instead of paying him, provides him with a forged 500-franc note. After the trade, the youth lingers to peruse an album of nude art, with similar images to appear throughout the film.   The boys take the counterfeit to a photo shop and change it on the pretext of buying a picture frame. When the store co-manager finds out, he scolds his partner for her lack of wariness. She chides him in return for having accepted two forged notes the previous week. He then vows to pass off all the forged notes in their possession at the next opportunity, which arises when a gas man, Yvon, comes in with a bill. Yvon tries to pay a restaurant tab with the forged notes, but the waiter recognizes them as counterfeit. Yvon is arrested, but avoids jail time; however, he loses his job. Needing money, he acts as the get-away car driver for a friend's bank robbery. The robbery is foiled by police, and Yvon is arrested. He is sentenced to prison for three years.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00624] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often… An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.   An elderly painter whose son visits with his family on the weekends, is also surprised by a visit from his still-single daughter. Director: Bertrand Tavernier   Writers: Pierre Bost (novel), Bertrand Tavernier | 1 more credit » Stars: Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azéma | See full cast & crew   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00993 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Fellini Satyricon, or simply Satyricon, is a 1969 Italian fantasy drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini. It is loosely based on Petronius's work, Satyricon, a series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. The film opens on a graffiti-covered wall with Encolpio lamenting the loss of his lover Gitone to Ascilto. Vowing to win him back, he learns at the Thermae that Ascilto sold Gitone to the actor Vernacchio. At the theatre, he discovers Vernacchio and Gitone performing in a lewd play based on the "emperor's miracle": a slave's hand is axed off and replaced with a gold one.   Encolpio storms the stage and reclaims Gitone. On their return to Encolpio's home in the Insula Felicles, a Roman tenement building, they walk through the vast Roman brothel known as the Lupanare, observing numerous sensual scenes. They fall asleep after making love at Encolpio's place. Ascilto sneaks into the room, waking Encolpio with a whiplash. Since both share the tenement room, Encolpio proposes they divide up their property and separate. Ascilto mockingly suggests they split Gitone in half. Encolpio is driven to suicidal despair, however, when Gitone decides to leave with Ascilto. At that moment, an earthquake destroys the tenement.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00623] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols, is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows a group of strangers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory. n 1880, a motley group of strangers boards the east-bound stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory to Lordsburg, New Mexico Territory. These travelers are unremarkable and ordinary at first glance.[2] Among them are Dallas (Claire Trevor), a prostitute who is being driven out of town by the members of the "Law and Order League"; an alcoholic doctor, Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell); pregnant Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt), who is traveling to see her cavalry officer husband; and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock (Donald Meek).   When the stage driver, Buck (Andy Devine), looks for his normal shotgun guard, Marshal Curly Wilcox (George Bancroft) tells him that the guard has gone searching for fugitive the Ringo Kid. Buck tells Marshal Wilcox that Luke Plummer (Tom Tyler) is in Lordsburg. Knowing that Kid has vowed to avenge the deaths of his father and brother at Plummer's hands, the marshal decides to ride along as guard.   As they set out, U.S. cavalry Lieutenant Blanchard (Tim Holt) informs the group that Geronimo and his Apaches are on the warpath and his small troop will provide an escort until they reach Dry Fork. As they depart, the stagecoach is flagged down to pick up two more passengers, gambler and Southern gentleman Hatfield (John Carradine) as well as banker Henry Gatewood (Berton Churchill), who is absconding with $50,000 embezzled from his bank.   Along the way, they come across the Ringo Kid (John Wayne), whose horse became lame and left him afoot. Even though they are friends, Curly has no choice but to take Ringo into custody. As the trip progresses, Ringo takes a strong liking to Dallas. When Doc Boone tells Peacock that he served as a doctor in the Union Army during the "War of the Rebellion," Hatfield quickly uses a Southern term, the "War for the Southern Confederacy."   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00622] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)