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)

The Lame Devil (UK: The Devil Who Limped; original title: Le Diable boiteux, French for "the devil with a limp") is a 1948 French black-and-white historical film written and directed by Sacha Guitry. A biography of the titular French diplomat Talleyrand (1754–1838), it stars Guitry in the lead role. Originally forbidden by the French censorship and turned into a play, the film went on to be released into six languages. The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.   The movie is often noted for its opening sequence: after showing the birthplace of Talleyrand as it became in then-contemporary 1948 Paris, it moves to a bookstore window showcasing his main biographies, including a copy of Guitry's own Le Diable boiteux that creates a mise en abyme.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00983 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Duke's heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Duke's bastard, recently born. When the Duke learns of his child, he journeys to wed the mother, a baron's daughter, in her father's isolated chateau. The occupants of the castle are surprised and murdered by the Count and his men. The only ones to escape are the Duke's friend, the skilled swordsman Lagardère, and the infant, a girl, now the rightful heiress to the Duke's vast fortune. The Count believes the pair to have drowned, when in fact they have been concealed by a travelling troupe of Italian players. Twenty years pass. The Count has discovered that the two survive and seeks to have them slain. But Lagardère gains the confidence of the Count, and employment as his bookkeeper, through his clever disguise as a hunch-back. Clasificación [ CM DVD 00982 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Landscape in the Mist (Greek: Τοπίο στην ομίχλη, translit. Topio stin omichli) is a 1988 Greek film directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The movie portrays the journey of two children in search of their father, whom they believe lives in Germany. On the way they meet many people, including a troupe of actors (a reference to Angelopoulos' early movie The Travelling Players), and encounter dangers. Eventually, they cross a river thinking they have reached their hoped-for destination. Clasificación [ CM DVD 00613] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)  

La vie est un long fleuve tranquille est un film français réalisé par Étienne Chatiliez et sorti en 1988. Dans une ville du Nord de la France coexistent deux familles radicalement opposées et parodiant les stéréotypes locaux. D'un côté, les Groseille et leurs six enfants, aux revenus modestes, vivant d'aides sociales dans une HLM, dont l'existence est constituée de combines et de larcins. Parmi leurs enfants, Maurice, 12 ans, est sûrement le plus débrouillard et le plus intelligent.   De l'autre, les Le Quesnoy, famille aisée : Monsieur est directeur régional de l'EDF et Madame, outre ses actives participations aux kermesses de la paroisse, s'occupe de leurs cinq enfants. Les seuls tracas viennent de la part de Bernadette, 12 ans, qui agit de façon un peu erratique ces derniers temps.   Les deux familles qui vivent chacune de leur côté auraient pu ne jamais se rencontrer. Mais douze ans plus tôt, le soir de Noël, à la maternité, l'infirmière Josette, déprimée par l'attitude lâche et méprisante de son amant, le docteur Mavial, gynécologue, décide d’échanger au berceau deux nouveau-nés : le fils Le Quesnoy et la fille Groseille. Ainsi sont venus au monde, sur un coup de colère, Maurice Groseille et Bernadette Le Quesnoy.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00981 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)