EUROPEAN EDITION [1981] Language options: English, French, Spanish / Full frame / 526 minutes / Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Frankie Sakai, Alan Badel ASIN: B001TO1ZS2 DVD Region Code: 2 DVD Description From best-selling author James Clavell (King Rat, Noble House) and starring Richard Chamberlain (The Three Musketeers, TVs The Thorn Birds, Dr. Kildare), John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and Toshiro Mifune (Rashomon), Shogun is a sweeping award-winning story of love and war, set against the spectacular background of feudal Japan at the beginning of the 17th Century. The complete collection of Shogun tells the story of John Blackthorne (Chamberlain), an English navigator who finds himself shipwrecked off the coast of Japan. Once rescued, Blackthorne becomes an eyewitness to a deadly struggle involving Toranaga, a feuding Japanes...  (less)

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Bouquet, Jean Carmet, Francoise Seigner, Evelyne Bouix / Duration: 220 minutes ASIN: B002X5BYVO DVD Region Code: 2 Synopsis 1815, Jean Valjean, sent to prison for stealing bread, is released. He decides to redeem his sins and serve well. Changing identity to rebuild his life, he takes under his wing a young orphan Cosette. Pursued by the implacable hatred of the Commissioner Javert, amid a teeming crowd of characters Jean Valjean lead to death in his fight for justice and love. Who has not roared in reading the story of the plight of Jean Valjean, sent to prison for stealing bread? Who has not wept after the slow metamorphosis of the convict father became a magnet in contact with the bounty? Who did not shake his fists when the revolutionary generation were back on the wall? Who has not trembled, vibrated, hoped with the heroes of the great fresco...  (less)

Kinz, Albert Remy / Director: Henri Verneuil / No English options / 119 minutes ASIN: B002VWR5NU DVD Region Code: 2 Synopsis En 1943, Charles Bailly, prisonnier de guerre français, décide de s'évader et de retourner en France. Il ne trouve comme stratagème qu'une vache, Marguerite, et un seau de lait pour traverser l'Allemagne de part en part. Après une première tentative manquée, il s'évade une nouvelle fois, mais Marguerite se perd dans un troupeau de vaches...  (less)

Tourjansky / Universal Studio Canal Video - FRENCH ONLY OPTIONS / NO ENGLISH options ASIN: B002TUKE2I DVD Region Code: 2 * Curd Jürgens : Michel Strogoff * Capucine : Tatiana * Pierre Massimi : Serge de Bachenberg * Albert Pierjac : Ivan * Daniel Emilfork : Ben Routh * Valéry Inkijinoff : Amektal * Raymond Gérôme * Henri Nassiet # Titre : Le Triomphe de Michel Strogoff # Titre italien : Il Trionfo di Michele Strogoff # Réalisation : Victor Tourjansky # Scénario : Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, adapté du roman Michel Strogoff de Jules Verne # Musique : Hubert Giraud # Décors : René Renoux # Photographie : Edmond Séchan Michel Strogoff, colonel aux tempes grises, accepte, à la demande de l'impératrice, de protéger sans en avoir l'air, le neveux de celle-ci : Serge de Bachenberg. Le jeune officier inexpérimenté va commander un régiment dans un...  (less)

Demongeot, Stefania Sandrelli, Philippe Noiret / Director: Jean Becker / 95 minutes playtime ASIN: 7561921691 DVD Region Code: 2 Synopsis Sans aucun scrupule et toujours à l'affût de la bonne affaire, Tony séduit les dames avec aplomb. A Cannes, il jette son dévolu sur la belle baronne Mina von Strasshofer et, bientôt, le voici installé sur le yacht de la dame...  (less)

Dunkirk (1964) / 119 minutes / REGION 2 PAL EUROPEAN FRENCH ONLY VERSION / No English options / Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, Georges Géret, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Pierre Mondy / Directors: Henri Verneuil / Writers: François Boyer, Robert Merle / Producers: Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim ASIN: B001UNA8YE DVD Region Code: 2 I have just discovered that my revered Professor Robert Merle had passed away in 2004, and I feel a pinch in my heart. He taught English Literature at the Paris University. He wrote his PhD thesis on Oscar Wilde and made some astounding revelation and discoveries, at that time. But he taught us also Shakespeare, Jane Austen, etc. My love of Austen' s novels come from sitting at his lectures. At the beginning of WWII, Prof. Merle fled the debacle of the French Army; on the beach of Dunkirk he managed to get himself on the English boat that took him to free London, and this true story his very well depicted in "Week...  (less)

options / 100 minutes / Actors: Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Lee, Maurice Denham / Directors: Robert Parrish ASIN: B002E52MO6 DVD Region Code: 2 Academy AwardÂ(r)-winner* Gregory Peck gives a "commanding and convincing" (Citizen-News) performance in "exotic" (Mirror-News) World War II drama. An "engrossing" (Citizen-News) and "visually alluring" (LA Examiner) film full of harrowing suspense, The PurplePlain is "something everyone should see" (LA Daily News). After his wife is killed during the Blitz, Forrester (Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his death. But when his plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured companions to safety. As they cross the Burmese desert with no food and little water, Forrester's will to live grows stronger than ever.  (less)

2 PAL European DVD / FRENCH ONLY OPTIONS / NO ENGLISH options / 110 minutes / Actors: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Venantino Venantini, Henri Génès, Beba Loncar / Directors: Gérard Oury / Writers: Gérard Oury, André Tabet, Georges Tabet, Marcel Jullian / Producers: Enzo Provenzale, Robert Dorfmann, Yves Laplanche ASIN: B0027ZLUSC DVD Region Code: 2 In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".  (less)

Hungarian sound options / RARE DVD / Actors: Andrea Balestri, Ciccio Ingrassia, Franco Franchi, Gina Lollobrigida, Jacques Herlin / Directors: Luigi Comencini ASIN: B002HMPNR4 DVD Region Code: 2  (less)

DVD / French and Hungarian Sound options / No English options / 120 minutes / Louis Malle / Jean-Paul Belmondo / Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Christian Lude, Françoise Fabian, Genevieve Bujold ASIN: B002CFFMVI DVD Region Code: 2 The Thief of Paris (Le voleur) is a 1967 French film directed by Louis Malle and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a professional thief (Georges Randal) at the turn of the century in Paris. The movie is based on a book of the same title by Georges Darien. The story centers on his burglaries as well as his ongoing relationship with his cousin Charlotte (Geneviève Bujold). It also features other well-known French actors including Marie Dubois, Charles Denner and Bernadette Lafont. Une nuit, Georges Randal, alors qu'il cambriole une villa, repense à sa carrière de voleur. Orphelin sous la tutelle de son oncle, il revient à Paris une fois ses études terminées, où il pense épouser Charlotte, s...  (less)

Has English 5.1 and Mandarin 5.1 sound options / and subtitles / James Bond / Actors: Daniel Craig, Jesper Christensen, Judi Dench, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Tim Pigott-Smith / Directors: Marc Forster ASIN: 788370740X DVD Region Code: 6 Daniel Craig hasn't lost a step since Casino Royale--this James Bond remains dangerous, a man who could earn that license to kill in brutal hand-to-hand combat... but still look sharp in a tailored suit. And Quantum of Solance itself carries on from the previous film like no other 007 movie, with Bond nursing his anger from the Casino Royale storyline and vowing blood revenge on those responsible. For the new plot, we have villain Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), intent on controlling the water rights in impoverished Third World nations and happy to overthrow a dictator or two to get his way. Olga Kurylenko is very much in the "Bond girl" tradition, but in the...  (less)