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Carl Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" - Criterion Collection (1928)

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Rene Clair's "Le Million" - a sheer masterpiece of a musical romantic comedy

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Rene Clair's "Under the Roofs of Paris" - Criterion Collection (1930)

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Rene Clair's silent masterpiece, "A Nous La Liberte" - Criterion Collection (1931)

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Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and The Beast" - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition) (1947)

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Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy (Blood of a Poet / Orpheus / The Testament of Orpheus) - Criterion Collection





Marcel Carne's "Children of Paradise" (Les Enfants du paradis)", possibly the greatest film ever made - Criterion Collection (1946)


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"Port of Shadows" (Le Quai des brumes), a masterpiece of poetic realism, starring Jean Gabin and Michele Morgan - Criterion Collection (1939)


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Jean Gabin stars in "Pepe Le Moko", a great French film noir classic - Criterion Collection (1941)


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Jean Renoir's "La Grande Illusion", a monumental anti-war film - Criterion Collection (1938)


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Marcel Pagnol's Fanny Trilogy (Marius / Fanny / Cesar)


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Marcel Ophul's "The Sorrow and the Pity", a powerful documentary of life in France under Nazi occupation


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Jean Renoir's "The Rules of the Game" - Criterion Collection (1939)


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Robert Bresson's "Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne" - Criterion Collection (1945)


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Robert Bresson's suspenseful masterpiece "A Man Escaped" (1957)


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Luchino Visconti's devastatingly poignant neo-realist drama, "La Terra Trema" (1948)


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Visconti's late neo-realist masterpiece, "Rocco And His Brothers", starring Alain Delon


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Luchino Visconti's unsurpassed historical epic "The Leopard" - Criterion Collection (1963), starring Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon


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Vittorio De Sica "The Bicycle Thief" (1949) - a landmark of Italian neo-realism


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"Accattone" (1968) - a great neo-realist drama from Pier Paolo Pasolini


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Pasolini's shocking neo-realist drama "Mamma Roma" - Criterion Collection


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Pasolini's sublime neo-realist masterpiece - The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)


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Roberto Rossellini's neo-realist masterpiece - "Germany Year Zero" (1949)


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Fellini's extravagant satire on the folly of decadance and celebrity, "La Dolce Vita" (1960)


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Fellini's poignant neo-realist drama "Nights of Cabiria" - Criterion Collection (1957)


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Fellini's "8 1/2" (Otto e mezzo), an extraordinary, possibly insane, visual fantasy about the creative process (1962)


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F.W. Murnau's masterpiece of expressionist horror "Nosferatu" - Special Edition (1929)


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F.W. Murnau's masterpiece of German expressionism "Faust" - Special Edition (1926)


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The F.W. Murnau Collection (Nosferatu / The Last Laugh / Faust / Tabu / Tartuffe)


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F.W. Murnau's exquisite visual poem of love lost and regained, "Sunrise" (1927)




F.W. Murnau's gem of expressionist satire, "The Last Laugh" (1924)


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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921) - an essential masterwork of German expressionism


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The Ingmar Bergman Special Edition DVD Collection: Persona / Shame / Hour of the Wolf / The Passion of Anna / The Serpent's Egg


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Fritz Lang Epic Collection: Metropolis / Die Nibelungen / Woman in the Moon / Spies


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Pier Paolo Pasolini Collection - Accatone / The Hawks and the Sparrows / The Gospel According to Saint Matthew


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Pier Paolo Pasolini Collection - Oedipus Rex / Porcile / Love Meetings


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Fritz Lang's monumental expressionist sci-fi classic, "Metropolis" (Restored Authorized Edition) (1927)


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