| 1985 – 107′ – Classic – Drama  –
Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
Starring Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Godard.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release |

Denounced by the Pope and banned and boycotted worldwide, this surprisingly serene and lyrical work translates the Virgin Birth into tangible contemporary terms, with Mary as a teenage basketball-playing gas-station attendant who receives the Annunciation by jetliner. Mary is a beautiful yet ordinary teenager who vows to maintain her chastity. Following a warning from an angel, a confused and innocent Mary unexpectedly falls pregnant and is forced to wed her taxi-driving boyfriend Joseph. He, in turn, must love his virgin bride from a distance, revering her without touching her. Forced to face a shocking reality, Mary and Joseph along with their family and friends must struggle to cope as the provocative theme unfolds. HAIL MARY is a sensational and bold work from French master director Jean-Luc Godard which touched off an uproar of protest heard around the world.

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| 1987 – 100′ – Classic – Drama  –
Written by Sylvie Danton, Maurice Pialat.
Based on a Novel by: Georges Bernanos.
Directed by Maurice Pialat.
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Alain Artur, Yann Dedet
Winner Palme D’Or Cannes International Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release |

Donissan, a mediocre seminarist, haunted by Evil and the failure of his divine mission, mortifies his body and is unable to establish any rapport with his parishioners…until the day the abbot meets young Mouchette, who has just committed a mortal sin. Based on Georges Bernanos’s novel.

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| 1967 – 105′ – Classic –  Mystery, Action, Comedy  –
Written by Pierre Foucaud, Jean Halain.
Directed by Andre Hunebelle.
Starring Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam, Jean-Roger Caussimont.
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release |

In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply. Journalist Fandor and commissaire Juve are invited to Scotland by Lord McRashley (played by Jean-Roger Caussimon). Lord McRashley, one of Fantômas’ potential victims, uses his castle as the headquarters to set up a trap for the menace called Fantômas.

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| 1965 – 104′ – Classic –  Mystery, Action, Comedy  –
Written by Pierre Foucaud, Jean Halain.
Directed by Andre Hunebelle.
Starring Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam.
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release |

In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre. Journalist Fandor develops an ingenious scheme whereby he disguises himself as Lefebvre and attends a scientific conference in Rome, Italy to lure Fantômas into attempting to kidnap him.

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| 1964 – 104′ – Classic –  Mystery, Action, Comedy  –
Written by Pierre Foucaud, Jean Halain.
Directed by Andre Hunebelle.
Starring Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot.
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release |

Based on the phenomenally popular French pulp novellas, Louis Feuillade’s outrageous, ambitious FANTÔMAS series became the gold standard of espionage serials in pre-WWI Europe, and laid the foundation for such immortal works as Feuillade’s own Les Vampires and Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse films.René Navarre stars as the criminal lord of Paris, the master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black: Fantômas. Over the course of three feature films (which combined to form a 5 1/2-hour epic), Fantômas, along with his accomplices and mistresses, are pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve (Louis de Funès) and his friend, journalist Jerôme Fandor (Jean Marais).

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| 2017 – 238′ –  Digitally Restored – CLASSIC – Drama –
Written by Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent.
Directed by Jacques Rivette.
Starring Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Béart, Jane Birkin.
Winner Grand Prix Cannes International Film Festival 1991.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.

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| 2019 – 122′ –  Digitally Restored 4K – CLASSIC – Drama –
Written by Janet Lewis, Jean-Claude Carrière.
Directed by Daniel Vigne.
Starring Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Béart, Jane Birkin.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?

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| 1976 / 2016   – 100′ –  Classic – Digitally Restored 40th Anniversary – Drama / Film Noir / Thriller –
Written by José Giovanni and Daniel Boulanger.
Directed by José Giovanni.
Starring Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux, Ilaria Occhini, Michel Bouquet, Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Giraudeau.
International Premiere COLCOA French Film Festival (Restored Version).
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release. |

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COLCOA is pleased to present this digitally restored thriller, the final pairing of Alain Delon and Jean Gabin. Four years earlier the old-school sensei and the new wave upstart shared the screen in the hugely successful The Sicilian Clan, and audiences wanted more. Here, Delon plays a reformed safecracker determined to walk the straight and narrow even as the machinery of state and the cruelties of fate conspire against him. Gabin plays Germain, a world-weary social worker fighting to give Gino a fair shake and a second chance in life. Things look promising as Gino lands a job and rekindles an old romance, until the vindictive Inspector Goitreau returns – with nods to Les Miserables’ Inspector Javert – intent on inflaming Gino’s pent up rage. In an early role, a young Gérard Depardieu plays a swaggering tough guy from Gino’s criminal days.

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| 1992 / 2021   – 100′ –  Classic – Digitally Restored  – Drama / Biopic –
Written and Directed by Maurice Pialat.
Starring Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq, Gérard Séty, Corinne Bourdon, Elsa Zylberstein, Leslie Azzoulai.
Official Competition Cannes International Film Festival. Winner César Award for Best Actor (Jacques Dutronc)
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release. |

After leaving the asylum, Vincent Van Gogh (Jacques Dutronc) settles in Auvers-sur-Oise, in the home of Doctor Gachet, an art lover and patron. Vincent keeps painting amidst the conflict with his brother, Theo, and the torments of his failing mental health. He has an affair with Marguerite, his host’s daughter. However, she soon realizes that he doesn’t love her and that his heart beats only for his art. 

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| 1979 / 2013  – 131′ –  Classic – Digitally Restored – Drama / Biopic –
Written by Pascal Bonitzer, Jean Gruault and André Téchiné.
Directed by André Téchiné.
Starring Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Adjani, Roland Bertin, Alice Sapritch, Xavier Depraz, Adrian Brine, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Grégory.
Official Selection COLCOA French Film Festival (World Premiere Digitally Restored Version), Cannes International Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release. |

In a remote English village of the 1840s, three sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne – live a simple life with their brother, Branwell, and their father, the pastor Patrick Brontë.  Although compelled to take up posts as governesses or private tutors, the four loyal siblings continue to nurture their artistic aspirations.  Branwell’s poems are beginning to interest other writers and each of the three sisters has published a successful novel.  But then tragedy strikes.  After a disastrous love affair with an older woman, Branwell succumbs to drugs, drink and depression.  Soon after his death, Emily and Anne are struck down by tuberculosis.  Will Charlotte’s lot be any better…? 

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