A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an ccupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt.

In 1851, France's autocratic President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte has ordered the arrest of all the men of a remote mountain farming village following a Republican uprising. The women spend years in total isolation, forced to tend the crops themselves. Some women have lost their husbands; others, like the shy but inwardly strong Violette, suddenly have no chance of experiencing physical love or motherhood. The women take an oath: if a man comes, they...

A suspenseful unraveling of the identity of the main character, Martin Guerre, who disappeared as a young husband and resumes his marriage years later. He goes on trial when his uncle claims he is an impostor.

A French boy befriends an American soldier stationed in post-war France.

"'Therese' is not like any other biographical film of a saint - or of anyone else. It makes a bold attempt to penetrate to the mystery of Therese's sainthood, and yet it isn't propaganda for the church and it doesn't necessarily even approve of her choice of a vocation."--Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times (February 19, 1987).

Abandoned as a baby on the steps of a monastery, Ambrosio grows up to become a preacher, renowned for his virtue and righteousness, until a mysterious, masked stranger comes to apprentice as a monk.

After a terrifying experience on 9/11, writer Kinda Mills is compelled to return with her comedic son and opinionated mother to the site in Vienna, Austria where her family fled the Nazis in 1939. This documentary finds surprising humor and uplifting moments in a tale of one family's repeated escapes from evil."--Container.