French Library Materials: DVDs & CDs

Recounts the tale of tiny Kirikou, born in an African village on which Karaba the Sorceress has placed a terrible curse.

Sometimes life's biggest adventures aren't the ones you set out looking for.

After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life.

The fretful Marlin and his young son Nemo become separated from each other in the Great Barrier Reef.

In the first century B.C., Gallic heroes try to win the Olympic Games in order to impress a Greek princess.

Woody the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear, two talking toys, have a fantastic adventure when they go out into the world.

An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust, and human possibility. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker.

When a woman loses the love of her life, she struggles to rekindle any kind of passion until she begins an unlikely relationship with a klutzy underling at work.

The story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well-liked teacher, and the 55-year-old Algerian immigrant who offers his services as a substitute teacher and aids the process of collective healing.

A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.

Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside down when they hire Maria, a Spanish maid who introduces Jean-Louis to an alternative reality a few stories up on the sixth floor. Befriending a group of sassy Spanish maids, the women teach him there's more to life than stocks and bonds, and their influence on the house ultimately transforms everyone's life.

Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region.

While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children.

Young Nicolas enlists the help of his friends to get rid of his new baby brother, resulting in hilarious misadventures and laughs along the way.

The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases.

François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood.

Romantic comedy about a Good Samaritan, a hopeless romantic, and the beautiful woman that comes between them.

This surprise French box-office hit is about the coming-of-age of a man re-discovering life and love in the countryside.

Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise.

Two movies on one DVD:
(1) Jean de Florette -- A man inherits a farm from his mother, but his powerful neighbor plots to steal it from him.
(2) Manon of the Spring -- 10 years after his death, Jean's daughter finds out about their neighbor's treachery, and determines to take revenge.