Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation, leading to violence.

Jacques Goldstein goes on a quest for a specter, a specter that haunts jazz. Who was Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist and composer to whom we owe the invention of free jazz? If his seminal body of work is now, rightfully so, fully recognized, the man remains deliberately mysterious and enigmatic. The director visits and interviews musicians who owe him a lot. A portrait of Ornette takes shape as these sketches gradually unfold, the man who thought...

Travelogue of the United States through the eyes of French director, François Reichenbach: "I wanted to take the American citizen from his birth until his death and follow him in all funny circumstances, burlesque, unusual in life. I wanted to show his extraordinary youth, his passions, his taste for violence, his dramas, his kindness, and his quirks. To be a curious, tireless, sometimes even indiscreet witness -- this was my goal. But I never allowed...

When the American Civil War breaks out, a family of French settlers must abandon their Missouri home to flee and go back to Paris. They are escorted by a former mercenary whose troubled past soon catches up with him.

When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil's brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund led by Dittmar Rigule, erotic distractions from international supermodel Nassim, and adversaries with an agenda for destruction....

The set consists of 1000 basic French vocabulary cards with the French word printed in boldface on the front, and the English equivalent(s) on the back. Includes words found in common usage, high school, and college texts; also measurements and numbers.