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Films for
Cinema for Language Conversation
French | German | Italian | Portuguese | Russian | Spanish
While Focus cannot guarantee every film featured in our books is available, we have made every effort to include films that are so at the time of publication and are reasonably well known. Where DVDs are not available, they often can be purchased used. We hope the following guide and links below will help you track them down.
Depending on your preference either to buy or to rent, you will find these sources a
good jumping-off point.
Most of the films are available through the following three venues, or a combination of them.
www.amazon.com
On any of our Cinema for Language Conversation individual book's page, you can click on a film's title and the link will take you to the www.Amazon.com page where the DVD (or VHS format) of that film is available for sale.
www.bn.com
Whether you visit your local Barnes & Noble store or purchase the movie on-line, this is a good place to shop price comparisons and availability.
www.blockbuster.com and www.netflix.com
Whether you visit your local Blockbuster store or obtain the movie through theirs or Netflix’s mail order/digital download program, this is a good place to shop availability.
Specialized language distributors are a great resource for purchases. They also attend most of the Foreign Language Conventions offered around the country.
Applause Learning | www.applauselearning.com
World of Reading | www.wor.com
1-World Festival of Foreign Films | www.1worldfilms.com
If you’re still having trouble, Focus authors and customers have found the best way to find hard-to-get foreign films is to search a used marketplace online.
Ebay | www.ebay.com
Half.com | www.half.com
If buying any or all of the films featured in these textbooks is not in the budget for you or your school, and your school’s library does not carry them, you may consider the following rent-by mail services:
www.blockbuster.com (monthly membership rent-by-mail service)
www.netflix.com (monthly membership rent-by-mail service)
www.facets.org (specialty language rent-by-mail service)
www.cervantes.org
Sometimes in locating a particular version of a film, you will need locate the movie by the English translated title, or include the year of release. Where possible, a link has been provided so you can purchase the title directly through Amazon.com. What is in bold is the hotlink.
French
La France contemporaine à travers ses films, Anne Christine Rice, 2011
Cinema for French Conversation, 3/e, Anne Christine Rice, 2007
Cinéphile: French Language and Culture through Film, Kerri Conditto, 2007, 2011
La France contemporaine à travers ses films
Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas (Don't Worry, I'm Fine)
L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment)
Cinema for French Conversation, 3/e
Inch’Allah dimanche (2001)
Jean de Florette (1986)
Manon of the Spring(1987)
Ressources humaines (1999)
Madame Bovary(1991)
Marius Et Jeannette (1997)
Amélie (2001)
Ridicule (1996)
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
Au revoir les enfants (1987)
8 femmes (2002)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
Life and Nothing But (1999)
The Last Metro (1981)
The Dinner Game (1999)
Cinéphile: French Language and Culture through Film, 1/e and 2/e
The Tripletts of Belleville (2004)
The Butterfly or Le Papillion [French Version - No Eng Subs] (2002)
To Be and to Have (2002)
The Visitors (1993)
The Spanish Apartment (2002)
Read My Lips (2001)
Look at Me (2004)
Métisse (also known as Café au Lait) (1993)
Bon Voyage (2003)
German
Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Film, Reimer and Zachau, 2005
Cinema for German Conversation, Jeanne Schueller, 2009
Cinéphile: French Language and Culture through Film, Kerri Conditto, 2007, 2011
Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Film
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror (1922)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
The Blue Angel (1930)
M(1931)
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
Triumph of the Will(1935)
Jew Süss (1940)
The Murderers Are among Us / Murderers among Us (1946)
Berlin - Schönhauser Corner (1957)
Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1958)
The Bridge (1959)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God(1972)
The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
The Tin Drum(1979)
Marianne and Juliane(US) / The German Sisters (UK) (1981)
The Boat(1981)
Wings of Desire(1987)
The Nasty Girl (1990)
Nobody Loves Me (1995)
The Promise (1994)
Rossini, or the Fatal Question, Who Slept with Whom
Sun Alley (1999)
Run Lola Run(1998)
Forget America (2000)
Mostly Martha (2001)
Nowhere in Africa (2001)
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Cinema for German Conversation
Ciak... si parla italiano, Garofalo, 2005
Ciak... si parla italiano
Divorce - Italian Style(1961)
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
Cinema Paradiso(1988)
The Icicle Thief (1989)
Ciao Professore(1993)
Wild Flower (1993)
The Postman(1994)
Life is Beautiful (1997)
Nirvana (1997)
Kisses and Hugs (1999)
Bread and Tulips (2000)
One Hundred Steps (2000)
The Son's Room/2001)
The Last Kiss (2001)
His Secret Life(2001)
A Heart Elsewhere (2003)
Cinema for Portuguese Conversation, Wasserman, 2009
Cinema for Portuguese Conversation
The Middle of the World (2003)
Central Station (1998)
Vidas Secas(1963)
Carandiru (2003)
Bus 174 (2002)
City of God (2002)
Four Days in September(1998)
Foreign Land (1996)
Testamento(1998)
April Captains (2000)
Dona Flor E Seus Dois Maridos (1976)
Eu Tu Eles (2000)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Orfeu(1999)
Cinema for Russian Conversation, Volume I, Kagan, Kashper, Morozova, 2005
Cinema for Russian Conversation, Volume II, Kagan, Kashper, Morozova, 2005
Animation for Russian Conversation, Merrill, Mikhailova, Alley, 2008
Cinema for Russian Conversation, Volume I
Ivan Vasiljevich Changes Profession
Cinema for Russian Conversation, Volume II
Princess and the Beans
Sympathy Seeker
Animation for Russian Conversation
Cinema for Spanish Conversation, 2/e, Gill, Smalley, Haro, 2006
¡De película! Spanish Conversation through Film, Gill, Smalley, 2009
Cinema for Spanish Conversation, 3/e, Gill, Smalley, Haro, 2010
Cinema for Spanish Conversation, 2/e
Men with Guns (1998)
El norte (1984)
Like Water for Chocolate (1993)
Danzón(1991)
María Full of Grace(2004)
Details of a Duel(1989)
The City and the Dogs(2004)
We're All Stars(1994)
The Motorcycle Diaries(2004)
I Don't Want to Talk About It(1994)
The Official Story (1985)
Wild Horses(1995)
A Place in the World (1994)
Strawberry and Chocolate (1994)
Nueba Yol(1996)
Guantanamera(1997)
Belle Epoque(1994)
¡ Ay, Carmela! (1991)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown(1998)
All About My Mother (1999)
The Sea Inside(2004)
¡De película! Spanish Conversation through Film
Under the Same Moon (2007)
Danzón(1991)
The City and the Dogs (2004)
I Don't Want to Talk About It(1994)
Wild Horses(1995)
Machuca (2004)
Guantanamera(1997)
Nueba Yol (1996)
Cinema for Spanish Conversation, 3/e
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