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After shooting a cop in a robbery gone wrong, sociopathic waif Nikita is sentenced to death. But her grim fate is reversed when her execution is staged and she is taken in by the French government. Given martial arts, weapon and etiquette training, Nikita is soon transformed into a sexy but deadly assassin, forced to repay the government for her wrongdoings. After completing three years of training, Nikita must return to her ordinary life until the government requires her assistance. It is then that she meets the kind-hearted Marco and, after falling in love, she finds it impossible to reconcile her new-found feelings with her deadly profession. Representing a new age for the French cinema, Besson's classic action-drama blended a stylish aesthetic with thoughtful meditations on the nature of governmental corruption.

Special features: Making Of and production footage, Tcheky Karyo on Luc Besson, The sound of Nikita, Theatrical trailers.

A gripping thrill-ride of a film, Public Enemy # 1 tells the incredible and brutal true story of France?s most wanted man, Jacques Mesrine. Arch-fiend to some and folk hero to others, his criminal career spanned nearly two decades of brazen bank robberies, breathtaking prison breaks, and ingenious identity changes across Europe and North America. Mesrine?s life has been meticulously recreated on an epic scale, from his early days as a petty criminal to his daring kidnapping of French millionaire and his violent assassination by French special forces on a Parisian Street in 1979.

Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises, Ocean's 12), one of France's most magnetic leading men, leads an all-star cast including Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Olivier Gourmet, Ludivine Sagnier and Mathieu Amalric in a two-part gangster classic to rival the epics of Scorsese and Coppola.

Find out just why Jacques Mesrine was France's Public Enemy # 1. 

A moody, intense and memorable study of a young man torn between two very different worlds. 

Tom is 28 and destined to follow in his father's footsteps in the sleazy and sometimes brutal world of real estate. But a chance encounter leads him to believe that he can become, like his mother, a concert pianist, In earnest, he starts preparing for the audition with a virtuoso Chinese pianist. She doesn't speak a word of French; music is their only exchange. But pressures fromt he ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.

Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche) live the perfect life of modern comfort and security in modern day Paris. They have a teenage son and Georges hosts a popular literary review television program while Anne works in publishing. One day they start receiving packages on their doorstep that contain video surveillance footage shot secretly from their street, accompanied by disturbing drawings. Georges and Anne's idyll is shattered.

As more tapes and images arrive and become increasingly personal, Georges launches into an investigation of his own as to who could be imposing this terror upon him and his family. As he delves deeper, secrets from his past are revealed, and the walls of security he and Anne have built around themselves begin to crumble.

From Michael Haneke comes this stunning voyage through the ordinary and extraordinary lives of a select group of differing Parisians, following the trials and tribulations faced in their every day lives.

BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF is a wild mix of martial arts, horror, and French period drama. Grégoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan), a charming naturalist and libertine, arrives in Gevaudan with his companion, Mani (Mark Dacascos), a taciturn Mohawk Iroquois Indian with amazing fighting skills. Fronsac has been sent by the king to investigate a mysterious beast that is slaughtering women and children across the countryside. The local gentry include the friendly Marquis Thomas D'Apcher (Jérémie Rénier), Jean-François de Morangias (Vincent Cassel), a one-armed adventurer with a suspicious nature, and his beautiful sister, Marianne (Emilie Dequenne of ROSETTA). Though Fronsac is immediately attracted to Marianne, he still finds time to visit Sylvia (Monica Bellucci), a mysterious prostitute with a penchant for sharp objects. Fronsac and Mani quickly realize that the killer is not a wolf, but something bigger and far more deadly. As they attempt to track the beast, they encounter unexpected resistance from the locals, and find themselves in grave danger.