The Josephine Baker Collection

End Of The World (La Fin Du Monde) (1930)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Abel Gance, Victor Francen, Samson Fainsilber

Abel Gance's long-lost doomsday thriller is seen here in a truncated "roadshow" version that played American theaters in 1934. The story focuses on an astronomer who discovers that a comet heading towards ... more

La Revue Des Revues (1927)

Category: Foreign | Director: Joe Francis | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Josephine Baker, Andre Luguet

A bustling Parisian nightclub is the setting for this lavish silent musical, a Cinderella story highlighted by the presence of the incandescent Josephine Baker in two memorably exotic performances. This ... more

Siren Of The Tropics (1927)

Category: Foreign | Director: Henri Etievant | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Josephine Baker, Colette Borelli, Pierre Hot

Josephine Baker's first feature film, previously only available in small fragments, was this silent gem, presented here in its entirety. Baker stars as a young native woman from the French Antilles ... more

Zou Zou (1934)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin

The star of several lavish French musical dramas in the '30s and '40s, the legendary Josephine Baker co-stars with Jean Gabin in this backstage tale of a laundress who fills in for the leading lady on ... more

Princess Tam Tam (1935)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Josephine Baker, Albert Prejean, Germaine Aussey

Josephine Baker plays an African native brought to France by a writer and coached so she can be passed off as an Indian princess in this "Pygmalion"-like comedy that also showcases Baker in stunning ... more

Beauty And The Beast (La Belle Et La Bete) (Criterion Collection) (1946)

Category: Foreign | Director: Jean Cocteau | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre

Jean Cocteau's imaginative, surrealistic adaptation of the Marie de Beaumont fairy tale is cinematic poetry at its finest. Jean Marais and Josette Day star as the grotesque beast and the young beauty, ... more

Beauty And The Beast (La Belle Et La Bete) (Essential Art House) (1946)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre

Jean Cocteau's imaginative, surrealistic adaptation of the Marie de Beaumont fairy tale is cinematic poetry at its finest. Jean Marais and Josette Day star as the grotesque beast and the young beauty, ... more

Orpheus (Criterion Collection) (1950)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Jean Marais, Marie Déa, Francois Perier

Jean Cocteau directed this unusual mixture of the real and unreal, as the personification of Orpheus finds himself pursued by Death in the form of a strange, beautiful woman driving a Rolls Royce. His ... more

Le Mystere De La Chambre Jaune (1930)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Roland Toutain, Huguette Duflos, Leon Belieres

"The Phantom of the Opera" creator Gaston Leroux wrote the novel that inspired this inventive French thriller, a "locked room mystery" in which the daughter of a renowned scientist is mysteriously attacked ... more