Le Video, San Francisco's premiere videotape and DVD rental store, was founded in 1980. The owner/founder had fallen in love with cinema while watching the late show on TV as a young girl in France, and had developed her passion during many late nights at the Cinematheque at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. After moving to San Francisco, she looked for some of those old Foreign films on videotape. Discovering that most rental outlets were only interested in Hollywood blockbusters, she decided to hunt down the eclectic videos she wanted to see, and rent them to others from a small section in the photography supply store she owned. Eventually the video rental business outgrew the photo supply business, and Le Video, Inc was born.
Over time Le Video has expanded to include more than 90,000 films. In the early nineties, as new buyers were brought into the store, we began to acquire an unparalleled collection of cult, Sci-Fi, Horror, and Independent films to complement our classics and foreign selection. Despite our growth, we are still dedicated to the same mission that inspired the owner to put those first films out on her shelf at the photo supply store: Providing a comprehensive film selection that includes major releases but also features esoteric, underseen, underappreciated, and hard-to-find films that deserve to be seen. We search all over the world for movies that you can't find anywhere else, so that people who feel as strongly about movies as we do have a place to find the movies they love, and discover new cinematic passions.
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