Pedro Almodóvar
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Manuela is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son. But when tragedy strikes and her son is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (dvd)
Description
Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Marrilia, the woman who looked after him from birth, is his most faithful accomplice....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approx. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unscrupulous plastic surgeon has spent years cultivating a skin that would have saved his wife who burned to death in a accident years earlier, and now he must find a human guinea pig to test it.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1012
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Grief-stricken Manuela returns to Barcelona after the death of her son to search for the boy's father, and in the process becomes caregiver to an extended family of colorful characters.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pain and Glory tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvator Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity; his first desire. His first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, and the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense. Mallo...
7) Talk to her
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a private clinic, Barco and Benigno strike up a friendship while caring for comatose women.
9) Julieta
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antia. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antia2s father and Julieta's husband. At times, grief doesn't bring people closer, it drives them apart.
10) Volver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past...
12) Pain and glory
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the ₁60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1012
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Oscar-winning melodrama provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy's long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun; an illustrious star of the stage; and a transgender sex worker.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all.
15) Bad education
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Traces the effects of sexual abuse and religious schooling on the lives of two lifelong friends.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hannah, a recluse who wears a hearing aid, is forced by her employer to take a vacation. On holiday, she finds a job on an oil rig caring for Josef, a burn victim who has temporarily lost his sight. Hannah's job is to care for Josef until he is stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef, and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 855
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
When an actress attempts suicide after her married lover rejects her, a chaotic series of events intervenes.
18) Broken embraces
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie."--IMDb.