Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
1) Blue Jasmine
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Formats
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (80 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did seventeenth century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically, 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning ten years, his adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, to the north coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father to son for centuries.
4) A separation
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary on folk rock musician Neil Young, covering two nights on his solo tour at Massey Hall in Toronto. The concert includes new music from Young's album Le Noise, as well as the classics Ohio; I Believe in You; and others. Mixed in with concert footage are scenes from a road trip through Ontario, Canada.
6) 13 minutes
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During Hitler's anniversary speech on November 8, 1939, a man is arrested on the Swiss border for possession of suspicious objects. Just minutes later, a bomb explodes in the Munich Burgerbraukeller, immediately behind the Fuhrer's lectern, killing eight people. The man is Georg Elser, a carpenter from Konigsbronn in the Swabia region. A story of a man who nearly changed the world.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the romantic city of Rome. The intertwining stories of a worker who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple on their honeymoon, and a frustrated opera director who has a talent for discovering talented singers.
8) Truth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the ensuing firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Morgan Spurlock brings a comedic documentary about branding, advertising, and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising, and product placement.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The relationship between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud is torn apart when Sabina Spielrein, a troubled but beautiful young woman, comes between them and forever changes the face of modern thought.
11) Rust and bone
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ali and his son depart Belgium for Antibes to reside with his sister and her husband. Ali's connection with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, intensifies when she endures a horrific accident.
12) Mother and child
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three women's lives share a common core. They have all been profoundly affected by adoption. At age fourteen, Karen placed a baby for adoption, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth grew up as an adopted child. Even though she is a bright and ambitious lawyer, she is a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy and her husband are just embarking on the adoption odyssey, hoping for the opportunity to become parents....
13) Carnage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
14) Novitiate
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church, and sexuality.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better"--IMDB.com.
16) The red turtle
Formats
Description
The dialogue-less animated film follows the major life stages of a man castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
17) Adoration
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Simon is a young orphan being raised by his uncle Tom. As his grandfather lay dying, Simon discovers how racist and backwards his uncle is. Simon's grandfather hated Simon's father and claims that he intentionally killed Simon's mother in a car crash. Simon's family narrative is cleverly knit into a news story presented to Simon by his high school French teacher as a translation exercise. The article is read by the teacher about an attempted bombing...
19) 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.
20) Sleuth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Formats
Description
Locked in a high-tech English manor and bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle have come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife. She is the woman both men are sleeping with. But as wit becomes wicked and clever becomes cutthroat, Wyke and Tindle's game of one-upmanship spirals out of control, escalating in a chess match that can have only one outcome. Someone will be murdered.