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.
2) Toni Erdmann
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant Georgette.
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.
6) The Italian
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy runs away from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her. Pursued by orphanage staff and the police, Vanya Solntsev must now face the most difficult challenges of his young life in this story inspired by true events.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
By the 1920s, Coco Chanel has established herself in the world of fashion. After a disastrous reaction to an early production of his Rite of Spring ballet, Igor Stravinsky has become a penniless refugee living in exile. When the two are introduced, the attraction is immediate and together they embark on a passionate affair, which results in a period of great artistic achievement for both artists.
8) Whiplash
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer...
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.
12) The illusionist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland. While performing in a village pub, he encounters Alice, an innocent young girl, who will change his life forever.
13) 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.
14) Cach?
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape.
16) Redbelt
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A jujitsu master becomes corrupted by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. When a respected jujitsu master eschews a lucrative prizefighting career in favor of opening a self-defense dojo, it appears that he has chosen a peaceful path in life. The dedicated master's fate takes an unanticipated turn, however, when he is manipulated into participating in ultimate fighting championships by a group of unscrupulous actors and fight promoters. Later, as...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. and b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of American politics and military policies as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara. McNamara is a controversial and influential political figure. He offers a candid journey through some of the most seminal events in contemporary American history. He offers insights into the 1945 fire bombing of Tokyo, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the effects of the Vietnam...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Leo writes romance novels - but with a loveless marriage, she finds herself fresh out of inspiration. Angel is a tough and gruff journalist with an iron will and a heart of gold. When their paths cross, they discover something neither had expected - a real-life love affair"--Container.
19) The last station
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is...
20) 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.