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Publisher
Distributed by Winstar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in late nineteenth-century Shanghai and takes place in an elegant brothel. With its own highly ritualized codes of behavior, the lives of the "Flower girls" depend on their ability to win, and then keep, the affections of their wealthy callers.
2) The claim
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tale of regret and greed in the Gold Rush-era American West. In 1867, Daniel Dillon, the wealthy 49er who runs Kingdom Come, a Sierra Nevada boomtown, is trying to bring the railroad through town when the past comes back to haunt him. Twenty years ago, he sold his wife and daughter to another goldminer for the claim to the gold mine that brought him his fortune.
Publisher
KOCH Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2005, 1998
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (414 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the dramatic story of Edmond Dantes, a young French sailor who is falsely denounced as a political traitor and unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years without trial. After a daring escape, Dantes flees to the island of Monte Cristo, where he finds a colossal treasure bequeathed to him by a dying fellow inmate. Using these riches, he assumes a new identity and devises a plan of vengeance upon all those who betrayed him.
Publisher
Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
2006, c1993
Physical Desc
3 videodisc (405 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comeback: Matt takes the ride of his life to prove he's still the Man from Snowy River; an old friend of Rob's arrives and turns many women's heads.
Grand opening: Montana is attracted to Rob's old friend, Duncan Jones. The McGregors are worried about cattle rustling and Hannah Kirov begins a surprising new business venture.
Black sheep: When a mysterious new woman comes to town, not every McGregor is pleased to make her acquaintance.
Prince of...
5) Emma
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with Mr. Knightly.
6) Hard times
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds...
7) Fingersmith
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rousing adaptation of Sarah Waters' most acclaimed novel. Orphan Sue Trinder, raised in a den of petty thieves or 'fingersmiths,' agrees to help a young con man defraud a wealthy heiress. But Sue's plans didn't include falling in love with the heiress.
Series
Publisher
Distribued by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English captain sailed during the Napoleanic Era, and outthought, outmanouvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
9) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The harshly treated orphan girl, Jane Eyre, becomes a governess in a mysterious Yorkshire mansion and falls in love with the master of the house.
10) Under Capricorn
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Australia in l830, an English immigrant stays with his cousin Heneritta and her cruel husband, setting a triangle to explode and reveal a strange crime.
12) The last samurai
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
p2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
15) Affinity
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A socialite trying to gain purpose to her life by mentoring at a woman's prison during the late 19th century, becomes enamored with one inmate, and discovers a world of secrets, passion, and the supernatural.
17) Lost illusions
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
When an aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris, he agrees to write positive reviews for bribes, and finds success at the expense of his conscience.
18) Les miserables
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, whit his daughters,...
20) Daniel Deronda
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent, young man haunted by secrets that shroud his birth. Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful gambler short on cash. When the two meet, sparks fly.
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