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1) The attack
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Amin Jaafari is an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. He has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife Sihem, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the relative security of his adopted...
Series
Criterion Collection volume 893
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
Here are 16 of Aesop's wise, witty and timeless fables, portrayed for the first time in an African setting. This is an exciting new interpretation of one of the world's great classics. This unique story collection is vividly illustrated by Beverley Naidoo's fellow South African Piet Grobler, an internationally acclaimed illustrator.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During a round of golf on a cliff-top course in Wales, Bobby Jones discovers a man lying gravely injured on the rocks below. His last words, "Why didn't they ask Evans?," leads Bobby and his friend on a quest to find out what happened to the man.
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joanne Mayfield, head of the local school board, behaves like a dictator and makes all the other women her enemies. When she suddenly falls dead at a party after having a sandwich, Detective Joe Russo investigates.
8) My old lady
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 48 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Mathias Gold arrives at the sumptuous Parisian apartment he inherited from his father, he's surprised that the property comes with two stubborn live-in tenants who are not required to leave according to an ancient French real estate law. Unable to sell the place, Mathias moves in with the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde and her daughter, Chloe. But as Mathias and Chloe draw increasingly closer, Mathilde unveils a complex labyrinth of secrets that...
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb. The film takes place in the mid 1990s, when Webb uncovered the CIA's past role in importing huge amounts of cocaine into the U.S. It was sold in ghettos across the country to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army. Despite enormous pressure not to, Webb chose to pursue the story and went public with his evidence. As a result he experienced a vicious smear campaign fueled by the CIA.
Author
Series
Grimmtastic girls volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
"A Grimmtastic girl named Cinderella is starting her first week at Grimm Academy on the wrong foot. Cinda's totally evil stepsisters are out to make her life miserable. The Steps tease Cinda, give her terrible advice about life at the academy, and even make her look bad in front of her new friends, Red, Snow, and Rapunzel! But when Cinda overhears the Steps plotting a villainous deed that could ruin Prince Awesome's ball, Cinda, her new friends, and...
12) Ran
Publisher
Wellsping Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons. They turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane. Based on Shakespeare's King Lear.
13) The maids
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two sisters, Solange and Claire, serve as maids to a despised mistress. Whenever the mistress leaves, the sisters act out an increasingly bizarre psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their lust for revenge.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, 1977
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (166 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An American pilot's jilted French lover reenters his life seeking revenge, but the two fall back in love with each other putting his current wife's life in danger.
15) Hustlers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
A crew of savvy former employees at a New York City strip club band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
16) Wonder
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
Based on the New York Times best seller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
17) Lantana
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Leon Zat investigates the death of Dr. Valerie Somers, a woman his wife was speaking to about their marriage; soon four marriages, including his own, become entangled in a web of deceit, death and sex all relating to his investigation.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (738 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the story of one man's life, from his humble beginnings to his rise to power, when a mysterious will leaves him a fortune. Includes Paradise Postponed and its sequel, Titmuss Regained. Includes biography of author John Mortimer and cast filmographies.
19) Beyond the hills
Series
Criterion collection volume 923
Formats
Description
Based on a true story, a young woman travels to a monastery, desperate to reclaim the love of her friend who recently became a novice nun, but her attempts put her at odds with the monastery's priest and precipitate a tragic event.
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