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""Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of...
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Universal Studios
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The fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment, she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and a mysterious white hunter.
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Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Conor, has failed to call her, Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Conor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to explain the 'signs' to Gigi. Meanwhile, having just left Gigi,...
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Everyman's library volume no. 58
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A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs...
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IFC Films
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Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
6) Keeping mum
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
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1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
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1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters!
10) Leaving
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
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1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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After a married women meets the builder who is converting a shed into an office for her, she falls in love with him and decides to leave her family behind to pursue her newfound passion.
11) The valet
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
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1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of Franc?ois Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates...
12) Stone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jack Mabry, a parole officer days away from retirement, is asked to review the case of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, in prison for arson. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.
13) The details
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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After ten years of marriage, Jeff and Nealy Lang have an idyllic suburban home, and a relationship on the skids. But, when a family of hungry raccoons ransacks their perfectly manicured backyard, Jeff becomes obsessed with eradicating the pests by any means necessary. Soon the relentless rodents aren't merely uprooting the lawn, but also overturning the Langs' entire bourgeois existence, as the man-versus-beast battle leads into an absurd mess of...
14) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
15) Solitary man
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ben Kalmen, a fifty-something New Yorker, discovers that he is not the man he wanted to be. Through many business and romantic indiscretions he has lost his once successful car dealership. Now he must make the decision to face the challenges of his not so youthful life.
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Criterion collection volume 938
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Erotic comedy about a long lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, and her saucy sister.
17) The duchess
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
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1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chronicles the life of aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who became the style icon of late eighteenth-century England. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter...
18) Double indemnity
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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
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2 DVDs (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
19) Sleuth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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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.
20) Unfaithful
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
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1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A suburban New York housewife has a chance encounter with a sexy stranger and it erupts into a full-blown affair, passion becomes obsession, and the true price of betrayal takes a shattering toll.
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