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Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lola Delaney is a vulgar, dumpy, less-than-bright "shotgun bride" who is married to recovering alcoholic Doc Delaney. Their unhappy marriage is made even more unhappy when a sexy stranger, Marie, rents a room from Lola. Lola is a tiresome creature who never stops talking, especially about the "imminent" return of her runaway dog Sheba. Doc is having enough trouble staying from the bottle and resigning himself to his marriage without the curvaceous...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 173 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rupert Rigby is the landlord of a rundown boarding house. Like Archie Bunker in the U.S., Rupert has some very strong opinions. His tenants include a long-haired medical student, a love starved administrator, and an urbane African prince.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rigsby, the landlord, rules over a rundown boarding house in a backwater university town, and spends his days snooping on his tenants and trying to seduce Ruth. Episodes include Ruth finding true love and moving out, leaving Rigsby distraught.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1139
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné’s bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"John Singer, who is deaf . . . moves from a small town in order to be close to his institutionalized friend Antonapoulos, who is deaf and mentally impaired. Singer rents a room with a family whose father, Mr. Kelly, is unable to earn a living due to a serious injury. His teen-aged daughter Mick is at first resentful of Singer's presence, but he ingratiates himself by introducing her to classical music (which he can "feel," if not hear). Singer likewise...
Series
Criterion Collection volume 885
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse, just as a killer who preys on blonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country, choosing his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed. His murders are introduced with the killing of an asthmatic junkie. The killer settles into a seaside rooming house run by an unhappy married couple and waits for his next victims to unveil themselves. Dream cops plague his nights, while plotting his murders. Meanwhile, he also starts a relationship...
Series
Criterion collection volume 885
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A landlady begins to suspect that one of her lodgers might be killing the local women.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Evangelical Christian do-gooder, Laura Marshall fills her home with down-and-out boarders. Laura's shy teenage son, Ben, lands a job tending to self-proclaimed "Dame" Evie Walton, an over-the-hill actress with the mouth of a drunken sailor and an insatiable lust for life. The battle for Ben's soul begins as Evie shanghais Ben away from his repressive roots and transforms him from a boy to a man.
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