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1) Hamlet
Author
Description
The play, set in the Kingdom of Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering the old King Hamlet (Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father) and then succeeding to the throne and marrying Gertrude (the King Hamlet's widow and mother of Prince Hamlet).
2) Afterwards
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high-powered attorney finds his life turned upside down when he is visited by an ominous doctor who predicts people's deaths. Unable to stop the fatal predictions, the lawyer races against time to put his life in order before he becomes death's next victim.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Description
Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet’s feigned madness, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, the “closet scene” in which Hamlet accuses his mother of complicity in murder, and breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet an enduring masterpiece...
5) Petite maman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1181
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Céline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual...
8) Drive My Car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 94 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Who is the mysterious woman seen running from a swank Palm Beach hotel, clad only in a bath towel? Is she the secret mistress of a New York publishing baron, who is subsequently found deceased in bed?
10) Aurora borealis
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Duncan's new job and romance change him profoundly.
11) Max
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
"A dog that helped US Marines in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience."--IMDb.
13) Harold and Maude
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A black comedy about a rich, disturbed, young man, fascinated with death and funerals, who has an affair and a series of adventures with an eccentric and independent 80-year-old woman.
14) The book thief
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
16) Taboo
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (7 hrs. 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Danger-courting excursionist James Delaney returns to London in 1814 in order to attend his father's funeral. He inherits his notorious father's shipping empire, as well as all of the enemies and debts his father's dubious dealings had picked up along with it.
17) The tree
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the death of her husband in a car crash, a grieving widow in the Australian countryside struggles to help her children deal with their loss.
18) Countdown
Formats
Description
When a young nurse downloads an app that alleges to foresee a person's time of death, it claims she has three days to stay alive. With time running out, and an eerie figure haunting her, she must find a way to survive.
19) The undoing
Formats
Description
A thrilling mini-series from HBO about a successful New York therapist who's life begins to spin out of control just before her first book is published.
20) A ghost story
Formats
Description
In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.
"Alternately child-like and artful, A Ghost Story holds you in thrall - get into Lowery's rhythms and the movie will touch you deeply. The minimalist performances of Affleck and Mara are mesmerizing."--Rolling Stone
"A poetic meditation on time, memory and...
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