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Publisher
Wellspring Media, Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stylish and poignant film about Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent), who is forced to hide in the basement of his theater during the Nazi occupation while his wife (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Romantic tensions mount when she and her leading man (Ge?rard Depardieu) begin to fall in love with each other. At the same time, a pro-Nazi theater critic ensconces himself in the theater causing stress to the entire cast....
Publisher
Distributed by WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Clarissa Dalloway prepares for an elaborate party, she remembers another summer in the past, when she was a beautiful young woman. Her preparations are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a former suitor from that long-ago summer. As the day of the party unfolds, Mrs. Dalloway's life also becomes strangely intertwined with a young man she never meets, but whose tragic fate strikes a chord of truth, deep in her soul, that she cannot deny.
3) Russian ark
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in + 1 insert.
Description
A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
4) Left luggage
Publisher
Fox Lorber Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young Jewish philosophy student, with little knowledge of the many strict rules of the Hassidic way of life, becomes the nanny for a family that she learns to respect. Her parents are both concentration camp survivors and her father is obsessed with finding the two pieces of luggage he buried in Antwerp at the start of World War II.
6) Silkwood
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.
7) Siddhartha
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man's spiritual odyssey, filmed on location in Rishikesh and Bharatpur, and based on Hesse's novella.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Swedish man and his son, Pelle, travel to Denmark in the hope of finding work and a better life. Pelle is inspired by the people he comes to know and realizes that to make his dreams come true, he must set out on a path of his own.
9) Americano
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chris McKinley, a graduate backpacking through Europe, savors his last three days of freedom before boarding his career fast track back in the States.
10) Irma la Douce
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy about a young Parisian policeman and his romance with a prostitute.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sami lives in Jerusalem with his wife and child, and an invitation to his brother's wedding forces him to return to the Arab village where he grew up. After the wedding, with no warning or explanation, the village is put under military lockdown by Israeli soldiers and cut off from the outside world. Chaos rises overnight amongst those stuck within the walls.
12) Tale of tales
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
The film serves as Garrone's English-language debut and interweaves three separate story strands bookended by brief bits in which Italians Alba Rohrwacher and Massimo Ceccherini play a street circus family. In one tale Salma Hayek plays a jealous queen who forfeits her husband's life. In another, Vincent Cassel plays a king whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters.
13) The pearl
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of a poor Mexican fisherman whose dreams of wealth are both realized and shattered.
14) Hula girls
Publisher
Viz Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Iwaki, Japan, in 1965, where the coal mining industry is in decline, the town plans to resurrect itself by creating an Hawaiian-themed tourist attraction and training local girls in Hula dancing.
15) After life
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Koreeda's thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task.
16) The winter guest
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An inside look at the lives of eight people living in a remote and icy Scottish village. The story focuses on the relationship between a mother and a daughter, played by real-life mother and daughter Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law.
17) The big trees
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Douglas is at his brash and charming best as a rowdy, brawling lumberjack who abandons his roguish ways and some rather unscrupulous business practices when he falls in love with a beautiful young Quaker woman.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Agnes, as domineering and sarcastic as her husband Tobias is equivocating and guarded, finds her empty nest invaded by her alcoholic sister, their divorced daughter, and friends who are terrified of being alone for unknown reasons.
Publisher
WildBrain
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
Based on the books by L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables Emily is a dreamer – a romantic young girl who gazes at the night sky and imagines worlds hidden among the twinkling stars. And she writes because that is her passion. When she is suddenly orphaned, Emily is sent to live with her stern relatives at the family farm, New Moon. Under the roof of her heavy-hearted Aunt Elizabeth, there is no room for emotion or imagination. Emily’s...
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