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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to the Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by...
3) Prairie love
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81, 5 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a mysterious high plains drifter travels across the wintry North Dakota prairie, he finds a man lying unconscious in the middle of the road and stops to lend a hand. After defrosting, the man explains that he's on his way to meet his pen-pal girlfriend for the first time, as she's being released from prison. Desperate for a girlfriend of his own, the drifter sees this as an opportunity to change his lonely existence, and hatches a plan to steal...
4) Purple noon
Series
Criterion collection volume 637
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, this film stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf back to the United States; what initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder. Bonus features include the original English language trailer, an archival interview...
5) Transit
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man seeking to flee German-occupied France assumes the identity of a dead writer to take advantage of his Mexican visa, and while waiting for the departure, he meets the writer's estranged wife and falls in love with her.
6) Gattaca
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The new season finds Lucas, having escaped detection after being interrogated by FBI agent Jim Racine, with his hands fuller than ever as sheriff, dealing with (among other things) the murder of a Kinaho tribe girl, the continuing escalation of tensions between Amish overlord Kai Proctor and Kinaho tribe leader Alex Longshadow, as well as the unwelcome appearance of a surprise visitor: the reprobate son of the real (and late) Lucas Hood.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (628 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Since Wayne Malloy can't buy the American Dream, he's going to steal it. The Malloys are Travelers, con artists living one step ahead of the law, and now, together with his wife and children, Wayne is pulling his biggest scam ever. They assume the identity of a family living a privileged life in an exclusive suburban development. But, with nosy neighbors, vengeful fellow Travelers, and the authorities hot on their trail, can they possibly pull it...
9) Gattaca
Formats
Description
As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 600 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The continuing twists and turns that follow Lucas Hood, an ex-convict who improbably assumes the identity of sheriff of the rural, Amish-area town of Banshee, Pa., where his former lover and partner-in-crime has been living under her own alias, Carrie Hopewell.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (457 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Johnny Mnemonic": A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. "The fifth element": In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay. "Starship troopers": Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs. "Gattaca": A genetically...
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