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1) Pygmalion
Author
Formats
Description
The story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society.
2) 1900
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (315 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Formats
Description
"Seeking wealth and respect, a proud war hero sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land. A vicious nobleman is determined to stop him, and the confrontation between the two men promises to be as violent and intense as the land itself"--
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Description
The rich Duke Brothers wager on whether a born loser like Billy Ray Valentine, a hustler from the ghetto, can become as successful as Winthorpe, a wealthy investment executive, if put in the proper environment--and would a prig like Winthorpe turn to a life of crime if he were to lose it all.
6) Snowpiercer
Formats
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
7) Elysium
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man sets out on a quest to bring equality to a polarized Earth in the year 2154.
9) Sister
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young boy living with his older sister near a ski resort, making a living stealing equipment from rich tourists, partners with a crooked seasonal worker.
11) Titanic
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Formats
Description
The story of a passionate romance aboard the doomed ocean liner Titanic, framed by an account of a present-day salvager's efforts to investigate the ruins of the ship.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (265 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the lively, precocious and very eligible Bennet girls captures all the nuances of 19th century life among the English gentry, a society obsessed with profitable marriage contracts.
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During her duties as a lady's companion, Emily meets her employer's nephew, Lord James Walderhurst. Accepting his marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst's nephew and his glamorous wife, after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life.
14) The kite runner
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
16) Persuasion
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Can Frederick...
17) Caddyshack II
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The members of the Bushwood Country Club still insist that only a privileged few are permitted to walk miles in the sun while wearing silly pants and whacking a little ball from hole to hole. Blue-collar millionaire Jack Hartounian is concerned more with the way people treat each other than whether they use the right words in polite society or raise the proper finger to drink a glass of beer.
18) Ruby Gentry
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a poor young woman in a small Southern town sees the man she loves marry another woman, she decides to marry a wealthy older man and becomes the most powerful person in the town.
19) Tunes of glory
Series
Criterion collection volume 225
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When one rival colonel is sent to replace another, bitterness and resentment escalate to a shocking climax.
20) Trishna
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Description
Trishna lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan and works in a resort to help pay the family bills. Jay is the wealthy son of a property developer. When Jay takes up managing resorts, he meets Trishna and wins her affection. They move to Mumbai, but problems arise when his deep family bond threatens their bliss.
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