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1) 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.
2) Howards End
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Margaret and Helen Schlegel are sisters from a well-educated European family. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the very English Wilcox family. Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen. Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship...
Formats
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.
5) 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.
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...
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.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2015
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (505 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family and dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
10) Baby it's you
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When two teenagers from different social classes fall in love, they face a variety of challenges to their relationship.
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
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.
13) 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.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (214 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The emperor waltz: an American salesman melts the heart of a Viennese countess amidst Strauss waltzes and lush scenery.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: musical version of Mark Twain's humorous novel about a turn-of-the-century blacksmith who is knocked unconscious and awakens in sixth-century Camelot.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down.
16) 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.
17) 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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Establishes a diverse and dynamic range of relationships among long-time girlfriends, their spouses, and the way in which money (or lack of it) affects them all. The have-not of the group is Olivia. She is a teacher-turned pot-smoking housecleaner in the upscale neighborhoods of West Los Angeles. She's drifting on a sea of uncertainty, while her friends Franny, Christine, and Jane cope with the relatively enviable problems of wealthy discontentment....
19) Love story
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young Ivy League couple cross social barriers to marry, then must cope with untimely illness and death.
20) 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...
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