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1) Mary Poppins
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Formats
Description
An English nanny with magical abilities takes over the household of a proper London banker and changes the lives of everyone.
2) Miss Potter
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Depicts Beatrix Potter's life from her early fascination with woodland creatures to her days as an independent woman pursuing a career in writing and illustrating.
4) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Formats
Description
Tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the couple's doomed affair, the director reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style, returning to his favorite themes: alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.
5) French exit
Publisher
Columbia (Canada)
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan--to die before the money ran out. But things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, who may or may...
Series
Criterion collection volume 102
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined"--Container.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.
12) The razor's edge
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1918, Larry Darrell returns home from World War 1 disillusioned with his materialistic society. The quest for inner peace leads Larry to reject his rich fiancee, Isabel, and go searching for truth in the Himalayas. But, Larry learns that the path to enlightenment is as painful and narrow as treading the sharp edge of a razor.
14) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 minutes) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.
15) Northanger Abbey
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
16) The Europeans
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sophisticated European brother and sister turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of their staid American cousins. The fortune-hunting Eugenia and her high-spirited brother Felix turn this Puritan world upside down.
17) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1920s Long Island, a mysterious American millionaire's efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth result in tragedy.
18) Separate lies
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy Englishman finds out that his spouse has been cheating on him and is drawn into a web of cover-ups and lies.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 435 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two teenage girls discover they were switched at birth. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with her happily married parents and older brother. Daphne Vasquez lost her hearing as a child and grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Life as they know it is turned upside down when Bay's school project about blood types reveals she is not genetically related to her parents, and a series of tests confirms she and Daphne were accidentally...
Series
Criterion collection volume 459
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the high-society guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.
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