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Author
Series
Signet book volume 917
Description
Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Formats
Description
Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life.
3) The tree
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the death of her husband in a car crash, a grieving widow in the Australian countryside struggles to help her children deal with their loss.
Formats
Description
In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.
"Alternately child-like and artful, A Ghost Story holds you in thrall - get into Lowery's rhythms and the movie will touch you deeply. The minimalist performances of Affleck and Mara are mesmerizing."--Rolling Stone
"A poetic meditation on time, memory and...
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...
6) Red Joan
Formats
Description
Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information, including details on the building of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging...
7) Rememory
Publisher
Lionsgate
Formats
Description
Gordon Dunn, a visionary scientific pioneer, is found dead shortly after he unveils his newest work: a device able to extract, record, and play a person's memories. Soon, a mysterious man shows up at his window's door, claiming to be a friend of her late husband. After stealing the machine from the house, the man uses it to try and solve the mystery of Gordon's death, beginning an investigation on memories that lead him to unexpected and dangers places....
9) Wild oats
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eva, a widow and retired history teacher, enjoys a quiet life. Everything changes when she receives a life insurance check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. At the not-so-gentle urging of her best friend Maddie, Eva deposits the money and the two friends head to the Canary Islands with every intention of living it up. But their fantasy is short-lived when they discover that they have become media sensations overnight....
10) Charade
Series
Criterion collection volume 57
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
11) Being Rose
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A widowed ex-cop with a life-threatening illness finds love on a solo road trip in the Southwest.
12) The cuckoo
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a land torn apart by war, two men on opposite sides are about to find out they have one thing in common. Wounded and emotionally tortured, they are taken in by Anni, a young war widow. None of them understands the others' languages, but it doesn't seem to matter. After a hard day at work on Anni's farm, who needs words?
13) The cakemaker
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After his Israeli lover dies in a car crash, a German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem seeking answers and begins to work for his lover's widow in her café while keeping his past a secret.
14) The meddler
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With a new iPhone, and apartment near the grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori and smother her with motherly love. When the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and...
15) 1000 rupee note
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a poor widow receives a 1000 rupee note from a local politician, she and a friend head out to go shopping and become caught up in a variety of adventures.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
17) Tumbledown
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman, struggling to move on years after the death of her folk singer husband, strikes a deal to co-write his biography with a pop culture scholar and, unexpectedly, this endeavor opens up a completely new chapter in her life.
18) Beyond Rangoon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young San Francisco widow is swept into a political uprising in Burma after her sister reluctantly drags her on a tour of southeast Asia.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1957
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion.
20) In harm's way
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After having to abandon his plane during a mission in World War II, an American pilot is saved by a young widow and she cares for him in secret.
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