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2) 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....
3) Lemon tree
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemon tree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
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) 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...
Publisher
Kl Studio Classics
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chilling thriller about a lost fortune, a mad heiress and a housekeeper hell-bent on digging up the truth. Mrs. Marrable is a society matron who's had some shocking news: her late husband left her only a stamp collection. Determined to maintain her extravagant lifestyle, she takes advantage of an unlikely new source of income, her housekeepers, by robbing them not only of their life savings, but also their lives. The turnover rate for help speeds...
8) 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.
10) 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...
11) The good liar
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.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the turn of the century a young widow and her daughter move into a cottage on the English coast. Soon she learns that the cottage is haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a sea captain. When he finds he can't scare her away, they soon fall into a most unlikely love affair!
13) Heartland
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In 1910 Elinore Randall, a widow, and her seven-year-old daughter travel by train to face two great unknowns-- a strange land and life with a man they have never met. Elinore has contracted by mail to keep house for Clyde Stewart, a rancher living in the remote frontier near Burntfork, Wyoming. Captivated by the vast landscape, Elinore acts quickly on her secret passion: to homestead a piece of land of her own. But fulfilling her year's contract...
14) The ladykillers
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and...
15) Tender mercies
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An alcoholic drifter comes into the life of a lonely widow and her young son in the barren flatlands of Texas. But when Mac is revealed to be a once-famous country singer, he must confront a painful past that includes his bitter superstar ex-wife.
16) 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....
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (288 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shortly after moving into their newly finished dream house, Alice's partner, Harry, dies from falling down the stairs. Harry designed the house himself, so it's weird, wonderful, and impractical, and one more disorientation for Alice to endure along with her sense of loss and abandonment. Her beloved partner of twenty years is gone, and now she can't even find the fridge. To add to her problems, Alice discovers that Harry had a habit of hiding stuff...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's been almost a year since the sudden death of philandering chef Leo Vincent, but his presence at the Penrose Hotel is more palpable than ever. His ex-wife, Gina, and widow, Sam, have the business, but they continue to have professional and personal disagreements.
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.
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