Music Box Films
41) Monsieur Lazhar
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At a Montreal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Formats
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
43) Cloud 9
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The groundbreaking, lyrical, and moving story of Inge, a 67-year-old married woman who rediscovers her passion and her sexuality when she unexpectedly falls in love with 76-year-old Karl.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a yellow lab retriever guide dog for the blind named Quill. We follow Quill from the litter, his selection to become a guide, and his life with a foster family until his first birthday, followed by highly specialized schooling in guiding the sightless. He is paired with a blind man who is at first reluctant to rely on Quill. But Quill's great patience, gentleness, and skill eventually win him over and they become inseparable friends.
45) Shall we kiss?
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride and they spend the evening getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of 'a kiss without consequences'. Emilie admonishes him that a kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story unfolding in flashbacks about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone's life.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Claude Lorius encountered his destiny at age 23 in the Antarctic. The film retraces his life's journey, from his first steps as a young glaciologist to the crowning moment of his glittering career, winning the Blue Planet Prize.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatic retelling of the story of Rita Atria, a 17-year-old Sicilian girl whose father and brother were both Mafia members (and victims) who break the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino. Her days are numbered from that moment on. She only has nine months to live.
48) A quiet passion
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
The story of poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius, wit, intellectual independence, and pathos only came to be recognized after her death.
49) Mozart's sister
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in. ; 32 min.)
Description
A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe.
51) Séraphine
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
52) North face
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, a gripping adventure about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps, the north face of the Eiger. Set in 1936, Nazi propaganda urges German alpinists to conquer the mountain, and two reluctant young climbers, Toni and Andi, attempt a daring ascent, closely followed by two Austrian climbers. All goes well at first, but then the climbers lose their advantage over the mountain and the race against time and...
Series
Mesrine saga volume pt. 2
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (2 hr., 14 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the climactic second part of the Mesrine saga, Jacques Mesrine is back in France after his brazen assault on the maximum-security prison from which he daringly escaped. Once again in police custody and facing stern justice for his crime, 'the man of a thousand faces' escapes directly from the courtroom after kidnapping the judge at gunpoint. The life of Jacques comes once and for all to a full bloody circle.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (257 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal,...
55) The duel
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a decaying seaside resort along the Black Sea coast. Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation. He has run off to the sea with beautiful, emotionally empty Nadya, another man's wife. Laevsky has now grown tired of her, but two obstacles block his route to escape: he is broke, and he faces the absolute enmity of Von...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The pride of French intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (code name OSS 117) has a new mission that takes him to Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960s. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent, he has to capture a Nazi blackmailer with a embarrassingly long list of World War II French collaborators.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 43 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action."--Container.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Best selling comic book artist Joann Sfar delivers an inventive biography of famed French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, his transition from painter to jazz musician to pop superstar and his many relationships including Juliette Greco, Brigitte Bardot, and Jane Birkin while employing a witty surrealistic style and a soundtrack that acts like a time...
60) Bride flight
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, Marjorie, and Esther become fast friends during the long flight taking them to their waiting husbands. Upon arrival, they part ways to start their new lives, but their paths continue to cross with chance meetings resulting in adultery, betrayal, and near tragedy leading up to a reunion...