Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
141) The Luzhin defence
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An eccentric chess master, whose unstable childhood rendered him incapable of relating well with others, finds that chess is his only escape and solace. At an Italian resort, where he is favored to win a prestigious chess championship, he meets and falls in love with a caring woman. When a former mentor turned jealous saboteur tries to destroy his confidence, the fragile genius may lose more than just the big game.
142) Living
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
The story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
143) Love is strange
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After nearly four decades together, Ben and George finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job, the couple must sell their apartment and temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. George moves in with two cops who live down stairs while Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew, his wife, and their teenage son. While struggling with the pain of separation, they are challenged...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers" organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. Things...
146) Vitus
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At six, Vitus is both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart, expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him, but no one knows the truth - that his real genius is in his heart.
147) Mother and child
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three women's lives share a common core. They have all been profoundly affected by adoption. At age fourteen, Karen placed a baby for adoption, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth grew up as an adopted child. Even though she is a bright and ambitious lawyer, she is a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy and her husband are just embarking on the adoption odyssey, hoping for the opportunity to become parents....
148) Central Station
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing.
149) Ashes of time redux
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert. He connects expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, he interweaves the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes. He begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.
150) Persepolis
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This fantastically-twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on a dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls...
152) Character
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dreverhaven is dead. The city's most feared bailiff, the curse of the poor, the agent of law without compassion--discovered with a knife through his heart. A self-taught lawyer who just passed his exams was the last person to see Dreverhaven alive. Now, the police want to know why he visited the old man, and the young barrister is ready to tell the story of a lifetime.