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81) The beguiled
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
82) A taxi driver
Publisher
Well Go USA
Formats
Description
Based on a true story set in 1980, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom. What began as an easy fare becomes a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern South...
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fonda stars as the young lawyer who put his integrity and humor to work for his fellow man.
85) Santa & Andrés
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1983 Cuba, the government assigns a female farm worker to watch over a blacklisted gay writer living nearby, and while they are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, the two find they have more in common than not.
86) Cold War
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Set in the 1950s, an older pianist with plans to defect falls in love with a talented young singer while he is on a state-sponsored trip to gather folk songs in the Polish countryside.
87) The iron lady
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (121 min.) : sd., b&w and col.; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range; women plant bombs in cafes. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
89) The grey fox
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner emerges in 1901 a free man without a place in twentieth-century society. Times have changed, but in the face of all these changes, neither his good-humored patience nor his joy of life has abandoned him. With the vigor of a teenager, Miner sees a screening of one of the first films, The Great Train Robbery, and is inspired to once again do what he does best.
90) Happening
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Annie Ernaux recounts her experience with abortion during a time when it was illegal in 1960s France.
91) Golden door
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Sicilian farmer falls in love with a worldly British woman while both are attempting to immigrate to America.
92) Their finest
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the bombing of London in World War II, a film crew puts together a movie to boost the country's morale and convince Americans to join the war.
Publisher
Shemaroo Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This biographical epic on Sardar Patel concentrates largely on the last five years of Sardar's life from 1945 to 1950 when strode on the national scene, a key figure in wresting India's Independence and integrating the nation. The film deals with all the myriad and debilitating problems that India faced in its pre and immediate post Independence period, which turned out to be Sardar Patel's finest hour when problem after monumental problem was solved...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005, 1982
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (296 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
95) Thirteen days
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oct. 1962, for thirteen extraordinary days the world stood on the brink of destruction. Krushchev wouldn't back down, President Kennedy wouldn't give in. Inspired by the real-life events that took place in the Kennedy White House.
96) The immigrant
Formats
Description
Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
Series
Criterion collection volume 557
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary about the first openly gay man elected to political office in California, including his background and news coverage of his assassination.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin2s original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
99) Lorna Doone
Publisher
A&E Television Network
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Retells the high adventure and romantic love story, set in late seventeenth-century England, about Lorna, the granddaughter of the head of a nobly-born family of robbers and outlaws, who falls in love with John Ridd, a man intent on avenging his father's death upon the Doone clan.
100) The four feathers
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After an admired soldier leaves his regiment in disgrace, he sets out on a sweeping adventure to regain his honor, recapture his love and save the life of his best friend.
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