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Series
Criterion collection volume 1006
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
The leader of a gang of bootleggers stops at nothing in his lust for a wealthy but neurotic Southern belle.
Series
Criterion collection volume 595
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([17] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.).
Description
"[A] visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelin. Charting his rise and fall with a single-minded focus on the bloody business at hand, the film is at once gritty and operatic, placing the viewer right in the thick of the ring's action, as close to death as possible. ... [T]his is a not just an electrifying drama but also a profound and moving inquiry into a violent world...
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Description
The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
24) Les misérables
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
25) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1072
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
On the run through Europe from her wealthy, cruelly possessive husband, an American is thrown together by fate with a suave stranger, and soon the two are bound in a consuming, seemingly impossible affair that stretches across continents and brings them to the very edge of catastrophe.
27) Thunder road
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It tells the story of flawed police officer Jim Arnaud, who lives a shambolic life that's somehow made even worse by his mother's passing. His only stability comes in the shape of his daughter, Crystal, who he tries to father, amidst messy divorce proceedings with his estranged wife, Roz, as best as he can.
28) All good things
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"... a love story and a murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s... inspired by the disappearance of Kathie McCormack, wife of real estate heir Robert Durst. Mr. Durst was suspected but never tried for killing his wife Kathie who disappeared in 1982 and was never found"--Container.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sidonie, who serves as reader to Marie Antoinette and displays a singular romantic devotion to the queen, witnesses the final days of the French Revolution from inside the walls of the Palace of Versailles. The film is seen from Sidonie's point of view, and the story takes place over the course of four days.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1012
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Oscar-winning melodrama provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy's long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun; an illustrious star of the stage; and a transgender sex worker.
31) Sollers Point
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small time drug dealer under house arrest at the home of his father, re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. There, he pushes back against his surrounding limitations as he tries to find a way out of his own internal prison.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wendy and Rip Porter are a working-class couple fighting to regain custody of Joey, the young son Wendy gave up for adoption when Rip went to prison seven years earlier. But Joey's adoptive parents will stop at nothing to ensure that the small boy stays in the only home he's ever known.
33) The last song
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Danijel is a soldier fighting for the Serbs, and Ajla is a Bosnian held captive in the camp he oversees. The two knew each other before the war, and could have found love. But as the armed conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship grows darker, their motives and connection to one another ambiguous, and their allegiances uncertain.
35) Morelos
Publisher
Mundo en DVD
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
La película retrata los últimos años de la vida de José María Morelos y Pavón (1812-1815), caudillo de la indepndencia mexicana quien tras burlar el cerco del Gral. Calleja en Cuatla, reorganiza sus tropas y toma la ciudad de Oaxaca; sin embargo, teniendo más de la mitad del territoria mexicano en sus manos, Morelos se empeña en tomar el puerto de Acapulco mientras las tropas realistas se reorganizan y recuperan terreno. Muestra la relación...
36) Scaffolding
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Asher, a troubled seventeen-year-old trying to forge his own identity, finds himself torn between the intellectual world of school and taking over his father's blue collar business.
37) Ammonite
Formats
Description
In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and...
38) The line
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a violent argument with her mother, Margaret, 35 years old and with a long history of inflicting and suffering from violence, is subject to a strict restraining order before her trial: she's no longer allowed to make contact with her mother or approach within 100 meters of the family home for three months. But this separation only exacerbates her desire to be closer to her family and so she returns every day to this invisible and impassable...
Series
Publisher
distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After abandoning his family, former football player Walter Clemons returns home to attend the reading of his father's will. However, his homecoming is anything but sweet as he discovers the damage his absence had on the family he left behind.
40) Martin Eden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs., 08 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Martin is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy university student. The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destructive anxiety.
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