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21) Bread & roses
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of immigrant workers take a stand against the million dollar corporations who employ them.
22) Agora
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young slave in ancient Egypt must choose between joining the Christianity movement, which will give him freedom, and the woman he loves, who is his master and an atheist.
23) Elsa & Fred
Publisher
DistriMax Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Elsa & Fred is a story about two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love-- or dream. Elsa is 82 years-old, while Alfredo is a bit younger than her. After losing his wife, Alfredo feels disturbed and confused, so his daughter suggests it would be best if he moved into a smaller apartment. There he'll meet Elsa. From that moment on, everything changes. Elsa bursts into his life like a whirlwind, determined...
24) Take my eyes
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A terrified Pilar hastily flees from her husband Antonio's rage in the middle of the night with her young son as if her life depends on it. Reaching her sister Ana's house, Pilar breaks down in turmoil. Banging on Ana's front door is Pilar's husband, Antonio, who in a fit of rage screams for Pilar to return home. With Ana's support, Pilar is determined to save herself from Antonio's rage. Yet the very passionate Antonio is far from a one-dimensional...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hannah, a recluse who wears a hearing aid, is forced by her employer to take a vacation. On holiday, she finds a job on an oil rig caring for Josef, a burn victim who has temporarily lost his sight. Hannah's job is to care for Josef until he is stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef, and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
26) Tetro
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Naive, 17-year-old Bennie goes to Buenos Aires to search for his older brother whom he has not seen for ten years. With the success of their father Carlo, a renowned symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, Tetro, he is surprised to find that he is not the person he remembered. While staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fausta suffers from 'The Milk of Sorrow, ' an illness transmitted through mother's milk by women who've been raped during Peru's civil wars. Stricken with the fear that she's contracted the illness from her mother's breast milk, Fausta goes to extreme lengths to protect her own sexuality and safety. After her mother's sudden death, she finds herself compelled to embark on a frightening journey for re-awakening, freedom, and wholeness.
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman is murdered in Oxford. Her body is discovered by two men who meet for the first time at that moment: Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at the University hoping to study with Seldom. It quickly becomes clear that this is the first in a series of murders, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols. Professor and student join forces to try...
29) Volver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past...
30) The window
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While waiting for his estranged son's visit, eighty-year-old Antonio walks in his fields, reminiscing about his life.
Seventy: talks about the loneliness that many elderly people experience nowadays.
31) Broken embraces
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie."--IMDb.
32) La búsqueda
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dos hermanos nacidos y abandonados por su padre cuando eran niños, se reencuentran después de seis años en Madrid. Será entonces cuando decidan cumplir la promesa que se hicieron durante la infancia de buscar a su padre. Sin embargo esta búsqueda los llevará por un camino lleno de tentación y engaños donde la pasión será más fuerte que los lazos familiares.
Two brothers, who were abandoned by their father when they were kids, meet again...
33) The aura
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A quiet, cynic taxidermist, who suffers from epilepsy attacks, is obsessed with committing the perfect crime. He claims that the police are too stupid to find out about it when it's well executed, and that the robbers are too stupid to execute it the right way. He feels that he could do it himself by relying on his photographic memory and his strategic planning skills. He is invited on a hunting trip away from his home. Once there, an accident gives...
34) Cuba libre
Publisher
Distributed by Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cuando echan a la calle a un grupo de inmigrantes ilegales, estos buscan refugio en la Embajada Cubana de Madrid, lo que coincide con el anuncio de Fidel Castro de celebrar las primeras elecciones libres en la isla. Esto crea una atención no esperada hacia los ilegales que los hace el blanco de la policía y mucho humor.
After being evicted from their cultural center, a group of squatters enter the Cuban Embassy in Madrid at the same time that Fidel...
35) Rec
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A beautiful, young TV reporter and her crew cover the night shift at the local fire station. When the station receives a call from an old lady trapped in the her apartment, the reporter and crew decide to ride along. Once the building is sealed off, the news crew, firefighters, and residents all become trapped inside, and with the camera running, nothing may survive but the film itself.
36) One man's hero
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of the Saint Patrick Battalion, a group of soldiers enlisted from Ireland to fight in the Mexican War. When they are treated harshly for their religious convictions, they escape across the border into the enemy territory of Mexico, where they must convince a Mexican rebel leader to let them fight against the U.S. so they can protect their beliefs.
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88, 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Massacre at Fort Holman:" During the Civil War a Union colonel seeks revenge against the man who killed his wife during a Confederate raid against Fort Holman. "Hot Lead:" A new rancher attempts to support his family while dealing with rivals and his own personal demons.
38) Biutiful
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
39) Walker
Series
Criterion collection volume 423
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
The life of William Walker, a 19th century adventurer who abandoned his career in law and politics to become a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua.
Series
Criterion collection volume 427
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress Mar?a Jos?, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist and run. The resulting tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain and surveys the corrept ethics of a society seduced by decadence.
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