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81) Aprés vous
Series
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A romantic comedy about a Good Samaritan, a hopeless romantic, and the beautiful woman that comes between them.
82) Il divo
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's long career was dogged by persistent accusations of conspiracy, Mafia connections and state-sponsored terror. This compelling film explores the shocking political machinations and shady criminal underworld surrounding this fascinating and controversial figure.
83) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young Italian boy, the son of a brutal kidnapper, is the only survivor when his family is killed by a rival gang. The boy flees, pursued by the police and the killers, and searches for a new life with a loving family unlike his own and an end to his family's history of criminal behavior.
Series
Criterion collection volume 448
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A French criminal, recently escaped from prison and trying to pull off a robbery, finds himself being chased by an inspector.
86) Roma
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A film adaptation of Federico Fellini's reminiscences of Rome before World War II, as compared to the present as it was when the film was originally produced (1972).
87) Queen to play
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Lovely and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène ... comes upon a couple ... engaged in an intensely sensual chess match and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter, leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor ... a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives"--Container.
88) Last night
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the stroke of midnight, the world is going to end. With time running out, a crazy group of big city dwellers is determined to go out with a bang.
89) Small change
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : digital, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stories of children in a French village as they grow from children to adolescents to adulthood.
90) The extra man
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aspiring playwright Louis Ives moves to New York, taking an environmental job with a beautiful, infatuating co-worker. Louis rents a room from an eccentric former playwright who moonlights as an 'extra man,' a social escort for the wealthy widows of Manhattan high society. The two men develop a volatile mentorship, which leads to a series of comic adventures.
91) The swindle
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Victor and Betty have established a very comfortable life together as two small-time con artists, but when Betty lures Victor into the perfect shakedown, the stakes get higher and the game turns into more than she bargained for.
92) 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.
93) O'Horten
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Odd Horten is a neat, meticulous, pipe-smoking train conductor. He is winding up 40 years of service for the Norwegian railways. He wonders, when a man's life has been determined by timetables and clearly-defined journeys along narrow tracks, how he will now spend his free hours. Horten goes about his final work shifts and then enters into the uncertain world of retirement. He meets the dilemma of buying a new pipe using the same placid curiosity...
94) Career girls
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Two unlikely college roommates become close friends amidst a dizying whirl of books, booze and boyfriends. Reunited six years after graduation, Annie and Hannah take a funny, poignant look at the girls they were and the women they have become"--Container.
95) Army of crime
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
96) Vidocq
Series
Publisher
Se?ville
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1830, Vidocq, a famous Parisian detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for several months. Thirty-four years later, as troubling events are stirring in Paris, E?tienne Boisset is determined to get to the heart of Vidocq's disappearance. His search takes him from the brothel to the opium den, through dark alleys and secret chambers, with the help of Pre?ah, the seductive mistress of the missing...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (263 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (whom Sisif rescued from a train crash when a baby and raised as his daughter), with tragic results. This seminal film introduced many innovations in set design and construction, and cinematic devices.
98) Lemming
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a troubled relationship festering between two couples: young Alain Getty, a home automation engineer, and his wife, sweet Be?ne?dicte ; and middle-aged Andre?, Alain's boss, who is married to the mysterious Alice. Their encounter does not leave the young couple's harmony unscathed. The discovery of a mysterious rodent's corpse blocking the waste pipe of their kitchen sink does nothing to help and portends the bursting of irrationality...
99) Liam
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Liam, a seven-year-old boy growing up in Liverpool during the 1930s. As he prepares for his First Communion, young Liam tries to make sense of the complex and unsettled world around him, a world that is about to change forever due to economic, political and social upheaval.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Juliette is an 18 year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez. Her sweet but na?ve husband Michel endures beatings, insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
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