Miramax Films
1) Emma
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
Not that Bridget is counting, but it's been six wonderful weeks, four fabulous days, and seven percious hours with one flawless boyfriend, Mark. But when mischievous and devilishly charming Daniel arrives on the scene claiming to be a reformed man, can Bridget find a way to make true love last forever?
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
When his grandfather dies and his absent mother sells the family ranch, John Grady Cole finds himself without a home or a job, and decides to leave Texas with his best friend, Lacey Rawlins, hoping to find work as a cowboy.
4) The hours
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it....
5) Chocolat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
6) Basquiat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
In 1981, a nineteen-year-old unknown graffiti writer takes the New York art world by storm.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006, 2005]
Language
English
Description
Einar Gilkyson lives a quiet, stoic life as a rancher in Wyoming. His estranged daughter-in-law Jean shows up unexpectedly, broke and desperate, with the grandaughter Einar never knew he had. Jean and Einar learn to put their old grievances aside and make peace, not just with each other but with themselves.
10) Iris
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. The story of a legendary showman's double life--television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative, or so he said.
12) Birthday girl
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John should have known. Having never been lucky in love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia. At first, things seem perfect even though Nadia doesn't speak much English. But when Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption...
13) About Adam
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Three sisters, one guy ... he's the most outrageous secret ever kept ... from each other. Lucy has had a string of boyfriends, until she meets Adam. She brings him home to meet her family and they all heartily approve. When Lucy asks Adam to marry her, he agrees, to the complete surprise of her sisters.
14) Saint Ives
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives Is a witty, romantic comedy that takes place during the Napoleonic Wars.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
16) Shall we dance
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
An overworked lawyer begins secretly taking ballroom dancing lessons to rekindle his pasion for life.
17) Tsotsi
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006, 2005]
Language
Afrikaans
Description
A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi--a nickname meaning "thug"--is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
19) My left foot
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
True story of the irrepressible Irish artist who is handicapped by cerebral palsy.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The Bride continues on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assult, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As the Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd and Elle, she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding. We learn how she was recruited and trained and about her relationship with Squad leader Bill.
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