Miramax Films.
3) 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...
4) 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.
6) 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.
7) 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.
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.
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) 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.
12) Blue
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment/distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1996
Language
Français
Description
A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel.
13) 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.
Series
Publisher
Voyager Company
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Featuring a wealth of extracts from famous and infamous American movies, Scorsese offers a provocative multifaceted portrait of Hollywood film directors as he charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema.
15) 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.
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.
17) 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...
19) The hours
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
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....
20) The great raid
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Recounts how Army Rangers and Filipino soldiers freed over 500 starving and dying U.S. troops from a Japanese POW camp during World War II.