Miramax Films
1) 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.
2) 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.
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.
5) 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.
6) 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
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...
9) The piano
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1992
Language
English
Description
A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Only one of the men realizes that her affections may be won through her beloved piano.
10) 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
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...
13) Bounce
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Buddy Amaral, a hotshot ad exec, gives his airplane ticket to a father hurrying to get home for the holidays. The airplane crashes that night, and guilt-ridden Buddy turns to alcohol. After going through rehab, he decides to look up the widow of the father, but after falling in love with her, he debates telling her exactly who he is.
14) The hours
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three women (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) in different times are related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway". Winner of Best Actress (Nicole Kidman) at the **Academy Awards,** the **BAFTA Awards** and the **Golden Globes.** Winner of a Silver Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.
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...
17) The human stain
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Playwright James M. Barrie's career is questioned when his latest play is ill-received. But when he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys, they form a friendship that sparks the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work.
19) Gone baby gone
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Amanda McCready is a 4-year-old who has disappeared from her Boston home. The police make little headway in solving the case, so the girl's aunt hires Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, private detectives. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Patrick and Angie must face...
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.