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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village...
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Danish
Description
A dream becomes reality when Jørgen Laursen Vig, an elderly bachelor, wants to turn his castle into a monastery in Denmark, and a young nun, Sister Ambrosija, is sent to inspect the place. Will the man's dream come true, or will the church's ideas clash too much with his own?
3) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
[Distributed by] Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Disc one contains Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making of film as well as an audio essay by Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda, an introduction by Terry Gilliam, and the theatrical trailer. Disc two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television, an imagined documentary, as well as a documentary about Nino Rota, the maestro behind the music of Fellini's films, interviews,...
4) Heartbreaker
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Alex is a romantic for hire. If your daughter or sister or friend is falling for the wrong man, Alex will get her to fall for him, watch her dump the loser, and then break her heart by walking away. She'll be sad but wiser and lucky to have avoided a bad relationship. It's a highly profitable business with one rule: don't fall in love. When Alex is hired to woo Juliette, he breaks her heart, and his own rule.
5) Gilles' wife
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
Français
Description
A devoted wife struggles to save her marriage when she suspects her husband is having an affair with her younger sister.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006, c1977
Language
Italiano
Description
Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers.
9) Vodka lemon
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Language
Multiple
Description
An Armenian widower meets an attractive widow during a visit to his wife's grave, with whom he begins a tentative courtship.
10) Black book
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
Nederlands
Description
A Jewish woman spying for the Dutch Resistance must determine whom to trust after being found out--and then protected--by the German captain she was assigned to seduce and then discovering that one of her Resistance comrades is a traitor.
12) Bolivia
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2001
Language
Español
Description
A man must work as an illegal alien in Buenos Aires in order to support his family in Bolivia, painting a portrait of struggle in the modern economy of Argentina and the mistreatment of illegal workers.
15) Lost embrace
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Language
Español
Description
Set in a Jewish community in Buenos Aries, Ariel is a young man working in his mother's lingerie store who wants more out of his life than helping sexy women try on underwear. He decides he wants to travel the world, but first he must endure a long-overdue with his absentee father.
16) Close-up
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1990
Language
Persian
Description
An Iranian movie fan impersonates the director Moshen Makhmalbaf and moves in with a wealthy family, telling them he wants to use their house in his next film.
18) Intimate stories
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Español
Description
Nothing will stop three travelers from reaching San Julian, where they have been promised either fame, love, or redemption. They encounter detours along the way but ultimately get what they come for, albeit in unexpected ways.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai. His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress, this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped,...
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