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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
“[ Our Town ] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth.” -- The New Yorker Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire--an allegorical representation of all life--is an American classic. It is the simple story of a love affair that asks timeless questions about the meaning of love,...
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The 12th Century and the obsession of Henry II of England to find a successor, after the death of the heir to the throne, causes him, one Christmas, to summon his three remaining sons. Also summoned is his wife, the formidable Eleonor of Aquitaine, who he has kept imprisoned for the last 10 years. The fiery relationship between Henry II and Queen Eleonor is powerfully portrayed; their passions turn from tenderness to hurry as they scheme and cajole,...
4) Tom & Viv
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Vanessa Redgrave star with Academy Award nominees Glenn Close, Winona Ryder in an director Bille August's vision of Isabel Allende's passionate, epic novel of love, family and romance THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS.
7) Mrs. Soffel
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Mel Gibson and Diane Keaton star in a drama based on the true story of the forbidden romance between Ed Biddle and Mrs. Soffel. 1901. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wife and mother Kate Soffel (Keaton) chafes within the confines of her repressive life and yearns for something more than her proper, boring husband can offer. She devotes her free time to reading to the inmates of the county prison--where she meets and falls in love with...
8) Fences
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize.
Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of...
Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of...
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best New Play.
"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people." —TimeOut New York
"Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
11) Afterimage
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Polish
Description
Legendary director Andrzej Wajda's final film is a passionate portrait of renowned avantgarde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who challenged Stalinist orthodoxy. In post-war Poland, Strzeminski works as a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Lodz. His students treat him like the "messiah of modern painting," but university authorities and the Ministry of Culture have a differing opinion. Refusing to comply with Party regulations, he is...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Subtitled “Chronicle of a Present Absentee,” this humorous, heartbreaking film (the final installment in a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention) is set among the Israeli Arab community and shot largely in homes and places in which Suleiman’s family once lived. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections,...
14) Small Axe
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Five original films, set between 1969 and 1982, celebrate the courage and solidarity of London's West Indian community. From a group of activists taking on a seemingly hopeless battle against police persecution, to a teenager experiencing a blues party full of dance, danger and romance, they're a powerful reminder of how brave individuals can spark change. Conceived and directed by Academy Award and BAFTA winner Steve McQueen.
15) The Crucible
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach star in this full-cast performance of Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - with ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist...
17) Polar
Author
Language
English
Description
After some time alone eccentric creative Robin gets back in touch with his best friend Steve. Struggling to juggle his new commitments and love life Robin relies on drugs and alcohol as the pressure of urban life becomes too much.
18) By No Means
Author
Language
English
Description
"By No Means" depicts a recurrent family drama. The antique glass vase shatters. The marriage fractured, a replica of the vase becoming a clue.
19) Adira
Author
Language
English
Description
During the Holocaust, a young girl flees from the grasp of the Gestapo and finds herself stranded on an abandoned farm.
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