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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity. In Swedish with English subtitles.
2) Ali Zaoua
Publisher
Filmmovement
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Arabic
Description
"Synopsis: Ali, Kwita, Omar, and Boubker are a group of street urchins living in the hard streets of Casablanca. Their everyday lives are filled with violence, begging, and indifference. In order to survive they create a bond of friendship and family between them. The bond is cut short when Ali is senselessly killed at the beginning of the film by a blow to the head; his life taken by a single act of a rival gang. Ali's friends decide not to report...
Publisher
Guangzhou yin xiang chu ban she
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The Kingdom of Qin obsessed with conquering all of China had long been the target of assassins throughout the other six states. No matter how hard the King tried, it seems impossible for him to defeat the three legendary assassins, Broken Sword, Flying Snow, and Sky. Suddenly, an enigmatic hero, Nameless, came to the palace bearing the legendary weapons of the slain assassins to the King and told his extraordinary tale sitting only ten paces from...
6) Hard boiled
Publisher
WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Tequila, a die-hard cop, stops at nothing to see that justice is done. To avenge his partner's murder, Tequila joins forces with a rebel cop, and then the body count mounts to a hair raising climax.
Publisher
RB Publishing
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Italiano
Description
"While vacationing on the Greek "Isle of Love," the repressed 30-year-old Stefania reluctantly plays chaperone to her precocious 15-year-old niece, Meggy. Unbeknownst to Stefania, Meggy plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over. Amidst a mélange of sun rash, broken diets, nervous girls, sleeping bags, orgasms, 80s music and a little ginger and cinnamon, the two women discover themselves and their sexuality."--Container back.
8) El Bola
Publisher
Tesela P.C. ; distribuido por Buena Vista Home Entertainment S.A
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Español
Description
El Bola, a 12 year-old boy a.k.a. "Pellet" is raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrased by his family life, he tries to avoid becoming close to any of his classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school, with whom he learns the meaning of friedship, and the discovery of a family where communication and love prevail, provides Pellet with the strength necessary to accept and finally confront his own situation.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2000
Language
Italiano
Description
When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordian. But her solo journey does not sit well with her tyrannical husband, who hires an amateur detective...
12) Ju Dou
Publisher
distributed by Pioneer
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The battered wife of a Chinese mill owner and his overworked nephew fall in love. Only murder could free them from the mill owner's tyranny -- or could it?
14) Cinema paradiso
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 1989 and 2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As the boy grows up, he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies.
15) Behind the sun
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
Portuguese
Description
Two families, who both grow sugar cane, have been squabbling over the ownership of a piece of land for years. The disagreement then turned violent. The Breveses, a much smaller family, have been suffering more than their rivals and a steady drop in sugar prices has also left the family with little but their pride. When the eldest son of the Breves family is killed, his father orders his next-oldest son to kill one of the Ferreira boys. He finds himself...
18) Kwaidan
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
日本語
Description
Four terrifying tales of the supernatural filmed with exquisite visual sensitivity. The film is filled with graceful camera movements, dream-like settings, elaborately stylized action, unusual colors, and haunting sound effects and music.
20) Russian ark
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
Russian
Description
A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
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