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Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Finnish
Description
Leila is pardoned from a murder sentence and offered a job in a secluded parsonage reading and writing letters for Father Jacob, a blind priest. Though she resents him at first, Leila grows to admire Father Jacob's positive outlook and help to others.
2) Headhunters
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Roger steals art to subsidize his lifestyle of living well beyond his means, and when his wife introduces him to a former mercenary who is in possesion of an extremely valuable painting, Roger will risk everything to get his hands on it.
4) Dogtooth
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Greek
Description
A darkly surreal look at three teenagers confined to an isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen by their parents.
Publisher
Picture This Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Silvio has no interest in the student rebellion taking place at his high school. His fascination lies with Valentina, the prettiest girl in the school. However, Valentina already has a jealous boyfriend, Martino. Silvio finally has a moment alone with Valentina, and they share a kiss, but Silvio makes the mistake of telling his gossipy best friend, Ponzi. By the end of the day the entire school knows about the kiss, including a very angry Martino...
7) Footnote
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
עברית
Description
A father and son have become rivals as professors who have dedicated their lives to Talmudic studies, but when the father is mistakenly recognized for a prestigious award meant for his son, the son must determine whether advancing his own career is more important than his father's.
9) 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.
10) Let it rain
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Français
Description
Agathe, a hard-nosed Parisian feminist author and politician, returns to her childhood home to settle family business following the death of ther mother, and becomes the subject of a documentary by a hapless amateur filmmaker and her housekeeper's grown son.
11) Tampopo
Publisher
Distributed by WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1987
Language
日本語
Description
A celebration of the role of food in Japanese culture. Tells story of Tampopo, a young widow who runs a small noodle restaurant in Tokyo, and Goro, a cowboy hat-wearing truck driver, as they attempt to devise the perfect bowl of top ramen.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2001
Language
Deutsch
Description
Swimming champion Harry Melchoir, having narrowly escaped being trapped in East Germany by the communist regime just after the completion of the Berlin Wall, joins with other freedom seekers to dig a tunnel by which he hopes to rescue his beloved sister.
13) Take out
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2009
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Ming Ding receives a visit from loan sharks demanding payment of $800 by evening or his debt will be doubled; but Ding's job as a delivery person on Manhattan's Upper West Side is not enough to satisfy his very determined creditors.
14) 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.
15) Indochine
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1993
Language
Français
Description
Eliane Devries, a seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina, hides her torrid love affairs from upper-class society. But when her adopted Indochinese daughter innocently falls in love with Elaine's secret lover, the scandalous lover's triangle threatens to destroy their entire family.
17) Himalaya
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2002, c1999
Language
Tibetan
Description
In a small village community in Tibet, two men from different generations struggle for leadership. In order to trade villagers' goods, the two leaders embark on competing journeys by yak caravan.
Series
Criterion collection volume 130
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001, c1965
Language
Czech
Description
When the Nazis come to Czechoslovakia, they appoint Tono as the "Aryan controller" of a shop owned by an elderly Jewish widow. The two become friends, and Tono faces a difficult decision when the Nazis start rounding up the Jews.
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