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Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the life of Waris Dirie, including how she escaped from an arranged marriage at the age of thirteen and embarked upon a two-hundred-mile journey across the desert of Somalia in an adventure that eventually led her into a modeling career.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.
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.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Italiano
Description
A middle-aged man living with his elderly mother finds the best way to pay for their debts is to take care of the building manager's mother during the biggest festival of the year. Soon he finds himself with not two but four mothers to keep fed and happy.
6) 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.
7) 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.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom is suddenly wooed by a man almost half her age, her electricity hits high-voltage. Yet it is Agata's joy and magnetism in the face of life in all its irony that eventually offers the eye of the storm.
9) Caramel
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Arabic
Description
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut, all with their own quirks and comedic problems they must deal with.
10) Danzón
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1992, c1991
Language
Español
Description
Julia's tame life is enlivened only by the ballroom dancing she enjoys each week. When her dance partner, Carmelo, suddenly disappears, Julia stuns her friends by impulsively following his trail to Veracruz. Carmelo symbolizes all that is missing in Julia's life and her search for him holds all that and more, as this enchanting journey shakes Julia's ideas about life and offers a new definition of love.
11) Stolen life
Publisher
Global Film Initiative
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Yan'ni starts college, but once there she immediately falls in love with Muyu. Muyu begins an intricate deception that will take Yan'ni's child and the belief in any future she has.
13) Private property
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Pascale lives with her adult twin sons in a renovated Belgian farmhouse. Each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. Both boys pursue their respective interests, but neither seems compelled to embrace adulthood or the responsibilities that come with it. Pascale falls in love again and dreams of a new life for herself and her lover. Her dream is to own a countryside B&B. But what would seemingly be a happy time...
14) I am love
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Italiano
Description
Tells the story of a wealthy Italian family and the sweeping changes that their lives are undergoing.
15) Happy times
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2002
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"In an attempt to impress a portly divorcée that has caught his eye, an unemployed factory worker poses as the wealthy manager of a non-existent hotel. Hoping that his fabricated success will lead to holy matrimony, he instead finds himself the guardian of the woman's blind stepdaughter. Now, as the lies get more complicated and the deception more difficult to sustain, the sweet young blind girl and the crazy middle-aged man find themselves forming...
16) The housemaid
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Korean
Description
A young innocent is hired to care for a wealthy pregnant woman. Eun-yi's presence attracts the amorous attentions of Hoon, the master of the house, and he begins an affair with her. Igniting the jealousy of an older maid who knows many family secrets, Eun-yi quickly finds herself in the center of a familial power struggle.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Portuguese
Description
A woman and her mother are sent to an island and spend almost 60 years trying to leave it. Follow three generations of the woman's family as they all try and find happiness on a lagoon surrounded by shifting dunes.
18) Dam Street
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
During a time of rigid moral code in China, a sixteen year old girl living in a small riverside town discovers she is pregnant. The community is stunned, her family loses face and she and her boyfriend are expelled from their school. In the aftermath, her boyfriend leaves her and she is forced to put her child up for adoption. Ten years later, she is working as a singer in a local song and dance troupe. Her only friend is a young boy who protects...
20) Mozart's sister
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Français
Description
A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe.
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