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1) Chocolat
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
p1988, c2000
Language
Français
Description
A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the sights, sounds and smells sweep her back to her childhood and memories of the people who populated her youth.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A retired master chef and widower is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior.
4) The lodge
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a family retreat to a remote winter cabin over the holidays, the father is forced to abruptly depart for work, leaving his two children in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two carefree pals mistakenly arrested and charged with murder are defended by the cousin of one of them (Vinny), a former auto mechanic of Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. Vinny's never been in court and this case quickly turns into a hysterical escapade.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Highlights key moments from seventy-two movies during more than a century of film history; with 250 illustrations, including scenes from "Citizen Kane," "Sunset Boulevard," "The Red Shoes," "The Piano Teacher," and "Burn After Reading".
9) The audition
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Nina Hoss stars as Anna Bronsky is a violin teacher at a music-focused high school. Despite the opposition of all other teachers, Anna drives through the admission of a student, Alexander, in whom she detects a remarkable talent. Committed, she prepares him for the intermediate exam and neglects her family – her son Jonas, whom she brings into competition with her new student, and her husband Philippe. Her colleague Christian, with whom she has...
11) The midwife
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.
12) Miss Sloane
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the world of political power brokers, Washington lobbyist Elizabeth Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career and will do whatever is required to win.
13) Chess story
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his mind is beginning to crack, Bartok happens upon a book...
Publisher
Corinth Video
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
Italiano
Description
Simple story of a family living in war-devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up signs--work requiring a bicycle on which to get around. When his bicycle is stolen, the father and his son are forced to steal one in desperation and are caught. The film won the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1949 and is a prime example of the "Neorealist" school of Italian cinema.
15) Journey's end
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Great War - March, 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate. Based on the Tony award winning play. Nominated for Best Actor at the (Sam Claflin) at the **Evening Standard British Film Awards**. *"JOURNEY'S END ... [is] a tale that is both harrowing and heartbreaking."...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness), laboratory dishwasher at a textile mill, is secretly at work on the invention of a new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. After many trials, the invention succeeds and it is brought to the notice of his employer, who invests money and facilities to develop it. However, when the news of Stratton's invention breaks, industry is threatened with chaos. The trade unions and the mill owners find themselves...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. One day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but to pull off the heist he enlists an old friend who sculpts and manufactures paperweights. Once the gold is hijacked, it's molded into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped off to Paris. Panic ensues when six...
18) The Raging Moon
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Bruce Pritchard (Malcolm McDowell) is a young, active man - until he finds himself struck down by a crippling disease and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He is taken to a home for the disabled, but his bitterness and his dislike of rules and regulations only serve to make him angry and withdrawn. But he finds meaning in life once more when he falls in love with Jill (Nanette Newman), a polio victim. Happy, halcyon days follow for...
19) King of Hearts
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the retreating German army. Plumpick encounters a strange town occupied by the former residents of the local psychiatric hospital who escaped after the villagers deserted. Assuming roles like Bishop, Duke, barber, and circus ringmaster, they warmly accept the visitor as their King of Hearts. With his reconnaissance...
20) Perfect Friday
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Lord Nicholas Dorset (David Warner) and his beautiful wife Britt (Ursula Andress), are a glamorous couple who live completely beyond their means. Their bank manager is Mr. Graham, who envies his customers' wealth. Over the years he has devised a foolproof plan to rob his own bank, and Britt and Nick's desperate financial situation makes them ideal accomplices. "*Mr. Hall has made an intelligent and quietly funny film about three eccentrics, who are...