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2) Still life
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Great changes have come to the town of Fengjie due to the construction of the Three Gorges hydro project: Countless families that had lived there for many generations have had to relocate to other cities. Fengjie's old town, which has a 2000-year history, has been torn down and submerged forever, but its new neighborhood hasn't been finished yet. There are still things that need to be salvaged and yet there are also things that must be left behind....
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The story takes place in Skull Creek, a 1870s Montana gold camp. Dr. Joseph Frail arrives, setting out his shingle near the camp's boom-or-bust hubbub of adventurers, ladies of fortune, mountain men and just plain decent folks. As skilled with a six-gun as with a scalpel, Frail will need both.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
All eyes are focused on the Vatican, hoping to see the puffs of white smoke signaling the selection of the next Pope, but this time, much more is at stake, for the new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear war.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, ℗1982
Language
English
Description
Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. So Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. The secret ingredient: freshly murdered victims of her partner in crime, barber Sweeney Todd.
8) Amour
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus changes his name and gets a job as a day laborer. His starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' real background....
10) The master
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
A striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post-World War II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master unfolds the journey of a naval veteran who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
11) Stardust
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tristan hopes to win the heart of his beautiful, but shallow love, Victoria. He promises to recover a star that fell somewhere beyond the stony Wall that sets between the mundane England and the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold. So Tristan sets forth on his own journey in Stormhold. Meanwhile in that magical land, the dying king has set his four surviving sons on a quest for the crown. And the witch Lamia is seeking the heart of the star for an entirely...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Icelandic
Description
The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind's brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Palmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas made the perilous trek to Iceland's southeastern coast to establish a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his resolve tested as he confronts the harsh terrain, temptations...
13) Unrest
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Deutsch
Description
New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time, and labor, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meets Russian traveler Pyotr Kropotkin.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Description
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as children in an Alpine village. Years later, the estranged...
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Kim and Amy have been best friends since high school but haven't seen each other since Amy moved to the West Coast for grad school. They are reunited on a trip to Jay, Kim's boyfriend's lake house, joined by Jay himself, his stepbrother Alex, and Kim's cousin, Lin. When Amy left for the West Coast, she was in love with Jay, even though she thought it'd never work out because she was fat. Now that things have changed, and they are all here, it's impossible...
16) Holiday Inn
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A song-and-dance man leaves show business and opens up a Connecticut inn with his former partner.
17) Roman de gare
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Judith Ralitzer, novelist and femme fatale, is seeking characters for her next best-seller. Meanwhile, a serial has just escaped from a high security prison. Their paths are about to cross.
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Michael Corleone is now in his 60s, in this third film in the Godfather trilogy. He wants to pull his family away from crime and find a suitable successor. The successor could be his nephew Vincent, Sonny's son, but Vincent could also be the one who spoils Michael's dream of business legitimacy.
19) In the loop
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The British Prime Minister and the U.S. President infer that they want to embark on a war in the Middle East. Simon Foster, the British Minister for International Development states, off the cuff, in a radio interview that 'war is unforeseeable.' He later tries to recant his statement to news reporters with another statement. Both remarks start a series of manoeuvrings on both sides by both the pro- and anti-war factions in both governments. U.S....
20) Nobody's fool
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Screen legend Paul Newman delivers a brilliant performance as Sully, an out-of-work, hard-headed and hard-working construction worker with bad knees and a worse attitude. When the son he walked out on shows up with his grandson, Sully is forced to deal with emotions he'd prefer to forget. Sully's overbearing landlord, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith, are the women in his life that get to see a bit of his softer side. But it's the new relationship...
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