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1) Night boats
Publisher
Vanguard
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Helena and Jacob decide to run away together from their retirement home. With their lives changed in an instant, they travel off the beaten path to avoid detection, through remote areas in a car that has no reverse. Like fugitives they take on one last adventure, trying to make it on a ship Helena didn't board 60 years earlier.
2) Little women
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War story of four sisters who share their loves, their joys, and their sorrows.
Series
Criterion collection volume 930
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Over the course of six pre-Code films produced by Paramount in the 1930s, Dietrich and von Sternberg refined their shared fantasy of pleasure, beauty, and excess. Dietrich's coolly transgressive mystique was a perfect match for the provocative roles von Sternberg cast her in.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
日本語
Description
An exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker2s wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
An aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris. When he agrees to write rave reviews for bribes, achieving material success at the expense of his conscience, and soon discovers that the written word can be an instrument of both beauty and deceit in this sumptuous adaptation of Honore de Balzac's epic novel, Lost Illusions.
9) Song to song
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples; struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares, chase success through a rock 'n' roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
10) Asako I & II
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
A mysterious and intoxicating pop romance, Ry�usuke Hamaguchi's follow-up to the acclaimed Happy Hour begins with Asako, a young woman who meets and falls madly in love with a drifter, Baku, who one day abandons her. Two years later, Asako sees Baku again, or, rather, a young, solid businessperson named Ryohei who bears a striking resemblance to her old flame. They begin to build a happy life together until traces of Asako's past start to resurface....
11) 45 years
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As Kate and Geoff prepare to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, their marriage is shaken when unexpected news threatens to change their lives.
"Exquisite."--The New York Times.
"One of the best movies of the year."--Village Voice.
"45 Years is a mesmerizer."--Rolling Stone.
"Quietly explosive."--Los Angeles Times.
12) Dirty dancing
Publisher
Vestron Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1963, innocent 17-year-old Baby vacations with her parents at a Catskills resort. One evening, she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Adrienne Willis is a woman with her life in chaos. She retreats to the small coastal town in the Outer Banks where she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs. She has a wayward husband who has asked to come home and a teen-aged daughter who resents her every decision. Upon arrival, a major storm is forecast and a guest named Dr. Paul Flanner arrives. Paul is the only guest at the inn, and he is facing his own crisis of conscience....
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Chinese Civil War, American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry another missionary, Robert Strike. As soon as she arrives, however, the couple must save a group of orphans from a fire. Injured and separated from her fiance, Megan is rescued and taken to the home of General Yen. While Megan and the general grow closer, one of the general2s concubines seems to be secretly working for Yen's enemies.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Once happily married, Connor and Eleanor suddenly find themselves as strangers longing to understand each other in the wake of tragedy. The film explores the couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
16) Stop-Zemlia
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Ukrainian
Appears on list
Description
Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she's hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of school, Masha falls in love in a way that forces her out of her comfort zone.
17) The good guy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ambitious New Yorker Beth wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. But when she falls hard for Tommy, a handsome young Wall Street hotshot, she discovers that the last one is trickiest of all. Just as everything seems to be falling into place, Beth meets Tommy's shy, clumsy co-worker, Daniel, and soon learns that the game of love in the big city is a lot like Wall Street: high risk, high reward, and everybody...
18) All of my heart
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young caterer's life suddenly changes course when she inherits a country home and learns she must share it with a career-obsessed Wall Street trader. At first, these opposites do not attract, but feelings begin to change when they find themselves having to work side-by-side to restore their newly acquired home.
19) Her
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A withdrawn writer, Theodore Twombly, falls in love with his computer's highly advanced operating system named Samantha.
20) Cairo time
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Juliette, a magazine editor, arrives in Cairo to meet her husband Mark, a U.N. official in Gaza. When he is unavoidably delayed, Mark sends his friend and former security officer Tareq to show her around the city. As she gets used to the customs and rhythm of life in Cairo, she finds herself falling not only for the city's charms, but for Tareq as well.
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