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21) Metropolis
Publisher
Kino International Corporation
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Français
Description
A French romantic comedy concerning an unlikely relationship between two Parisians, Variety called ODETTE TOULEMONDE "A Charmer! An adorable slice of magical realism that thumbs its cinematic nose at the intelligentsia." The title character (Catherine Frot) is a forty-year-old saleswoman, saddled with two children (an adolescent daughter and a hairdresser son), who spends her days hawking cosmetics from behind the counter of a Parisian department...
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
25) The jazz singer
Publisher
Republic Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A cantor's son defies his father to pursue a career in popular music.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
They are East Berlin teenagers. They want to be free - to dance to rock'n'roll, trade forbidden western goods and get away from the constraints of their parents and the state. This classic 1950's teen cult film became a box-office hit and was greeted with suspicion by East German officials. Ranked by film critics among Germany's 100 Most Important Films, this Kohlhaase-Klein collaboration makes an important contribution to the international youth...
27) Blade runner
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the "uplifting" finale.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Tagalog
Formats
Description
An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption. Lav Diaz's epic reimagining of Dostoevsky's *Crime and Punishment* is both an intimate human drama and a cosmic treatise on the origin of evil. Unfolding across the sun drenched fields and dark city streets of the Filipino island of...
29) GoldenEye
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious Cossack crime lord gains control of a powerful satellite laser weapon, James Bond is sent to Russia to stop him, at all costs.
30) Sneakers
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When computer expert Martin Bishop and his team of renegade hackers are blackmailed into carrying out a covert operation to recover a mysterious black box, they discover factions from all sides are willing to kill for it.
31) Big
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A 12-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him 'big'. He manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family.
33) Dinosaur
Publisher
Disney Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Dinosaur tells the story of Aladar, an iguanodon who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs. When a meteor shower destroys their home, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Together they must stand strong amidst food and water shortages, the threat of Carnotaur attacks, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A science fiction film about the planet YGAM, where 39-foot blue androids who have humans for pets rule. The humans orgaize a rebellion to escape from the planet. Includes three early shorts by Rene Laloux: Les dents du sings (Monkey's teeth, 1960), Les temps morts (Dead times, 1964) and Les Escargots (The snails, 1965).
35) Saturday church
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this New York Times Critics' Pick, A 14 year old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.
36) Lovely & amazing
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2002.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses"--Container.
37) Fool for love
Publisher
MGM Home Enterainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation is soon complicated when it turns out that they are half brother and sister involved in an incestuous relationship."
39) Caddyshack
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The story centers around Danny Noonan, who is desperate to win the college scholarship awarded to the best caddy at Bushwood Country Club. Also involved are a millionaire who wants to turn the golf course into a a new property development and a greenskeeper who is about to start World War III--against a gopher.
40) Throne of blood
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
日本語
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
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