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Pub. Date
2019
Language
Français
Description
Disc 1. La jetée ; Sans soleil : La Jetée : Following the nuclear devastation of World War III, a group of survivors trapped underground in Paris carry out experiments in time travel on prisoners in a grim attempt to escape extinction. The hero travels into the past before the bombs fell and encounters a woman he had glimpsed as a child at Orly Airport. He falls in love and chooses to remain with her rather than return to his hopeless future. Sans...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In early 20th century Vienna, Stefan Brand is in the process of fleeing on the eve of a duel he wants no part of. However, before he can do so, he receives an anonymous letter from an unknown woman. Stefan is deeply moved by what he reads and starts to realize that the letter's author is Lisa Berndl, a young woman he's known but disregarded for most of his life.
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. Julie and Julia : Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her...
64) Damnation
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Hungarian
Description
Karrer is in love with a cabaret singer and wants to spend the rest of his life with her, but the only way he can do that is to get rid of her husband by getting him involved in a smuggling scheme.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Rose still lives with her mother and desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory is a mathematics professor who has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect. Fate brings these two together and without physical attraction to complicate matters they become best friends and soon agree to an unconventional marriage built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. Then they fall in...
67) Claudine
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for a wealthy family, Claudine (Carroll) meets a charming garbage man, Roop (James Earl Jones). But although Roop is smitten with the lovely single mother, his own life trials make him slow to respond to her invitation to a lifetime of love"--Container.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
When the beautiful maiden Buttercup hears that her true love Westley is dead, she reluctantly agrees to marry the loathsome Prince Humperdinck. After Westley returns to rescue Buttercup, the two begin an epic adventure filled with fencing, fighting, giants, monsters, miracles, true love and hilarity!
69) Romeo & Juliet
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This stylized film of Shakespeare's masterpiece from the National Theatre celebrates the theatrical imagination. In this contemporary retelling, a company of actors in a shuttered theater bring to life the tale of two young lovers who strive to transcend a world of violence and hate. Josh O'Connor and Jessie Buckley star as Shakespeare's immortal star-crossed lovers.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In New York City in the 1870s, a rigid social code governs how people talk, walk, meet, part, dine, earn their livings, fall in love, and marry. Not a word of the code is written down anywhere, but these people have been studying it since they were born. In this elegant milieu, marriages, like treaties between nations, exist to provide for the orderly transmission of wealth; scions of old and rich families understand that their personal desires have...
72) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love?
Series
Criterion collection volume 317
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one-of-a-kind take on a classic story. In Jacques Offenbach's fantasy opera, the poet Hoffmann dreams of three women a mechanical performing doll, a bejeweled siren, and the consumptive daughter of a famous composer all of whom break his heart in different ways. Powell and Pressburger's feverishly romantic adaptation is a feast of music, dance, and visual...
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