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81) The ocean waif
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alice Guy-Blaché (French, 1873-1968), the world's first woman film director, made films for Gaumont in Paris (1896-1907), then had her own studio, the Solax Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey (1910-1914). After Solax ceased production, she became a director for hire and went to work for The International Film Service, owned by William Randolph Hearst. The plot of The Ocean Waif adheres closely to the Hearst agenda: a romantic story, plenty of pathos...
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asuncion, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. But recently their financial situation has worsened, and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality.
83) Easy living
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
84) Wanda
Series
Criterion collection volume 965
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, the film takes up with a distant and soft-spoken woman, who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men, one being a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme.
85) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert stars in the first English-language film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo, "the love child Antonioni and Hou Hsiao-hsien never had" (Village voice). In a triptych of overlapping stories, three different French women (a filmmaker, an adulterer and a divorce- Huppert, Huppert and ... Huppert) visit a small Korean resort town and encounter a flirtatious director, a lovestruck lifeguard and far too much...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When Doris Miller meets John Fremont sparks fly-at least for Doris. In the cluttered house she shared with her late mother. When Doris begins showing up at John's regular haunts, she wins over his Williamsburg friends. Her new life brings Doris a thrilling perspective, but also creates a rift between her and her longtime friends and family, who believe she's making a fool of herself over a guy half her age.
"A winning comedy-drama built around one...
88) Dark horse
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector who is the dark horse of his family and a depressed woman on the rebound.
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One of the all-time great Hollywood chillers! A murderer is targeting disabled young women in a New England town, and Helen, a mute servant in a Gothic mansion, is terrified she's next. Mrs. Warren, the invalid, bullying mistress of the house, warns Helen to leave at once, rather than rely on her weak son and stepson for protection. But even as Helen is packing her things, she suspects she may be too late and the murderer is closer than she ever imagined....
90) Starlet
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Explores the unlikely friendship between 21 year-old aspiring actress Jane and elderly widow Sadie after their worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates and taking care of her Chihuahua Starlet, while Sadie passes her days alone, tending to her garden.
91) Becks
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the real life of singer/songwriter Alyssa Robbins, it follows a musician who moves back to her childhood home in St. Louis after a crushing breakup with her longtime girlfriend. While performing for tips at a local tavern and struggling to reconnect with her ultra-Catholic mother, she strikes up a unique friendship with the wife of an old friend. Becks begins to discover her musical voice as she performs deeply personal songs about her...
92) A married woman
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Charlotte is a young married woman having an affair with an actor. When she discovers that she is pregnant, she must decide which man is the father and which man she will stay with. In Godard's hands, however, the film, described as 'a film about a woman's beauty and the ugliness of her world, ' is also a biting critique of consumer culture and the media constructed obsession with image.
93) Stars =: Sterne
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter, an artist and sergeant in the Wehrmacht, lives an almost idyllic life far away from the war. Then one day a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. Ruth, one of the Greek Jews, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman in the camp. At first he refuses, but then changes his mind and sends a doctor into the camp ... Stars, based on scriptwriter Angel Wagenstein's personal experiences...
94) Labyrinth
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Heart pounding adventure, shadowy intrigues and dangerous passions ignite this epic story about two women, separated by centuries; who share a destiny to protect the secrets of the legendary Holy Grail.
95) Blue Jasmine
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
Publisher
Cheng Cheng Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Diagnosed with ovarian cancer, iron-willed journalist Sheng Nan is pressured to make a quick fortune and find mind-blowing sex before the costly surgery numbs her senses. Taking on a businessman2s biography writing job, she hikes into the misty mountains, where a chain of outbursts with her dysfunctional family, grumpy client, misogynistic co-worker and dreamlike romantic interest hilariously unfold.
97) Working woman
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films, Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
עברית
Description
Orna is the mother of three children whose husband is struggling to open a restaurant. To help support her family, Orna lands a job with a former army superior who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna tries to balance work and her home life, she experiences escalating sexual harassment from her boss. A pattern of predatory behavior ultimately brings her career and marital relationship to the brink.
98) The color purple
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1985 ;
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Adapted from Books 2018
Black Lives Matter: Stories From Black Directors
Oscar Nominees 2019
Tearjerkers
Black Lives Matter: Stories From Black Directors
Oscar Nominees 2019
Tearjerkers
Description
A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
100) The Wanting Mare
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fictional city of Whithren, a ship arrives once a year to trap and transport wild horses across the sea. Just north of the city- past the horses running along the coast- a line of women pass a secret dream through generations.
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