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Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When a poacher sets out to capture a golden eagle in the Outback of Australia, his friend Cody's call for help is answered by the world's bravest mice, Bernard and Bianca, who fly in on the wings of their Albatross friend Wilbur to face their most dangerous mission yet!
23) The last wave
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
24) Mon oncle
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Français
Description
A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
26) Salesman
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A landmark documentary that captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Bible, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Following Brennan on his daily rounds, the Maysles discover a real-life Willy Loman, walking the line from hype to despair.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Czech
Description
In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. Unable to explain his position to Mrs. Lautman, Tono gradually accepts her belief that he is her assistant. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Russian
Description
When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
32) Rashōmon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
日本語
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Français
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
35) Born to kill
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 2
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A classic film noir featuring a cold-hearted killer named Sam Wild who kills two innocent people and actively pursues the woman who finds the bodies, all while being married to the woman's half-sister.
Helen Brent knows Sam Wild is more than a social climber who married her wealthy foster sister. He's a remorseless killer. And yet she finds his brash confidence, square-shouldered good looks and constant aura of menace completely irresistible.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts.
37) Dark passage
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A man wrongfully accused of his wife's murder escapes from prison to find the real killer.
38) Jane Eyre
Author
Language
English
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Description
Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
40) Stormy weather
Series
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A backstage screen story lightly based on the career of Bill "Mr. Bojangles" Robinson with many musical and dance numbers performed by Robinson, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway and his orchestra, Nicholas Brothers, Katherine Dunham and her troupe, Fats Waller ... [et al.].
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