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1) Absolution
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In confession, a student tells Father Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend and buried him in the forest. When Goddard investigates the matter, all he finds is a scarecrow buried in the woods. Goddard is outraged, but due to the seal of confession, he cannot punish the kid and have him expelled. Shortly after, the boy once again enters the confession booth, telling Goddard that the previous confession was a practical joke, but this...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (folded and inserted in container).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Young Törless is to go to boarding school. His experiences there, the merciless torments of the pupils among themselves and the unsatisfactory answers of his teachers make it clear to Törless that good and bad cannot be differentiated in life. The boy leaves the boarding school at his own request after a short while. The incipient social and personal deformation in Musil's novel is skillfully implemented by Schlöndorff in close correspondence with...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A shy British school master named Mr. Chipping devotes his life to teaching "his boys" after the death of his lovely, energetic American wife Katherine. Told via flashbacks, the film features an aged Mr. Chipping looking back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who've touched his life over the years.
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
"Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the seriousness of Memo's condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried...
Language
English
Formats
Description
They say the boy was scared to death. When the death of a child at a boarding school is blamed on a ghost, hoax exposer Florence Cathcart is certain that science and reason can explain it. But the truth she discovers is more terrifying than she could ever imagine, and soon the ghost hunter becomes the hunted.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet
Language
English
Description
Jakob enrolls at the titular Institute--a dilapidated boarding school for the training of servants--and becomes embroiled in the world of the enigmatic siblings who run it: the sadistic Johannes and his sorrowful sister, Lisa.
7) The woods
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an Army officer who is left in a strict boarding school when her father goes off to war. When he is reported dead, her world is turned upside down and she is made a servant at the school, yet she refuses to let her spirit be broken.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For generations, Welton Academy students have been groomed to live lives of conformity and tradition, until new professor John Keating inspires them to think for themselves, live life to the fullest, and 'Carpe Diem.' This unconventional approach awakens the spirits of the students, but draws the wrath of a disapproving faculty when an unexpected tragedy strikes the school. Featuring new interview footage with director Peter Weir, Ethan Hawke, Robert...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (676 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The next generation of supernatural beings at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted is where Klaus Mikaelson's daughter, seventeen-year-old Hope Mikaelson, a tribrid daughter of a Vampire/Werewolf hybrid; Alaric Saltzman's twins, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman; and other young adults, come of age in the most unconventional way possible, nurtured to be their best selves, in spite of their worst impulses. Will these young witches, vampires, and werewolves...
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful and haunted Joan makes a bloody and determined pilgrimage across a frozen landscape toward a prestigious all-girls prep school, where Rose and Kat find themselves stranded after their parents mysteriously fail to retrieve them for winter break. As Joan gets closer, Rose watches in horror while Kat suffers terrifying visions and becomes possessed by an unseen force.
12) Phenomena
Publisher
Synapse Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (309 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. Includes the English/Italian hybrid cut of the film, the International version, and the U.S. release version.
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Language
Français
Description
Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
14) Olivia
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A 19th-century boarding school for young girls, one divided into two camps where all the shots, even the most underhanded, are allowed. That's because the two mistresses of the house, Miss Julie and Miss Cara, are engaged in a turf war as well as a war of the heart. Competing for the affections of their students, they route passion, hatred, and unexpected reversals of loyalties.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (321 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Picnic at Hanging Rock depicts the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine's Day, 1900. The complex, interwoven narrative charts the subsequent investigation and the event's far-reaching impact on the students, families, and staff of Appleyard College and on the nearby township. Theories abound, long-held secrets are exposed, and paranoia and hysteria set in, as in vastly differing ways their lives are changed...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Mandie is sent to Miss Heathwood's Boarding School for Girls, she finds herself unable to keep up with all of the new rules and regulations suddenly present in her life, and is constantly getting into trouble as a result. One day, she sneaks into the school's forbidden attic and discovers a secret that may unlock the mystery of why Miss Heathwood doesn't like Christmas.
17) If
Series
Criterion collection volume 391
Language
English
Formats
Description
A daringly chaotic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Insouciant Mick Travis and his school chums trump authority at every turn, finally emerging as a violent savior against the vicious games of one-upmanship played by both students and masters.
18) Another country
Publisher
Goldcrest Films International
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Twentieth anniversary special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rueful, romantic tale of the awfulness of life in an ancient English public school in the 1930's. At its center is the friendship of Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett), a dark, Byronically handsome young man, who accepts the horrors of the school system in return for its rewards, and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth), who attends the school against his will, refuses to play the gentleman's game, and is already a Marxist. Guy falls in love with a handsome fellow...
19) Indian horse
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better opportunities, but no matter how far Saul goes, the ghosts...
20) Never let me go
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love.
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