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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
2) Joy
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Jane Vale is a tough-as-nails businesswoman who lives by her late father's edict: "Let no man be necessary to you." When Robert Elliot, an employee twenty years her junior, questions Jane's authority, her immediate response is to fire him. But something about the young man's spirit (and handsome good looks) makes her go against her father's credo. She gives him a job as her personal secretary. Robert becomes the butt of jokes among the staff, who...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas, Carol!: Carol Huffman is one of Chicago's most successful book publishers and a ruthless businesswoman. Everything changes after she comes face to face with the ghost of her former boss.
The Wishing Tree: Professor Evan Farnsworth is a widower who works tirelessly at a prestigious boarding school in Maine, dedicating all his time to helping his students believe in themselves.
5) She did that
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An extension of Renae Bluitt's In Her Shoes blog, "She Did That." offers an intimate peek inside the lives of four Black women who continuously raise the glass ceiling for future generations. The film features vulnerable conversations with four change agents - Luvvie Ajayi (NYT best-selling author), Lisa Price (founder, Carol's Daughter), Melissa Butler (founder, The Lip Bar) and Tonya Rapley (founder, My Fab Finance.) Their powerful testimonies as...
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 667 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Woman of substance: the story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world.
Hold the dream: continues the saga of Emma Harte, who rose from servant girl to head of an international retail dynasty. At 80, Emma passes control of the Harte-McGill empire to her beloved granddaughter Paula.
To...
7) Lady buds
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From a Latinx LGBTQ activist to a Black Catholic school principal, six small businesswomen hit California's newly legal cannabis trade. But as aggressive regulations bogart the market, can they each keep their green American dream alight?
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
In northern India, a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community attracts tourists by commingling South Asian and Swiss Alps aesthetics. One local woman competes with her neighbors for business while battling the strictures of patriarchy, a local infrastructure from hell, and religious superstitions. She saves money, uses feminine wiles to subvert the corrupt powers-that-be, and piggy-backs her son up and down the mountainside to medical appointments...
9) Second act
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A big box store worker, Maya, reinvents her life story to land a job in the corporate side of the company she works for. After the aid of a fabricated resume and social network profile, she is offered the position. She accepts the position to try to prove what street smarts can do.
Publisher
Severin Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A French businesswoman goes to a remote and popular rejuvenation clinic after a breakup, and begins to suspect the treatment methods used by the head doctor, and slowly uncovers the horrible secret behind the clinic's success.
12) The associate
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fast-track executive starts her own company after a backstabbing co-worker nabs her promotion. But when she's locked out of the stuffy corporate world, she invents a dazzling male business partner to sell her ideas! Her wacky plan soon spins wildly out of control, however, when her bogus "associate" becomes Wall Street's hottest financial whiz--she must impersonate him!
13) Little
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jordan is a take-no-prisoners mogul who torments her long-suffering assistant and employees daily. She soon faces an unexpected threat to her personal life and career when she magically transforms into a thirteen-year-old version of herself.
14) Hive
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Albanian
Description
Based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. To provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering a future without their husbands but their will to begin...
15) Like a boss
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two best friends with very different personalities must address their differences in order to save their company from being stolen from them by a powerful industry titan.
16) Baby mama
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kate is a successful and single businesswoman who has long put her career ahead of a personal life. At 37, she's finally determined to have a child on her own. Unable to get pregnant, a driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. After learning that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode. She reads childcare books, baby-proofs the apartment and researches top pre-schools. But, Kate's...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tells the story of two of the first highly successful women entrepreneurs in America, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. One hundred years ago these women immigrated to the United States and, starting with next to nothing, created what is today the $150 billion global health and beauty industry.
19) Oklahoma crude
Series
Publisher
Twilight Time, Red Jam, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
English
Description
An independent wildcatter during the pre-World War I oil boom and her n'er-do well dad, hire Mase, a rough-and-tumble oil field drifter. Mase helps her fight the depredations of a big conglomerate bent on taking her well away.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The emotionally charged story about two widows -- one white, one black -- and their daughters. In the 1934 version, the women start a pancake business, in the 1959 version, one is an actresss, the other out of work. In both versions, trouble begins when one daughter falls for her mother's beau and the other decides to pass as white.
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