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Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
Tamar, an attractive single mother, lives alone in a small village with her two daughters. Unsatisfied, she attempts to fill her many voids through meaningless sexual rendezvous. Her promiscuity is challenged, however, when she meets Shai, a young man just passing through to handle his deceased mother's assets. The two embark on an intense relationship in a quest for freedom and fulfillment and learn that the path to love involves more than just sexual...
Publisher
Industrial Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on the mysterious true crime story of a young stage actor who, obsessed with a Greek tragedy he's rehearsing, slays his own mother with a sword.
3) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a hotel doorman who is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age. Humiliated, he considers suicide. Then he experiences a strange twist of fate. This silent film is told entirely by camera, without title cards.
5) Elles
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A journalist researching an article on student prostitution for the French edition of ELLE magazine finds herself drawn to two young women. The stories these seemingly well-adjusted girls share force the middle-aged writer to examine her own life, family and sexuality.
Publisher
Transit Film
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Restored authorized ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Rather than depict Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature with a bulbous head and taloned claws. This is perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism.
7) Headhunters
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Roger, an accomplished headhunter by day and art thief when opportunity knocks, decides to risk it all to get his hands on an extremely valuable painting, and in doing so discovers something which makes him a hunted man.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in the 18th-century, this film tells of a Bavarian village that loses the secret of making its unique ruby glass. The townspeople turn to madness, murder, and magic in a desperate effort to recover the pure ingredient they have lost. During the filming, Herzog hypnotized his actors in order to help convey the atmosphere of hallucination, prophecy and the visionary.
Series
Criterion collection volume 329
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy's horrific coming of age, the disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt.
10) Stroszek
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. That winter on the barren prairie,...
11) Captain Sindbad
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sindbad takes on an evil wizard to save the princess he loves and the downtrodden people of Baristan.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The inmates have taken over an institution in a bleak and savage world in which everyone's a dwarf. As one of the institution's directors holds a rebel hostage while issuing orders for calm, the other inmates run amok, smashing equipment, setting fires, fighting for power and tormenting two blind prisoners. In this land of reversed proportions, these revolutionary outcasts not only destroy the symbols of civilization -- cars, typewriters and dinner...
13) Black death
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric, a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumors.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The commander of a remote fort (and his lovely daughter) eagerly awaits a new lieutenant. En route, he is captured by outlaws who roam the snow-covered mountains and the daughter of their leader quickly falls for the young officer, setting in motion an outrageous farce.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this blending of melodrama and comedy, the story of a rebellious harem member who rejects the sheikh and falls in love with a merchant is interwoven with several other related stories.
16) Dreams rewired
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 17-page booklet.
Language
English
Description
Rare archival footage culled from hundreds of films from the 1880s through the 1930s, narrated by Tilda Swinton.
17) Spies
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this first "modern" spy film a power-hungry banker with many disguises marshals his forces to steal the secrets of an important treaty. Can undercover agent No. 326 keep from being distracted by the beautiful Sonia, and stop the banker's plot?
18) Cobra Verde
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Francisco Manoel da Silva, 19th century, gun-toting Brazilian bandit known as the Cobra Verde, is unknowingly hired by the owner of a sugar plantation to keep his slaves in check, but instead, the Cobra manages to sleep with the landowner's daughters and impregnate them. In revenge, the owner sends the Cobra on a dangerous mission to sail to the West coast of Africa and reopen the slave trade, and the Cobra wages war with a local tribal king.
19) Plastic planet
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
[English version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the Age of Plastic. It's cheap, practical, and everywhere. But is it dangerous? Viewers are taken on a journey around the globe, from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the Alps to reveal the far-flung reaches of the plastic problem. Interviews with experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to the environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects the...
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.
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