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1) Mommy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVDc (approximately 139 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
Français
Description
A feisty widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her explosive fifteen year old ADHD son. As they try to make ends meet and struggle with their unpredictable menage, the peculiar, new girl across the street, Kyla, benevolently offers her help. Together, they find a new sense of balance, and hope is regained.
2) Death watch
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Dual format edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a future civilization where television does virtually anything to get high ratings, a director implants a video camera in the brain of a man he hires to shoot a documentary about a woman who is dying, without her knowing it.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brian Cox stars as Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas (Dano), a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas a fitting heir and takes him under his wing, schooling him in the male-centric laws of his alcoholic...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Four Parisian shop girls, Ginette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane seek fulfillment and love. Rita has a fiance whose family is obsessed with social status. Jane has a boyfriend in the army, but she still enjoys herself with chance encounters. Ginette has a secret passion that keeps her away from her colleagues at nights. Jacqueline is lonely, but a mysterious motorcyclist constantly follows her.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual caricatures. Soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A heartwarming story of life, love, and loss in a small Louisiana parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton, newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility of losing her only daughter, M'Lynn Eatenton looks to her four closest friends for strength and laughter as she battles her deepest fear of death in order to join Shelby in celebrating...
8) Tiefland
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in 18th century Catalonia, the story of the love of a selfish feudal lord and a handsome, brave shepherd for the same beautiful gypsy dancer.
Publisher
Fox Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Rebecca, a young translator, lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. René, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local farmer Theo, whose daughter is almost killed. René suffers amnesia as a result of a crash and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car. The convoluted relationships between these characters...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk, " and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
Publisher
International Classic Films LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
[Standard format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
In post WWII Italy, Giuseppe and Pasquale work on the street shining the shoes of American troops. But when the boys are falsely accused of a crime, they are sent to a brutal state juvenile detention center.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Nerve-racking suspense surrounds The Bedford incident, the tale of a U.S. naval vessel on a routine NATO patrol that ends up in a freakish showdown with a Russian submarine"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
Series
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
In a railway coach Snàporaz wakes from a nap and seduces a beautiful stranger. Then he follows her through a forest to a weird hotel where a feminist convention is being held. He is so unnerved by the vociferous hostility of the militants that he hides in the mansion of a female killer who has wooed and won a thousand hearts. Snàporaz will be forced to run the gauntlet before waking up and realizing that his adventure was only a crazy nightmare....
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.
16) Bye-bye
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (107 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
Français
Description
Two young French-Arab brothers deal with the clash of cultures and generations in Marseilles. After a family tragedy, Ismael and Mouloud leave Paris and end up on the door step of their uncle and his family. Once there, the brothers are pulled apart, as one is seduced by the streets and its life of drugs and crime, while the other desperately seeks to rescue him without falling to its temptations.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVD (250 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm + 1 leaflet.
Language
Tagalog
Description
Lav Diaz's epic reimagining of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is both an intimate human drama and a cosmic treatise on the origin of evil. In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law-school dropout commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. Unfolding across the sun drenched fields and dark city streets of the Filipino island of Luzon, this is a tale...
18) The gift
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen (enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A widow and mother of 3, Annie Wilson makes her living by foretelling the future, though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violently jealous husband and plagued by visions of a missing girl, Annie is unwittingly drawn into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift could be used against her and get her killed.
Series
Studio classic volume 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
As three women go on a boating trip with their children, they receive a letter written by a woman claiming to have stolen one of their husbands. The letter doesn't say which one. Faced with the prospect of a shattered life, each woman soul searches throughout the day: Deborah feels inadequate amidst her husband's country club set. Everyone sees Lora Mae as a gold digger. Rita's career makes her husband feel neglected. They endure the anguish until...
20) The Patsy
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a top comedian is killed in a plane crash, his sycophants try to groom a bellhop into taking his place.
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