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1) Jezebel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 145 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy in Hatsumomo and she is rescued by Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rachel Cameron is a 35-year old school teacher living in New England. Her life is small and safe. She has no man in her life and lives with her mother. She wants to do anything to keep from slipping into spinsterhood. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she has to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (149 min) : silent, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A poor country girl is tricked into a fake marriage and has an illegitimate child who dies. After starting a new life, her past is exposed and she is evicted into a blizzard.
Publisher
Miramax Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
10) A life at stake
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film is also known as Key Man. In this picture, an out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. But the architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial. She may actually be deadly!
11) W./E
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1998, lonely New Yorker Winthrop is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward VIII's abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Winthrop's research reveals that the couple's life together was not as perfect as she thought.
12) Summer palace
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen format (16:9).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Yu Hong is a rebellious young woman from a small Chinese town transplanted to a politically charge Beijing University in the late 1980s. The country's social turmoil is witnessed through its disaffected youth, whose newfound sexuality and activism culminated in violent suppression. Spanning nearly 20 years of Chinese history, projects the country's struggle for definition through the eyes and heart of a young woman ill-equipped to handle it. While...
13) New in town
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire...
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the "perfect" place to live ... it's a little too perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (192 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
No time for love: A working class man falls for a sophisticated fashion photographer but things change when he loses his job and she hires him as her assistant.
Egg and I: A stockbroker retires and goes into the chicken-raising business on a dilapidated farm located miles from civilization.
16) The good soldier
Publisher
Granada Television
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the decade preceding World War I, two wealthy, handsome couples--English Captain Edward Ashburnham and his wife Leonora, and American John Dowell and his wife Florence--meet at a German spa and forge an immediate bond. Through nine seasons at various spas, the splendid foursome lives elegant, perfect lives. But nothing is as it seems. As John says at one point, "My wife and I knew the Captain and his wife Mrs. Ashburnham as well as was possible...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy about Bathsheba Everdene who is an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relationships, love and resilience.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (173 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
I met him in Paris: A successful designer must choose between three suitors: a creative playwright, a dashing playboy and a hometown boy.
Bluebeard's eighth wife: Mademoiselle Nicole is the lovely daughter of a destitute French aristocrat. She catches the eye of a dashing millionaire. After a brief courtship she accepts his marriage proposal. On their wedding day she is shocked to learn her betrothed has been married seven times before and determines...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (165 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three-cornered moon : Various members of a Brooklyn family begin looking for employment after Mom loses a fortune on the stock market.
Maid of Salem: An independent young woman is accused of casting evil spells by the Puritan townsfolk.
20) Jezebel
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
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