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Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.
Publisher
Victor Co. of Japan
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
"Stray Cat" is the No. 3 ranked killer in the Killer's Guild, a business association for assanssins. She is given a special mission by the controller to kill the No. 1 ranked killer, but she does not know his/her face or where he/she is.
43) Russian ark
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Masterworks ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
Series
Publisher
Razor Digital Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1920s China, a young woman is forced into marriage and is then abused by her elderly husband. Her suffering attracts the sympathy of her husband's younger, kinder nephew, and the two begin a secret affair that could lead to tragic consequences.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen édition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Amélie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amélie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, Amélie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the lives of others around...
Series
Criterion collection volume 193
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.
47) Heavens above!
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An idealistic clergyman is accidentally assigned to a wealthy parish where he insists on ministering to the rich and poor alike, infuriating the town, the religious hierarchy, and the government.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A young couple goes for a summer-long visit with a fellow couple in Rome, only to witness their friends' marriage start to crumble. Brooding painter Frederic has growing suspicions about his beautiful movie star wife Angele. Friends Paul and Elizabeth see the tension rise between the couple--and also begin to draw apart as Paul devotes more and more time to the needy Frederic. Will the tragic event bring Paul and Elizabeth closer, or will it doom...
49) Love for sale
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Hermila takes her newborn son and returns to her village in northeastern Brazil. Realizing she has been abandoned by her husband, she is determined to raise enough money to escape her stifling home town. She raffles off her body as a way to raise money.
50) Lower city
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Sexy Brazilian drama chronicling a love triangle between two best friends, Deco and Naldinho, and a sultry, beautiful young girl, Karinna. Burdened with unbridled passion, the threesome navigates the "lower city" of tropical Salvador da Bahia, stumbling through a treacherous landscape of sex and jealousy. Suffocated and unable to go on, the three must accept one another as lovers, adversaries and ultimately friends; learning to overlook the defiance...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen edición.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
An inspirational adventure, based on the true story of two young men, Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Alberto Granado, whose thrilling and dangerous road trip across Latin America becomes a life-changing journey of self-discovery.
Series
Criterion collection volume 211
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Traveling home by train through a country seemingly on the brink of war, two sisters--the sickly, intellectual Ester and the sensual, pragmatic Anna--along with Anna's young son, Johan, are forced to disembark in an unknown city in order for Ester to rest. Attempting to cope with their alien surroundings, the sisters resort to their personal vices while vying for Johan's affection, and in so doing sabotage what little remains of their ambiguous relationship....
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"An extremely timely and prescient piece of social commentary, Time of the Wolf follows a family's difficult journey immediately after an unknown apocalyptic event. Haneke never tells us what happened, or where, or when, but instead puts us directly into the terrifying aftermath, with all of its confusion, uncertainty, and danger. As all social laws and codes are suddenly overturned, Heneke asks us to find our own way through. Time of the Wolf is...
54) Summer hours
Series
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special édition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly.
55) Otaku no video
Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A thinly fictionalized history of the Gainax anime studio filled with in-jokes for devoted fans of Japanese animation and mangas. Also includes interviews with adult fans.
56) Ponette
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (92 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
Français
Description
Sent to live with her relatives, Ponette experiences the hopes, dreams and fears of a child following the loss of a parent. Ultimately, it is her faith, love and strength of character that enables Ponette to triumphantly overcome her tragedy.
57) Miracle in Milan
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[1993?]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of Toto, a newborn baby abandoned at the end of World War II and raised by a kindly old lady to be a paragon of goodness.
58) The Ox
Publisher
Academy Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (93 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (116 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Set in the serene Swedish countryside of the late 1920's, this is the tale of ten-year-old Pu and his gregarious family. When Pu spies his father, a chilly, overly correct preacher, fighting with his mother, a high-spirited woman not content with the marginal existence of a minister's wife, the magical summer season is transformed into a strange, emotional time that will resonate through Pu's--and his father's--life.
Publisher
Interama Video Classics
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (100 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
Español
Description
Gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of the great matriarch at her baronial country estate, Mama's wacky children are now plotting to make this birthday her last.
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