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Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Since the earliest days in her childhood, Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute, and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature, she becomes interested in music and starts to play the clarinet very successfully. Since her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (4 pages ; 18 cm)
Language
Portuguese
Description
The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces, and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the time of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim.
83) Queer Japan
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From shiny pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, this documentary pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives in the sunlight, the shadows, and everywhere in between.
84) À nos amours
Series
Criterion collection volume 337
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special édition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
A sixteen-year-old Parisian girl embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father, ineffectual mother, and brutish brother.
85) Hutsulka ksenya
Publisher
Gagarin Media Film Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
1939. A young Ukrainian-American man Yaro comes to the Carpathian Mountains, because his father left him a fortune under the condition that he would marry a Ukrainian girl. There Yaro meets a Hutsul girl Ksenya and has to rethink his plan.
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Pilar and Felipe are two lonely beings who haven't found love or a sense of belonging in life. At the start of their friendship, Felipe decides not to waste any time and, surprisingly, proposes marriage. With an outright refusal, their relationship spins into a desperate and alarming, if adventurous, new direction. Pilar is introduced to Felipe's most intimate mantra, one that has kept him afloat in his worst existential crises: a memorized hypnotic...
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
While protecting his friend from a school bully, sixteen-year-old Wei Bu pushes the bully down a staircase. He later learns that the bully is hospitalized, gravely injured. Wei's neighbor, 60-year-old Wang Jin, decides to join him as does Huang Ling, Wei's classmate. Together, they decide their only hope is to flee town. They board a bus to Manchuria, where it is a rumored that a circus elephant is said to be sitting still, seeming oblivious to pain...
Publisher
Poh Kim
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"The film is based on true events taking place during Sino-Japanese war in Shanghai, China in 1937. There are around 400 soldiers (so called Eight Hundred Heroes in history), holding out against numerous waves of Japanese forces for 4 days and 4 nights during the battle and protection of the Si Hang warehouse." -- back of container.
89) In my room
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lost in life and beset by a recent passing, Armin has nowhere to go and just as much to show for himself. Fate (or something like it) intervenes when Armin awakes one morning and discovers that seemingly all of humanity has disappeared, leaving him to his limited devices and opening the door for self-discovery but the gift of maximum freedom bears complications.
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Sandra's mother has been missing for days. Disoriented and without money, she asks Jorge, her distant half-brother, for help. But he is going through a difficult situation: after recording a homophobic aggression, he being threatened to not release the images.
91) Land and shade
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After abandoning his family seventeen years ago, an elderly farmer, Alfonso, returns home to care for his ailing son. He discovers the landscape once familiar to him has been ravaged by toxic smoke and resembles a wasteland. While reconciling his past, Alfonso must save his family from this life-threatening situation.
92) L'âge d'or
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
93) Fairytale
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The United States, the '50s. Amongst stuffed poodles, whiskey-infused teas, sinful mambo lessons, and threats of alien invasion, Mr(s). Fairytale spends her days locked in her dream home and without a moment to breathe. A surreal world where anyone can finally be who they want to be, but behind which hides another upsetting reality.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Hxiao Kang sells watches on the streets of Taipei for a living. Shortly after his father's death, he meets a young woman who leaves for Paris the next day. He sells her his own watch which has two dials so she can keep time with both Paris and Taipei. His brief encounter with the young woman makes him run around setting all the watches in Taipei to Paris time.
Series
Criterion collection volume 240
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1951.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2016, 2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Simon Carrerra has just been released from prison and is now on parole. His friend Albert persuades him back to his old ways with the idea of a big-time heist of a celebrated diamond in Antwerp; the "Florentine." The jewel's owner, Marie Neuville, suddenly passes away and her daughter, Julia, is left in charge of the sale. Simon encounters Julia while posing as a friend of Julia's mother. Slowly but surely, the two become closer.
98) Taboo =: Gohatto
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A handsome new recruit, Kano, causes sexual tension in a traditional samurai militia group called Shinsengumi in Kyoto, at the end of the Shōgunate era in Japan.
99) Sweet bean =An
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Baker Sentaro's business enjoys new success when his new 76-year-old assistant Tokue shares her recipe for the sweet red bean paste used in the bakery's dorayaki pancakes, but another of Tokue's secrets may bring their happy work life to an early end.
Series
Criterion collection volume 280
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade.
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