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41) Mediterranea
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Best friends Ayiva and Abas live hard lives in Burkina Faso and dream of a better future that seems to await them in Europe, as evidenced by the glittering snapshots they've seen on social media of an immigrant's life abroad. Making the dangerous journey through Africa and across the Mediterranean Sea, they end up in the Italian city of Rosarno, only to lead equally hard lives of long working hours, harsh living conditions, and animosity toward them....
42) Sunset song
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of a Scottish farm girl, Chris, as she searches for her independence against the odds, in an epic rite of passage story set just before the First World War. The war and the struggles Chris endures test her resolve for love and her idyllic country farm life.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of the workers at a 1960's New York advertising agency.
As changes mount within New York advertising agency Sterling Cooper, brilliant executive Don Draper (Hamm) finds that he must work harder at staying ahead of the competition - which includes the young execs within his own firm who are eyeing his job. This Golden Globe-winning drama centers on Draper's dealings both inside and outside the agency.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A humanistic and comical look into the daily grind of a police squad in a typical major American city. It was Everycity and Anycity, modern urban America with all it's perils. For seven acclaimed seasons, these unforgettable cops put their lives on the line for the better of their city. From numerous gang-related crimes to robbery and drug trafficking, the cases these cops dealt with were matched only by their own personal lives.
47) Wadjda
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Arabic
Description
Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring all at once, this groundbreaking...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1201
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
49) Arthur & George
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
World-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' acclaimed novel follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different men: a half-Indian son of a vicar who is framed for a crime he may or may not have committed, and Doyle, who investigates the case.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Aspiring artist Janey Briggs is an outcast because of her plain, bespectacled looks and paint-splattered overalls. Football hero Jake Wyler makes a bet that he can transform Janey into a gorgeous prom queen, a wager he may come to regret as he discovers Janey's true inner beauty. As their relationship blossoms, several other teen characters are figured in to the picture, including a Nasty Cheerleader, a Token Black Guy, a Stupid Fat Guy, an Obsessed...
52) Anna Karenina
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004, 2000.
Language
English
Description
"This richly detailed film charts the tragic romantic triangle formed when the dashing Count Vronsky defies social conventions and falls into forbidden love with Anna, the ignored wife of an aristocrat. Soon, Anna's children--a son by Karenin and an illegitimate daughter by Vronsky--become pawns in Karenin's game to see that Anna pays a terrible price for her indiscretion."--Container.
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Randolph family is the pillar of a neighborhood in an urban Los Angeles community. When their once-safe neighborhood experiences an influx of gangs, drugs, and homelessness, Rev. Randolph leads the charge to keep the neighborhood peaceful before a tragedy threatens to tear their loving family and their community apart.
55) Freedom Writers
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed: a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
Publisher
Typecast Releasing
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Arabic
Description
Documentary in three parts. Offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than...
58) Dust to dust
Publisher
Digital Multimedia Limited
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In Brambles, Texas the town Mayor seeks the deed to property owned by a band of orphans and guarded by a mysterious ghost. To acquire it he will go to any length, including calling in a professional gunslinger.
59) Persepolis
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Français
Description
After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, a free-spirited teenager is sent to school in Austria and eventually makes the decision to return to Iran despite the tyrannical powers that rule her country.
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1920's China, women had few options. So following the death of her father, Songlian, a beautiful nineteen-year-old college student agrees to marry a wealthy nobleman. She is to be wife number four at his estate, where daily life revolves around an ancient family custom: the master raises a red lantern outside the house of the wife with whom he desires to spend the night. On the surface, there is harmony between the wives, but trapped inside their...