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1) Leona
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
An intimate, insightful, and moving film that tells the story of a young Jewish woman from Mexico City who finds herself torn between her family and her forbidden love. Ripe with all the drama and interpersonal conflicts of a Jane Austen novel, watching her negotiate the labyrinth of familial pressure, religious precedent, and her own burgeoning sentiment is both painful and beautiful – there are no easy choices to be made. Official Selection at...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
4) Ilo ilo
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014], 2013.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region. Middle class and with baby on the way, the Lim family hires Teresa, a Filipino immigrant, as a live-in maid and nanny. An outsider in the family and SIngapore itself, Teresa initially struggles to to manage the son Jiale's antics and find her footing in her new community. The two eventually form a...
5) Jellyfish
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a bride who breaks her leg escaping a locked toilet stall, ruining her chance at a dream Caribbean honeymoon. And...
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A dream job rapidly becomes a nightmare for Amelie, a Japanese-born Belgian woman, who suffers a series of increasingly humiliating demotions after she lands a job as an interpreter at a large Japanese corporation.
7) Ringu
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
8) Dragon fist
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 76 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
11) Water
Publisher
TCF Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, an eight-year-old child bride is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live out their lives in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a beautiful young widow, who falls in love with a Gandhian idealist.
Publisher
Tokyo Shock
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The underground kingdom of Seatopia sends out Megalon, a giant beetle, and Gigan to destroy the above ground dwellers. In an attempt to stop them, an independently thinking robot brings Godzilla into the fight.
14) 2LDK
Publisher
RLA Releasing
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(70 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Two actresses who share an apartment are in fierce competition with each other use violence to settle their disagreements.
15) Gada Meilin
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.): sd., color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
16) My best friend
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"A middle-aged antique dealer is flabbergasted to learn that his closest acquaintances don't actually like him. Challenged to provide an actual friend in only ten days, or lose a valued vase, his search provides a witty and thoughtful look at the meaning of friendship"--Http://www.seattlefilm.org.
17) Be with me
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 9
Publisher
Zhao Wei Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Be with me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope, tragedy and redemption. The protagonists in the movie are fictitious bar one -- Theresa Chan, a courageous deaf and blind woman whose life story inspired the film."--Container.
18) Osama
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Iranian
Description
This powerful and remarkable drama chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era.
20) Face
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hardened gangster and his crew have planned a daring heist that will set them all up for life. But when the loot disappears, the gang is gripped with greed and fear as they hunt down the traitor among them.
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