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2) The hustler
Language
English
Description
Itinerant pool shark challenges the top man for the championship, sacrificing everything until he realizes the stakes are too high.
3) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Special edition; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
Publisher
Touchstone Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three handsome Manhattan bachelors find their dating and mating rituals irreparably damaged when an unexpected roommate-- complete with crib, pacifier, and dirty diaper-- shows up on their doorstep.
6) The violin
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In rural Mexico, during the peasant revolts of the 1970s, Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand, they are simple country musicians, and on the other they actively support the peasant guerrilla movement against the oppressor government. When the army occupies the village, the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist,...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reporter is sent to chronicle the last days of an anti-death penalty activist now living on death row, after having been convicted of the murder of a fellow activist. The reporter grows to suspect he may have been framed, and sets out to verify her doubts.
David Gale era un miembro activo de Deathwatch, un grupo activista en contra de la pena de muerte. Constance era una activista compañera de Deathwatch. Cuando se encuentra a Constance violada...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Agathe is an uptight, impatient art dealer who lives in an expensive Parisian apartment with her wealthy publisher husband. Patrick is a skirt-chasing, unemployed single father who lives in a van with his son. Their lives would never intersect except that their two sons are best friends and her husband has hired Patrick to remodel their apartment. Hilarity ensues as this odd couple relationship turns into Agathe's worst nightmare.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Gone to Texas, the true-life story of Sam Houston, the frontier hero and statesman whose bravery and vision led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. In Blue Steel, a young cowpoke reveals there is gold nearby in order to save a town from extinction, much to the displeasure of an outlaw gang already aware of the secret. In The Bounty Man, a vicious bounty hunter fights against desperadoes who plan to steel his bounty. In The Trackers, when marauders...
10) Las manos
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Tells the story of the Italian priest, Mario Pantaleo, who lived in Argentina and was a healer. It shows his struggle with many authorities--the Catholic Church, the government and the police.
11) Biutiful
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
"Drama ambientado en Barcelona, España y centrado en la vida de Uxbal, un hombre que lucha por mejorar la vida de sus dos hijos mientras tiene que lidiar con su esposa bipolar antes de morir de cáncer terminal, ganando dinero...
12) Wasabi
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen format (2.35:first).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A French police detective travels to Japan to settle the estate of a dead ex-lover, where a series of violent and comedic surprises await him.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior--both of which still haunt him decades later"--www.imdb.com.
"Benjamín Espósito acaba de jubilarse después de una vida entera como empleado de un juzgado penal. Tiene un sueño largamente postergado: escribir una novela. Para narrarla no pretende inventar nada, al contrario, contraréa...
Publisher
Cineplex
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
During a family reunion, the son of a well-admired man kidnaps him for money, and now the son must stop at nothing to bring his father back and face the consequences.
"Santiago Valbuena, hijo de un rico hacendado de los Llanos Orientales, lleva una doble vida. Su ambición lo ha llevado a montar una red que vende adinerados cautivos a grupos subversivos. Justo cuando quiere detenerse, Santiago es traicionado por uno de los miembros de su grupo; lo...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (5 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists. Beginning with the Germans' arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact....
16) Miss Bala
Series
Publisher
Fox World Cinema
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"An aspiring beauty queen finds herself in the wrong place at the worst possible time in this explosive crime thriller set amid Mexico's increasingly violent drug war. After witnessing a shooting in a nightclub, the young woman is kidnapped and forced to work for ruthless gangsters in order the keep her dreams, and her family, alive"--Container.
"Desde la primera toma, la historia es contada a través de los ojos inocentes de Laura Guerrero...una...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Marrilia, the woman who looked after him from birth, is his most faithful accomplice....
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
This haunting thriller pushes the limits of love, passion and betrayal to the extreme. The relationship between a handsome conductor and his jealous girlfriend takes a wicked turn when she tests his fidelity by hiding inside a secret room in their house, but the results are more terrifying than she could have imagined.
"El cineasta...describe [esta película] como una 'fábula siniestra que habla de la imposibilidad del amor cuando este se enfrenta...
19) Anita
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The story of a young woman with Down syndrome who lives a happy, routine life in Buenos Aires, being meticulously cared for by her mother Dora. One tragic morning in 1994, everything changes when Anita is left alone, confused and helpless after the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association is bombed. As Anita wanders through the city, she learns not only to care for herself, but touches the lives of those around her, from an alcoholic to a family...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Spanish widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the tiny pups will stop at nothing to save them, because in good times and hard times, the family always sticks together.
Una camada de cachorros causa tremendo caos en las vidas de sus padres, Papi y Chloe, una pareja de chihuahuas recién...
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