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1) Pillow talk
Series
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of an uptight interior decorator who must share a party line with a laid-back playboy. But the real connection is made when the two meet and he starts wooing her with late-night calls while pretending to be someone else.
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
Series
Language
English
Description
A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding supporting cast and influential jazz score by Duke Ellington,...
9) Ben-Hur
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. Fom that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest to survive...
10) On the beach
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When the entire Northern hemisphere is destroyed in an atomic war, the residents of Melbourne, Australia, realize that it is only time keeping them safe before a cloud of radioactive materials reaches their part of the world too.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity. In Swedish with English subtitles.
Series
Publisher
Goodtimes DVD
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"During the first century A.D. Judah Ben-Hur is a young Hebrew prince thrown into slavery by the Romans after a tragic accident who wins his way back to his home and family on a heroic adventure of discovery. Judah's love for a beautiful slave girl is threatened by the bitter conflict dividing two former friends and his triumph is set against the backdrop of the historic struggle between a captive people and a mighty empire. From an exciting sea battle...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives." --
"1959 version: Two single mothers, a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman, attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters." --
17) Sleeping Beauty
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When an enchanted kingdom and the most fair princess in the land falls prey to the ultimate mistress of evil, the fate of the empire rests in the hands of three small fairies and a courageous prince's magic kiss. Their quest is fraught with peril as the spirited group must battle the evil witch and a fire-breathing dragon if they are to set Beauty free.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods. Features Millie Perkins as the insightful 13 year old biographer of her family's two-year hiding in an Amsterdam attic. At first, the strong-willed teenager embraces her fugitive lifestyle as an adventure. But in time, the ever-increasing fear of discovery and close quarters prove nearly unbearable for the eight personalities in hiding.
19) The five pennies
Series
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Semi-biographical story of jazz coronet player Loring "Red" Nichols and his band, The five pennies.
20) Li'l Abner
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Based on the beloved cartoon strip from Al Capp, Li'l Abner takes place in the hillbilly town of Dogpatch. When the city is chosen as a test site for A-bombs, its colorful citizens take up the good fight, with lots of fun and merriment.
