Ingrid Bergman
Series
Publisher
Republic Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Easy-going Father O'Malley and iron-willed Sister Benedict find themselves in a subtle battle of wits over how the children should be educated at St. Mary's parochial school. Meanwhile, the entire school may be razed to make way for a parking lot.
2) Notorious
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction.
3) Casablanca
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
4) Anastasia
Series
Studio classic volume 9
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth...
Series
Studio classic volume 10
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of children through war-torn China in the 1930's. Nominated for an Academy Award, Best Director.
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Swedish
Description
An international concert pianist visits her grown daughter after a seven-year absence. Aching with the memory of her mother's neglect, the introverted daughter explodes into a rage and the reunion turns into a shattering confrontation.
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by a secret past and tormented by an uncertain future, two lonely people are drawn together in Paris during the last desperate days of freedom before WWII. A surgeon flees to Paris to escape the Nazis' growing power. After falling in love with an unemployed cabaret singer and finding her a job, he is deported when unable to produce his passport. Things come to a crisis when war is declared.
Series
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
10) Spellbound
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Constance Peterson (Bergman) is a dedicated psychiatrist who puts all her passion into her work--until she falls in love with Dr. Edwardes (Peck). Unfortunately, it soon becomes clear that Edwardes is an imposter--an amnesiac--who may or may not be a cold-blooded murderer. Pursued by the police, Constance must decide whether to turn in her mysterious lover ... or risk her life by trying to unlock the dark secrets in his mind."--Container notes....
11) Gaslight
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
12) Joan of Arc
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
15th century French peasant girl, Joan, rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. Fiercely believing that she is directed by God, Joan triumphantly leads an Army into battle against the British, who are driven from France. When a new king is crowned, Joan's influence grows and makes him wary of her power, ultimately betraying her to martyrdom.