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2) Chocolat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny fishing village. For eight years the locals have stood in line for weekly welfare checks, remembering the good old days when the catch was good. A small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village. In order...
4) Cars
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Opal City: known for free mining, endless desert and, to a select few, vampires. This remote desert mining town is the last colonial stronghold for vampires and when the King Vampire arrives with plans to take over the land and kidnap locals for their blood, it's up to two Aboriginal renegades, Tyson and Shanika, to stop him and end the 230 year war. But how can a reckless 'semi alcoholic' and a teenaged orphan destroy an entire vampire...
6) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
Series
Classic holiday DVD collection volume 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1938]
Language
English
Description
The timeworn Dickens' story about the old merchant Scrooge and how his own disappointments in life shape his view that both life and men are not worthy of his notice or concern.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Widower Sheriff Andy and his young son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bea in Mayberry, NC. Since Mayberry has virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent chatting with the locals and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney.
9) Encanto
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Madrigals live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal, every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that she, the only ordinary Madrigal, might just be her exceptional...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Quigley, the irrepressible entrepreneur has departed suddenly. New arrival, Australian priest, Father Vincent Sheahan, has joined the fold and is soon learning the ways of the villagers. From Dermot's online confessional to a surprise takeover at the pub and further shenanigans with Liam and Donal, there's every reason for one more visit to this idyllic village.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Widower Sheriff Andy and his young son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bea in Mayberry, NC. Since Mayberry has virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent chatting with the locals and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this sparkling revival of the hit Australian dramedy, Laura Gibson returns to the lovely coastal town of Pearl Bay for the first time in 20 years, but it isn't the same as she remembers. Determined to mend her fractured relationship with her daughter, Laura realizes that Pearl Bay and her family may need her as much as she needs them.
13) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 71
Publisher
Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Intimate stories of one Rust Belt city's struggle to recover in the post-recession economy. Frontline and ProPublica report on the economic and social forces shaping Dayton, Ohio, a once-booming city where nearly 35 percent now live in poverty.
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