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1) Peyton Place
Series
Studio classic volume 16
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.
Series
Language
English
Description
In this influencial sci-fi classic produced in the early 50s, a spaceship lands in Washington, D.C. capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one young woman and her son befriend him ... and soon realize that they may be all...
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.
7) Desk set
Series
Studio classic volume 18
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
Series
Studio classic volume 15
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding due to the increasing persecutions against Jews. Businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the attic rooms above their place of business. They arrange for the Frank and Van Daan families to stay there. Later on, they are joined by the dentist Dussel. Anne Frank is Otto's 13-year-old daughter. She writes about the remarkable account of their...
Series
Studio classic volume 17
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Series
Studio classic volume 26
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An extremely possessive woman will do whatever it takes to keep her husband all to herself, even murder. Based on the best-selling novel by Ben Ames Williams.
Series
Studio classic volume 14
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Wyatt Earp avenges his brother's murder and competes with Doc Holliday for the affections of a schoolteacher.
14) Zorba the Greek
Series
Studio classic volume 21
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When he hires an eccentric stranger named Zorba to work in a mine he has inherited on Crete, Basil, a timid English writer, finds himself drawn into a world far more exciting and dangerous than any he has known.
15) The razor's edge
Series
Studio classic volume 30
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A rich young man spends his time between WWI & WWII searching for essential truth, eventually landing in India.
16) Two for the road
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect when they first meet on the road in Europe. The film follows their life together - through courtship and marriage, infidelity and parenthood - all on the road.
17) Sunrise
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
None
Description
A naive country man falls for a cold-blooded city woman who persuades him to drown his wife in order to be with her.
18) The train
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In August 1944, the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. There are a few people who have been half-century friends or acquaintances on the island, including Tisha Doughty and Joshua Brackett.
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