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21) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998, p1955
Language
English
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
22) The American
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a job ends more violently than expected, Jack, an assassin, retreats to the Italian countryside and accepts one last assignment to construct a deadly weapon for a mysterious contact, but risks discovery when he pursues a relationship with a beautiful local woman.
Publisher
Adopt Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Türkçe
Description
Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small hotel with his wife, writes a column for the local newspaper,...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
James Bond tries to stop a nuclear blackmail threat from Spectre, looks for the connection between a Korean terrorist and a supposedly reputable diamond merchant, investigates the disappearance of submarines carrying nuclear missiles, faces a plot to destroy Silicon Valley, and seeks personal revenge on a drug dealer.
27) As you like it
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play, a pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France.
28) Big Stone Gap
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, a woman finds her life disrupted when she learns of a long-buried family secret.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
James Bond tries to stop a Spectre plan to pit the U.S. and Russia against each other, find a stolen British encryption device, marries a crime boss's daughter in order to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld, investigates the deaths of several British agents, and tries to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon.
30) Show boat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
34) Pete's dragon
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Elliot, an enormous green dragon with a penchant for clumsy heroics, becomes friends with Pete, an orphan.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Sarah Cain is sweet, successful, slightly self-absorbed and a city girl through and through. But when the untimely death of her sister draws her to Amish country for a funeral, she makes a discovery that will change her life: she is now the legal guardian to five Amish nieces and nephews! Desperately trying to juggle the kids, her career and her comfort level, Sarah must reevaluate her priorities as she prepares for the biggest culture shock of everyone's...
36) Time regained
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Raul Ruiz's most ambitious literary adaptation and considered his greatest cinematic achievement. The movie distills all of Marcel Proust's iconic In Search of Lost Time into a single epic feature.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew, detective: Nancy and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady; Nancy Drew, reporter: When a young woman is accused in a poisoning death, Nancy searches for a vital piece of evidence to clear her; Nancy Drew, trouble shooter: Nancy clears her Uncle Matt of murder charges when she exposes the real murderers; Nancy Drew and the hidden staircase: Nancy and Ted must try to solve a murder to save two elderly ladies from...
38) Antigone
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A filmed play adaptation from the Jean Anouilh reinterpretation of the Sophocles tragedy. First written and produced during the Nazi Occupation, this play about a young woman facing a morally corrupt world raises powerful questions of human interaction in regard to collaboration, responsibility and personal integrity.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this modern day spin on 'Pride & Prejudice,' Elizabeth Scott, is fishing for direction in her life and gets the opportunity to professionally shoe her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in a fancy New York dog show. Dog show judge Donovan Darcy comes across as aristocratic and rude and a chain of misunderstandings unfold during the competition, complicating their mutual attraction.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography.
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