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Series
Criterion collection volume 48
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Portuguese
Description
Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States.
42) Tokyo Godfathers
Publisher
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
日本語
Description
The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby's parents.
44) Vazante
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Upon returning from a trading expedition, Antonio discovers that his wife has died in labor. Confined to a decadent but desolate property in the company of his aging mother-in-law and numerous slaves, he marries his wife's young niece, Beatriz. Separated from her family and left alone on the rugged farmhouse in the Brazilian mountains, Beatriz finds solace in the displaced and oppressed inhabitants around her.
46) Bacurau
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
Description
A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995
Language
日本語
Description
Magnetic Rose: Two space travellers follow a distress signal and are drawn into a magnificent world created by one woman's memories. Stink bomb: A young chemist accidentally transforms himself into an unstoppable biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. Cannon fodder: Depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unknown enemy.
48) Good Manners
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Clara is a lonely nurse from the outskirts of Sao Paulo who is hired by the mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon-to-be-born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans.
Publisher
UMe
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
James Brown changed the face of American music. Soul Brother Number One, as he was known, pioneered the journey from rhythm and blues to funk. Includes music videos, full length commentary and interviews with Rev. Al Sharpton, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, and more.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Hungarian
Description
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day Sao Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
53) The thin man
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The jaunty whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthung. Nick and Nora Charles combine screwball romance with mystery.
54) Into the deep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Close encounters of the oceanic kind."--Container.
55) Georgia O'Keeffe
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. As their relationship suffers, Alfred takes a younger lover. Georgia's search for solace moves her west, where she finds new inspiration for her paintings, and ultimately her own voice, in the New Mexico landscape.
56) Quinceañera
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Español
Description
On the evening before Magdalena's 15th birthday, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Forced to leave her house, she finds a new family with her uncle and gay cousin.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of two brothers, Norman and Paul Maclean, growing up in Montana. While Paul rebels against the stern nature of the boys' father Rev. Maclean, Norman pursues his dream of becoming a writer. However, despite the brothers' differences they are ultimately bonded by their mutual love of fly-fishing.
59) Drunken master
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertianment
Pub. Date
2002, [c1978]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The son of a martial arts instructor clowns around and neglects his lessons. When assassins come after his family, he must learn an obscure style of kung fu from his uncle--drunken fist kung fu.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], 2005
Language
Français
Description
Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Follows a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, and a German tenor and his beloved Danish soprano as music and the spirit of Christmas create bonds between enemies.
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