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Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Danish
Description
With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread--a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Español
Description
The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini recreates the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome and its lack of concern with human dignity and obsession with perverse sex. The film is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern society.
7) Elektra
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Desolation and despair reign supreme in the kingdom of Mycenae. The great Agamemnon has been brutally murdered; his son Orestes has fled and his daughter Electra has been imprisoned within the walls of the castle. All hope seems lost until the sacred oracle speaks and replaces Electra's broken spirit with an unquenchable desire for justice and bloody vengeance.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The enchanting story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood in the south of France, and a very special summer when he was 11 years old. In the countryside of Provence he fell under the spell of the rugged hills, made new friends and strengthened the unique bond with his father.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
The story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood holidays in Provence continues in My Mother's Castle. During a Christmas in the region Marcel's affection for the area deepens and he also learns to love and appreciate his mother's true nature.
10) Salaam Bombay!
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Hindi
Description
Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets.
12) Europa Europa
Series
Publisher
[distributed by] MGM/UA Home Video]
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The true story of a Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as a Nazi for 7 years.
14) Never on Sunday
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The Pygmalion-like story of a Greek prostitute and the American who decides to educate her in the hope that she will abandon her streetwalking.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Russian
Description
A Russian army patrol is ambushed by Caucasian rebels and two survivors are taken prisoner, by a local patriarch who is hoping to barter them for the release of his captured son. A bond of understanding develops between the soldiers and their captors, but it is broken when plans for their release go awry and a chain of violence and retaliation is precipitated.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
"Cyrano, a master swordsman and poet, feels he can not woo his beloved Roxane due to an unfortunate physical flaw: his grotesquely large nose. Resigning himself to helping another suitor, the dashing yet tongue-tied Christian, Cyrano uses his mastery of words to win Roxane for him. But when Roxane finds that she has fallen for Christian's mind - and not for his beauty - which of her two suitors will finally possess her heart?" -- Container.
18) The Crook
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Simon, an unrepentant crook, has escaped from prison and hopes to be able to reclaim the $1,000,000 ransom money from the kidnapping that had landed him in jail and to elude recapture.
19) Iphigeneia
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Greek
Description
Commander Agamemnon stands ready to launch his infamous thousand ships to retrieve the beautiful Helen of Troy. As the wind refuses to blow, a priest condemns him for sacrilege, and the powerful general is pressured to sacrific his daughter to save the states. Threatened and tormented, Agamemnon is faced with sending his child like a lamb to the slaugher and betraying his wife.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1920's China, women had few options. So following the death of her father, Songlian, a beautiful nineteen-year-old college student agrees to marry a wealthy nobleman. She is to be wife number four at his estate, where daily life revolves around an ancient family custom: the master raises a red lantern outside the house of the wife with whom he desires to spend the night. On the surface, there is harmony between the wives, but trapped inside their...