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Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona that began in the 1970's and continues to this day. Witness as they take their protest to Congress and turn tragedy into acts of heroic resistance.
5) All of me
Series
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Roger Cobb is a swinging bachelor, a lawyer, and a jazz musician. Edwina Cutwaters is a terminally ill spinster who is given another chance at life if her soul can be transported into another woman. However, the guru goofs, and Edwina's soul takes over the right side of Roger.
Series
Criterion collection volume 515
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Val Xavier is a guitar-strumming drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a Southern small-town variety store run by Lady Torrance, who's lonely, sexually frustrated, and abused by her vile, deathly ill husband, and who proves as much a temptation for Val as local wild child Carol, who tries to seduce him.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In a patriotic and racially divided Georgia community, a neighbor helps a young soldier's parents seek an honorable burial place for their son, an army officer whose mysterious death is under investigation by Major Kendall Laird.
8) Stepmom
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father's life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. But Jackie, a full-time-mother, regards Isabel's efforts as offensively insufficient. She can't...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
John and Jane Smith are a married couple who are beginning to get bored with their quiet domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they are both assassins, secretly traveling around the world and killing for hire. But their separate lives are about to collide when the discover they are each other's next target.
10) Chloe
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Catherine is suspicious that her husband David is having an affair, and hires Chloe, an alluring young escort to test his fidelity. Their arranged weekly meeting allows Catherine to hear the explicit details of the encounters Chloe has with David. As Catherine becomes caught up in a web of sexual desire herself, she begins a journey that will put her family in grave danger. Is it too late to stop Chloe?
11) A good woman
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A notorious seductress enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi, during the Great Depression of the 1930's, the Logans are one of the few Black families who own their own land. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan doesn't understand why her parents attach so much importance to this, any more than she understands the Night Riders, white men who terrorize her people.
13) Dawn rider
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"When the father of gunslinger John Mason (Slater) is shot to death by masked bandits, Mason sets out with guns blazing to track down those who killed him. During his quest, he finds himself in a grim love triangle when he falls for Alice, the determined and beautiful woman also adored by John's best friend."--Container.
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Pádraic struggles to find normality and peace in his daily existence after his lifetime best friend, Colm, abruptly no longer wants to speak to him ever again. It's hard to avoid the consequences of that decision in a tiny Irish village, but as he searches for a reason he can accept and understand, the rest of his life seems to change around him as well, in some rather extreme and dire ways.
15) The weather man
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago. His career is going well, but his personal life is spiraling downward. His relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children have him feeling that his life is out of control. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who just doesn't seem to have it all together. An attractive job offer from New York City...
16) The seagull
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
A production by the Williamstown Theatre Festival of Anton Chekhov's classic comedy-drama depicting man's propensity for destroying those he is close to. The main protagonists are Trepleff, the youthful aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre and Irina Arkadina, Trepleff's self-centered mother, an accomplished actress, who derides her son's ambitions.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After Alfie leaves his wife, Helena, to pursue his lost youth with a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine, Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Meanwhile, daughter Sally develops a crush on her handsome boss, Greg, while her husband, Roy, becomes moonstruck over Dia, a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. These four will find out how easy it is for their illusions...
19) Bartleby
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Updating the Melville story from 19th century Wall Street to London in the 1970s, a young accounting clerk refuses to do his work, throwing his office into chaos. His boss, unable to fire him or help him, eventually has him placed in a mental hospital.
20) California suite
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Five couples have come to the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles for diverse reasons, and they must all confront some rather amusing personal dilemmas.