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Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Italiano
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Leslie Knope takes on new challenges as the newly-elected city councilwoman of Pawnee, Indiana. She stands her ground for what she believes in and puts up a strong fight, all while balancing her personal relationship with Ben and planning for a wedding. Meanwhile, assistant Andy pursues a career in law enforcement, Ann makes a dramatic life decision, and Ron is smitten with a new lady.
4) Philadelphia
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997], c1993
Language
English
Description
A story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
5) Mouchette
Series
Criterion collection volume 363
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
"Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil"--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
7) Fight club
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground 'fight clubs' forming in every town -- until a sensuous and mysterious woman comes between the two men and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion."--Back of container.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Wedding Plot, USA Today bestselling author Paula Munier's fourth Mercy Carr mystery, finds Mercy and Elvis at a deadly Vermont wedding. Love never dies a natural death.... When Mercy's grandmother Patience marries her longtime beau Claude Renault at the five-star Lady's Slipper Inn, it promises to be the destination wedding of the year. Just as the four-day extravaganza is due to begin, the inn's spa director Bodhi St. George disappears-and Mercy's...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A nuanced, comprehensive portrait of Britain's most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordinary life is a study...
10) Airport
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Author
Series
Mafioso volume 5
Publisher
Melodrama Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Family Feuds. The stunning acquittals of Scott and Layla West reverberate throughout the justice system, and the powerful cartels take notice. The Wests were untouchable, and their drug empire is still intact, but family ties begin to unravel. New mom Lucky has a lot on her shoulders as she continues to deceive the head of the Juarez cartel. Partnering with her twin brothers, Lucky lines up the pieces on the chessboard, but she underestimates the...
Author
Publisher
Melodrama Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When the smoke clears after the devastation Cartier Timmons and her Cartier Cartel experienced in New York, she's determined to leave the fast life behind once and for all. Now in South Beach, Miami, Cartier is living the peaceful, yet lavish life in paradise when her daughter is snatched away by the hands of ruthless criminals looking for an epic payday. Cartier jumps back into the game with Lil Mama and Quinn, a new member of the Cartel, at her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Melodrama Publishing
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Young and beautiful, seventeen-year-old Apple believes there's one thing she can do better than anyone -- herself. Her selfish actions turn fatal in a New York minute when she gets tangled up with a street hustler. He wants his payment in blood with interest. Apple tries to clean up her mess, but the lines between vengeance and reality begin to blur. Apple steps into her role as his main chick a little too easily, which causes a beef with her sister,...
14) Dinner at eight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who's who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multi-starred, multistoried Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired to something grander and found it in this George Cukor-directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1006
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Loosely adapted from William Faulkner's controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1028
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the '30s and early '40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama. A behind-the-footlights look at friendship, jealousy, and ambition in the ruthless world of show business, Dance, Girl, Dance follows the intertwining fates of two chorus girls.
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