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Author
Language
English
Description
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited, while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly...
2) Persuasion
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on...
6) Hopscotch
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because he's having too much fun!
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Swedish
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 3
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Clips from noir classics and little-known gems, plus interviews with modern noir aficionados like directors Christopher Nolan and Frank Miller, writers James Ellroy and Brian Helgeland and others shape this multifaceted exploration of the movie style that grew out of the hard realities of post-World War II life"--Container.
10) La bête humaine
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Français
Description
Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Roubaud. Roubaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Roubaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
12) The last wave
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.
16) Dillinger
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Traces Dillinger's violent career from his early days through his rise to the top of the FBI most-wanted list, and concludes with the well-known "lady in red" betrayal that left Dillinger a bullet-riddled corpse on a dark Chicago street.
17) The conspirators
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After committing an act of sabotage against the Nazis, Vincent Van Der Lyn escapes from the Netherlands to neutral Portugal, where he enlists in the underground resistance under the leadership of Ricardo Quintanilla. Tasked by Quitanilla with uncovering a traitor, Vincent soon finds himself being fitted for a frame while falling for the secretive Irene, and the Nazis are closing in.
18) Pocahontas
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[199-?], c1995
Language
English
Description
Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan meets up with a shipful of English settlers led by their courageous Captain John Smith. Their friendship leads to events that will change history as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live side by side.
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