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1) Ondine
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a fisherman who pulls up his nets one day to find a woman inside, which his daughter believes to be a selkie, but as they fall in love, a figure from her past threatens to disrupt their happiness.
2) Luzzu
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Maltese
Description
A hardworking Maltese fisherman, struggling to provide for his family amidst strict regulations imposed on his traditional family business by the European Union, enters Malta's fishing underworld.
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Bengali
Description
A River Called Titas: Concerns the lives of people in fishing villages along the banks of Titas in pre-Partition East Bengal. Focusing on the tragic intertwining fates of a series of fascinating characters, it tells the poignant story of an entire community's vanishing way of life.
Dry Summer: Follows a selfish farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to his neighbor's crops, and a love triangle between the farmer, his more...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....
Series
Criterion collection volume 685
Criterion collection volume 686
Martin Scorsese's world cinema project volume no. 1
Criterion collection volume 686
Martin Scorsese's world cinema project volume no. 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Wolof
Description
Touki-bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. .. two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Redes: "This vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real-life fishermen), one worker's terrible loss instigates...
6) Alamar
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Jorge has only a few weeks before his five-year-old son Natan leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent o nteaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef, and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan learns to live in harmony with life above and below the surface of the sea.
Publisher
Diamond Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (3.75 hrs.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The farmer's wife (silent film): This first film version of Eden Phillpotts' play "The Farmer's WIfe" involves a recently widowed farmer's search for a new bride. Every candidate proves insufficent until he realizes that his perfect mate has been under his own nose all along, his faithful housekeeper.
The manxman (Hitchcock's last silent film): a lawyer and a fisherman who fall in love with the same woman. She marries one, but she loves the other....
Publisher
Diamond Entertianment Corp
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (4.5 hrs.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Juno and the paycock: During the Irish revolution, a family receives notice that they will inherit a large sum of money. They begin to lead a rich life, forgetting what are the important values to live by. When they find out that they will not get the inheritance, the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start to live like vagabonds.
The skin game: Story about a conflict between two wealthy families. One is the established...
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