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2) Illegal
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan. One day, they are stopped on the street for a routine check by the police; Tania is arrested and placed in an immigration detention center for women, while Ivan manages to escape. Threatened with imminent deportation and fearful for Ivan's fate, Tania embarks on a harrowing journey, determined to preserve her dignity and find her son. Short film : Rita....
3) A call girl
Series
Film movement volume year 8, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 video disc (91, 19 min.) : sd., col. : 4 3/4 in.
Language
Slovenian
Description
A Call Girl: A small town Slovene girl moves to the big city to be a student by day and call girl by night. Her life becomes complicated when one of her customers, a politician, dies while visiting her.
Honored: Centers on a young woman visited by a soldier carrying letters from husband, who died in Iraq.
4) Lake Tahoe
Series
Film movement volume year 7, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
DVD (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Lake Tahoe: After crashing the family car teen-age Juan embarks on a one-day journey to find help fixing it.
Noodles: A light snack of a film that makes you want to learn how to use chopsticks.
5) Jaffa
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 6
Publisher
Filmmovement.com
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col., 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
"In the heart of Jaffa, Reuven's garage is a family business. His daughter Mali and his son Meir, as well as Toufik, a young Palestinian, work there. No one suspects that Mali and Toufik have been in love for years. As the two lovers are secretly making their wedding arrangements, tension builds between Meir and Toufik"--imdb.com.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min. ) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A thief, a copy, and a forbidden passion...In this thrilling, sensual game of cat-and-mouse, Maribel Verdu is intoxicating as Margot, a woman skilled in the art of seduction. Posing as a prostitute, she tantalizes men with the promise of erotic pleasures, only to drug them and steal their money. When she nabs a large suitcase stuffed with cash, she becomes the target of a murderous gang and a handsome police detective powerless to resist her charms....
Publisher
Distributed by RB Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A Nigerian peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in NE Burkina Faso, Africa. He quickly finds out the gold rush ended twenty years before and the inhabitants of this wasteland manage to exist simplly from force of habit.
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From executive producer Benicio del Toro comes a film about love at all ages. A child's first kiss. A man who can't grasp rejection. An elderly love affair. Passion defeats reason again and again in this film about the eternal search for love.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Well-to-do, sophisticated couple Elsa and Michele have a 20 year-old daughter and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months, having been fired by the company he founded years ago. Elso overcomes her intitial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis, while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful...
10) Amelie
Publisher
[distributed by] Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Amélie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amélie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, Amélie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the lives of others around...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bess, a pious, young Scottish woman, prays to God to send her husband, Jan, home from his job on an offshore oil rig. When an accident sends him home paralyzed, she's filled with guilt and submits to his wish that she take on other lovers, convinced that this will aid in his recovery.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
The nature of artistic creation and the relationship of artist and society is explored through the theme of the Hour of the wolf. The ancient Romans believed that during this hour, just before dawn and the coming of light, nightmare came to life.
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In a small, sleepy village in the Basque Country, a sculptor named Ane and her three children arrive at her mother Lita's home for summer vacation where they are surrounded by extended family and nosy neighbors. Ane and her mother's relationship is strained — Lita disapproves of her daughter's frayed marriage, career as an artist, and the way she parents her obstinate and mischievous children. Chief among them is eight-year-old Aitor, nicknamed...
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A master thief is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime. He, a notorious escapee, and an alcoholic ex-cop plan a jewel heist, while being persued by a police superintendent.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 minutes).
Language
English
Description
Set amid the political violence of late-1960s Indonesia, Kamila Andini's intoxicating film BEFORE, NOW & THEN follows Nana, the beautiful wife of a wealthy plantation owner whose inner life remains with her deceased first husband, murdered in the civil war a decade prior. A survivor, Nana values her safety and material comforts, but carries out a haunted existence, dreaming of her lost love. Forced to confront her husband's blatant infidelity, Nana...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998, c1953
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (147 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The manager of a Central American oilfield offers big money to drivers who will take trucks loaded with nitroglycerine into the jungle to put out an oil fire. Four men accept knowing their chances of survival are slim.
17) The innocents
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveals their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. But what starts as innocent soon takes a dark and violent turn in this gripping supernatural thriller.
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Only When I Dance" : This feel-good documentary follows Irlan and Isabela, two teenagers from the violent favelas of Rio de Janeiro, as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional ballet dancers. This inspiring story takes us from Rio -- where their communities must raise the funs to support their ambitions -- to exhilarating ballet competitions in New York and Switzerland. it's a film about their determination to dance, and the price one must...
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...
20) Roh
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Malay
Description
Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, but these are not mere superstitions. As more strangers show up on her doorstep, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest. Malaysia's official submission to the 2021 Academy Awards
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