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3) L'avventura
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001], c1960
Language
Italiano
Description
Story about the search for a girl lost on an island; gradually the searchers become preoccupied with their own problems, and the girl is never found.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Desperate for his art to survive, the King of Masks finds an apprentice in a destitute child purchased on the black market. When the child reveals an unexpected secret, their relationship is suddenly tested by both the old man's stubborn sense of tradition and the established customs of China.
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, exploring young love, and experiencing everything that comes with growing up in a country on the brink of enormous change.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
日本語
Description
This is the thrilling tale of a man who chooses to devote his life to evil. A gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, Ryunosuke (Nakadai) kills without remorse, without mercy. It is a way of life that ultimately leads to madness.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Deutsch
Description
"A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out: Lola has just received a frantic call from her boyfriend Manni, who's accidentally lost a small fortune he was to deliver to his mobster boss. If they cannot find a way to replace the money within twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences."
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter appears to be the leader of.
11) Ikiru =: To live
Series
Criterion collection volume 221
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
日本語
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quietly fulfilled.
12) Kolya
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
Czech
Description
A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires, setting off a wild set of circumstances and leaving him with a pint-sized new roommate.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
At the center of this intimate and touching story is Georges Lopez - a remarkably devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11 in all their school subjects and life's lessons. Demonstrates how a teacher, if well trained, dedicated and sensitive to a child's educational and emotional needs, can hugely influence a generation of children at their most critical time of development.
14) Cinema paradiso
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life.
15) The Third Wife
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Vietnamese
Formats
Description
In 19th century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May’s hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available...
16) Babette's feast
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Danish
Description
A French chef who lives and works in a small Danish religious community spends her prize winnings on an incredible meal for the entire village.
17) Bread & tulips
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2000
Language
Italiano
Description
When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordion. But her solo journey does not sit well with her tyrannical husband, who hires an amateur detective...
18) Luo men sheng
Publisher
Xiamen yin xiang chu ban she
Pub. Date
1999
Language
日本語
Description
Set in the Middle Age, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
19) Kagemusha
Series
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
In 16th century feudal Japan, a thief is saved from execution to train as a double for one of the warlords, Shingen. Three warlords, Shingen,...
20) L'Atalante
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him aboard the barge "L'Atalante", where they travel along the Seine River. The bride, becomes bored and leaves the ship for Paris where she starts flirting with other men.
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