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Series
Criterion collection ; 487
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century. Emma Hart is a beautiful dance hall girl who is sent by her latest lover to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Sir William considers Emma a rare piece of art he must possess. Sir William introduces Emma to Naples' elite society and she soon marries him. Later, Horatio Nelson, a famous English Naval office arrives. Soon, a scandalous,...
3) Revenge
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Debut director Coralie Fargeat announces her stunning arrival, painting a crimson canvas of hypnotic beauty and bloody retribution in this razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller. Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly--and viciously-- intensifies, culminating in...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.
6) Vatel
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The Duc de Conde's employee, Francois Vatel, is in charge of cooking, and preparing shows for the French King Louis XIV when he visits the castle of Chantilly, owned by de Conde. If Vatel can impress the King, de Conde will gain his favors, and the destiny of France will change. While the King is visiting and three days of banquets ensue, Vatel falls in love with the King's mistress.
7) Bugsy
Series
Language
English
Description
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a ruthless mobster who had it all, and then met a woman who wanted more. Their love affair was passionate, tempestuous and ultimately tragic.
8) Deception
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
World War II has separated pianist Christine Radcliffe from her great love, cellist Karel Novak. Thinking Karel has been killed in action, she is unexpectedly reunited with him. Now, Christine desperately strives to hide her wartime dalliance as the mistress of a wealthy, sadistic composer. She'll lie to keep her shameful past a secret.
9) She-devil
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Patchett is a wife and a mother who tries to please her husband Bob. When he has an affair with Mary Fisher, a romance novelist, Ruth wants revenge." --
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In addition to his prodigious output as a playwright, poet and theatrical producer, Bertolt Brecht maintained no fewer than three mistresses at any one time throughtout his adult life. Takes place in a single day, toward the end of his life, in the late summer of 1956, as Brecht prepares to leave his lakeside home and return to Berlin for the fall theater season. Surrounded by the women who form his extended family, he is the center of a quiet storm....
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Italiano
Description
Domenico first meets 17-year-old prostitute Filumena in a Neapolitan brothel in the 2nd World War. After the war they become lovers on and off for 22 years. Domenico eventually rents an apartment for Filumena and even lets her run his shop but is always chasing other women. Finally Filumena asks Domenico to marry her on her deathbed, just before he had planned to marry his young cashier, and admits she had his legitimate child. Dominico uses different...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nelly, a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
13) Carrie
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young woman leaves her family in a small rural town and heads to Chicago, where she becomes romantically involved with a commitment-shy salesman and a married restaurant manager.
This is the extended version, containing one deleted scene (scene 16: "Destitute", 3 min.).
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The little-known story of Mary Boleyn who was mistress to King Henry VIII before he married her older sister, Anne. Two great families jockey for position and use their daughters as pawns in a deadly game. Set during one of the most notorious periods in British regal history. A story of a rival relationship between the two sisters.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Indonesian
Description
Set amid the political violence of late-1960s Indonesia, this film 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 makes an unusual connection with his younger...
17) Band of angels
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Presents the classic 1957 film featuring Clark Gable as a southern plantation owner who buys a young southern belle when her part-African heritage is revealed.
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