Catalog Search Results
1) Coming home
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Left behind by her parents at boarding school during World War II, Judith comes into womanhood and finds comfort in the wealth Carey-Lewis family.
2) Onegin
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
After inheriting his uncle's country estate, playboy Evgeny Onegin travels there and meets a beautiful, passionate young girl, Tatyana. But their relationship sparks a series of events so horrifying they threaten to destroy everything the two have ever known.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
Description
Italian visual artist Yuir Ancarani's exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry. The opulence of this Middle Easterm gas state is on full display as the men race SUVs up and down sand dunes, fly their prized falcons around on private jets, and take their pet cheetahs out for desert spins in their souped-up Ferraris.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie's beloved Belgian detective returns in these four feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Set amid the unparalleled elegance of the Art Deco era, these beautifully remastered adaptations star David Suchet as the peerless Hercule Poirot. With a little help from his friends, Captain Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp, and Miss Lemon, Poirot unravels the most tangled cases with flair and finesse.
6) Leila
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
Persian
Description
A wife in Iran who cannot have children is pressured by her in-laws into persuading her husband to take another wife so that he may have sons. A portrayal of the clash between tradition and modern marriage in Iran.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2007]
Language
Persian
Description
"Blends satire with history to paint a portrait of the metropolis and its transformation into a mega[lo]polis of increasing urban mess, pollution, inadequate housing, class gaps, and the fatal destiny of its once delicious pomegranates. Aided by never before seen archival footage from the past 100 years and mock interviews with city officials, the film explains the complex life of Tehran's inhabitants as they live side by side [with] the past, begging...
9) Persuasion
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, p1995
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off an engagement to Capt. Wentworth, but tensions are resumed when they meet again eight years later.
11) Kedi
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Türkçe
Description
Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, these animals live between two worlds, neither wild nor tame, and they bring joy and purpose to those people they choose to adopt. In Istanbul, cats are the mirrors to the people, allowing them to reflect on their lives...
12) The grass harp
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
After his parents' death, young Collin goes to live with his eccentric Southern aunts.
13) Under the sun
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Korean
Description
"A jaw-dropping glimpse of everyday life in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang: Zin-Mi is an adorable 8-year-old girl, who, as she prepares to join the pretigious Children's Union, participates in colorful, joyous patriotic school pageants, eats delicious evening meals at her family's well-appointed apartment, and is doted on by her attractive parents who work in model factories that regularly exceed their production targets. Sounds too good to...
14) La dolce vita
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Italiano
Description
A journalist investigates the life-styles of Roman high society and is sickened and fascinated by what he discovers.
15) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.
16) Basic hula
Publisher
RealHula
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The collaboration of this master teacher and master dancer has produced the first complete visual and verbal road map allowing you to achieve the truly Hawaiian look in your hula dancing. This video is two hours of intensive instruction and demonstration covering 14 basic steps. We talk it through, we demonstrate it muscle-by-muscle and we rehearse you in each of the steps we introduce. First we teach the underlying basic movements of the body in...
17) Roma
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Purchase Suggestion