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1) Ran
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1985
Language
日本語
Description
An aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom peacefully among his three sons, but is driven to madness when they turn against him.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) finds great success as Britain's most famous public executioner and his notoriety rises to a new level after he is selected to hang Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials. The experience changes him, and he begins to question the morality of his vocation at the same time that abolitionists begin a campaign to end hanging.
5) Feng Shui
Publisher
ODK Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Korean
Description
In Joseon, geomancers help people find lucky sites for houses, stores, and even graves. Park, a royal geomancer, loses his family because he exposed the powerful Kim’s conspiracy. Park plans revenge and learns that Kim is looking for the grave site that would make his son the King. Heung-seon, a faithful friend of the King, joins Park to prevent Kim from usurping the throne by finding it first.
6) Blue Jean
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In Georgia Oakley’s stunning directorial debut, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean (Rosy McEwen, in a powerhouse performance), a gym teacher, to live a double life. As pressure mounts from all sides, the arrival of a new student catalyzes a crisis that will challenge Jean to her core.
7) Bardejov
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the small Slovakian town of BARDEJOV, Jewish leader Rafuel Lowy realized his town's population was at risk of being sent off to Auschwitz. He fashioned a plan to quarantine the town so that no one could be transported out of it, and ultimately saved them. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a small Scottish village at the dawn of World War I, Kirsty (Hermione Corfield) yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. When the village hosts a road dance for departing soldiers, the sense of community is soon shattered by an unspeakable incident that changes Kirsty’s life forever.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Romance, surgery and history combine in this vivid, atmospheric drama based on the lives and case notes of doctors, nurses and patients at the Royal London Hospital a century ago. Set in the heart of the East End amid horrific danger and poverty, when illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, measles, syphilis, diphtheria are rife, Whitechapel life tumbles through the emergency room doors daily in victims of violence, suicide, drink and drugs. Themes...
10) The Alamo
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Historical drama about the 1835-36 Texas revolution which included the stand-off at the Alamo.
11) The last duel
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
King Charles VI declares that knight Jean de Carrouges must settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
12) Titus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Titus Andronicus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
13) The last supper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner. Most of them however don't take the Nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin to Palestine, her family starts disputing. Her father Aaron can't see any reason to leave Germany. But when Michael, Leah's younger brother, indicates that he actually is an ardent admirer of the national socialist movement, the...
Publisher
Kim Stim
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Chile 1990, at the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, a group of adolescents living in a commune, attempt to make sense of their own burgeoning desires and tangled relationships while the adults prepare for the first New Year's Eve under the promise of democracy.
16) Indochine
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Français
Description
A love triangle set in the days just before the communist uprising in Indochina. A plantation owner finds that her adopted daughter has fallen in love with the owner's secret lover.
17) Baaria
Author
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Italiano
Description
Follows the life of a man working as a shepherd in the Sicilian village of Bagheria as he experiences fifty years of passion, political revolution, and personal changes.
18) Philomena
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Focuses on the efforts of Philomena Lee, mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock--something her Irish-Catholic community didn't have the highest opinion of--and given away for adoption in the United States. In following church doctrine, she was forced to sign a contract that wouldn't allow for any sort of inquiry into the son's whereabouts. After starting a family years later in England and, for the most part, moving on with her life, Lee meets...
19) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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