Movies (fiction) by Category

12 years a slave 2013

The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the process to regain his freedom. 1 videodisc (134 min.)

MEDIA 10-4871

 

Across 110th Street 2001, 1972

A hard-edged cop on the take for years battles the Mafia and local gansters in Harlem. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-4024

 

Adam Bede c2007

Peter Goodchild, Giles Foster, Maggie Wadey, Iain Glen, Patsy Kensit, Susannah Harker, James Wilby, George Eliot, 2 entertain, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), BBC Video (Firm), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel.  Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate.  She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance. 1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.)

MEDIA 10-800

 

Adam Clayton Powell 2009

Richard Kilberg, Phyllis Garland, Yvonne Smith, Julian Bond, Channel Four Films (Firm), Cine Information, Inc, RKB Productions, Docurama (Firm), and New Video Group

A look at the most influential and flamboyant civil rights leader in America from the 1930s through the 1950s. From his emergence as a pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, to his riotous political climb and eventual ruin. He had an illustrious but controversial career. He had multiple marriages, taunted the white establishment, his desegregation of Congress, and his shameful smearing of Martin Luther King Jr. 1 videodisc (ca. 54 min.)

MEDIA 10-2040  2-1382

 

Adaptation 2003, c2002

Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot. 1 videodisc (114 min.)

MEDIA 10-3950

 

Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a train c2004, 1951

Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. 2 videodiscs (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-4055

 

Alfred Hitchcock's The birds c2000

Evan Hunter, Alfred Hitchcock, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Daphne Du Maurier, Universal Pictures Company, and Universal Pictures (Firm)

When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds. 1 videodisc (2 hr.)

MEDIA 10-1710

 

Angoor 2002?

Sanjeev Kumar, Moushumi Chatterji, Devan Verma, Dipti Navala, Utpal Datta, Gulazara, Jai Singh, and IndiaWeekly.com

Comedy of twins, based on Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 10-982

 

Araby c2008

Dennis J Courtney, Andrew Quicke, Van Michael Hughes, Joanna Canton, Mimi Eisman, Gillette Elvgren, Joseph Bierman, James Turner, James Joyce, American Street Productions, Araby Film Productions , and Digital Tapestry Productions

"A boy's romantic quest through the streets of Dublin becomes a religious pilgrimage, merging the sensual and the sacred." -- Container. 1 videodisc (21 min.)

MEDIA 10-1772

 

Atonement c2008

Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Christopher Hampton, Ian McEwan, Seamus McGarvey, James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Blethyn, Ian McEwan, Focus Features, Studio Canal, Relativity Media, Working Title Films, and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony - who has a crush on Robbie - is compelled to interfere. She goes so far as to accuse Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but, ultimately, he is arrested. Briony bears false witness and the course of three lives is changed forever. As Briony grow older, she continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love. 1 videodisc (123 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3355

 

Bees saal baad  2005? 1962

Biren Naug, Dhruva Chatterji, Devki Shen, Waheeda Rehman, Manmohan Krishna, Biswajeet, Asit Sen, Madan Puri, and Geetanjali Pictures

"After a lusty Thakur rapes a young girl, she kills herself. Thereafter, the Thakur is killed by what the local people call the girl's vengeful spirit. Then the Thakur's son is also killed in a similar way. Thereafter the brother of the Thakur is also killed. The grandson of the Thakur, Kumar Vijay Singh (Biswajeet) returns from abroad to claim his ill-fated legacy. He is warned to stay away from the grounds that have killed his ancestors, but he intends to find out who or what is behind the killings, and hires a private detective"--IMBD website. 1 videodisc (144 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3120

 

The believers 2002, 1987

A widower and his son move to New York City and become involved with a cultish religion which believes in the sacrifice of children. 1 videodisc (114 min.)

MEDIA 10-4416

 

The best years of our lives 2012, 1946

Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans after WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives . 1 videodisc (170 min.)

MEDIA 10-4200

 

Black narcissus 2000

Films About European Women, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Deborah Kerr , Sabu, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons, Kathleen Byron , Jenny Laird, Judith Furse, May Hallatt , Eddie Whaley, Shaun Noble, Nancy Roberts, Jack Cardiff, Reginald Mills, Brian Easdale, Rumer Godden, Archers (Firm), Independent Producers, Ltd, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-2034

 

Bleak house 2006

Justin Chadwick, Susanna White, Nigel Stafford-Clark, Charles Dickens, Gillian Anderson, Lilo Baur, Charlie Brooks, Warner Home Video (Firm), British Broadcasting Corporation, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Deep Indigo Productions, BBC Video (Firm), and 2 Entertain (Firm)

The icily beautiful Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. 3 videodiscs (ca. 465 min.)

MEDIA 10-867

 

Blonde ice 2003, 1948

Society reporter comes under suspicion when her series of rich husbands die mysteriously. 1 videodisc (74 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3780

 

Born to be wild 2005, 1938

Ralph Byrd, Ward Bond, Doris Weston, Joseph Kane, Republic Pictures Corporation, and Alpha Video Distributors

In a race against time to save thousands of lives, truckers Steve Hackett (Ralph Byrd) and Bill Purvis (Ward Bond) must haul a truck full of dynamite to the distant town of Indian Head. The town's huge dam has been shut down by a notorious land baron who has hired a gang of armed men to prevent the shipment of explosives from getting through. With a deadline fast approaching, the heavily loaded van tears down the highway at top speeds, breaking through barricades, dodging bullets and bravely facing even more terrifying dangers ahead. 1 videodisc

MEDIA 10-1682

 

The boys from Brazil 2009

Martin Richards, Stanley O'Toole, Franklin J Schaffner, Heywood Gould, Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason , Ira Levin, Producer Circle Company, and Lion's Gate Films

A band of Nazi leaders, escaped from postwar Germany, scheme to return to power. Their plans to dominate the world are based on a bizarre biological experiment undertaken by Josef Mengele: to clone Hitler. 1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.)

MEDIA 10-2232

 

Bride & prejudice 2005

Deepak Nayar, Anupam Kher, Martin Henderson, Aishwariya Rai Bachchan, Naveen Andrews, Gurinder Chadha, Nayar Chadha, Annu Malik, Jane Austen, Alliance Atlantis (Firm), UK Film Council, Pathé Pictures, and Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)

Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? 1 videodisc (111 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3130

 

Burglar c1998, 1987

Ex-con Bernice Rhodenbarr is tough, smart, funny--and in one helluva mess. A double-dealing cop's got the goods on her for a long-ago theft and wants $20,000 to keep from squealing. Of course, there's only one way Bernice can come up with dough like that--turn burglar for one last heist. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-4022

 

Carrie 2001, c1976

"Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her classmates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk, to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school. What she doesn't realise is that Carrie is ... gifted, and you really don't want to get her angry"--Internet Movie Database. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-3912

 

Charles Dickens' David Copperfield c2004

Jack Pulman, Frederick Brogger, Delbert Mann, Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Pamela Franklin, Susan Hampshire, Wendy Hiller, Ron Moody, Lawrence Olivier, Robin Phillips, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Charles Dickens, Omnibus Productions (Firm), and Digiview Productions

David Copperfield's idyllic life changes when his mother marries Mr. Murdstone. When she dies, David's stepfather takes David from school and forces him to do back-breaking work in his winery. Eventually, David runs away to his eccentric Aunt Betsy's home, where he might find the respect and love he never had as a child. 1 videodisc (120 min.)

MEDIA 10-1823

 

Christopher Strong 2009, 1933

Hepburn portrays a record-breaking flyer who falls hopelessly in love with a married man (Colin Clive). Though madly in love, he can't divorce his good natured and caring wife (Billie Burke). 1 videodisc (79 min.)

MEDIA 10-3886

 

A clockwork orange 2007, 1971

Stanley Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Wendy Carlos, Anthony Burgess, Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

"Being the adventures of a young man who couldn't resist pretty girls, or a bit of the old ultra-violence, who went to jail, was re-conditioned, and came out a different young man. Or was he?" So might opine your humble narrator, Alex. Alex and his droogs Georgie, Dim, and Pete are bored. Alex loves Ludwig van, milk bars, and mayhem. One night a botched burglary ends in murder. Apprehended by the police, Alex is tried, sentenced, and sent to prison for fourteen years. Two years into his sentence, he signs up for The Ludovico Treatment, and is released as cured. However, the world is a harsh and violent place, and now Alex is unable to defend himself. O my brothers, what will happen to poor Alex now? 2 videodiscs (137 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3414

 

The constant gardener 2006

Ralph Fiennes, Fernando Meirelles, Simon Channing-Williams, Jeffrey Caine, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Kounde, Danny Huston, Alberto Iglesias, John Le Carré, Focus Features, Universal Pictures (Firm), Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm), Potboiler Productions (Firm), UK Film Council, and Scion Films

In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, Justin risks his own life and will stop at nothing to expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. 1 videodisc (129 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3356

 

Crash 2010, 1996

Jeremy Thomas, Robert Lantos, David Cronenberg, James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette, J. G Ballard, Fine Line Features, Alliance Communications, and New Line Home Video (Firm)

Film producer and sexual adventurer James Ballard's life is transformed by a car crash. It introduces him to Dr. Helen Remington, as her husband is propelled through the windshield and into James' car, dead. No sooner are Helen and James both out of the hospital than they show up together at a late-night show staged by Vaughan, whose near-fatal accident left him obsessed with the erotic possibilities of crashes. Vaughan savors crash data and presides over a cult of like-minded fetishists, soon joined by James--comatose with lust and fascination--as he single-mindedly pursues this new erotic linking of cars, sex, and injury. 1 videodisc (100 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3047

 

Cruising 2007, 1980

Steve Burns is sent undercover to find a serial killer who brutally slays and dismembers gay men in New York's S & M subculture. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the rules of this little society. 1 videodisc (102 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3779

 

The curious case of Benjamin Button 2009

Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceaan Chaffin, Eric Roth, Robin Swicord, David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Elias Koteas, Jared Harris, Phyllis Somerville, Tilda Swinton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), Kennedy/Marshall Company, and Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival. He does survive and gets younger with time. 1 videodisc (165 min.)

MEDIA 10-2031

 

Curse of the demon 2002, 1957

When a psychologist's colleague is murdered, he denies that it is the work of the devil, until he himself becomes the next target. 1 videodisc (82 min. ; 96 min.)

MEDIA 10-4425

 

Daniel Deronda c2007

Louis Marks, Andrew Davies, Tom Hooper, Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Hugh Bonneville, Jodhi May, Edward Fox, Greta Scacchi, Barbara Hershey, George Eliot, British Broadcasting Corporation, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc, 2 entertain, BBC Video (Firm), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent, young man haunted by secrets that shroud his birth. Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful gambler short on cash. When the two meet, sparks fly. 1 videodisc (210 min.)

MEDIA 10-802

 

The dark half Horror writer Thad Beaumont hopes to distance himself from his murder novels and from George Stark, the name he has used to anonymously author them. To achieve this, he cooks up a murder of his own: a publicity stunt that should lie Stark to rest forever. But when the people around him are found gruesomely slain, and his own fingerprints dot the crime scenes; Beaumont is dumbfounded until he learns that Stark has taken on life of his own, and begun a gruesome quest for vengeance! 1 videodisc (122 min.)

MEDIA 10-5479

 

David Copperfield 2006

Nicholas Lyndhurst, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Adrian Hodges, Simon Curtis, Daniel Radcliffe, Charles Dickens, British Broadcasting Corporation, and WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Set in 19th century England, this story follows young David Copperfield's difficult journey from boy to man. 1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.)

MEDIA 10-1822

 

Der scharlachrote Buchstabe the scarlet letter c2006

Wim Wenders, Peter Genaee, Primitivo Alvarez Armesto, Senta Berger, Hans Christian Blech, Lou Castel, Yella Rottleander, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Road Movies Filmproduktion, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc, Produktion 1 Im Filmverlag der Autoren, Elaias Querejeta P.C, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk

After 7 years Hester Prynne's missing husband finds her forced to wear the letter 'A' branding her as an adultress. He becomes obsessed with proving the true identity of the father of the illegitimate Pearl while the Rev. Dimmesdale, the father, is slowly consumed by his guilt. Both men die, Hester and Pearl gain in strength. 1 videodisc (86 min.)

MEDIA 10-1749

 

The devils 2012, 1971

This film centers on the staggering true-life dementia of events in France in 1643. After a priest who submitted to his own passions is accused of lewdness and sorcery, a mass exorcism is ordered for him and for an allegedly demon-possessed convent. 2 videodiscs (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-3853

 

The dragon painter 2008

Restoration of "The dragon painter", full-length 1919 feature in which Hayakawa plays Tatsu, a wild youth living in the mountain forests of Japan, spending all his time painting. Although Tatsu creates beautiful art, local villagers believe that he is insane, as he claims that he has a beloved princess fianc© e who has been turned into a dragon. When an renowned-but-aging artist hears of the young hermit's talent, Tatsu is brought to civilization with the hope that he will both become the student of the old artist and marry the elderly man's daughter to continue the family lineage and traditions. Restoration of "The wrath of the gods, or, the destruction of Sakura-Jima", Thomas Ince's full-length 1914 feature film as a restored tinted print featuring Hayakawa as the patriarch of a family carrying a curse. "Screen snapshots," a 1921 comedy short teaming Hayakawa with silver screen legend "Fatty" Arbuckle, as a pair of fresh army recruits and their drill seargent, played by Charles Murray. 1 videodisc (53 min.)

MEDIA 10-5617

 

The Dunwich horror 2001, 1970

The town of Dunwich long ago experienced horrible occurrences. When a young man gets hold of the Necronomicon, a rare book on the occult, the evil begins again. 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-4419

 

Earth 2003, 1998

Deepa Mehta, Anne Masson, David Hamilton, Jhamu Sughand, Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, A. R Rahman, Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking the Earth Films (Firm), and New Yorker Video (Firm)

A romantic drama set in 1947 in Lahore before India and Pakistan became independent, where Hindu, Sikh, Parsee, and Muslim share a peaceful co-existence. Events are seen from the point of view of eight-year-old Lenny, a girl from an affluent Parsee family. Lenny's nanny, Shantya, is involved with the Muslim Masseur. When a train of Muslims arrives at the local depot and all the passengers are found murdered, the various sects turn against each other, and the city is soon aflame. 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2998

 

Earth vs. the flying saucers 2005, 2002, 1956

Earthlings battle alien humanoids for the survival of the planet. A cult classic with extraordinary visual effects. 1 videodisc (83 min.)

MEDIA 10-4431

 

Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher 2001, 1960

Story of the last member of the Usher family who is obsessed by generations of evil as he prepares to meet his death. 1 videodisc (79 min.)

MEDIA 10-4420

 

Emma 1996

Steven Haft, Patrick Cassavetti, Douglas McGrath, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Jeremy Northam, Greta Scacchi, Juliet Stevenson, Polly Walker, Jane Austen, Miramax Films, Matchmaker Films (Firm), Haft Entertainment (Firm), Alliance Atlantis (Firm), and Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)

Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others. 1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA         DANA 10-869            1460

 

The Ernest Hemingway film collection: Vol. 2: Adventures of a young man c2007

Jerry Wald, Lee Garmes, A. E Hotchner, Martin Ritt, Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Fred Clark, Dan Dailey, James Dunn, Juano Hernandez, Arthur Kennedy, Ricardo Montalbaan, Susan Strasberg, Jessica Tandy, Eli Wallach, Edward Binns, Philip Bourneuf, Tullio Carminati, Marc Cavell, Charles Fredericks, Simon Oakland, Michael J Pollard, Paul Newman, Franz Waxman, Jack Martin Smith, Paul Groesse, Walter M Scott, Robert Priestley, Hugh S Fowler, Donfeld, Ernest Hemingway, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

A coming of age story that chronicles a young man's experiences growing up in the North Woods in the early 20th century, leaving home, and serving in the Red Cross during World War I. 1 videodisc (145 min.)

MEDIA 10-2118

 

The Europeans 2003, 1979

Ismail Merchant, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, James Ivory, Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Tim Choate, Lisa Eichhorn, Kristin Griffith, Nancy New, Larry Pizer, Henry James, Merchant Ivory Productions, Criterion Collection (Firm) , and Home Vision Entertainment (Firm) 

A sophisticated European brother and sister turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of their staid American cousins. The fortune-hunting Eugenia and her high-spirited brother Felix turn this Puritan world upside down. 1 videodisc (91 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3049

 

Everything you always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask 2005, 1972

Jack Rollins, Charles H Joffe, David Walsh , Jack Brodsky, Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi,  Louise Lasser, Anthony Quayle, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder, Jack Barry, Elaine Giftos, Robert Q Lewis, Heather MacRae, Pamela Mason, Sidney Miller, Regis Philbin, Titos Vandis, Mundell Lowe, David R Reuben, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

Broken into seven vignettes that humorously answer questions raised in Dr. Rueben's book about sex. 1 videodisc (88 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2911

 

The Exorcist 1998, 1973

Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, William Friedkin,  Lee J Cobb, Noel Marshall, William Peter Blatty, Hoya Productions, and Warner Bros

A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured. 1 videodisc (120 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3106

 

Farewell, my lovely 1999, 1975

A tough, street wise private eye is hired by an ex-con to find a missing sweetheart. In the course of his investigation he is beaten unconscious and wakes up next to a corpse, implicating him in murder and making his job even harder, but that's just the beginning of his troubles. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-4214

 

 A farewell to arms 2008

Charles Vidor, Ben Hecht, David O Selznick , Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi, Laurence Stallings, Ernest Hemingway, Adam Sexton, Selznick Studios, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Drama about a wounded American ambulance driver who falls in love with his nurse during World War I. 1 videodisc (ca. 152 min.)

MEDIA 10-2117

 

Force of evil c2012, 1948

A lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has nearly destroyed his sense of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket could prove disastrous for his high-strung brother whose small-time policy bank stands to go broke when the rigged numbers pay off. 1 videodisc (78 min.)

MEDIA 10-4390

 

The fountainhead 2006

Henry Blanke, King Vidor, Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Ayn Rand, Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

An uncompromising architect refuses to change his designs, and when he discovers the plans for one of his buildings has been changed, he blows up the structure and attempts to defend his actions. 1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.)

MEDIA 10-933

 

Freaks 2004, 1932

A group of freaks take revenge on a trapeze artist and her boyfriend after years of abuse. Filmed using real circus performers. 1 videodisc (62 min.)

MEDIA 10-4406

 

The French connection c2001, 1971

Two New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity of heroin inside an automobile being shipped from France. 2 videodiscs (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-4230

 

The French lieutenant's woman c2006, 1981

Two film actors involved in a tumultuous affair portray Victorian lovers. The skilful interweaving of these two love stories - one period, one contemporary - yields a fascinating insight into the passion and mystery that can pull two people together ... and just as easily tear them apart. The Victorian story involves a woman, ostracized by society and abandoned by her French lieutenant lover, who fascinates a man who resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past. 1 videodisc (124 min.)

MEDIA 10-3953

 

The friends of Eddie Coyle 2009

World-weary and living hand to mouth, small-time gunrunner Eddie 'Fingers' Coyle (Mitchum) works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he's forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-5408

 

Full metal jacket 2007, 1987

Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968. 1 videodisc (117 min.)

MEDIA 10-4438

 

Full metal jacket 2007, 1987

Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968. 1 videodisc (117 min.)

MEDIA 10-4438

 

The grapes of wrath c2004, 1940

The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. 1 videodisc (129 min.)

MEDIA 10-3952

 

Great expectations c1999

Alfonso Cuaraon, Art Linson, Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-1623

 

The Green Berets 2007, 1968

They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War. 1 videodisc (141 min.)

MEDIA 10-4194

 

Gun crazy 2004, 1950

Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Russ Tamblyn, Joseph H Lewis, Maurice King, Frank King, MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman, King Bros. Productions, and Warner Bros. Entertainment

Classic film noir based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor. A greedy sideshow sharp-shooter marries an ex-army man, then leads him down the road to crime for easy money. Includes a bank robbery sequence, noted for being filmed in one shot. 1 videodisc (86 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3308

 

The Handmaid's tale 1990

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Volker Schlöndorff, Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Robert Duvall, Daniel Wilson, and Volker Schlöndorff

Set in the near future, the handmaids of the title are women who can still bear children after the ravages of war caused wide spread sterility. One of the handmaids, Kate, is caught trying to escape the republic of Gilead and sent to the prison-like training center. She is sent from there to the home of the commander to bear his child, but revolutionary forces have other plans for her! 1 videocassette (109 min.)

DANA  MEDIA 1410  2-2268      10-556

 

The haunting 2010, 1963

Shirley Jackson, Robert Wise, Nelson Gidding, Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Argyle Enterprises, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

A parapsychologist and two mediums spend a weekend in a haunted mansion. 1 videodisc (112 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3103

 

The innocents 2005

Jack Clayton, Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens, Henry James, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Adaptation of Henry James' Turn of the screw. A governess suspects her young charges are demonically possessed. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-555

 

Intruder in the dust c2011, 1949

In a small Mississippi town, only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-4271

 

The Joy Luck Club 1993

Amy Tan, Oliver Stone, Wayne Wang, Amy Tan, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, and France Nuyen

Juxtaposes scenes from the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and the lives of their American-born daughters to show how the mothers' experiences in China and as immigrants in the United States shaped their dreams for their daughters' lives. 1 videocassette (139 min.)

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Juįrez 2011, 1939

John Huston, Aeneas MacKenzie, Wolfgang Reinhardt, William Dieterle, Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Werfel, Bertita Harding, Warner Home Video (Firm), and Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)

The story of three men, Benito Juarez, Napoleon III, and Emperor Maximilian, driven by political passions. And of a woman, Empress Carlota, driven to madness. 1 videodisc (121 min.) :

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Kissed 2005, 1996

Ever since she was a young girl, Sandra has been fascinated with death. Her secret obsession, however, interferes with her burgeoning relationship with her boyfriend, Matt, forcing him to embark on a personal crusade to prove he will go to great lengths. 1 videodisc (79 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3744

 

Kohraa 2008?, 1964

Biren Naug, Hemant Kumar Mukherjee, Biswajeet, Lalita Pawar, Waheeda Rehman, Madan Puri, Geetanjali Pictures, and Bollywood Entertainment

After her dad passes away, Rajeshwari is left an orphan, dependent on a widow with a mentally challenged son, Ramesh. She believes that her son will recover after Rajeshwari marries him, this drive Rajeshwari to suicide, and this is where she meets Raja Amit Kumar Singh. Both meet, fall in love, and get married. Rajeshwari is then taken to his palace and is simply overawed. It is then she finds out that Amit had been married before to Poonam, who had passed away. She experiences Poonam's presence in the palace, especially in her bedroom, where she finds the rocking chair moves by itself, the bed is warm as though somebody had slept in it, the windows open up on their own, and she hears a voice singing. This begins to tell on her nerves, and the presence of Poonam's maidservant, Dai Maa, does not help. Then their lives are turned upside down when the Police find Poonam's skeletal remains in a car at the bottom of a muddied lake, and they arrest Amit for killing her. If found guilty, Amit could face the gallows, and if so, what is to become of Rajeshwari? 1 videodisc (136 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3121

 

The lady from Shanghai 2000, 1947

A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and his homicidal, frustrated wife. Culminates in a shoot-up in a hall of mirrors. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

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Lady in the lake 2006, 1947

Detective Marlow sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer and finds that he's also looking at the business end of a gun. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-4217

 

The last days of Pompeii 2000, 1913

Mario Caserini, Ernesto Maria Pasquali, Fernanda Negri-Pouget, Eugenia Tettoni Fior, Ubaldo Stefani, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, and Kino International Corporation

An epic adaptation of Bulwer-Lytton's novel about the final hours of residents of Pompeii before the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 1 videodisc (88 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3199

 

The last of the Mohicans 1999

Michael Mann, Christopher Crowe, Hunt Lowry, Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Jodhi May, Wes Studi, and James Fenimore Cooper

The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America. 1 videodisc (117 min.)

MEDIA 10-94

 

The last time I saw Paris 1954, 2003?

Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Richard Brooks, Jack Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

A tragic love story, set after World War II, about a relationship between an expatriate American writer with a drinking problem and a beautiful and wealthy socialite. Disc characteristics: DVD Region 1. 1 videodisc (NTSC)(116 min.) sd., col. ;

MEDIA 10-2052

 

The little drummer girl 2010, 1984

Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Loring Mandel, Robert L Crawford, George Roy Hill, John Le Carré, Pan Arts (Firm), Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Screen adaptation of John Le Carre's bestseller about a pro-Palestinian actress who gets recruited to impersonate an Israeli agent and gets caught in the world of terrorists. 1 videodisc (130 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3610

 

Lolita c2003

Urbane European professor Humbert Humbert has never quite recovered from the "poisonous wound" inflicted on him as a 14-year-old boy by the sudden death of his adolescent love, Annabel. Arriving in a small New England town for a college job, Humbert is about to refuse the humble lodgings offered by babbling widow Charlotte Haze when he spies her nubile pre-teen daughter Lolita cooling off under a lawn sprinkler --- evoking memories of lost Annabel. Humbert moons around, transfixed by the vision that is Lolita, and finally surrenders to passion and the most dangerous kind of desire. 1 videodisc (137 min.)

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Lolita 2011

Humbert, a divorced British professor, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte, whom he marries in order that he might pursue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita. 1 videodisc (153 min.)

MEDIA 10-4944

 

The long goodbye 2002, 1973

Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the contrary, persists in believing that not all relationships need be opportunistic or squalid . 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-4222

 

Lord of the flies c2001, 1990

Adaptation of William Golding's novel about a group of English boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island when the plane that is evacuating them from a war-threatened England crashlands. Without adult control, the boys regress to savagery. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-4372

 

The lost weekend c2000, 1945

Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman,  Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Lilian Fontaine, Frank Orth, Anita Bolster, Charles Jackson, Paramount Pictures, Inc, and Universal City Studios

A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism. 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3449

 

The loved one 2013

A bemused would-be poet gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician and other bizarre characters. 1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.)

MEDIA 10-5377

 

Madame Sousatzka In London, flamboyant Russian piano instructor Madame Sousatzka begins teaching a young Indian prodigy, who is pulled in several directions by her discipline, his mother's ambition, and his own teenage whims. 1 videodisc (2 hr., 2 min.)

MEDIA 10-5487

 

The magnificent Ambersons ©2011, 1942

The story of the decline of a once powerful and wealthy mid-western family as the twentieth century begins. 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-4025

 

Make way for tomorrow c2009

Adolph Zukor, Leo McCarey, Viana Delmar, William C Mellor, Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovich, Elizabeth Risdon, Minna Gombell, Ray Mayer, Ralph Remley, Louise Beavers, Louis Jean Heydt, Gene Morgan, Boris Morros, Victor Young, George Antheil, Hans Dreier, Bernard Herzbrun, LeRoy Stone, A. E Freudeman, Josephine Lawrence, Helen Leary, Nolan Leary, Peter Bogdanovich, Gary Giddins, Tag Gallagher, Bertrand Tavernier, Robin Wood, Universal Pictures (Firm), Paramount Pictures, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together. 1 videodisc (92 min.)

MEDIA 10-2030

 

The Maltese falcon 2006, 1941

After the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette. He encounters a gallery of high-living lowlifes who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the jewel-encrusted falcon. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

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The Maltese falcon 2010, 1941

John Huston, Hal B Wallis, Humphrey Bogart , Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Gladys George , Dashiell Hammett, Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967),  First National Pictures, Inc, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Detective Sam Spade goes in search of a priceless statuette after the death of his partner. 1 videodisc (100 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3094

 

The Manchurian candidate 1998, 1962

George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory, Richard Condon, United Artists Corporation, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career. 1 videodisc (126 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3370

 

Mandingo 2008, 1985

"A shocking look at plantation life in the Deep South. Mede is a slave whose master, Hammond Maxwell, intends on keeping him as a prizefighter. As Maxwell focuses his attention on his wenches and Mede's brutal training, his neglected wife turns her passions towards Mede himself."--Container. 1 videodisc (126 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3782

 

Mansfield Park 2000

Patricia Rozema, Sarah Curtis, Frances O'Connor, Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Harold Pinter, Jane Austen, Miramax Films, HAL Films, BBC Films, Arts Council of England, Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm), and Buena Vista Home Video (Firm)

When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well. 1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.)

MEDIA 10-795

 

La mansion de la locura, 1963 2004

Juan López Moctezuma, Carlos Illescas, Roberto Viskin, Claudio Brook, Arthur Hansl, David Silva, Edgar Allan Poe, Productions prisma, Boum Productions Ltd, and Mondo Macabro (Firm)

A journalist is sent to investigate an insane asylum located in a remote forest. 1 videodisc (83 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3192

 

Marathon man 2001

Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, John Schlesinger, William Goldman, and Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)

"Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive"--Container. 1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-2233

 

The masque of the red death 2011, 1964

While a plague ravages the countryside, the local nobility gathers at a sinister aristocrat's house for a masquerade ball. The revelers believe they are safe from the outside world until a mysterious guest appears and the guests succumb to horror one by one.  1 videodisc (89 min.)

MEDIA 10-4466

 

Middlemarch by George Eliot 2005

Anthony Page, Louis Marks, Juliet Aubrey, Robert Hardy, Douglas Hodge, Michael Hordern, Peter Jeffrey, George Eliot, BBC Video (Firm), Warner Home Video (Firm), and British Broadcasting Corporation

Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals. 1 videodisc (420 min.)

MEDIA 10-798

 

Midnight cowboy 2006, 1969

Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence. 2 videodiscs (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-4455

 

Midnight express c1998

Alan Parker, Alan Marshall, David Puttnam, Oliver Stone, Giorgio Moroder, Brad Davis, John Hurt, Randy Quaid, Irene Miracle, Billy Hayes, William Hoffer, Columbia Pictures, Casablanca Film (Firm), and Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

American citizen Billy Hayes is sentenced to four years in a brutal Turkish prison after being caught trying to smuggle hashish out of Istanbul. When his sentence is changed to life just days before his release, he has no choice but to try to escape. 1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA 10-2227

 

The mill on the Floss 2006

Ronald Wilson, Pippa Guard, Christopher Blake, Anton Lesser, George Eliot, Warner Home Video (Firm), BBC Video (Firm) , 2 entertain, and  British Broadcasting Corporation

The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams. 1 videodisc (ca. 212 min.)

MEDIA 10-801

 

Mister Johnson  c2001, 1990

Funny and sometimes poignant look at the struggle between men of the British Empire and African villagers. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-4442

 

Morvern Callar  2003, 2002

Morvern Callar is greeted with a startling surprise, her boyfriend has committed suicide. He has left her a cryptic message on his computer and a manuscript for a novel. She changes the author's name to her own and begins a re-birth of self discovery. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-4086

 

Mystery house 2010

Mystery House: Detective Lance O' Leary investigates the murder of a banker, in the midst of his investigation two more murders occur that may be connected to the first murder. The patient in room 18: Lance is sent to the hospital to recuperate from a nervous breakdown. While in the hospital a murder occurs. Everyone has a motive except for Sara and Lance as they were locked in his room during the murder. As the bodies pile up, Sara and Lance try to solve the case as Foley is clueless. 1 videodisc (116 min.)

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The name of the rose 2004

Bernd Eichinger, Bernd Schaefers, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Lonsdale, Valentina Vargas, Christian Slater, Ron Perlman, Umberto Eco, Neue Constantin Filmproduktion, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Investigating the deaths of two monks, a visiting brother discovers a secret library containing rare books considered lost to the world and dangerous to the Catholic faith. 1 videodisc (131 min.)

MEDIA 10-550

 

Nosferatu a symphony of horror c2002

F. W Murnau, Henrik Galeen, Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroeder-Matrey, Ruth Yorck, Fritz Arno Wagner, Bram Stoker, Kino International Corporation, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, and Transit Films (Firm)

Rather than depict Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature with a bulbous head and taloned claws. This is perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism. 1 videodisc (93 min.)

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Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 2004, 1962

This story, from 'Tales of Soldiers and Civilians' deals with a man's last moments as he faces hanging for Civil War sabotage. 1 videodisc (24 min.)

MEDIA 10-3951

 

The old dark house 1999, 1932

Carl Laemmle, Benn W Levy, James Whale, David Broekman, Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton, Lillian Bond, Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, Eva Moore, J. B Priestley, Universal Pictures (Firm), and Kino International Corporation

A group of travelers on a mountain road in Wales, overtaken by a thunderstorm and torrential rains, seek shelter in a mysterious old mansion. It is full of eerie characters and uncanny happenings. 1 videodisc (72 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3101

 

Oliver! c2005

Lionel Bart, Donald Albery, Vernon Harris, John Woolf, Carol Reed, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Hugh Griffith, Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Charles Dickens, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Romulus Productions, Warwick Film Productions Ltd, Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm), and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief--for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen--but must be earned. Arguably the last great old-fashioned movie musical to receive near-universal critical acclaim, Oliver! first hit screens more than 37 years ago. As transformed into a film, the timeless West End and Broadway show remains incredibly faithful to the classic work of literature by Charles Dickens, dank and dark, an anomaly of song-and-dance cinema. A film of many facets, it is both a warts-and-all view of Victorian London, an adaptation of a classic novel, a salient slice of significant social commentary, and a rip-roaring tune-filled toe tapper to boot. 1 videodisc (153 min.)

MEDIA 10-1815

 

Oliver Twist 1998, 1948

After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end. 1 videodisc (116 min.)

MEDIA 10-5150

 

Oliver Twist 2005

Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde, Ronald Harwood, Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden, Leanne Rowe, Edward Hardwicke, Ian McNeice, Mark Strong, Charles Dickens, Tri-Star Pictures,  R.P. Productions, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

A slightly darker version of the classic Charles Dickens tale. After living in poor conditions, Oliver runs away to the streets of London. There he meets a gang of pickpockets and soon Oliver's life is changed forever. 1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.)

MEDIA 10-1816

 

Oliver Twist 2009

Coky Giedroyc, Sarah Brown, Sarah Phelps, Timothy Spall, William Miller, Adam Arnold, Tom Hardy, Sophie Okonedo, Charles Dickens, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), BBC Video (Firm), 2 Entertain (Firm), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

This gripping tale of Charles Dickens' classic remains faithful to the spirit of the novel while delivering a modern, thrilling, tragic, and occasionally comic edge. 1 videodisc (176 min.)

MEDIA 10-1817

 

One true thing  1999, 1998

A daughter Ellen, gives up her job and boyfriend to take care of her dying mother. Her father, a gifted professor of an English department, is more occupied with having his life running as smoothly as possible than caring for his wife. Living at home, Ellen discovers many new aspects to her parents' personalities, a father who is human despite his imperfections and a mother who loves her family passionately. When her mother finally dies Ellen is suspected of hastening her death with morphine. 1 videodisc (127 min.)

MEDIA 10-3949

 

The original Nancy Drew movie mystery collection c2007

Nancy Drew, detective: Nancy and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady; Nancy Drew, reporter: When a young woman is accused in a poisoning death, Nancy searches for a vital piece of evidence to clear her; Nancy Drew, trouble shooter: Nancy clears her Uncle Matt of murder charges when she exposes the real murderers; Nancy Drew and the hidden staircase: Nancy and Ted must try to solve a murder to save two elderly ladies from losing their family home. 2 videodiscs (263 min.)

MEDIA 10-4221

 

The personal history, adventures, experience & observations of David Copperfield the younger 2006

Hugh Walpole, David O Selznick, George Cukor, Howard Estabrook, W. C Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Charles Dickens, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

David Copperfield enjoys an idyllic life with his gentle, widowed mother and his loving nurse, Peggotty. Then tragedy strikes when Mr. Murdstone weds David's mother and drives her to an early grave. Despised by his stepfather, the boy is forced to live in misery and poverty until he runs away to throw himself upon the mercy of his eccentric aunt. Charles Dickens's classic tale of growing up. 1 videodisc (ca. 131 min.)

MEDIA 10-1813

 

Persuasion c1999, 1995

When Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal of marriage, she allowed herself to be persuaded by her snobbish family's conviction of his unworthiness. But now, after a separation of eight years, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth are to meet again and the tables have turned. Her former lover's fortunes have prospered and he is now returned from a career at sea both eligible and affluent. Anne's father, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall, has been forced to lease their home and move the family into a rather small abode in Bath. Just as Anne now recognizes the false values that persuaded her to reject Captain Wentworth, so she must accept that his heart now seems set upon the youth and beauty of the impetuous Louisa Musgrove. 1 videodisc (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-5185

 

Picnic at Hanging Rock Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society. 3 videodiscs (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-5194

 

The picture of Dorian Gray c2008, 1945

Pandro S Berman, Albert Lewin, Herbert Stothart, George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Lowell Gilmore, Richard Fraser, Oscar Wilde, Loew's Incorporated, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Dorian Gray is an innocent young man who has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after he falls under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian soon jilts his fiancee, which leads to her suicide. This is the start of a life of increasing debauchery. Dorian realizes that the outward signs of this are apparent only in the portrait. Eventually the picture, secreted in his childhood playroom, becomes almost hideous to behold. But Dorian still has one pure love - Gladys, the niece of the original painter. 1 videodisc (110 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3702

 

Plein soleil 2002?, 1960

Martin Scorsese, Robert Hakim, Raymond Hakim, René Clément, Paul Gégauff, Alain Delon, Marie Laforźt, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns, Ave Ninchi, Elvire Popesco, Nino Rota, Jacques Metehen, Patricia Highsmith, Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm), and Buena Vista Home Video (Firm)

Small-time conman Tom Ripley travels to Italy to convince wealthy playboy Philippe Greenleaf to return to America, on behalf of Greenleaf's father. Greenleaf refuses, leading Ripley to undertake extreme measures in order to get what he wants. 1 videodisc (118 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3266

 

Point blank 2005, 1967

A professional criminal helps pull off an underworld heist, then is gunned down and left for dead. He resurfaces to track down his share of the loot. 1 videodisc (92 min.)

MEDIA 10-4027

 

The portrait of a lady 2011, 1986

Jane Campion, Monty Montgomery, Steve Golin, Laura Jones, Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Shelley Winters, Richard E Grant, Shelley Duvall, Christian Bale, Viggo Mortensen, Valentina Cervi, John Gielgud, Henry James, Focus Features, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Firm), and Propaganda Films (Firm)

Isabel Archer is a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her head-strong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle and the devious Gilbert Osmond. 1 videodisc (145 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3048

 

Powwow highway  2011, 1989

With nothing in common but their Native American heritage, two men begin a cross-country adventure filled with comedy and drama. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

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Precious 2009

Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Precious Jones is an abused teen mother who harbors a secret - she's illiterate. She finds solace in her vivid imagination. When she transfers to a new school, she finds a new mentor. She learns to read and write, and in language finds a way to express herself. She finds her inner strength, resilience, growth and ultimate triumph. Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire. 1 videodisc of 1 (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-1909

 

Prospero's books c2010, 1991

Adapted from The Tempest by Shakespeare, Prospero's Books envisions a magical realm of exquisite beauty, where the innocence of love and dreams of revenge collide to create a tempest. 1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA 10-4834

 

Quo vadis 2008, 1951

Sam Zimbalist, John Lee Mahin, S. N Behrman, Sonya Levien, Mervyn LeRoy, Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, F. X Feeney, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's Incorporated, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about this situation, but she falls in love with Marcus anyway. Meanwhile, Nero's atrocities get more outrageous. When he burns Rome and blames the Christians, Marcus goes off to save Lygia and her family. Nero captures them and all other Christians. He decides to make a sport of it by throwing them to the lions. 2 videodiscs (174 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3198

 

Raincoat Renakota 2004

Rituparno Ghosh, Ajay Devgan, Aishwariya Rai Bachchan, Shrikant Mohta, Mahendra Soni, Shree Venkatesh Films (Firm), and Baba Digital Media (Firm)

Two former lovers from a small town in Bihar meet again after six years on a rainy afternoon in Calcutta. 1 videodisc (117 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3126

 

Rebecca 2008, 1940

A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave. 1 videodisc (131 min.)

MEDIA 10-5131

 

The red badge of courage 2003, 1951

The story of Henry Fleming and his grappling with fear and courage as a Union Army recruit during the Civil War. 1 videodisc (69 min.)

MEDIA 10-4193

 

Red riding: 1974 2010

Andrew Eaton, Anita Overland, Wendy Brazington, Julian Jarrold, Tony Grisoni, Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Warren Clarke, David Peace, Rebecca Hall, Eddie Marsan, David Morrissey, Peter Mullan , Channel Four (Great Britain), Screen Yorkshire (Firm), Lipsync Productions (Firm), Revolution Films, and IFC Films

A young journalist investigates the kidnapping and murder of several children in Yorkshire, only to discover ties to the local high society and police corruption. 1 videodisc (106 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2835

 

Red riding: 1980 2010

Tony Grisoni, Andrew Eaton, Anita Overland , Wendy Brazington, James Marsh, Paddy Considine, Jim Carter, Warren Clarke, David Peace, Rebecca Hall, Eddie Marsan, David Morrissey, Peter Mullan , IFC Films, Channel Four (Great Britain), Screen Yorkshire (Firm), Lipsync Productions (Firm), and Revolution Films 

Veteran police officer, Peter Hunter, is called in to tackle the baffling mystery of the Yorkshire Ripper that has confounded the local law enforcement for years. Hunter soon finds that the only thing more challenging than catching the Ripper is getting his fellow officers to investigate the corruption he believes is at the heart of the case. 1 videodisc (97 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2836

 

Red riding: 1983 2010

Tony Grisoni, Andrew Eaton, Anita Overland , Wendy Brazington, Anand Tucker, Mark Addy, David Morrissey, Jim Carter, Sean Bean, Peter Mullan, Warren Clarke, David Peace, IFC Films, Channel Four (Great Britain), Screen Yorkshire (Firm), Lipsync Productions (Firm), and Revolution Films

When a little girl is kidnapped, Detective Maurice Jobson is disturbed by similarities between this case and one he investigated in the 1970's, and for which apparently an innocent man may have been sent to jail. 1 videodisc (105 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2837

 

Reflections in a golden eye 2006, 1967

Major Weldon Penderton, a repressed homosexual whose career is languishing in the monotony of postwar Georgia, becomes obsessed with a private who is, in turn, obsessed with Penderton's frustrated and sensual wife Leonora. 1 videodisc (109 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3791

 

Ripley's game 2004, c2002

Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny. Trevanny reluctantly accepts the offer and the situation quickly spirals out of control to the point of drawing the attention of the Russian mob, forcing Ripley to intervene. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-4073

 

Rosemary's baby 2012, 1968

Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays "a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby.". 2 videodiscs (136 min.)

MEDIA 10-4458

 

Scarface 2007, 1932

"An exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition Era ... This compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and revenge is a groundbreaking masterpiece that influenced all gangster films to follow"--Container. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

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The scarlet letter 2002, 1995

In a time when adultery is punishable by death, Hester Prynne becomes involved in a risky and scandalous affair with her town's handsome minister. 1 videodisc (135 min.)

MEDIA 10-3954

 

The secret of Roan Inish 2007, 1994

A magical tale of a girl whose search for her missing brother brings an Irish legend to life. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-4114

 

Sense and sensibility 1999

Ang Lee, Lindsay Doran, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet, and Jane Austen

Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. 1 videodisc (136 min.)

MEDIA 10-18

 

Shaft 2006, 1971

John Shaft, a private investigator, is hired by a Harlem crime boss to find his kidnapped daughter. During his investigation, Shaft uncovers a Mafia plot to take over a chunck of the Black underworld's uptown territory. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-4021

 

Silas Marner the weaver of Raveloe c2007

George Eliot, Louis Marks, Giles Foster, Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Ryecart, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, Arts and Entertainment Network, 2 entertain, BBC Video (Firm), BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 10-799

 

Skyjacked 2007, 1972

A Minneapolis-bound commercial air flight is hijacked to Russia by a deranged war vet. All that stands between the terrified passengers and doom is the steely resolve of Captain Hank O'Hara. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-4437

 

 The snows of Kilimanjaro c2001

Henry King, Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Ernest Hemingway, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and GoodTimes Home Video (Firm)

Story of a writer who is constantly in search of the purpose of life. Reveals his life in a series of flash-backs. 1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-2119

 

Soylent green 2003, 1973/

Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company, he comes face to face with the hideous truth about the secret ingredient of "Soylent Green.". 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 10-3869 10-4435

 

Stella Dallas 2005, 1937

Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-4462

 

The sun also rises 2007

Darryl Francis Zanuck, Peter Viertel, Henry King, Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert, Juliette Greco, Marcel Dalio, Robert Evans, Gregory Ratoff, Henry Daniell , Bob Cunningham, Leo Tover, Hugo Friedhofer, Vicente Gaomez, Ernest Hemingway, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

A group of Americans that have become friends because of the war, spend their time in Europe in 1922, still living as if every day was their last. 1 videodisc (130 min.)

MEDIA 10-2120

 

Suspicion 2009, 1941

Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life. 1 videodisc (99 min.)

MEDIA 10-4334

 

Sweet land 2007, 2005

Ali Selim, Jim Bigham, Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Lois Smith, Ned Beatty, Alan Cumming, Alex Kingston, John Heard, Paul Sand, LaSalle Holland (Firm), 120dB Films (Firm), and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.--Container. 1 videodisc (111 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3088

 

The swimmer 2003, 1968

One summer morning a troubled suburbanite decides to "swim" home via the pools of his wealthy friends. Along the way he encounters several women from his past: a tempestuous teenage girl, teetering at the edge of adolescence and womanhood; his embittered ex-mistress; and the sensual wife of an old friend. His journey is one of embarrassments, humiliation and steamy passion. He passes from one scenario to another until he arrives home to an empty house and to a startingly self-revelation. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-3955

 

Tales of terror 2011, 1962

Three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The case of M. Valdemar," the dying M. Valdemar employs a hypnotist to put him in a trance and winds up stuck between the world of the living and the dead, under the control of the hypnotist. 1 videodisc (89 min.)

MEDIA 10-4465

 

The tarnished angels 2010, ©2010, 1957

Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot. 1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-4255

 

Thieves like us 2007, 1974

Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing. The youngest of the gang falls in love with a girl he has met at their hideout. Their last robbery in Yazoo City goes bad and all three become notorious men, who are wanted by the law. 1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-4449

 

The thin red line c2001

Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson, Jared Leto, John C Reilly, Terrence Malick, Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill, James Jones, Fox 2000 Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

A group of young soldiers fight in the battle of Guadalcanal during World War II. 1 videodisc (ca. 170 min.)

MEDIA 10-1958

 

Things to come  2006

Deals with a future time when humanity, fed up at last with the death and destruction of constant war, unites in a great movement dedicated to peace. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-5117

 

This gun for hire 2004, 1942

A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him. 1 videodisc (81 min.)

MEDIA 10-4216

 

The tomb of Ligeia c2003, 1964

The tomb of Ligeia is the story of a dead wife who comes back as a ferocious cat on a deadly game of cat and mouse with her husband's new wife. 1 videodisc (82 min.)

MEDIA 10-4467

 

Touch of evil 2008, 1958

Orson Welles, Albert Zugsmith, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Valentin De Vargas, Mort Mills, Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gįbor, Whit Masterson, Universal-International (Firm), and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

A narcotics officer and a corrupt cop are involved in a murder investigation in a small border town. See all three versions of the film: the theatrical version, the preview version, and the restored version. Features include commentaries and featurettes. 2 videodiscs (161 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3432

 

The treasure of the Sierra Madre 2010, 1948

John Huston, Henry Blanke, Humphrey Bogart , Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett , Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya, Ted McCord, Owen Marks,  Max Steiner, B Traven , Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), Turner Entertainment Co, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune. 1 videodisc (126 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3720

 

Trishna c2012, 2011

Trishna lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan and works in a resort to help pay the family bills. Jay is the wealthy son of a property developer. When Jay takes up managing resorts, he meets Trishna and wins her affection. They move to Mumbai, but problems arise when his deep family bond threatens their bliss. 1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-4398

 

True grit c2011, 2010

Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-4330

 

The two faces of Dr. Jekyll 2008, 1960

Michael Carreras, Wolf Mankowitz, Terence Fisher, Henry Younger, Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Francis De Wolff, Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark, John Paul, Robert Louis Stevenson, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Hammer Film Productions, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

The two faces of Dr. Jekyll: Experiments bring out the monster in one doctor, creating the world's most infamous dual personality. The curse of the mummy's tomb: The tomb of Egyptian prince Ra is found and shipped to America, where someone is trying to raise him from the dead. 1 videodisc (168 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3099

 

Under my skin 2007

Jean Negulesco, Casey Robinson, John Garfield, Micheline Presle, Luther Adler, Orley Lindgren, Noel Drayton, Ernest Hemingway, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and  Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

John Garfield plays a crooked jockey, barred from American racetracks and now fixing races on European ones, in this potent crime melodrama. 1 videodisc (86 min.)

MEDIA 10-2121

 

The verdict 2002

Paul Newman, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charlotte Rampling, Milo O'Shea, Richard D Zanuck, Sidney Lumet, David Brown, David Mamet, Barry C Reed, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

1 DVD (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-2209

 

The warriors 2006, 1979

The Warriors, a New York City street gang, are unfairly blamed for the death of a rival gang leader. Now they must fight for their lives against armies of gangs that outnumber the police 5 to 1! 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-4118

 

White dog c2008

Samuel Fuller, Jon Davison, Curtis Hanson, Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Ennio Morricone, Romain Gary, Christa Fuller, Lynne Moody, Marshall Thompson, J Hoberman, Armond White, Criterion Collection (Firm), Paramount Pictures, and Edgar J. Scherick Associates

A German shepherd is adopted by an actress who learns that the dog has been trained to attack only African Americans. Now it's up to an animal trainer to try to change the dog. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-2053

 

Who framed Roger Rabbit? 1999, 1988

Tale of a detective, an unstable rabbit and his sexy wife in a world where cartoons and people live side by side. 1 videodisc (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-4224

 

The wicker man  2006, 1973

Robin Hardy, Peter Snell, Anthony Shaffer, Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Christopher Lee, British Lion Films, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems as the devout Christian detective soon uncovers a secret society of wanton lust and pagan blasphemy. Can Howie now stop the cult's ultimate sacrifice before he himself comes face-to-face with the horror of the Wicker Man? 1 videodisc (88 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3105

 

The woman in the window 2009, 1944

Nunnally Johnson, Fritz Lang, Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, J. H Wallis, International Pictures, Inc, and Shock DVD

A professor of criminology is the pawn in a shocking crime thriller with a surprising twist. 1 videodisc (99 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3093

 

World War Z Gerry Lane travels the globe in an effort to eliminate the zombie pandemic that is endangering the existence of humanity. 2 videodiscs (122 min.)

MEDIA 10-5605

 

Wuthering heights 2013, 2011

"An epic love story that spans childhood into adulthood, the film follows Heathcliff, an outsider taken in and given a home by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw. Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the farmer's teenage daughter, Catherine, inspiring the envy and mistrust of his rough-hewn son, Hindley. Years later, when Earnshaw dies, the young adults must finally confront the intense feelings and destructive rivalries that have developed between them"--Container. 1 videodisc (129 min.)

MEDIA 10-4397

 

You're a big boy now 2010

"A virginal young man growing into manhood, not so much through his own efforts as those about him."--Variety. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-5378

Adam Bede c2007

Peter Goodchild, Giles Foster, Maggie Wadey, Iain Glen, Patsy Kensit, Susannah Harker, James Wilby, George Eliot, 2 entertain, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), BBC Video (Firm), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel.  Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate.  She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance. 1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.)

MEDIA 10-800

 

The Age of innocence 1993

Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Martin Scorsese, Edith Wharton, Barbara De Fina, and Jay Cocks

"A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container. 1 videocassette (138 min.)

MEDIA 2-2842

 

Alice 198-?

Kristýna Kohoutová, Jan Svankmajer, Lewis Carroll, and Peter-Christian Fueter

Alice is sitting in her room full of toys reading Lewis Carroll's story, during which she too is carried off to Wonderland. As she follows the elusive white rabbit, so begins this dream expedition into the landscape of childhood, through many dangerous adventures, and ultimately to her trial before the king and queen of hearts. 1 videocassette (86 min.)

MEDIA 2-1260

 

Almos' a man 1986, 1976

Richard Wright and LeVar Burton

Burton stars as David Glover, a poor southern black youth who feels the world is denying him the respect he needs to be a man. 1 videocassette (51 min.)

MEDIA 2-3953

 

An Angel at my table c1992

Janet Frame, Janet Frame, Janet Frame, Jane Campion, Kerry Fox, Bridget Ikin, Karen Fergusson, Alexia Keogh, Iris Churn, Hibiscus Films, and New Line Home Video (Firm)

Chronicles the life and times of the acclaimed New Zealand author, Janet Frame. 1 videocassette (ca. 157 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-2074 2-7056

 

The angel Levine c2002, 1970

Chiz Schultz, Jan Kadar, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Gloria Foster, Bernard Malamud, Belafonte Enterprises, United Artists Corporation, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

A touching, humorous film about Morris Mishkin, an elderly Jew whose life experiences have left him an embittered agnostic. Into Mishkin's life floats Alexander Levine, a black Jewish angel, who must convince the old man that life has value else Levine will never earn his wings. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

DANA 443

 

Angoor 2002?

Sanjeev Kumar, Moushumi Chatterji, Devan Verma, Dipti Navala, Utpal Datta, Gulazara, Jai Singh, and IndiaWeekly.com

Comedy of twins, based on Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 10-982

 

Araby c2008

Dennis J Courtney, Andrew Quicke, Van Michael Hughes, Joanna Canton, Mimi Eisman, Gillette Elvgren, Joseph Bierman, James Turner, James Joyce, American Street Productions, Araby Film Productions , and Digital Tapestry Productions

"A boy's romantic quest through the streets of Dublin becomes a religious pilgrimage, merging the sensual and the sacred." -- Container. 1 videodisc (21 min.)

MEDIA 10-1772

 

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 1994, 1973

Ernest J Gaines, Robert Christiansen, Rick Rosenberg, Tracy Keenan Wynn, John Korty, Cicely Tyson, Richard Dysart, and Katherine Helmond

Presents the story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and who marched for her civil rights in the 20th century at the age of 110. 1 videocassette (106 min.)

DANA 1033

 

Babette's gćstebud Babette's feast 1999, 1987

Gabriel Axel, Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Brigitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Bibi Andersson , Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, and Isak Dinesen

With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change.  Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread-- a gourmet French meal!  Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General.  Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure? 1 videocassette (103 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1291 2-3962

 

The bear 199-?

William Faulkner and  Bernard Wilets

Every year a  boy is taken on an annual hunt by his father and their friends. As he get older he becomes destined to confront Big Ben, the almost supernatural bear who has always eluded the other hunters. Tension mounts as the boy gets closer to Old Ben and discovers the deeper significance of the human relations to the wilderness. 1 videocassette (24 min.)

DANA 983

 

Beloved 1998

Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese, Adam Brooks, Edward Saxon, Jonathan Demme, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah E Richards, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Albert Hall, and Toni Morrison

"On a difficult journey to find freedom, Sethe is constantly confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, an old friend from out of her past unexpectedly reenters her life. With his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope"--Container. 1 videocassette (ca. 172 min.)

MEDIA 2-5710

 

Bleak house 2006

Justin Chadwick, Susanna White, Nigel Stafford-Clark, Charles Dickens, Gillian Anderson, Lilo Baur, Charlie Brooks, Warner Home Video (Firm), British Broadcasting Corporation, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Deep Indigo Productions, BBC Video (Firm), and 2 Entertain (Firm)

The icily beautiful Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. 3 videodiscs (ca. 465 min.)

MEDIA 10-867

 

Born to be wild 2005, 1938

Ralph Byrd, Ward Bond, Doris Weston, Joseph Kane, Republic Pictures Corporation, and Alpha Video Distributors

In a race against time to save thousands of lives, truckers Steve Hackett (Ralph Byrd) and Bill Purvis (Ward Bond) must haul a truck full of dynamite to the distant town of Indian Head. The town's huge dam has been shut down by a notorious land baron who has hired a gang of armed men to prevent the shipment of explosives from getting through. With a deadline fast approaching, the heavily loaded van tears down the highway at top speeds, breaking through barricades, dodging bullets and bravely facing even more terrifying dangers ahead. 1 videodisc

MEDIA 10-1682

 

Brideshead revisited 1988

Diana Quick, Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Jeremy Irons, Anthony P Andrews, and Evelyn Waugh

The story of a young man's haunting relationship with an aristocratic family and their world from the early twenties to World War II. 6 videocassettes (588 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 2-918 cassette 1 2-919 cassette 2 2-920 cassette 3 2-921 cassette 4 2-922 cassette 5 2-923 cassette 6

 

The Canterbury tales I racconti di Canterbury 1998

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Grimaldi, Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Franco Citti, Josephine Chaplin, Alan Webb, and Geoffrey Chaucer

An adaptation of four stories from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. These stories of romance, deception, murder and lust are told in a uniquely candid and ribald way. 1 videocassette (121 min.)

MEDIA 2-3925

 

Charles Dickens' David Copperfield c2004

Jack Pulman, Frederick Brogger, Delbert Mann, Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Pamela Franklin, Susan Hampshire, Wendy Hiller, Ron Moody, Lawrence Olivier, Robin Phillips, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Charles Dickens, Omnibus Productions (Firm), and Digiview Productions

David Copperfield's idyllic life changes when his mother marries Mr. Murdstone. When she dies, David's stepfather takes David from school and forces him to do back-breaking work in his winery. Eventually, David runs away to his eccentric Aunt Betsy's home, where he might find the respect and love he never had as a child. 1 videodisc (120 min.)

MEDIA 10-1823

 

La Chute de la maison Usher The fall of the house of Usher 198?

Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Epstein, Marguerite Gance, Jean Debucourt, Charles Lamy, and Claude Debussy

1 videocassette (45 min.)

MEDIA 2-1266

 

The color purple c1997

Steven Spielberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Alice Walker, Warner Bros, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive. 1 videodisc (154 min.)

DANA      MEDIA 309             2-483

 

Cora unashamed 2005

Marian Reees, Deborah M Pratt, Ann Peacock , Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Michael Gaston, Kohl Sudduth, Arlen Dean Snyder, C. C. H Pounder, Langston Hughes, ALT Films, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Paramount Pictures Corporation, and PBS Home Video

Set in the 1930s, teh story takes place in the tiny town of Melton, Iowa, where the Jenkinses live in isolation as the community's only African Americans. Their precarious existence is supported solely by Cora's earnings as housekeeper to the Studevants. Tested early in life by the death of her daughter, Cora transfers her maternal love to the Studevants' daughter, Jessie, whose own mother is unable to demonstrate affection for her child. When tragedy strikes Jessie as the result of a lapse in judgment by her mother, Cora's devotion to the girl empowers her to speak the truth to the town--regardless of the cost. 1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.)

DANA 114

 

The Country girl 1989, 1954

Bing Crosby, Grace, William Holden, George Seaton, and Clifford Odets

This is the story of three sensitive people caught in a painful tangle: Bing Cosby is the aging, alcoholic star, desperate for a chance at a come back ; William Holden is the brash, insolent young director, who believes that the actor's wife is responsible for his downfall ; and Grace Kelly is the wife whose love for her husband might destroy him. 1 videocassette (104 min.)

MEDIA 2-1496

 

Daniel Deronda c2007

Louis Marks, Andrew Davies, Tom Hooper, Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Hugh Bonneville, Jodhi May, Edward Fox, Greta Scacchi, Barbara Hershey, George Eliot, British Broadcasting Corporation, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc, 2 entertain, BBC Video (Firm), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent, young man haunted by secrets that shroud his birth. Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful gambler short on cash. When the two meet, sparks fly. 1 videodisc (210 min.)

MEDIA 10-802

 

David Copperfield 2006

Nicholas Lyndhurst, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Adrian Hodges, Simon Curtis, Daniel Radcliffe, Charles Dickens, British Broadcasting Corporation, and WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Set in 19th century England, this story follows young David Copperfield's difficult journey from boy to man. 1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.)

MEDIA 10-1822

 

Deliverance 1992

John Boorman, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, James Dickey, Vilmos Zsigmond, Fred Harpman, Sven Walnum, and Tom Priestley

Four ordinary men from the city canoe down a Georgia river determined to test themselves against a wilderness they only think they understand. 1 videocassette (109 min.)

MEDIA 2-3736

 

Der scharlachrote Buchstabe the scarlet letter c2006

Wim Wenders, Peter Genaee, Primitivo Alvarez Armesto, Senta Berger, Hans Christian Blech, Lou Castel, Yella Rottleander, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Road Movies Filmproduktion, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc, Produktion 1 Im Filmverlag der Autoren, Elaias Querejeta P.C, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk

After 7 years Hester Prynne's missing husband finds her forced to wear the letter 'A' branding her as an adultress. He becomes obsessed with proving the true identity of the father of the illegitimate Pearl while the Rev. Dimmesdale, the father, is slowly consumed by his guilt. Both men die, Hester and Pearl gain in strength. 1 videodisc (86 min.)

MEDIA 10-1749

 

Emma 1996

Steven Haft, Patrick Cassavetti, Douglas McGrath, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Jeremy Northam, Greta Scacchi, Juliet Stevenson, Polly Walker, Jane Austen, Miramax Films, Matchmaker Films (Firm), Haft Entertainment (Firm), Alliance Atlantis (Firm), and Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)

Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others. 1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA         DANA 10-869            1460

 

Ethan Frome 1993

John Madden, Edith Wharton, Stan Wlodkowski, Richard Nelson, Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, and Joan Allen

Story of a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his passionate desire for another. 1 videocassette (99 min.)

MEDIA 2-2622

 

Far from the madding crowd 1997

Thomas d 1840-1928 Hardy, Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Joseph Janni, John Schlesinger, and Frederic Raphael

Screen version of Thomas Hardy's classic love story about a headstrong young woman whose life becomes entwined with three disparate men: a dashing soldier, a wealthy landowner, and a sheep farmer. 2 videocassettes (168 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3213 pt. 1 2-3214 pt. 2

 

Forever Amber 1994

Jerry Cady, Kathleen Winsor, Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, William Perlberg, and Otto Preminger

A romantic adventure of an amorous courtesan who is able to conquer any man - except the one she really wants. 1 videocassette (140 min.)

MEDIA 2-5964

 

The Fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders 1997

David Lascelles, D Attwood, Daniel Craig, Diana Rigg, Ronald Fraser, Ian Driver, Colin Buchanan, Maureen O'Brien, Daniel Defoe, Russell Baker, Alex Kingston, and Christopher Falford

Moll is a headstrong woman whose lowly status in 18th century London leaves her in the most dire of circumstances forcing her into a lifestyle that could easily break her spirit. Her story involves husbands and numerous lovers, shocking family secrets, and travels to bustling London and the New World's Virginia. Moll's dangerous misdeeds stretch from sexual adventures to criminal acts, leaving her with a price on her head as she strives to triumph against overwhelming odds. 2 videocassettes (220 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-2972 cassette 1 2-2973 cassette 2

 

The fountainhead 2006

Henry Blanke, King Vidor, Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Ayn Rand, Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

An uncompromising architect refuses to change his designs, and when he discovers the plans for one of his buildings has been changed, he blows up the structure and attempts to defend his actions. 1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.)

MEDIA 10-933

 

Girl with a pearl earring 2004

G. P Webber, Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker, Olivia Hetreed, Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy, Pathé Pictures, Lion's Gate Films, Archer Street (Firm), Delux Productions, and Lions Gate Home Entertainment

In 1665, seventeen-year-old Griet becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. Johannes and Griet must hide their inspiration of each other from his volatile wife Catharina, which becomes difficult when the wealthy and troublemaking Master van Ruijven commissions Vermeer to paint Griet alone. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

DANA 225

 

Great expectations 1988

David Lean, Charles Dickens, John Mills, Alec Guinness, and Jean Simmons

Adaptation of the Dickens story about an orphan who, in a chance meeting with an escaped convict, is lead years later to tragedy, mystery, and wealth. 1 videocassette:

MEDIA         MEDIA 2-464                10-1654

 

Great expectations 1999

Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, David Snodin, Tony Marchant, Julian Jarrold, and Charles Dickens

Pip is raised by his harsh sister and her likable husband. Later, he meets the eccentric Miss Havisham and is smitten by the beautiful but utterly spoiled Estella. Pip takes on her materialistic values but suffering and maturity eventually teach him the difference between being true to oneself and living according to self-deluding great expectations. 2 videocassettes (ca. 180 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-5282 cassette 1 2-5283 cassette 2

 

Great expectations c1999

Alfonso Cuaraon, Art Linson, Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-1623

 

The Great Gatsby 1974

Robert Redford, David Merrick, Mia Farrow, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston, Lois Chiles, Bruce Dern, Jack Clayton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Francis Ford Coppola

Fitzgerald's masterful story of Jay Gatsby, the dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with the elusive and spoiled Daisy Buchanan, during the Jazz Age era in which recklessness with money, liquor, women and fast cars pervaded the American consciousness. 1 videocassette (146 min.)

MEDIA 2-1410

 

The Handmaid's tale 1990

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Volker Schlöndorff, Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Robert Duvall, Daniel Wilson, and Volker Schlöndorff

Set in the near future, the handmaids of the title are women who can still bear children after the ravages of war caused wide spread sterility. One of the handmaids, Kate, is caught trying to escape the republic of Gilead and sent to the prison-like training center. She is sent from there to the home of the commander to bear his child, but revolutionary forces have other plans for her! 1 videocassette (109 min.)

DANA  MEDIA 1410  2-2268      10-556

 

The Importance of being earnest 1988

Teddy Baird, Anthony Asquith, Michael Denison, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Miles Malleson, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Rutherford, and Dorothy Tutin

Film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde comedy about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest. 1 videocassette (95 min.)

MEDIA 2-1427

 

The Informer 1987

John Ford, Dudley Nichols, Liam O'Flaherty, Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, and Margot Grahame

During the Irish rebellion a man informs on a friend in order to collect the reward. 1 videocassette (91 min.)

MEDIA 2-1245

 

The innocents 2005

Jack Clayton, Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens, Henry James, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Adaptation of Henry James' Turn of the screw. A governess suspects her young charges are demonically possessed. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-555

 

Jane Eyre 1993

Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Stevenson, William Goetz, Aldous Huxley, and John Houseman

A Hollywood production of the Bronte novel in which a harshly treated orphan girl becomes a governess in a mysterious Yorkshire mansion with a brooding master. Features Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. 1 videocassette (96 min.)

MEDIA 2-5002

 

Jane Eyre 1996

Franco Zeffirelli, William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright, Anna Paquin, Elle Macpherson, Hugh Whitemore, Dyson Lovell, and Charlotte Brontë

A dramatization based on Charlotte Bronte's story of a woman whose strength, courage, and determination enable her to triumph over adversity. 1 videocassette (116 minutes)

MEDIA 2-3987

 

The Joy Luck Club 1993

Amy Tan, Oliver Stone, Wayne Wang, Amy Tan, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, and France Nuyen

Juxtaposes scenes from the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and the lives of their American-born daughters to show how the mothers' experiences in China and as immigrants in the United States shaped their dreams for their daughters' lives. 1 videocassette (139 min.)

MEDIA 2-2611

 

The Joy that kills 1988

Tina Rathborne, Sue Jett, Tony Mark, Frances Conroy, Elizabeth Franz, Jeffrey De Munn, Lee Richardson, Rosalind Cash, and Kate Chopin

The story of a woman in the upper class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870s, a world with a strict code of behavior one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-476