Movies (fiction) by Category

2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle c2009, 1967

Anatole Dauman, Raoul Lévy, Jean Luc Godard, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Jean Narboni, Adrian Martin, Antoine Bourseiller, Amy Taubin, Rialto Pictures LLC, Argos Films, Anouchka Films, Films du carrosse (Firm), Parc Film (Firm), and Criterion Collection (Firm)

Juliette, a bourgeois housewife, is a loving wife and mother whose domestic moments alternate with her days and nights as a call girl. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-1690

 

35 rhums 2010, 2008

Claire Denis, Bruno Pesery, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué, Grégoire Colin, Tindersticks (Musical group), Soudaine compagnie, Arte France cinéma (Firm), Pandora Film (Firm), and Cinema Guild

Lionel is a middle-aged widower who makes his living driving a train and shares an apartment with his twenty-something daughter Josephine. Lionel and Josephine have a warm and caring relationship. Lionel's on-and-off girlfriend Gabrielle and their footloose friend Noe live in the same building. Together the four have fallen into a casual family relationship. But when Josephine and Noe become more than friends, Lionel is on edge. 1 videodisc (102 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2510

 

4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile c2008

Cristian Mungiu, Oleg Mutu, Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alex Potocean, Dana Bunescu, Catalin Dordea, IFC Films, and Genius Entertainment

1987, Communist Romania. During the course of one day, Otilia helps her friend and roommate Gabita get a late-term abortion. With abortion, let alone any kind of contraceptive, being illegal, the women have to use illegal means to achieve their goal. Shows the rough and gritty situation in which these college students, particularly Otilia, must make decisions and deal with their consequences. 1 videodisc (113 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2496

 

Aberdeen 2001

Tom Remlov, Petter J Borgli, Hans Petter Moland, Stellan Skarsgĺrd, Lena Headey, Ian Hart, Charlotte Rampling, Lars Lundholm, Norsk Film AS, Scottish Arts Council, National Lottery Fund (Firm), Freeway Films, Filmfabriken AB (Firm), Canal + Television AB (Firm), Nordic Screen Production AS (Firm), and First-Run Features (Firm)

Kaisa, a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together, at least until her mother asks an enormous favor of her: to bring back her estranged, larger-than-life father. The two of them, father and daughter together, set out on a wild and brutally funny, yet heartbreaking journey which takes them through their emotional past before reaching their ultimate destination. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-927

 

Abschied von gestern and, Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin/Yesterday Girl c2007, 1966

Alexander Kluge, Alexandra Kluge, Geunther Mack, Franz Bronski, Sylvia Gartmann, Traugott Buhre, Kairos-Film (Firm), Film & kunst GmbH, Meunchner Stadtmuseum, Abteilung Film, Goeth-Institut (Munchin, Germany), Kulturstiftung des Bundes, and Edition Filmmuseum (Firm)

Abschied von gestern:  Anita G., a young woman from East Germany whose parents are picked up during the time of the Third Reich, searches for happiness, liberation and independence in West Germany. Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin: Roswitha Bronski is a married mother of three at the center of the protest movement. She finds her plans for social change are easier to realize outside family life. 2 videodiscs (171 min.)

MEDIA 10-1747

 

Le amiche c2001, 1955

The story of Rosette, a girl from a wealthy family, who attempts suicide. From the attempted suicide, she goes on to meet a group of women who she will become friends with--Clelia, Nene, and Navy. The film shows how various experiences in their lives bring about changes in their relationship. It describes the life experiences these friends have, from a suicide to the finding of a new love to a separation to a marriage. 1 videodisc (99 min.)

MEDIA 10-4357

 

Anchoress c2005

Chris Newby, Judith Stanley-Smith, Paul Breuls, Ben Gibson,  Christine Watkins, Natalie Morse, Gene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox, Pete Postlethwaite, Christopher Eccleston, British Film Institute, Corsan Productions, International Film Circuit (Firm), and Vanguard Cinema (Firm)

Christine Carpenter is a 14th century visionary girl in England, who attracts the village priest and an officer. The priest urges her to become an Anchoress (a virgin walled up in the church) and she accepts, attracting pilgrims seeking her advice and healing power. When her awakening sexuality calls into question this lifelong arrangement, she challenges the priest's authority.  The order of society, including its government, religion and sexual relations, are thrown into turmoil. 1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-559

 

Angst vor der Angst /Fear of Fear 2003, 1975

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Mearthesheimer, Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Armin Meier, Adrian Hoven, Asta Scheib, Wellspring Home Video (Firm), Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk

A pregnant middle-class housewife, living an ideal, comfortable life, begins to experience moments of uncontrollable undirected fear. Her anxiety grows and becomes more frequent. After giving birth, she turns to drugs and alcohol, but nothing seems to alleviate her tempestuous nerves. 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-1444

 

Anonyma eine frau in Berlin 2009

Max Färberböck, Günter Rohrbach, Martin Moszkowicz, Catharina Schuchmann, Benedict Neuenfels, Ewa J Linda, Zbigniew Preisner, Nina Hoss, Evgenii Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Rolf Kanies, Jördis Triebel, Roman Gribkov, Juliane Köhler, Samvel Muzhikyan, Aleksandra Kulikova, Constantin Film (Firm) , Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Tempus (Production company), and Strand Releasing (Firm)

Women become the victims of the Red Army invasion in Berlin in 1945. One of them, Anonyma, an educated woman, decides to look for an officer who can protect her. A complex symbiotic relationship develops between her and Russian officer Andrej that will force them to remain enemies until the bitter end. 1 videodisc (126 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3278

 

Antares 2007, 2004

"Antares tells three stories of passion, jealousy, routine, and violence, in which love is the cause of and driving force behind each character's emotional and physical experiences. Alex and Nicole are divorced, but Alex cannot let go of what has passed. Sonja is facing tough times because of her pregnancy and becoming wildly jealous of her husband Marco. Eva, a loyal wife and mother, has her life turned upside-down by a fling with Tomasz."--Container. 1 videodisc (115 min.)

MEDIA 10-4058

 

Artemisia 1998

Agnčs Merlet, Christine Miller, Patrick Amos, Christoph Meyer-Wiel, Leo Pescarolo, Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi, Miki Manojlovi c,  Luca Zingaretti, and Brigitte Catillon

Artemisia Gentileschi, the beautiful and talented daughter of one of Italy's greatest painters, is forbidden to fully pursue her own passion for painting. When she convinces renowned and unconventional Agostino Tassi to tutor her, he not only liberates her talent as an artist, but initiates her into the treacherous world of love. 1 videocasette (ca. 96 min.)

MEDIA    MEDIA 2-5648        10-107

 

Die artisten in der Zirkuskuppel, ratlos and, Die unbezeahmbare Leni Peickert c2007

Alexander Kluge, Hannelore Hoger, Curd Jeurgens, Sigi Graue,  Bernd Hoeltz, Kairos-Film (Firm), Film & kunst GmbH, Meunchner Stadtmuseum, Abteilung Film, Goethe-Institut (Munich, Germany), Kulturstiftung des Bundes, and Edition Filmmuseum (Firm)

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos (Artists in the big top: Perplexed): Tells the story of a circus beset with financial woes. Leni, the director of a circus, has just lost her father in a trapeze accident. She tries to keep the circus out of debt and vows to continue the performances under the big top. Helped by a small and unexpected inheritance, Leni has high hopes of keeping the circus operating. She must decide if her dedication to the show is realistic or merely wishful thinking. Die unbezeahmbare Leni Peickert (Indomitable Leni Peickert): Continues the drama above as Leni continues to pursue her activities to keep the circus afloat. 2 videodiscs (ca. 275 min.)

MEDIA 10-1746

 

Auf der anderen Seite Edge of Heaven  c2008

Andreas Thiel, Klaus Maeck, Fatih Akin, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nursel Köse , Nurgül Ye silçay, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Hanna Schygulla, Monique Akin, Corazón International (Firm), Anka Film (Firm), Dorje Film (Firm), Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Strand Releasing Home Video (Firm), and Match Factory (Firm)

Six characters are drawn together by circumstances - an old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together. 1 videodisc (116 min.)

MEDIA 10-1592

 

Baise-moi c2000

"Manu is violently raped by a group of savage young thugs. Nadine, a tough-skinned prostitute, sells her body but refuses to give up her soul. Chance unites them and together they decide to alter their destinies. Angry at the world, the embark on a twisted, rage-filled road trip."--Container. 1 videodisc (74 min.)

MEDIA 10-3900

 

Bend it like Beckham 2003

Gurinder Chadha, Deepak Nayar, Guljit Bindra, Paul Mayeda Berges, Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson, Jong Lin, Justin Krish, Craig Pruess, Ralph Holes, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Kintop Pictures (Firm), Bend It Films, ROC Media, Road Movies Filmproduktion, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-1295

 

Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant ein Krankheitsfall gewidmet dem, der hier Marlene wurde c2002, 1972

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer who carries on a melodrama of erotic attractions with two other women in her claustrophobic apartment. 1 videodisc (124 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3826

 

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

 

Blue is the warmest color = La vie d'Ad©·le - chapitre 1 et 2 Adele is a high school student who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twenty-something art student. This intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth. 1 videodisc (179 min.)

MEDIA 10-5242

 

The body beautiful 2008?

Dramatizes a daughter's feelings toward her mother, and how a mastectomy has affected their relationship. Discusses women's body image, especially as it is affected by a mastectomy.  Includes views of scarred and healthy breasts. 1 videodisc (23 min.)

MEDIA 10-5454

 

The BRD trilogy Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, Lola 2003

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich, Hanna Schygulla , Rosel Zech, Barbara Sukowa, Michael Ballhaus, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Juliane Lorenz, Peter Raben, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation

In 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder embarked upon a project to trace the history of postwar Germany in a series of films told through the eyes of 3 remarkable women. The 3 films would garner him the international acclaim for which he had always yearned and place his name foremost in the canon of New German Cinema. 4 videodiscs (541 min.)

MEDIA 10-752 v.1- v.4

 

Brides of Dracula 2005, 1960

Peter Cushing, Freda Jackson, Martita Hunt , Terence Fisher, Anthony Hinds, Jimmy Sangster, Peter Bryan, Edward Percy, Hammer Film Productions, and Universal Pictures (Firm)

A young French girl, stranded enroute to a teaching assignment in Eastern Europe, is persuaded to spend the night at the nearly deserted castle of a mysterious Baroness. 1 videodisc (86 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3100

 

La captive the captive 2004

Chantal Akerman, Paulo Branco, Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Marcel Proust, KimStim, Inc, Arte France cinéma (Firm), Paradise Films, Studio Canal+, Centre national de la cinématographie (France), and Gimages 3 (Firm)

Simon lives in a Parisian apartment with Ariane, the object of his unquenchable desire. Obsessed, Simon keeps Ariane as a willing captive; she tolerates his endless interrogations and surveillance, however she leads a double life with other women. 1 videodisc (ca. 118 min)

MEDIA 10-804

 

Le chant des mariées 2009

Karin Albou, Laurent Lavolé, Isabelle Pragier, Lizzie Brocheré, Olympe Borval, Najib Oudghiri, Simon Abkarian, François-Eudes Chanfrault, Gloria Films, France 3 cinéma (Firm), and Strand Releasing (Firm)

Two 16-year-old girls have an intense friendship while living in Nazi-occupied Tunis in 1942. Nour is a Muslim who eagerly anticipates her wedding to a handsome cousin. Myriam is a French Jew who is furiously resisting her betrothal to a much older doctor. However, his money is needed by her family to pay fines imposed by the Nazis. 1 videodisc (97 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3265

 

Chaos 2003

Coline Serreau, Catherine Frot, Vincent Lindon, Rachida Brakni, Aur lien Wiik, Ivan Franek, Michel Lagueyrie, Wojciech Pszoniak, Films Alain Sarde (Firm), France 2 cin© ma, Eniloc (Firm), Studio Canal+, and New Yorker Video (Firm)

Bourgeois couple Hélène and Paul witness Malika, a young prostitute, being attacked by thugs and Paul immediately speeds off. Remorseful, Hélène tracks down Malika in the hospital. As she nurses Malika back to health, Malika tells Hélène a shocking story of how she was turned into a sex slave by a vicious criminal organization. Hélène and Malika join forces to double-cross her pimps and gets both her freedom and her revenge. 1 videodisc (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-640

 

The child L'enfant  2006

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd, Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Ségard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet, and Artificial Eye (Firm)

When a small-time crook and his young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself. 1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2485

 

Chocolat 2001

Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Alain Belmondo, Gérard Crosnier, Isaach de Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, Franēois Cluzet, Cecile Ducasse, and Mireille Perrier

A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past in this enthralling depiction of a family's struggle during the final years of French colonialism in Africa that takes a profound look at the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-83

 

Cléo de 5 à 7 2000

Agnès Varda, Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti, Corinne Marchand, and Antoine Bourseiller

A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-29

 

A dangerous method c2012

The relationship between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud is torn apart when Sabina Spielrein, a troubled but beautiful young woman, comes between them and forever changes the face of modern thought. 1 videodisc (99 min.)

MEDIA 10-4082

 

Das Blaue Licht eine Berglegende 2006, 1932

Junta is hated by the people of the village who believe she is a witch. Only she can climb the nearby mountains to a cave high up, whence a mysterious blue light glows when the moon is full. She is driven out of town and takes to living in the mountains. Eventually when she shares the secret of the blue light with one man, he betrays it. 1 videodisc (131 min.)

MEDIA 10-4682

 

Das fahrrad The bicycle c2007, 1982

Ernst Wenig, Evelyn Schmidt, Heidemarie Schneider, Roman Kamķnski, Anke Friedrich, Peter Rabenalt, Icestorm Entertainment GmbH, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and DEFA Film Library

After quitting her job, a single mother attempts minor insurance fraud to make ends meet. ("A rare feminist view of socialist Germany"--San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). 1 videodisc (86 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3731

 

Demons 1999, 1985

Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Dardano Sacchetti, Karl Zinny, Dacfilm-Rome (Firm), and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

Two young women receive complementary passes to a premiere of a new horror film at a strange movie theater. As the film plays, various audience members are possessed by malevolent forces, turning them into demonic creatures. The girls find themselves teaming with the remaining survivors in a bid to escape. 1 videodisc (88 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3188

 

Der beginn aller schrecken ist liebe//Trouble with love// 1984

Helke Sander, Dörte Haak, Lou Castel, Rebecca Pauly, Katrin Seybold, Monica Bleibtreu, Uwe Bohm, Provobis (Firm), Helke Sander Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Neue Visionen Medien (Firm), Goethe Institut (Munich, Germany), Films Dept, and good! movies (Firm)

Traugot (Lou Castel) finds himself sandwiched between his former lover Freya (Helke Sander) and his new love Irmtraut (Rebecca Pauly), both women are good friends -- or were.  (1983, 112 min.). 1 videodisc (112 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2738

 

Der dritte 2006, 1972

Egon Günther, Günther Rücker, Jutta Hoffmann, Barbara Dittus, Rolf Ludwig, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Peter Köhncke, First-Run Features (Firm), and Icestorm Entertainment GmbH

Twice-married and romantically involved with a woman, an independent woman decides to seduce a male colleague in order to find a father for her children. 1 videodisc (106 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3734

 

Der Fangschuss c2003

Volker Schlöndorff, Eberhard Junkersdorf, Genevičve Dormann, Margarethe von Trotta, Jutta Brückner, Matthias Habich, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Mathieu Carričre, Valeska Gert, Stanley Myers, Marguerite Yourcenar, Filmverlag der Autoren, Bioskop-Film, Argos Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

Set in Latvia in 1919 at the end of the Russian civil war, a Prussian soldier rejects the advances of an aristocratic woman. She retaliates by joining the Bolsheviks. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-749

 

Der Geteilte Himmel c2009, 1964

Konrad Wolf, Willi Brückner, Renate Blume, Eberhard Esche, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Hilmar Thate, Hans-Joachim Funk, Christa Wolf, Gerhard Wolf, Icestorm Entertainment GmbH, Heinrich Greif Gruppe, DEFA, Studio für Spielfilme, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and DEFA Film Library

A young couple in East Germany find their relationship strained by political upheaval. Set against the backdrop of the Berlin Wall's construction, the film tells the story of Rita Seidel, a woman in her late twenties, and her search for love and understanding in the German Democratic Republic. 1 videodisc (109 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2569

 

Der subjective faktor 2006?

Helke Sander, Angelika Rommel, Nikolaus Dutsch, Dominik Bender, Lutz Weidlich, Hansjörg Frey, Klaus Trebes, Helke Sander Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Neue Visionen Medien (Firm), Goethe Institut (Munich, Germany), Films Dept, and good! movies (Firm)

The film reconstructs events which occured between 1967 and 1970 during the beginnings of the women's movement in West Germany.  The director 's focus is on what might have happened if certain people had acted differently. (1981, 138 min.). 1 videodisc (138 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2737

 

The Duchess of Langeais 2008, 2007

Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier , Honoré de Balzac, Pierre Grise Productions, Cinemaundici (Firm), and Arte France cinéma (Firm)

"In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy"--IMdB. 1 videodisc (138 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2941

 

Due partite 2009

"Set in the 1960s, four female friends share their feelings, hopes and dreams over canasta. As they play, humiliations and frustrations emerge, lives of freedom and passion given up to become suffocated housewives with children to raise, surrounded by betrayals and lies. Thirty years later, the women's four daughters are brought together after one of the mothers has committed suicide"--Baseline StudioSystems. 1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-4983

 

Edith Stein the seventh chamber 2010, 1996

A moving, artistic portrayal of the life of Jewish philosopher, Catholic convert and Carmelite martyr, Edith Stein, capturing the interior struggles of this extraordinary woman, as well as the great conflicts from her decision to convert to Catholicism. 1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-4084

 

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

 

Esther Kahn 2002

Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Pascal Caucheteux, Chris Curling, Arthur Symons, Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm, Fabrice Desplechin, and Frances Barber

A young Jewish migrant living in London at the turn of the 19th century works with her family in a sweatshop. But Esther is the weak link in the operation. She is slow and stubborn, she never has an opinion on anything and never feels anything for anyone. She decides to become an actress, because it is only in the theater that she awakens. It is on the stage that, one evening, she breaks through twenty years of suppressed life, and really begins to live. 1 videodisc (142 min.)

MEDIA 10-145

 

Fat girl 2004

Catherine Breillat, Jean-Fran cois Lepetit, Anaeis Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Arsinaee Khanjian, Romain Goupil, Libero de Rienzo, Laura Betti, Home Vision Entertainment (Firm), Flach Film (Firm), C.B. Films, S.A, Arte France cinaema (Firm), Immagine e Cinema (Firm), Urania Pictures, Studio Canal+, and Centre national de la cinaematographie (France)

Twelve-year-old Anaeis is fat. Her sister, Elaena, is a beauty. Elaena meets an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the ever-watchful Anaeis bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence. 1 videodisc (86 min.)

MEDIA 10-2129

 

La femme infidele 2003

Claude Chabrol, Pierre Jansen, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet, Serge Bento, Michel Duchaussoy, and Stephen DiNapolo

A man suspects his wife of infidelity so he hires a private detective to watch her, who confirms his worst fears. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-176

 

La fille de l'eau 2007, 1925

Jean Renoir, Catherine Hessling, Pierre Philippe, Pierre Lestringuez, Jean Bachelet, Marc Perrone, Studio Canal, Films Renoir (Firm), and Lions Gate Home Entertainment

After the suspicious death of her father a young girl runs away from her brutal uncle and joins a gypsy camp. 1 videodisc (71 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3027

 

La fille du RER the girl on the train 2010

Catherine Deneuve, Émilie Dequenne, Michel Blanc, Mathieu Demy, André Techiné, Odile Barski, Saļd Ben Saļd, Jean-Marie Besset, U.G.C. (Firm), SBS Films (Firm), France 2 cinéma (Firm), and Strand Releasing (Firm)

"Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer she knew in her youth. They are set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a lie that grows into the biggest news and political story of the day."--Container. 1 videodisc (102 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2886

 

La flor de mi secreto The flower of my secret c2007, 1995

Pedro Almodaovar, Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carmen Elaias, Rossy de Palma, Chus Lampreave, Deseo, S.A, CIBY 2000 (Firm), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm), Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Leo writes romance novels - but with a loveless marriage, she finds herself fresh out of inspiration. Her friend Betty suggests she take up journalism. Newspaper editor, Angel, is tough and gruff with an iron will, and a heart of gold. When their paths cross, they discover something unexpected - a real-life love affair! 1 videodisc (105 min.)

MEDIA   MEDIA 10-1480   2-3436

 

Fragments of Isabella 1994

Isabella Leitner, Gabrielle Reidy, Ronan O'Leary, Michael Scott, and Filmakers Library, inc

The true story of a young Hungarian Jew's struggle to survive at Auschwitz and her escape during the death march to Bergen Belsen. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-1275

 

Frauen Schicksale c2010, 1952

Slatan Dudow, R Leistenschneider, Sonja Sutter, Hanns Groth, Lotte Loebinger, Anneliese Book, Susanne Düllmann, DEFA, and University of Massachusetts at Amherst

"Berlin, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for happiness and a good man in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and womanizer, Conny"--Container insert. 1 videodisc (105 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2613

 

Gigi 2008, 1958

Arthur Freed, Vincente Minnelli, Alan Jay Lerner, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gįbor, Frederick Loewe, Colette, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

A wealthy Gaston finds out he prefers a young Parisian girl to be his wife rather than his mistress. 2 videodiscs (115 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3071

 

Giulietta degli spiriti 2002, 1965

When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies. 1 videodisc (137 min.)

MEDIA 10-4408

 

Golden door 2008, 2006

Emanuele Crialese, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Fabrizio Mosca, Memento Films, Titti Film (Firm), Respiro (Firm), and Arte France cinéma (Firm)

Set in the early twentieth century, a Sicilian peasant and an Englishwoman fall in love on a trans-Atlantic crossing, hoping to make new lives for themselves in America. 1 videodisc (118 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3085

 

Die goldene Stadt 2002, 1942

Hans Conradi, Veit Harlan, Alfred Braun, Kristina Seoderbaum, Eugen Kleopfer, Rudolf Prack, Richard Billinger, and UFA (Firm)

A German farmer's daughter leaves her family to go to "the golden city" Prague, where she is seduced and deserted by a cousin. She returns home, pregnant and desperate, where she is disinherited by her father and where she ends her life in the moors. 1 videodisc (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-1411

 

Le grand Meaulnes 2007, 2006

Pascal Houzelot, Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe, Jean Cosmos, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Clémence Poésy, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Torreton, Émilie Dequenne, Malik Zidi, Philippe Sarde, Yves Lafaye, Florence Thomassin, Alain Fournier, Mosca Films, and TVA Films (Firm)

A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty. 1 videodiscs (102 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2930

 

Hamnstad 2007, 1948

Ingmar Bergman, Harald Molander, Erland von Koch, Nine Christine Jönsson, Bengt Eklund, Mimi Nelson, Berta Hall, Birgitta Valberg, Sif Ruud, Britta Billsten, Olle Länsberg, Svensk filmindustri, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

Berit, a suicidal young woman living in a working-class port town, unexpectedly falls for Gösta, a sailor on leave. Haunted by a troubled past and held in a vice grip by her domineering mother, Berit begins to hope that her relationship with Gösta might save her from self-destruction. 1 videodisc (97 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2566

 

Hannah Arendt A biopic of Hannah Arendt, the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker, controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils, introduced her now-famous concept of the 'Banality of Evil.' Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta beautifully turns the often invisible passion for thought into  dramatic cinema. 1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-4959

 

Herzsprung 2009, 1992

Thomas Wilkening, Helke Misselwitz, Claudia Geisler, Günter Lamprecht, Eva-Maria Hagen, Nino Sandow, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, DEFA Film Library, DEFA, Studio für Spielfilme, and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

"In the little town of Herzsprung whose name can mean either heartbreak, or heart leap, almost nothing has changed since German unification. Nothing, that is, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, is one of the unemployed and has to live on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village is talking about it"--Container. 1 videodisc (87 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3733

 

Hets 2007

Ingmar Bergman, Alf Sjöberg, Harald Molander, Victor Sjöström, Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling, Olof Winnerstrand, Gösta Cederlund, Stig Olin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hilding Rosenberg, Svensk filmindustri, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

A dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior, Widgren, terrorized by his sadistic Latin teacher. When Widgren falls for a troubled local girl, Bertha, he finds himself caught up even further in a web of emotional mind games. 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2564

 

Hiroshima, mon amour 1994

Alain Resnais, Emmanučle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, and Marguerite Duras

A French actress enters into a brief romance with a Japanese architect in 1959 Hiroshima.  She relives a traumatic war time romance and tries to find truth, love, and freedom from a past that haunts them both. 1 videocassette (88 min.)

DANA   MEDIA 338       2-180     10-274

 

Import export 2010

Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz, Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofsteatter, Georg Friedrich, Coproduction Office (Firm), Sterreichisches Filminstitut (Firm), Filmfonds Wien, Land Niedersterreich (Firm), and Vivendi Entertainment (Firm)

Olga is a nurse from the Ukraine who only knows poverty. She searches for a better life in the West. Paul is an unemployed security guard from Austria who travels to the East in search of the same. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, and life. Olga comes from a place where unremitting poverty is the order of the day. Paul comes from a place where unemployment doesn't mean hunger, but a crisis of meaning and sense of uselessness. Both are struggling to believe in themselves and to find a meaning in life. 1 videodisc (135 min.)

MEDIA 10-2013

 

Indochine a film 1999, c1992

Raegis Wargnier, Vincent Perez, and Catherine Deneuve

520  Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner aEliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference after having a child by French officer Jean-Baptiste, aEliane's past lover. 1 videodisc (ca. 158 min.)

MEDIA 10-1385

 

Inferno 2000, 1980

Salvatore Argento, Dario Argento, Claudio Argento, Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi, Sacha Pitoėff, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

"A young woman stumbles upon a mysterious diary that reveals the secrets of 'The three mothers' and unleashes a nightmare world of demonic evil. As the unstoppable horror spreads from Rome to New York City, this unholy trinity must be stopped before the world is submerged in the blood of the innocent.". 1 videodisc (106 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3185

 

Die innere Sicherheit 2000

"A couple with a terrorist past have been living on the run for 20 years and have a 15-year-old daughter, Jeanne, who has never known a normal childhood. When their money is stolen, they are forced to return secretly from Portugal to their native Germany, undertaking a journey during which Jeanne's teenage development coincides with the disintegration of the family cell"--Container. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-4679

 

Io sono Li 2013, 2011

A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-4361

 

Jag är nyfiken, en film i blått 2003

Vilgot Sjöman, Göran Lindgren, Bengt Ernryd, Lena Nyman, Börje Ahlstedt, Sandrews (Firm : Stockholm, Sweden), and Criterion Collection (Firm)

This sequel to I am curious - yellow follows young Lena on her continuing journey of self-discovery. In Blue, Lena confronts issues of religion, sexuality and the prison system, while at the same time exploring her own personal relationships. Like I am curious - yellow, Blue freely traverses the lines between fact and fiction, employing a mix of dramatic and documentary techniques. 1 videodisc (107 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3007  10-3008

 

Je tu il elle I you he she c2009, 1976

Chantal Akerman, Claire Wauthion, Niels Arestrup, Janus Films, Paradise Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

An aimless young woman leaves self-imposed isolation to journey on a trip that ultimately leads her to lonely love affairs. 1 videodisc (86 min.)

MEDIA 10-1655

 

Jean Genet's The maids 2003, c1974

Robert Enders, Christopher Miles, Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant, Mark Burns, Jean Genet, American Film Theatre, Ely Landau Organization, Cinevision (Firm), Cine Films, Inc, and Kino International Corporation

Two Parisian sisters, Solange and Claire, serve as maids to a cruel socialite, but whenever she leaves, the two act out a bizarre, complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the mistress they serve. 1 videodisc (94 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2575

 

Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975

Chantal Akerman, Delphine Seyrig, Paradise Films, Helene Films, Unité Trois, and New Yorker Films

This video minutely details three days in the life of a housewife/prostitute. When her daily routine is disrupted, her reaction is extreme. 1 videocassette (200 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 10-652

 

Jeux interdits Forbidden games 2009

René Clément, Jean Aurenche, Robert Dorfmann, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, François Boyer, Studio Canal , and Criterion Collection (Firm)

A timeless evocation of the loss of innocence, Rene Clement's devastating Forbidden Games tells the story of a young orphan and her friend forced to fend for themselves in World War II France. 1 videodisc (86 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2516

Kira's reason a love story 2003?

Bo Ehrhardt, Ole Christian Madsen, Brigitte Hald, Morten Kaufman, Stine Stengade, Lars Mikkelsen, Nimbus Films, Zentropa Productions (Firm), DRTV Drama, Dogme 95 (Group), and First-Run Features (Firm)

Kira and her husband and two children have a secure and comfortable life until Kira inexplicably develops a psychiatric disorder that eventually commits her to a hospital. On being discharged, Kira tries to return to the normality of her previous life but discovers that Mads has had an affair during her hospitalization. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-928

 

Komissar 2007, 1988

A dedicated soldier of the newly-formed Soviet army becomes pregnant has to make a choice between becoming a mother and the needs of the Revolution. Set against the Russian Civil War, Klavdia Vavilova has a reputation in her unit as a selfless fighter, but her unexpected situation not only forces her to temporarily leave her comrades, her commanders have placed her in the household of a family of Ukrainian Jews. As the humanity and suffering of those living outside the party apparatus becomes apparent, Vavilova's emotions grow increasingly conflicted. Her tenuous situation turns dire when her unit returns for her and she is confronted with a final chance to show her loyalty to the cause. 2 videodiscs (104 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 10-4014 10-4069

 

Korotkie vstrechi c2009, 1967

A busy district Soviet official interrupts her full schedule to befriend a young woman from the country and to recall her bittersweet memories of brief encounters with her often absent lover, a prospective geologist. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-4576   10-4577

 

Kris 2007, 1946

Ingmar Bergman, Harald Molander, Victor Sjöström, Erland von Koch, Inga Landgré, Stig Olin, Marianne Löfgren, Dagny Lind,  Allan Bohlin, Ernst Eklund, Signe Wirff, Leck Fischer, Svensk filmindustri, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

Urban beauty-shop proprietress Mrs. Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her 18-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who raised her. Once in Stockholm, Nelly soon receives a crash course in adult corruption and wrenching heartbreak. 1 videodisc (93 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2565

 

L'eclisse c2005

Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Elio Bartolini, Ottiero Ottieri, Robert Hakim, Raymond Hakim, Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Paco Rabal, Interopa Film-Cineriz, Paris Film Production, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone. 2 videodiscs (125 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 10-538 10-538

 

The libertine/La Matriarca c2002, 1968

Ottavio Jemma, Radley Metzger, Silvio Clementelli, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Luigi Pistilli, Philippe Leroy, Nicolo Ferrari, and Audubon Films

"The libertine is about a young woman named Mimi who discovers that her recently deceased husband had kept a secret apartment equipped to satisfy his unusual sexual desires. Upset that had turned to others instead of herself, Mimi decides to use the apartment to explore the world of sex!"--Container. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-523

 

Lola Montaes 2009

Max Ophuls, Annette Wademant, Jacques Natanson, Christian Matras, Albert Caraco, Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol, Lise Delamare , Paulette Dubost,  Oskar Werner, Jean Galland, Will Quadflieg, Haelaena Manson, Germaine Delbat, Carl Esmond, Jacques Fayet, Friedrich Domin, Werner Finck, Ivan Desny, Jean d' Eaubonne, Georges Auric, Jacques Metehen, Madeleine Gug, Ralph Baum, Caecil Saint-Laurent, Gamma Films (Firm), Florida Films (Company), Union Film (Firm), Films du Jeudi (Firm), Cinaemathaeque fran?caise, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montaes's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing. 2 videodiscs (114 min.)

MEDIA 10-2039

 

Lorna's silence 2010

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd, Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Alban Ukaj, Morgan Marinne, Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), Films du fleuve (Firm), Archipel 35 (Firm), Lucky Red (Firm), Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française, Arte France cinéma (Firm), Arte (Firm), Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Gemini Films, Mogador Film (Firm), Studio Canal+, Cinécinéma (Firm), and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Lorna is a young Albanian women who dreams of opening up a snack bar with her boyfriend. Without the money, she finds herself entwined in a vicious plan devised by mobster Fabio. A false marriage between Lorna and Claudy will allow her to get her Belgian citizenship. She is then expected to marry a Russian Mafioso who is anxious to get his hands on the Belgian identity papers, after Fabio kills Claudy to speed up the second marriage. But can Lorna keep quiet? 1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2417

 

The Love of Jeanne Ney 2001, 1927

The story of a young French woman's struggle for happiness amid the turbulence of post WWI Europe. 1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-1897

 

Lucaia y el sexo Sex and Lucia 2003, c2001

Fernando Bovaira, Enrique Laopez Lavigne, Julio Medem, Paz Vega, Tristaan Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Daniel Freire, Javier Caamara, Silvia Llanos, Elena Anaya, Kiko de la Rica, Montserrat Sanz, Ivaan Aledo, Alberto Iglesias, Estaibaliz Markiegui, Alfonso Nieto, Sogecine (Firm), Canal+ Espaana (Firm), Televisiaon Espaanola, Studio Canal+, Palm Pictures, and Lions Gate Home Entertainment

After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, Lucaia seeks refuge on a quiet Mediterranean island where she meets a new man and begins to discover the dark secrets of her past relationship. 1 videodisc (128 min.)

MEDIA 10-1422

 

Macskajáték Catsplay c2005

Margit Dayka, Elma Bulla, Károly Makk, János Tóth, Hunnia Játékfilmstúdió (Firm), and Facets Video (Firm)

Two sisters from Hungary reflect upon their lives. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-976

 

Madame Bovary 2002

Marin Karmitz, Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne, Gustave Flaubert , MK2 Productions,  CED Productions, France 3 cinéma, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

Emma Bovary is a woman possessed by a burning hunger for life and love--and a passion that can never be fulfilled. Feeling trapped in a loveless marriage, Emma indulges herself in a lifestyle of reckless overspending and a series of shocking affairs which threaten to destroy her and everyone around her. 1 videodisc (143 min.)

MEDIA 10-241

 

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

 

Marie Antoinette 2007, 2006

Tells the story of the 14-year-old, ill-fated Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France, and how this young woman born imperial Austria and married to the indifferent Louis XVI must grow up in front of the entire country of France. 1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-4075

 

The mask of Satan 2007, 1960

Mario Bava, Massimo De Rita, Ennio De Concini, Mario Serandrei, Roberto Nicolosi, Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici, Nikolai Vasil evich Gogol , Galatea Film, Jolly Film, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

A woman executed as a witch by the Inquisition returns from the grave to seek gruesome revenge on the descendants of those who caused her death. 1 videodisc (87 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3172

 

Medea 2011, 1969

Pier Paolo Pasolini,  Franco Rossellini, Marina Cicogna, Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile, Margareth Clementi, Tony Palmer, Jill Marshall, San Marco (Firm), Film Number One (Firm), Janus Film und Fernsehen (Firm), and Entertainment One (Firm)

To win back his kingdom, Jason must enlist the help of Medea, a powerful sorceress. But when Jason scorns her for another woman, she unleashes a firestorm of revenge. 1 videodisc (110 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3219

 

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

 

Le misanthrope comédie en cinq actes 2006, 2000

Moličre, Francis Girod, Jean-Pierre Miquel, Alberte Aveline, Michel Favory, Isabelle Gardien, Denis Podalydčs, Laurent d' Olce, Moličre, Société nationale de programme France-Régions, Comédie-Franēaise, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

Alceste's wholesale rejection of his culture's polite social conventions makes him tremendously unpopular.  He is in love with Célimčne, a flirtatious young woman who pays great attention to social appearances and conventions.  Meanwhile, both the moralistic Arsinoė and the honest Eliante pine for Alceste, as Oronte, Acaste, and Clitandre all long for Célimčne.  Alceste's determination to reject society and its supposed dishonesty is countered by his desire to share a life with Célimčne, whose actions oppose all that he stands for.  In the end, his inability to cope with society and its inescapable affectations causes him to forsake Célimčne, and retreat to a deserted land where he will no longer have to deal with other people. 2 videodiscs (141 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3165

 

Modesty Blaise c2002

Joseph Janni, Joseph Losey, Evan Jones, Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

A comedy which lampoons the sex, sadism, luxury, and latest spying techniques in secret-agent thrillers as exemplified in an account of the efforts of a female spy to prevent a priceless gem collection from falling into the hands of an international crime ring. 1 videodisc (119 min.)

MEDIA 10-471

 

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

 

Mouchette 2007, 1967

Anatole Dauman, Robert Bresson, Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal, Paul Hebert, Jean Vimenet, Marie Susini, Suzanne Huguenin, Marine Trichet, Raymonde Chabrun, Georges Bernanos, Argos Films, Parc Film (Firm), Janus Films, Rialto Pictures LLC, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

One of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film, as Mouchette a teenage girl must deal with tragic events and a broken family. 1 videodisc (81 min.)

MEDIA                 MEDIA 10-872                    2-708

 

Mrs. Dalloway c2007, 1998

Lisa Katselas Paré, Stephen Bayly, Marleen Gorris, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox, Lena Headey, First Look Home Entertainment, First Look Pictures, Bergen Film (Firm), Newmarket Capital Group LP, BBC Films, European Co-Production Fund, Nederlandse Programma Stichting, Dutch Co-Production Fund (Firm), COBO Fund, and Dutch Film Fund (Firm)

The captivating and romantic story based on the critically-acclaimed Virginia Woolf novel of the same name. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-1209

 

Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios" Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown c2007, 1988

Pedro Almodaovar, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Maraia Barranco, Fernando Guillaen, Deseo, S.A, Lauren Film (Firm), Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), and  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Comedy film about a woman who has been jilted by the love of her life, her friend who discovers her lover is a Shiite terrorist, and her ex-lover's crazed wife. 1 videodisc (89 min.)

MEDIA 10-1482

 

Mutter Küsters fahrt zum Himmel 2003

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab, Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Armin Meier, Irm Hermann, Gottfried John, Margit Carstensen, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, Tango Film Produktion, and Wellspring Media

A factory worker goes berserk one day killing the boss' son and then throwing himself into the machinery. Trying to clear her husband's name, the murderer's widow journeys through ludicrous arenas of yellow journalism and left-wing politics. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-1040

 

Napló gyermekeimnek 2006, 1984

The turbulent period from 1943 to 1956 is depicted through the story of Juli, a young girl returning to Hungary from exile in Russia, whose father is a political prisoner and whose adoptive grandmother, Magda, is a revolutionary journalist who has risen to bureaucratic complacency in the Communist system. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-4381

 

The night porter c1999

Liliana Cavani, Robert Gordon Edwards, Esa De Simone, Italo Moscati, Barbara Alberti, Amedeo Pagani, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Janus Films, Ital Noleggio Cinematográfico, Lotar Film, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

The chance meeting of a woman and a former Nazi SS officer brings back memories of their sado-masochistic relationship in a concentration camp years before. 1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-585

 

Ninotchka 2005, 1939

Garbo plays a dour, severe Soviet official who comes to Paris on business involving the sale of some czarist jewels. But soon business turns to pleasure as she discovers the special magic of Paris and finds herself succumbing to the charms of a suave Frenchman named Leon D'Algout (Melvyn Douglas). The plot bubbles merrily as Ninotchka chooses between romance and duty--and must even confront a rival for Leon's affection in the exiled Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire). 1 videodisc (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-4031

 

No greater love c2006, 1943

Fridrikh Ermler, Vera Petrovna Mareetiskaeiia, Petr Ale?inikov, A Violmov, Lidieiia Nikolaevna Smirnova, Irina Fyodorova, Nikola i Bogoleiiubov, G Gakkel , Ilya Lopert, W. A Pozner, eTiSentral?naeiia ob?edinennaeiia kino-studieiia khudozhestvennykh fil?mov, International Historic Films Inc, IHF Home Video, and Artkino Pictures, Inc

The story of a Russian peasant woman who leads a group of partisan villagers against the Nazi soldiers who killed her husband and infant son. 1 videocassette (74 min.)

MEDIA 10-1338

 

O jardim do outro homem Another man's garden 2006

Luais Galvaao Teles,  Serge Zeitoun, Sol de Carvalho, Joana Smith, Gigliola Zacara, Evaristo Abreu, Maria Amaelia Pangane, Timaoteo Maposse, Filomena Remigio, Fado Filmes, Films de Mai, Promarte (Firm), First-Run Features (Firm), and Global Film Initiative

Sofia, a young girl studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work. Highlighting corruption and misogynistic attitudes in a society devastated by the AIDS virus, Sofia's opportunities may depend on her willingness to compromise her values and even her health. 1 videodisc (80 min.)

MEDIA 10-2156

 

Pauline & Paulette 2002

Dominique Janne, Lieven Debrauwer, Jacques Boon, Dora van der Groen, Ann Petersen, Rosemarie Bergmans, Idwig Stéphane, Michel van Laer, Philippe Ravoet, Frederic de Vreese, Erna Siebens, and Hilde Duyck

Mentally-challenged Pauline is obsessed with pretty flowers and her glamorous sister Paulette. When Pauline's caretaker-sister Martha dies suddenly, Pauline has to move in with her sister Paulette, and proceeds to interfere with the day-to-day running of Paulette's lingerie shop and her double life as an opera singer. 1 videodisc (75 min.)

MEDIA 10-140

 

Phenomena 1999, 1985

Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini, Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Donald Pleasence, Patrick Bauchau, Dacfilm-Rome (Firm), and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

Jennifer Corvino, who can communicate telepathically with insects, is sent to an eerie Swiss boarding academy for girls where the students are being butchered by a vicious serial killer. Guided by a wheelchair-bound bug specialist, she must find the killer before he finds her. 1 videodisc (110 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3187

 

La pianiste The piano teacher 2002

Michael Haneke, Veit Heiduschka, Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Wega Film (Firm), MK2 Productions, Films Alain Sarde (Firm), Arte France cinéma (Firm), and Kino International Corporation

The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. She escapes her life with nightly voyeuristic wanderings and self-inflicted masochistic experiments. From novel by Elfriede Jelinek. 1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-746

 

Pierrot le fou  c2007, 1965

Gérard Beytout, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Antoine Duhamel, Graziella Galvani, Richard Brody, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Luc Lagier, Société nouvelle de cinématographie, Rome Paris Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

"Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeoisie behind"--Container. 2 videodiscs (110 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3681

 

Poor cow c2001

Carol White, Terence Stamp, Ken Loach, Joseph Janni, Nell Dunn, Momentum Pictures, Studio Canal+, Kinowelt Film Produktion, Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors, Vic Film Productions, and Fenchurch Films Ltd

Details the dismal life of a young woman trying to cope in squalor while her husband is in jail. Clutching at any slight chance of happiness she has an affair with his best friend with disastrous consequences. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-1006

 

Die Praxis der Liebe The practice of love 2010

Valie Export, Ulli Stenzel, Adelheid Arndt , Rüdiger Vogler, Hagnot Elischka, Königsmark & Wüllerweber Film, and Facets Video (Firm)

A woman uses her investigative journalist skills to help solve a murder that involves one of her boyfriends. When she runs into an ex-lover in her pursuit of the truth, the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred. 1 videodisc (90 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2621

 

Princesa 2002

Rebecca O'Brien, Henrique Goldman, Ellis Freeman, Ingrid de Souza, Cesare Bocci, Parallax Pictures, BIM Distribuzione, and Road Movies Filmproduktion

"Fernando/Fernanda, a 19-year-old Brazilian transvestite, dreams of becoming a woman, meeting a prince and being swept off her feet into a fantastic life of middle-class normalcy. She goes to Milan and works as a prostitute to raise money for a sex-change operation. On the streets she is transformed into 'Princesa', a stylish and alluring figure who makes a lot of money and many friends. One night Fernanda is picked up by Gianni, a conventional, handsome Italian man. The two establish a passionate relationship very quickly and a whirlwind of romance ensues. Gianni leaves his wife and offers to pay for Fernanda's sex change operation. She turns away from her life on the streets and sets up home with Gianni. As time passes, Fernanda's ideal image of life as a housewife is tested. After much soul searching she is forced to re-examine the person she hopes to become"--Container. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-569

 

La ragazza che sapeva troppo 2007, 1963

Mario Bava, Massimo De Rita, Ennio De Concini, Enzo Corbucci, Eliana De Sabata, Leticia Romįn, John Saxon, Valentina Cortese, Dante DiPaolo, Galatea Film, Coronet (Firm), and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

Nora Davis visits Rome only to find herself enmeshed in a mystery involving a serial murderer. 1 videodisc (86 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3174

 

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

 

Les rendez-vous d'Anna c2009, 1978

Chantal Akerman, Aurore Claement, Helmut Griem, Magali Noel, Janus Films, Helene Films, Unitae Trois, Paradise Films, and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

An accomplished filmmaker makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie. 1 videodisc (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-1657

 

Repulsion c2009, 1965

Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch. 1 videodisc (105 min.)

MEDIA 10-4457

 

Requiem pour un vampire 2012, 1971

Two women on the run find refuge in a castle inhabited by vampires. 1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.)

MEDIA 10-4710

 

Respiro 2012, 2002

Set on a small island off the coast of Sicily, the villagers turn against a free-spirited young mother who flaunts their age-old conventions. 1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-4011

 

La Rupture The breach c2003, 1970

Claude Chabrol, André Génovčs, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Charlotte Armstrong,  Euro International Films, Artedis Films, Films la Boetie, Cinevog Film, and Pathfinder Home Entertainment (Firm)

A woman, with a checkered past, divorces her abusive, addict husband after he beats up their young son, breaking his leg and giving him a concussion. The husband's wealthy family tries to gain custody of the boy through the courts, but when that fails they hire a man to do whatever it takes to discredit the mother. Disc characteristics: DVD Region 1. 1 videodisc (NTSC)(120 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2511

 

Sans toit ni loi Vagabond 2000

Agnès Varda, Oury Milshtein, Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, and Stéphane Freiss

An aimless drifter wandering through the wintry French countryside encounters violence, hunger, fear and cold, yet touches the lives of the people she meets with her own ideas of freedom. 1 videodisc (105 min.)

MEDIA 10-31

 

Scrubbers borstal for girls c2006, 1983

Don Boyd, Mia Zetterling, Amanda York, Kate Ingram, Elizabeth Edmunds, Chrissie Cotterill, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Handmade Films, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

On the run from an open borstal institution, Annetta and Carol are picked up and sent to a lockup borstal. There Annetta, fearing the loss of her child, seeks revenge on Carol, whom she blames for their arrest. Carol accepts protection from Eddie, a lesbian, but a complex revenge scenario ends brutally. Along with the other inmates, they both resist the institution and are unable to get beyond it. 1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.)

MEDIA 10-1662

 

Sedmikrasky Daisies 2001

Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-5512

 

Sequins 2006

Éléonore Faucher, Lola Naymark, Ariane Ascaride, Thomas Laroppe, Alain Benguigui, Bertrand van Effenterre, Sombrero Productions, Mallia Films (Firm) , Rhône-Alpes cinéma (Firm), New Yorker Video (Firm), New Yorker Films, Studio Canal+, and Centre national de la cinématographie (France)

Claire moves from her parents farm to an apartment in the city. She spends most of her time embroidering and keeping a big secret. When fate brings her together with a famous designer, will this help Claire's dreams as well as her big secret? 1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.)

MEDIA 10-1034

 

Six contes moraux Six moral tales 2006

Éric Rohmer, Barbet Schroeder, Georges de Beauregard, Pierre Cottrell, Claudine Soubrier, Catherine See, Philippe Beuzen, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Patrick Bauchau, Haydée Politoff, Daniel Pommereulle, Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Éric Rohmer, Éric Rohmer, Éric Rohmer, Éric Rohmer, Éric Rohmer, Éric Rohmer, and Films du losange (Firm)

"A succession of jousts between fragile men and the women who tempt them"--Container. 6 videodiscs (480 min.)

MEDIA 10-876 v.1-6

 

Die stille nach dem schuss The legends of Rita 2001

Volker Schlöndorff, Friedrich-Carl Wachs, Arthur Hofer, Emmo Lempert, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Bibiana Beglau, Martin Wuttke, and Nadja Uhl

This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-98

 

Strike 2007

Jürgen Haase, Volker Schlöndorff, Katharina Thalbach, Andrzej Chyra, Dominique Horwitz, Andrzej Grabowski, Red Envelope Entertainment (Firm), Laemmle/Zeller Films, Provobis (Firm), Bayerischer Rundfunk, and MPI Home Video (Firm)

"An illiterate single mother, Agnieszka Kowalska is a Socialist "heroine of labor" for working long hours as a shipyard welder... until her superiors deny compensation to the widows of 21 workers killed in an industrial disaster. Risking her job, her life, and the love of her son to defy the bureacracy, Agnieszka inspires the largest labor strike in world history... and becomes a national hero." -Container. 1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-1610

 

Sur mes lčvres 2003

Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne, Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benacquista, Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivia Bonamy, Olivier Perrier, Bernard Alane, S.E.D.I.F, and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)

Carla works in a real estate office and has a hearing problem. Carla makes the acquaintance of Paul, a small-time criminal who has just been released from prison on parole. Before long, it becomes obvious that Paul is having an influence on Carla's normally stable nature. Carla and Paul's actions go from malicious to seriously criminal when Paul hatches a scheme to rob a nightclub owner to whom he owes money -- a scheme that involves Carla's keen skill as a lip reader. 1 videodisc (119 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3505

 

Sweet movie 2007

Vincent Malle, Duesan Makavejev, Carole Laure, Pierre Claementi, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey, Jane Mallet, V. M. Productions, Mojack Film Ltaee, Maran-Film , Janus Films, and  Criterion Collection (Firm)

A futuristic film on the adventures of Miss Virginity World 1984. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA   MEDIA 10-1504       2-930

 

Tales of mystery and imagination 2001

Metzengerstein is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelgänger in a duel. Toby Dammit is about a film star who takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed. 1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA 10-4415

 

Te doy mis ojos c2006

Icíar Bollain, Santiago García de Leániz, Enrique González Macho, Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peńa, Rosa María Sardá, Sergi Calleja, Kiti Manver, New Yorker Video (Firm), New Yorker Films, Alta Producción, and Producciones La Iguana

A terrified Pilar hastily flees from her husband Antonio's rage in the middle of the night with her young son and goes to her sister Ana's house. Soon Antonio is banging on Ana's front door in a fit of rage, screaming for Pilar to return home. With Ana's support, Pilar is determined to save herself from Antonio's rage. Yet the very passionate Antonio is far from a one-dimensional brute, and the bond between Pilar and Antonio is deep. Pilar is persuaded to return to Antonio and they struggle to rebuild their relationship, but there are no simple answers. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-1024

 

Tess c2004

In this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic romance, Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant in late 19th century England, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives. Although Tess rejects the advances of the D'Urberville's son Alex, he forcibly seduces her, leaving her pregnant and alone. After her sickly baby dies, Tess falls in love with Angel, a parson's son, who abandons her on their wedding night after she confesses her past "sin." This forces Tess to return to Alex, a fateful decision with tragic consequences. 1 videodisc (172 min.)

MEDIA 10-4460

 

Todo sobre mi madre All about my mother c2007

Pedro Almodaovar, Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penaelope Cruz, Candela Peana, Antonia San Juan, Rosa Maraia Sardaa, Deseo, S.A, Renn Productions, France 2 cinaema (Firm), Vaia Digital (Firm), Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Manuela is a devoted single mother who needs to come to grips with the death of her 17-year-old son, Esteban.  She had never told Esteban about his father, but after reading her son's journal she realizes she has to find Esteban's father, and explain what has happened. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-1478

 

A tout de suite Right away 2006

Georges Benayoun, Raoul Saada, Beno it Jacquot, Isild Le Besco, Ouassini Embarek, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Laurence Cordier, Forini Kodoukaki,  Caroline Champetier, Luc Barnier, Elisabeth Fanger, Natan Productions, Arte France cinaema (Firm), and Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)

Lili is an impulsive, free-spirited art student living a staid existence with her father in 1970s Paris. When she meets a mysterious young Moroccan man at a nightclub, she falls instantly in love. Soon she learns he was involved in a botched bank robbery -- where a man was killed -- and without hesitation allows him and his accomplice to hide out in her apartment. The two embark on a wild spree throughout France, Spain, Morocco, and Greece, in a contemporary joy ride. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-2155

 

Two women 1998

Alberto Moravia, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Eleanora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Vittorio De Sica, and Carlo Ponti

Realistic drama of an Italian widow who, along with her young daughter, are brutally raped by Allied soldiers in World War II. 1 videodisc (93 min.)

MEDIA 10-139

 

Törst 2007, 1949

Ingmar Bergman, Helge Hagerman, Herbert Grevenius, Birgit Tengroth, Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Hasse Ekman, Mimi Nelson, Bengt Eklund, Gaby Stenberg, Naima Wifstrand, Svensk filmindustri, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

"A couple traveling across war-ravaged Europe. A disintegrating marriage. A ballet dancer's scarred past. Elliptically told in flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, this film shows people enslaved to memory and united in isolation."--Container. 1 videodisc (84 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2615

 

Under the skin 2001

Rita Tushingham, Carine Adler, Ilona Sekacz, Claire Rushbrook, and Samantha Morton

Things are going badly for Iris; her mother has been given only weeks to live, and she feels increasingly distant from her happily married and heavily pregnant older sister. Unable to deal with her grief and jealousy, Iris ditches her job, her flat and her boyfriend and prowls the streets looking for love in all the wrong places. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-170

 

Varuh meje Guardian of the frontier 2006

Maja Weiss, Ida Weiss, Iva Krajnc, Pia Zemljic, Tanja Potocnik, Vanguard Cinema (Firm), Filmski sklad R Slovenije, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Bela Film, and Arte (Firm)

Three college girls embark on a leisurely boat trip. They realize they are being watched and followed by a political extremist group called the guardians of the frontier. Layers of social, political and historical differences boil to the surface. 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.)

MEDIA 10-1258

 

Vendredi soir Friday night c2003

Bruno Pesery, Claire Denis, Valaerie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon, Graegoire Colin, Haelaene Filliaeres, Arena Films (Firm) , France 2 cinaema (Firm), France taelaevision, Studio Canal+, Centre national de la cinaematographie (France), and Wellspring Media

It's Friday night in Paris. Laure has just finished packing her apartment, she is moving in tomorrow with her boyfriend. She leaves to go to dinner with friends and gets stuck in the middle of a mass transit strike which has thrown the city into chaos. As Laure takes in the sights and sounds of the city, a stranger approaches the car. She opens the door to the man, who in a single night, will change her life forever. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 10-1446

 

Vera Drake 2005

Mike Leigh, Alain Sarde, Simon Channing-Williams, Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis, Peter Wight, Alex Kelly, Daniel Mays, Jim Broadbent, New Line Home Entertainment (Firm), Fine Line Features, Studio Canal (Firm),  Inside Track (Firm), Thin Man Films (Firm), and UK Film Council

Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel. 1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-433

 

Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum The lost honor of Katharina Blum c2003, 1975

Volker Schleondorff,  Margarethe von Trotta, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Heinz Bennent, Jeurgen Prochnow, Heinrich Beoll, Ivo Barnabao Micheli, Janus Films, Criterion Collection (Firm), Cinema International Corporation, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Orion Pictures, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Bioskop-Film, Crommelin Film-Roma (Firm), and Cine-International

In the period of several days, Katharina's privacy and her honor are destroyed, first by the police who terrorize her, and then by the yellow press, which creates in her name the image of a politicized Bonnie Parker. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA  MEDIA 10-1718      2-590

 

Violette Noziaere c2007

Claude Chabrol, Roger Morand, Odile Barski , Hervae Bromberger, Fraedaeric Grendel, Isabelle Huppert, Staephane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean-Fran cois Garreaud, Guy Hoffman, Jean Marie Fitaere, Filmel (Firm), Sociaetae nationale de programme France-Raegions, Cine Video (Firm), and Koch Lorber Films

"The daughter of a respectable middle-class couple, Violette Noziaere leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent young girl her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the Latin Quarter of Paris. To acquire money for her latest lover, Violette resolves to commit an unthinkable crime."--Container. 1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-2132

 

Vision aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen 2011

Herbert G Kloiber, Markus Zimmer, Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Alexander Held, Lena Stolze, Sunnyi Melles von Rohonczy, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH, Clasart Films, Degeto Films (Firm), Celluloid Dreams (Firm), Tele-München, and Zeitgeist Films

The story of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th century Benedictine nun, who was one of the first women to preach and interpret Biblical scripture. 1 videodisc (110 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3601

 

Volver 2007

Esther Garcaia, Pedro Almodaovar, Penaelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueanas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave, Antonio de la Torre, Carlos Blanco, Deseo, S.A, Canal+ Espaana (Firm), Spain, Ministerio de Cultura, Televisiaon Espaanola, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past returns (volver). 1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA 10-1576

 

White material 2011

Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Michel Subor, Claire Denis, Marie NDiaye, Tindersticks (Musical group), IFC Films, Why Not Productions Inc, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind. 1 videodisc (105 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2489

 

Wings a film 2008

Larisa Efimovna Shepit?ko, Zhanna Bolotova, Pantelejmon Krymov, Leonid D?eiiachkov, Vladimir Gorelov, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

Suffocated by Modern-day living, a buttoned-down headmistress reminisces about her glory days as a World War II pilot. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-2021

 

Woman times seven 2008, 1967

A collection of seven sexy stories of love and adultery set against a Paris backdrop. Widow, seductress, model wife, or passionate lover, Shirley Maclaine stars in the seven roles of a woman's life in seven sketches. 1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-4359

 

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

 

Yella c2009, 2007

Christian Petzold, Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber, Hans Fromm, Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Scheonemann, Burghart Klaussner, Barbara Auer, Harun Farocki, Schramm Film Koerner & Weber (Firm), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Association relative aa la taelaevision europaeenne, and Cinema Guild

Following a near-death experience, a young woman flees her East German hometown and failed marriage to start over in Hanover. By chance she finds work with an ambitious and determined executive and enters a ruthless world of big business and cut-throat boardroom deals. But just as she seems poised to fully realize her ambitions, she finds herself haunted by truths from the past that threaten to destroy her new life. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-1660

 

Älskande par Loving couples 2005, 1964

David Hughes, Mai Zetterling, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petr© , Anita Bj©śrk, Gunnar Bj©śrnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Jan Malmsj©ś, Sandrew Metronome (Firm), and New Yorker Video (Firm)

Three mothers-to-be take a look back on their romantic lives as they are about to give birth. Each is from a different social class and each one has a different take on becoming a mother. 1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.)

MEDIA 10-636

 

Édes Emma, drága Böbe, vázlatok, aktok Sweet Emma, dear Böbe, sketches, nudes c2006

István Szabó, Andrea Vészits, Manfred Durniok, Óvarí Lajos, Gabriella Grosz, Johanna ter Steege, Eniko Börcsök, Péter Andorai, Éva Kerekes, Objecktív Filmstúdio Vállalat (Firm), and New Star Video (Firm)

"The realities of day-to-day life in post-Communist Hungary are brought to life in this compassionate story of two young women, Emma and Böbe, who move from the country-side to Budapest where life is supposedly richer"--Container. 1 videodisc (81 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2805