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Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Pub. Date
c2001
Appears on list
Description
Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
2) Big night
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
The story of two brothers whose Italian restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. Their only chance for success is to risk everything they own on an extravagant feast for bandleader Louis Prima. But their big night is complicated by a lovers' triangle, a sneaky restaurant rival, and the hilarious perfection of chef Primo.
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
4) The wild one
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Johnny is the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hellbent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a "good girl" whose father happens to be a cop.
5) Ladyhawke
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Based on a 13th century European legend about a beautiful maiden, a stalwart knight and a pickpocket. The knight and the lady were once lovers, but the curse of the jealous Bishop of Aquila has fated them to be "always together, eternally apart". By day, she is a hawk; by night he is a wolf.
6) Sabotage
Series
Alfred Hitchcock collection volume 1
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A movie theatre cashier suspects her mild-mannered husband is a traitor who is terrorizing London.
8) Number 17
Series
Alfred Hitchcock collection volume 5
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A comedy-thriller about an unsuspecting, innocent hobo who accidentally stumbles across the hideout of a gang of jewel thieves.
9) Coming home
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.
10) Vengeance Valley
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Owen's desire to repay the kindness and generosity of his adopted family breeds rage and envy within their real son, Lee. Lee's jealousy and anger erupts when he fathers an illegitimate child and frames Owen for the shameful deed. Cast out of his home in disgrace, Owen is targeted by a greater menace-- the outraged kin of the baby's mother.
Pub. Date
c2001, [c1999]
Description
"Married couple Bob and Jill Lawrence are vacationing in Switzerland with daughter Betty. A Frenchman who befriends the family is shot through the heart during a dance with the young mother. Before dying, however, he whispers a secret... What follows is an unusually fine dramatic story, filled with hallmark Hitchcockian twists and turns, breathless chase scenes and superb acting."-container.
12) Jane Eyre
Pub. Date
2006
Description
An orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt is sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls.
13) Legal eagles
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A hard-nosed assistant district attorney and an imaginative defense attorney combine their talents to defend a spacey "performance artist" who is accused of theft and murder.
18) The outsiders
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Coming of age movie set in Tulsa Oklahoma in the mid sixties.
Series
Studio classic volume 2
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Description
Nicholas becomes the head of the family when his father dies unexpectedly. Keeping watch over his mother and his sister Kate becomes an even greater challenge when Nicholas discovers that his father lost the family fortune due to ill-advised investments. Without a shilling to his name, Nicholas turns to his wealthy but unforgiving Uncle Ralph for help.