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1) Howard's End
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tragic series of events occurs when two impulsive sisters become involved with a working-class couple and a wealthy family.
3) Queen Margot
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
20th anniversary director's cut.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The King of France marries his sister of the protestant huguenot King Henry of Navarre. But she is already having an affair with the protestant La Mole. Her mother, is already plottign the day that would become known as St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including...
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
The disenchanted: A young girl has to hold her family together by degrading herself. A single girl: A young woman works her first day at a luxury hotel and must decide how to tell her boyfriend that she is pregnant. Keep it quiet: An ex-convict returns to his family a changed man.
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM (1954): In Lewis Gilbert's memorable and gripping WWII saga, four Allied men struggle to survive in a lifeboat on the North Sea after their plane is shot down. One of the men carries secret documents that can save London from Nazi destruction. In a daring race against time, will their rescuers save them before Nazi U-boats, stormy seas, exposure, and enemy-mined waters kill them? ALBERT R.N. (1953): In this World War II...
10) Hester Street
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An Eastern European Jewish woman comes to turn-of-the-century Lower East Side in New York to join her husband and is reluctant to shed her ethnic heritage and embrace American ways as her husband has.
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Italiano
Description
Padre Padrone: Gavino is six when his father hauls him out of school to keep watch over sheep on a barren countryside, huddled in a makeshift hut night and day. The child is constantly abused by his father who treats him as his own father treated him. When the illiterate Gavino is commanded by his father to join the army, he learns a trade and a new concept of life, discovering the outside world and his own identity within it.
Night of the shooting...
13) Maurice
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
A new 30th anniversary 4K restoration.
Language
English
Description
E.M. Forster's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates that fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
During the middle of the sixteenth century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family, and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family's home.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
A married woman leaves her middle-class husband for a leather-jacketed stud she meets in a disco; a family copes with life's changes as the matriarch lies dying from cancer; follows a group of working-class teenagers in northern France in their final year of school.
17) Black Jack
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
35th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
An adventure story about an honest young boy, Tolly Pickering, forced on the run with a villainous ruffian named Black Jack. As the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums, and travelling fairs, they find friendship in the most unlikely places.
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