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1) The Maid
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
After 23 years working as a devoted maid in an upper class Chilean household, embittered and ailing Raquel can no longer care for the family alone. Trapped by guilt, matriarch Pilar refuses to let Raquel go, even though it is clear their longtime maid is slowly unraveling. Instead, Pilar hires more help, throwing Raquel into a jealous frenzy. The seemingly happy home soon becomes the stage for Raquel's dirty tricks as she attempts to drive away anyone...
2) The maid
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr. and Mrs. Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits...
3) The Maid
Author
Language
English
Description
The Maid is an emotionally intriguing romance about Jack, an angry and resentful boy, returning to England to celebrate his 18th birthday with his estranged father, David. When Jack meets Maria, David's maid, who also is emotionally distant due to the abandonment of her only child, their friendship blossoms as they learn to love again and let go of the past, changing their lives forever.
4) The Maid
Author
Language
Español
Description
After 23 years working as a devoted maid in an upper class Chilean household, embittered and ailing Raquel (Sundance Film Festival and Gotham Award winner Catalina Saavedra) can no longer care for the family alone. Trapped by guilt, matriarch Pilar (Claudia Celedón) refuses to let Raquel go, even though it is clear their longtime maid is slowly unraveling. Instead, Pilar hires more help, throwing Raquel into a jealous frenzy. The seemingly happy...
5) The Maid
Author
Language
Mandarin
Description
Chinese legend has it that the gates of Hell open and the dead walk the Earth for 30 days each year. Break the rules set for humans for survival and face the haunting consequences of your actions. When a young immigrant and non-believer in the supernatural world innocently breaks the rules, one by one she is forced to understand that the spirits should never be disturbed.
6) The maids
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two maids, in a sinister bond of roleplaying, take turns acting out an abusive employer-servant relationship. Adapted from Jean Genet's absurdist play, itself inspired from a true life case.
7) The maid
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Chinese legend has it that the gates of Hell open and the dead walk the earth for 30 days each year. When a young immigrant and non-believer in the supernatural world innocently break the rules one by one she is forced to understand that the spirits should never be disturbed.
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
Français
Description
In the first installment of his ambitious yet restrained two-part study, director and co-screenwriter Rivette surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English. As Joan, Sandrine Bonnaire gets at the reality behind the legend, showing the matter-of-fact courage of a teenage girl. The second part of Rivette's diptych, brought leading lady Bonnaire a **César Award** nomination...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Charles, Roger, and George are museum security guards who take their jobs very seriously. But when they learn their favorite artworks are being sent to another museum, they concoct a plan to switch the real masterpieces with fakes. All goes well until a mistake forces these first-time thieves into a last-minute escapade.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Raquel has worked as a housemaid for an upper-class Santiago, Chile, family for 23 years. On Raquel's 41st birthday, Pilar Valdez and family force the sullen, withdrawn maid to emerge from her kitchen sanctum and join the family for a celebration, but her discomfort is as strong as the family's need to acknowledge their awkward dependence on her. Raquel becomes unable to care for the house alone and new help is hired, which throws her into a jealous...
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 5
Language
English
Description
DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Dan Scott investigate the shotgun murder of Jamie Cruikshank, a barman at the Maid in Splendour, a pub in the village of Midsomer Worthy.
Author
Series
Adventures of Robin Hood volume 5
Language
English
Description
Having ambushed the Sheriff's courier, Robin's life is put in peril. He is arrested by the Sheriff while Lady Marian Fitzwalter, his childhood companion, is accused of being in league with the outlaws.
14) Joan the maid
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Français
Description
Jacques Rivette's two-part historical epic telling the story of Joan of Arc, and her journey from ordinary teenager to legendary figure.
15) The old maid
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Headstrong, beautiful Tina has nothing but disdain for her Aunt Charlotte. Tina does not think that her aunt has any understanding of a young girls heart, but Charlotte knows more than Tina thinks. For unloved, unlovable Aunt Charlotte is really Tina's mother, whose romance with a Civil War soldier who didn't return resulted in Tina's birth.
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
What happens when a drunken promise leads to living with a dragon? That's Miss Kobayashi's new reality when Tohru, her new maid-slash-dragon appears in her life! And if one wasn't enough, in comes Kanna, a little dragon with a big attitude. Soon, Kobayashi has a house full of adorable dragons, one serving tail and the other serving serious moe.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings, harbor macabre crimes, and eccentric characters that are no match for nice-guy detective Tom Barnaby and his assistants. Guest stars include Henry Ian Cusick, Jim Carter, Stella Gonet, Freddie Jones, Cherie Lunghi, and Henry Cavill. The mysteries: The Green Man; Bad Tidings; The Fisher King; and Sins of...
19) The Prisons
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
Français
Description
Joan the Maid: The Prisons," the second part of Rivette's diptych, brought leading lady Bonnaire a César Award nomination for her powerful performance, as she plays out windows in the final two years of Joan's life, from the battlefield victory, to prison life, to the stake.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In "The straw woman, " when a curate dies tragically at a festival revival, some villagers of Midsomer Parva suspect black magic. Barnaby and Scott unravel a centuries-old mystery, complicated by Scott's attraction to a schoolteacher who has been branded a witch by the village. In "The Maid in Splendour, " unrequited love, secret...
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