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3) The fountain
Language
English
Formats
Description
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Past, present, future. Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1,000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Tom is a man who is devoted to one woman, Izzi, and becomes determined to protect her from forces that threaten her existence. His quest leads him to 16th century Europe and America where Tomas is a Spanish explorer searching for Incan magic; to the present day where Tom is a doctor...
4) Arthur
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English
Description
Arthur Bach is very, very rich, and he's next in line for a 750 million dollar inheritance. He stands to lose his inheritance--and a life in the lush style to which he is accustomed--if he doesn't marry the most boring blonde on Long Island within thirty days. Unfortunately, Arthur has just discovered the girl of his dreams.
Language
Swedish
Description
In this stark drama, Max Von Sydow plays Andreas, a flinty, dour loner who, despite himself, becomes involved with three of his island neighbors: a Machiavellian architect, his formless wife and the beautiful widow Anna (Liv Ullmann), a moralist who sustains herself with illusion. One of Bergman's first films to be photographed in color.
7) Picnic
Series
Language
English
Description
The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a virile drifter has on the lives of several women in town.
8) Voyager
Language
English
Description
A man meets and travels across Europe with a beautiful young woman whose love rejuvenates his life until phantoms from his past confront him with an unbearable truth, that neither is who they believe themselves to be.
Language
English
Description
Minnie Moore (Rowlands) is an art museum curator with a duplex apartment and a large library. Seymour Moskowitz (Cassel) is a free-spirited, long-haired parking lot attendant who steps in when her date threatens her in his car lot. The two dissimiliar, but lonely, people begin an unlikely romance.
10) Love for Lydia
Language
English
Description
The classic Masterpiece Theatre tale of the final years of Britain's hig-spirited "Careless '20s." The story of the beautiful, tempestuous Lydia Aspen captures not only the soul of a vangished age, but the timeless joys and sorrows of young love.
12) Picture bride
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early 1900's a young Japanese woman, leaving behind an unhappy past, goes to Hawaii as a mail order bride to marry a man she knows only through a photograph. Although she is disappointed when he turns out to be older than his picture indicated, she finds that life in this new land is more exciting and satisfying than she expected.
Series
Éric Rohmer collection. Moral tales volume 6
Language
Français
Description
A successful young executive living in the suburbs with his wife and baby finds himself attracted to, and then entangled with, another woman from his past.
15) Gabrielle
Language
Français
Description
Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.
16) Say anything
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's graduation and Lloyd Dobler has only one ambition -- to date Diane Court. She's beautiful, she's intelligent and to everyone's amazement, she actually agrees to go out with Lloyd. At first just 'friends with potential,' Lloyd and Diane quickly develop into something more. But when Diane's overprotective father convinces her to end the relationship, a brokenhearted Lloyd vows to try anything, do anything and say anything to win her back"--Container....
Language
Français
Description
Two English sisters at the turn of the century are in love with the same man for seven years. His inability to choose between them (compounded by his overpossessive mother), and the girls' own powerful passions-- both expressed and repressed-- create a painful, emotionally charged triangle.
18) Secret admirer
Language
English
Description
A bold, passionate, unsigned letter, intended for a young girl's secret love, mistakenly falls into the wrong hands over and over again. Confusion, chaos, laughter, and romance abound as each recipient responds to the letter in his own hilarious way.
20) The Quiet man
Language
English
Description
An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.