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Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 525 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1922. Six months after Matthew's tragic death, his loss is still felt throughout Downton Abbey. Mary struggles to face a new future with her fatherless child, and is encouraged by the family to pick up the pieces. Accepting a new role on the estate, the now-eligible Mary also finds herself the reluctant object of attention from a number of eager suitors. With the twenties in full swing and the tides of change sweeping through Downton, Rose's continued...
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in a richly portrayed society well-stocked with eccentric nobles and gossipy villagers, this story centers around 17-year-old Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a respected country doctor. The well-ordered world of Molly's childhood is soon to be complicated by new people and unexpected situations. Most devastating is her father's decision to remarry after many years of widowhood. Molly's faltering efforts to cope gracefully with an impossible...
46) Viva Cuba
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist who is proud of her family's social standing, and places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During her duties as a lady's companion, Emily meets her employer's nephew, Lord James Walderhurst. Accepting his marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst's nephew and his glamorous wife, after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (576 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
Pub. Date
[2006], ©1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently widowed-- and desperate to escape her oppressive, upper-class English in-laws-- free spirited Lilia Herriton finds refuge in the ancient landscapes of rural Italy. There, she impulsively marries the handsome Gino Carella. But when a child is born, tragedy strikes, and Lilia's scandalized relatives embark on a plot to bring her young son to England for a "proper" upbringing.
50) The kite runner
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns...
51) Love story
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail. Oliver and Jenny continue to build their life together. Relying only on each other, they...
52) Snowpiercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (525 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever.
54) Billy Elliot
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
55) Sabrina
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sabrina, the naive daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family, is obsessed with David, the family's younger son. When Sabrina returns to Long Island from Paris as a sophisticated young woman, she begins a romance with David, who has meanwhile become engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family. This new romance threatens the business interests of Linus, the older son, so he pretends to court Sabrina in order to woo her away from David,...
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
The story of the five Bennet sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In New York City in the 1870s, a rigid social code governs how people talk, walk, meet, part, dine, earn their livings, fall in love, and marry. Not a word of the code is written down anywhere, but these people have been studying it since they were born. In this elegant milieu, marriages, like treaties between nations, exist to provide for the orderly transmission of wealth; scions of old and rich families understand that their personal desires have...
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