Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
21) Run Lola run
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col., double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out: Lola has just received a frantic call from her boyfriend Manni, who's accidentally lost a small fortune he was to deliver to his mobster boss. If they cannot find a way to replace the money within twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences.
22) Crumb
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 1930's, the fictional Emmet Ray ruled as the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world. But his reputation was eclipsed by his eccentric career moves, hilarious clashes with gangsters and stormy love affairs with two very different women.
24) Persuasion
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal of marriage, she allowed herself to be persuaded by her snobbish family's conviction of his unworthiness. But now, after a separation of eight years, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth are to meet again and the tables have turned. Her former lover's fortunes have prospered and he is now returned from a career at sea both eligible and affluent. Anne's father, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall,...
25) The human factor
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. With unprecedented access to the foremost American negotiators, examine the behind-the-scenes story from the last 25 years, of how the United States came within reach of securing peace between Israel and its neighbors. Today, the need to learn from the past mistakes couldn't be more urgent.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.
28) O'Horten
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Odd Horten is a neat, meticulous, pipe-smoking train conductor. He is winding up 40 years of service for the Norwegian railways. He wonders, when a man's life has been determined by timetables and clearly-defined journeys along narrow tracks, how he will now spend his free hours. Horten goes about his final work shifts and then enters into the uncertain world of retirement. He meets the dilemma of buying a new pipe using the same placid curiosity...
30) All is true
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
31) Third person
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three stories of love, passion, trust and betrayal. The tales play out in New York, Paris and Rome through three couples who appear to have nothing related, but share deep commonalities.
32) Paris can wait
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The relationship between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud is torn apart when Sabina Spielrein, a troubled but beautiful young woman, comes between them and forever changes the face of modern thought.
34) Puzzle
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A closely observed portrait of Agnes, who has reached her early 40s without ever venturing far from home, family or the tight-knit immigrant community in which she was raised by her widowed father. That begins to change in a quietly dramatic fashion when Agnes receives a jigsaw puzzle as a birthday gift and experiences the heady thrill of not only doing something she enjoys, but being very, very good at it.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trailblazing, hell-raising country music legend Tanya Tucker defied the standards of how a woman in country music was supposed to behave. Decades later, as Tanya slipped from the spotlight, rising Americana music star Brandi Carlile took it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history. This documentary follows Tanya's richly creative, utterly captivating,...
36) Wadjda
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It started as photographs taken by soldiers of the abuse and torture prisoners were suffering in Abu Ghraib prison, and turned into a media frenzy full of scandal and cover-ups. One of the most notorious moments in recent U.S. military history is examined, through interviews with participants and dramatic reenactments of events.
38) Frozen river
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Ray, a white woman, and Lila, a Mohawk, both single mothers facing desperate circumstances, are drawn by the lure of fast money into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River.
39) The bronze
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A decade ago, Hope Ann Greggory was America's sweetheart. Her inspired performance on a ruptured Achilles at the world's most prestigious gymnastics tournament clinched an unlikely bronze medal for the U.S. team. But in the years since that epic third place victory, Hope hasn't done a whole lot with her life. Now she must coach Amherst's newest gymnastics prodigy Maggie in order to receive a sizeable financial inheritance.
40) The illusionist
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. +
Description
A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland. While performing in a village pub, he encounters Alice, an innocent young girl, who will change his life forever.