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21) L'attesa
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the seductive Jeanne arrives at her boyfriend Giuseppe's childhood home, she is greeted by his brooding mother Anna. What Jeanne doesn't know is that Giuseppe was killed in an accident, and Anna can't seem to tell her what has happened.
22) Beat the devil
Description
Adventure story set aboard a steamer bound for Africa. The passengers attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a piece of land they think has uranium on it.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With his wedding a week away, Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot--and all the trouble proves to be much ado about nothing (111 min.)....
25) Sharky's machine
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
An Atlanta cop whose gung-ho tactics on a narcotics case get him demoted to the vice squad. There he transforms a colorful crew into a machine aimed at bigger prey: crime lord Victor D'Anton.
26) True to the game
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A charismatic drug lord tries to start a new life after he falls for a young woman from Philadelphia.
27) Hud
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
28) Circle of two
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Romantic tale of the relationship between a sixty-year-old artist and his sixteen-year-old model.
29) Algiers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A criminal eludes capture in the Casbah section of Algiers until he is lured out of hiding by a beautiful woman.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gifted Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna.
31) Rope
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two friends strangle a college classmate and then proceed to invite his family and friends to dinner after they stuff the body inside a trunk to be used for the dining table. One of the guests, their teacher, suspects foul play. Based on the real-life Leopold-Loeb murder, Hitchcock's study of total mise-en-scene construction was shot entirely on a single sound stage.
32) The best of me
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after twenty years apart, when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend. Their bittersweet reunion reignites the love they've never forgotten, but soon they discover the forces that drove them apart twenty years ago live on, posing even more serious threats today.
33) Mystery men
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of would-be superheroes with questionable abilities find themselves looking for a way to make headlines and achieve success and fame. When the city's favorite hero, Captain Amazing, is kidnapped by his arch enemy, the evil Casanova Frankenstein, the second-rate heroes seize the opportunity and band together for a rescue mission.
34) Days and nights
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Movie star Elizabeth takes her paramour Peter to her lakeside estate to visit her family during Memorial Day weekend. There they meet up with Elizabeth's ailing brother, her artist son, the family doctor, the estate's custodian, its careless caretaker, their temperamental daughter, and her long suffering ornithologist husband who's the keeper of the sacred land where a bald eagle is trying to raise its young.
35) A chorus line
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In preparation for a Broadway musical, a group of aspiring stage performers is put through their paces by a veteran stage director using some singular techniques.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion picture history.
37) The breadwinner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her...
Author
Formats
Description
Screen legends Tyrone Power ("The Razor's Edge"), Marlene Dietrich ("Judgment at Nuremberg") and Charles Laughton ("The Night of the Hunter") star in this "brilliantly made courtroom drama" (Film Daily) that left audiences reeling from its surprise twists and shocking climax. Directed by Billy Wilder ("Avanti!"), scripted by Wilder and Harry Kurnitz ("One Touch of Venus"), and based on Agatha Christie's hit London play, this splendid, one-of-a-kind...
40) Moby Dick
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Captain Ahab sails the seven seas seeking revenge on Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
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