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1282) Wartime girls: Season 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Polish
Description
"Wartime Girls tells the story of three young Polish women who band together to fight against the Nazi occupation of their country during the outbreak of World War II. Irka, Ewa and Marysia each come from very different backgrounds and social standings: Irka was raised by well-educated parents in a patriotic family, Ewa was brought up by petty criminals, and Marysia is a daughter of a wealthy Jewish industrialist from Lodz. Their paths cross together...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Resentful young Parisian chambermaid Celestine finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she must humbly submit to the iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress while rebuffing the groping advances of Monsieur and contending with her fascination with the brooding gardener, Joseph.
1284) Gods and monsters
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's 1957, and Hollywood horror director James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The invisible man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper Hannah hires handsome young gardener Clayton Boone, the gay director and the simple yardman develop an unlikely friendship.
Series
Pub. Date
℗2000, ©2001.
Edition
Widescreen letterbox version.
Language
Korean
Description
Set in 18th century Korea. Mongryong, the son of a governor, falls in love with Chunhyang, the daughter of a proud former courtesan, and they secretly marry out of fear of reprisal. Trouble results when Mongryong is ordered to Seoul to finish his education, and a new, vindictive governor pursues Chunhyang and then imprisons her when she refuses his advances. This movie unfolds through a pʻansori presentation.
1287) Great expectations
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.
1288) The house of mirth
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story takes place at the opening of a new century, one that held forth all kinds of promises, especially for women. In this post-Victorian Fifth Avenue milieu, Lily Bart, an unmarried woman of 29 with dwindling prospects, needs a husband badly. She lives beyond her means, relying on the grudging charity of her elderly aunt. She is the kind of girl who would make an admirable decoration on some fine gentleman's arm, but there is a liveliness--a...
1289) Rich Hill
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Rich Hill, Missouri (population 1,393) could be any of the countless small towns that blanket America's heartland. But to teenagers Andrew, Harley and Appachey, it's home. They are like millions of other boys coming of age the world over, but face unfortunate circumstances an imprisoned mother, isolation, instability, and parental unemployment. Adolescence can be a day-to-day struggle just to survive. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary...
1291) The penmaker's wife
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Victorian England, a mother is on the run from her past-and the truth about what she did. Birmingham, 1880. Angelica Chastain has fled from London with her young son, William. She promises him a better life, far away from the terrors they left behind. Securing a job as a governess, Angelica captures the attention of wealthy widower Stanley Hampton. Soon they marry and the successful future Angelica envisaged for William starts to fall into place....
1292) Ship of fools
Pub. Date
[1965]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In 1933, a motley crew of passengers embarks on a fateful, transatlantic sea voyage to Germany. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
1294) Emma: Volume 3
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
On the way back to her hometown, Emma chances upon new unemployment, but soon discovers that, even after years of working as a maid for Mrs. Stowner, she is unprepared to work in a mansion filled with servants.
1295) Parade's end
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The story follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy member of Edwardian England's upper class, as the country is drawn into World War One. Tietjens is at the center of a love triangle between his wife Sylvia, a treacherous socialite who is trying to destroy him, and his suffragette mistress, Valentine. The warfare Tietjens encounters as an officer in Europe is but a backdrop to a personal battle of conflicting loyalties, hidden passions and the rigid...
1296) Pride & prejudice
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen
Language
English
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young Elizabeth Bennet copes with the romantic entanglements of her sisters, and her feelings for wealthy, brooding, and seemingly over-proud Mr. Darcy.
1300) Pride and prejudice
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Mr. Darcy sets all fair maidens' hearts aflutter, except for that of Elizabeth Bennett.
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