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1) Butley
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a lecturer who experiences a truly awful day.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One woman's journey of self-discovery brings about a warmly human cultural conversation about female liberation, in this wonderfully frank, funny chronicle of changing '70s sexual politics by Paul Mazursky. When her husband of sixteen years abruptly leaves her for a younger woman, Manhattan gallery worker Erica finds herself alone and adrift, but also newly empowered to explore her needs and desires as she tests the waters of a new relationship with...
3) Quartet
Series
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
A twisted relationship between a wealthy English couple and a young woman they take in, plays out against a stunning recreation of the Golden Age of 1920s Paris. In adapting Jean Rhys's 1928 autobiographical novel, Merchant Ivory achieved an artistic breakthrough that remains one of the team's finest works. Isabelle Adjani plays the vulnerable but complicated West-Indian Marya, who, after her shady husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins) is imprisoned, finds...
6) Shuttlecock
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the memorial for his WWII hero father, John confesses a dark family secret, buried twenty-five years, to his own son.
Series
Studio classic volume 21
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
When shy Englishman, Basil, lands on the isle of Crete seeking his fortune, Zorba sets out to teach him the ways of the world ... Zorba's world. Through it all, Basil learns there's only one way to deal with life's triumphs and tragedies, never stop dancing!
Series
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the retreating German army. Plumpick encounters a strange town occupied by the former residents of the local psychiatric hospital who escaped after the villagers deserted. Assuming roles like Bishop, Duke, barber, and circus ringmaster, they warmly accept the visitor as their King of Hearts. With his reconnaissance...
Series
Criterion collection volume 916
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity, this traces the shifting currents of desire that link the emancipated Brangwen sisters to a freethinking dreamer and a hard willed industrialist, as well as the men's own erotically charged friendship.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This story is based on events which occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Distraught by the sudden, tragic death of his wife, a journalist finds himself mysteriously drawn to a small West Virginia town when his car inexplicably strands him. He soon learns that many of the town's residents have been beset by bizarre events, including sightings of an eerie "moth-like" entity, an entity similar to the one seen by his late wife.
11) Hamlet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. This film portrays Shakespeare's immortal tale of high adventure and evil deeds.
12) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
13) The rose
Series
Criterion collection volume 757
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards.