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1) Moonstruck
Series
Criterion collection volume 1056
Language
English
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"A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air: One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement...
2) Yentl
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Yentl Mendel is the boyish daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel. He teaches Talmud to local boys and secretly to Yentl since girls are not allowed to learn the law. When her father dies, Yentl is left all alone. She makes the momentous decision to leave the village and, disguised as a boy and calling herself Anshel, she seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva to study. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas. Her family calls off...
3) White nights
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nikolai Rodchenko, a Russian ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union years ago, finds himself back in the motherland--trapped--thanks to an emergency airplane landing. The Soviets do not imprison him, however; they hope to score a propaganda victory by 'persuading' him to become Russian again.
4) 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.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"Acclaimed director Franco Zeffirelli and an all-star cast come together to deliver a powerful adaptation of the gospels in 1977's Jesus of Nazareth. From the Nativity to the Crucifixion and Resurrection, the life of Jesus (played by Robert Powell) is presented with stunning depth, gravity, and emotion. Acclaimed by critics and viewers alike, Jesus of Nazareth remains one of the finest depictions of the story of Christ nearly forty years after its...