Miramax Films
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on the 1996 cult classic film created by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, the ten episode Original Series is a supernatural crime saga that centers on bank robbers Seth and Richie Gecko, who while escaping across the Mexican border, take a detour to a strip club that is populated by bloodsucking creatures of the night.
2) My left foot
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"This is the portrayal of legendary Irishman Christy Brown who, despite crippling cerebral palsy, learned to use his one controllable extremity -- his left foot -- to become an accomplished artist and writer."--Container.
4) Ethan Frome
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 2000-2009?]
Language
English
Description
Story of a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his lustful desire for another.
6) Chocolat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop -- with Sunday hours -- across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008], c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It's the untold romance that inspired the novels of one of the world's most celebrated authors, Jane Austen. When the dashing Tom Lefroy, a reckless and penniless lawyer-to-be, enters Jane's life, he offends the emerging writer's sense and sensibility. Soon their clashing egos set off sparks that ignite a passionate romance and fuel Jane's dream of doing the unthinkable; marrying for love.
10) Naqoyqatsi
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Through a variety of cinematic techniques, including slow motion, time-lapse, computer-generated imagery, and found footage, the film tells of a world that has completed the transition from the natural to the artificial. Globalization has been accomplished, all of our interactions are technologically mediated, and all images are manipulated.
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback ... with a vengeance. Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight. She didn't start this deadly series of events, but she is determined to finish the business.
12) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Homer, who has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of an orphanage in rural Maine and has been trained by its proprietor, Dr. Wilbur Larch to be Larch's successor. Wally Worthington brings his pregnant girlfriend, Candy Kendall, to the orphanage because Dr. Larch provides medically safe, albeit illegal, abortions. Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's family apple farm. When Wally leaves to fight in World War II, Homer...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Llewelyn Moss stumbles onto a drug deal gone monumentally wrong while hunting in the parched Texas scrubland near the Mexico border. A satchel filled with $2 million seems to be a ship finally arrived, and he dreams of moving his wife Carla Jean out of the trailer park and into the good life. It isn't long before he's being tracked by Anton Chigurh, a psychopathic "debt collector." Sheriff Bell sets out to find Llewelyn, not so much for the propriety...
15) Comedian
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Follows Jerry Seinfeld and Orny Adams as they navigate their way through the cutthroat world of New York's comedy clubs, each working toward the ultimate goal of an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. For Seinfeld, hitting the clubs is a way of proving himself after his years of sitcom success; for the up-and-coming Adams, nightly stand-up routines are an avenue to bigger and better things, preferably comedy festivals, talk show appearances,...
17) Clerks
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After her husband Prince Albert dies, Queen Victoria becomes depressed and introverted. Her servant, simple Scottish Highlander John Brown, makes her enjoy life again through his kindness and friendship with her. However, their relationship causes a scandal that rocks the British Isles.
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a...
20) Jackie Brown
Language
English
Formats
Description
What do a sexy stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, an earnest federal agent, and a stoned-out beach bunny have in common? They're six players on the trail of a half million dollars in cash! The only questions are, who's getting played, and who's going to make the big score? Combining an explosive mix of intense action and edgy humor.