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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Florence, Thirteenth Century. The "Black Death" is spreading. Ten kids (three boys and seven girls) decide to escape and to seek shelter in the countryside, away from the horrible consequences of the plague. In order to kill time, each kid tells a particular story, but no matter how different their stories may be, they all have one aspect in common: love. A love that will help the characters cope with the numerous uncertainties of a very arduous age.....
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Etienne, a serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile, leaves behind his steady girlfriend in Lyon to study film in Paris. Settling into a dingy flat with a rotating cast of roommates, he immerses himself in a bohemian world of artists, intellectuals, and fellow film geeks who excitedly share their passion for Bresson, Ford, and obscure Russian directors. It’s a seemingly idyllic life until complicated matters of the flesh, as well...
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, THE SAME STORM presents viewers with an intimate, emotional glimpse into the lives of twenty-four characters as they make it through the spring and summer of 2020. Each character is dealt with challenges that many people were forced to face during the pandemic in what felt to many like a living nightmare. With COVID, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the looming 2020 election as key backdrops, the film takes...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt offers a fascinating exploration of the soul food tradition, its relevance to black cultural identity, and its continuing popularity despite the known dangers of high-fat, high-calorie diets. Inspired by his father's lifelong love affair with soul food even in the face of a life-threatening health crisis, Hurt discovers that the relationship between African-Americans and dishes like ribs, grits, and fried chicken...
Series
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Moussa Sene Absa's latest work pushes the formal boundaries of African cinema to explore the complex interplay of history and psychology in contemporary Africa. Intensely personal and at the same time deeply political, Ainsi meurent les anges combines the elegiac lyricism of his Ça twiste à Poponguine with the acerbic social critique of Tableau Ferraille. What is perhaps most surprising is that this creative freedom was won precisely by working...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As a witch-in-training, Sabrina Spellman (Melissa Joan Hart) has a lot to learn. On her sixteenth birthday, she discovers that magic runs in the family. With help from her Aunt Hilda (Caroline Rhea), Aunt Zelda (Beth Broderick) and their talking black cat Salem (voice of Nick Bakay), Sabrina does her best to balance life as a magically-inclined student. From dating and driving to levitation and incantations, this teen knows how to brew up the adventure....
Author
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
520 Everyone loves to see the beauty of the star-studded night sky, but how many of us understand what makes stars shine, where Saturn's rings come from, or why galaxies have their distinctive shapes. Observational astronomy excels at cataloging celestial objects, but it takes a more rigorous discipline to come up with physical explanations for them. That field is astrophysics, which uses the laws of physics to investigate everything beyond Earth....
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Finding men had never been a problem for city girl Molly Truesdale; finding the right man is another matter. And women have never been a problem for cowboy bachelor Duke Hudkins, until they want to marry him. If it's true that opposites attract, these two are obviously made for each other. He assumes she's just another pretty gal who'll fall into his arms, but she's a lady who won't be roped easily by a brawling, rough-and-ready cowboy.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Italiano
Description
Florence, Thirteenth Century. The "Black Death" is spreading. Ten kids (three boys and seven girls) decide to escape and to seek shelter in the countryside, away from the horrible consequences of the plague. In order to kill time, each kid tells a particular story, but no matter how different their stories may be, they all have one aspect in common: love. A love that will help the characters cope with the numerous uncertainties of a very arduous age....
13) The honeymooners
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], ©1955-©1956
Language
English
Description
Two couples, the Kramdens and the Nortons, perpetually scheme to improve their lot in life in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Français
Description
Black and white in color: A French colony in Africa's Ivory Coast discovers months after the fact that World War I has begun. Spurred on by a capricious patriotism, they figure they'll do their part by attacking the German colony up the river. After all, they have six rifles, and one of them is an automatic. So off to war they march -- or rather, their servants do, carrying the white folk on palanquins. They soon stop for a lovely picnic. When...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
NCIS is more than just an action drama. With liberal doses of humor, it's a show that focuses on the sometimes complex and always amusing dynamics of a team forced to work together in high-stress situations. Following the cliffhanger Season 19 finale, with Special Agent Alden Parker still on the run with his ex-wife Vivian, the team investigates who from his past might have a personal vendetta against him in hopes of clearing Parker's name.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
When his father suffers a debilitating stroke, Jorge is forced to put his life and career on hold. He takes over his father's janitorial position, cares for his father and studies at night. He finds himself in an awkward position when his convict brother asks him to impregnate his girlfriend who wants a baby, and Jorge finds himself falling for her. To further complicate matters, Jorge's childhood love returns to his life wanting the same.
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
This lecture series introduces the plays of William Shakespeare and explains the achievement that makes him the leading playwright in Western civilization. The key to that achievement is his 'abundance.' Not only in the number and length of his plays, but also in the variety of experiences they depict, the multitude of actions and characters they contain, the combination of public and private life they deal with, the richness of feelings they express...
18) Almost amazing
Publisher
Uncork'd Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three best friends find themselves at romantic crossroads in their lives. To make matters worse, their break-up card service job is under hostile new management and they are given an ultimatum of falling in love to save their jobs. The only problem is, the job requires them to break up with the women they have chosen to be a part of their charade. What do you do when letting go isn't part of the plan?
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the mood ring and polyester era of the 1970s, the series is a retro-hip situation comedy about an eclectic group of friends on the verge of adulthood. They live in the suburbs of Wisconsin, where they yearn for independence amid the growing pains of becoming adults."--Peacock website
Publisher
Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Prisoners: Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads, Dover knows his child's life is at stake and decides he must take matters into his own hands....
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