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Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
This film tells the adventurous story of three heroes, none of whom have ever met, but who nevertheless have two things in common: first, they all live in the farthest-flung corners of the planet and, secondly, they are all three determined to see on TV the final in Japan of the 2002 World Cup between Germany and Brazil. The protagonists in this 'global' comedy are: a family of Mongolian nomads, a camel caravan of Tuareg in the Sahara, and a group...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
After living her whole life in the city, 27-year-old Taeko decides to visit her relatives in the countryside. As she travels, memories of her youth resurface. And after meeting young farmer Toshio, she wonders if she's been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A new adaptation of the classic series, the film is set in 1907 on beautiful Prince Edward Island. Anne Shirley is sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who wanted to adopt a boy. Anne must make her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and in Avonlea to ensure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
When a young natural sciences teacher turns down a prestigious school in Prague to work in the backwaters of a remote Czech village, it seems like an odd choice, but he's looking for the space and quiet that he thinks only the country can afford. Once settled, he meets Marie, a local widow whose husband left her to work their farm and raise an adolescent son. They form a firm friendship one she'd like to take further. What Marie does not realize is...
Series
Masterpiece Theatre volume Masterpiece Classics
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
10) The grocer's son
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had sheddriving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters...
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Anne of Green Gables, a new adaptation of the classic series, set in 1907 on beautiful Prince Edward Island. Anne Shirley is sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who wanted to adopt a boy. Anne must make her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and in Avonlea to ensure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.
Anne of Green Gables, The good stars: Anne Shirley is thirteen years old and finds that life in...
13) Hope Springs
Publisher
[Distributed by] Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Ex-cons Ellie, Hannah, Shoo, and Josie have done their time. Now they just want to disappear to Barbados with the money they had stolen from Ellie's gangster husband, Roy. When a twist of fate leaves them without passports, they flee to a remote village in Scotland where they buy a run-down hotel.
Publisher
Carnival Films & Television Ltd
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
15) Slither
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Wheelsy is a small rural town where not much happens, but that is all going to change, and not for the better. Grant Grant, the town's wealthiest and most powerful citizen, is taking a walk through the woods when he comes across a strange and unfamiliar life form. Grant makes the mistake of getting too close and soon an alien creature invades his body. It is not long before Grant isn't the only one who has been attacked by the strange and slimy things....
16) Jimmy's hall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In 1921 Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream; but above all to dance and have fun. As the hall grew in popularity its socialist and free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The follow-up to the 2019 feature film in which the Crawley family and Downton staff received a royal visit from the king and queen of Great Britain.
"A charming and soapy new chapter filled with enjoyably dry humor (mostly courtesy of the fantastic Maggie Smith), some heartbreak, a dash of mystery and a history lesson from old-school Hollywood."--USA Today.
"The hit British series returns to the big screen with another elegantly entertaining episode."--Newsday.
"Downton...
19) Funny farm
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A Manhattan sportswriter abandons his career for life in the country.
20) Madame Bovary
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Desperate to escape the dullness of provincial life, a young married woman pursues forbidden fantasies through a series of indiscreet seductions and adulterous affairs. Based on the acclaimed novel that transformed the Romantic era.
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