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1) Snowpiercer
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Formats
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris₂s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him.
4) Viva Cuba
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet, " the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother a poor socialist proud of her family's social standing, places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --Container.
7) Titanic
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
A timeless love story born of tragedy that created an international phenomenon. This epic masterpiece is destined to sweep audiences anew into the journey of a lifetime. Includes bonus features.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010, [2005]
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
9) Peeples
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Sparks fly when Wade Walker crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace's hand in marriage.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Nora and Mary only know the good life in Beverly Hills - shopping, posh parties, and more shopping - but they're in for a big shock when Daddy's fortune suddenly disappears. Thankfully, an aunt takes them under her wing but she lives on the other side of town. Laugh out loud as these princesses embark on the biggest adventure of their lives, without designer labels!
13) The Flamingo kid
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When the son of a plumber from Brooklyn is invited to a fancy beach club one summer day, he is lured from his working class world.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
As Season One ended, so did the revolution, with Layton emerging as Snowpiercer's leader and another threat to the survivors fast approaching in the form of a rival train. In Season Two, Mr. Wilford arrives, bringing a secret from Melanie's past. A new power struggle emerges, causing a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalties to Layton and to Mr. Wilford, who has a new train, new technology and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing....
Publisher
Right Stuf
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
In 19th century London, class lines are sharply drawn, and the social standing to which people are born dictates the path their lives will take. Emma, an honest and hardworking young maid, never felt her place in life to be a burden. Then she met William, a member of the gentry and the eldest son of a wealthy family. His warm smile and earnest affection threaten to capture her heart, but can love truly conquer all? Includes all 24 episodes, Japanese...
17) Belgravia
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Follows events when the rising nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's well-known upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge.
18) Sea change
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A teenage girl makes a startling discovery about her connection to the Seawalkers, legendary beings who are half-human, half-sea creature.
19) Making Mr. Right
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2011
Description
An uptight female magazine editor makes a bet with her best friend that she can make over a scruffy con man to become her magazine's 'Bachelor of the Year'. A shave and a haircut later, he's revealed as a handsome, charming rogue. She teaches him manners and etiquette, while he teaches her to live in the moment. Sparks fly and love conquers the class divide.
Publisher
Right Stuf
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
In 19th century London, class lines are sharply drawn, and the social standing to which people are born dictates the path their lives will take. Emma, an honest and hardworking young maid, never felt her place in life to be a burden. Then she met William, a member of the gentry and the eldest son of a wealthy family. His warm smile and earnest affection threaten to capture her heart, but can love truly conquer all? Includes all 24 episodes, Japanese...
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