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Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Agatha Christie's world-famous mysteries are delightfully adapted in a new series of highly stylized French TV movies. Set in the 1950s, these iconic stories introduce new investigators in classic Christie style: Chief Inspector Laurence, a man of class and refined taste, and the ambitious young journalist Alice Avril along with Laurence s ever-loyal secretary, Marlene.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphaël Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with chief inspector Hélène Bach to solve the city's most disturbing crimes. But there's one case that continues to haunt him, the murder of his wife over a decade ago.
Publisher
Language Tree
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Starring native French speakers and 3-D animated characters, this DVD teaches basic conversational French within the context of a fantastic birthday party, full of lively songs, delicious food, and playful games. Pénélope and her cuddly French poodle puppy, Pezi, teach useful phrases appropriate for everyday situations.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
8) Homegrown
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Five million dollars worth of California's sweetest export is up for grabs when a mysterious assailant kills the rightful owner. Now, three naive hired hands who witnessed the murder are drawn into a dangerous world of double-dealing and death threats.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The dramatized story of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, leaders of the suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. They broke from the mainstream women's rights movement to create a more activist wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920.
11) Awakenings
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997], c1990
Description
Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.
12) White Fang
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, 1991
Description
A young man tries to fulfill his father's wish to find gold in the treacherous Yukon Valley of Alaska. Along the way he befriends a veteran gold miner and a magnificent wolf-dog named White Fang.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
In the early evening of August 21, 2015, the world watched in stunned silence as the media reported a thwarted terrorist attack on Thalys train #9364 bound for Paris. It was an attempt prevented by three courageous young Americans traveling through Europe. The film follows the course of the friends₂ lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack.
14) Grease
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2004, 1978
Description
Musical concerning the romance between a teenage gang leader and his naive girlfriend, set in the 1950's.
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When ordinary teenager Jim Lake Jr. stumbles upon a mystical amulet on his way to school one morning, he inadvertently discovers an extraordinary secret civilization of mighty trolls beneath his small town of Arcadia. Suddenly destined to play a crucial role in an ancient battle of good and evil, Jim is determined to save the world, right after gym class. A must-see original series for the entire family.
16) Hugo
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
17) My old lady
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
When Mathias Gold arrives at the sumptuous Parisian apartment he inherited from his father, he's surprised that the property comes with two stubborn live-in tenants who are not required to leave according to an ancient French real estate law. Unable to sell the place, Mathias moves in with the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde and her daughter, Chloe. But as Mathias and Chloe draw increasingly closer, Mathilde unveils a complex labyrinth of secrets that...
Series
Publisher
Disney Studios
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Enjoy two heartwarming and hilarious comedies about bringing friends and family together even when they seem worlds apart. Presented for the first time on Blu-ray with perfect picture and sound, Lilo & Stitch and Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch are hours of fantastic fun in one incredible collection!
19) Fires of Kuwait
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Shot on location, Fires of Kuwait takes viewers to the very center of the terrible Gulf War legacy. Firefighters from 10 countries answered Kuwait's cry for help. Supported by more than 10,000 people from 40 nations they battled and won.
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