Isaach de Bankolé
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Adenike and Ayodele are a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Following the joyous celebration of the their wedding, complications arise out of their inability to conceive a child, a problem that devastates their family and defies cultural expectations, leading Adenike to make a shocking decision that could either save her family or destroy it.
Series
[James Bond films] volume 23
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved...
4) Chocolat
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Français
Description
A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the sights, sounds and smells sweep her back to her childhood and memories of the people who populated her youth.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
East meets West in this hip-hop infused Samurai-gangster story in which a professional killer goes by the name of Ghost Dog and who lives by the age-old code of the Samurai. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he must find a way to defend himself without breaking the code of the Samurai.
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
In an unidentified French-speaking West African country, chaos reigns as civil war erupts. For the rebels, it's time to banish the 'white material' -- white folk and the trappings of white life. Among these is the Vial coffee plantation inhabited by Maria, her ex-husband Andre, their son Manuel, and his grandfather Bernard, a white family of French origin. Their terrified workers have fled, leaving the crop un-harvested, the front gate unlocked. Andre...
Series
Criterion collection volume 401
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In five taxicabs in cities around the world (Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki), drivers and riders are headed for some unusual destinations.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged. His journey, paradoxically both intently focused and dreamlike, takes him not only across Spain but also through his own consciousness.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
Français
Description
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
10) Shaft
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather duster, there's no denying family....
12) Night on earth
Series
Criterion collection volume 401
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse.