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5) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Hepburn stars as a lonely secretary who travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love. She does, but with a very married man.
7) Caught
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A tale of Leonora, an aspiring carhop who meets and marries a mysterious millionaire, Smith Ohlrig. Soon after the wedding, Laura realizes she's trapped in a loveless marriage with a ruthless workaholic husband who torments her with twisted mind games. Unable to obtain a divorce from Smith, she moves out of the mansion and goes to work for a dedicated doctor, Larry Quinada. The two quickly fall in love but the romance comes to an abrupt halt when...
8) Gypsy
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
After years of toiling in the background, a young woman finally grabs center stage and shoots to the top, in the world of burlesque. Memoir of Gypsy Rose Lee and her ambitious mother.
10) West Side story
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents a four-disc fiftieth-anniversary edition of the award-winning musical. This modern tragedy inspired by Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is set in 1950's New York, where Tony and Maria fall in love amidst gang warfare and despite being from different backgrounds.
11) Anastasia
Series
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth...
12) Rope
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Two friends strangle a classmate for "intellectual" thrills and then proceed to invite his family and friends for dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk they use for a buffet table.
13) West Side story
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tony and Maria fall in love despite being from different backgrounds.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein, and others.
16) West Side story
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner, this musical tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.
17) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely secretary travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
18) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a tour de force of fearless vulnerability, Katharine Hepburn embodies the conflicting emotions that stir the heart of a lonely, middle-aged American tourist who is forced to confront her deep-seated insecurities when she is drawn into a seemingly impossible affair with a charming Italian shopkeeper amid the ancient city's canals and piazzas.