Geraldine Chaplin
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Follows the part of Mother Teresa's life as she struggles to create the Missionaries of Charity during a time of violence in India's history. Her message of love and kindness eventually wins over her enemies and she is presented with the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979.
4) Americano
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After receiving news of his mother's death, Martin leaves his girlfriend and home in Paris and sets off for L.A. to tie up the loose ends of his rocky maternal relationship. As Martin digs deeper into his mother's past, he discovers she had a hidden relationship with a beautiful woman, who he finds at a seedy strip club in Tijuana, called the Americano. Martin discovers there may be more than he ever hoped to know about his mother's sordid past and...
8) Nashville
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An explosive drama and a human comedy that delineates and interweaves the lives of 24 major characters during five days in the country music capital of the world." --container.
10) Cousin Bette
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Compelled to live under the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives, the Huot family, Cousin Bette's energies are directed towards their destruction.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fistfights on the front law, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood and Claudia and Leo explore the...
13) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A film about the Russian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a doctor/poet. Doctor Zhivago sees his life torn apart by the Revolution and the alterations also affect the lives of many around him, including the gentle woman he marries and the fascinating other woman he cannot forget.
Series
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Divided into three narratives. First section is set around the first decade of the twentieth century in the Ardennes, where Count Forbeck unveils his architect's design for a utopian city. In a modern day mirroring of the first story, a group of professors now inhabiting Forbeck's castle seek a new form of education through the use of the imagination, under the guidance of a guru named Guarini. The last segment depicts a Wagnerian fantasy landscape...
18) Cría cuervos
Series
Criterion collection volume 403
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old Ana lives in Madrid with her two sisters. They are mourning the death of her mother, whom Ana conjures as a ghost. Evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows of Fascism.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
Intense sequences of science-fiction violence and peril.
20) El orfanato
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
A woman purchases the orphanage she spent her own childhood in, hoping to restore and reopen the long abandoned facility as both a home for herself and her husband and son, and a school for disabled children. However, her son's imagination seems to run wild in their new home, as he becomes increasingly involved with a group of seemingly imaginary friends.