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José Ferrer
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In 1880, Auguste Rodin began the creation of set of bronze doors for a museum in Paris that was never built. Even though 'The Gates Of Hell' became Rodin's most ambitious work, taking over 20 years to complete, it was not cast in bronze until 1977; this DVD documents the casting of this eight-ton work and chronicles the life of Rodin.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
In Chicago in the 1930's Jerry Kwan's serene life is turned upside down when an unmerciful head of a mobster syndicate takes his brother's fiancée hostage and forces Jerry to enter a no-holds-barred combat tournament--the Battle Creek Brawl in Texas.
Series
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
The story of a young woman who arrives in Samoa and quickly captures interest of the Marine Sergeant along with the rest of his Marines who are based there. She also catches the eye of a fire and brimstone preacher who wants her removed.
Publisher
Marengo Films
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The son of Monte Cristo (1940): Under cover of night, aristocratic dandy Edmond Dantes, Jr. transforms himself into "The Torch", a masked avenger who rallies the Balkan countryside against evil Count Gurko.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950): The classic story of Cyrano, the tragic wit renowned for his ose and unrequited love for the beautiful Roxanne.
9) Joan of Arc
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of a 15th century French peasant girl who rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. This powerful, visually stunning epic of one of history's fascinating heroines features spectacular action and unforgettable drama.
10) Moulin Rouge
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting ... and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street ... who breaks his heart.
11) The Caine mutiny
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Bogart plays the Captain of a ship whose erratic behavior forces a mutiny.
12) Gideon's trumpet
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Clarence Gideon, a prisoner who wrote a letter to the Supreme Court to ask them to hear his case, and ended up making groundbreaking legal changes.
13) Whirlpool
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A young wife is caught in a spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder. Terrified that her psychiatrist husband will learn of her frailty, Ann Sutton attempts to cure herself with the help of hypnotist David Korvo. However, Ann finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into a psychological abyss as Korvo, with a diabolical plan of his own, manipulates her unconscious mind.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
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Description
Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
16) Ship of fools
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
17) Dune
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the year 10191. Arrakis is a desert planet, which contains the only source of 'Melange, ' which is necessary for space travel. Two rival families, the Atreides and the Harkonnens, fight to control of the mining operations. When Duke Leto Atreides is assassinated by the evil Baron Harkonnen, his son Paul and Leto's wife, Lady Jessica, flee deep into the desert and are befriended by natives of Arrakis. Paul learns that he has special powers and...
18) The sentinel
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful model learns that the New York City brownstone where she rents an apartment guards the gateway into hell.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A small-town family travels to the Iowa State Fair. The father is looking for a blue ribbon for his prize hog, Blue Boy, mom is looking for glory in her cooking, and the kids are looking for love. Lyrics and music by Oscar Hammerstein.
20) Deep in my heart
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
While Broadway swings to the jazzy beat of ragtime, Sigmund Romberg continues to play the beautiful waltzes of his native Austria at the Cafe Vienna. Persuaded by the cafe owner to compose in the new style, he creates a hit song, which leads to great musical success, but the woman he loves is reluctant to return his feelings.