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Series
[Harry Potter films] volume 5
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
As Harry enters his fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, rumors of Lord Voldemort's return divide the wizarding world, and despite the insistence that there is no danger Harry and his friends start a group called Dumbledore's Army to prepare for a battle with Lord Voldemort and his followers.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2006.
Language
English
Description
At a boys' grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-formers is getting out, starting university - and starting life. At the heart of The History Boys are four characters, each with contrasting outlooks on teaching and school: Hector, an eccentric English teacher with no interest in exams; Irwin, a young supply teacher...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
David Powlett-Jones, a young Welshman, returns from the trenches of World War I disillusioned and suffering from shellshock. Accepted as a teacher at an elite boys boarding school, David fears he won't last. Luckily, the faith of the headmaster who hired him proves well-founded. Over the course of his 20-year rise through the ranks of the school, he finds and loses love with several women.
Publisher
WGBH/Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Chipping is the new Latin master at an English boy's boarding school. The eccentric schoolmaster lives a full, rich life within the cloistered school, defined by his role as the intellectual shepherd of generations of young students. Then while traveling through the countryside on summer holiday, he unexpectedly falls in love. His new wife ignites his passion and brings him out of his shell. Spans over 50 years in the life of Mr. Chipping.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
Series
Publisher
PBS Kids
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Mia glumly arrives at a strange new boarding school where she immediately clashes with the popular girls. But she's given an amazing gift: a final birthday present from her father that draws her into a beautiful game world called Centopia. Transformed into an elf, Mia makes friends with Centopia's royalty and discovers she possesses a unique skill.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Film based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
10) The awakening
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When the death of a child at a boarding school is blamed on a ghost, hoax exposer Florence Cathcart is certain that science and reason can explain it. But the truth she discovers is more terrifying than she could ever imagine, and soon the ghost hunter becomes the hunted.
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed film follows 14-year-old Sami girl Elle Marja ("Powerful newcomer Lene Cecilia Sparrok." - New York Times), who, along with her sister, is torn from her indigenous reindeer-herding family and placed in a government-run boarding school in 1930s Sweden. There Elle dreams of education and a future, but these dreams are hindered when she is met with racial expectations that class her people as inferior. What follows is a girl's attempt...
12) Never let me go
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love.
13) The history boys
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful and haunted Joan makes a bloody and determined pilgrimage across a frozen landscape toward a prestigious all-girls prep school, where Rose and Kat find themselves stranded after their parents mysteriously fail to retrieve them for winter break. As Joan gets closer, Rose watches in horror while Kat suffers terrifying visions and becomes possessed by an unseen force.
15) Handsome Devil
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ned, a bullied outsider, and Conor, a star athlete, are forced to room together at their boarding school. The boys take an instant dislike to each other, and seem destined to remain enemies until an English teacher, Mr. Sherry, begins to drill into them the value of finding one's own voice. This lesson, however, isn't appreciated by everyone, particularly rugby coach Pascal, who has his own agenda and harbors some deep suspicions about the boys' teacher....
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful and haunted Joan makes a bloody and determined pilgrimage across a frozen landscape toward a prestigious all-girls prep school, where Rose and Kat find themselves stranded after their parents mysteriously fail to retrieve them for winter break. As Joan gets closer, Rose watches in horror while Kat suffers terrifying visions and becomes possessed by an unseen force.
Publisher
Nozomi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
After repelling the Student Council's attempts to take Anthy, Utena faces another obstacle, Souji Mikage, a school counselor who uses his powers of persuasion and knowledge of psychology to put people under his control, especially students whose problems stem from conflict with Utena, Anthy, and the Student Council. After gaining these students' trust, Mikage then sends them, wearing Black Rose crest rings on their fingers and frozen, black roses...
Publisher
Nozomi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
Utena Tenjou, a tomboyish teenage girl was so impressed by a kind prince in her childhood that she decides to become a prince herself, expressed in her manner of dress and personality. She attends Ohtori Academy, where she meets a student named Anthy Himemiya, a girl who is in an abusive relationship with another student, and in her efforts to protect Anthy, Utena is pulled into a series of sword duels with the members of the Student Council.
Publisher
Nozomi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
Television episodes: After solving the Mikage situation, Utena must fight rematches against the Student Council, whose members attain new abilities upon meeting Akio. At the same time, she finds herself the target of Akio's seduction, creating a rift between her and Anthy. As the conflict escalates, the dark secrets of the duels and Akio and Anthy's true intentions behind them are revealed, and Utena confronts Akio in a final duel to free Anthy from...
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