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Series
Publisher
Milestone Film and Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A young woman is tricked into an arranged marriage with an older millionaire by her female relatives, and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman as she honeymoons in the Alps and Paris. Discovering that his wife loves another, the husband rushes off to the Sahara. In 2003, Beyond the rocks was rediscovered at the Nederlands Filmmuseum, after being considered lost for decades. The nitrite print was virtually complete, and had Dutch intertitles....
3) Tea for two
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy stage-struck Nan Carter strikes a bet that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she gets the $25,000 she needs to back a Broadway musical vehicle for herself. She's determined, even if it means saying "no" when the fellow she loves pops the question.
4) The Joneses
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
The Joneses, a seemingly perfect family, are the envy of their posh, suburban neighborhood filled with all the trappings of the upper middle class. They are the ultimate trend setters with an endless supply of high-tech toys, designer clothes, fast cars and the latest gadgets. But as the neighbors try to keep up with the Joneses, none are prepared for the truth about this all too perfect family.
Publisher
Craze Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1970.
Language
English
Description
Sir Guy Grand adopts homeless bum Youngman to be heir to his obscene wealth, and immediately begins bringing him into the intricacies of the family business, which is to prey upon people's greed by use of the vast holdings of the Grand empire. They leave no stone unturned as sporting events, restaurants, art galleries, and traditional pheasant hunts turn into lurid displays of bad manners and profiteering. Things climax at the social event of the...
6) Marguerite
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
1921 not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
8) Fitzwilly
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Miss Vicki's rich father dies, her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.
9) The game
Series
Criterion collection volume 627
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton receives a strange gift from his ne'er-do-well younger brother on his 48th birthday: A voucher for a game that will change his life. Thus begins a trip down a rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewer alike. This is a surreal multilayered, noirish descent into one man's personal hell.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Seeking to escape the stifling London court society, the beautiful headstrong Lady Dona St. Columb flees to her family estate on the Cornish coast. Her new freedom swiftly brings her into contact with the dashingly handsome French privateer Jean Aubrey who sweeps her off her feet and into a world of adventure on the high seas very different from her dull and boring life at court with her husband Sir Harry.
11) Sanditon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Parker is obsessed with turning the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon into a fashionable health resort. He enlists the backing of local bigwig Lady Denham. Through a mishap, Tom makes the acquaintance of the Heywoods and invites their eldest daughter, Charlotte, for an extended stay at Sanditon. Meanwhile, Lady Denham, a widow, is playing matchmaker for her destitute nephew, Sir Edward, who is determined to seduce Lady Denham's ward, Clara.
12) The V.I.P.s
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Elite passengers waiting for London-to-U.S. flights get fogged in, and have to deal with their problems rather than run from them.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Sees the arrival of a dashing and elegant stranger in Candleford. Rich, enterprising, worldly and without a wife, James Dowland is a successful businessman with a string of London hotels and has come to transform Candleford and bring it new prosperity. But not everyone welcomes his entrepreneurial efforts and it isn't long before he is sparring with the spirited yet suddenly flustered Dorcas.
14) Madame de
Series
Criterion collection volume 445
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
Français
Description
The wife of a 19th century General sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts, which sets off a chain reaction of deceit that includes her husband, his mistress, and her lover.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930s, the family of a deceased rich old man is gathered for the reading of his will in a gloomy old mansion. They soon find themselves being murdered by a mysterious phantom while two rival reporters compete for the story.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A journalist named Daniel arrives to deliver the news that Emma has been left some money. There's a substantial sum to be claimed if Emma can prove her right to the money and there's a rags to riches story in it for Daniel's newspaper. As Robert and Emma contemplate their change in fortunes, Laura, who is fascinated to meet a real writer, shows Daniel around Lark Rise.
17) The honey pot
Publisher
MGM/UA Home video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A millionaire pretends to be dying and summons three former mistresses to his bedside in Venice. He then lies back to enjoy their greedy scramble to inherit his fortune. One of them suddenly dies mysteriously, and an elaborate murder scheme unfolds.
Series
Criterion collection volume 974
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
20) Overboard
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999].
Language
English
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
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