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English
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Holly Golightly is a carefree New York playgirl who is scouring Manhattan looking for a suitable millionaire to marry. However, when Paul Varjak, a struggling young writer, moves into her apartment building she becomes interested in him. Paul gets swept into Holly's dizzying, delightfully unstructured lifestyle.
2) My fair lady
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy in Hatsumomo and she is rescued by Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the "perfect" place to live ... it's a little to perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the 14-year-old ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France. Marie Antoinette has became one of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria. And how the young woman must grow up in front of the entire country of France.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy about Bathsheba Everdene who is an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relationships, love and resilience.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Français
Description
A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.
11) West Side story
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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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.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Three New York models, Schatze, Pola, and Loco sublet a luxury penthouse apartment with a plan: they are tired of cheap men and a lack of money, so they'll use all their talents to trap and marry millionaires. The trouble is that it's not so easy to tell the rich men from the hucksters. Recent divorcee Schatze meets real-estate mogul Tom, but thinks he looks like a gas station attendant. Loco gets involved with a married man, but falls for forest...
Publisher
NoShame Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Four satires on morality and hypocrisy.
First act, Renzo & Luciana: Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own.
Second act, Temptations of Dr. Antonio: The story of a meddlesome moralistwho sees sin and obsenity in everything, especially a billboard featuring a provocative woman.
Third act, The job: A rich German countess discovers her Italian nobleman husband has been...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1132
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Norwegian
Formats
Description
A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy about Bathsheba Everdene who is an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relationships, love and resilience.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After nearly two decades under the wing of an aging, avuncular husband, dutiful mother and housewife Pippa Lee undergoes a midlife breakthrough. Unearthing the sexually curious wild child of her teens, middle-aged Pippa sparks a relationship with a divorcee loner. Pippa Lee is a resilient woman, refusing to let life pass her by.
17) Management
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Mike Cranshaw has a chance meeting with Sue Claussen when she checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona. A bottle of wine 'compliments of management' jump starts a cross-country journey and unique courtship between two different kinds of people who are both ultimately looking for the same thing: a sense of happiness. Mike sees something special in button downed Sue that inspires him to take a chance and hit the road to go after...
Series
Criterion collection volume 520
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
In a working-class neighborhood, in Malmo, Sweden in the early 1900s, live Maria and her husband Sigfrid. Siggie strong and dependable manual laborer who clearly loves and respects his wife, but due to his prodigious philandering and alcohol consumption theirs is--despite a brood of seven--a strained marriage. When Maria attempts to sell a camera they won in a raffle, the curious shopkeeper and photographer Sebastian Pedersen instead teaches her how...
Publisher
CBC Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"We all have regrets and we've all made mistakes. But what if you could go back in time and fix them? Erica Strange can, and desperately needs to. She's 32 years old and facing a premature mid-life crisis. With no boyfriend, no job, no prospects, her life is in shambles, and she often blames her past mistakes for her current predicament. Enter Dr. Tom. Part therapist, part mysterious rogue, he comes into Erica's life at a time when nothing seems to...
Publisher
Standing Room Only
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Meet the opinionated, manipulative Nan; the Aga Saga Woman who simply can't cope with major disasters like a dropped egg cleaver; Paul and Sam, the impossibly excited couple; Bunty, the Doncaster spinners oldest majorette; Margaret, who is frightened of her own shadow; Bernie, the Irish nurse; Ben and Karen, the sleep starved new parents; Elaine Figgis, the eternal romantic engaged to a convicted murderer on death row; and Lauren, the teenager who...
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