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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Xena is a smart, tough, and fearless fighter who travels the dangerous roads of ancient Greece, defending the innocent from the forces of darkness and seeking redemption for her cruel misdeeds of the past. Along for the adventures is her devoted friend Gabrielle, a compassionate girl who hopes to be a warrior one day.
2) Saint Street
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Percy, a workaholic loses everything in a car accident, his family, job and home and left paralyzed from the waist down, homeless and live in the gritty world of misfits on Saint Street. Percy finds a second chance and redemption from the most unlikely of souls.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
Finnish
Description
Leila, who's serving a life sentence for murder, is pardoned and offered a job in a secluded parsonage reading and composing letters for Father Jacob, a blind priest. She reluctantly accepts the job and resents the man at first, but gradually grows to admire him for his positive outlook and his continued help to those seeking prayers and counsel. Two completely different lives are unexpectedly intertwined in this heartwarming tales of personal redemption....
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
This story of betrayal and redemption earned Oscars at the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 for the most 'Unique And Artistic Picture,' Best Actress and Best Cinematography. The love and loyalty of a farmer and his wife are put to the ultimate test in this classic silent film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 579
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
As the clock approaches midnight on New Year's Eve, an abusive alcoholic looks for redemption or he is doomed to take the reins of Death's carriage for the entire next year, gathering the souls of sinners.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
Français
Description
Jean Valjean is paroled after serving 19 years in prison for stealing some bread. He tries to steal silverware from a missionary, but is set straight by a bishop. Nine years later, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and mayor. He eventually befriends Fantine, a single mother turned prostitute and risks all when he helps her after she's nearly arrested by police officer Javert. Javert was a guard at the prison Valjean was in and is suspicious that...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
11) Adopt a highway
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
12) Revanche
Series
Criterion collection volume 502
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife.
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Jan, recently released from prison after serving time for the murder of a child, has always maintained his innocence and is ready to put the past behind him. A gifted organist, he takes a job at an Oslo church under his middle name, Thomas. His talent and gentle manner quickly earn him the respect of his superiors, as well as the love of the pastor, Anna, and her little boy, Jens. But his past catches up with him when Agnes, a local teacher, comes...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Korean
Description
It's springtime in a small house floating on a small raft on a small lake, surrounded on all sides by steep walls of forest or stone, broken here and there by ravines. Old Monk lives here with his young apprentice. The lesson for Spring is about pain and guilt and conscience, Summer's the cruelty of desire, Autumn's about letting go of rage, and Winter's about penance and finding peace. And so Spring comes around again, and the cycle begins anew,...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Bode Donovan, a young convict seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining a prison release firefighting program in Northern California, where he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires across the region. It's a high-risk, high-reward assignment, and the heat is turned up when Bode is assigned to the program in his rural hometown, where he was once a golden all-American...
16) Tsotsi =: [Thug]
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Zulu
Description
A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
17) Hana-bi
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
©1998.
Language
日本語
Description
A hard-boiled ex-cop, haunted by a troubled past and pushed to the edge by the shooting of his partner, confronts his demons in a ruthless quest for justice and redemption.
18) Biutiful
Publisher
Menage Atroz
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
19) The quarry
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A drifter kills a traveling preacher and takes his place at a small-town church, but the police chief suspects foul play.
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