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Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (folded : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
When Hortense begins the search for her birth mother as an adult, the revelation that a lonely white factory worker gave up a black baby for adoption sends shock waves through the family.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a flawless assassination of a high-profile target is needed, call on Banks. His Ivy League mind and an arsenal of awesome weaponry make him tough, dangerous and untouchable. But is their cunning killer about to make a mistake in the heat of the desert? To take down his next target, he needs someone to pretend to be his wife. Can Banks keep his eye on the target or will he get caught up with the sexy hitchhiker he "hired" as his wife?
4) Closer
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. The two meet after Alice is involved in a car accident. But nothing last forever, and after some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer, and he feels attracted to her. Nothing happens right away, but once it does, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. The two don't break up, but...
5) The virtuoso
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A loner hitman must find his target with only a code word, but when he arrives at the location he has been given at the specific time there are several possible targets, including a deputy sheriff. The danger escalates when an erotic encounter with a local woman threatens to derail his task.
6) Swan lake
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Description
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the autobiography of a brilliant young master of deception and the FBI agent hot on his trail. Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. passed himself off as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor all before his 21st birthday.
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As adorable as she is ambitious, Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position and equally determined to snare Sam, the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women. She achieves both goals by pretending she's getting married to Nick, a man she met at a wedding and barely knows. But her carefully constructed fictional life comes face to face with reality when her boss wants to meet...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy is a New York con man fleeing the United States for Bangkok in order to avoid an insurance scam investigation. He goes to Cambodia to meet up with his former business partner and mentor, Marvin, to collect his half of the money. Along the way, he makes friends with local man, Sok, and romances Sophie, but is drawn into a lethal web of deceit and murder.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
13) V for Vendetta
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's' mysterious background, she also discovers...
14) V for Vendetta
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's' mysterious background, she also discovers...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
16) The perfect host
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary. The two discover just how deceiving appearances can be in this game of cat and mouse.
17) Teacher's pet
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim Gannon (Clark Gable) is a school-of-hard-knocks newspaperman who despises journalism schools, until he sees who's doing the teaching. Attracted to lovely professor Erica Stone (Doris Day), he masquerades as a novice in her class. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Gig Young) and Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Actor (Clark Gable) and Best Supporting Actor at the **Golden Globes.** *"...a light comedy with a surprising...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Fanda is an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife, Emilie, and son who want him to make some serious decisions about the future, he ignores their nagging and spends his days seeking amusement and adventure. Aided by a pal, Fanda keeps his acting skills sharpened by pretending he is a retired opera star in the market for an opulent country estate. When he fakes his own death, his wife decides she has had enough and...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor's time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.
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