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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Français
Description
Melanie is a young woman whose ambitions as a concert pianist were dashed as a child by the thoughtless behavior of the jury chairwoman, the famous pianist Madame Fouchecourt, during her exam. Ten years later, Melanie sets up an elaborate plan for revenge and soon begins to ingratiate herself into the family. Unrecognized by Madame Fouchecourt, Melanie becomes her trusted "page turner" as both women prepare for the performance of a lifetime.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Français
Description
Writer-director Yvan Attal (My wife is an actress) takes a "funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire" (Jami Bernard, NY Daily News) in Happily ever after, a bittersweet comedy about the battle of the married sexes. Starring Attal and real-life amour Charlotte Gainsbourg (21 Grams), Happily ever after uncovers a web of marital deceit and sexual combustion connecting a handful of Parisian friends, spouses and lovers.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
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...
4) Closer
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of passion, drama, love, and abandonment involving two couples, which only gets more complicated when the man from the first couple gets acquainted with the woman from the second couple.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
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.
6) Impromptu
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brazenly forward George Sand and frail, romantic Frederic Chopin are drawn together as lovers by an unnerving bond that cannot be broken despite the best efforts of those around them to keep them apart.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
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Formats
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...
Language
English
Description
Regina returns home to find her husband, Charlie, murdered and three violent strangers claiming Charlie cheated them out of millions. When she accepts help from a mysterious stranger, she is plunged into a world where a double-cross turns into a triple-cross and trust turns into the deadliest weapon of all.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Expendables are a tight-knit team of skilled combat vets turned mercenaries. Hired by a powerful covert operator, the team jets off to a small South American country to overthrow a ruthless dictator. Once there, they find themselves caught in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal. Using every weapon at their disposal, they set out to save the innocent and punish the guilty in this blistering action-packed thriller.
10) Othello
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Jealousy in love is one of the most common of human emotions. In OTHELLO, Shakespeare combines this universal theme with perfectly structured scenes, a storyline that...
11) The hustle
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.
12) Blood simple
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
Criterion collection.
Language
English
Description
A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It's love at first fright when Gomez and Morticia welcome a new addition to the Addams household: Pubert, their cuddly, mustachioed baby boy. As Fester falls hard for nanny Debbie Jilnsky, Wednesday and Pugsley discover she's a black-widow murderess who plans to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
14) Pillow talk
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a party line, and size each other up.
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
After his mother dissapears, Sammy (Modine) shuts himself off from the world pretending to neither hear nor speak. Taken in by a waitress (Ivey) and befriended by the bus station manager (Skerritt) he keeps his silence for twenty years until he discovers a plot that would harm the town and enlists the local trash hauler (Jones) to turn the tables.
16) The Truman show
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version; Special edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Truman Burbank discovers that his quaint hometown is a giant studio with hidden cameras everywhere and people around him are actors playing their roles in the most popular TV series in the world..
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
When New York's most practical-minded 'doctor of love' convinces one of her distraught callers to break off her engagement, the caller's unpredictable fiance decides to get revenge. Creating a fake marriage license, he 'accidentally' weds himself to the doctor, who is already engaged. A wildly unpredictable romance is set in motion that neither one expects to find.
18) The mechanic
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Bishop is an assassin with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and he is the best in the business. But when Harry, his mentor and friend is murdered, Bishop wants those responsible dead. After Harry's son approaches him with the same vengeful goal, Bishop takes the impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born. However, deceptions will surface, and those...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Edition
Full screen format.
Language
English
Description
An art teacher, hired to teach two young English women, is startled by a chance encounter with an ethereal woman dressed in white as he travels to his new job. Things become even more mysterious when one of his new students bears a resemblance to the ghostly woman.
20) Haven
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Language
English
Description
Shy and Andrea share a secret her parents can never know: they are in love. But their love is soon discovered, prompting a devastating act of vengeance by Andrea's brother. Meanwhile, an American businessman has fled with his daughter to avoid federal prosecution, only to be drawn into a dangerous web of deceit.
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