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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
A hearse driver meets and falls in love with a young, beautiful dancer who is planning an elaborate homegoing celebration for her mother. This love and comedy feature length film follows the suitor as he does everything to win her affection despite the steep oposition from his father-in-law to be who vows that his daughter will not marry a hearse driver.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Yasmine and Rachid, two young Parisians children of Algerian immigrants, are in love and live a quiet life in France. One day, Rachid disappears and Yasmine learns that he is in Algeria. She decides to follow him, in that country that she does not know, that is filled with violence. As she travels looking for Rachid, she falls deeper into the horror of a country where nothing seems normal, another world, where death is ever present.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Based on his own novel Metaphysics, Lech Majewski crafts intimate passion plays and creates "a luminous, highly erotic treatise on art, love and death" (Chicago Reader). When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her lover on a trip to Venice, where...
4) Memento Mori
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Korean
Description
Min-Ah discovers a shared diary and is fascinated to learn that two schoolmates she thought to be close friends have, in fact, begun a forbidden romance. Unable to tear her eyes away, the secret allure of the diary begins to consume her. When one of the diary's writers is found dead from an apparent suicide, rumors spread and Min-Ah begins to sense a strange presence. The once tranquil school is transformed into a morbid place of terror, as if the...
5) Rainman
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Edition
Special ed., widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A young self-centered con-man learns how to love from the autistic savant brother he had intended to use.
Publisher
Yash Raj
Language
Hindi
Formats
Description
Having been brought up in London, Raj and Simran are second generation British Asians, who still cherish their Indian roots, culture, and values. The two meet in a chance encounter while travelling through Europe on an inter-rail holiday. When they get separated from their friends, they discover each other ... they discover love.
Series
Publisher
Icon Film Distribution
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"A young human falls for White Snake, a demon in the form of a beautiful woman and soon aftewards a terrible disease starts plaguing the town. As her all-consuming passion threatens to push the cosmos towards doom, sorcerer Fa Hai (Jet Li) must vanquish White Snake before she destroys the world forever. A breathtaking blend of martial arts and fantasy, THE SORCERER AND THE WHITE SNAKE tells the tale of two opposing worlds colliding in an almighty...
10) 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.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The spell of an enchantress opens this classic fairy tale, turning a cruel prince into a hideous beast. Belle, the heroine, is a book-loving young lady trapped by the beast when she comes looking for her father. To break the spell, the beast must win Belle's love before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose.
13) 13 going on 30
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Edition
Special ed., [widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
At her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wishes she were thirty and wakes up to discover that she has an apartment in New York City, a job at a fashion magazine, and a sexy boyfriend--but inside she is still thirteen.
14) The fountain
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1,000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Tom is a man who is devoted to one woman, Izzi, and becomes determined to protect her from forces that threaten her existence.
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she hears a strange song from a crystal radio, Asuna is transported to a mysterious world where mythical beasts roam and brave warriors fight for their lives. Agartha is a land of breathtaking beauty and unimaginable danger--a place where it is believed even the dead can be brought back to life. But at what cost?
16) Arms and the man
Publisher
BBC Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
One night, a frightened Swiss soldier of fortune climbs into the bedroom of a young Bulgarian girl and soon deflates her romantic notions about love and valor. The bonus play is set in 1796 at an inn where Napoleon rests at the start of his conquest of Italy.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie immediately boards a plane. When he meets a fellow passenger, Charlie finds himself with another promise to fulfill. Charlie does, and falls in love with Gabi, a beautiful musician. However, a vicious gangster has already laid claim to Gabi, and has no intention of letting her go. Determined to protect her, Charlie enters into the hallucinatory, Romanian underworld...
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Edition
RSDL dual-layer ed.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
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