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Pub. Date
2014.
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.
Pub. Date
2014.
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.
Language
English
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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
2009.
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.
5) Othello
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's play about the tragic consequences of jealousy. Othello appoints Cassio as his chief lieutenant, arousing the jealosy of Iago, who conspires to undo them both. Iago tells Othello that his wife, the beautiful Desdemona, is having an affair with Cassio.
6) Closer
Pub. Date
2005.
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.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling book series from CJ Box, Joe Pickett is the new game warden of a town as beautiful and charming as it is corrupt and dangerous. When a poacher turns up brutally murdered, Joe decides to investigate it to keep his wife and young daughters safe. This sets off a chain of events that uncovers lies and deceit from within the community, putting Joe and his family in mortal danger. The three-disc DVD set includes every episode from...
9) The mechanic
Pub. Date
[2011]
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...
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.
11) Othello
Pub. Date
1981.
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...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they...
13) The hustle
Pub. Date
[2019]
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.
14) Sortilegio
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
"María José es una bella mujer que está a punto de casarse con Alejandro Lombardo, sin sospechar que éste es en realidad Bruno, el hermanastro del verdadero Alejandro, quien ha heredado una gran fortuna. Bruno planea casarse con María José y matar a Alejandro para hacer que ella entregue el dinero. Bruno le revela a María José la verdad y la obliga a ser su cómplice a cambio de la vida de su padre. Sin embargo, Alejandro sobrevive, y aunque...
15) V for Vendetta
Language
English
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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...
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.
17) Pillow talk
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a party line, and size each other up.
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
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.
Pub. Date
2005.
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
Pub. Date
2006.
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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