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42) Nicolas Le Floch
Publisher
MHz Networks
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1761. Brilliant young Parisian police commissioner Nicolas Le Floch works under Monsieur de Sartine, the Royal Lieutenant General of Police. Louis XV's kingdom is plagued by conspiracies and murders. With the help of his faithful subordinate Bourdeau, Nicolas solves mysterious disappearances and sorts out awkward scandals in this French series.
43) Son of the South
Publisher
VVS Films
Language
English
Description
A grandson of a Klansman comes of age in the deep south and eventually joins the civil rights movement.
Publisher
Revolution Studios
Language
English
Description
An original musical film, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE is a love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s, amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock 'n roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, the killing fields of Vietnam...
Publisher
Juno Films
Language
English
Description
Henry James wrote the novella The Beast in the Jungle in 1903 and the epic love story where Fate is the strongest character is regarded as one of his foremost works. Clara van Gool places dance at the center of her interpretation of James's novel. May, featuring the dancer Sarah Reynolds, and John, performed by Dane Hurst, glide through the story of unrequited love that spans two centuries in her interpretation. John is convinced that his fate is...
Publisher
Entertainment One Films Canada Inc
Language
English
Description
In the lush tropics of South America, an innocent desire blossoms into a romance for the ages in this stunning epic. At the turn of the 20th century, youthful romantic Florentino Ariza spots the stunning and sheltered Fermina Daza and immediately falls in love. Denied by her father, Florentino refuses to give up his dream of winning her hand...even if that means waiting decades to fill the passion in his heart.
47) Let Him Have It
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
In one tragic moment, two lives are destroyed in this riveting, true exploration of a dark moment in the British legal system--Let Him Have It. With those words uttered by a friend, a mentally handicapped young man shoots a policeman. But did the friend mean for him to hand over the gun or commit murder? This drama reveals the controversial postwar London murder trial that sent a mentally handicapped young man to the gallows for a murder he did not...
49) Emperor
Publisher
levelFILM
Language
English
Description
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
Just prior to the French Revolution, a time of legendary decadence, the corseted and perfumed French aristocracy are wealthy beyond reckoning and fully dedicated to the pursuit of their own pleasure. Yet human emotions are not easily trifled with as this timeless plot of labyrinthine intrigue delves into the most private reaches of the human psyche. Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves star in this classic tale of innocence, desire...
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
Six years after the wedding of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, a coach races up to Pemberley with an hysterical Lydia shrieking, "Murder!" So continues Jane Austen's timeless classic, Pride and Prejudice, in DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY, a star-studded adaptation of crime-writer P.D. James' bestselling whodunit.
Publisher
Entertainment One Films Canada Inc
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1593, and the rising young star of London's theatre scene, Will Shakespeare, faces a scourge life like no other: a paralyzing bout of writer's block.What Will needs is a muse - and it comes in the form of Lady Viola, who is desperate to become an actor at a time when women were forbidden from doing so. In a whirl of mistaken identities, mixed-up messages and misbegotten desires -Will Shakespeare searches for a resolution not only...
56) Mona Lisa Smile
Publisher
Revolution Studios
Language
English
Description
Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts heads an all-star cast featuring Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Marcia Gay Harden in MONA LISA SMILE, an uplifting and poignant drama about one woman's desire to enrich the lives of her students. In 1953, a time when women's roles were rigidly defined, novice art history professor Katherine Watson (Roberts) begins teaching at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, which despite its academic...
57) Vera Drake
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
VERA DRAKE is a devoted, working-class mother in 1950s London who is both beloved and admired by everyone who surrounds her. Yet she bares a secret that few people know about, she induces miscarriages for women who do not wish to bare children. To her, it is a mission of kindness, of charity, of love. But when a miscarriage goes horribly wrong, Vera has to face the authorities, sending her life into tragedy. From acclaimed director Mike Leigh, VERA...
58) Love Gets a Room
Publisher
Buffalo 8 Productions
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events during the 1942 Nazi occupation of Poland, LOVE GETS A ROOM is the story of a Jewish stage actress who must make the gut-wrenching decision to follow her heart or to escape the Warsaw ghetto. Told in real time like Cortés' acclaimed Buried, the film is a romantic tale of love and survival in the face of harrowing circumstances.
Publisher
All Channel Films
Language
English
Description
Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century who was born free man. He works as a carpenter, and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by a group of men who ask him to play for them, however, that is not their real intention. They kidnapp him and sell him into slavery. Solomon now has to endure the hardships that he had been previously spared.
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