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1) Pygmalion
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Series
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English
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An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.
3) Allegiant
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 323 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth Bennet, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of nineteenth-century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 15 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
6) The notebook
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to check on him. Seeing that their reunion has rekindled a passionate romance, Allie must now...
7) Titanic
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2 videodiscs (194 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A timeless love story born of tragedy that created an international phenomenon.
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1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With her employers out, a maid in 1920s England has a rare chance to meet with her secret lover, the son from a nearby manor. Class issues keep them apart, and although he is about to leave to marry a suitable wife, the events of this weekend could change their lives -- and love -- forever.
10) Belgravia
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 283 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows events when the rising nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's well-known upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge.
11) Tess
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1 videodisc (approximately 172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
In this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic romance, Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant in late 19th century England, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives. Although Tess rejects the advances of the D'Urberville's son Alex, he forcibly seduces her, leaving her pregnant and alone. After her sickly baby dies, Tess falls in love with Angel, a parson's son, who abandons her on their...
12) Easy living
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
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3 videodiscs (459 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
14) L'argent
Series
Criterion collection volume 886
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
"In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver, leading him to incarceration and violence"--Container....
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Language
English
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
Series
Criterion collection volume 867
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (114 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
English
Description
"George Stevens' Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katherine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters, who wed and then discover that their careers aren't so compatible, forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling...
17) Insurgent
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris's family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past and...
18) Snowpiercer
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
19) Marlowe
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he's determined to bring to light." --
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (457 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Season One ended, so did the revolution, with Layton emerging as Snowpiercer's leader and another threat to the survivors fast approaching in the form of a rival train. In Season Two, Mr. Wilford arrives, bringing a secret from Melanie's past. A new power struggle emerges, causing a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalties to Layton and to Mr. Wilford, who has a new train, new technology and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing....
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