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Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
Publisher
[Distributed by] Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, hard-luck milkman Melvin Dummar picks up a bum in the Nevada desert. The old man claims to be Howard Hughes and eight years later, Dummar finds himself a beneficiary in the Hughes will. Dummar becomes an instant celebrity while trying to cash in on the fortune.
7) Hemingway
Publisher
Lance Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A biographical drama of the author's life filmed on location in Paris, Venice, Pamplona, the Alps, Africa, the U.S. and the Caribbean. Hemingway is revealed through his relationships with each of his four wives.
8) Shadowlands
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1993, 1998
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcée.
Publisher
[Distributed by] Disinformation Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
We begin with Moore's childhood background, and follow the evolution of his career as he transformed the comics medium, through to his immersion in a magical worldview where science, spirituality, and society are part of the same universe.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A tale of how a young black kid from Chicago, Melvin Van Peebles, ended up making one of the most controversial movies in American history, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the film that sparked the Blaxploitation era in Hollywood.
12) Lenny
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of troubled nightclub comic Lenny Bruce, his wife Honey Harlowe, and his fatal decline through drug addiction.
13) The new world
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Set admidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607. Tell the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. This woman's journey of love lost and found again takes her from the untouched beauty of the Virginia wilderness to the upper crust of English society as we witness the dawn of a new America.
14) Persepolis
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
Publisher
Pride
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It was an enormously sad day for music, entertainment and artistry when the premature and wholly unexpected announcement of Prince's passing came through. This collection covers it all and in so doing provides the finest document available of this late but extraordinary human being.
18) Jimi Hendrix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A tribute to the late rock singer/guitarist featuring some of his most memorable performances, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with family, friends, and fellow performers.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Director Stig Bjr̲kman allows us unprecedented access to Ingrid Bergman's world, culling from the most personal of archival materials; letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super eight and sixteen mm footage Bergman herself shot, and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of an...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
John Lee was a teenage runaway who never went to school and who spent years working in a factory before becoming one of the most prolific blues artists of all times. An inside look to the life and times of this blues legend and the music that influenced a rising generation of rockers.
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