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1) Gigi
Language
English
Description
A wealthy Gaston finds out he prefers a young Parisian girl to be his wife rather than his mistress. This title has been repackaged.
2) She-devil
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ruth Patchett is a wife and a mother who tries to please her husband Bob. When he has an affair with Mary Fisher, a romance novelist, Ruth wants revenge.
3) Deception
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
World War II has separated pianist Christine Radcliffe from her great love, cellist Karel Novak. Thinking Karel has been killed in action, she is unexpectedly reunited with him. Now, Christine desperately strives to hide her wartime dalliance as the mistress of a wealthy, sadistic composer. She'll lie to keep her shameful past a secret.
Series
Criterion collection volume 487
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century. Emma Hart is a beautiful dance hall girl who is sent by her latest lover to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Sir William considers Emma a rare piece of art he must possess. Sir William introduces Emma to Naples' elite society and she soon marries him. Later, Horatio Nelson, a famous English Naval office arrives. Soon, a scandalous,...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nelly, a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
[Disc 1]: Casablanca: Casablanca, WWII. Rick Blaine is an exiled American who owns the most popular nightclub in town, Rick's cafe. He comes to have possession of two valuable letters that German couriers were killed trying to deliver to the German high command. Ilsa Lund re-enters Rick's life to purchase the letters he has obtained. Mrs. Miniver: The Miniver's are an English 'middle-class' family who, together, experience life in the first months...
9) Vatel
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The Duc de Condé's employee, François Vatel, is in charge of cooking, and preparing shows for the French King Louis XIV when he visits the castle of Chantilly, owned by de Condé. If Vatel can impress the King, de Condé will gain his favors, and the destiny of France will change. While the King is visiting and three days of banquets ensue, Vatel falls in love with the King's mistress.
10) Revenge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Debut director Coralie Fargeat announces her stunning arrival, painting a crimson canvas of hypnotic beauty and bloody retribution in this razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller. Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly--and viciously-- intensifies, culminating in...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Jean, a fortyish filmmaker who's struggling to make a feature, is married to the smoothly bourgeois Francoise, but for six years, has been brazenly carrying on an affair with the much younger Catherine, an aspiring actress. Toward Francoise, Jean is merely chilly; toward Catherine, with whom his relationship is vitally carnal, he's both verbally and physically abusive. Unable to stand his outbursts and unwilling to live in fear, Catherine leaves him,...
12) Bugsy
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Extended cut.
Language
English
Description
During the 1940's, mobster Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel is inspired by his mistress Virginia Hill to follow his dream and build the now-famous Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
13) Camille Claudel
Series
Language
Français
Description
The dramatic account of the romance between the aspiring young sculptor Camille Claudel and her internationally known colleague, Auguste Rodin, in turn-of-the-century Paris. The emotional strain Claudel experiences as a result of the restrictions of French society against female artists, her lover's fame, and his affection for another woman eventually bring about her downfall. This is the uncut French version of the film.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Blu-Ray + DVD [combo pack] ; [English, Spanish or Portuguese dialogue version].
Language
English
Description
Nelly, a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The little-known story of Mary Boleyn who was mistress to King Henry VIII before he married her older sister, Anne. Two great families jockey for position and use their daughters as pawns in a deadly game. Set during one of the most notorious periods in British regal history. A story of a rival relationship between the two sisters.
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