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1) A Great wall
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1985, c1986, c2002
Language
English
Description
This moving and humorous story chronicles the return of Leo Fang and his American-born wife and son to his native China and provides a comical insight into the cultural clases between traditional Chinese families and Chinese-American families.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Español
Description
The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini recreates the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome and its lack of concern with human dignity and obsession with perverse sex. The film is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern society.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001, c1987
Language
Danish
Description
With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread--a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The mail-order bride is a mystery. Her appearance doesn't match the photo she sent, her likes and dislikes aren't those described in her letters. By the time the lonely businessman husband discovers who she is, it is too late, and he will even kill to keep her.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Français
Description
A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.
13) Roma
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Italiano
Description
A film adaptation of Federico Fellini's reminiscences of Rome before World War II, as compared to the present as it was when the film was originally produced (1972).
14) Il Decameron
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Italiano
Description
Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes lusty nuns who perform sexual "miracles," a cheating wife with a head for business, a dying con artist attempting a heavenly swindle, young lovers caught with their pants down, a servant who loses his head for love and a gullible farmer who tries to turn his wife into a mare.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The enchanting story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood in the south of France, and a very special summer when he was 11 years old. In the countryside of Provence he fell under the spell of the rugged hills, made new friends and strengthened the unique bond with his father.
16) Spetters
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Nederlands
Description
Set in 1970s Holland, this is the story of three young working-class men with a passion for motorcycle racing and for the same young woman.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
A look at extra-marital love in which a man who has the perfect wife (she's glamorous, gorgeous, and sensitive) falls for a woman who's coarse, unattractive and sensual. Their strange love triangle shatters a thin veneer of domestic tranquility.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A retired master chef and widower is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior.
19) Europa, Europa
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
The true story of Solomon Perel, born in Germany in 1925 of Polish-Jewish parents, who survives World War II by concealing his true identity and by living as a Nazi for seven years.
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