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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.
2) Roma
Series
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
"Travelogue, memoir and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director's young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are shooting footage of the bustling...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Italiano
Description
Depicts the final days of World War II in Italy, seen mostly through the eyes of a six-year-old girl. It is a mythic recollection by the protagonist of life on the run when a group of Italian villagers flee from brutal Nazi occupiers in the summer of 1944.
6) 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
2003.
Language
Italiano
Description
A young Italian boy, the son of a brutal kidnapper, is the only survivor when his family is killed by a rival gang. The boy flees, pursued by the police and the killers, and searches for a new life with a loving family unlike his own and an end to his family's history of criminal behavior.
10) Jean de Florette
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The story of Jean Cadoret, an accountant who inherits a farm from his mother and hopes to become a gentleman farmer. Before he even arrives, though, a powerful neighbor is plotting to steal his land. The result is heartbreak and tragedy for Jean, who is no match for his wily neighbor.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
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.
12) Babette's feast
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
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...
13) A great wall
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This moving and humorous story chronicles the return of Leo FAn 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.
15) Salaam Bombay!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
Hindi
Description
Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets.
16) Le roi de coeur
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
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.
Series
Publisher
MGM Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Young Marcel's mother has fallen in love with the tranquil radiance of Bastide Neuve after spending a blissful summer holiday there. Desperate to return to her beloved hills, she encourages her family to make the exhausting nine-mile trek on foot. But when they find an illegal shortcut through a private estate, their decision to choose the easy way over the long haul could permanently compromise Marcel's father's position as a schoolmaster. -- Container....
19) Viva Maria!
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
The daughter of an Irish anarchist is on the lam in Mexico circa 1910, hiding with a touring carnival troupe, where she meets singer Jeanne Moreau only to find themselves at the head of an armed peasant revolt.
20) Hey babu riba
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Four teenage boys who are in love with the same girl risk their lives to save her in Communist Yugoslavia.
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