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Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video (distributor)
Pub. Date
[1998?], c1995
Language
English
Description
A lonely young woman saves the life of a handsome stranger she has fallen in love with from afar. His family mistakes her for his fiancee, and she goes along because she likes his offbeat family so much. Matters take a hilarious turn when she meets and falls in love with her make-belive lover's brother.
2) Say anything
Language
English
Description
A young man, recently graduated from high school, wants only one thing: a date with a fellow graduate. The catch is she's beautiful, brilliant and headed to England to study, and all his friends and her father tell him she's way out of his league. When they fall in love anyway, the result is a funny, poignant and joyous celebration of first love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominant man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust, so they battle their emotions and each other, leading to a powerful and explosive climax.
8) Carrie
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral," William Wyler's Carrie is a power-house of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood. "Olivier has always given credit to Wyler for teaching him how to act in...
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Français
Description
Two English sisters at the turn of the century are in love with the same man for seven years. His inability to choose between them (compounded by his overpossessive mother), and the girls' own powerful passions-- both expressed and repressed-- create a painful, emotionally charged triangle.
10) Arthur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Arthur Bach is very, very rich, and he's next in line for a 750 million dollar inheritance. He stands to lose his inheritance--and a life in the lush style to which he is accustomed--if he doesn't marry the most boring blonde on Long Island within thirty days. Unfortunately, Arthur has just discovered the girl of his dreams.
11) Picnic
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1955
Language
English
Description
The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a virile drifter has on the lives of several women in town.
Series
Eric Rohmer collection. Moral tales volume 6
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
Français
Description
A successful young executive living in the suburbs with his wife and baby finds himself attracted to, and then entangled with, another woman from his past.
13) The fountain
Language
English
Formats
Description
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Past, present, future. Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1,000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Tom is a man who is devoted to one woman, Izzi, and becomes determined to protect her from forces that threaten her existence. His quest leads him to 16th century Europe and America where Tomas is a Spanish explorer searching for Incan magic; to the present day where Tom is a doctor...
14) Love serenade
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two sisters compete for the affections of a slick, smooth-talking radio deejay.
15) Gabrielle
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.
16) Obsession
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c1997
Language
English
Description
A woman in a long-term relationship meets a man in a train station and begins a torrid love affair. With both men desperately in love with her, who will she choose to be with?
17) Love for Lydia
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003, c1977
Language
English
Description
The classic Masterpiece Theatre tale of the final years of Britain's hig-spirited "Careless '20s." The story of the beautiful, tempestuous Lydia Aspen captures not only the soul of a vangished age, but the timeless joys and sorrows of young love.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
In the 1934 classic “It Happened One Night”, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark Gable. The new brand of movies following in the wake of Capra's kooky masterpiece-and the women starring in them-are the focus of Kendall's “The Runaway Bride”, a look at the films that mirrored the climate of the Great Depression while at the...
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