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3) L'age d'or
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
L'age d'or, the surrealist masterpiece of 20th century cinema is now available to challenge, arouse, unnerve, amuse, and galvanize the uninitiated for generations to come.
4) Manslaughter
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A society woman falls victim to a Burmese ivory trader (Sessue Hayakawa) who intends to brand her for his own. A visually powerful today as when it was made.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Two lovers have a tryst in a vacant tomb, only to find themselves trapped within the graves and crypts of the massive cemetery. One of cult director Jean Rollin's most unconventional films, The iron rose vividly depicts the young couple's steady descent into madness.
7) Intermezzo
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ingrid Bergman, in her most famous role of the period, plays Anita Hoffman, an aspiring classical pianist who falls in love with a famed, but married, concert violinist. Their passionate affair has deep and unanticipated consequences for them both.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sex and power drive the action of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Set in today's British army this is a modern realization of a classic problem play where every character must justify their own private morality in a world bereft of discipline and authority. Critics rave that this contemporary dramatization is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare.
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This Oscar-award winning short film follows Heather (Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water, Blue Jasmine), a shy lady who works at a helpline call center. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever..
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Films Festival, The scent of green papaya is set in 1951 Saigon, where 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the lush physical details that envelope her.
12) Australia
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Follows an aristocratic English landowner and the cattleman who runs her ranch in pre-World War II Northern Territory.
13) Charade
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
In this equally thrilling and romantic classic, Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) while on holiday in the French Alps. Her newfound romance is interrupted, however, upon her return home, when it is revealed that her husband has been murdered. Regina and Peter soon find themselves pursued by her husband's World War II cronies, Tex (James Coburn), Scobie (George Kennedy) and Gideon (Ned Glass), who are after...
14) Bride Flight
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Nederlands
Description
Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends during the long flight taking them to their waiting husbands, who have already settled in Christchurch.
15) Adam
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Adam, an astronomy buff with Asperger's syndrome, is drawn out of his sheltered life by Beth, his outgoing new neighbor.
16) Allied
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After an intelligence officer and a female French Resistance fighter meet behind enemy lines during World War II, their reunion later in London is tested by the pressures of war.
17) Hitch
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Alex Hitchens, a dating couselor who has helped countless men woo the women of their dreams, has trouble forming his own romantic relationships.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The engineer Linda falls in love with not with one, but two of the men on her construction team, in a film that raises questions about the importance of work, love and happiness in socialist East Germany of the 1970s. When Iris Gusner, one of very few East German female directors, previewed the rough-cut of her debut film, she was accused of presenting an "unrealistic picture of life," and officials banned the film. It did not become widely available...
19) It had to be you
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A whimsical romantic comedy that's raunchy and yet gentle, IT HAD TO BE YOU explores the choices women face today while satirizing cultural expectations of gender and romance. Sonia is a neurotic jingle writer who's always dreamt of a big and exciting life. Surprised by a sudden proposal and subsequent ultimatum from her easy-going boyfriend, Chris, Sonia has to decide whether she'll join the ranks of her married friends or take a leap and pursue...
20) 2 days in Paris
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A European vacation intended to repair the tattered relationship between Jack, an American, and Marion, a French native, only dismantles further by the time they arrive in Paris to visit Marion's family. The city brings out aspects of Marion that only alienates the neurotic Jack further. From her in-your-face politics to the former boyfriends who seem to surface at every cafe they visit. The most romantic city in the world could possibly mean the...
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