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1) Shoplifters
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DVD WORLD JAPANESE SHOPLIFTERS
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DVD WORLD JAPANESE SHOPLIFTERS
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"On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft, and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love--not blood--that defines a family"--Container.
2) The square
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DVD WORLD SWEDISH SQUARE
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DVD WORLD SWEDISH SQUARE
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A satirical drama reflecting the times, about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
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Criterion collection volume 906
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DVD I 2 DISCS
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DVD I 2 DISCS
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A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as together they battle the national health care system.
4) Winter sleep
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"Set in the picturesque and beautiful Cappadocia region in central Turkey, the film follows retired actor Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), who has inherited a small hotel. He is ensconced with his recently divorced sister (Demet Akbag), his much younger (and growingly discontented) wife (Melisa Sözen), and a host of guests. A seemingly trivial incident sets in motion a clash of personalities that puts the group at odds, and makes them reflect on the path...
Series
Criterion collection volume 695
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DVD WORLD FRENCH BLUE
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DVD WORLD FRENCH BLUE
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The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux. Directed by Adbellatif Kechiche, this finely detailed,...
6) Amour
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DVD WORLD FRENCH AMOUR
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DVD WORLD FRENCH AMOUR
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A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
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Criterion collection volume 942
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The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950's that follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Bonus features included.
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DVD WORLD THAI UNCLE
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DVD WORLD THAI UNCLE
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A unique tale of a man embracing life's greatest mystery. Choosing to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside, Boonmee is visited by his dead wife as a ghost, and his lost son as a strange hairy beast with red glowing eyes. They've come to guide him to his final resting place, a cave where his first soul began. With a wry sense of humor and a humanist spirit, it's a magical tale of reincarnation, karma, and nature.
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In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter appears to be the leader of. Includes featurette.
10) The class
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DVD WORLD FRENCH CLASS
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DVD WORLD FRENCH CLASS
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Based on Bégaudeau's autobiographical novel. François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough Paris neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their...
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DVD WORLD ROMANIAN FOUR
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DVD WORLD ROMANIAN FOUR
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1987, Communist Romania. During the course of one day, Otilia helps her friend and roommate Gabita get a late-term abortion. With abortion, let alone any kind of contraceptive, being illegal, the girls have to use illegal means to acheive their goal. Shows the rough and gritty situation in which the girls, particularly Otilia, must make decisions and deal with their consequences.
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Ireland, 1920. Damien O'Donovan is leaving for London for an internship, until the dreaded Black and Tans attack his hurling mates, killing one for not speaking English. Thus sidetracked by the Irish War for Independence, Damien is convinced by his brother Teddy to throw his lot in with the IRA. Damien is a purist, an idealist, and therefore marked for a tragic destiny, while Teddy is a fatefully pragmatic politician. These differences between the...
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DVD WORLD FRENCH L'ENFANT
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DVD WORLD FRENCH L'ENFANT
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When a small-time crook and his young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself.
14) The pianist
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Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
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DVD DANCER
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DVD DANCER
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Selma, a factory worker in rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The sound of music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals out of control and the lines between reality and fantasy blur.
16) Rosetta
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Criterion collection volume 621
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DVD WORLD FRENCH ROSETTA
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DVD WORLD FRENCH ROSETTA
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The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on her shoulder throughout.
17) Pulp fiction
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The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Academy Award Best Original Screenplay; On National Film Registry.
18) The piano
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DVD PIANO
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DVD PIANO
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With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds...
19) Barton Fink
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DVD BARTON
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DVD BARTON
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A trendy playwright is trying to write a simple movie script, but to his misfortune has a bit of writer's block.
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"Graham, a long-lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of John, a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, Ann, and her saucy sister, Cynthia. One by one, each is drawn into the very 'personal project' Graham is working on, leaving the relationships between them forever transformed"--Container.