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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A young Tristan sees his parents killed by the tyrannical Irish, who ruled over a fractured Britain after the Roman occupation. Tristan is taken in by Marke, who rules one of the British tribes. Tristan grows up to be a young prince and a mighty warrior. He's believed slain in battle and given a royal funeral on a burning boat set out to sea. But the fire goes out and Tristan washes ashore on Ireland, where Isolde, the daughter of the Irish king,...
Pub. Date
1956
Language
English
Description
Billy Bigelow is a smooth-talking carny barker who falls in love with a millworker on the colorful coast of Maine. Filmed on location, with a beautiful seaside setting as a backdrop and a thrilling score for accompaniment, their romance unfolds. But right before the birth of his daughter, Billy is killed while committing a robbery. Now in heaven, years later, he returns to earth for one day to attend his daughter's high school graduation and teach...
Language
English
Description
Well-to-do, sophisticated couple, Elsa and Michele, have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes her initial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful...
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Series
Language
English
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Presents the text of Shakespeare's drama in which Romeo and Juliet, two teens from opposite sides of feuding families in medieval Verona, spark a tragic chain of events when they fall in love and secretly marry. Includes notes on facing pages, background on Shakespeare's life and times, and commentary.
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Language
English
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Description
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for...
8) Carrie
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1952
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the classic 1989 film, Westerberg High is ruled by a shoulder-padded, scrunchie-wearing junta: Heather, Heather and Heather, the hottest and cruelest girls in all of Ohio. But misfit Veronica Sawyer rejects their evil regime for a new boyfriend, the dark and sexy stranger J.D., who plans to put the Heathers in their place - six feet under. ."--Publisher's description.
10) Elvira Madigan
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Swedish
Description
The true story of an Army officer's romance with a circus dancer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is a very shot list of 20th century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared -- A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story of a fading and desperate Blanche DuBois and how her sensuous and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, pusher her over the edge is now a classic.
12) Aida
Publisher
Kultur International Films [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
Italiano
Description
Staged production of Verdi's Aida in which the love of the enslaved Ethiopian princess for an Egyptian general brings tragedy to all involved.
13) Amour
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
14) Hope floats
Language
English
Description
Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again.
15) On Golden Pond
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
While at their summer home on Golden Pond, the Thayer family is forced to renew their bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white Kona Snow of the surrounding coffee trees.
Series
Criterion collection volume 237
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Swedish
Description
Romantic comedy of manners at a country estate illustrating different themes of love and lust.
Series
Criterion collection volume 170
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women"--Container.
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