Miramax Films
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Tropical Island Hum: A charming sing-song tale of animals who've been neglected or abused by humans ... including a frog who lost a leg to "some French guys." Tuesday: Offers the fantastical vision of jubilant frogs on flying-carpet lily pads, floating merrily along on their nocturnal adventure, entering the homes of unsuspecting humans and, just as quickly, hopping to earth again as their magical night gives way to sunrise. Rupert and the frog song:...
82) City of god
Language
Portuguese
Appears on list
Description
See the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. Based on the true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1941, on a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.
86) Frida
Publisher
Burbank, Calif
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.
87) Golden door
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Italiano
Description
Salvatore is a very poor farmer and a widower who decides to emigrate to the U.S. with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is a British woman who wants to go back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, needs to marry someone before she arrives at Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts her proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations...
88) Wishful thinking
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Max and Elizabeth have been living together for years. When it becomes clear that he's not ready to get married, she becomes more withdrawn, until he is convinced that she is fooling around on the side.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Language
English
Description
In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love.
92) The hoax
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Pathological liar, Clifford Irving, stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the more money gets thrown at them. Inspired by the unbelievable...
94) Cinderella man
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This passionate and inspirational documentary goes up close and personal to capture the Roosevelt Roughriders girls' basketball team during six turbulent seasons, taking us far beyond the court to the unbridled desire to make history.
96) Pinocchio
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
Italiano
Description
The story begins as a pinewood log falls out of a cart and lands in front of Geppetto the woodcarver's door. Geppetto carves a puppet out of the wood because he has been longing for a son. When the puppet comes alive and causes trouble, Geppetto is arrested and Pinocchio is left to his own naive world view. After getting a stern warning from the Blue Fairy, Pinocchio sets out to reunite with his father, become a real boy, and succumb to some desire...
97) The son's room
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Giovanni is a psychoanalyst who thought he had all the answers. In contrast to the worries and neuroses of his patients, Giovanni's reassuringly calm existance revolves around the security of his loving family and the comfort of his daily routines. So when an unthinkable tragedy hits home and turns life upside down, he must somehow summon the courage to deal with his own grief while giving strenght to those who need him most!
98) Baran
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Persian
Description
In a Tehran building site, a 17-year-old Iranian named Lateef is kown more for his playful antics than his hard work. Then things take an unexpected turn when an Afghan coworker falls from the building and the worker's son, Rahmat, enter the scene to become the new provider for his family. But even as Lateef finds himself irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, it's not until the revelation of Rahmat's secret (that he is actually a young woman, posing as a...
99) Espiritu salvaje
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Español
Description
John and his best friend Lacey leave Texas and head south of the border in search of adventure, where they find work as horse wranglers. But when John embarks on an illicit and passionate affair with the beautiful daughter of the wealthy ranch owner who is his employer, events are set in motion which forever change the lives of all involved.
100) The great raid
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Penninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually surrendered and the troops were marched off to prison. Along...