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Language
English
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"To save her family from financial ruin, Miss Poppy Garrison accepts an unusual proposition to participate in the New York social season in exchange for her grandmother settling a family loan that has unexpectedly come due. Ill-equipped to handle the intricacies of mingling within the New York Four Hundred, Poppy becomes embroiled in one hilarious fiasco after another, doomed to suffer a grand societal failure instead of being deemed the diamond of...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy in Hatsumomo and she is rescued by Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive...
4) The walk
Publisher
Universal Music & Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Sydney is a frustrated young woman struggling with numerous tumultuous relationships. Guided by a faithful Youth Minister she embarks on a personal journey through shrouded truths as she seeks to reconcile her relationship with Jesus Christ.
5) New in town
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire...
6) Management
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Mike Cranshaw has a chance meeting with Sue Claussen when she checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona. A bottle of wine 'compliments of management' jump starts a cross-country journey and unique courtship between two different kinds of people who are both ultimately looking for the same thing: a sense of happiness. Mike sees something special in button downed Sue that inspires him to take a chance and hit the road to go after...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy about Bathsheba Everdene who is an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relationships, love and resilience.
8) Obsessed
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Derek Charles is a successful asset manager who works for a small company. He has a beautiful wife, a wonderful marriage, and because of his hard work has just received a huge promotion. When an attractive temporary worker, who is both sexy and smart, gets hired, he finds himself physically drawn to her and everything he has worked so hard for is placed in jeopardy. She is desperate to get close to Derek and begins stalking him.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Romantic tales from the late Victorian high society of love and loss. These unfold from the country houses of England to the drawing rooms of New York, from the palazzos of Venice to the art studios of London. Scoundrels and schemers collide with ingénues and admirers in the terribly intricate affairs of the heart.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Romantic tales from the late Victorian high society of love and loss. These unfold from the country houses of England to the drawing rooms of New York, from the palazzos of Venice to the art studios of London. Scoundrels and schemers collide with ingénues and admirers in the terribly intricate affairs of the heart.
11) Loving Leah
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Leah's husband Benjamin dies suddenly, Benjamin's brother Jake is stunned to learn he is expected to marry the childless Leah to carry on his brother's name. Jake suggests to Leah that they get married and maintain a secretly platonic relationship. The harder they try to disguise their 'pretend' marriage, the more their appreciation for each other's worlds grows.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Monster-in-law: After years of looking for Mr. Right, Charlotte Cantilini finally finds the man of her dreams only to discover that his mother is the woman of her most unpleasant nightmares.
The wedding singer: Robbie Hart is a master of ceremonies who gets left at the altar at his own wedding. He becomes someone who can only destroy other people's weddings until he meets a waitress named Julia.
Series
Language
English
Description
This is the chronicle of the misadventures of a London single woman in her early 30s--a goodhearted, overweight, insecure, bumbling, and desperate-to-be-attached Everywoman Bridget Jones--a woman who loves men and loves sex. A true believer in the possibility of romantic fulfillment, on New Year's Day Bridget resolves to lose 20 pounds, cut down on alcohol, cigarettes, and sweets, and find the right man, or indeed, any man. Bridget charts her own...
Language
English
Description
After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the "perfect" place to live ... it's a little to perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna...
15) New in town
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire...
16) Last sentinel
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A squad of soldiers stranded on an isolated military sea base on a near future Earth, wait for the relief or the enemy, whichever comes first.
Series
Riverdale volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A subversive take on Archie and his friends, exploring small-town life, and the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale's wholesome facade.
Publisher
Warner Bros Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Based on the characters from Archie Comics, Riverdale returns with its subversive take on Archie and his friends, exploring small town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale's wholesome facade. Determined to protect the sanctity of his town in the wake of his father's shooting, season two finds Archie seeking vengeance. As a civil war brews between the Northside and the Southside, loyalties will be divided. Betty and Jughead's...