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All's Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well was likely inspired by the tale of Giletta di Narbona from Boccaccio's Decameron. Unpopular during Shakespeare's lifetime, the play remains one of his least staged works to this day. Despite this, scholars praise All's Well That Ends Well for its moral ambiguity. "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together, our virtues would be proud...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
When Jocelyne, a seamstress in the northern French town of Arras, finds out that she won EU18 million in the lottery, she only has one fear: losing her modest way of life made up of simple pleasures which she cherishes more than anything. But fate can be obstinate, and by renouncing this fortune for too long, Jocelyne triggers a hurricane in her life that changes everything -- everything except her.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 98 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In The Deep Blue Sea, Master chronicler of post-War England, Terence Davies directs Rachel Weisz as a woman whose overpowering love threatens her well-being and alienates the men in her life. In a deeply vulnerable performance, Rachel Weisz plays Hester Collyer, the wife of an upper-class judge (Simon Russell Beale) and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), a troubled former Royal Air Force...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Tolstoy's powerful tale of family passions set in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks more than she can imagine when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of passion and family conflict set in 19th century upper-class Russia in which the wife of an aristocrat falls in love with a dashing calvary officer.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emilia, a law school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After they marry, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.
8) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
Language
English
Description
The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hester Collyer is the wife of an upper-class judge and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page, a troubled former Royal air force pilot, throws her life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded and physically isolated.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Peggy Sue, a mother of two who runs her own business & is coping with an impending divorce, attends her 25th high school reunion, where a freak mishap sends her decades back in time, giving her the power to create an entirely different future for herself.
11) Heat and dust
Series
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala about Anne, who is drawn to India to unravel the scandal surrounding her great-aunt's seduction in the 1920s by an Indian prince.
12) On the rocks
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches
Language
English
Description
Laura thinks she's happily hitched, but when her husband Dean starts logging late hours at the office with a new co-worker, Laura begins to fear the worst. She turns to the one man she suspects may have insight: her charming, impulsive father Felix, who insists they investigate the situation. As the two begin prowling New York at night, careening from uptown parties to downtown hotspots, they discover at the heart of their journey lies their relationship....
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1000 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Tells the story of the dreams, ambitions, and the pursuit of power among the women of the drug trafficking world. Lucrecia is the wife of Braulio Bermudez, the most powerful and influential drug lord of El Carmen. Lucrecia plays the submissive wife, but she is clever and will do anything to keep her man. Bermudez, on the other hand, is bored of life with Lucrecia. He turns to younger women to satisfy his whims and needs.
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (957 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Lucrecia is the wife of Braulio Bermudez, the most powerful and influential drug lord of El Carmen. Lucrecia plays the submissive wife but she is clever and will do anything to keep her man. Bermudez, on the other hand, is bored of life with Lucrecia. He turns to younger women to satisfy his whims and needs. Among the luxury, the pomp and excess is a dramatic and poignant story about women who chose badly and have to pay a heavy price.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Near the end of World War II, pregnant Olivia Dunne is forced into marriage and banished to a remote Colorado farm, where she develops a relationship with her new husband and with two Japanese-American sisters living in a nearby internment camp.
16) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 10 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
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