Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
1) La ceremonie
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie to work as her maid at her remote home in the French countryside. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne and suddenly the stage is set for murder, violence and betrayal.
4) Howards End
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Margaret and Helen Schlegel are sisters from a well-educated European family. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the very English Wilcox family. Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen. Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship...
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Eustace is summoned back to the magical land of Narnia with his new friend Jill. Many years have passed since Eustace's last visit. King Caspian is old and frail. The mysterious disappearance years ago of his son, Prince Rilian, has remained unsolved. Aslan the lion charges the children to embark on a perilous journey through enchanted lands of giants and witches to find Rilian and bring him home.
6) Slacker
Series
Criterion collection volume 247
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants.
7) Harakiri
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
Home Vision Enertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
What if you befriended a magical creature who could make your most fantastic wishes come true? Meet the Psammead, an ancient and grumpy sand fairy who transforms an ordinary summer holiday into an extraordinary adventure for five siblings.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Two brothers and two sisters find that an old wardrobe magically transports them into the world of Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures. They discover that Narnia is under the evil power of the White Witch, who has kept the land in eternal winter and has turned all her enemies to stone. Disc 2: Narnia is later ruled by corrupt King Miraz, and his nephew calls upon the children to help defeat his uncle and restore the land...
10) Steppenwolf
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Europe, after the Great War. Harry Haller, solitary intellectual, is beset by reflections on his being ill suited for the world of everyday regular people, specifically for frivolous bourgeois society. All his life Harry has feared his dual nature--being both human and beast--so he has decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. The mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz, to the beautiful and whimsical Maria,...
11) Ikiru: To live
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
日本語
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Prince Caspian: The magical land of Narnia is ruled by the corrupt King Miraz. His nephew Prince Caspian calls on Lucy, Peter, Susan, and Edmund to help him defeat Miraz and restore Narnia to its former glory. Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Years later, Caspian, Lucy, Edmund, and obnoxious cousin Eustace set sail to rescue the six lords who were banished by Caspian's evil uncle. Their adventures lead them to a golden lake, a giant sea serpent, a fierce...
13) 3 women
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendent. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies magazines. But Pinky's hero-worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than could be imagined.
14) Notorious
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With this twisted love story, Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood's most beloved stars starkly against type. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist (Claude Rains) hiding...
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.
17) Short cuts
Series
Criterion collection volume 265
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
Series
Criterion collection volume 181
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Swedish
Description
Tells the tale of Lena, a young woman on her personal quest to understand the social and political conditions in 1960's Sweden, as well as the exploration of her own sexual identity. She shatters taboos as if there are no lines between fact and fiction.
19) Faces
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004], 1968.
Language
English
Description
Powerful story of the dissintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife.
20) The Europeans
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A sophisticated European brother and sister turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of their staid American cousins. The fortune-hunting Eugenia and her high-spirited brother Felix turn this Puritan world upside down.