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Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944 Drama Feature films Films for the hearing impaired Germany Germany History 1933-1945 Drama Germany History Night of the Long Knives, 1934 Drama Great Britain Night of the Long Knives (Germany : 1934) Ryan, Cornelius Film adaptations World War, 1939-1945 DramaFilter By Subjects
Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944 Drama Feature films Films for the hearing impaired Germany Germany History 1933-1945 Drama Germany History Night of the Long Knives, 1934 Drama Great Britain Night of the Long Knives (Germany : 1934) Ryan, Cornelius Film adaptations World War, 1939-1945 DramaSummary: A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs-- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DARSummary: "The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMSummary: A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DEASummary: Collects four noir-tinged dramas set in London in the late 1950s and early 1960s that deal with issues such as racism, homophobia, and the lingering effects of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGSummary: The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation's cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust finds the seemingly perfect manservant to oversee his new London townhouse. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SERSummary: This classic film noir concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Aveteran cop is murdered by small-time delinquents Tom Riley and Spud. Rookie cop Andy Mitchell, who looked up to the veteran policeman as a father figure, embarks on a perilous search to bring his mentor's killers to justice. Shot in a pioneering semi-documentary style by Gordon Dines (Pool...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the "Night of the long knives" and the rise of Nazism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004