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St. Teresa of Avila

Actors: Concha Velasco, Hector Alterio, Francisco Rabal, Patricia Adriani
ASIN : B00126STC2
Sales Rank : 15753
Director : Josefina Molina
Studio : Ignatius Press
Region Code : 1
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0897079001553
UPC : 897079001553
Release Date : December 11, 2008
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Manufacturer : Ignatius Press
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Label : Ignatius Press
Running Time : 450

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A powerful epic mini-series shot on location in Spain that tells the story of one of the most amazing women in history, St. Teresa of Avila. With meticulous attention to detail and historical accuracy, outstanding production values, and an incredible performance by actress Concha Velasco as Teresa, this acclaimed major film production is the definitive film on the life of this great saint. Teresa of Avila was called by God to reform and renew the Carmelite order, a daunting task. She was joined in this work by her great fellow Carmelite and spiritual director, St. John of the Cross. This film reveals the conversion that Teresa herself had to go thru to deepen her own union with Christ as she endeavored to bring about that same deeper spiritual reform of her Carmelite order. It shows the tremendous opposition that she and John both faced within (and without) their order to bring about this much needed spiritual renewal. She and John of the Cross were both great mystics who combined the essential dimensions of a profound spiritual life with the very practical aspects of being completely dedicated to the human tasks necessary for such a reform. In Spanish with English subtitles.

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The Far Pavilions

Actors: Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Benedict Taylor, Rossano Brazzi
ASIN : B00004WC7Y
Sales Rank : 13625
Director : Peter Duffell
Studio : Acorn Media
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0054961427499
UPC : 054961427499
Release Date : December 12, 2000
Publisher : Acorn Media
Manufacturer : Acorn Media
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Label : Acorn Media
Running Time : 90

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From the snow-capped peaks of the himalayas to the fabled palaces of bhitor the india of the british raj provides the spectacular setting for this haunting love story. All the treachery passion and intrigue of m.M. Kayes epic novel sweep across the screen in this stunning and lavish production. Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 01/08/2002 Starring: Amy Irving Omar Sharif Run time: 320 minutes

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The first happy day in the adult life of Anjuli (Amy Irving) is the day her husband's body is set on fire. Her rich and powerful husband, the Rana of Bhitor (Rossano Brazzi), is ritually immolated in a lavish ceremony where his other wife, Anjuli's half sister, is expected to commit ritual suttee. Only after she is released from her marriage is Anjuli free to follow her heart. Based on M.M. Kaye's beloved novel, The Far Pavilions tells the haunting love story of Anjuli and Ash (Ben Cross) against the spectacular backdrop of mid-19th-century colonial India, replete with accurate historical and cultural details. Full of battle, treachery, intrigue, passion, and prejudice, the film brims with stunning sights, from the peaks of the Himalayas to the famed palaces of Bhitor, remarkable battle scenes, and royal pageantry, including a lavish, several-day-long traditional Hindu wedding where the groom enters on an elephant. The all-star cast, including Omar Sharif, Sir John Gielgud, and Rupert Everett, truly brings the novel to life.

This two-DVD set includes interactive menus, a scene index, production notes, and a Kaye biography and book list. Originally released for television in 1984, The Far Pavilions has inspired viewers to travel to India, plus it has been included in numerous university courses because of its postcolonial and multicultural themes. This film will appeal to viewers interested in postcolonialism or Indian history and culture as well as anyone who loves a good romance. --Tara Chace

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Horatio Hornblower Boxed Set

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Dorian Healy, Michael Byrne, Robert Bathurst
ASIN : B00003OSSO
Sales Rank : 15281
Director : Andrew Grieve
Brand : A&E
Studio : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767023047
ISBN : 0767023048
UPC : 733961700626
Release Date : December 25, 2000
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
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Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 400

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The epic saga of the legendary sea-faring hero comes to life in these epic films based on c.S. Foresters classic novels. Set against the bloody backdrop of the napoleonic wars. It charts a course for high adventure following the raw recruit as he battles the french evades capture & rises through the ranks. Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 02/29/2000 Starring: Ioan Gruffudd Run time: 400 minutes Rating: Nr

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Based on the rousing sea adventures in C.S. Forester's novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, the four-film television series Horatio Hornblower explores the education of a plucky young officer rising through the ranks of His Majesty's Navy. Ioan Gruffudd is all integrity and honor as the ambitious midshipman who is taken under the stern yet nurturing guidance of Captain Pellew (Robert Lindsay) during the war against France in the French Revolution. Through these four adventures he faces a vindictive senior midshipman ("The Even Chance"); meets his hero, a reckless captain whose unorthodox methods are brave but foolhardy ("The Examination for Lieutenant"); is captured by the Spanish in a desperate maneuver to sneak through enemy lines ("The Duchess and the Devil"); and leads his men to French soil in an ill-planned attempt by French loyalists to start a popular front against the revolution ("The Frogs and the Lobsters"). The excellent re-creations of 18th-century vessels and ship-to-ship battles are astounding and reminiscent of such classic Hollywood seafaring adventures as Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk, not to mention Captain Horatio Hornblower, with Gregory Peck as the only previous screen incarnation of Forester's hero. This mixture of swashbuckling adventure and British naval tradition is leavened with well-placed humor and a cast of colorful characters, but at the heart of the tales is Gruffudd's quick-thinking, courageous Hornblower, a starry-eyed officer with the luck of the gods and the steely determination of an old-fashioned hero. --Sean Axmaker

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Five Days (HBO Miniseries)

Actor: Five Days
ASIN : B00127RAH6
Sales Rank : 9928
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Hbo Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0026359446320
UPC : 026359446320
Release Date : December 11, 2008
Publisher : Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer : Hbo Home Video
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Label : Hbo Home Video
Running Time : 300

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A mother, Leanne, vanishes into thin air. Her children, abandoned in her car, also go missing. As police search for clues over three gut-wrenching months, the Leanne's husband and family learn that nobody's quite what they seem. Everyone is a suspect. In the end, five days prove critical in solving the case in this five-part, five-hour thriller.

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An ordinary afternoon turns into a 79-day nightmare in this absorbing, if leisurely-paced BBC/HBO co-production. Leanne (Christine Tremarco), a mother of three, leaves her youngest children in the car while she buys flowers for a relative. In a flash, she's gone. Her mercurial husband, Matt (David Oyelowo), and teenage daughter, Tanya (Lucinda Dryzek), from a previous marriage, call in the authorities. Superintendent Barclay (Hugh Bonneville), Sergeant Foster (Janet McTeer), and Officer Farnes (Nikki Amuka-Bird) take charge of the case, while the missing woman’s parents, Barbara and John (Penelope Wilton and Patrick Malahide), help out around the house. Slowly but surely, several potential suspects come into view. With each episode representing a different day, this five-part series weaves an intricate web. Like the BBC's State of Play, but on a more intimate scale, each group is in opposition against the other. That includes reporters, co-workers--even an innocent bystander gets caught up in the commotion. Race complicates matters further, since Leanne is white and Matt is black. In the end, though, character takes precedence over all other concerns. While the acting is up to the BBC's usual high standards, MI-5’s Oyelowo deserves special mention as a man coping with every kind of pressure. The two-disc set concludes with "Behind the Mystery," in which writer Gwyneth Hughes discusses the thinking behind her script. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Julius Caesar

Actors: Jeremy Sisto, Richard Harris, Christopher Walken, Valeria Golino, Chris Noth
ASIN : B0002S93TO
Sales Rank : 6250
Director : Uli Edel
Studio : Good Times Video
Region Code : 1
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0018713818850
UPC : 018713818850
Release Date : December 26, 2004
Publisher : Good Times Video
Manufacturer : Good Times Video
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Label : Good Times Video
Running Time : 178

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Fierce general. Skilled orator. Savvy politician. This is Julius Caesar, one of the world’s greatest leaders and ruler of the Roman Empire. His ascent to power is filled with sacrifice, murder and betrayal. With the beautiful Cleopatra on one arm and a sword in the other, Caesar seized control of a vast territory, winning legions of followers, making enemies and creating history, before falling at the hands of Brutus, his most trusted ally. This is an ageless story in an epic presentation unlike anything ever seen before. Julius Caesar: a remarkable man who became an unforgettable legend. COLOR / APPROX, 187 MINUTES. DVD FEATURES: • 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen • 2.0 Dolby Stereo • The Making of Julius Caesar featurette

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

Actors: Ciarán Hinds, Juliet Aubrey, Jodhi May, James Purefoy, Polly Walker
ASIN : B0000AQS3P
Sales Rank : 12774
Director : David Thacker
Brand : A&E
Studio : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767056540
ISBN : 076705654X
UPC : 733961709483
Release Date : December 30, 2003
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
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Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 200

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Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 09/30/2003 Run time: 200 minutes Rating: Nr

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Common sense suggests that no good can come of auctioning off your wife in a drunken fit, but Thomas Hardy's classic novel The Mayor of Casterbridge turns this dark story, set in rural England in the mid-1800s, into a compelling, compulsive ride. The discarded wife (Juliet Aubrey) returns after 19 years with her daughter (Jodhi May) in tow, only to discover that her former husband, Michael Henchard (Ciarán Hinds) has risen as a merchant and a politician. But though he welcomes her back and arranges to renew their bond without public shame, Henchard's pride and fear remain intractable; the struggle for love and happiness collides with shame and secrets as Hardy's complex tale unfolds. While the 1978 miniseries with Alan Bates is much less abridged and gives a fuller immersion into the novel and life at the time, the swiftness of this two-part adaptation makes it more immediately emotionally engaging, and the superb, compact performances by the entire cast (including Polly Walker and James Purefoy) give this version a potent punch. --Bret Fetzer

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Tales of the City (Collector's Edition)

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Donald Moffat, Chloe Webb, Laura Linney, Marcus D'Amico
ASIN : B00006BT1A
Sales Rank : 20985
Director : Alastair Reid
Studio : Acorn Media
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781569385425
ISBN : 1569385424
UPC : 054961542499
Release Date : December 25, 2003
Publisher : Acorn Media
Manufacturer : Acorn Media
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Label : Acorn Media
Running Time : 300

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A funky apartment house in the freewheeling san francisco of the 1970s provides the backdrop for a story about a colorful cast of characters in search of love. Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 02/25/2003 Starring: Olympia Dukakis Laura Linney Run time: 300 minutes

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"The City" in question is San Francisco, and the tales are novelist Armistead Maupin's, his romantic, affectionate, and spirited homage to the glory days of his hometown. Maupin's idea of SF's glory days isn't the drug-filled Summer of Love (1967), but rather the drug-filled lust-in of the late '70s. Replacing acid with coke and ludes, psychedelia for disco, this six-hour miniseries (which caused controversy for its open drug use, nudity, and direct depiction of homosexuality upon its initial airing on PBS) follows the romantic struggles and identity crises of a colorful cast of characters. The action--as addictive as the drugs the characters ingest--is seen mostly from the innocent point of view of Mary Ann, the city's newest culture-shocked resident--so its presentation is rather decadent and hedonistic. Because the story originally ran as a daily serial in the San Francisco Chronicle before being compiled into a novel, its serialized structure suffers from typical soap-opera mawkishness and the need to shock with ridiculous revelations. Thankfully, this degeneration mostly occurs during the final two hours, allowing you to just enjoy the personalities and hilarious and often-touching interactions of the richly drawn characters before they're manipulated by plot devices. The performances are all outstanding, especially Chloe Webb's spacey ex-hippie Mona, Marcus D'Amico's romantically doomed Michael, and Olympia Dukakis's Anna Madrigal, the enigmatic mother hen/landlady of many of the film's central characters. --Dave McCoy

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Dark Shadows: The Beginning, Collection 3 - Episodes 71-105

Actors: Dark Shadows, Joan Bennett
ASIN : B000YKI4B8
Sales Rank : 14367
Brand : MPI
Studio : MPI HOME VIDEO
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0030306780399
UPC : 030306780399
Release Date : December 26, 2008
Publisher : MPI HOME VIDEO
Manufacturer : MPI HOME VIDEO
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Label : MPI HOME VIDEO
Running Time : 690

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With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, DARK SHADOWS (1966-71, ABC-TV) became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. The character of Barnabas Collins, a guilt-ridden, 175-year-old vampire, brought the show tremendous success. Now, for the first time on DVD, MPI presents the spooky series rare, early episodes before Barnabas.

Victoria Winters assures Carolyn Stoddard that her loyalties lie with the Collins family, not with Burke Devlin. Victoria makes a startling discovery near the ocean. David Collins visits Burke at the Collinsport Inn and insists his father is a murderer. Burke makes an offer to Elizabeth Collins Stoddard to buy Collinwood. Roger Collins frantically searches to recover evidence that may incriminate him.

Annoyed with Carolyn, Joe Haskell begins to turn his affections toward Maggie Evans. David leads Victoria to the closed-off section of Collinwood, where she is stunned by the appearance of a ghost. Caretaker Matthew Morgan tries to dissuade Mrs. Johnson from coming to work at Collinwood. In Bangor, Victoria meets lawyers Richard and Frank Garner, who she hopes will help to unlock the mysteries of her past.

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The Way We Live Now

Actors: Matthew Macfadyen, Paloma Baeza, Cheryl Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Douglas Hodge
ASIN : B00005YUNK
Sales Rank : 5556
Director : David Yates
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790766126
ISBN : 0790766124
UPC : 794051162021
Release Date : December 30, 2002
Publisher : BBC Video
Manufacturer : BBC Video
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Label : BBC Video
Running Time : 300

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The Way We Live Now captures the turmoil as the old order is swept aside by the brash new forces of business and finance. Based on the novel by Anthony Trollope, this satire of Victorian society contains all the dynamic elements that made him one of the most celebrated and popular novelists of his day--the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of the upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.

Episode 1: When infamous financier Augustus Melmotte (David Suchet) mysteriously appears in London, the city's impoverished aristocrats greedily court his favor. Felix Carbury, a charming but lazy young baronet, is one of the many gentlemen swarming around Melmotte's rich heiress daughter, Marie. Meanwhile, Felix's independently minded sister, Hetta, falls in love with a bright young engineer, Paul Montague, who is in town to approach Melmotte with an ambitious business propostion. Complications soon arise in business and love.

Episode 2: While Paul Montague throws himself into the booming railway business with Melmotte, the presence of his mysterious American friend in London threatens to jeopardize his chances with Hetta. Felix is forced to desperate measures to secure his future with Marie when he learns that her father is planning her marriage to a rival suitor.

Episode 3: Paul visits Mexico to have his worst fears about the railway construction confirmed. Returning to London he decides to confront Melmotte and resolve his romantic situation. Melmotte involves himself in increasingly ambitious business schemes while Felix gets himself into further trouble and Hetta recieves some devastating news.

Episode 4: Melmotte reaches the highest echelons of London society but the wolves are beginning to gather at his door. Paul takes his chance to act and Felix comes face to face with some tough opposition, while Hetta contemplates settling for second best. Climaxing in love lost, love gained, a death and some just desserts.

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First screened on BBC in 2001, The Way We Live Now will surprise those who know Anthony Trollope through the subtleties of his Barsetshire novels. This story of ambition centers around Augustus Melmotte, an Austrian Jewish financier who takes the London money markets and social scene by storm in his efforts to become an "English country gentleman." His rise and fall is followed with remorseless logic by Trollope, and David Yates's direction keeps this in focus against a wealth of subplots and character interaction.

The cast is a strong one, with David Suchet's Melmotte gripping in his recklessness, climaxing in the theatrical magnificence of his departure in disgrace from the House of Commons. Shirley Henderson is magnetic as his put-upon daughter Marie, courted by the cream-of-society bachelors for her dowry rather than her person. Cheryl Campbell gives a good account of the feckless Lady Carbury, writing vacuous novels to support her family, with Matthew MacFadyen relishing the part of her rakish son, Felix. Paloma Baeza is sympathetic as her daughter, Hetta, whose on-off relationship with entrepreneur Paul Montague, ably taken by Cillian Murphy, provides the main love interest. Douglas Hodge impresses as the loyal and sincere but insipid Roger Carbury.

The series consists of four generous episodes, each lasting 75 minutes. This is an absorbing production of what isn't the most subtle of Victorian novels, but which surely remains among the most relevant. --Richard Whitehouse

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St. Teresa of Avila

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Horatio Hornblower Boxed Set

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Five Days (HBO Miniseries)

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Julius Caesar

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

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Tales of the City (Collector's Edition)

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