Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
1) Slacker
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.
2) Howards End
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...
3) The tunnel
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The Tunnel tells the incredible true story of a massive underground escape attempt from East to West Berlin. An Anti-communist East German swimming champion narrowly escapes before the Berlin Wall is done, but his sister is left behind.
Series
Criterion collection ; 305
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts.
Series
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
A sensual, controversial coming-of-age story in which a young man falls madly in love with his teacher. The intense relationship spins rapidly out of control, setting the stage for a final confrontation in which 'all is fair in love and war.'
Series
Criterion collection ; 286
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A man falls in love with a younger woman, but he is married and divorce is illegal. To get what he wants, he begins an elaborate scheme to kill his wife.
8) Wetherby
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Banned in China, Jiang Wen's ravishingly photographed anti-war epic is set in 1945 in Japanese-occupied rural China where a peasant is forced to shelter two prisoners: one Japanese who wants to die, and his Chinese interpreter who wants to live.
11) Hester Street
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish woman comes to America in the 1890s, only to discover that her husband, Jake, has given up the ways of the old country, and taken up with a new girlfriend, and a new life.
12) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection ; 248
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation." --
13) Abouna
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Arabic
Description
After two young Chadian boys discover their father has abandoned them, they embark on a desperate quest to bring him home.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Icelandic
Description
It is 1953, and Freya, who had gone to America as an officer's bride, has returned home to begin a new life. She moves into a small house of distant relatives in a quite fishing village in Iceland. But unlike the drab, plump girl who went abroad, Freya, now in her twenties, is a beautiful woman. She is somewhat of a mystery woman of the household, especially to the men of the community. But soon strange things begin to happen in their community. Is...
Series
Criterion collection ; 297
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Robert Bresson's masterpiece follows a much-abused donkey, Balthazar, whose life strangely parallels that of his owner, Marie. A beast of burden suffering the sins of man, Balthazar nevertheless nobly accepts his fate.
16) M
Series
Criterion collection ; 30
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Danish
Description
Christoffer, who four years earlier abandoned the family steel business for an idyllic life as a restauranteur with the woman he loves, Maria, a rising actress. But when Christoffer's father commits suicide, Christoffer's domineering and manipulative mother compels him to return home to take control. Maria's worst fears for Christoffer are tragically realized as he must contend with a business on the brink of financial ruin and a brother-in-law scheming...
18) The tin drum
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A German child refuses to grow up in response to the Nazi presence. To vent his hostility, he pounds on a tin drum.
19) Exils
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
A young couple, both of Arabic descent, leave Paris with no money, jobs, or connections, and travel to their ancestral home of Algeria. In search of re-connecting to their roots, they cross three countries by foot, bus, train, and hitched rides.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
After a chance meeting as eight-year-olds, Ana and Otto come to live under the same roof when Ana's mother and Otto's father marry. As the two grow older, they begin to discover an attraction for each other, delving deeper and deeper into a forbidden love. Destiny tears the family apart, but years later they are given one last chance to be reunited.