Catalog Search Results
Author
Formats
Description
The Importance of Being Earnest is an important play by Oscar Wilde, and is a comedy of manners that discusses the serious of society. Set in late Victorian England, the story is about the main character, John Worthing's ficticious brother Ernest, which is the main source of the comedy in this work.
Formats
Description
A shining example of the magic that's created when two of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars join forces in one special film. Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep play Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, two everyday people who meet first by chance, and later by choice. There's just one thing standing between Frank and Molly's intense, newfound love: both are already married. Oscar Winners De Niro, Streep and a fine supporting cast including Harvey Keitel...
Author
Description
"...The play opens with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage is on the verge of collapse. Charlotte, it is revealed, is actually an actress who is appearing in a play written by her husband, Henry. Max, who plays Charlotte's husband in the piece, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriage are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it the real thing? Tom Stoppard combines his characteristic wordplay...
4) Manglehorn
Publisher
IFC Films
Formats
Description
Al Pacino and Holly Hunter give moving performances as a cat loving locksmith and a lovelorn bank teller who are both transformed by a new romance in this magical love story.
5) Manslaughter
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A society woman falls victim to a Burmese ivory trader (Sessue Hayakawa) who intends to brand her for his own. A visually powerful today as when it was made.
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
This Oscar-award winning short film follows Heather (Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water, Blue Jasmine), a shy lady who works at a helpline call center. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever..
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Two lovers have a tryst in a vacant tomb, only to find themselves trapped within the graves and crypts of the massive cemetery. One of cult director Jean Rollin's most unconventional films, The iron rose vividly depicts the young couple's steady descent into madness.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Formats
Description
In this triptych, mundane encounters spin into a world of infinite possibilities. In Episode 1: Magic (or Something Less Assuring), a young woman is startled when she realizes that her best friend's new flame might just be her ex; in Episode 2: Door Wide Open, a disgruntled student plots to trick his college professor, using his friend-with-benefits as bait; and in Episode 3: Once Again, a girl's college reunion leads to an unanticipated run-in with...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Formats
Description
Art imitates life in this quietly devastating masterpiece from Hong Sang-soo. Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Claire's Camera) plays Younghee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director. Younghee visits Hamburg then returns to Korea, but as she meets with friends and has her fair share to drink, increasingly startling confessions emerge. No stranger to mining his own experience for his films, Hong, whose real-life affair...
10) Nuit #1
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Clara and Nikolaï meet at a rave. They return to Nikolaï's apartment and frantically make love. Afterwards, instead of parting, the two lovers divulge their deepest secrets to one another. Nicolaï is a beautiful loner, one with great ambition which he's unable to articulate to his peers. At thirty-one years old, he leads a simple and frugal life. He applies himself to reading the great classics of literature but never finishes a book he has...
11) Francisca
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Formats
Description
The book's re-telling of a troubled passage in real-life author Camilo Castelo Branco life, his friend Jose Augusto embarked on a perverse game of marital cat and mouse with Francisca, the woman the novelist loved, led Oliveria to new levels of stylistic and formal imagination. With its elaborate title cards, its abundance of shots in which the action is oriented directly toward the camera, its gloomy interiors, and its show-stopping gala set-pieces,...
12) Porto
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Formats
Description
Jake (Anton Yelchin) and Mati (Lucie Lucas) are two expats who experience a brief but intimate connection in the ancient Portuguese city of PORTO. He's an American loner exiled from his family. She's a student from France embroiled in an affair with one of her professors. After spotting each other from a distance at an archeological site and then again at a train station and a café, Jake works up the courage to approach Mati and they embark on a...
13) Heartbreaker
Publisher
IFC Films
Formats
Description
Alex (Romain Duris) is a successful entrepreneur in a business he himself pioneered: Hire him, and he'll seduce any woman you want into falling in love with him, thus breaking her out of an existing relationship, after which he'll disappear. When a wealthy businessman asks him to break up his daughter's relationship before her wedding in 10 days, it sounds tough but doable -- that is, until he meets the bride, Juliette (Vanessa Paradis), who may be...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The engineer Linda falls in love with not with one, but two of the men on her construction team, in a film that raises questions about the importance of work, love and happiness in socialist East Germany of the 1970s. When Iris Gusner, one of very few East German female directors, previewed the rough-cut of her debut film, she was accused of presenting an "unrealistic picture of life," and officials banned the film. It did not become widely available...
15) Carrie
Formats
Description
Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral," William Wyler's Carrie is a power-house of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood. "Olivier has always given credit to Wyler for teaching him how to act in...
16) L'age d'or
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
L'age d'or, the surrealist masterpiece of 20th century cinema is now available to challenge, arouse, unnerve, amuse, and galvanize the uninitiated for generations to come.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Sex and power drive the action of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Set in today's British army this is a modern realization of a classic problem play where every character must justify their own private morality in a world bereft of discipline and authority. Critics rave that this contemporary dramatization is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
A Musical Romance starring Academy Award Winner Marisa Tomei, Robert Carlyle and John Goodman that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Frank has been consumed by grief over his wife's death. But everything changes when he pulls over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck. En route to fulfill a forty-year promise to his childhood sweetheart, the stranger shares a compelling tale of adolescent love replete with first...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
Didn't Find It?
Didn't find it in CW MARS? You can request titles from other Massachusetts library networks through the Commonwealth Catalog.
If you need assistance, please reach out to your local library.