Bend It Like Beckham
Director: Gurinder Chadha
2003
Eighteen year-old Jesminder's
parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants
to play soccer like
her hero, David Beckham. 112 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD bend |
Breaking the Waves
Director: Lars von Trier
1999 (1996)
Bess, a pious, young Scottish woman, prays to God to send her husband,
Jan, home from his job on an offshore oil rig. When an accident sends him
home paralyzed, she’s filled with guilt and submits to his wish that she
take on other lovers, convinced that this will aid in his recovery.
152 min.
Call number: DVD brea |
Bride and Prejudice
Director: Gurinder Chadha
2004
A Bollywood update of Jane Austen's classic tale, where Mrs.
Bennet is eager to find suitable husbands for her five unmarried daughters.
When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live
nearby, the Bennets have high hopes, though circumstance and boorish
opinions threaten to get in the way of romance.
112 min.
Plot summary from IMDB
Call number: DVD brid |
Dear Frankie
Director: Shona Auerbach
2005
To spare the feelings of her fatherless boy, Lizzie secretly authors
letters from his "father" recounting seafaring adventures around the world.
Torn between exposing the truth and protecting her son, Lizzie hires a
handsome stranger to play the role of a father and gets more than anyone
bargained for. Scottish film in
English. 105 min.
Call number: DVD dear |
Magdalene Sisters
Director: Peter Mullan
2002
In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene
Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for
their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. They all had to
work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills
through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story. 120 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD magd |
Monsoon Wedding
Director: Mira Nair
2002
Love, lust and hope envelop an upper middle-class Indian family and
their world-wide guests as they celebrate for four days the arranged
marriage of their daughter to an East Indian man from Texas.
English language soundtrack with some dialogue in Hindi or Panjabi.
Optional subtitles in French or Spanish. 115 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD mons
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Quadrophenia
Director: Franc Roddam
2001 (1979)
Songs by The Who set the background for this story of the passions of
British street kids, circa 1964. 114 mn.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD quad
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Director: Phillip Noyce
2003 (2002)
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three
half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents
under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget
their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of
"white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to
Western Australia, traveling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and
navigating by following the fence that has been built across the nation to
stem an over-population of rabbits. Based on the book by Doris Pilkington
Garimara. 93 mn.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD rabb |
The Saddest Music in the World
Director: Guy Maddin
2003
Isabella Rossellini stars as a
Depression-era beer baroness who sponsors a contest to find the world’s
saddest tune in this dark comedy. Canadian film in English. 101 min.
Call number: DVD sadd |
Whale Rider / Te Kaieke Tohora
Director: Niki Caro
2003 (2002)
Set in New Zealand. The Whangara people believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from
drowning by riding home on the back of a
whale. The tribal group
has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, believing
them to be descendants of Paikea. But then a young mother dies in childbirth
along with her newborn male son. His twin sister survives and the little
girl, Pai, is brought up by her grandparents. Learning the skills of
chiefdom from her uncle, Pai shows that she possess a natural leadership
ability.
In English; some Maori. 101 min.
Plot summary from IMDb.com
Call number: DVD whal |
Yes
Director: Sally Potter
2005
Feeling trapped in her marriage to a
politician, an American scientist begins an affair with a Lebanese surgeon
living in exile in London. As the affair goes on the couple finds it
difficult to put aside their very different beliefs.
In English. 99 min.
Call number: DVD yes |
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