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Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([4] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
A young woman, unable to be intimate with her husband after his war injuries, seeks solace and physical passion in the arms of a gamekeeper.
2) Illegal
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan. One day, they are stopped on the street for a routine check by the police; Tania is arrested and placed in an immigration detention center for women, while Ivan manages to escape. Threatened with imminent deportation and fearful for Ivan's fate, Tania embarks on a harrowing journey, determined to preserve her dignity and find her son.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
Pascale lives with her adult twin sons in a renovated Belgian farmhouse. Each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. Both boys pursue their respective interests, but neither seems compelled to embrace adulthood or the responsibilities that come with it. Pascale falls in love again and dreams of a new life for herself and her lover. Her dream is to own a countryside B&B. But what would seemingly be a happy time...
4) D'Ardennen
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
Brothers Dave and Kenneth are reunited on Kenneth's release after four years in prison following a failed home invasion. While Kenneth is anxious to dive head first into the drug-centered existence that ensnared him in the first place, Dave and Kenneth's erstwhile girlfriend, Sylvie, have adopted clean lifestyles.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Lorna is a young Albanian women who dreams of opening up a snack bar with her boyfriend. Without the money, she finds herself entwined in a vicious plan devised by mobster Fabio. A false marriage between Lorna and Claudy will allow her to get her Belgian citizenship. She is then expected to marry a Russian Mafioso who is anxious to get his hands on the Belgian identity papers, after Fabio kills Claudy to speed up the second marriage. But can Lorna...
Series
Criterion collection volume 771
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Sandra, who lives in Belgium, has just been released from a psychiatric hospital only to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
7) Rosetta
Series
Criterion collection volume 621
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on her shoulder throughout.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A stop-motion animated film about toys come to life, based on the Belgian television series with the same title. Cowboy and Indian give Horse a homemade brick barbecue for his birthday, but too many bricks arrive and they destroy their house. Surreal adventures follow as the trio travels to the center of the earth, treks across frozen tundra, and discovers a parallel underwater universe where dishonest creatures live. With panic a permanent feature...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.).
Language
Nederlands
Description
A young cattle farmer is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.
10) Left bank
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
A dedicated professional runner is sidelined by an infection. But when she impulsively decides to move into her new boyfriend's high-rise apartment on the outskirts of Antwerp, she will discover that his 'perfect' home may hold strange powers and even darker secrets. The previous tenant disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
11) Hop
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 9
Publisher
Filmmovement
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
All Justin and his father want is to enjoy a soccer game together. This sparks a chain of events that leads to his father's deportation, and Justin finds himself alone and on the run. Enlisting the help of a former anarchist, Justin embarks on a thrilling adventure to re-unite with his father. But to fight the system, he will need to apply the secret of the Hop.
Series
Criterion collection volume 620
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. The brothers brought their unerring eye for detail and their compassion for those on society's lowest rungs developed in their earlier documentary work to an absorbing drama about a teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of illegal alien workers.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Murielle and Mounir fall in love and have children, as so many couples do. Unlike other couples, however, they give over the control of their family by living with Mounir's rich adoptive father. It seems as if everything is going well, but underneath it all, Murielle is suffocating.
14) L'iceberg
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably and happily with her family in the suburbs. That is until the day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in freezer. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was missing. But when Fiona develops an obsession for everyting cold and icy - snow, polar bears, refrigerators, icebergs, she drops...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
Thomas and Mario are friends for life. Lynn is the girl they both love and Speck the loose cannon who is the fourth wheel to their wagon. Mario is a fiercely ambitious young man with big plans for an exciting future. Just when his political career is about to get under stream, he is suddenly diagnosed with a disease that changes the course of his life. Based on a true story, this is the journey of a combative multiple sclerosis patient and the group...
Series
Criterion collection volume 484
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Director-approved special ed., widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
Evokes a sense of impending doom, the daily domestic routine of a middle-aged widow. Her chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick. Her life is beginning to break down.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, which leaves God angry, powerless and adamant to get his power back.
18) Eldorado
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When Yvan, a quick-tempered 40-year-old vintage car dealer, catches young burglar and ex-junkie Elie trying to rob him, Yvan becomes strangely attached to Elie and agrees to drive him home to his parents in his old Chevrolet, leading to a bizarre journey through Belgium for the two loners.
19) Salamander
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 568 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
In a private Brussels bank, 66 safe-deposit boxes are burglarized. The owner of the bank wants to keep the heist under wraps, but police inspector Paul Gerardi catches wind of the affair and throws himself into the investigation. The boxes contain the holders' most intimate secrets, the compromising documents, and photos that no one should ever see and that literally could bring down the nation. Gerardi must quickly find out what their agenda is and...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
What does it mean to be Jewish? Three generations of the Rashevski family grapple with the question, after the death of Rose, the secular matriarch who believed that the tango would make all troubles disappear. The characters confront issues of relationships, family, religion, love, romance, and interfaith marriage.
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