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Ingrid Bergman
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Swedish
Description
In one of the most challenging roles of her early career in Sweden, Ingrid Bergman plays Anna Holm, whose bitterness over her facial disfigurement leads her to become a blackmailer. However, when one of her victims turns out to be married to a renowned plastic surgeon, Anna is given the opportunity to change her life.
3) Indiscreet
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the lovestruck pair from falling into a passionate affair.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Toni Simmons believes that the only reason her married lover won't leave his wife is because of the children. In truth, her lover, dentist Julian Winston, doesn't have any children. In fact, Julian doesn't even have a wife - he just tells women he does to avoid getting involved. When Julian does decide to take the plunge with Toni she insists on meeting the first wife and Julian enlists the aid of his long-time nurse/receptionist Stephanie Dickinson...
5) Intermezzo
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ingrid Bergman, in her most famous role of the period, plays Anita Hoffman, an aspiring classical pianist who falls in love with a famed, but married, concert violinist. Their passionate affair has deep and unanticipated consequences for them both.
8) Notorious
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
The innocent daughter of a war criminal is persuaded to help a U.S. agent trap a Nazi mastermind now living in Brazil.
Series
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
After making her way to China to become a missionary, an English parlor maid wins the heart of a Eurasian colonel and the respect of the local Mandarin. But her greatest accomplishment is leading 100 homeless children to safety across enemy-held terrain during Japan's invasion of China. It is the true life story of Gladys Aylward.
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally impaired, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each oth
12) Saratoga trunk
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Clio Dulaine arrives in her New Orleans birthplace with one goal: to exact revenge on her father's family, who exiled Clio and her mother to Paris years earlier. She meets a Texas gambler, Clint Maroon, who is also looking for revenge on the railroad baron who ruined his father. The two schemers scrap and spar through a tale of blackmail, lies, high finance, and sudden disaster before they finally come together.
13) Casablanca
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of a struggle among individuals who have sought refuge in Casablanca after fleeing Nazi occupied Europe.
15) The hideaways
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A sister and brother run away from home to the nearest hideout ever: the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Neither imagines their expedition will plunge them into the mystery that has all New York abuzz. Everyone wants to know if the new statue of an angel donated to the museum by reclusive art collector Mrs. Frankweiler is a Michelangelo work. Claudia is sure that learning the answer will make her adventure a success, so she and Jamie decide to find out,...
17) Joan of Arc
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of a 15th century French peasant girl who rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. This powerful, visually stunning epic of one of history's fascinating heroines features spectacular action and unforgettable drama.
18) Spellbound
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
The new director of a mental institution is an amnesiac and an imposter. A staff member who loves him helps him to discover the truth.
19) Gaslight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She become the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
20) Anastasia
Series
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth...