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Language
English
Description
After their good-for-nothing father dies and their mother leaves to be with the man she really loves, brothers Jack, Barry and Patrick are left with only each other as they struggle with their relationships. Married Jack is tempted to have an affair; Patrick isn't sure his fiancee is 'the one'; and Barry can't deal with the fact that he is actually falling in love.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful Japanese young woman goes to Hawaii to marry a man she knows only through his picture. Although she is disappointed when he turns out to be older than his picture led her to believe, she finds that life in this new land is more exciting and satisfying than she expected.
6) M. Butterfly
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Story of a French diplomat and a Beijing Opera star who carry on a love affair over almost 20 years before the diplomat discovers something shocking about his lover.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of cross-class romance films throughout the history of American cinema. It provides vivid discussions of these romantic films, analyses their normative patterns and thematic concerns, traces how they were shaped by inequalities of gender and class in American society, and explains why they were especially popular from World War I through the roaring twenties and the Great Depression. In the...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.
13) Strapless
Publisher
Granada Film Productions in association with Film Four International
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An American doctor living in London is visited by her wild-at-heart sister. The doctor has always devoted her life to her work, but her sister and a mysterious man teach her to experience life and love, and that a life without passion is not worth living- even if it carries a price.
14) Temptress moon
Publisher
Tomson (Hong Kong) Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
This is a captivating story of a beautiful young woman, her seductive lover and their struggle for power, passion and revenge.
16) The piano
Publisher
Live Home Video
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer there. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Only one of the men realizes that her affections can only be won through her beloved piano.
18) The quiet man
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
19) Skylark
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall, Skylark continues the story of the Kansas family, the Wittings. When a terrible drought strikes, the family must watch helplessly as farms are abandoned, wells run dry and fire threatens their very lives.
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the astronaut's wife the lives of courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes, but neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives.
In Don Juan DeMarco a psychiatrist rescues a young man who claims to be the legendary...