Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=4+7517+4294941266 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622302 A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Youngs take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557785 A recent college graduate named Aura returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1670531 In this thriller, Nicholas Van Orton, a shrewd and successful businessman who is always in control, has been enrolled by his brother in The Game--a profound life experience with no rules, which begins quietly but soon erupts in a confusing maze of devastating events. Terrorized by forces who seem intent on dismantling all that he has built, Van Orton has to win this deadly game or lose control of everything in his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729428 A bawdy, gleefully amoral tale about a prudish married couple feeling put upon by the swingers who live in their apartment building, who, one night by accident, discover a way to simultaneously realize their dream of opening a little restaurant and rid themselves of the perverts down the hall. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713468 In northern Albania a teenage brother and sister are physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their fathers entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547581 A group of actors meet to rehearse Chekhovs Uncle Vanya and find the same conflicts in their own lives as are dealt with in the play. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1261246 A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miners son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life. Special features included. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1374610 Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their familys kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. A graceful study of a family at a turning point in history, and a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1670779 In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat. Lawrence speaks Japanese, and ceaselessly tries to mediate between the prisoners and their overseers, translating both the words and the values of the two races. Celliers attitude, however, is more comprehensible to Yonoi. He and Celliers arrive at a sort of dtente, based on an admiration for the other, but this eventually turns into a contest of wills as the camps carefully nurtured equilibrium is destroyed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208726 A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208748 A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431878 An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729407 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. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579855 Paula, a leftist writer, goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cit when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624269 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696811 David Chappellet, a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing for Olympic gold with an underdog American team in Europe, clashes with his coach, who tries to temper the upstarts narcissistic drive for glory. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579854 Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1064883 In Northern Irelands Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British governments refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=978707 World-weary and living hand to mouth, small-time gunrunner Eddie Fingers Coyle (Mitchum) works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, hes forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=773197 Antonio Gaud designed some of the worlds most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks. Takes viewers on a tour of Gauds truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653881 A sixteen-year-old Parisian girl embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father, ineffectual mother, and brutish brother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=623075 Viridiana, who is about to become a nun, does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1128329 In the shady black markets and bombed-out hotels of post-World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020579 Powerful story of the disintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=667729 Offbeat homage to Hollywood musicals finds a stripper rousing her lovers jealousy by seducing his best friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1584164 In this stark depiction of spiritual crisis, small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson performs his duties mechanically before a dwindling congregation. When he is asked to assist a troubled parishioner with his debilitating fear of nuclear annihilation, Tomas is terrified to find that he can offer nothing but his own uncertainty.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=422016 Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=422009 Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=430786 A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=427200 Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a mans murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1349302 In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=432935 A young prostitute who works in the streets of Rome is continually deceived by men who claim to love her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=427206 The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.