Film Movement (Firm)
1) Heidi
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on the biggest Swiss bestseller (written by Johanna Spyri) of all time. Young orphan girl Heidi lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding grandfather. Forced to move into the home of an upper-class Frankfurt family, the energetic child struggles to fit in, longing for the simplicity of her life in the mountains.
2) The Carer
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Diagnosed with a rare form of Parkinson’s Disease, ailing theatrical legend Sir Michael Gifford (Brian Cox) is terminally ill. He’s also foul-mouthed, irascible, and highly resistant to the concept of allowing a full time care giver into his home. Out of sheer necessity but hardly convicted at the notion herself, Sir Michael’s daughter Sophia (Emilia Fox) reluctantly brings in a candidate to interview for the job. Into this fraught household...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on the beloved children’s book, this exciting tale set in the picturesque French Alps follows the friendship of a 6-year-old boy and a stray dog who prove to be heroes when they help defend their occupied village from the Nazis.
4) Caro diario
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Director Nanni Moretti plays himself in this beloved comedy, told as three chapters from the filmmaker's diary: musing on cinema atop a Vespa, exiling himself to the Aeolian Islands to work on a new screenplay, and mourning his ailing health. Winner of the Best Director award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and two David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Beatles defined music and popular culture like no other band ever will, but how did they make the journey from Merseyside teenagers to international pop stars in the '60s? The film recounts how American rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues dragged post-war Liverpool into one of the most vibrant music cities ever with the Mersey Sound. Featuring unique archive and revealing interviews from those involved in the early years of The Beatles in Liverpool...
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (172 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) grow up enduring the harsh training of the Peking Opera Academy, where instructors regularly beat the students to instill in them the discipline needed to master the complex physical and vocal techniques of this ancient art. As the two boys mature, they develop complementary talents: Dieyi, with his fine, delicate features, assumes the female roles while Xiaolou plays masculine warlords....
7) Sabotage
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
9) Carmilla
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine (Jessica Raine). Late one evening, a mysterious carriage crash brings a young girl into their home to recuperate. Lara immediately becomes enchanted by this strange visitor who arouses her curiosity and awakens her burgeoning desires. Inspired by the 1872 Gothic vampire novella by Joseph...
10) Amour fou
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Forever under-appreciated and melancholy, Heinrich is a young poet in Romantic Era Berlin who determines his best way out of despair is to end it all, and he sets about finding a woman to join him in his predetermined departure. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, the well-off but unremarkable Henrietta, fascinated by Heinrich’s controversial "The Marquise of O," finds his offer intriguing, if a bit strange. And yet, she agrees to navigate...
11) Edward II
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this new restoration of the iconic New Queer Cinema classic, Derek Jarman offers a postmodern take on Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan drama. Pleasure-seeking King Edward II sets the stage for a palace revolt by taking as a lover the ambitious Piers Gaveston - who uses his favor in bed to wield political influence - sending the gay pair from the throne to a terminal torture dungeon. This landmark of gay cinema features an incredible performance...
12) Gregory's Girl
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A new 2K restoration of the second feature from the director of Local Hero, Bill Forsyth. Sixteen year old Gregory is an awkward, gangly Scottish lad who is in the midst of the throngs of puberty. The object of his affection is Dorothy, despite or in part because she is a talented striker who took his place on the school's boys' football team, he now demoted to distracted goalkeeper. Gregory tries to insinuate himself as much as possible in her life...
13) Mr. Topaze
Pub. Date
1961.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Honest French teacher Albert Topaze (Peter Sellers) is fired after refusing to alter the bad grades of a baroness' grandson. Sensing an opportunity, actress Suzy (Nadia Gray) convinces her lover, corrupt city council member Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his businesses to mitigate any suspicion. When Topaze learns he is being used, he decides to swindle his manipulators. Based on a Marcel Pagnol play,...
14) Club Zero
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
At an international boarding school, an unassuming, yet rigorous, Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) joins the teaching staff to instruct a new class on “conscious eating.” Her impressionable teenage students each have their own reasons for joining the class – to improve fitness, reduce their carbon footprint, or get extra credit. Although early lectures focus on mindful consumption, Miss Novak’s discussions soon become increasingly disordered and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. -- Film Movement.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of leva [Bulgarian currency] on the train tracks. He decides to turn the money over to the police, for which the state rewards him with a new wristwatch that soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, head of the PR department of the Ministry of Transport, loses Petrov's old watch, a family relic. Here starts his desperate struggle to recover both his old watch and his dignity." -- Publisher's...
Pub. Date
[2006], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Bursting with idealism, Melanie Pröschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city; however, things don't go quite as she planned. She had hoped to be a 'fresh breeze' to the school, but her colleagues are annoyed by her new teaching methods. Not only that, Melanie hasn't one friend in her new town. Tr ying not to get discouraged, she attempts to form a relationship with her neighbor Tina. As Melanie's...
18) Familia
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mimi, a divorced aerobics instructor who is up to her ears in debt, leaves Montreal with her restless 14-year-old daughter and moves in with her childhood friend.
19) Aliyah
Series
Film Movement volume year 11, film 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (NTSC, 88 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alex, a young Parisian drug dealer, longs to make a new beginning by opening a restaurant in Tel Aviv with his cousin and make "aliyah", the immigration of Diaspora Jews to Israel, but he must face conflicts that include leaving the city he loves, drug dealing, his complicated love life with a new woman, and a troubled older brother whom he is always financially rescuing.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1909, poor, idealistic theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Ann Akerbloom, the intelligent, educated daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden. Urbane Anna can't stand living in the rural country and grows increasingly restless. She returns to Uppsala and the couple's love and commitment are put to the test.


