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Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) is no criminal...at least, he wasn't until he met "the woman in the window." With his wife and kids out of town, the chaste professor engages in an innocent flirtation with a chance acquaintance (Joan Bennett) and inadvertently commits a shocking crime. But as the cunning D.A. (Raymond Massey) gets closer and closer to identifying the killer, Wanley finds he's more and more willing to resort to desperate measures...
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The Woman In The Fifth follows American novelist Tom Ricks as he arrives in Paris determined to renew a relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. When the longed-for meeting goes poorly, he ends up in a seedy hostel on the outskirts of the city. Unable to pay for his room and board, he agrees to work as a night guard at a warehouse for the proprietor and spends the hours writing elaborate, imaginative letters to his daughter.
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A unique film following an international cast of three generations of women artists from Cairo, France, Germany, Iran, the United States and the United Kingdom who are forging their careers in the London art scene. The film takes you on an intimate but fast-paced journey, moving the lens between art and life to reveal the dynamic and multi-faceted story of this enigmatic calling. Ultimately, MIRRORS TO WINDOWS shows that it is in the negotiation between...
6) The Animal
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An existential mystery. A woman waits for a man at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter. Snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Later two strange children appear at the window, and an old woman summons them away. Isolation, then alienation overcome the couple. The woman has a dream which comes true. She disappears. Nothing is explained. Only footprints remain in the snow that covers...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. When she returned home a year later, the insurmountable barriers she faced as a female scientist proved hard to overcome. In The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, Anne (now 86) retraces her...
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Exuma is a documentary film that uses innovative cinematography above and below the surface to highlight the surreal beauty of the Exuma Cays, a string of small islands in the Bahamas. This film, the first to highlight the beauty of these remote "out islands", is a window into this surreal world of sand, sky and water through the eyes and thoughts of a young woman who lives there..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
BBC broadcaster Edward Stourton was ushered into a room in one of Europe's most celebrated libraries, and shown a pile of papers so sensitive that only a handful knew they existed. They were the intimate letters of a saint–Pope John Paul II–to a Polish-American woman. This documentary reveals these letters to the world for the first time–opening an unprecedented window into the inner life of a man in the act of making history.
11) Night Dancing
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Every night, a lonely man sees a beautiful young woman dancing outside his window. He is transfixed by her. Wonders if she's real. Then things become more complicated... Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** *"The ethereal pas de deux that is NIGHT DANCING will keep you wondering -- and wanting to know." - Wess Haubrich, **The 405***
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
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In this issue of Videofashion Collections, London Fashion Week rolls out with more of the best in British style! Paul Smith's girl gets in a 70's groove with the iconic designer's mixed patterns, slouchy silhouettes, and rocker attitude for Fall 2014. Marios Schwab's leading lady "moves to her own rhythm" this season, stepping out in restrained looks with subtly sexy undertones. Never understated and always sexy, Julien Macdonald looks to religious...
13) Objector
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Like all Israeli youth, Atalya is expected to become a soldier. Unlike most, she questions the practices of her country’s military, and becomes determined to challenge this rite of passage. Despite her family’s political disagreements and personal concerns, she refuses military duty and is imprisoned for her dissent. Her courage moves those around her to reconsider their own political positions and power to effect change. OBJECTOR follows Atalya...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
In Havana, Cuba an up-and-coming singer searches for confidence, a young woman in love longs for motherhood and a veteran of the Revolution comes to terms with the death of her husband. Three women, united by blindness and a desire for independence, guide us through Cuba's current economic and social landscape while pursuing their dreams and breaking through personal and societal limitations. Jennifer Redfearn gained intimate access to her subjects...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This documentary from award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Abod provides a window into the life of Angela Bowen, a woman who grew up in inner city Boston during the Jim Crow era and went on to become a classical ballerina, legendary dance teacher, black lesbian feminist activist organizer, writer and professor.. For six decades Bowen has influenced and inspired untold numbers, speaking out as strongly for the Arts, and Black and Women’s Rights as she...
16) The Poetry Deal
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
THE POETRY DEAL is an impressionistic documentary about legendary poet Diane di Prima, the most famous woman poet of the Beat Generation. Still actively writing in San Francisco where she is poet laureate, di Prima is fierce, funny and philosophical. She is a pioneer who broke boundaries of class and gender to publish her writing; her friend Allen Ginsberg called her “heroic in life and poetics.” THE POETRY DEAL opens a window looking back through...
17) Voting Matters
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
More than 50 years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most extensive pieces of civil rights legislation, people of color across the United States still are engaged in a battle to protect their right to vote. VOTING MATTERS follows one dynamic woman working tirelessly on the ground and in the courts to ensure that they are not denied this right. When a key section of the Voting Rights Act was struck down in 2013, several states with a...
18) Observance
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Atmospherically creepy and visually unnerving, Australia’s Joseph Sims-Dennett’s startling feature film debut follows Parker, a young man in the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, but who reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. His assignment it to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, and as her watches bizarre happenings surrounding her, he slowly becomes...
19) The tenant
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Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller THE TENANT. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors — mostly old recluses — eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous tenant, a beautiful young woman, jumped from the window in a suicide attempt, Trelkovsky begins obsessing over the dead woman. Growing increasingly paranoid,...
20) Casablanca
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the dream, Nadine is handed a picture of herself playing the violin. Stanley, a man in clunky glasses who accompanies Nadine through her dream, demands a performance, and a chorus of suited men on the other side of a wall of windows stare at her expectantly. Throughout the dream, Stanley repeatedly nags Nadine about not cheating. Nadine finds herself in a kitchen, mixing flour and other ingredients in a bowl. She stops before dumping...
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