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61) Izzy + Tristan
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Izzy isn't happy about her recent move from the Lower East Side across the river to Brooklyn. She feels distanced from her family, especially her twin brother, as well as her new neighborhood. Then she meets Tristan, a chess prodigy who lives with his aunt and looks up to his cousin, Marcus. When they meet, family, friends, and society threaten to keep them apart." --
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Five Blu-ray Special Edition.
Language
English
Description
The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Watermelon man: A loud-mouthed, bigoted white man's suburban existence is jarringly upended when he wakes to discover that he has become a black man.
Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song:...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a willowy fishing village in South Carolina, the film tells the compelling story of two interracial lovers, Sophie, an artist who also fishes and sells crabs to the townfolk, the other an Asian gentleman, swept up in the tides of history.
66) Blind dating
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Danny is smart, handsome, popular, and blind-- and not just physically. He also can't see how wild women are for him. Even his sexy therapist can't keep her clothes on around Danny. After a series of painful blind dates set up by his brother, Danny falls for a young Indian woman named Leeza, and finally everything seems picture perfect. But when cultures clash, and Leeza reveals that she's been promised to someone else, Danny must prove to her that...
Series
Criterion collection volume 198
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A rebellious 17-year-old, who is contemplating suicide, is sent to her grandparents house for the summer. She soon begins a interracial romance with a young cook who has a criminal past, confronts a tragic family secret, and just may discover the promising young woman hidden beneath her sarcastic shell. Just when she is looking for a way out, she just may find her way back in.
69) A taste of honey
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sara Johnson (Julia Stiles) is a small-town girl with big dreams of becoming a world-class ballerina. When she is suddenly forced to move to Chicago's South Side, she feels out of place until she meets Chenille Reynolds (Kerry Washington)--and is introduced to Chenille's handsome brother, Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas). The initial conflict between Sara and Derek fades quickly as their shared love for music and dance leads to common ground ... and romance....
72) Paris noire
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set against the turbulent backdrop of wartime France, Paris Noire is a dramatic and engrossing novel that brings to vivid life the remarkable people once relegated to the fringes of history.
74) Haven
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Shy and Andrea share a secret her parents can never know - the two are in love. But a night of passion leads to the discovery of their secret and a devastating act of vengeance by Andrea's brother. Meanwhile, a shady American businessman has fled with his daughter to the Islands to avoid federal prosecution, only to be drawn into a dangerous web of deceit. A chain reaction of violence is set in motion that will determine whether love can survive.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Robert Lomax, who aspires to follow his passion to paint and having quit his architectural profession, lands in Hong Kong. On the ferry he meets a young girl Suzie Wong who lies that she is from a wealthy family but actually is working as a "Wan Chai girl" in the Wan Chai district on Hong Kong island. Lomax may have an opportunity to be the husband of a Hong Kong banker's daughter, but he chooses to be with Suzie Wong. Some street and harbour scenes...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
77) South Pacific
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
On a Pacific island during World War II, an American Navy nurse and a young officer must confront their views on race when they fall in love with local residents.
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