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Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe is a professional hit man, who, during his missions, picks someone off the street to do his errands and after he is finished kills that person. His next assignment takes him to Bangkok where he will be for a month, and as usual, he finds a street kid named Kong to help him. After Kong has a close call and learns who Joe is, he asks Joe to train him. Needing a few medical supplies, Joe stops at a local pharmacy and meets a local girl who is deaf...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a true story of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage, and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Thai
Description
Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jen's tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Thai
Description
"Tien is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his arch rival returns challenging Tien for a final duel"--Container.
7) 1st bite
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From a tropical island in Thailand to the islands of Montreal and Montserrat in the Carribean, a philandering chef's search for the Zen of cooking leads to the secrets of love.
9) The big boss
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chen is an idealistic young man sworn to an oath against violence who travels abroad to Thailand looking for work. Accepting a meager labouring job at a local ice factory, Chen must resist the urge to stand up to local thugs who have the run of the town.
10) Fists of fury
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cheng is a factory worker who has made a vow never to fight again. He does his best to put up with an abusive boss, until his beautiful cousin is kidnapped by company thugs.
11) Noise
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Noise: Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling. As the local community enfolds itself in a shroud of secrecy, borne from fear and an untrammeled mistrust of authority, the police remain desperate for witnesses. Graham McGahan, a young police constable suffering from a chronic hearing problem, is stationed at a police caravan near the crime scene. Living on the periphery of the investigation, McGahan crosses paths with the people affected...
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Thai
Description
When the head of his village's sacred Buddha statue is stolen, simple country boy Ting is sent to Bangkok to retrieve it. He is trained in Muay Thai, but vowed never to use it. Once he arrives in the big city, however, he is forced to fight.
Series
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 569 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anna and the King of Siam: Anna and her son travel to the exotic kingdom of Siam to educate the harem and children of the King. (1946).
Cole Porter's Can-can: A Parisian nightclub dancer in the nineties is sued for performing the Can Can. (1960).
Daddy long legs: Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they...
15) Ghost house
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young couple, Jim and Julie, are vacationing in Thailand where Julie falls in low with photographing small shrines called 'Ghost Houses' that are believed to give spirits shelter and comfort. A couple of British travelers take them into the countryside with the promise of showing Jim and Julie a ghost house graveyard where many of the shrines are discarded. After leaving the graveyard with a souvenir, Julie is increasingly plagued by visits from...
16) Skin trade
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New Jersey cop Nick heads to Thailand to track down Russian human-trafficking thugs who killed his family after he busts them in New York. Once in Thailand, he teams up with local cop, Tony as their road to retribution leads through high-speed chases and multiple confrontations uncovering corruption, pay-offs and personal vendettas.
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julian, an American fugitive from justice, runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for his drug business. His mother, the head of a vast criminal organization, arrives from the U.S. to collect the body of her favorite son, Billy, who has just been killed. Crazy with rage and thirsty for vengeance she demands the heads of the murderers from Julian. But first, Julian must confront Chang, a mysterious retired policeman who has resolved to scourge the...
18) To end all wars
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately they find true freedom by forgiving their enemies. Based on the true story of Ernest Gordon.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the 58 children of King Mongkut. Each has preconceived ideas about the other's world. Amid the danger of political unrest, their respect for each other turns into something more.
20) The King and I
Language
English
Formats
Description
An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children, but challenges the country's traditions during her work and forges an unusual and spellbinding friendship with the King.
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