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"This new edition of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor focuses on a theatrical understanding of the play. While emphasising the liveliness of the play in stage terms, David Crane also claims that this citizen comedy needs to be taken much more seriously than in the past, as an expression of Shakespeare's fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the character of Falstaff. In the process he also examines Shakespeare's free...
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"In All's Well That Ends Well, Helen, a lowly ward, risks her life to satisfy her boundless love for Bertram, a count and ward to the King of France. Following him to Paris, she concocts an endangering plan to win the King of France's favour and induce Bertram's hand in marriage. In the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition, Suzanne Gossett takes a transformative look at the play's critical and performance history...
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Molly Sweeney, by the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, tells the story of married couple Molly and Frank, who live in a remote Irish village. Molly has been blind since birth, but now a surgeon – Mr. Rice – believes he may be able to restore her sight. In a series of interwoven monologues, Molly Sweeney takes us into the minds of three people with very different expectations of what will happen when Molly regains her vision. An L.A. Theatre...
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Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2014.
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Français
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When Jocelyne, a seamstress in the northern French town of Arras, finds out that she won EU18 million in the lottery, she only has one fear: losing her modest way of life made up of simple pleasures which she cherishes more than anything. But fate can be obstinate, and by renouncing this fortune for too long, Jocelyne triggers a hurricane in her life that changes everything -- everything except her.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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In The Deep Blue Sea, Master chronicler of post-War England, Terence Davies directs Rachel Weisz as a woman whose overpowering love threatens her well-being and alienates the men in her life. In a deeply vulnerable performance, Rachel Weisz plays Hester Collyer, the wife of an upper-class judge (Simon Russell Beale) and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), a troubled former Royal Air Force...
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Originally performed and published in 1675, this five-act play parodies the vices and hypocrisies of Restoration London. The plot centers on the eponymous country wife, Margery, whose suspicious husband, Mr. Pinchwife, keeps her isolated. On a rare outing to the theater, Margery encounters the aptly named Mr. Horner. A notorious rake who feigns impotence to trick his way into the intimate company of married ladies, Horner soon schools Margery in the...
7) The escape
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IFC Films
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English
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In desperate need of a change, Tara one day makes a bold decision. Armed with a one-way ticket to Paris, she leaves everything behind to rediscover herself in a new city. But walking out of her life isn't so simple.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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In Tolstoy's powerful tale of family passions set in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks more than she can imagine when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.
9) The wife
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe's literary star has blazed...
10) Walk with me
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Gravitas Ventures
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English
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As Amber braves life after divorce, the young mother must challenge herself to take some personal risks after finding love in an unexpected place. “Walk with Me” addresses the many aspects of what it means to be a woman — motherhood, marriage, family, career, sexuality — and deftly explores how to balance them.
11) Paris can wait
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Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates.
12) Tulip fever
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
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Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Hester Collyer is the wife of an upper-class judge and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page, a troubled former Royal air force pilot, throws her life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded and physically isolated.
14) Body heat
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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A lawyer has a love affair with a woman and gets involved in a plot to kill her husband.
15) On the rocks
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Harboring suspicions about her husband Dean's latest round of business travel, Laura and her father Felix decide to head out into New York City at night to investigate.
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Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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Español
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After ten years of marriage, the stunning Zoe realizes that her marriage no longer carries the passion it once had. She finds herself in the arms of her husband's brother. Her decision launches them into a gauntlet of revenge, secrets, and despair.
18) Lady Chatterley
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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When her paralyzed husband urges the repressed Lady Chatterley to find fulfillment and an heir for his fortune in the arms of another man, she embarks on a journey that changes her forever.
19) Cairo time
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
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Clarkson stars as Juliette, a New York fashion editor who travels to Egypt for a vacation with her husband, a U.N. official. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig) to keep her company. As Tareq guides Juliette through the sights, sounds and unique customs of the exotic city, unexpected feelings emerge leading to an awakening of emotion that takes Juliette by surprise.
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