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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 30 min., 19 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The MacDonald chain of luxury hotels serves business and leisure customers across the UK. Their people are integral to their success. This film goes inside one of its hotels to discover what they do. Service is everything: Guests have to be greeted with a smile. Neil, the concierge, is virtually a "personal organiser" for everyone who visits the hotel. The receptionist is in the front line, too, checking people in and dealing with angry customers....
2) The resort
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lex is a writer obsessed with the paranormal. For her birthday, Lex's three closest friends decide to take her on a surprise trip to an abandoned resort in Hawaii. The resort is the supposed haunt of an infamous ghost, The Half-Faced Girl, and Lex is determined to find her. When they arrive on the island, they find a massive, beautiful and eerily empty resort. Just as Lex decides that this was just an urban legend, her friends start to disappear one...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's been almost a year since the sudden death of philandering chef Leo Vincent, but his presence at the Penrose Hotel is more palpable than ever. His ex-wife, Gina, and widow, Sam, have the business, but they continue to have professional and personal disagreements.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1020 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The crumbling country pile of Button House is home to numerous restless spirits who have died there over the centuries, each ghost very much a product of their time, resigned to squabbling with each other for eternity over the most inane of daily gripes. But their lives, or, rather, afterlives, are thrown into turmoil when a young couple, Alison and Mike, surprisingly inherit the peaceful derelict house and make plans to turn it into a bustling family...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (182 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's been almost a year since the sudden death of philandering chef Leo Vincent, but his presence at the Penrose Hotel is more palpable than ever. His ex-wife, Gina, and widow, Sam, have the business, but they continue to have professional and personal disagreements.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Crumbling country mansion Button House is home to restless spirits who've died there over the centuries. Each a product of their time, they're thrown together for eternity, resigned to squabble over mundane daily gripes. But their lives or rather afterlives are thrown into turmoil when young urban couple Alison and Mike unexpectedly inherit the peaceful derelict house and plan to turn it into a bustling hotel. As the ghosts attempt to oust the newcomers,...
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 85 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A Five Star Life is the sophisticated story of one woman's quest for personal and professional fulfillment set against some of the most stunning cities and opulent hotels of the world. Stylish and independent, Irene (Margherita Buy) is a single career woman in her forties with a job to die for. As a luxury hotel critic, she checks into the world's finest establishments incognito to assess their standards, meticulously judging every detail from the...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the doors of crumbling country mansion Button House creak open once more, the haphazard house share between its living inhabitants and its restless dead is settling in a strange kind of daily routine. But cash-strapped Alison and Mike's plan to transform their unexpected inheritance into a bustling luxury hotel is still a distant dream. Could the exploitation of their troupe of ghostly housemates bring in the funds they need -- or are they setting...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Join Papi and his two- and four-legged family as they move into a posh Beverly Hills hotel, complete with a luxurious doggy spa. But there's trouble in puppy paradise when Rosa, the littlest member of the pack, feels smaller and less special than ever. Now it's up to Papi to help Rosa find, and celebrate, her inner strength, which turns out to be bigger than she ever dreamed"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After fast-paced New York City high-end real estate broker Fiona Rangely gets dumped by her boyfriend, she escapes to her family's quaint Vermont Inn for a few days to evaluate her life. When her ex, Nate, shows up with a new girlfriend, Fiona devises a plan to win him back: pretend the handsome and very laid-back head chef, Derek, is her new boyfriend.
14) The night
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Staying in a beautiful but mostly-empty hotel with their baby, disturbances keep Babak and Neda awake until they realize a malevolent force will not rest until it has devoured their secrets -- especially the ones they have been keeping from each other.
15) Forever Majestic
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Description
In 2014 the town of Hot Springs would change forever. A mysterious fire engulfed part of the Majestic Hotel in an eruption of flames. The historic landmark's history goes well beyond that of the fire, however, the once bustling hotel that housed the likes of famous gangsters and baseball players in Hot Spring?s American 20s tells a story of city corruption and a decade of abandonment. Two activists race to save the building, and it's legacy, fighting...
17) Hotel for dogs
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They, along with three other local kids, begin caring for the strays....
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
While the walls at The Carlyle Hotel don't talk, they definitely whisper...ALWAYS AT THE CARLYLE brings to life the untold stories of the legendary New York hotel from its own employees and top guests George Clooney, Jeff Goldblum, Anthony Bourdain, Wes Anderson, Jon Hamm & more.
19) The shining
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.
20) Winter sleep
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (196 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 cm.
Description
Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small hotel with his wife, writes a column for the local newspaper,...
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