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1) The maids
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Two maids, in a sinister bond of roleplaying, take turns acting out an abusive employer-servant relationship. Adapted from Jean Genet's absurdist play, itself inspired from a true life case.
2) The help
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 videodiscs.
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 104 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Films Festival, The scent of green papaya is set in 1951 Saigon, where 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the lush physical details that envelope her.
4) Roma
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals.
5) The cleaner
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When middle-aged house cleaner Buck Enderly takes on an eccentric new client, he gets roped into locating her estranged son. Buck tracks down the disturbed young man but in another twist of fate becomes an accomplice to a violent crime.
6) Renfield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Renfield, the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss, Dracula. Renfield is forced to procure his master's prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With her employers out, a maid in 1920s England has a rare chance to meet with her secret lover, the son from a nearby manor. Class issues keep them apart, and although he is about to leave to marry a suitable wife, the events of this weekend could change their lives -- and love -- forever.
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