Miramax Films

Chocolat by Lasse Hallström( Visual )

59 editions published between 1997 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 2,926 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside, whose people believed in Tranquilite - Tranquility. If you lived in this village, you understood what was expected of you. You knew your place in the scheme of things. And if you happened to forget, someone would help remind you. In this village, if you saw something you weren't supposed to see, you learned to look the other way. If perchance your hopes had been disappointed, you learned never to ask for more. So through good times and bad, famine and feast, the villagers held fast to their traditions. Until, one winter day, a sly wind blew in from the North

There will be blood by Paul Thomas Anderson( Visual )

34 editions published between 2007 and 2014 in English and French and held by 2,910 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, the ongoing involvement of Plainview's poker-faced adoptive son, and Plainview's rivalry with Eli Sunday, the local preacher

Finding Neverland by Marc Forster( Visual )

20 editions published between 2004 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 2,864 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Inspired by events in the life of author James Mathew Barrie, Finding Neverland traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the boy who never grows up

Gangs of New York by Martin Scorsese( Visual )

50 editions published between 2002 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 2,849 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father

The English patient by Anthony Minghella( Visual )

70 editions published between 1996 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 2,773 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a volume of Herodotus, and its intimations of the sacred whirlwind of a great, mysterious, passionate, and tragically doomed love, which trapped two unsuspecting people, forever

The Queen by Stephen Frears( Visual )

24 editions published between 2005 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 2,757 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Queen begins with a familiar epigraph "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"--Henry IV, Part II. The action of the film takes place during the week following the death, on August 31, 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales. One of its accomplishments, courtesy of adroit use of newsreel and other contemporary footage, is to remind viewers of the deep sadness that surrounded that event. It is also about the divergent and potentially ruinous ways the monarch and Prime Minister Tony Blair responded to the resulting torrent of national grief

Bridget Jones's diary by Sharon Maguire( Visual )

43 editions published between 1995 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 2,727 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love. DVD

Cold Mountain by Anthony Minghella( Visual )

38 editions published between 2003 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 2,694 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Inman, a young Confederate soldier, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters

Trois couleurs : bleu by Krzysztof Kieślowski( Visual )

1 edition published in 1993 in French and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Devastated after the death of her composer husband and child in a car-crash, Julie tries to make a new start, while haunted by her husband's music and some unpleasant facts about his life