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1) Blue Jasmine
Language
English
Formats
Description
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
3) French exit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan: to die before the money ran out. But things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, who may or may...
Language
English
Description
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
Series
Criterion collection volume 736
Language
English
Formats
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
9) Alice
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
Alice is a wealthy Manhatten housewife who feels unfulfilled in her life. After seeing a succession of alternative health care practitioners for a variety of imagined ailments, she finds an acupuncturist who helps launch her on a voyage of self discovery.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A stunning New York socialite and a down-to-earth city cop are caught in a deadly web of illicit passion and heart-stopping suspense in this taut, stylilsh thriller. A detective finds his life turned upside down when he is assigned to protect a beautiful eyewitness to a brutal murder.
11) My man Godfrey
Series
Criterion collection volume 114
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man"--An apparent down-and-out drifter-- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for a string of madcap high jinks
12) Sleep my love
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Alison Courtland, a wealthy New York socialite awakens on a Boston-bound train with no memory of how she got there. A kind, elderly woman helps Alison call her husband Richard to arrange for her return. Upon Alison's arrival, Richard urges her to consult a psychiatrist, but the doctor's bizarre behavior and abusive manner nearly drives Alison mad. Is she really losing her mind or is there an elaborate scheme at play?
13) Buddy
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Gertrude Lintz, a New York socialite who believes that animals should not be caged, raises a gorilla named Buddy and reluctantly realizes that he is not suited for city life.
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A pampered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a gang of small-time hoods in what starts out as a jewel robbery and turns into a kidnapping/murder when one of them kills the groom. Despite her terrifying ordeal, Miss Blandish finds herself falling in love with the gang leader, Slim Grisson. They plan to run off together, but a double cross could be just around the corner.
15) Buddy
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Gertrude Lintz, a New York socialite who believes that animals should not be caged, raises a gorilla named Buddy and reluctantly realizes that he is not suited for city life.
16) Factory girl
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
[Unrated version].
Language
English
Description
Edie Sedgwick, a beautiful, wealthy young party girl, drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality.
17) Dark victory
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Judith Traherne, a dying heiress, is determined to find happiness in her few remaining months.
19) Queen bee
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A drama showing how a neurotic, insincere Southern woman brings unhappiness to her husband, family, and friends in an attempt to insure her own security and position of dominance.
20) My man Godfrey
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When an eccentric society girl hires a tramp as a butler, he teaches her that there is more to life than money.
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