Lilia Skala
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Description
A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him.
Description
In 1933, a motley crew of passengers embarks on a fateful, transatlantic sea voyage to Germany. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
4) Caprice
Series
Description
A woman who is a spy for a cosmetics company finds more than she bargained for when she crosses paths with another spy in the pursuit of a hairspray that keeps women's hair dry in the water.
Author
Description
Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier), an itinerant handyman, is driving through the desert when he meets five nuns. Stopping to fix their leaky farmhouse roof, Homer discovers the Mother Superior also wants him to build their chapel - for free! Hesitant at first, Homer soon finds himself single-handedly raising the chapel and the financing. But although he will not receive a monetary reward, Homer knows that when his work is done, he'll leave the desert town...