Sweet Briar College Movie Catalog
Movies and videos with a feminist edge: located in the Sweet Briar College library according to number.

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Basic Instinct the Original Director's Cut
A tough but vulnerable detective investigates a murder identical to one described in the latest novel of a cold, calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Includes controversial footage cut from the theatrical release, interviews with the director. Starring Sharon Stone and Jeanne Tripplehorn.

Video Cassette No.1660

Beyond Rangoon
Laura leaves the US after the murder of her husband and child only to become separated from her traveling companions in Burma. She is trapped in a government crackdown on democratic movements, but finds new life in helping others. Starring Patricia Arquette.

Video Cassette No.3177

Blue
A young woman left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel.

Video Cassette No.2387

Bound
A mobster, his mistress and a tough female ex-con are caught in a dangerous plot with over $2 million of the mob's money at stake in this new, ultra-hip film.

Video Cassette No.3114

Breathless A Bout De Souffle
A small-time hood kills a policeman and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police and he gets killed trying to escape.

Video Cassette No. 424

The Bride Wore Black
After a bridegroom is shot on the steps of the church on his wedding day, his widow traces the group of men responsible and eliminates them one by one.

Video Cassette No.773

Call It Murder
A young girl is suspect of murdering her lover in a crime of passion. A jury foreman provides the one convicting vote that sends her to the electric chair. The suspense mounts to a harrowing climax as his daughter commits a similar murder on the stroke of midnight. An unusual revelation regarding the daughter's crime awaits the viewer.

Video Cassette No.2005

The Client
A courageous but unseasoned attorney risks her career for an 11-year old boy who is saught after by a hitman and a prosector due to the risky information he knows about a Mob murder. She is his only ally but never imagines she'll also risk her life. Starring Susan Sarandon and Mary-Louise Parker.

Video Cassette No.2117

Courage Under Fire
Starring Meg Ryan.

Video Cassette No.

The Crying Game
A haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists, their hostage and the hostage's exotic girlfriend.

Video Cassette No.1767

Fargo
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.

Video Cassette No.2977

La Femme Nikita
Thriller about a street junkie who is picked up and recruited against her will for training as a killer. She is transformed into a beautiful and sophisticated woman, and soon falls in love with a soft-spoken romantic. When she receives a call and is ordered to kill someone she has to fight against the trap of her double life.

Video Cassette No.2995

Mississippi Mermaid
The mail-order bride is a mystery. Her appearance doesn't match the photo she sent, her likes and dislikes aren't those described in her letters. By the time her identity is discovered by the lonely businessman husband, it is too late and her life is in danger.

Video Cassette No.771

The Pelican Brief
Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead. Starring Julia Roberts.

Video Cassette No.2427

The Sugarland Express
Based on the true story of Lou Jean Poplin who kidnapped a Texas State Trooper and led the police on a wild chase across the state in an effort to save her son from adoption. Starring Goldie Hawn.

Video Cassette No.2994


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