Like Water for Chocolate - DVD

?A modern Mexican classic provides the basis for a theatrical tale of love, jealousy, repression, and revolution. The Royal Ballet's 2022 production reunited Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon with the stellar creative team who transformed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Winter's Tale into dance, composer Joby Talbot and designer Bob Crowley. Inspired by Laura Esquivel's novel, the central character's emotions spill out through cooking to influence everyone around her in startling and dramatic ways. The full Company, led by Francesca Hayward as Tita and Marcelino Sambé as Pedro, reshape this captivating family saga into a richly layered and engrossing new ballet where passion, mystery and magic combine.

Bittersweet tale from director Lasse Hallström is set in a small French village in 1959, where single mother Josephine (Juliette Binoche) arrives with her daughter and opens a chocolate shop whose confections have an intoxicating and liberating effect on the townspeople, until the iron-willed mayor tries to shut her down. With Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Johnny Depp as an Irish river Gypsy seduced by Josephine's sweet spell. 121 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles English (SDH), Spanish; additional scenes; audio commentary; featurette; games.

A young girl learns to fight from watching TV and the fighters from the boxing school next door. When she finds a list of debtors in her ailing mother's diary, she sets upon a violent quest to collect payment for medical expenses. Her quest is a dangerous one that ultimately leads her to her father, a mafia member of the Yakuza.