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1) Silence
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English
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Legendary director Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE tells the story of two Christian missionaries (Adam Driver and Oscar® nominee Andrew Garfield) who travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor (Academy Award® nominee Liam Neeson) at a time when Christianity was outlawed. When they are captured and imprisoned, both men are plunged into an odyssey that will test their faith, challenge their sanity and, perhaps, risk their very lives.
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When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
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Grupo Planeta
Pub. Date
2024
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Español
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Un mecanismo poético y teatral que alcanza la perfección extrema, una de las obras maestras de Lope, en la que desplegó todo su ingenio. El caballero de Olmedo, basada en un hecho histórico que fue motivo de múltiples recreaciones artísticas –la muerte de don Juan de Vivero, caballero de Olmedo, a manos de su vecino Miguel Ruiz en 1521–, es una de las obras maestras de Lope de Vega, con un mecanismo poético y teatral que alcanza la perfección...
4) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa. “One of the most inspirational films I’ve ever seen” (Richard Roeper, “Ebert & Roeper and the Movies”).
5) Genius
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth star in this stirring drama about the friendship between Thomas Wolfe and editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway).
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English
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A disgraced football star, a high school in need of saving and a reunion too hot to handle.
Headteacher Ella Lucas and football star Jake Prince have a very complicated history! Their mind-blowing encounter two years ago is proving impossible to forget now Jake has reappeared in Ella's life after being booted out of the NFL.
She knew he was trouble back then, but Ella has enough on her plate right now to worry about Jake and his shenanigans. Except,...
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What would you do if you had just twenty-four hours to change your life?
Ailish Ryan has been in hiding since her husband's affair ended their marriage. But when a friend forces her to face her new reality, will she choose to revisit the past or embrace a brand-new future?
Ailish's daughter, Emmy, thought her boyfriend was nothing like her cheating father, but now she's not so sure. As the hours pass, she turns detective to find out if she picked...
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It'll be a Christmas to remember...
Holly Berry is finally in a place where she can see her happy ending: a beautiful daughter, who's growing ever sweeter by the day, a new home she can make her own, and—of course—her partner-in-crime, Evan.
But when tragedy strikes, Holly's life is thrown into turmoil. And, perhaps in denial, she decides to cancel all of her Christmas plans in favor of some healing of her own.
She thinks spending time with Evan's...
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Welcome back to the Vault of Secrets. Author, skeleton, and monster expert Orrin Grey has disinterred another batch of classic (or not-so-classic) vintage horror films for your delectation, spanning the decades from the silents to the Seventies. There'll be devil bats, ape fiends, space invaders, black cats, old dark houses, invisible dinosaurs, cat people, giant rabbits, monster skeletons, and a whole lot more! Beginning with a 1926 precursor to...
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Jessie and Chance have a history. In this two-act play set in Kansas City, Jessie and Chance are the sole characters who meet up again six years after their last meeting.Chance, a musician, finds out his band's gig is cancelled, so stuck in his motel room, he invites his former lover, Jessie, to dinner.Soon, Chance can't help but want to date Jessie again, but the distant-from-her-feelings Jessie backs away. While they sip bourbon in Chance's room,...
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We should never be afraid of our Spiritual or Natural gifts. They were given to you for a reason and please remember that. When you realize a pattern in your life that keeps happening, it's trying to tell you something you need to address. Which I was compelled to write in this book. You were called and now it's time to be heard. As far, talent is important use it wisely and have fun with it. Let's be free and experience this life as we pass through...
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Quiara Alegría Hudes' stage adaptation of her much-lauded memoir is a joyous celebration of Puerto Rican womanhood in 1990s West Philadelphia.
In this memoir-turned-play, Hudes showcases a handful of key life moments that mark subtle changes in her sense of self and her place in the world. Interlaid between these vignettes are moments of song, dance, and ritual that evoke her boisterous girlhood in a house run by the Perez women. Through this piece,...
13) Persons Unknown
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PERSONS UNKNOWN' is a short play that tells the story of two friends who live on either side of the globe during the 1930s. Max and Martin are both in the art trade, one is a German patriot and lives in Munich, the other lives in San Francisco and is a Jew. Through a series of telegrams and letters we see their friendship fracture as a new chancellor rises to power.
14) Rusty
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English
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A short story. Rusty and Bobby spend a day looking for their father.
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Français
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Gundam. Ou plutt « l'univers Gundam », « la saga Gundam », « la franchise Gundam ». Quand on l'évoque, c'est toujours avec une notion de volume, de masse, de gigantisme. Celui des robots mis en scène, certes, mais avant tout celui d'un corpus d'oeuvres qui n'a cessé de s'étendre depuis sa création, en 1979.
Qu'on soit amateur des productions japonaises ou plus globalement d'oeuvres audiovisuelles, un tel objet mérite qu'on en parle. Cet...
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Français
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Un néon s'allume, une musique retentit : « Who you gonna call? » En un instant, vous savez de qui il s'agit !
SOS Fantmes compte aujourd'hui parmi ces films si familiers, tellement vus et revus que l'on en oublierait presque la part de hasards ayant participé à la genèse du premier long-métrage. Si ce dernier sonne comme une forme d'évidence aujourd'hui, tant chaque détail est connu sur le bout des doigts, SOS Fantmes, qui cristallise effectivement...
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A rich collection of folklore, mythology and tall tales concerning dogs, providing a fascinating insight into the way we think about dogs, and our emotional bond with them.
Spooky, funny, sad and inspiring stories: some of which engage that part of our brain we use when reading detective stories; trying to figure out what's going to happen next ...
Gathered from all over the world, and from many different time periods, in these captivating tales...
18) Marquês De Keith
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Portuguese
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Considerado por Frank Wedekind o seu melhor texto teatral, Marquês de Keith, peça escrita desde 1899 e montada no ano de 1901, foi concebida a partir da reelaboração de uma série de criações anteriores do autor, que chegou a participar de uma trupe circense, trabalhar como representante comercial de um marchand e a escrever poemas e canções para o cabaré alemão conhecido como Onze Carrascos.
Marquês de Keith, o protagonista oriundo das...
19) The Honoree
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English
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Is greatness in our genes,acquired or thrust upon a person? Some lay claim to be great. Being great is attributed to many. But few are truly great. How's Aanu an evidence? Why at home and in school, the sun rises and sets on her ? Where does she draw unwavering pleasure that sets the pattern in getting her familiarized with burning issues? The positive impacts of news and current events rub off on her. She's not only one of the keenest minds of her...
20) La Casa Del Río
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Español
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Biagio Martini es un abogado exitoso. Pero le teme a las tormentas y el recuerdo de lo que sucedió en la vieja casa junto al río, cuando era niño, corroe su alma. Agata Rubino, en cambio, es una mujer intrépida y valiente. No le teme a nada, mientras caza al que le destruyó la vida. Biagio y Agata no se conocen, nunca se han encontrado; no saben que sus destinos están a punto de entrelazarse inexorablemente.
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