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1) Cymbeline
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...
2) The tempest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is entirely probable that the date of "The Tempest" is 1611, and that this was the last play completed by Shakespeare before he retired from active connection with the theater to spend the remainder of his life in leisure in his native town of Stratford-on-Avon. The main thread of the plot of the drama seems to have been some folk-tale of a magician and his daughter, which, in the precise form in which Shakespeare knew it, has not been recovered....
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
King Lear is a prosperous but older man who plans to distribute his wealth among his three daughters in accordance to their declarations of love. Two shower him with compliments while the other is unable to participate in a false display of affection.
King Lear decides to step down from the throne and gift his daughters with the spoils of his kingdom. As a test, the size of their inheritance will correlate with how well they flatter him. The two...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
11) The hero
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After he receives a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, a former Western film star re-evaluates his life.
12) Searching
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After his sixteen-year-old daughter goes missing, a man breaks into her laptop to find clues about her disappearance.
13) 3 days to kill
Author
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A dying CIA agent who is trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered a drug which could help cure his illness in exchange for one final assignment.
15) The whale
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of an obese and reclusive English professor who began binge eating after tragic events as he tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus-who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat-refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
19) High life
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a crew of inmates accept a dangerous mission into space, they encounter difficulties along the way and one of the survivors must find a way to keep himself and his daughter alive.
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Overprotective father Dracula operates a high-end, monsters-only resort in order to hide his daughter Mavis from dangerous humans, but when a human boy discovers the resort, the count's plans are foiled as the two instantly fall for each other.
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