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1) Yo
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Winner of Best Film at the Morelia International Film Festival, "Yo" is based on a short story by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clezio. "My name is Yo, I'm 15 years old, or that's what they tell me," explains the protagonist (Raul Silva) early on. A strong young man with limited mental skills, he says he is fifteen years old, although he seems to be older. He lives and works in his mother's restaurant by a busy freeway. Yo loves his mother but hates her...
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Francisca, a young Portuguese woman who's living in Brazil, welcomes Teresa, an old acquaintance she'd lost contact with, into her home. While Teresa is discovering the place where she means to settle, Francisca craves for her life back in Lisbon. The film follows each woman's adventures in the city and the deep bond of friendship that grows between them, forcing them to deal with conflicting desires: a will to leave for an unknown country and a relentless...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the events of Phantom menace, Senator Padme Amidala survives an assassination attempt. The Jedi Council send Obi-Wan Kenobi and Annikin Skywalker to protect her. After tracking the assassin, Obi-Wan is sent to Kamino to continue investigating while Annikin is sent with Amidala to Naboo, where they begin to fall in love. Obi-Wan's investigation leads to a connection between the ...
Author
Publisher
Robinson
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Why do SF movies matter? What do they tell us about the interests of storytellers and the changing tastes of cinema-goers? How have sci-fi movies evolved with filmmaking technology over the past 110 years? The Geek's Guide To SF Cinema: 30 Key Films That Changed that Changed the Genre provides an entertaining and in-depth history of the science fiction genre's pivotal and most influential movies. From the pioneering films of Georges M�eli�es...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sometimes you find love where you'd least expect it. Just ask Lars (Ryan Gosling), a sweet but quirky guy who thinks he's found the girl of his dreams in a life-sized doll named Bianca. Lars is completely content with his artificial girlfriend, but when he develops feelings for Margo, an attractive co-worker, Lars finds himself lost in a hilariously unique love triangle, hoping to somehow discover the real meaning of true love!
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Saoirse is a child who is the last of the selkies, women in Irish and Scottish legends who transform from seals into people. She escapes from her grandmother's home to journey to the sea and free fairy creatures trapped in the modern world"--Internet movie database WWW site, January 7, 2015.
10) God's ears
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A mildly autistic man and a dancer form a friendship that helps them better understand the world that appears to have left them both behind. After crossing paths seemingly by chance, Noah and Alexia take a journey that forces them both out of their comfort zones and challenges their perceptions of love.
11) The other man
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After his wife disappears, a man discovers that she has been having an affair and sets out to track down the other man.
12) Independence day
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. At first thought to be meteors, the United States military suspect that a number of enormous alien spacecraft are on a collision course with Earth. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less...
14) James White
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young man hopes to gain control of his life in the midst of family turmoil.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's finest poet. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker finds her freedom scrawling verse while frittering through a series of stormy affairs. Amid escalating quarrels with her lovers and her rigid father, a parliament censorship minister, the poet witnesses an unconscionable event...
16) 3 faces
Author
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Persian
Description
Follows three actresses at different stages of their careers.
17) Music within
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, Richard Pimentel returns from Vietnam deafened by a bomb blast and finds his true calling as an employment placement advocate for the disabled.
18) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two young men on a motorcycle trip to New Orleans encounter hippies, drugs, rednecks and prostitutes along the way.
19) Amour
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army. In their quest to save the human race from extinction, they gain greater insight into the construction of The Matrix and Neo's pivotal role in the fate of mankind.
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