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1) Office space
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Unable to endure another mind-numbing day at Initech Corporation, white-collar peon Peter Gibbons has had enough. Armed with a bold new attitude and a sexy new girlfriend, he neglects his job with a vengeance--and is quickly promoted to upper management"--Container.
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family, he runs into Kay, who happens to be the baby of the family, and who was spared. Kay and Arlis suspect nothing about each other, but when his father returns, old wounds are reopened.
3) The tourist
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, Frank unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
4) Waterworld
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In a future where Earth is covered with water, the human race struggles to survive on dilapidated boats and makeshift floating cities called atolls. When a mysterious drifter/adventurer known as the Mariner gets caught up in the struggle between the evil Deacon and a young girl and her adoptive mother, he finds himself catapulted into an explosive war of good vs. evil.
5) Sleepers
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Many years after four friends are sent to a juvenile detention center and brutalized by the guards, they find a way to seek revenge for their treatment.
Language
English
Description
Steve Hardin, a young judge, must grapple with his own conscience as vicious criminals in his court are going free as a result of loopholes in the law. Meeting behing closed doors is the Star Chamber, a small group of powerful men bent on vigilante justice, who decree their own punishment for the guilty.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
The overdose: A white car is parked by a side road in the beautiful landscape of Scania in southern Sweden. A child sits alone without an adult in sight. The child's father has been reported as missing, while the mother is in a psychiatric institution, unresponsive and apathetic. Kurt Wallander's failing health sees Linda take the lead in the case. It will touch her deeply as she discovers that the child has been unscrupulously tricked, exploited...
8) Nancy
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A serial imposter, Nancy (Andrea Riseborough, *Birdman, Mandy*) becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child, and when she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic and winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for Best First Screenplay and Best Supporting Female...
9) Army of one
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story of Gary Faulkner, a handyman from Colorado who receives a vision from God telling him to go to Pakistan to do what no one else can do: capture Osama bin Laden. Without questioning and without skills, he follows his mission.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen eighty-four: Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. When he starts an illegal love affair, he becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him to conform.
Crime and punishment: A modern version of Dostoyevsky's classic of one man's search for the true meaning of his existence.
12) Creepshow
Language
English
Description
Five horror stories presented in the style of classic 1950's comic books, like Tales from the crypt.
13) Beginners
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Captain America teams with the Black Widow and a new ally, the Falcon, in a fight for the future of mankind. Following the cataclysmic events in New York with the Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the entire world at risk. As the conspiracy...
16) The Bostonians
Language
English
Description
Olive, a militant suffragette, takes on the education of Verena, a brilliantly gifted but naive young girl. Olive wants to mold and use this gift for the feminist cause. But Verena is also loved by Basil Ransom, an impecunious young lawyer with views strenuously opposed to the Boston feminists. The contest is met between Basil and Olive. The prize: possession of Verena.
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