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English
Description
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...
2) Come true
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.
3) Linoleum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Edwin, the host of a failing children's science TV show called Above & Beyond, has always had aspirations for being an astronaut. After a mysterious space-race era satellite coincidentally falls from space and lands in his backyard, his midlife crisis manifests in a plan to rebuild the machine into his dream rocket. As his relationship with his wife and daughter start to strain, surreal events begin unfolding around him: a doppelgänger moving...
4) Inception
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Dom Cobb is the best there is at extraction; stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind's vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage, but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible; inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
From an imperial-era Russian Christmas party, a young girl named Clara is whisked in her dreams to an imaginary world populated by the animated creations of the wizard toy maker Drosselmeier. Clara innocently develops a crush on the imaginary Nutcracker prince. Upon her arrival in the Land of the Sweets, she dances a yearning pas de deux with the Nutcracker Prince. It makes the ballet far more interesting. The frequent involvement of Drosselmeyer...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Gary Sheller is caught in a mid-life crisis: dead-end job, depressing life and a deteriorating relationship with his girlfriend, Dora. That is, until he meets Anna, the girl of his dreams. Able to see her only while asleep, Gary seeks out an expert on lucid dreaming techniques who agrees to help Gary carry on the most satisfying relationship of his life. But as Gary continues to shun reality, his waking life troubles only worsen.
7) Paprika
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
A revolutionary machine has been built that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After the machine is stolen, a fearless detective and brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a "dream terrorist."
8) Moon Garden
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comatose five-year-old girl travels through a darkly surreal industrial wonderland, haunted by a nightmarish spectre that feeds off her tears. Through her fear, she must follow her mother's voice -- staticky and cutting out -- to find her way back to consciousness.
9) Waking life
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
[Widescreen version (1.85:first)].
Language
English
Description
Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to the question of whether we are sleepwalking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams.
10) Inception
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dom Cobb is the best there is at extraction; stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind's vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage, but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible; inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Special édition.
Language
Français
Description
This fantastically-twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on a dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls...
Pub. Date
2003, ©1949, ©1945.
Language
English
Description
DEAD OF NIGHT: An architect is caught up in an endless series of recurring dreams, during which he is told other people's supernatural experiences. He finally murders the psychiatrist who is trying to help him. ; QUEEN OF SPADES: Herman tries to learn the secret to winning money so he can afford to court Lisa. He fails tragically, and Herman, Lisa, and her mysterious grandmother all die.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1007
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Conceived as the ultimate road movie, this decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic from Wim Wenders follows the restless Claire Tourneur across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger in possession of a device that can make the blind see and bring dream images to waking life. This breathless adventure in the shadow of Armageddon takes its heroes to the ends of the earth and into the oneiric depths of their own souls.
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Perfectionist Nandi seems to have the New South African Dream life within her grasp, a promotion to partner in a major firm, an upcoming marriage, the perfect house. But it all goes up in flames a few months before the wedding. With her friends Zaza and Princess, Nandi will have to find out what truly makes her happy and then fight to get it.
17) 3 beauties
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Perla is a mother with three children, Carolina, Estefania and Salvador. She is obsessed with turning one of her daughters into a beauty queen and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her own childhood dream come true, even if it means affectionately ignoring her only son. Perlas unlimited efforts will soon turn into a nightmare for both of her daughters. Toddlers and Tiaras meets Pedro Almodovar in this crafty Spanish comedy.
18) Nightwish
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A professor and four graduate students journey to a crumbling mansion to investigate paranormal activity and must battle ghosts, aliens and satanic entities.
19) Inception: DVD
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A man, highly skilled in entering people's dreams to extract secret information, is offered a chance to implant an idea in another man's head, a practice known as inception.
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