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1) Paper moon
Language
English
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The trials and tribulations of three woman, spanning the first half of the 20th century. Eve runs away from home to sing on the stages of Paris before the Great War. Growing up in California, Eve's elder daughter Delphine is captivated by Hollywood of the Nineteen Thirties, eventually becoming a film star back in France, while younger daughter Freddy becomes a pilot at 16, eventually joining a small group of pilots ferrying planes to Britain during...
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1959, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone arrives at a mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan armed with the radical belief that schizophrenic patients should be treated with empathy and understanding. As his first study, he takes on the particularly challenging case of three men: Joseph, Leon, and Clyde, each of whom believes they are Jesus Christ. Dr. Stone begins a risky, unprecedented experiment that will push the boundaries of psychiatric medicine...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in 1967, a heartwarming film that follows the story of three generations of close friends, Lily, Eileen, and Dolly of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin, who have one tantalizing dream: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes, that place of miracles that draws millions of visitors each year. When the chance to win presents itself, the women seize it. However, just before their trip, their old friend Chrissie arrives in...
10) Boogie nights
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Dirk Diggler rises to fame in this hilarious look at the pornography industry, the free-spirited 70s, and the indulgent 80s.
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Soon after the end of World War I, Elizabeth MacDonald receives a telegram that her husband John has been killed in action just before peace was declared. She later succumbs to a fainting spell, not as a reaction to her husband's death, but because she's expecting a child. Twenty years later and on the eve of World War II, the remarried Elizabeth, whose son has just enlisted, is about to get a shock: John is not dead!
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family, through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later, marked by the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroad.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The reformer is Andrew Rockton Hale, running for mayor on a good-government platform. The redhead is Kathleen Maguire, a zoo superintendent's daughter who keeps a full-grown lion as a house cat. When a corrupt party boss unjustly bounces Maguire's father from his job, the two become political and romantic partners, despite Hale's misgivings about hanging around 500 pounds of feline. And that's before a different lion escapes from the zoo, and Hale...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Every princess needs a Prince Charming. But lovely Princess Veronica didn't expect hers to be bellhop Jimmy Dobson. Hedy Lamarr is the princess, Robert Walker is the bellhop and June Allyson is a bedridden former dancer who secretly loves Jimmy in this frothy fairy tale set in prewar Manhattan's version of a palace: an elegant hotel complete with royal grounds (Central Park, of course). The fun begins when Jimmy mistakes Veronica for a new maid....
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
An American trapeze act comes to pre-World War II Germany; two of the members are trapped inside Berlin after the other commits suicide. They find work with Dr. Vergerus at St. Ana's clinic, and soon discover that all is not what it appears to be.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
17) Thomas & Sarah
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Follows the up-and-down adventures of a former chauffeur and parlor maid who gave notice to make a go of it on their own, and who are often as at odds with each other as they are with their efforts to strike it rich.
19) Harakiri
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
An unemployed samurai in seventeenth-century Japan visits a feudal lord threatening harakiri in the hope that he will be employed, but his request is denied and the warrior is honor-bound to carry out the ritual suicide.
20) The Odessa file
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In 1963, in Hamburg, Germany, a diary falls into the hands of freelance newspaperman Peter Miller. The diary documents the unspeakable crimes perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann, commandant of the notorious wartime deathcamp at Riga, Latvia. Miller's personal manhunt to track down Roschmann leads him into the very heart of ODESSA, a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the...
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