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1) Ammonite
Language
English
Description
In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds...
2) Babel
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general...
3) River wild
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joey fears there could be trouble ahead after her brother Gray invites Trevor, a childhood friend with a troubled past, on their whitewater rafting adventure with two tourists. Once they become stranded in raging rapids, the thrill-seeking trip quickly turns from exciting to utterly terrifying as the rafters are trapped in a desperate fight for their lives, all while someone seems intent on sabotaging to ensure shocking secrets stay buried. To survive...
4) Ammonite
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set on the southern coast of 1800s England, as fossil hunter Mary Anning takes on the care of Charlotte Murchison, a wealthy visitor's wife, their relationship evolves from host-and-guest to something more.
5) Littlerock
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A sleepy Los Angeles exurb and its shiftless young residents are seen through the eyes of two Japanese tourists in an intimate evocation of a small town in Southern California where everyone's talking but no one really understands.
8) Kedarnath
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Hindi
Description
Mansoor, a reserved and reticent Muslim pithoo, helps pilgrims make an arduous journey upwards to the temple town. His world turns around when he saves the beautiful and rebellious Mukku, a Hindu tourist, from the Uttrakhand floods at the pilgrimage, and the two are soon drawn into a whirlwind of intense love.
9) High Spirits
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Impoverished Peter Plunkett hatches the perfect plan to save his debt-ridden Irish castle: lure American tourists by advertising the place as haunted! But when Peter and his wacky staff don sheets and chains to go a-haunting, they scare up more than paying guests ... they arouse the real ghosts of Castle Plunkett, as moldy and murderous a crew of spooks who ever terrorized the Celtic countryside. Or fell in love with a mortal.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Discworld is a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, Earth, and it finally has it's first tourist. Rincewind is an inept ex-student wizard who is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city-state of Ankh Morpork. But unfortunately Rincewind has two problems. First, he is an expert coward and he doesn't feel that he is the best person to guard a naive, and extremely rich, tourist through one of the roughest cities in the...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Mobster Victoria Galetti, on a plane to L.A., has been ratted out. The police are waiting for her at the airport and she has a million dollars in cash that she needs to stash quickly. She puts the money in the bag of an Indian tourist who is visiting the States for the first time, taking his address tag so she can find the money later. What seems like a simple pick-up, turns into a problem when a dog buries the money.
12) Ammonite: DVD
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds...
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