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Series
Criterion collection volume 898
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets, but especially Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder.
22) Edge of tomorrow
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each life, Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are...
23) Tanta agua
Series
Film Movement volume 11, film 11
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Alberto, a divorced father, takes his two children for a vacation at a thermal resort in Salto. Things don't turn out as planned as the non-stop rain forces them to stay indoors, away from the pools and with no TV. Alberto's efforts to entertain his children are met with indifference by Federico, his youngest son, and Luca̕, his teenage daughter. -- imdb.com.
Alberto, un padre divorciado, toma a sus dos niños durante las vacaciones en un recurso...
24) Alive inside
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A joyous cinematic exploration of music's capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music.
25) Othello
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's tragic story of how a great man's vanity is manipulated by a jealous aide to bring about his downfall. Presents John Dexter's production at the National Theatre of Great Britain.
26) Never let me go
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love.
27) Boyhood
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen. The film was shot intermittently over a twelve-year period from May 2002 to October 2013, showing the growth of Mason and his older sister, Samantha, to adulthood.
28) Layer cake
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Planning to retire and begin a new life, Mr. X is a successful West End drug dealer who has been asked for one last favor: to negotiate the sale of one million hits of Ecstasy. Unfortunately for Mr. X, the pills were stolen from a Serbian drug lord who'll cut off his head if he sells them. And with a London crime czar promising to retire him permanently if he doesn't, Mr. X may be rightfully concerned about his future.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In 2011, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in an essay published in the New York Times Magazine. Documented chronicles his journey to America from the Philippines as a child; his journey through America as an immigration reform activist; and his journey inward as he re-connects with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in person in over 20 years"--Container.
30) Trumbo
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. It tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
31) Apollo 13
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
Pub. Date
[1999?], 1997.
Language
English
Description
A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. But then, that life is threatened by World War II...and a beloved wife and son are saved from an unthinkable fate!
33) Coherence
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
34) Vertigo
Series
Alfred Hitchcock collection volume disc 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson becomes obsessed with the chance to re-create her in another woman.
35) Inside job
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
36) El Topo
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
A gunfighter and his young son attempt to protect a desert village from marauding bandits, with unexpected consequences.
37) Días de gracia
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
A cop, a hostage, a wife. Three violent destinies set during three World Cups.
La trama parte en la ignaguración del mundial de fútbol cuando un hombre es secuestrado en la ciudad de México ; la vida de tres personajes se modifican radicalmente...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Continues the history of people of African descent, including topics such as the global African presence, the science of melanin, the truth about the prison industrial complex, how thriving black economic communities were undermined in America, hidden truths about Native Americans, and more.
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
Español
Description
"Ella, deprimida, toma unas vacaciones junto a toda su familia, allí descubre la cantidad de aventuras que su marido tenía con otras mujeres y decide recuperar el tiempo perdido e iniciar relaciones con otros hombres desencadenando deliciosas situaciones. Sus hermanas, para no dejar pasar la tremenda oportunidad, gozan al máximo teniendo múltiples y graciosas experiencias con los del sexo opuesto"--Container.
Following the death of her philandering...
40) La nana
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Raquel has worked as a housemaid for an upper-class Santiago, Chile, family for 23 years. On Raquel's 41st birthday, Pilar Valdez and family force the sullen, withdrawn maid to emerge from her kitchen sanctum and join the family for a celebration, but her discomfort is as strong as the family's need to acknowledge their awkward dependence on her. Raquel becomes unable to care for the house alone and new help is hired, which throws her into a jealous...
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