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Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Inspector Kurt Wallander, brooding and disillusioned, struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
Three crime dramas based on the best-selling novels by Henning Mankell--Faceless killers, The man who smiled, and The fifth woman--follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
4) The plot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written--let alone published--anythingdecent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as...
5) Rosewater
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who relentlessly interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to disinherit him if he marries her. Jane's mother also...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate...
10) Interstellar
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
℗2014.
Language
English
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"The third season brings strange power fluctuations that trigger Will's awareness of something otherworldly. Eleven and Max sense something is off about the town's residents, and despite having closed the portal to the Upside Down, fears that they are all still in danger from it." --Wikipedia.
13) Atomic Blonde
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
16) The sting
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003-]
Language
English
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Description
Set in 1930's Chicago, this story deals with two con men who seek revenge on a big-time gangster who was responsible for the murder of their friend.
17) Key Largo
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
During a hurricane, a hotel in Key Largo is taken over by a mob of gangsters.
18) The Martian
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.
19) Before sunrise
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A young American man meets a beautiful French student on a train bound for Paris, falls in love and asks her to share his last night in Vienna.
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