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1) Uncut gems
Language
English
Formats
Description
A charismatic jeweler (Adam Sandler) makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
2) Taken
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment South Pacific
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"When his estranged daughter is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches on a one-man war to bring them to justice and rescue his daughter."--Container.
3) The lodge
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a family retreat to a remote winter cabin over the holidays, the father is forced to abruptly depart for work, leaving his two children in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 22
Language
English
Description
The 20th century can be seen as the "mass" century - mass production, mass market, and mass destruction. Add to the list mass entertainment, exemplified by the rise of Hollywood and the film industry. Track the development of motion pictures - and the inventions that made them possible.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
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Description
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a cocaine shipment is compromised, a drug cartel's CEO orders his most trusted henchman on a dangerous journey to audit the company's supply chain. As the drugs make their perilous trek across international borders, they are also being tracked by Federal Agents. When they find the problem, it might be too late to keep the cartel satisfied.
10) Super 8
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local deputy tries to uncover the truth, something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. Special features include: commentary, featurettes, and deleted scenes....
12) Red eye
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A woman is essentially kidnapped on a red eye flight by a man threatening to kill her father unless she, in turn, helps him kill a politician.
Series
Publisher
MGM Studios/Fox
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Français
Description
Ten years have passed since the tragic events of Jean de Florette. Jean's daughter Manon, now a beautiful young sherpardess in the nearby hills, appears to accuse the Soubeyrans of killing her father. Tragedy results before César, the neighbor who destroyed Jean, learns the truth of his actions.
14) La Strada
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Italiano
Description
A drama portraying the conflict between an itinerant circus strong man whose loneliness is masked by a rough, indifferent exterior, and his simple-minded mistress who serves him with unselfish devotion in the vain hope of winning his love and understanding.
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 16
Language
English
Description
Motion pictures revolutionized people's view of the world. Survey early movie culture, along with the contributions of Thomas Edison, Georges Méliès, and others, then see how the medium became "weaponized" by Bolsheviks in Russia and Nazis in Germany.
16) xXx
Language
English
Formats
Description
Xander is a notorious underground thrill-seeker who, until now, has been deemed untouchable by the law. But when he goes over the line with his latest stunt, he's faced with two options - either infiltrate a ruthless Russian crime ring for the government, or go to jail. Xander turns spy and now this new breed of secret agent is out to take down the enemies of justice with his own style of no-holds-barred action.
17) X
Language
English
Description
A group of actors set out to make an adult film in rural Texas under the noses of their reclusive hosts—an elderly couple with a farm and boarding house for rent. But when the couple catches their young guests in the act, the cast finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives in this tantalizing slasher from writer-director Ti West.
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Español
Description
Karen cries on the bus --"Karen has left her slimy but successful husband Mario after ten years of marriage. She needs a fresh start to find out who she is and who she could be, despite her husband's proclamation that she can do absolutely nothing. She walks out into Bogotá with no job, no friends, and hardly any money, but catches a break when she meets a hairdresser named Patricia at a cheap flophouse. With her younger and seemingly stronger friend...
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comedy about romance, grief, and sibling rivalry. A year after his brother Tom’s death, Jack (Duplass) is still struggling emotionally. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom’s best friend Iris (Blunt) offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. Once there, however, he runs into Iris’ sister Hannah (Dewitt) who is reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship and...