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5) Oski
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Language
Swedish
Description
Oski' is an intimate portrait of a young prodigy and the culture that surrounds him. A film documenting a year in the life of skateboarding sensation Oskar "Oski" Rozenberg as he transforms from a cool street skater to a celebrity sportsman.
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Language
English
Description
In 2015, 94-year-old former German SS officer Oskar Gröning, nicknamed "The Accountant of Auschwitz", went on trial in his home country, charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jews at Auschwitz in 1944. Gröning's trial made headlines around the world as a frail old man took the stand to face his former victims.
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Series
Beyond The Dark volume 9
Language
English
Description
Balding, insecure Leo tries a new hair growth serum that also unfortunately causes a series of grotesque side effects.
10) Iceland Is Best
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Language
English
Description
Sigga dreams of going to California. Nikki wants her to stay. It is only after he breaks her leg at the airport that Sigga finds the courage to go.
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Series
Sanctuary volume 7
Language
English
Description
A shocked Hel learns that her sister has reportedly died in a car crash. A fellow inmate tells Hel that she a psychiatrist embedded as a patient, and that she believes her story. They decide to talk to Fisher, her long-time friend and colleague.
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Series
Sanctuary volume 6
Language
English
Description
Siri sends Hel an upsetting message from the outside. Hel continues concocting her escape plan. Carol arranges a meeting with the Head of Security and accuses Hel of an unspeakable crime.
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Series
Sanctuary volume 1
Language
English
Description
Helena (Hel) Brant visits her estranged twin sister Siri at a luxurious alpine sanatorium, Himmelstal. Much to Hel's horror, she soon realizes the sanctuary is an escape-proof psychiatric hospital and Siri has swapped places with her, leaving her trapped.
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Series
Sanctuary volume 3
Language
English
Description
Hel learns about a secret escape organization between inmates and is determined to use them to help get her out of Himmelstal. By doing so, she inherits some dangerous enemies… and several possible lovers.
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Series
Sanctuary volume 4
Language
English
Description
Hel desperately tries to persuade staff that she is not a psychopath, but no one believes her claims. Dr Kowalska discovers Dr Fisher's true unsettling mission behind the sanctuary.
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Series
Sanctuary volume 8
Language
English
Description
Hel's fellow inmate is brutally tasered by Fisher when she confronts him. Another doctor discovers Hel is telling the truth, but is driven off the road and killed by another member of staff. As her options are rapidly running out, and Hel has nothing to lose, she decides to accept a 'kamikaze' plan to escape. But nothing ever seems to go to plan in Himmelstal…
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Series
Sanctuary volume 5
Language
English
Description
Hel learns more about Siri's disturbing and violent past. Hel's fate is in the hands of a dangerous psychopathic inmate, Carol, who rules the valley.
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Series
Sanctuary volume 2
Language
English
Description
Panicked Hel tries to tell authorities – founder Dr Fisher and Dr Kowalska - about Siri's betrayal. When Hel finally succeeds in getting them to check confirm her story by looking at her fingerprints, she is horrified to discover they 'prove' she is Siri.
19) Iris
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Language
Swedish
Description
The year is 1890. Iris is 8 years old and lives in Stockholm with her mother Ester, who is an artist. Iris is precocious and experienced in the ways of the world. She feels at home among her mother's modern artist friends. Now she is waiting for the big adventure; Ester's exhibition in Paris.On the day of the departure, Iris is shocked to find out that she will not be going to Paris. When the proposed child minders cannot look after her as planned,...
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Language
English
Description
This fanciful biography of the German fairy tale collectors, with reenactments of three of their stories, tells the story of the brothers' long struggle for recognition and the sacrifices they and their families made to achieve their goals. Between dreamer Wilhelm (Laurence Harvey) and practical Jacob (Karl Boehm), some marvelous fairy tales develop. In "The Dancing Princess," a princess (Yvette Mimieux) falls in love with a charming woodsman (Russ...