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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Brooklyn plumber named Mario travels through the Mushroom Kingdom with a princess named Peach and an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad to find Mario's brother, Luigi, and to save the world from a ruthless fire-breathing Koopa named Bowser.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape
4) Lion
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.
7) In Her Name
Author
Language
Français
Description
A gripping and emotional legal drama based on a true story that moved France for three decades. Starring Daniel Auteuil (Jean De Florette) and Sebastian Koch (Homeland, The Life of Others).
In 1982, André Bamberski (Daniel Auteuil) learns about the death of his 14-year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather (Sebastian Koch) in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka's death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape.
9) Her
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A withdrawn writer, Theodore Twombly, falls in love with his computer's highly advanced operating system named Samantha.
"The film's genius is how it grounds the notion of a man falling for an artificially intelligent machine with reality. Just how many clicks away is this from online dating?"--USA Today
"...goes light-years beyond science-fiction cliches. As the story progresses further into unexpected territory, 'Her' sometimes feels like an out-of-body...
Author
Language
English
Description
Slavery By Another Name challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions - the belief that slavery in the US ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation - by telling the harrowing story of how in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force
Author
Language
Persian
Description
A woman who killed her husband, a woman who killed her children, a woman who killed her rapist; along a dark corridor of prison cells, deep in Tehran, these women speak. With evocative cinematography, devastating interviews and remarkable access, this doc peels back the layers of the women's narratives, uncovering tales of coercion, abuse and drugs. All are victims of a male-dominated society, with the odds stacked against them from the start.
Author
Language
English
Description
Blues music documentary of American bluesman, Kent DuChaine with interview and performance footage of blues standards and self-penned numbers recorded in England in 1995 and 1997. Kent plays Mississippi Delta style acoustic slide on his 1934 National Steel guitar, Leadbessie and talks about the influences of Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters together with his personal friendship with Johnny Shines.
Author
Language
English
Description
A MAN NAMED PEARL tells the inspiring story of self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar, whose unlikely journey to national prominence began with a bigoted remark. In 1976, Pearl took a job in a can factory in Bishopville, South Carolina. New to this rural southern town, he and his wife Metra looked at a house for sale in an all-white neighborhood. The Fryars' real estate agent was notified by neighbors in the prospective neighborhood that a black family...
Author
Series
Ruby Gloom volume 12
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Skull Boy sets out to bring his latest script, "The Adventures Of Skull Kid" to the big screen. When his "vision" proves far too ambitious, Ruby suggests that he scale back on his story and make it "more personal." Taking her advice to heart, Skull Boy concocts a whacky cartoon based on Ruby and his friends...to very mixed reviews!
Author
Series
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure volume 33
Language
English
Description
The curtains are down on his skirmish with Secco, but Bucciarati must race against time to reach the Colosseum as he realizes his body is nearing the end of the line. Unfortunately, he's not the only one who catches on to his deteriorating condition.
Author
Language
English
Description
Alexander takes a rip-roaring historical adventure! Through his imaginative journey, Alexander discovers how great men become heroes: the roughest rider can be surprisingly gentle, a strong leader is also the most peaceful, and sometimes, being brave about what makes you different will not only help you break records, but inspire others. So begins the day for Alexander, an imaginative little boy who explores the innovative men who influenced and shaped...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 2000 in the jungles of Panama, a young journalist, named Ana, has a chance encounter with a tiny orphaned sloth, which she names Velcro. For nearly two years, the pair is inseparable until finally Ana travels up a remote river to reintroduce Velcro back to the wild. This is the story Ana's return to Central and South America to see how much has changed since Velcro came into her life. Sloths, once largely ignored, have become a hot topic of...