Tilda Swinton
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Lucy Pevensie, along with her older brothers Edmund and Peter, and her older sister, Susan, are in London during the initial bombing raids of WW II. Like many families, their parents decide to send them to the country for safer keeping. Peter, the oldest, is told to watch over the children and make sure they stay safe. This simple request will test Peter's ability to protect his siblings, especially after Lucy discovers an amazing secret. The children...
4) Snowpiercer
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The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters!
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan and a mission that will determine the fate of Narnia itself!
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
9) Deep water
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
True story of the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race, and the psychological toll it took on its competitors. Sponsored by the Sunday Times of London, the much-ballyhooed event attracted a field of nine, including amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst, who set out to circumnavigate the globe in late 1968. Battling treacherous seas and his own demons, Crowhurst almost immediately comes apart as he faces the isolation of nine months on the high...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
11) Moonrise kingdom
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
12) The zero theorem
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The story about a computer hacker in a dystopian sci-fi world. Living under constant surveillance by 'Management,' he strives to solve The Zero Theorem, a mathematical formula that may hold the key to the meaning of life.
14) Michael Clayton
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
15) Adaptation
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot.
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
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17) Julia
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julia is a 40-year-old alcoholic on the constant decline. She spends the nights partying, usually not knowing where she is, when she wakes up. Because of that, she loses her job. Her only friend, Mitch, a recovering alcoholic himself, makes her go to an AA meeting, where she meets her neighbor, Elena. Elena tells Julia that she wants to kidnap her son who is living with his very rich grandfather and go back to Mexico with him and she needs Julia to...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution, the Gala?pagos Islands are a living laboratory, a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to and seen the death of many species of plants and animals.
19) The deep end
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Margaret Hall is the mother of three willing to do whatever it takes to keep her family safe, including trying to cover up the accidental death of her son's "unsavory" friend. The next day a man knocks on her door and demands money to suppress a videotape linking her son to the death, which the police have rules a homicide.
20) Strange culture
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told through a blend of interviews, documentary footage, and reconstructed scenes, this film examines the true story of art professor Steve Kurtz, who called the police when his wife died and was detained and questioned as a bioterror suspect due to materials found in his house. On May 11, 2004, police responding to his distressed 911 call became suspicious of biological equipment in his house and contact the FBI. Only hours after his wife's death,...