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1) Mudbound
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024, 2017
Formats
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
2) Fremont
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world through a cookie in this offbeat vision of the universal longing for home.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Tells the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Set on the future earth. Johnny Rico is a young student dating a girl named Carmen. When Carmen decides she wants to become a citizen by joining the military, Johnny follows and joins as well. He soon realizes that he joined for the wrong reasons. Just as he is about to quit, an asteroid that originated from the orbit of planet Klendathu hits Buenos Aires and kills his family. From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga to the descolate...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010, 2009
Description
Eli (Washington) walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland and pits him against a menacing...
7) Gold
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
An estranged father returns to his hometown after a decade long absence with hopes to rekindle relations with his daughter and ex-wife but unwittingly unravels the family life they have created.
9) The descent
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2006, 2005
Description
On an annual extreme outdoor adventure, six women meet in a remote part of the Appalachian Mountains to explore a cave hidden deep in the woods. Far below the surface of the earth, disaster strikes when a rockfall blocks their exit and there's no way out. The women push on, praying that they can find another exit, but there is something else lurking under the earth. Now, the friends discover that they have become prey, forced to unleash their most...
10) 21 Jump Street
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Pictures Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"Un hombre escribe, vive y ama en la oscuridad. Catorce años antes sufrió junto a Lena, la mujer de su vida, un brutal accidente de coche en la isla de Lanzarote.
Este hombre usa dos nombres, Harry Caine, lúdico seudónimo bajo el que firma sus trabajos literarios, relatos y guiones y Mateo Blanco, su nombre de pila real, con el que vive y firma las películas que dirige. En la actualidad, Harry Caine vive gracias a los guiones que escribe y a...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"Arráncame la Vida En un mundo de política, corrupción, adulterio y asesinato, se desarrolla Arráncame la Vida, una película basada en la exitosa novela de Ángeles Mastretta, que retrata la historia de una mujer que se atrevió a romper los esquemas de su tiempo. Catalina es una mujer poblana en los años treinta que encuentra en Andrés Ascencio, un hombre simpático y poderoso, una vía para salir de su pequeño mundo y vivir grandes experiencias....
15) Traitor
Author
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce of MOMENTO, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn (Academy-Award®-nominee Don Cheadle of HOTEL RWANDA, CRASH). A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down....
16) Hereafter
Pub. Date
2011
Description
George, a blue-collar American, possesses a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
17) Migration
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2024, 2023
Formats
Description
The Mallard family is in a bit of a rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom Pam is eager to shake things up and show their kids - teen son Dax and duckling daughter Gwen - the whole wide world. After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, Pam persuades Mack to embark on a family trip, via New York City, to tropical Jamaica.
18) Outcast
Publisher
Distributed by Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"When the heir of the Imperial Throne becomes the target of an assassination by his despised older brother, the young prince must flee the kingdom and seek protection. His only hope for survival is a reluctant war-weary crusader named Jacob, who must overcome his own personal demons and rally the assistance of a mythical outlaw known as The White Ghost. Together they must fight side by side in an epic battle to return the prince to his rightful place...
20) Alpha and omega
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011, 2010
Description
After two wolves from opposite ends of their pack's social structure are relocated, they must work together to find their way back home.
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