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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he encounters a number of interesting characters in his search for information about his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and tries to find the lock that fits the mysterious key he left behind.
5) Life of Pi
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Banker Andy Dufresne is unjustly sentenced to life in the brutal Shawshank State Prison. Through patience and strength of will, he is able to play upon the corruption of the warden to bankroll a new life in Mexico following his escape.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Contains a dramatization of the first half of Ayn Rand's satire on the follies and dangers of collectivism in which the United States is faced with the prospect of economic collapse when the country's leading innovators and industrialists go into hiding.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
9) Get low
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, plans his very own rollicking funeral party.
10) Her
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A withdrawn writer, Theodore Twombly, falls in love with his computer's highly advanced operating system named Samantha.
12) Lincoln
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his final four months in office and looking at how he ended the Civil War and united the country.
13) Sarah's key
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
American journalist Julia Jarmond living in Paris with her French husband Bertrand is assigned to cover the anniversary of France's notorious Vel d'Hiv round up of Jews in World War II and is shocked to discover that Bertrand's family has been concealing a disturbing secret.
14) Forever my girl
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Country music superstar Liam Page returns home ten years after he left his bride, Josie, at the altar, and finds himself torn between his two worlds.
15) Secretariat
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
True story of racing's Triple Crown Champion Secretariat, and his owner Penny Chennery.
16) The tourist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank, a mild-mannered American on vacation in Venice, becomes unexpectedly involved with a beautiful woman Elise, but as their whirlwind romance quickly evolves, they find themselves thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, where she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
19) The Circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
20) The big short
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a "house of cards" sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm picks up insider trading information from a wrong number phone call; Jarred Vennet, a smart-aleck broker who confirms the ominous suspicion; and Charles Gellar and James Shipley,...
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