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Publisher
Luis Argueta
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
Español
Description
Set during the 1954 American-led military coup to overthrow Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz, this coming-of-age tale follows a young boy, Neto (Oscar Javier Almengor), who dreams of one day flying in a hot air balloon. After the U.S. military arrives in the country, he watches as his family and friends are negatively affected. First, his father loses his job, and then the whole family is forced to leave the city, which culminates in the death of...
63) Almodou
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes distasteful practices are most effectively criticized with a good sense of humor. Meet Modou, a young, courageous and determined talibé - a pupil in a Koranic school - who manages to escape from his corrupt and abusive teacher to find a better life in contemporary Dakar, Senegal.
65) Goldfinger
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Agent 007 takes on billionaire Auric Goldfinger, who plans to throw the world economy into a tailspin by contaminating the gold at Fort Knox with nuclear radiation.
66) Still life
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Great changes have come to the town of Fengjie due to the construction of the Three Gorges hydro project: Countless families that had lived there for many generations have had to relocate to other cities. Fengjie's old town, which has a 2000-year history, has been torn down and submerged forever, but its new neighborhood hasn't been finished yet. There are still things that need to be salvaged and yet there are also things that must be left behind....
67) Blackmail
Series
Publisher
LaserLight DVD
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
[Blackmail] A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else. First produced as a silent film, then in this version with dialog.
[Easy virtue] "After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
"Cantinflas se mete disimuladamente a un cabaret donde una actriz se encuentra entre el público asistente. La convence de bailar con él pero, al mismo tiempo, unos ladrones roban su valioso collar. Cuando Cantinflas logra recuperarlo, la actriz se muestra muy agradecida y lo invita al estudio donde está filmando Los Tres Mosqueteros, lugar donde él será confundido con un extra."
Cantinflas attends a nightclub where an actress appears. He convinces...
69) Small change
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Français
Description
10 children, boys and girls, are shown in different stages of life, from early childhood to adolescence. Some are funny, others are serious and others are as grim as news reports.
70) Manmarziyaan
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Hindi
Description
A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.
71) A star is born
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Drunken waning movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he literally stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops which blossoms into romance but tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's plummets.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented collaboration of Kino International and the Museum of Modern Art, together with the Library of Congress. Edison: the invention of the movies is a four-disc box set featuring 140 complete Edison Co. films from 1891 to 1918, all restored and newly remastered. This deluxe set also includes 200+ scans of artifacts from MoMA's Edison collection, film-by-film program notes, and two hours of interviews with early film experts.
Series
Publisher
Front Row Entertainment Canada, Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Based on the stage presentation of Irving Berlin's all-soldier musical. In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiance until the war is over.
76) The hanging tree
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The story takes place in Skull Creek, a 1870s Montana gold camp. Dr. Joseph Frail arrives, setting out his shingle near the camp's boom-or-bust hubbub of adventurers, ladies of fortune, mountain men and just plain decent folks. As skilled with a six-gun as with a scalpel, Frail will need both.
77) Pulp Fiction
Language
English
Formats
Description
Critics and audiences worldwide hailed PULP FICTION as the star-studded movie that redefined cinema in the 20th Century. Writer-director Quentin Tarantino (Oscar® -winner - Best Original Screenplay, 1994) delivers an unforgettable cast of characters - including a pair of low-rent hit men (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), a gangster's wife (Uma Thurman), and a desperate prizefighter (Bruce Willis) - in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating adventure...
78) The color purple
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1985 ;
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
79) Coming Out
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Although he has a girlfriend who is expecting his child, Philipp, a young teacher in Berlin, meets Matthias and falls in love. After years of repressing his homosexuality, he must finally accept himself for who he truly is. The first and only DEFA feature film about homosexuality, Coming Out premiered on November 9, 1989 ... the evening the Berlin Wall came down. Philipp and Tanja teach at the same school. Both enjoy their work immensely, win their...
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