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581) Bohemian Rhapsody
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound. They reach unparalleled success, but in an unexpected turn Freddie, surrounded by darker influences, shuns Queen in...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Language
English
Description
Poison Ivy: A provocative and erotic thriller centered on two schoolgirls: Ivy, the sexy, streetwise new girl in a posh private school; and Cooper, rich, smart, but misunderstood. When Ivy is invited into Cooper's privileged world, she seizes the opportunity for seduction and sets off a chain reaction.
Poison Ivy 2: Lily: Lily is just the average new girl at school until she discovers an old diary containing Ivy's deepest darkest secrets. The more...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
"The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club profiles one of the most colorful and accomplished female pilots of the early 20th century. Florence "Pancho" Barnes became the first female stunt pilot in Hollywood in 1929 and shattered Amelia Earhart's air speed record in 1930. In the 1940's and 50's, Pancho entertained the best test pilots in the world -- men with the right stuff -- at her "Happy Bottom Riding Club" guest ranch near...
584) Outrage
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Directed by pioneering actress/filmmaker Ida Lupino, the controversial classic Outrage was one of the first Hollywood films of its era to deal with the subject of rape. Ann Walton, a young bookkeeper freshly engaged to her boyfriend, Jim Owens, sees her promising life unraveling completely when, on her way home from work one evening, she is raped. The trauma of the attack shatters her sense of identity and forces her to flee from home in shame. It...
585) Smooth talk
Series
Criterion collection volume 1068
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on Joyce Carol Oates' celebrated short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," the narrative debut from Joyce Chopra features a revelatory breakout performance by Laura Dern as Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, whose summertime idyll of beach...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of fifty thousand listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, D.C. Dignitaries and government officials crowded the first eight cars. In the ninth rode the body of Abraham...
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 6
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
עברית
Description
Jaffa: "In the heart of the Israeli city of Jaffa, Reuven's Garage is a family-run business. The garage workers consist of Reuven's beautiful daughter Mali, his aggressive and distant son Meir, as well as the young Palestinian man, Toufik. No one suspects that Mali and Toufik have been in love for years, and that Mali is pregnant with Toufik's child. As the two lovers secretly make their wedding arrangements, tension steadily builds between Toufik...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Swedish
Description
After the death of her husband, Police inspector Maria Wern seeks to start her life over and moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children. While struggling as a single mother and mourning her husband's death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male-dominated environment. She constantly encounters rage, death and evil but she stays determined to endure what sometimes feels...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Stigmata: Frankie Paige is a bold free spirit with no worries and no faith in God. All of that changes when she suddenly begins to suffer the Stigmata--the living wounds of the crucified Christ. Bleeding from those miraculous wounds and speaking in an ancient Biblical tongue, Frankie comes to the attention of the Vatican's top investigator, Father Kiernan. But when a corrupt Cardinal discovers that Frankie is actually channeling an earth-shattering...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Danish
Description
Teddy Bear: Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year old body builder, would like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a woman from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a visit to Pattaya as it seems love is easier to find there. Knowing his mother would never accept another woman in his life, he lies and tells her he is going to Germany for a competition. Pattaya...
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The cherry orchard: Madame Ranevskaya returns to her decaying estate in pre-Revolutionary Russia after an exile in Paris. The estate and its beloved cherry orchard are threatened by Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it.
Talking to a stranger: A grown-up brother and sister go home to visit their elderly parents, but a series of emotional developments lead to shocking resolutions. Consists of four episodes,...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The shootings at Columbine High School on April 20th 1999 ended thirteen lives and shattered countless others. But while the tragic events of that day were well documented, the stories of the families who lost loved ones and struggled to build new lives have yet to be told. Bound forever by unimaginable circumstances, these thirteen families lived through the same tragedy, yet each has dealt with the aftermath in their own way...and each has a different...
593) King's gambit
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Bryce Wheeler is a newfound "Herald" whose job in life is to control the world's balance by manipulating events using the mystical journal he inherited from his recently deceased father. He finds it is harder to control the power he has spent his life training for than he expected. As he tilts the scales against himself and goes to extreme lengths playing a risky game, will Bryce end up being the first Herald in history to lose the journal?
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