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1) Office space
Language
English
Formats
Description
Peter Gibbons is a cubicle slave at Initech Corporation, who tires of mind-numbing corporate life and actively tries to get fired. Instead, his "straight-shooting" attitude gets him promoted, where he can play out his grand embezzling scheme.
4) Auntie Mame
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt--a lady who throws a party for any occasion or nonoccasion that comes to mind.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation,...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
Language
English
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"In this vastly amusing, offbeat fantasy, Sayles takes a fresh look at our society through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial (Joe Morton) who crash-lands on Earth -- in Harlem -- and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his original and eye-opening journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with the intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?"...
11) The undefeated
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
An action-packed western adventure about life after the Civil War. Yankee Colonel John Henry Thomas and Confederate Colonel James Langdon are enemies turned cohorts as they join forces in battling their way out of Mexico.
13) Road to Utopia
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Bing and Bob get caught up in a race to stake their claim to the veins of a Klondike gold mine after nabbing the deed from a couple of vicious killers. Since the boys themselves are skipping town after a shady deal, they decide to adopt the murderers' identities and take the opportunity to get to know the beautiful and ambitious Dorothy Lamour.
14) Mr. Mom
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
[Standard version].
Language
English
Description
Michael Keaton plays a harried househusband and Teri Garr a rising business executive who encounter one problem after another.
15) Chappie
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. But now, the people are fighting back. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. As powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a danger to mankind and order, they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind....
16) North to Alaska
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
John Wayne and Stewart Granger strike it rich in this comedy-adventure set in the heyday of the Alaskan gold rush. When two prospectors hit the mother lode, they set off a plot of action, romance and comedy.
17) Ocean's twelve
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three years after pulling a con over Las Vegas casino owner Terry Benedict, Danny Ocean and his cohorts have lived quietly out of the spotlight in retirement. But Benedict gives the group an ultimatum to come up with $190 million dollars or else, so Danny needs to pull one more heist, in the form of separate capers in Paris, Amsterdam and Rome. In addition to a tight deadline, the gang has to cope with an agent in pursuit as well as a rival thief...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Haunted by his turbulent past, he believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord with his gangs, pursues the rebels ruthlessly...
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