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Series
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
In August 1944, the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
2) Tough guys
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
3) Viva Maria!
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Somewhere in Middle America, 1907: Maria II, the daughter of an Irish terrorist, meets Maria I, the singer of an circus after the death of her father. She decides to stay with the circus. On her debut as a singer, she accidentally invented a strip-tease, that made the circus famous. But they meet a socialist revolutionary and find themselves leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists and the church.
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Hawkins, a timid watchmaker with a part-time job, is also a professional assassin who bumps off the people we love to hate. But when pompous MP Sir Gregory Upshott is the intended target, bungling vacuum cleaner salesman William Blake always gets in the way. As the time of the assassination draws even closer and Hawkins tracks his victim to a dilapidated seaside hotel called The Green Man, the laughs and the tension steadily rise to a brilliant climax....
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Washed-up, alcoholic vagabond Ben Chamberlain drifts into a godforsaken railhead town looking for a woman named Alma. When that woman winds up dead, Ben finds himself wrongfully accused of murder by the corrupt railroad chief deputy Vince McKay and his trigger-happy posse. McKay gives him a horse; some supplies and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his band of cutthroats after him.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[30th anniversary special edition.]
Language
English
Description
It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. There are a few people who have been half-century friends or acquaintances on the island, including Tisha Doughty and Joshua Brackett.
8) Delirious
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jack Gable, a soap opera writer, takes a knock on the head one day and wakes up in the very television show he has been writing. He discovers that through his typewriter he can control events in his new reality.
11) The scalphunters
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When trapper Joe Bass is bush-wacked by Indians who steal his furs he's determined to get his property back. They left a runaway slave with him in exchange. When the Indians are attacked by outlaws, Joe and the slave must join forces to retrieve the furs.
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
When a hired killer crosses paths with a suicidal shirt salesman, the resulting calamity makes for one of the funniest, most original films ever. Ralf Milan has come to Montpellier to fulfill a "contract" that a powerful crime organization has placed on a man about to testify against the mob at an upcoming trial. As Ralf waits for the man in his hotel room with gun in hand, he notices something very strange in the attaching room next door: Franöis...
13) The grey fox
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner emerges in 1901 a free man without a place in twentieth-century society. Times have changed, but in the face of all these changes, neither his good-humored patience nor his joy of life has abandoned him. With the vigor of a teenager, Miner sees a screening of one of the first films, The Great Train Robbery, and is inspired to once again do what he does best.
14) Boy on a dolphin
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Italian goddess Sophia Loren made her American film debut in this adventure yarn set upon the Greek island of Hydra. There in a seaside village the beautiful Phaedra, a sponge diver, finds a breath-taking gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin. Her slimy and crooked boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous and wealthy art collector, but Phaedra wants to hand it over to an American anthropologist, Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government,...
15) Marty
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Marty is a nice guy, living with his mother in the Bronx, hanging around with similarly socially inept friends, dreaming of owning his own butcher's shop, and maybe even finding a girl to love. The people around him don't think Marty will make anything more of himself than he already has--life is comfortable, why would Marty want to change? But when Marty meets Clara, a schoolteacher with similar aspirations, Marty is motivated to do remarkable things....
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When Dick Dudgeon learns his father was executed by the British for treason at the onset of the Revolutionary War, he steals the body for a proper burial, ignoring the pleas of his friend, Minister Anthony Anderson who's a peace-loving person who ends up becoming a belligerent firebrand of a rebel trying to save Dudgeon's life.
18) The long goodbye
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
19) After the fox
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Wildly funny farce that gives the comic genius of Peter Sellers free reign as he assumes several wacky personalities, each one funnier than the last!
20) Man of the West
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c1958.
Language
English
Description
A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band.
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