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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Come along on a rollicking thrill-ride down the Amazon with wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff and intrepid researcher Dr. Lily Houghton. Lily travels from London, England to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank's questionable services to guide her downriver on La Quila, his ramshackle-but-charming boat. Lily is determined to uncover an ancient tree with unparalleled healing abilities, possessing the power to change the future of medicine. Thrust on...
22) Long John Silver
Pub. Date
?2015
Language
English
Description
Robert Newton repeats his Treasure Island role as Long John Silver in this Australian adventure film. The film is made up of several marginally related episodes. In the first, Silver rescues a governor's daughter, managing to save the day and crooked line his own pockets in the process. In the second, Long John quells a mutiny and prevents his young friend Jim Hawkins (Kit Taylor) from having to walk the plank. And in the third, Long John and Jim...
24) The pajama game
Edition
Standard version ; widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A labor/management dispute at the Sleeptite Pajama Factory is the subject of this musical comedy.
25) Raja Hindustani
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Hindi
Description
Aarti, the only daughter of a wealthy, doting father, falls in love and marries a young taxi driver, leaving her luxurious city home for Raja's simple rustic abode. Aarti's scheming stepmother strives to estrange father and daughter so that she herself might inherit her husband's riches. Misunderstandings also develop between Aarti and Raja so that she feels abandoned, but near tragedy is averted and the miscreants are awarded their just deserts.
26) Sholay
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Hindi
Description
In this film, India's best-known "curry" western, two small-time crooks are hired by an ex-cop, Thakur, to stop the tyranny of Gabbar Singh who massacred Thakur's family. It is also the story of a village that realizes non-violence does not mean cowardice, but that it can stand up to terror and lawlessness.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Things seem to be going swimmingly for Mr. Peabody, then one day his life takes a whimsical turn. While fishing, he snags a beautiful mermaid. In a flight of youthful fancy, the stodgy Bostonian falls for the mermaid and takes her to a pond at his villa. The seemingly harmless crush creates all sorts of comical mix-ups! When Mr. Peabody₂s jealous wife's car is found aban+doned, the discovery leads the police to believe he bumped off his own wife!...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Old school: Three middle-aged men disenchanted with their lives try to relive their youth by moving onto a college campus and start hanging out with a group of misfit college students, losers, and retirees.
A night at the Roxbury: Two brothers who are never cool enough to get into a hot club are befriended by their idol, who introduces them to the glitzy world they've always dreamed of.
Blades of glory: Bitter mens figure skating rivals Chazz Michael...
31) November
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Estonian
Description
In a 19th century Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Robert Young stars as veteran journalist John Davis, who is covering the war with the British allies in London. When his pregnant wife Nora is injured in an air raid there, The couple is robbed of their chance of ever becoming parents - until John picks up on an assignment that changes their lives forever.
33) Fanaa
Pub. Date
p[2006]
Language
Hindi
Description
A blind Kashmiri girl meets a local tour guide who is an incorrigible flirt. Her friends warn her against him, but she chooses to ignore them.
34) Jour de fête
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
Français
Description
In this enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village. Tati shot this film simultaneously in black and white and in an untested color process that proved impossible to print copies of. In 1964 he re-edited it with added hand-colored footage, and in 1995 the full-color film was able to be released from the original color negatives.
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of Washington D.C., Hope plays an eager but not-too-bright newspaper correspondent who tries to expose the activities of foreign spies. Lamour is the head of a news bureau, and together they become involued in murder, kidnapping and romance when they begin to track down the facts.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Hindi
Description
Explores the complexities of the human psyche as it sets out to unveil a childhood trauma. The film structures the narrative by telling a simple story of a man's illness and his daughter's love, understanding, and commitment to find her father's treatment, which comes in the form of a young psychiatrist who unveils the father's demented world and carries him backwards on an awesome journey to finally confront his disillusioned guilt.
37) Hoosiers
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past becomes the new coach of the underdog high school basketball team in a 1951 sleepy Indiana farm town, using methods that infuriate the townspeople.
39) Love actually
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.
40) 14 blades
Pub. Date
2011
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
" A kung fu thriller set during the Ming Dynasty and centered on a secret service agent (Donnie Yen) in the emperor's court who is betrayed and then hunted by his colleagues"--IMDB.
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