George Clooney
1) Suburbicon
Language
English
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A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two desperate criminals on the run kidnap a family and they all wind up just over the Mexican border in a bar infested with vampires; after losing members of his gang to a vampire cult, an outlaw joins up with his arch rival, a sheriff, to fight the vampires; after narrowly escaping death, outlaw Johnny Madrid goes on the run with the hangman's daughter and meets up with his gang, who find themselves stuck in an abandoned inn with a vampire cult.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
6) The American
Series
Language
English
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Description
After a job ends more violently than expected, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside and accepts one last assignment to construct a deadly weapon for a mysterious contact. But when he pursues a relationship with a beautiful local woman, he may be tempting fate by stepping out of the shadows. Jack soon finds himself in an escalating battle to escape from his secretive past.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The dynamic duo are back and are up against the nefarious Mr. Freeze, who is bent on turning the world into an iceberg. Then there is the slyly seductive but highly toxic Poison Ivy, who wants to eliminate all animal life and turn the Earth into a gigantic greenhouse. Batman's butler, Alfred, is dying from the same mysterious disease that Freeze's wife has. It's up to Batman, Robin and Alfred's niece, Batgirl, to fight the villains and save Alfred...