Brendan Fraser
1) The whale
Language
English
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Description
A reclusive English teacher, living alone in the wake of a tragedy, attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption in filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's transcendent, emotional epic. Nominated for three Academy Awards and featuring a career-defining performance from Brendan Fraser, THE WHALE is a deeply moving story of heartache, empathy, and grace.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Following the mysterious disappearance of The Chief, these reluctant heroes will find themselves in a place they never expected to be, called to action by none other than Cyborg, who comes to them with a mission hard to refuse. Part support group, part Super Hero team, the Doom Patrol is a band of superpowered freaks who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them.
Language
English
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Description
On the fast track and ready to taste the success of corporate America, John Crowley walks away from it all in hopes of finding a cure for two of his fatally ill children. With his wife Aileen by his side, he teams up with brilliant, but unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill, and together they form a company to develop a life-saving drug. But just when it appears that a solution may be found, the relationship between the men is tested and...
4) Inkheart
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp. Mo has been searching for a long lost book that...
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Adam Webber, born and raised in a bomb shelter with his father and mother, is now emerging to a bewildering new world where he meets a modern L.A. woman and falls in love.
"...funny and entertaining!"--Roger Ebert
"Irresistible fun! Fraser gives a wonderful performance."--Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sometimes four legs are better than two. Dan just moved his wife and son to the woods to take a new job with a supposedly eco-friendly housing development. But the fur, and Dan's temper, is sure to fly when the local critters learn of the bleak plans for their forest home and stop at nothing to halt construction.
7) Crash
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Science professor Trevor Anderson's radical theories have tarnished his reputation. While backpacking across Iceland with his nephew Sean, the two find a cave that leads them deep down into the bowels of the planet. They go on a quest to find out what has happened to Trevor's missing brother, also a scientist. Trevor, Sean and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth. There, they discover a bizarre...
11) Breakout
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After committing a murder in the woods, two criminals attempt to track down the kids who caught them in the act.
12) Bedazzled
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A computer technician sells his soul to the devil for seven wishes that will allow him to win the adoration of the woman he loves.
13) The poison rose
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ex-football star turned PI takes on a routine missing persons case which slowly reveals itself to be a complex interwoven web of crimes, suspects and dead bodies.
14) School ties
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1950s: David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is offered a football scholarship to a prestigious New England prep. school. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex O'Connell sets out to help combat the resurrected Han Emperor. When Alex is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. This time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy that has awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service. As the monarch...
16) Still Breathing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A man who met his true love in a late-night vision is out to match the face that haunts his mind. But the woman of his dreams turns out to be a con artist with only one thing on her mind, money.
17) Encino man
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
When two high school buddies dig up a frozen caveman in their backyard and thaw him out, they figure he's their ticket to being cool, but the plan backfires when the newcomer turns everyday life upside down.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
If these walls could talk, viewers wouldn't believe them anyway! Get ready for a wild ride as one small-town pawn shop is the center of three intersecting stories involving meth heads, a vengeful husband searching for his long-lost wife, and a down-on-his-luck Elvis impersonator.
20) No sudden move
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1950s Detroit, the movie centers on a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document. When their plan goes wrong, their search for who hired them and for what ultimate purpose weaves them through all echelons of the race-torn, rapidly changing city.