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1) Hereafter
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
2) Grown ups
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English
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Five friends and former teammates reunite on the Fourth of July weekend to honor the passing of their former high school basketball coach. It doesn't matter that these five guys are now respectable businessmen, husbands, and fathers. Once they get back together, nothing is going to stop these kids-at-heart from having the time of thier adult lives.
3) Rough night
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Five friends from college reunite when they rent a beach house in Miami for a wild bachelorette weekend that goes completely off the rails. Just when all hope is lost, they realize there's more to the story than they could've ever imagined.
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English
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When Shrek married Fiona the last thing he had in mind was becoming the next King of Far Far Away. But when Shrek's father-in-law, King Harold, suddenly croaks, that is exactly what he faces. Recruiting Donkey and Puss in Boots for a new quest, Shrek sets out to bring back the rightful heir to the throne. Meanwhile back in the kingdom, Fiona's jilted Prince Charming storms the city with an army of fairy tale villains to seize the throne. Fiona and...
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English
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Freddy homicidally haunts the sleep of Elm Street teens. Nancy is one of those teens having nightmares about the frightening, badly-scarred figure who wears a glove with razor-sharp 'finger knives.' She quickly discovers that her friends are having similar dreams. When the teens begin to die, Nancy realizes that she will have to stay awake in order to survive. Uncovering Freddy's secret identity and his connection to the teens, Nancy plots to draw...
6) True Grit
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search...
7) The ring two
Language
English
Description
Six months after the frightening rampage and the cursed videotape that left so much death and terror, Rachel and her son start a new life in a small Oregon town. But when a crime scene includes an unmarked tape, she knows the violence has not ended.
10) Dawn of the dead
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English
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Ana is a young nurse who is returning home after a hard day at work. She does not pay attention to an emergency broadcast telling the public about a deadly plague of flesh eating creatures. The next day, a little girl, their neighbor, comes into their house and bites Ana's husband Louis in the neck. Louis does not remain dead. Seconds later he is up and trying to bite Ana. Ana escapes, gets in her car and sees the public being eaten by flesh eating...
11) The book thief
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English
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Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
12) Mama
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
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English
Description
When the evil De Nomolos dispatches robots to kill Bill & Ted, not only is the future of the universe at stake, but there's no way they can win the battle of the bands. Luckily, when they knock on death's door, he answers, becoming their faithful servant in a whacked-out journey through Heaven, Hell and San Dimas, California. Bill & Ted meet Martians, marry their historical girlfriends, & even learn how to play the guitar.
14) Stoker
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Following the tragic death of her father on her eighteenth birthday, India Stoker meets Charlie, her charismatic uncle, whom she never knew existed. When Charlie moves in with India and her unstable mother, both are drawn to his charming and calming demeanor. But it soon becomes clear that Charlie's arrival was no coincidence, and that the shocking secrets of his past could shatter India's future.
15) The fountain
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Past, present, future. Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1,000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Tom is a man who is devoted to one woman, Izzi, and becomes determined to protect her from forces that threaten her existence. His quest leads him to 16th century Europe and America where Tomas is a Spanish explorer searching for Incan magic; to the present day where Tom is a doctor...
16) Black death
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric, a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumors.
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English
Description
Dr. Temperance Brennan is a brilliant, but lonely, forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington D.C. After consulting on a case for the FBI, she is approached by Special Agent Seeley Booth. He wants Dr. Brennan to help the Bureau solve crimes by identifying human remains that are too far gone for standard FBI forensic investigations. Brennan's empirical, literal view of the world causes friction with Booth, creating...
18) Wanted
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English
Description
Wes is 25 years old and is a disaffected, clock-punching drone. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows Wes will amount to nothing - that is until he meets the sexy woman named Fox, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's...
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Long thought dead, the victim of a horrible accident, Dr. Anton Phibes still lives, surrounded by art-deco bric-a-brac and attended by mute beauty Vulnavia. Outwardly normal in appearance, Phibes actually wears a rubber mask, covering his hideously deformed countenance; giving away the artifice is the fact that, when he dines, he takes his food through his neck rather than his mouth. Able to speak only when plugging a wire into his damaged vocal chords,...
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