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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
The latest thriller from French New Wave veteran Claude Chabrol opens with a tongue-in-cheek claim that it does not depict real events, even though it's timely and provocative account of corporate and political corruption was inspired by a real-life scandal involving a French oil giant and several top-level politicians. The stunning and accomplished Isabelle Huppert (I heart huckabees) stars as Jeanne, a tenacious magistrate known as "the piranha"...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A wife and mother boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal. In Season 3, Alicia continues balancing her professional and personal lives as she strives to provide a stable home for her children in the midst of separating from her husband and contemplating finally giving in to her feelings for fellow lawyer Will Gardner.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Alicia Florrick is a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. In Season Two, even with her husband back home and planning to run for office again, Alicia continues redefining herself and her role in her family's life. Features all 23 dramatic episodes, plus featurettes, deleted scenes, music videos, and more....
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Carmine Polito is the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the cons and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn could be the one to pull the thread...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Gary Cooper portrays a former baseball player whose misfortunes have changed his life. Barbara Stanwyck, a news reporter, interviews "John Doe" (Cooper). Her report falls into the hands of a crooked politician who exploits "John Doe" by making him a good will ambassador in a phony political drive, leaving Cooper on the brink of suicide. This film represents director Frank Capra at his best."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a distant galaxy, years of war and corruption have devastated those living under the oppressive regime of the planetary federation. With a nearly unlimited arsenal of powerful weapons at their disposal, no one dares to stand up against them. However, when one starship captain uncovers a government secret that could lead to the destruction of the entire galaxy, he realizes that he must rise up and rebel in order to stop them.
11) Smoke screen
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Five years after television reporter Britt Shelley wrote a story about a police cover-up regarding an arson case, she wakes up next to a dead body and finds herself involved up in a web of corruption that extends from the police to major political figures.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious race of creatures takes over a desolate Earth, humanity must take refuge in SkyArk, the city in the sky. After the rebellion against a corrupt leadership fails, the wealthy doom the rebels' children to live on the ruins of the old earth. The rebel leader's son, Rags, must lead his fellow exiles against the monsters in order to have a chance to return to SkyArk, but he soon finds that he has a much greater purpose in saving humanity....
13) Silver city
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Grammatically challenged, "user friendly" gubernatorial candidate Dicky Pilager has just launched a rosy campaign for the citizens of the New West. But things take an unexpected turn when the taping of an environmental political ad ends up with Pilager reeling in a corpse. Enter his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven who hires idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien to investigate potential links between the corpse...
14) Survival code
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 2045 A.D., a steadily shrinking ice cap leaves several countries struggling for control of the town of Borealis and the last untapped oil, gas and mineral deposits on the planet. Vic, a former ultimate fighter, has bribed and manipulated his way into a position of authority, and controls the only way in or out. When the UN sends in corrupt officials, Vic must take matters into his own hands by returning to his roots to challenge a local Russian...
15) The foreigner
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Jon Cold is a professional secret agent-for-hire. Admist political corruption, murder and bounty of back-stabbing bad guys, Cold is hired to deliver a package from France to Germany. Some dangerous people will stop at nothing to make sure that the package doesn't make it to its rightful owner. These men soon discover that getting in his way is a very dangerous decision.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It's 1985 in an alternate reality and a record store clerk Nick Brady begins to experience strange visions transmitted from an extra-terrestrial source he calls VALIS. He uproots his family and moves to Los Angeles where he becomes a successful music executive with a secret mission to overthrow the oppressive government. With the help of his best friend, himself and a beautiful, mysterious woman named Silvia, Nick finds himself drawn into a conspiracy...
17) Dune
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
It is the year 10191. Arrakis is a desert planet, which contains the only source of 'Melange, ' which is necessary for space travel. Two rival families, the Atreides and the Harkonnens, fight to control of the mining operations. When Duke Leto Atreides is assassinated by the evil Baron Harkonnen, his son Paul and Leto's wife, Lady Jessica, flee deep into the desert and are befriended by natives of Arrakis. Paul learns that he has special powers and...
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