Bob Hoskins
61) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
62) Doomsday
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A lethal virus spreads throughout Great Britain, infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat the government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area and the rest of the country succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper Virus violently resurfaces. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair, is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Balto: Part husky/part wolf, Balto doesn't know where he belongs. He's an outcast in Alaska, except to his true friends. Even though he's different, all of Balto's friends recognize what he still can't see himself; his noble spirit. One day, a serious diphtheria epidemic spreads among the children of Nome. When a blizzard closes off all routes of transport, there's no way to obtain life-saving medicine ... unless a team of sled dogs can race through...
65) The Cotton Club
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Oscar� winners Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo rejoin forces to create a 'mesmerizing' (L.A. Weekly) homage to 1930s gangster films and musicals. Nominated for three Oscars�, The Cotton Club is a 'genuine vision' (Newsweek) of the golden age of jazz you won't soon forget! 1928, New York. Spirits are high and sultry jazz, lively dancing and ruthless gangsters rule supreme. In the center of it all is Harlem's Cotton Club. Playing on stage...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Balto: Part husky/part wolf, Balto doesn't know where he belongs. He's an outcast in Alaska, except to his true friends, Boris, the Russian snow goose; polar bear cubs Muk and Luk; and the beautiful husky, Jenna. One day, a serious diphtheria epidemic spreads fast among the children of Nome. When a fierce blizzard closes off all routes of transport, there's no way to obtain life-saving medicine, unless a team of sled dogs can race six-hundred miles...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930s in the remote rainforest of Borneo, The Sleeping Dictionary tells the story of the tempestuous and forbidden love affair between a young Englishman and a beautiful Iban tribeswoman. When John Truscott (Hugh Dancy - Black Hawk Down) takes a job in the British colonial outpost of Sarawak in Malaysia, he is given a native servant, Selima (Jessica Alba - TV's "Dark Angel"), who not only teaches him the local language but also shares his...
68) Thick as thieves
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
George retuns home after a three-year jail sentence to find his wife, Annie, in bed with Stanley, his old partner in crime. Annie is happy to see George, but not eager to kick Stan out. The three live warily together, while the men continue their inept criminal capers, all the while trying to vie for the affection of the woman who obviously loves them both.
69) Brazil
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
70) Outlaw
Author
Language
English
Description
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
71) Hollywoodland
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
72) Mermaids
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Flax is the eccentric matriarch of the Flax family that includes daughters Charlotte, an awkward, quirky teen torn between her personal devotion to becoming a nun and her longing for romance, and Kat, a nine-year-old whose interest in swimming may be a result of an inherited gene from Rachel's one-night stand with an Olympic contender.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
City of angels: Pragmatic heart surgeon Maggie doesn't believe in angels-- until she meets one. That angel is Seth, who can remain a spiritual being and live forever, or he can forsake his immortality on the chance that Maggie might love him.
Michael: Two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with an "angel expert," are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her motel with a real, live angel...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"The story of the wall" is told simply with the music of Pink Floyd, images and natural effects. There is no conventional dialogue to progress the narrative. The story is about Pink, a rock and roll performer, who sits locked in a hotel room, somewhere in Los Angeles. Too many shows, too much dope, too much applause, a burned out case. On the TV, an all too familiar war film flickers on the screen. We shuffle time and place, reality and nightmare...
Author
Language
English
Description
Maid in Manhattan is the story of Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez), a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall (Ralph Fiennes), a handsome heir to a political dynasty who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Destiny throws the unlikely pair together for one night, but when Marisa's true identity...
78) Last orders
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of four men, covering nearly a half-century of these South London buddies lives, from thier adopted pub to Margate Pier. Through a series of flashbacks, they take you on a journey of a lifetime. Along with them are the ashes of Jack, their larger-than-life friend, whose deathbed request sends them on their way.
79) The mask
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The mask: A mild-mannered bank clerk becomes a superhero when he puts on a mystical mask.
Son of the mask: The legendary Mask of Loki finds its way into the hands of cartoonist Tim Avery, whose new son is born with the Mask's spectacular powers.
Author
Series
Neverland volume 1
Language
English
Description
A London orphan named Peter is transported to Neverland, where the secret of eternal youth has spawned a war between a Native American tribe and an 18th century female pirate.