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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Max has an active imagination and will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including...
42) Boyhood
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen. The film was shot intermittently over a twelve-year period from May 2002 to October 2013, showing the growth of Mason and his older sister, Samantha, to adulthood.
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
Español
Description
In 1950's Cuba, before the Revolution, Samuel is brought to Havana by his mother to live with his grandmother, Violeta, a portrait photographer. Despite Violeta's initial attempts to intimidate him, Samuel develops a close relationship with his grandmother through photography. In his time with his grandmother Samuel learns about people, love, responsibility and change.
44) The inspection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Elegance Bratton's deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramificications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent...
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
"Una madre y su hijo tienen problemas, por que éste se enamoro de una chica que 'no le conviene'. El abuelo del joven, con la sabiduría que le ha dejado el dolor de sus propias luchas, trata de mediar, sin éxito. Pero un hecho inesperado del destino los pondrá a prueba y tendrán que conocer uno del otro esa 'otra parte', hasta ese momento ajena"--Container.
Ferreira returns with a rich drama that intricately interlinks the personal and the political...
48) El pequeño vanya
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy runs away from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her. Pursued by orphanage staff and the police, Vanya Solntsev must now face the most difficult challenges of his young life in this story inspired by true events.
El pequeño huérfano Vanya, de 6 años, es afortunado: es el único niño del Orfanato que será adoptado por una adorable pareja italiana. Todos...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From novelist Patrick Gale comes a tender, powerful film sure to spark conversation about outdated attitudes and equal rights. Two love stories set 60 years apart are linked by a secret that echoes through generations, from a forbidden relationship impossible during WWII, contrasted with a present-day romance that is nearly derailed by the 1940s tale with which it is deeply intertwined.
52) Till
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
54) Anna Karenina
Pub. Date
2004, 2000.
Language
English
Description
"This richly detailed film charts the tragic romantic triangle formed when the dashing Count Vronsky defies social conventions and falls into forbidden love with Anna, the ignored wife of an aristocrat. Soon, Anna's children--a son by Karenin and an illegitimate daughter by Vronsky--become pawns in Karenin's game to see that Anna pays a terrible price for her indiscretion."--Container.
55) Haunted mansion
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, this film is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
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