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41) The Rebel
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Hancock sets out for Paris in an effort to prove his worth as an artist. He becomes friendly with a young English artist, Paul, and agrees to share his studio. He makes statements about art which are absolute nonsense, but are so convincing, he is dubbed a genius. Paul returns to London, leaving all his work at Anthony's disposal. When Anthony's fame spreads, an art connoisseur visits the studio and notices Paul's paintings and, overwhelmed...
42) Beach town
Author
Language
English
Description
Greer Hennessy is a struggling movie location scout. Her last location shoot ended in disaster when a film crew destroyed property on an avocado grove. And Greer ended up with the blame. Now Greer has been given one more chance -- a shot at finding the perfect undiscovered beach town for a big budget movie. She zeros in on a sleepy Florida panhandle town. There's one motel, a marina, a long stretch of pristine beach and an old fishing pier with a...
43) La femme Nikita
Publisher
MGM Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
Français
Description
A beautiful junkie, condemned to die for murdering a policeman, is given a second chance by becoming a secret political assassin for the government.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1939, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
47) Mafia mamma
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Language
English
Formats
Description
While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather’s affairs in Italy, Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war. Guided by the firm’s trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark work of cultural history, a book about the transformation of an art form and the larger social shift it signified. In Five Came Back, he achieves something larger and even more remarkable, giving us the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the prism of five film...
51) She Freak
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
A waitress leaves the greasy-diner business for the carnival and quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.
52) Take a Chance
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Archie Burton is watching the exercising of his horses, one of which, TAKE A CHANCE, is entered for the Gold Cup. With Burton is Grayson, his trainer. Grayson's wife, Cicely, arrives. She is irritated by her husband's seeming indifference towards her and is friendly with Carfax, a young man whose real object is to learn the secrets of her husband's stables ...
53) The Wild Ride
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
Johnny Varron is a rebellious youth gang leader who spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. But when he fatally runs a police officer off the road, the walls begin closing in on Johnny and his world.
54) Bicycle thief
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c19998
Language
Italiano
Description
Simple story of an unemployed man and his family living in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters and signs, work requiring a bicycle on which to get around. When his bicycle is stolen the father and his son are forced to steal one in desperation and are caught. This version includes the original U.S. theatrical trailer.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Released from prison with terminal cancer, Max tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter and the grandson he₂s never known. When his daughter's abusive, drug-addicted ex-husband reappears, Max's violent past comes back to haunt them all.
57) NYPD red
Author
Series
NYPD red novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called....
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eric Rohmer’s classic film is set in 1799 during the Russian invasion of Italy. A young widow, The Marquise (Edith Clever) lives with her parents in the fort her father commands. In the midst of battle, the Marquise is abducted by a group of rowdy soldiers and nearly taken advantage of when the Russian commander Count F (Bruno Ganz) rescues her. Later, the Marquise realizes she is pregnant, though she cannot decipher how the circumstance came to...
59) Death Rage
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
A retired hit-man decides to take one last job to avenge the murder of his brother by a mafia gang. An eager would-be mobster helps him.
60) Antkind: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider--a film he's convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made, a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety...