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Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
When 19-year-old John Groberg is sent on a three-year mission to Tonga, he has no idea what he's getting into. Just getting to Tonga is fraught with danger and unbelievable obstacles. Once there, he finds himself in the midst of a culture as remote to him as the island is to his Idaho Falls home. Not understanding the language, and lonely for his fiancee Jean, John faces suspicion, distrust, typhoons, tidal waves, mosquitoes, and other perils of man...
2) Mafia mamma
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.
3) Skiptrace
Language
English
Formats
Description
Martial arts superstar Jackie Chan and comedy favorite Johnny Knoxville team up to take down a notorious Chinese drug lord in this explosive and hilarious action-comedy.
4) Red heat
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"Moscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing worse than making them mad-- making them partners."--Container.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With magic returned to the world, the Librarians are needed now more then ever. Jacob Stone, Eezekiel Jones and Cassandra Cillian have taken on the role of full-time Librarians, and together with their guardian, Eve Baird, long-time Librarian, Flynn Carsen and their caretaker, Jenkins, they will face all the challenges that this new age of magic is bringing to the world. An ancient spell has brought some of the greatest fictional villains off the...
6) Air America
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Two renegade pilots are ensnared in the madness of covert operations over Laos during the Vietnam conflict. They lead the crew of AIR AMERICA, a not-so-secret airline that drops everything from live pigs to opium over villages throughout the Vietnamese countryside.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
LUST FOR GOLD: A RACE AGAINST TIME is a true story is about obsession, greed, and the hunt for gold. Boyhood dreams of treasure lead to a lifelong search when a retired missile scientist makes a monumental discovery and tempts fate for fortune as he hatches a secret plan to prove his claim. With his estranged son at his side, he secures an entertainment and personal injury lawyer who assembles a team — a retired blackjack dealer, a veterinary assistant,...
8) Excalibur
Language
English
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Description
The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table receives its most impressive screen treatment in Excalibur, from visionary moviemaker John Boorman. All the elements of Sir Thomas Malory's classic Le Morde D'Arthur are here: Arthur removing the sword Excalibur from the stone; the Round Table's noble birth and tragic decline; the heroic attempts to recover the Holy Grail; and the shifting balance of power between wily wizard Merlin and...
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through...
10) Birds Like Us
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this family adventure starring Jeremy Irons and Alicia Vikander, a female bird and a stubborn king join a wise, blind bat on a dazzling odyssey to find the tree they call home.
11) SamSam
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
SamSam has great friends, great family, and even his own flying saucer. But he’s still waiting on one thing: actual superpowers.
12) Zarafa
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, ZARAFA is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Nominated for Best Feature at **Annecy International Animated Film Festival**. Nominated for Directing in an Animated Feature Production at the **Annie Awards**....
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal. Captain Barbossa kidnaps the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth. In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has...
15) Farscape
Language
English
Description
Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew.
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Action-packed with Donnie Yen kicking his adversaries in the role of "Beggar Su". A young Beggar Su getting addicted to opium and manipulated by a scheming imperial prince to fight against WFH and assassinate a righteous general. As expected, Beggar Su repents and gangs up with WFH against the prince in a climactic battle. Guess who you have helping the prince, the White Lotus sect of course...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Freshly hatched bee Maya is a little whirlwind and simply won't follow the rules of the hive. One of these rules, of course, is not to trust other bugs, especially the hornets that live beyond the meadow. But sweet Maya can't help but make friends with all kinds of other bugs, including a violin-playing grasshopper, a dung beetle and even a young hornet named Sting. When the Royal Jelly is stolen, the hornets are the prime suspects and Maya is thought...
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Grumpy Cat is a lonely cat living in a mall pet shop. Because she always gets passed over and never gets chosen by customers, this kitty develops a sour outlook on life until…one day during the holidays, a very special 12-year-old girl named Chyrstal enters the pet store and falls in love with Grumpy Cat. A unique friendship is formed between the two when Chyrstal finds she is the only person who can hear this unique feline talk. Will Grumpy Cat...
20) Popeye
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar, POPEYE follows the sailor with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in the seaside community of Sweethaven in search of his long-lost father. Popeye meets and quickly falls for the slender Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), but Olive's hand has already been promised to the hulking Bluto. Eventually, Popeye and Olive are brought together by Swee'...
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