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Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
He's the coolest private detective around, caught up in all the hottest cases. Streetsmart Harlem sleuth John Shaft likes his women chic, his cars fast, and his clothes expensive. He takes the fight to mob lowlifes, scumballs, and vigilantes who prey upon Shaft's pals and other decent, everyday people.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jim Lassiter roams from town to town in search for the man who drove his sister to suicide. While riding toward a mountain pass, he sees an heiress, Jane Withersteen, being harassed by thugs and steps in to help. A religious sect wants Jane to marry their leader, Deacon Tull, so they can gain ownership of her land. When he steps in to help, Lassister slowly begins to believe that a member of this sect is the man he is looking for.
25) Victor Victoria
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A man impersonating a woman on stage? Piece of cake. But a woman whose livelihood depends on pretending to be a man who pretends to be a woman? Now you've got problems! An out-of-work singer conspires to pose as a female impersonator in order to get work on the Paris cabaret circuit.
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Percy Talbot, a young woman who has just been released from prison after serving five years for manslaughter, decides to move to the small town of Gilead, Maine for a fresh start. Percy takes a job at the Spitfire Grill, the only restaurant in a town suspicious of outsiders, where she slowly gains the trust of [most of] the townspeople, finding acceptance and redemption.
Series
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Depression-era Dodson, Mississippi, is particularly devastated with the arrival of Owen Legate (Robert Redford), a railroad official with a pocketful of pink slips for the rail yard employees. Natalie Wood is captivating as Alva Starr, the coquettish town flirt with plenty of big plans but nowhere to go until Legate appears on her doorstep. Their ensuing affair enrages Alva's distant, uncaring mother (Kate Reid), and ignites a town's revenge.
29) A patch of blue
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Raised by a bigoted, abusive mother, an awkward, blind, white woman does not know that the man helping her around is black.
30) Barbary Coast
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s.
32) Rapa nui
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Boyhood friends turn fierce rivals in this tumultuous tale of love and war. Each loves the same woman, and each intends to win her hand in marriage by competing for the island leadership in a grueling tribal contest. But the bitterness of the competition spills over into a savage civil war, and the isolated island's destiny hangs in the balance.
33) Curly Sue
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bill and Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold, not looking to turn a profit but just get enough to eat.
34) Doc Hollywood
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A big-city doctor on the way to a job interview in L.A. gets stranded in a small town in forced to do community service in the way of medical work. Although eager to leave, a local beauty might persuade him to stay.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Single mom Christy Plunkett is now sober and trying to get her life on track. However, she's tested daily by her newly sober mother, Bonnie, and by her relationships with her own kids. Christy tries to remain positive as she attempts to overcome her past and build a better future, but with her dysfunctional family and life's many setbacks, it's always an uphill battle.
37) Camille
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. Includes the 1921 silent version.
38) The Harvey girls
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
On a train trip West to become a mail order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travelers. When Susan and her bashful suitor find romance daunting, Susan joins the Harvey Girls instead. The saloon across the street with its alluring worldly-wise women offers them tough competition, fair and foul,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Heck kids continue to smash through their comfort zones and navigate new situations, which may or may not be comforting to parents Frankie and Mike. Axl may be living out of a Winnebago, but he has discovered the love of his life. Meanwhile, always-optimistic Sue has caught the acting bug in Dollywood and is changing her major to drama. Now in high school, Brick has made it his mission to fit in with his peers, and not be one of the weird kids....
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