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1) The tempest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book presents a historical overview of The Tempest in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading directors - Peter Brook, Sam Mendes and Rupert Goold - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after...
Publisher
Walden Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Nim is the precocious daughter of scientist father Jack. Nim, a bit older now, still has a gift to be "one with nature" and her amazing animal friends. But now that developers and poachers threaten her island, she and her dad must fight to preserve their pristine home and its abundant wildlife.
3) The shack
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After the presumed death of his daughter, a man receives a letter he suspects is from God, telling him to return to the Shack where his daughter may have been murdered.
4) Southpaw
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After a personal tragedy results in the loss of his home, daughter, and self-esteem, boxer Billy Hope fights to regain his life and the championship.
6) King Lear
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Shakespeare's "King Lear" stands as a towering masterpiece, a tragic tale of power, betrayal, and the human condition. This timeless play delves into the complexities of familial relationships and the consequences of unchecked ambition.
At its core, "King Lear" tells the story of an aging monarch who, in a moment of misguided judgment, divides his kingdom among his three daughters based on their flattery. The consequences of this rash decision...
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A faded photograph leads powerful attorney Natalie to the secrets of her late father's past. She takes to the countryside, where horses run free, true love really exists, and Natalie discovers her own past and an enlightened future.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overprotective father Dracula operates a high-end, monsters-only resort in order to hide his daughter Mavis from dangerous humans, but when a human boy discovers the resort, the count's plans are foiled as the two instantly fall for each other.
10) Matchstick men
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Academy Award-nominated director Ridley Scott, Academy Award-winning executive producer Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Ted Griffin comes this dramatic comedy based on the novel by acclaimed author Eric Garcia. Academy Award-winner Nicolas Cage stars with Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman in this comedy about a con man with an obsessive-compulsive disorder whose orderly life and latest lucrative scam are threatened by the reappearance of a teenage...
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.
12) Hanging up
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Three sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particulary close.
13) Traded
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A father risks his reputation as being the fastest gunman in the West when he leaves his ranch for Dodge City to save his daughter from an old enemy.
14) Swing Vote
Publisher
Buena Vista
Pub. Date
2009, 2008.
Language
English
Description
The outcome of the United States presidential election relies on the vote of one apathetic and unmotivated man.
15) Time out of mind
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
While at an intake center for homeless men in New York City, a man befriends a fellow client who helps him try to repair his relationship with his daughter.
16) Hanna
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A 16-year-old who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.
18) Nim's Island
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
The fable of an old African king and his wayward daughter is updated to present day Brussels to make provocative points about racism, tradition, class struggle, cultural identity and corruption. More than a decade ago Mweze Ngangura delighted the cinema world with one of the most accessible and entertaining African films ever made, La vie est belle, the rags to riches story of a Congolese musician played by soukous super star Papa Wemba. Now he returns...
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