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61) Moana
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Moana, the strong-willed daughter of a Polynesian chief sets out from her island home across the ocean in search of Maui, a demigod, to save her people from a curse.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This historical satire, based on Heinrich Mann's world-famous novel, Der Untertan, is ranked by film critics among the 100 Most Significant German Films of all time. In Mann's biting critique of conservative Wilhelmine Germany, written during WWI, Diederich Hessling learns an important lesson for an ambitious man: one must first serve power to gain power for oneself. From then on, his modus operandi is to bow to superiors and kick underlings.
64) Interstellar
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A group of space travelers journey through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Christina is sent to live with her domineering, crippled Uncle Russell and her cousins Mark and William at "Flambards", a rambling, decaying mansion in England in the early 1900's. When she arrives, Christina finds the Russell family an unhappy group, divided by bitterness, jealousy and intolerance, brother against brother, father against son. Christina's emotions are torn. She loves the old house and the beautiful countryside, but her relationship...
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
William and Christina are married, but the first World War looms every closer, giving them a very uncertain future. Under the impression that both Mark and William are dead, Christina installs herself at Flambards with the intention of running the estate as a farm.
69) The kite runner
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Two young boys in Afghanistan are inseparable until one day their relationship is torn apart, and years later one of them returns to try to redeem himself.
70) We are Marshall
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying Marshall University's football team, coaches and fans, was on its way home from a hard-fought game in North Carolina. Less than a minute...
71) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
72) The father
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
73) Brother Bear 2
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Nita prepares to marry as the spirits send a sign that she and Kenai still have a strong bond even though he was turned into a bear and lives happily with his adopted brother bear, Koda.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
76) The other world
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Yasmine and Rachid, two young Parisians children of Algerian immigrants, are in love and live a quiet life in France. One day, Rachid disappears and Yasmine learns that he is in Algeria. She decides to follow him, in that country that she does not know, that is filled with violence. As she travels looking for Rachid, she falls deeper into the horror of a country where nothing seems normal, another world, where death is ever present.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
William and Christina leave Flambards to seek their fortune. William discovers that, despite his obvious technical and creative talent, getting a job in aviation will be far from easy. William finally lands a job at Elm Park flying school and Christina is living in as a waitress at a local hotel. Romance, flying thrills and adventure are on the horizon.
78) The ruins
Publisher
Spyglass Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jeff and Amy are an American couples who goes to Mexico for a vacation. They find themselves in the most brutal struggle when, on an archaeological dig into the jungle, they are ambushed by hostile Mayans and forced to the top of an ancient temple. There, a monstrous and diabolically clever entity awaits them among the ruins.
79) Chicago
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, this brilliant novel is "a shattering study of disaffection and belonging" (Bidisha, Guardian).
Escaping her failing marriage in the United States, Grace Marisola has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she receives an unexpected inheritance—a house on the beaches of Madras—and discovers an older sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who has spent...In MnLINK
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