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Christian Bale
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this psychological thriller an industrial worker hasn't slept in a year and is living a nightmare where cryptic notes appear and he has visions of a co-worker no one else can see. Are these mysteries part of a plot to drive him mad? Or, has fatigue simply robbed him of reason?
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From internationally celebrated director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, House of Flying Daggers) comes a story of love and war. The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites—a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American (Christian Bale) posing as a priest to save his own skin—all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last ditch plan to protect the children from impending...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of four outsiders (Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt) who saw what the big banks, media and government refused to: the global collapse of the economy. A bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of banking, where everyone and everything is in question. Winner of an **Academy Award** and a **BAFTA Award** for Best Adapted Screenplay and nominated for Best Film. Nominated for four **Golden Globes**...
7) Rescue dawn
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, who escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War. He is then taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp, before he and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape.
9) Royal Deceit
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
An ancient Danish story of evil, power and human spirit, that subsequently inspired William Shakespeare on his tragedy, Hamlet. When the king of Jutland is murdered by his brother, the dark prince claims both the throne and Queen Geruth. Although her son saw the murder, he feigns madness to spare his life. This historical drama features a stellar cast including Oscar-winners Christian Bale and Helen Mirren.
10) Pocahontas
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1607, a group of British adventurers, including John Smith, led by the greedy Virginia Company governor Ratcliffe, set sail for the New World, seeking gold and other treasures. In Virginia, Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan's daughter, ponders her life as she is faced with marriage to the stern warrior, Kocoum. The British establish the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia and dig up the countryside for gold. Smith meets Pocahontas and they overcome their...
11) The prestige
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two London magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy.
12) American psycho
Series
Language
English
Description
A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act. Now, however, Commissioner Gordon and the police are unable...
14) The Dark Knight
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman raises the stakes on his war on crime and sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker. The Joker, whose eerie grin, laughter, and inhuman...
15) Laurel Canyon
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Harvard graduate Sam and his fiancée, Alex, move into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she won't be there. She still is, however, and is supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for her boyfriend's band. But Sam's mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though.
17) Public enemies
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One.
18) Swing kids
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two swing-music loving friends in Nazi Germany must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich.
19) Ford v Ferrari
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The remarkable true story of the visionary American car designer Carroll Shelby and the fearless British-born driver Ken Miles, who together battled corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
20) American hustle
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Carmine Polito is the passionate, volatile,...