Jennifer Connelly
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, this series centers on the remnants of humanity, who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival are questioned in this riveting television adaptation.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Russian filmmaker Vadim Perelman makes his feature-film debut with the psychological drama House of Sand and Fog, based on the novel by Andre Dubus III. Ben Kingsley plays Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant living the United States. Even though he was a high-ranking official in Iran, he works several menial jobs in order to provide his wife, Nadi (Shohreh Aghdashloo), and his son, Esmail (Jonathan Ahdout), with an apartment in California....
3) Phenomena
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
A young girl (Jennifer Connelly), with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders in this 1985 horror film from Dario Argento. Nominated for Best Film at **Fantasporto**.
6) The Hot spot
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Harry Madox, a charismatic drifter finds work as a car salesman in a small town in Texas. He quickly becomes involved with two beautiful, complex women. When Madox hatches a sure-fire plan to rob the local bank, he becomes enmeshed in a lethal web of lust, greed, and extortion, whose only escape is murder.
7) The dilemma
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ronny's world is turned upside down when he inadvertently sees something he should not have and makes it his mission to get answers. As the amateur investigation dissolves his world into comic mayhem, he learns that his best friend Nick has a few secrets of his own. Now, Ronny must decide what will happen if he reveals the truth.
9) Creation
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Gives viewers a unique inside look at Charles Darwin, his family, and his love for his deeply religious wife, as he is torn between faith and science. Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book, On the origin of species, which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
10) Labyrinth
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When a teenage girl's baby brother is kidnapped by the King of the Goblins she must navigate a devilish labyrinth to rescue him.
11) Dark city
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When John Murdoch awakens in a strange hotel room, he finds that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. The problem is he can't remember a thing. Pursued by the police and haunted by the Strangers, mysterious beings who possess the ability to stop time and alter reality, he seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity. But in a city where reality is the ultimate illusion, discovering the truth could be fatal.
12) Dark water
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A woman in the midst of a divorce and a bitter custody battle moves into a run-down apartment, where strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild and take her to the brink of despair.
13) Higher learning
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
First-term college freshmen get a crash course in diversity, identity and sexuality.
Series
Language
English
Description
Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramificications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent...
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
As Season One ended, so did the revolution, with Layton emerging as Snowpiercer's leader and another threat to the survivors fast approaching in the form of a rival train. In Season Two, Mr. Wilford arrives, bringing a secret from Melanie's past. A new power struggle emerges, causing a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalties to Layton and to Mr. Wilford, who has a new train, new technology and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing....
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Conor, has failed to call her. Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Conor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to explain the 'signs' to Gigi. Meanwhile, having just left Gigi,...
17) Blood diamond
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....
18) Inkheart
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp. Mo has been searching for a long lost book that...
19) Noah
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man is appointed by God to carry out a crucial mission of rescue before a calamitous flood destroys the world.
20) Reservation Road
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Two fathers are forced to live with the same tragedy in two very different ways after an incident that involves them both on the same road.