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Paramount Pictures (Firm)
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This is a wake-up call that cuts through myths and misconceptions to deliver the message that global warming is a real and present danger. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH brings home Al Gore’s persuasive argument that we must act now to save the earth. Winner of Best Documentary Feature at the **Academy Awards.** "*A powerful film that educates as it engages.*" - Carrie Rickey, ***The Philadelphia Inquirer***
2) Arctic Tale
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Set in the vast snow kingdom at the top of the world, ARCTIC TALE is a real life adventure from the people who brought you March Of The Penguins. Join narrator Queen Latifah as she follows two very different arctic creatures, Nanu, the polar bear cub and Seela, the walrus pup, through exciting and harrowing struggles for survival. Armed only with their natural instincts and mothers’ guidance, these inspiring animals face countless trials and challenges...
3) The Bellboy
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
Stanley’s a bellboy at the popular Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, quietly performing his duties with the occasional blunder. Then one day, a big star of the screen resembling the bumbling bellboy, arrives at the hotel. In this comedy classic (the directorial debut of Jerry Lewis) not a single word of dialogue is spoken by the main character until the very end of the film, paying a brilliant tribute to the silent clowns of early cinema.
4) Real Life
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Albert Brooks, in his directorial debut, presents a hilarious account of what happens to a typical American family when a group of filmmakers moves in with them to record "REAL LIFE." Brooks heads up the crew that invades the Phoenix household of Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain and their children. The results are disastrous...and hysterically funny. *"Albert Brooks's first and funniest feature." - J. Hoberman, **Village Voice***
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them, in order to use them for his dirty schemes. The next evening already, Briggs...
6) The Patsy
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose, bellboy Stanley Belt, can't do anything right. The big TV show is getting closer, and Stanley gets worse all the time.
Pub. Date
1954.
Language
English
Description
Soar into skies on a thrilling airborne adventure in this meticulously restored John Wayne film classic. In one of his most memorable screen roles, Wayne plays Dan Roman, a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments, he finds himself scheduled on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight -- one that takes a terrifying, suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at...
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE FABULOUS STAINS is a film about three teenage girls, played by Diane Lane, Laura Dern and Marin Kanter, who start a punk band.The media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.
9) Turbulence
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A serial killer and a female flight attendant are left to battle for control of a plane. The FBI gives her coordinates so that she will crash into the sea and not at the airport...or will she?
10) Testament
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
TESTAMENT is the dramatic story of the aftermath of a nuclear attack. A nuclear strike has occurred. No one knows who did it. No one knows why. But the unthinkable has happened and nothing can ever be the same again. Jane Alexander stars as Carol Wetherly, a wife and a mother of three children. William Devane portrays her husband, away on a San Francisco trip during the devastating blast. Alone, Carol must hold her family together and, helplessly,...
11) Amelie
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
This acclaimed, romantic-comedy follows a painfully shy waitress (Audrey Tautou) at a tiny Paris café who makes a surprising discovery, drastically changing her life for the better. From then on, Amelie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness in the most delightfully unexpected ways. But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others.
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Emily Bronte's timeless tale of love and passion comes alive in this stirring new film version starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes. Shot on location in Yorkshire, this is the first screen adaptation to present Bronte's complete story of two generations of the Earnshaw and Linton families, as their lives and fortunes intertwine in a complex web dominated by the passionate relationship between doomed lovers Heathcliff and Cathy. Fiennes gives...
13) The Queen
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Actress, Dame Helen Mirren gives a spellbinding performance in THE QUEEN, the provocative story behind the sudden death of Princess Diana. In the wake of tragedy, the very private and tradition-bound Queen Elizabeth II (Mirren) finds herself in conflict with the new Prime Minister, the slickly modern and image-conscious Tony Blair (Michael Sheen). Suspenseful, heartfelt, and riveting, step inside the private...
14) Northfork
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It's 1955 and industries are booming as America undergoes a postwar metamorphosis. However, in the small town of NORTHFORK, the townspeople are being evacuated because of the construction of a dam that will wash away their homes. A group of trench-coat-wearing government employees, hired to get rid of the proud few who remain, go about the business of destroying lives with efficiency. Meanwhile, a young orphan boy lies sick in bed, being cared for...
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....
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the role that won her Broadway’s acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing SHIRLEY VALENTINE, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it’s never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she’s back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with...
17) Pret-A-Porter
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A glittering Hollywood all-star cast shines in Robert Altman's deliciously sexy comedy hit Ready To Wear! At the world's hottest fashion show, there's been a murder. Now, everybody's a suspect - including two guests who end up sharing much more than a hotel room! Add to the fun a hilariously inept TV reporter on the trail of her most shocking interview yet! They're all caught up in the year's biggest see-and-be-seen event - where steamy scandals and...
18) Enduring Love
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Joe (Daniel Craig) is an accomplished writer and professor whose rational life is thrust into a downward spiral of guilt after witnessing a freak, fatal ballooning accident while picnicking with girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton). Jed (Rhys Ifans), another man involved in that fateful day, seeks out Joe looking for consolation and a way to make sense of this tragedy they’ve both witnessed. Jed soon becomes as inescapable to Joe as his guilt, and...
19) Son of Rambow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Imagination, fantasy, and the irreplaceable bonds of childhood friendship highlight this “comedy that’s full of heart” (Joe Neumaier, NY Daily News). Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is looking for an escape from his family’s stifling home life when he encounters Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo: First Blood, Lee plans to make cinematic history by filming his own action-packed video epic....
20) Bug
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
A massive earth tremor opens a deep crevasse in the California dessert, releasing a bizarre and deadly breed of foot-long cockroaches which threaten to destroy the city of Riverside before spreading across the country. Entomologist Bradford Dillman tried to find a way to deal with these virtually indestructible creatures. The roaches also seem to have a high intelligence which makes Dillman's task nearly hopeless. This is a creepy crawler right out...