Sydney Pollack
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the firm's dirtiest work. When a brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney sabotages an important case, Clayton is called in to face the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
2) The Firm
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
3) The reader
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In Germany, Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously...
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Rusty Sabich has been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
10) Jeremiah Johnson
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jeremiah Johnson, disillusioned by society, sets out to be a mountain man in the mid-1800s.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts--in the wallet!
12) Sabrina
Language
English
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Description
Sabrina, the naive daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family, is obsessed with David, the family's younger son. When Sabrina returns to Long Island from Paris as a sophisticated young woman, she begins a romance with David, who has meanwhile become engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family. This new romance threatens the business interests of Linus, the older son, so he pretends to court Sabrina in order to woo her away from David,...
13) Cold mountain
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
14) Havana
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
High-rolling poker player Jack Weil is trying to make one big score in 1958 Havana. But his plan doesn't include falling for Roberta, wife of revolutionary Arturo Duran. After Arturo is removed by the police, Jack is drawn closer to Roberta and his last chance for the big score is threatened.
15) Amazing Grace
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A documentary presenting th elive recording of Aretha Franklon's album 'Amazing grace' at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angelese in January 1972.
17) The interpreter
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In one of the hidden corridors of power at UN headquarters, translator Silvia Broome overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller investigates her claim, is she a victim or a suspect?
18) Changing lanes
Series
Language
English
Description
Modern society draws lines between right and wrong, good and evil, rage and redemption. A moment of self-absorption and a spark of anger will cause two men to cross them. As the battle of wills escalates, both lives are changed forever.
19) Tootsie
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
20) The scalphunters
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When trapper Joe Bass is bush-wacked by Indians who steal his furs he's determined to get his property back. They left a runaway slave with him in exchange. When the Indians are attacked by outlaws, Joe and the slave must join forces to retrieve the furs.