Shout Factory (Firm)
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Marinette and Adrien have all the challenges of normal teenagers, dealing with school, family, friends and growing up. But unlike most teenagers, Marinette and Adrien have an added responsibility, saving Paris. That's right! When Paris is threatened by the evil Hawk Moth, Marinette and Adrien magically transform into the superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir. Together they work tirelessly to keep Paris safe from the villains created by Hawk Moth.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Faced with the new responsibilities of being a princess, Twilight Sparkle is anxious to prove herself. By protecting Equestria, with her best friends: Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Apple Jack and Spike, Twilight Sparkle realizes the most important lesson of all. Though some things change, the strongest magic is that of friendship.
3) Outrageous!
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
Two misfits find love and support in each other's company. One of them, Robin Turner, is a hairdresser and a gifted female impersonator, who tries out his act in local gay nightclubs. His roommate is Liza Connors, an old high-school friend who is now a mumbling pregnant woman, recently released from a mental hospital where she was treated for schizophrenia.. She is determined never to return to the hospital again, and he wants to be a show-business...
4) Short Eyes
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
Short Eyes is set in an unnamed prison in New York City, whose inmates are predominantly black or Puerto Rican. One day, Clark Davis, a young, middle-class white man accused of raping a young girl, arrives. His fellow prisoners immediately turn on him — pedophiles are considered the lowest form of prison life — except for Juan, one of the institution's older prisoners, who treats him with dignity. While Davis insists he doesn't remember raping...
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Nora Helmer (Jane Fonda) lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald (David Warner), in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their children. But Torvald doesn't know that several years ago, when he was very ill and she was desperate for money, Nora forged a loan document and has been secretly working to pay the money back ever since. The arrival of her friend Kristine (Delphine Seyrig) prompts Nora to re-evaluate...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Fly across iridescent tropical reefs. Brush through a cloud of countless jellyfish. Visit an alien world where the closer you look, the more you see. We think of reefs as exotic, distant places with little connection to our everyday world. Yet each of them is a hotspot of biodiversity, as vital to life on Earth as the rainforests. Just as the Amazon has its secrets, so too do the reefs.. "You'll be tempted to reach out and touch the hovering schools...
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Schoolgirl Dot and mechanic Reggie marry too early and quickly discover that adulthood is not nearly as much fun as expected. She's a social gadfly and he's a stick-in-the-mud homebody, and they bring out the worst in each other. Mere months after exchanging vows he moves out to care for his grandma, inviting his new mate Pete to bunk with him; but Pete's interest in Reggie, as we learn, is more than just friendly..
8) Death Watch
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
In the future, a man has a camera implanted in his brain. The mechanism, which is endowed with special X-ray properties, is activated by the user's eyes. The man is assigned by a ruthless television producer to secretly probe the subconscious of a dying woman.. The producer is only interested in the grim spectacle of what goes on inside the brain of someone who knows she's doomed; the man, on the other hand, becomes increasingly compassionate--and...
Pub. Date
1946.
Language
English
Description
In post-war Casablanca, Ronald Kornblow is hired to run a hotel whose previous managers have all wound up being murdered. French soldier Pierre suspects the involvement of ex-Nazis, specifically Count Pfefferman, in reality the notorious Heinrich Stubel. Pierre is accused of collaborating with the enemy, and attempts to clear to clear his name with the help of his girlfriend Annette and cagey buddy Corbaccio.. They enlist the aid of Pfefferman's beleaguered...
Pub. Date
1934.
Language
English
Description
Edmond Dantes has been wrongly accused of a plot against the post-Napoleonic French government. Condemned to a prison cell in the impenetrable Chateau D'If, Dantes vows vengeance against the four conspirators who framed him. He is particularly anxious to give his ex-friend Mondego his comeuppance, since it was Mondego who married Dantes' fiancee Mercedes. Twelve years pass; with the help of ancient fellow prisoner Abbe Foria, Dantes digs his way out...
11) Class of 1984
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Norris is a new teacher in an inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before. This school is so dangerous that the students have to go through a metal detector at the front door and almost everything is run by a punk posse lead by a delinquent named Peter Stegman. Soon, Norris and Stegman clash and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business..
12) The Stunt Man
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Running from the law, Vietnam vet Cameron stumbles on a movie shoot just in time to interfere with a staged accident, causing the stunt man's death. Rather than turn Cameron in, director Eli Cross makes him an offer he can't refuse: replace the dead stunt man in return for safe harbor. Despite objections about Cameron's inexperience, Eli keeps him on, figuring that a vet will add an extra charge of realism to the World War I opus that he's filming.....
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Bea Asher has been faced with many new challenges since becoming a widow. She has been afraid for herself and her future since her husband's death, and friends concerned for her well-being take her to the Stardust Ballroom in the hopes that, for one night, she might dance her troubles away. While there, she meets Alvin Green. They spend the evening dancing and talking and, thanks to his charm and goodness, Bea begins to come out of her sheltered existence.....
14) Star of India
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
A 17th-century French nobleman embarks upon a search for a valuable emerald which has been stolen from a Dutch collection. Dogging the nobleman's trail is a Dutch spy posing as a French aristocrat. Both are bedeviled by the epicene villain who stole the gem in the first place, but who enjoys the protection of King Louis XIV..
15) Fanny
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
Almost nineteen, Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a five-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her.. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she...
16) Smithereens
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Wren is nineteen and is determined to make it big in the world of rock 'n' roll. The pieces of her world are scattered over lower Manhattan: the abandoned train yards along the Hudson River; a grungy Lower East Side tenement; the copy shop where she works; and most of all, the helter skelter world of East Village rock clubs.. It doesn't matter then that Wren can't sing or play an instrument, or even write songs; or that her aggressiveness is often...
17) Alan and Naomi
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Alan is a typically streetwise Brooklyn teenager of the 1940s. Naomi is a French-Jewish refugee of Nazi oppression, recently moved into the apartment above Alan's. Ever since witnessing the murder of her father, Naomi has remained in a catatonic state. Alan's well-meaning efforts to help the girl at first seem to do more harm than good.. But eventually the boy's sincerity and hitherto untapped compassion win out, and the two young people form a strong,...
18) Jeffery
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
This romantic comedy centers on the chaotic love life of Jeffrey, a gay man who swears off sex only to fall in love with his ideal man. Jeffrey's vow of chastity is inspired by a fear of AIDS, a prospect which has started to terrify him so much that he decides he'd be better off never making love again. He is happy and relieved for a time, until he meets Steve, a handsome, charming dreamboat who also happens to be HIV-positive. Jeffrey wants nothing...
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S. Army soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their crazy fantasies while combating his own long-suppressed insanity.. It is based on Blatty's novel The Ninth Configuration (1978), which was itself a reworking of an earlier version of the novel, first published in 1966 as Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane!. The...
20) Heartland
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
A woman arrives at the property of a reclusive Scottish famer to work as his housekeeper. Paid near-starvation wages, she continues working day and night, hoping to use her savings to ensure a bright future for her 10-year-old daughter.. Touched by her diligence, the farmer slowly falls in love with the woman, and after seeing her and her child through the torturous Wyoming winter, he marries her - but their union gets off to a shaky start and threatens...