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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Hawkins, a timid watchmaker with a part-time job, is also a professional assassin who bumps off the people we love to hate. But when pompous MP Sir Gregory Upshott is the intended target, bungling vacuum cleaner salesman William Blake always gets in the way. As the time of the assassination draws even closer and Hawkins tracks his victim to a dilapidated seaside hotel called The Green Man, the laughs and the tension steadily rise to a brilliant climax....
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Italian goddess Sophia Loren made her American film debut in this adventure yarn set upon the Greek island of Hydra. There in a seaside village the beautiful Phaedra, a sponge diver, finds a breath-taking gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin. Her slimy and crooked boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous and wealthy art collector, but Phaedra wants to hand it over to an American anthropologist, Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Washed-up, alcoholic vagabond Ben Chamberlain drifts into a godforsaken railhead town looking for a woman named Alma. When that woman winds up dead, Ben finds himself wrongfully accused of murder by the corrupt railroad chief deputy Vince McKay and his trigger-happy posse. McKay gives him a horse; some supplies and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his band of cutthroats after him.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. There are a few people who have been half-century friends or acquaintances on the island, including Tisha Doughty and Joshua Brackett.
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
When a hired killer crosses paths with a suicidal shirt salesman, the resulting calamity makes for one of the funniest, most original films ever. Ralf Milan has come to Montpellier to fulfill a "contract" that a powerful crime organization has placed on a man about to testify against the mob at an upcoming trial. As Ralf waits for the man in his hotel room with gun in hand, he notices something very strange in the attaching room next door: Franöis...
10) Tough guys
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Dick Dudgeon learns his father was executed by the British for treason at the onset of the Revolutionary War, he steals the body for a proper burial, ignoring the pleas of his friend, Minister Anthony Anderson who's a peace-loving person who ends up becoming a belligerent firebrand of a rebel trying to save Dudgeon's life.
12) Link
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for 'monkey business' is over and the true terror is about to begin.
13) Viva Maria!
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Somewhere in Middle America, 1907: Maria II, the daughter of an Irish terrorist, meets Maria I, the singer of an circus after the death of her father. She decides to stay with the circus. On her debut as a singer, she accidentally invented a strip-tease, that made the circus famous. But they meet a socialist revolutionary and find themselves leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists and the church.
14) 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.
15) The long goodbye
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
16) Delirious
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jack Gable, a soap opera writer, takes a knock on the head one day and wakes up in the very television show he has been writing. He discovers that through his typewriter he can control events in his new reality.
17) The long riders
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.
20) The unforgiven
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A family on the frontier adopts a young girl, but the Indians claim that the girl is one of them, and they want her back.
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