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102) Big eyes
Publisher
Tim Burton Productions ; Electric City Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
103) The shape of water
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
104) She said
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
105) Vice
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in this epic tale of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world. Co-starring Amy Adams, Steve Carell, and Sam Rockwell, it is a darkly comic look behind the scenes of American politics.
106) The assassin
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Korean
Description
Nie Yinniang returns after several years in exile. The mission of her order is to eliminate the tyranny of the Governors who avoid the authority of the Emperor. Now she will have to choose between sacrificing the man she loves, or break definitively with the 'Order of the Assassins.'
107) Kundun
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a remote area of Tibet a two-year-old child is identified as the Dalai Lama. The story follows him into adulthood where he tries to rule his nation at one of the most challenging times in its history.
108) The black arrow
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sir Richard Shelton is a young man returning home from the War of Roses. When his ruthless uncle Sir Daniel Brackley informs him of his father's recent murder at the hands of a rival family, Shelton immediately sets out to discover the truth behind the accusation. He uncovers a trail of deception and intrigue that leads him straight to his own unscrupulous uncle.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
From their self-imposed exile in Holland to their perilous crossing of the Atlantic, to their first year in the new world, Desperate Crossing is the definitive story of how the Pilgrims came to live and prosper in an unfamiliar land.
110) Miss Julie
Publisher
Maipo Film AS ; Miss Julie Limited ; Subotica Limited ; Senorita Films SAS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy aristocrat and her father's valet's innocent flirtation turns into a heated and dangerous affair that tests the boundaries of class and desire.
111) Testament of youth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
112) Breathe
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After he is diagnosed with polio at age twenty-eight, Robin Cavendish, with the help of his wife Diana, beats the odds to devote his life to helping other polio patients.
113) Tulip fever
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the seventeenth century Holland, a wife of a wealthy merchant falls in love with an artist commissioned to paint her portrait, and the lovers decide to risk everything they have in the bubbling tulip market in the hopes of making a fortune and building their life together.
114) Minamata
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
About a celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen urging him to go and a much-needed commission from "Life" Magazine editor Ralph Graves, Smith is finally convinced...
Publisher
distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A new gang has taken over the Dragon Inn three years after it was left in ruins, using it as their base for uncovering a nearby treasure. But secrets lie within its walls, as a pregnant palace concubine and a swordswoman take refuge from a determined royal eunuch tracking their every move. As an explosive mix of warriors, fugitives, and assassins converge in the desert for a deadly showdown, only one man can protect the women--the mysterious Zhao....
117) Spotlight
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....
118) Platoon
Language
English
Description
In "Platoon, " a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left...
119) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
120) Chappaquiddick
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
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