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1) Yo
Publication Date
2015.
Description
Winner of Best Film at the Morelia International Film Festival, "Yo" is based on a short story by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clezio. "My name is Yo, I'm 15 years old, or that's what they tell me," explains the protagonist (Raul Silva) early on. A strong young man with limited mental skills, he says he is fifteen years old, although he seems to be older. He lives and works in his mother's restaurant by a busy freeway. Yo loves his mother but hates her...
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"The unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the stunning rise--and suddenly uncertain reign--of the most transformative cultural phenomenon of our time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales,...
Publication Date
2016.
Description
Francisca, a young Portuguese woman who's living in Brazil, welcomes Teresa, an old acquaintance she'd lost contact with, into her home. While Teresa is discovering the place where she means to settle, Francisca craves for her life back in Lisbon. The film follows each woman's adventures in the city and the deep bond of friendship that grows between them, forcing them to deal with conflicting desires: a will to leave for an unknown country and a relentless...
Publication Date
c2010
Description
When a group of archaeologists dig up a human skeleton near the historical monument of Stonehenge, an ancient piece of machinery hidden beneath the bedrock is discovered. Not knowing what it could be the workers accidentally trigger the mechanism and start a chain of events that may very well end the world as we know it.
Publication Date
c2009
Description
Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland.
7) I am mortal
Publication Date
[2022]
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Set 200 years in the future when the human race has achieved immortality through a genetic vaccine. All war, violence and crime has been eradicated, but in this utopian society a small band of rebels have formed to overthrow the status quo and reclaim their right to die.
8) Prometheus
Publication Date
c2012
Description
Explorers have discovered a clue that brings them to the origins of mankind on Earth. This leads them on a journey that takes them to the darkest corners of the universe.
9) Eternity
Publication Date
[2023]
Description
In the near future, police detective Richard Manning is investigating a seemingly impossible locked-room murder and soon realizes his own future depends on solving it...
10) Cloud atlas
Publication Date
[2013]
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
11) Brightwood
Publication Date
[2023]
Description
At times both surreal and frightening, this American Indie sci-fi/horror film follows a bickering couple who find themselves trapped in a confusing and dangerous time loop. The marriage of Jen and Dan has seen better times, with Jen now barely tolerating her whiny husband. While out on a daytime jog around a lake the thirtysomething couple begin to talk about their failing marriage but soon find themselves lost as the hiking trail seem not to have...
12) The Terminator
Publication Date
[2003]
Description
In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
14) Settlers
Publication Date
[2022]
Description
Mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier, llsa and Reza inhabit a desolate farmstead with their child Remmy. They work the land and shield their daughter from the dangers of the harsh surroundings. When hostile intruders threaten to expel them from the compound the family is forced to fight to survive in this science-fiction thrill ride.
Publication Date
[2019]
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Jimmy Neutron boy genius (G) (2001) (82 min.): A ten-year-old boy and his robot dog battle evil, rescue his parents, save the Earth, and get home in time for dinner.
Hey Arnold! The movie (PG) (2002) (75 min.): Nickelodeon's animated series comes to the big screen as fourth-grader Arnold, best buddy Gerald, and the rest of the gang face an industrialist with...
Publication Date
[2019]
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The Revenant (R) (2015) (157 min.): Inspired by legendary explorer Hugh Glass's expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, this film re-imagines a portion of his journey. After being brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team, he endures unimaginable grief and betrayal as he struggles to survive. Guided by sheer will...
17) Ghostbusters
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"Suit up for classic comedy! When kooky, spooky college profs Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler lose their University jobs, they decide to go freelance, de-haunting houses in a new ghost removal service."--Container.
Publication Date
[2019]
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Outbreak (R) (1995) (128 min.): The race to save life on Earth is on when an unstoppable killer virus hits our shores.
Contagion (PG-13) (2011) (106 min.): In this thriller, a deadly disease poses a threat, and an international team of doctors is contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
Quarantine (R) (2008) (89 min.): An apartment complex is quarantined...
19) Jules
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JULES follows Milton (Kingsley) who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls “Jules.” Things become complicated when two neighbors (Harris and Curtin) discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly...
Publication Date
c2009
Description
Thicker than water: A faded photograph leads powerful attorney Natalie Jones to the bittersweet secrets of her father's past--where horses run free, families are bound by honor, and true love really exists.
Ordinary miracles: A troubled teen who has bounced from one foster home to another goes to live with a judge who's struggling with the disarray of her own life; together they rediscover the joy and miracle of being alive.
Angel in the family:...
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