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1) Piranha
Language
English
Description
A group of strangers on Lake Victoria must band together to survive, after a sudden underwater tremor sets free prehistoric man-eating fish.
2) The swimmer
Language
English
Formats
Description
One summer morning a troubled suburbanite decides to "swim" home via the pools of his wealthy friends.
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English
Description
Bathing beauty (1944 ; 101 min.): Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman, who has been paid by Steve's agent to say she is his wife, interrupts the ceremony. An angry Caroline leaves Steve at the alter and gets her old job back teaching at a girl's college. Determined to win her back, Steve enrolls in the school to become its only male student.
Neptune's daughter (1949 ; 93 min.): Scatterbrained Betty Barrett...
5) Swimfan
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English
Description
High school senior Ben Cronin has it all: good friends, a devoted girlfriend, and the chance of getting a Stanford swimming scholarship. A chance encounter with a sexy new student turns Bens' life into the ultimate nightmare as her obsession quickly spins out of control that includes betrayal, revenge, madness and even murder.
Language
Swedish
Description
Unemployed, divorced, and estranged from his daughter, Frederik is stuck in Loserville with no hope of getting back on the right track. His luck changes when a botched prank gives him the idea to mold his motley buddies into Sweden's only all-male synchronized swimming team, with the World Cup finals in Berlin as the seemingly unattainable goal.
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English
Description
"The inspirational true story of a swimmer's quest for Olympic gold in this haunting meditation on dreams, determination and defeating the odds. As the target of his father Harold's drunken abuse, young Tony Fingleton escapes to the underwater solitude of the local pool, where he aspires to win Harold's love by becoming a national swimming champion. But when his cruel father pits Tony against his own brother in a competition to make the Olympic team,...
8) The swimmer
Language
עברית
Description
Erez, a rising star in the Israeli swimming scene, arrives at a godforsaken training camp held in a boarding school, where the one to win the competition gets a ticket to the Olympics. There he meets the beautiful and talented Nevo, who awakens subconscious desires in him. However, their swimming coach does not believe in friendship between competitors. Warned to stay away from Nevo, Erez is still too attracted to him. In between practices, he attempts...
10) Beyto
Language
Deutsch
Description
Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice, cool buddy: Beyto is in the midst of life. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces. His parents only see one way out: They lure him to their home village and plan his wedding with Seher, his childhood friend. Suddenly, Beyto finds himself in a disruptive love triangle. A subtle, summerly sensuous love story about three young people.
Series
Criterion collection volume 578
Language
Français
Description
Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Bunũel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo's titles.
12) The swimmer
Language
English
Description
Wealthy suburbanite Ned Merrill loses everything and, by blocking out the last two or so years of years of his life, he deceives himself that he hasn't lost anything. His deception is revealed as he confronts former friends while swimming from one pool to another on his way to his old home. Some genuinely try to help him. As he proceeds, though, he runs into people who he mistreated in the past, and now speaks hostilely to him. He finally arrives...
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English
Description
Splash into the fun-filled sequel to Free! -Eternal Summer-where your favorite swimming boys are back and warming up for their future. While Haru and Makoto prepare to move to college, Nagisa and Rei worry about the future of the swim club. Could this be the end of their beloved team or can they find new recruits? Then, hilarity ensues when the boys of Samezuka hit up the hot springs!
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English
Description
A new swimming season is here, and Haru, Makoto, Nagisa, and Rei are anxious to get back in the pool. But things aren₂t all flip-turns and finish lines. Haru₂s passion for swimming is drying up, and with their futures looming ahead, Makoto and Haru are having a hard time focusing. And a new Samezuka student appears just in time to jeopardize Iwatobi's chance at nationals.
Language
English
Description
Bathing beauty: Hoping to win back his estranged swimming-coach wife, a lovestruck songwriter enrolls in a women's college.
Neptune's Daughter: Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when...
Series
Criterion collection volume 578
Language
Français
Description
"Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Bunũel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo's titles." -- from container.